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Trump Freaks Out About Stormy Daniels Court Appearance in Social Media Post (Since Deleted)

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Trump Freaks Out About Stormy Daniels Court Appearance in Social Media Post (Since Deleted)

Donald Trump freaked out this morning when he found out Stormy Daniels is the witness today in his hush money case.

He posted a nasty item to his Truth Social, then deleted it. But the post is a veiled threat, and could be seen as another violation of his gag order. I’m guessing Judge Merchan won’t stop the trial, because this could provide series-high ratings.

To quote Dennis Yost and the Classics IV from Buddy Buie’s “Stormy”:

Yesterday’s love was like a warm summer breeze
But like the weather, you changed
Now things are dreary, baby
And it’s windy and cold
And I stand alone in the rain
Callin’ your name

Anna Wintour Didn’t Just Invite Celebs to Met Ball: Aussie Billionaire Anthony Pratt Spotted, Trump May Have Shared Nuclear Secrets with Him

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Anna Wintour Didn’t Just Invite Celebs to Met Ball: Aussie Billionaire Anthony Pratt Spotted, Trump May Have Shared Nuclear Secrets with Him

Anna Wintour didn’t just invite people like Nicole Kidman, Naomi Watts, Lily Gladstone, and other celebs to the Met Ball.

Spotted on the red carpet tonight: sketchy Australian billionaire Anthony Pratt, BFF of Donald Trump. If you think the Kardashians are bad news, check this guy out.

Pratt is allegedly part of the big Jack Smith case, Trump’s potential next trial. Special prosecutor Smith says that after he left office, Trump discussed military secrets about nuclear submarines with Pratt.

Pratt made his billions as the executive chairman of Visy Asia-Pacific, a packaging and recycling business.

According to The Guardian: New recordings and documents – reported by Australia’s Nine newspapers and 60 Minutes programme as well as the New York Times – have shed extraordinary further light on Pratt’s relationship with Trump and other key global and Australian figures.”

The covert tapes included: Pratt’s claims Trump that had told him in 2019 of ordering an airstrike on Iranian-linked militants in Iraq, before it hit the headlines, and said that Iraq’s president had called him to complain. Pratt says Trump responded: “I [Trump] said to him [Iraq’s leader], ‘OK, what are you going to do about it?’”

Trump responded to these revelations by calling Pratt — who was seen in a pink suit tonight — as a “red haired weirdo.”

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The reports suggest Pratt spent hundreds of thousands dollars on memberships at Trump’s private Mar-a-Lago resort, helping him cultivate a close relationship with the president and leading to regular private conversations between the pair.

(Exclusive) Met Gala 2023 Receipts Were Down by $11 Million from 2022: Is Interest Fading?

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(Exclusive) Met Gala 2023 Receipts Were Down by $11 Million from 2022: Is Interest Fading?

This is a surprise.

As Anna Wintour prepares for tonight’s annual Met Ball aka Halloween show, finances are becoming a big problem.

According to the Metropolitan Museum’s form 990 tax return, receipts for the 2023 Met Ball were down by about $11 million from 2022.

In 2022, the Ball produced $33 million, less a whopping almost $10 million of direct expenses.

But in the new filing for 2023, last year’s event netted just $22 million, although direct expenses were cut to $6 million.

How could the Gala generate so much less in 2023? After all, the ticket prices keep skyrocketing. Numbers like $275,000 a table are commonly heard.

Is interest in this hoary spectacular fading? Or is it costing too much to pay for celebrities, their stylists, and so on? Someone’s footing those bills, and it’s not the celebrities themselves, trust me.

Regardless, when the Met Gala is factored into the Museum’s total fundraising events, the final numbers are always in the red. Last year, the Gala weighed heavily on the bottom line bringing net income from all events to MINUS $7.6 million. At least that was better than in 2022, when that number was at MINUS $10.3 million.

Billie Eilish Brooklyn Listening Party for New Album Attracts At Least 86,000 Requests

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Billie Eilish Brooklyn Listening Party for New Album Attracts At Least 86,000 Requests

This morning Billie Eilish announced listening parties in New York and Los Angeles for her new album.

“Hit Me Hard and Soft” releases on May 17th at midnight. So Billie — and I guess Finneas — will appear in those cities on May 15th and 16th.

The Brooklyn Barclays Center “show” has attracted at least 86,000 requests on Ticketmaster. Somehow, from those requests, offers will be made to fans.

Eilish told Rolling Stone this month that there are no singles coming from the album. Fans will decide what tracks they like the most, and send them onto iTunes, etc. There’s no impact single for radio.

This could be tricky, especially if there is no actual standout single. When artists do this with albums they tend to fade faster. But it’s her decision. Maybe it will change if one song turns out be to a really catchy favorite.

Not included: the siblings’ “What Was I Made For,” which won the Oscar and Grammy and was a big hit.

Spoiler Alert: Superman Puts His Boots on One at a Time in First Still from New Movie

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Spoiler Alert: Superman Puts His Boots on One at a Time in First Still from New Movie

It turns out Superman puts his boots on one at a time, like everybody else.

 

In the first still from the next “Superman” movie, actor David Corenswet is very carefully pulling on a red boot in the 2024 version of the Superman uniform. It would have been cooler to see him putting them on two at a time, or jumping into them. He looks like he’s in the Metropolis Florsheim shop.

 

The new outfit? It looks a lot like the old outfits, just spiffed up. If Lois Lane from the old TV show saw this guy on the street, she’d recognize him in a minute!

 

No word on whether this movie will explain why Superman isn’t Super Man, like Spider Man. Was it a name he got on Ellis Island? Instead of remaking the Krypton story over and over why doesn’t someone remake “The Mole Men”? Now, that would be cool! Stephen Miller could star.

 

Broadway: In the Bizarro World, “The Great Gatsby” — No Tony’s — Gets 11 Audience Nominations, But “Suffs” and “Doubt” are Out

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Broadway: In the Bizarro World, “The Great Gatsby” — No Tony’s — Gets 11 Audience Nominations, But “Suffs” and “Doubt” are Out

In the world of the Tony Awards, musicals like “The Great Gatsby,” “The Notebook,” and “Back to the Future” are considered, well, “bad,” and get no nominations.

But in Broadway.com’s Audience Award world, they are hits!

Almost all of the nominees for the Audience Awards were panned by critics, ignored by other awards groups, or taken seriously. But somehow they’ve all sprung back to life with this group. I hope all the nominees got expensive gift baskets.

Even “The Wiz” pulled off two noms, for Wayne Brady and Deborah Cox. “Lempicka,” which just posted a closing notice, got some love, too.

The Audience Awards love Big Stars! Four of the five leading men in a play got no Tony nominations. Serious work like “Suffs” and “Doubt” received one nom each. Of course!

Isn’t it nice? Everyone gets something.

FAVORITE NEW MUSICAL
Back to the Future
The Great Gatsby
The Notebook
The Outsiders
Water for Elephants

FAVORITE NEW PLAY
The Cottage
Grey House
Mary Jane
Mother Play
Stereophonic

FAVORITE MUSICAL REVIVAL
Cabaret at the Kit Kat Club
Gutenberg! The Musical!
Merrily We Roll Along
Spamalot
The Wiz

FAVORITE PLAY REVIVAL
Appropriate
Doubt
An Enemy of the People
Purlie Victorious
Uncle Vanya

FAVORITE LONG-RUNNING SHOW
Hamilton
Hadestown
Moulin Rouge! The Musical
SIX: The Musical
Wicked

FAVORITE TOUR
Beetlejuice
Come From Away
Hadestown
Hamilton
Wicked

FAVORITE PERFORMANCE OF THE YEAR (MUSICAL)
Josh Gad, Gutenberg! The Musical!  
Jonathan Groff, Merrily We Roll Along 
Jeremy Jordan, The Great Gatsby 
Eva Noblezada, The Great Gatsby 
Maryann Plunkett, The Notebook

FAVORITE PERFORMANCE OF THE YEAR (PLAY)
Steve Carell, Uncle Vanya  
Jessica Lange, Mother Play 
Rachel McAdams, Mary Jane
Leslie Odom Jr., Purlie Victorious 
Sarah Paulson, Appropriate 

FAVORITE LEADING ACTOR IN A MUSICAL
Josh Gad, Gutenberg! The Musical!
Jonathan Groff, Merrily We Roll Along
Jeremy Jordan, The Great Gatsby
Casey Likes, Back to the Future
Eddie Redmayne, Cabaret at the Kit Kat Club

FAVORITE LEADING ACTRESS IN A MUSICAL
Eden Espinosa, Lempicka
Isabelle McCalla, Water for Elephants
Eva Noblezada, The Great Gatsby
Kelli O’Hara, Days of Wine and Roses
Maryann Plunkett, The Notebook

FAVORITE LEADING ACTOR IN A PLAY
Steve Carell, Uncle Vanya
Danny DeVito, I Need That
Eric McCormack, The Cottage
Leslie Odom, Jr., Purlie Victorious
Jeremy Strong, An Enemy of the People

FAVORITE LEADING ACTRESS IN A PLAY
Laura Bell Bundy, The Cottage
Jessica Lange, Mother Play
Rachel McAdams, Mary Jane
Laurie Metcalf, Grey House
Sarah Paulson, Appropriate

FAVORITE FEATURED ACTOR IN A MUSICAL
Eric Anderson, The Great Gatsby
Roger Bart, Back to the Future
Wayne Brady, The Wiz
John Cardoza, The Notebook
Daniel Radcliffe, Merrily We Roll Along

FAVORITE FEATURED ACTRESS IN A MUSICAL
Shoshana Bean, Hell’s Kitchen
Julie Benko, Harmony
Lindsay Mendez, Merrily We Roll Along
Samantha Pauly, The Great Gatsby
Joy Woods, The Notebook

FAVORITE FEATURED ACTOR IN A PLAY
Alex Brightman, The Shark is Broken
Will Brill, Stereophonic
Colin Donnell, The Shark is Broken
Alfred Molina, Uncle Vanya
Jim Parsons, Mother Play

FAVORITE FEATURED ACTRESS IN A PLAY
Sophia Anne Caruso, Grey House
Lilli Cooper, The Cottage
Lucy DeVito, I Need That
Elle Fanning, Appropriate
Celia Keenan-Bolger, Mother Play

FAVORITE DIVA PERFORMANCE
Shoshana Bean, Hell’s Kitchen
Deborah Cox, The Wiz
Eden Espinosa, Lempicka
Leslie Rodriguez Kritzer, Spamalot
Gayle Rankin, Cabaret at the Kit Kat Club

FAVORITE FUNNY PERFORMANCE
Roger Bart, Back to the Future
Alex Brightman, The Shark is Broken
Danny DeVito, I Need That
Josh Gad, Gutenberg! The Musical!
Andrew Rannells, Gutenberg! The Musical!

FAVORITE ONSTAGE PAIR
Roger Bart and Casey Likes, Back to the Future
John Cardoza and Jordan Tyson, The Notebook
Josh Gad and Andrew Rannells, Gutenberg! The Musical!
Jonathan Groff and Daniel Radcliffe, Merrily We Roll Along
Jeremy Jordan and Eva Noblezada, The Great Gatsby

FAVORITE BREAKTHROUGH PERFORMANCE (MALE)
John Cardoza, The Notebook
Steve Carell, Uncle Vanya
Hugh Coles, Back to the Future
Brody Grant, The Outsiders
Grant Gustin, Water for Elephants

FAVORITE BREAKTHROUGH PERFORMANCE (FEMALE)
Lucy DeVito, I Need That
Elle Fanning, Appropriate
Rachel McAdams, Mary Jane
Shaina Taub, Suffs
Jordan Tyson, The Notebook

FAVORITE REPLACEMENT (MALE)
Alex Brightman, Spamalot
Tituss Burgess, Moulin Rouge! The Musical
Jordan Fisher, Hadestown
Joe Locke, Sweeney Todd
Aaron Tveit, Sweeney Todd

FAVORITE REPLACEMENT (FEMALE)
Ani DiFranco, Hadestown
Sutton Foster, Sweeney Todd
Mary Kate Morrissey, Wicked
Solea Pfeiffer, Hadestown
Lola Tung, Hadestown

FAVORITE NEW SONG
“21st Century,” Back to the Future
“Beautiful Little Fool,” The Great Gatsby
“Carry You Home,” The Notebook
“For Her,” The Great Gatsby
“My Green Light,” The Great Gatsby

TOTALS BY SHOW
The Great Gatsby – 11
The Notebook – 9
Back to the Future – 7
Gutenberg! The Musical! – 6
Hadestown – 6
Merrily We Roll Along – 6
Appropriate – 5
Mother Play – 5
The Cottage – 4
I Need That – 4
Mary Jane – 4
Uncle Vanya – 4
Cabaret at the Kit Kat Club – 3
Purlie Victorious – 3
The Shark is Broken – 3
Spamalot – 3
Sweeney Todd – 3
Water for Elephants – 3
Wicked – 3
The Wiz – 3
Grey House – 3
An Enemy of the People – 2
Hamilton – 2
Hell’s Kitchen – 2
Lempicka – 2
Moulin Rouge! The Musical – 2
The Outsiders – 2
Stereophonic – 2
Beetlejuice – 1
Come From Away – 1
Days of Wine and Roses – 1
Doubt – 1
Harmony – 1
Six – 1
Suffs – 1

PERFORMERS WITH MULTIPLE NOMINATIONS
Josh Gad, Gutenberg! The Musical! – 4
Roger Bart, Back to the Future – 3
Alex Brightman, The Shark is Broken/Spamalot – 3
John Cardoza, The Notebook – 3
Steve Carell, Uncle Vanya – 3
Jonathan Groff, Merrily We Roll Along – 3
Jeremy Jordan, The Great Gatsby – 3
Rachel McAdams, Mary Jane – 3
Eva Noblezada, The Great Gatsby – 3
Shoshana Bean, Hell’s Kitchen – 2
Danny DeVito, I Need That – 2
Lucy DeVito, I Need That – 2
Eden Espinosa, Lempicka – 2
Jessica Lange, Mother Play – 2
Leslie Odom, Jr., Purlie Victorious – 2
Sarah Paulson, Appropriate – 2
Maryann Plunkett, The Notebook – 2
Daniel Radcliffe, Merrily We Roll Along – 2
Andrew Rannells, Gutenberg! The Musical! – 2
Jordan Tyson, The Notebook – 2

No Strike! Conde Nast Union Reaches 11th Hour Deal! Anna Wintour Can Keep Wearing Sunglasses Inside! Bathroom Breaks Allowed!

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No Strike! Conde Nast Union Reaches 11th Hour Deal! Anna Wintour Can Keep Wearing Sunglasses Inside! Bathroom Breaks Allowed!

Our long national nightmare is over!

Conde Nast has reached an agreement with the union representing magazine employees. There will be no picket line today at the Met Gala.

Whew!

It only took the spectre of celebrities in Halloween costumes having to walk past strikers to bring Conde Nast to its knees. The literally waited until the last minute to give the Union some of their demands.

Top of the list was Anna Wintour gets to keep wearing sunglasses indoors.

Also employees will be allowed to eat occasionally!

Here is an actual statement from the Union:

“WHEN WE FIGHT, WE WIN: We are excited to announce that we have a tentative agreement with Conde Nast on our first contract. Our pledge to do ‘whatever it takes’ ahead of the Met Gala moved the company and our progress at the bargaining table kicked into high gear…

“Just some of our wins: $61,500 starting salary floor; an end to the two-tier permalance system, just cause, expanded bereavement leave, two more weeks of family leave (14 total) and $3.3 million in total wage increases…For our colleagues on the layoff list we secured eight weeks severance, three months of COBRA coverage or, in lieu of COBRA, a one time lump sum payment; an additional $1,000 payment and much more.

“Our persistent fight for our rights and for the best win possible is why we have this tentative agreement. Ratification will take place this week.”

Well, mazel tov! If they’re happy, we’re happy! I did think COBRA was automatic for at least six months, but what do i know?

And now, on with the show!

Does JFK’s Grandson Jack Schlossberg Want a Political Career or an Oscar? Posts Videos Attacking RFK Jr in Different Accents, Characters

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Does JFK’s Grandson Jack Schlossberg Want a Political Career or an Oscar? Posts Videos Attacking RFK Jr in Different Accents, Characters

What is happening with Jack Schlossberg?

Several people sent me links to various videos the son of Caroline Kennedy — and grandson of John F. Kennedy Jr. — has posted to social media in the last week.

The videos are peculiar to say the least for a family known to play it close to the vest and stay away from media. If grandmother Jackie Kennedy Onassis saw these, I don’t think she’d be amused.

The videos are notable for Schlossberg trying out more characters and accents than Meryl Streep. He attacks cousin Robert Kennedy Jr more times than necessary, frankly.

Schlossberg does mix it up with the accents. Even though he told a political gathering in Queens recently that he identifies as Irish, he certainly can do a Brooklyn Jewish accent with the best of them. In the bottom video, there’s also an odd reference to his mother marrying “a Jewish man” — Edwin Schlossberg, whom Jack resembles.

I’m not clear on what Schlossberg does for a living at age 31. But these videos will trail him if he decides to have a political career, that’s for sure.

There are plenty more videos and photos including many at @jackuno on social media. TMI should be Schlossberg’s middle initials.

Kristi Noem Publisher Says Removing Passage About Her Meeting Kim Jun Un Immediately At Author’s Request (UPDATED)

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Kristi Noem Publisher Says Removing Passage About Her Meeting Kim Jun Un Immediately At Author’s Request (UPDATED)

UPDATE: After getting battered in questions today on Face the Nation, South Dakota Governor Kristin Noem is removing from her new book that she ever met with Korean dictator Kim Jung Un.


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Kristi Noem (rhymes with “gnome”) was a guest today on CBS’s “Face the Nation.”

Noem is the governor of a state once run by the great George McGovern. How can the people there hold their heads up? She is an embarrassment to South Dakota and to the whole country.

Interviewed by Margaret Brennan, Noem hung herself by own her petard. She was publicizing her “book,” which will come out on Tuesday and is apparently full of fiction.

To Brennan, Noem lied and obfuscated like crazy. She immediately complained on Twitter immediately:

“This morning in our 15-minute interview, Margaret Brennan interrupted me 36 times — once every 25 seconds on average. But when liberals like @gretchenwhitmer and @SpeakerPelosi
are on @FaceTheNation, they aren’t interrupted once.

“In the fake news media, there are two sets of rules, and conservative are always treated differently. That’s why Americans don’t trust the Fake News.”

Noem lied at every turn. When Brennan asked her about meeting Korean dictator Kim Jung Un, the governor replied: “I’m not going to talk about my specific meetings with world leaders, I’m just not going to do that.” The fact is, they never met, but Noem had included the fake meeting in her book.

When asked about shooting her dog, Noem suggested President Biden should shoot his own dog.

Noem: “Well, number one, Joe Biden’s dog has attacked 24 Secret Service people. So how many people is enough people to be attacked and dangerously hurt before you make a decision on a dog? And —

BRENNAN: — Well he’s not living at the White House anymore–

NOEM: — That’s the question that the President should be held accountable to.

BRENNAN: — You’re saying he should be shot?–

NOEM: — That what’s the president should be accountable to.

How can the people of South Dakota not be nauseated by this woman? How have so many local governments in this country fallen prey to completely despicable people with low IQs, no respect for life, or dignity? It’s surreal.

The book is called “No Going Back.” If you buy it, that’s what will happen — there’s no getting that twentysomething bucks back. Noem told Brennan she refuses to retract all the bogus claims included in the book.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/face-the-nation-full-transcript-05-05-2024/

Jerry Seinfeld Flies 3,000 Miles to Fix a PR Problem on “Saturday Night Live” (Watch Video)

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Jerry Seinfeld Flies 3,000 Miles to Fix a PR Problem on “Saturday Night Live” (Watch Video)

Jerry Seinfeld has good advice from someone in public relations.

He flew 3,000 miles back from Los Angeles to New York yesterday so he could appear on “Saturday Night Live.”

Seinfeld, who is generally beloved, has been putting his foot in his mouth lately after doing too much press for his movie, “Unfrosted.” It used to be you rarely saw Seinfeld in the media. But for the last two weeks it’s been impossible to get away from him.

On Thursday night he was on stage at Netflix is a Joke in Los Angeles, still promoting the movie — which has very negative reviews that come mostly as a reaction to his comments about the movie business, I think.

Last night he popped up on “Weekend Update” trying to defuse the situation. This was fine, but now it’s time to take a break. He also owes Hugh Grant an apology for constantly saying he was hard to work with. (What was that all about?)

What did Jerry say that caused all of this trouble? In an interview with GQ about the movie biz:

“It was totally new to me. I thought I had done some cool stuff, but it was nothing like the way these people work. They’re so dead serious! They don’t have any idea that the movie business is over. They have no idea.”

Doubling down, he continued: “Film doesn’t occupy the pinnacle in the social, cultural hierarchy that it did for most of our lives. When a movie came out, if it was good, we all went to see it. We all discussed it. We quoted lines and scenes we liked. Now we’re walking through a fire hose of water, just trying to see.”

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