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Beloved Actress Lisa Banes’s Murderer Will Get Only 1-to-3 Years, Time to Recall Manhattan D.A. Alvin Bragg

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Beloved Actress Lisa Banes’s Murderer Will Get Only 1-to-3 Years, Time to Recall Manhattan D.A. Alvin Bragg

Beloved actress Lisa Banes was killed July 14, 2021 when a scooter driver maliciously and willfully cut her down on Amsterdam Avenue behind Lincoln Center. She was 65 years old. Some of us had seen her six weeks earlier at a Memorial Day party. She was booming in her career.

Today her killer pleaded guilty in a Manhattan court. He will receive 1 to 3 years sentence, much less than what the District Attorney’s office asked for — three to nine years. The killer, Brian Boyd, is 27. He will basically walk free after committing a murder and getting away with it.

A video seen by the AP last year showed after the accident that Boyd ran away from the accident and left Banes to die. “The operator of the electric scooter [rode] from the crash location to Bolt Bike Shop … where the operator is observed interacting with employees of the bike shop and waiting for repairs to the electric scooter,” Boyd’s arrest complaint says.

It’s time to recall Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg. It’s obvious his office has no idea what they’re doing. This is shameful.

You will recognize Lisa Banes from many movies and TV shows including “Gone Girl” and “Madame Secretary.” She deserves better than this.

Louis CK, Cancelled or Not? Sells Out Most of His Winter Tour Including Madison Square Garden

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Louis CK, Cancelled or Not? Sells Out Most of His Winter Tour Including Madison Square Garden

Louis CK: is he cancelled? Or not?

The controversial comedian was wiped out in the #MeToo tsunami. He had one terrible movie no one saw– thank God — called “I Love You Daddy.” He released another one earlier this year.

Now Louie has booked a sold out tour through arenas around the country. It starts next week. The tour is almost all SOLD OUT. Yes, I checked. Even Madison Square Garden is mostly gone except for the upper seats. Same for DAR Constitution Hall in Washington DC.

San Francisco, Oakland, Chicago, Los Angeles, St, Louis– all sold out. Other cities selling fast.

The international part of the tour begins October 3rd in London, then goes to Glasgow and Belfast, off to Australia, and then back to the US where date after date is, if not sold out, well sold.

What does it mean? You tell me.

Bruce Springsteen Classic R&B Songs Covers Album Said to Be Coming in November, Announcement Tomorrow (Exclusive)

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Bruce Springsteen Classic R&B Songs Covers Album Said to Be Coming in November, Announcement Tomorrow (Exclusive)

The Springsteen Universe is alive and buzzing this morning.

The experts in this area tell me the new Bruce Springsteen album is a collection of cover of R&B classics and some lesser known songs. One of them, Dobie Gray’s “Soul Days.”

The title of album, experts say, is a cover of Jerry Butler’s “Only the Strong Survive.” I’d be happy to hear that since the documentary I made with Chris Hegedus and DA Pennebaker about classic R&B in 2002 had the same title.

Some other titles are said to include songs by the Four Tops, Jerry Butler, The Temptations, and Aretha Franklin. There’s said to be a cover of “What Becomes of the Broken Hearted,” as well that I can’t wait to hear. There’s also a cover of Frank Wilson’s “Do I Love You.” The only title I didn’t see was “Expressway to Your Heart,” which Bruce has famously performed many times (see below).

Bruce is a soul aficionado from day one. He loves Sam Moore of Sam & Dave, and Gary US Bonds. He’s put an R&B inflection into most of his songs, and of course the horn work by Clarence Clemons is legendary (and not too shabby by nephew Jake).

If all this pans out on November 11th it will make for a very happy holiday. What a nice gift while we wait for the big E Street Band album this winter, and the tour!

Potential track list:

Box Office: “Don’t Worry Darling” Numbers Collapse After Weekend, Legs Buckle

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Box Office: “Don’t Worry Darling” Numbers Collapse After Weekend, Legs Buckle

Unfortunately, the Harry Styles fans are all in school and doing homework. They are not using the midweek days to go see “Don’t Worry Darling.”

Yesterday’s box office was $2 million, down 20% from Monday. Monday’s numbers were worse, down 59% from Sunday to $1.66 million.

Total now is $23 million. And that isn’t bad since the movie said to have cost between $35 million and $40 million. So profit is in the cards. But not longevity.

Considering all the time spent on gossiping about “Don’t Worry Darling” before it was released, there will be a lot less as its balloon deflates.

Yes, Wolverine is Dead, But the Man Who Killed Him Doesn’t Mind Seeing Him Alive Again

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Yes, Wolverine is Dead, But the Man Who Killed Him Doesn’t Mind Seeing Him Alive Again

Yes, to answer my question from yesterday, Isn’t Wolverine dead? He is! He died in “Logan.”

But director James Mangold, who killed him, doesn’t mind that Wolverine is back and starring in “Deadpool 3” with Hugh Jackman reviving the role. He writes on Twitter:
“Oh my gosh! Everybody chill. Just kidding! I’m all good! LOGAN will always be there. Multiverse or prequel, time warp or worm hole, canon or non-canon or even without a rationale, I cannot wait to see what maddness my dear friends @VancityReynolds
and @RealHughJackman
cook up!”

The whole mashup is really brilliant. Reynolds and Jackman have this long standing funn fake feud that goes on and on. It will continue now for a year leading up to the release, on social media. By the time we get to next September, the buzz will drive the box office into the stratosphere. Great, great idea.

Broadway: It Worked, Lea Michele Saves “Funny Girl,” Box Office Up By $1 Million a Week

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Broadway: It Worked, Lea Michele Saves “Funny Girl,” Box Office Up By $1 Million a Week

Maybe the next role for Lea Michele should be Wonder Woman.

Since the “Glee” star took over as Fanny Brice in “Funny Girl” on Broadway, the box office has shot up by a million dollars a week. People, it turns out, like people who sell tickets!

In the first week of Lea Michele’s run, the numbers were $1,636,212. That was up from a long summer of between $600,000 and $700,000 a week with mostly stand by players as Beanie Feldstein jumped ship. Prior to Beanie’s exit, the show was at its highest with $1.2 million back on May 29th. But then it went into enough of a decline that most shows with this kind of budget would have closed.

Enter Lea Michele. Frist week, great. Second week, she got COVID and the excellent stand by, Julie Benko, was back to save the day.

Last week Lea Michele was back, and box office popped up again to $1.640 million. The parade is in full swing and no one is raining on it. (Having Tovah Feldshuh steal the show as Fanny’s mother didn’t hurt, either.)

This news will revive the call to let new actors taking over parts in shows be re-considered for Tony Awards. If Lea Michele and Tovah Feldshuh had been in the original launch last April they’d not only have been nominated, but they might have won!

Bruce Springsteen Keeps Dropping Hints: New Album, New Single? “It’s Good” Says Insider

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Bruce Springsteen Keeps Dropping Hints: New Album, New Single? “It’s Good” Says Insider

UPDATE: I did get a little reaction from a Springsteen insider about this post, post-posting. I got no concrete info but this observation: “It’s good.”

I’ll bet it is, whatever it is.

EARLIER Bruce Springsteen’s social media is tuned up and dropping hints.

New album? Probably in January, but maybe sooner. New single? Soon, it seems.

Bruce’s Twitter feed first posted a picture of a double yellow line down a highway. Now today there’s a steering wheel. He’s either dropping a new single with a car-road theme, or a suped-up version of “Born to Run.”

Either way, it’s something took forward to. Bruce and the mighty E Street Band begin a massive world tour in Tampa next February.

Hugh Jackman Bringing Back Wolverine for “Deadpool 3” with Ryan Reynolds, Of Course (Watch) John Krasinski, Too?

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Hugh Jackman Bringing Back Wolverine for “Deadpool 3” with Ryan Reynolds, Of Course (Watch) John Krasinski, Too?

PS John Krasinski just quipped on Twitter: “Wait… Is this our movie?” Maybe he’s in it, too.

Ryan Reynolds announces Hugh Jackman will join him as Wolverine one more time in “Deadpool 3.”

Is Wolverine dead? I can’t remember. It doesn’t matter. This will be a massive Marvel hit, and very, very, funny.

Bruce Willis’s Family is Cool with Exploiting Him as an “AI” Paste-on On Other Actors’ Bodies

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Bruce Willis’s Family is Cool with Exploiting Him as an “AI” Paste-on On Other Actors’ Bodies

Bruce Willis’s family is cool with exploiting his image now that he can’t work.

In fact, Bruce hasn’t really been able to work for a long time. He has an official diagnosis of aphasia– he can’t speak — but really his problems with memory, speech, etc go back almost a decade.

His family has nonetheless allowed him to make dozens of cheap, bad movies in which he works a day or so, sometimes is second billed to D level actors. Bruce says a few lines fed to him through a hearing device.

Now comes word that his family has licensed his image to an artificial intelligence company that can take his likeness and stick it on another actor’s body. The company is called Deepcake because they do deepfakes. Horrified by this greed? You should be.

All of this began last year when Deepcake, according to the Daily Mail, grafted Bruce’s face onto understudy Konstantin Solovyov for a commercial for Russian telecoms giant MegaFon. More Willis deep fakes are coming, apparently.

Meantime there are still more really forgettable junk movies with Willis involved. There have already been eight — yes EIGHT– in 2022, with three more left. The last one, set for next year, co-stars the other D lister of note, John Travolta, in what should be the shit show of all time, “Paradise City.”

Sad what’s happened to Bruce. But no one close to him seems to care that they’ve ruined whatever there was of his legacy with all this crap.

Global Citizen Special on ABC Was Lowest Rated Network Show Sunday Night, Squandered 3 Million Viewers

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Global Citizen Special on ABC Was Lowest Rated Network Show Sunday Night, Squandered 3 Million Viewers

The Global Citizen special on ABC was the lowest rated show network show Sunday night on the four main broadcast networks.

Only 1.2 million people tuned in to see whatever the heck Global Citizen was selling with music acts and vague promises of peace and love. No one knows what they’re doing but spending money on themselves.

For ABC that 7pm hour shook off around 3.6 million viewers who’d watched their ABC Evening News just before. Then oddly 3 million people returned at 8pm for Celebrity Jeopardy and Wheel of Fortune.

Where’d they go at 7pm? To “60 Minutes.” The venerable news show scored 7.1 million viewers sandwiched between an NFL football game and “Big Brother.”

On YouTube, the Global Citizen fest found just 733,000 viewers.

Meantime, over on HBO, “House of the Dragon,” which is not a Chinese restaurant, brought in the same 1.86 million viewers on its main channel. Some people who watched the 9pm showing tuned in again because they didn’t understand it (maybe it was because football was on). Um, that was me.

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