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Exclusive: Music Mogul Clive Davis Diagnosed with Bell’s Palsy, Postpones Pre-Grammy Party til May

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Exclusive: Music Mogul Clive Davis Diagnosed with Bell’s Palsy, Postpones Pre-Grammy Party til May

EXCLUSIVE:

Clive Davis, you know, is the Man of Steel. But he’s also human! Clive was recently diagnosed with Bell’s Palsy and has to regrettably move his March 13th Pre-Grammy gala Zoom party to later this spring.

I am assured there is nothing more wrong with Clive than this glitch, which is probably the result of a virus. But not COVID. So let’s not start rumors. He’s being treated with anti-biotics and steroids, and is expected to make a full recovery within 6 weeks.

This has not altered Clive’s speech at all, he is still as eloquent as ever. But Bell’s Palsy does temporarily affect facial muscles. so a Zoom call with 2,000 people including 1,000 celebrities is not a good idea!

Last month’s Zoom call so insanely successful, the poor guy needs a rest! He was like Larry King at his peak, on steroids! Clive interviewed more than a dozen superstars including Bruce Springsteen. John Legend and Jennifer Hudson performed. It was amazing.

The next Zoom gala, whether it’s in May or June, will feature Paul Simon (maybe Art Garfunkel?), and more of his stars.

So send Get Well wishes to showbiz411@gmail.com, and I’ll forward them directly to his trusty aides. We love you, Clive!

Scandal Plagued “The Bachelor” Ratings Fall a Stunning 5% in Total Viewers, 16% in Key Demo

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Scandal Plagued “The Bachelor” Ratings Fall a Stunning 5% in Total Viewers, 16% in Key Demo

“The Bachelor” is in a ratings crater as scandal and apathy have just killed the mood.

The Matt James season, the first ever with a Black bachelor, is a disaster, and not just because of racism.

But last night’s loony episode fell 5% from last week in total viewers and 16% in the key demo. On average, “The Bachelor” is down by a million viewers from its last go round.

I watched it for the first time ever last night to see if Matt James would figure out one of the contestants, Rachael, was a racist. He didn’t. The 29 year old focused on a lovely young Black woman, age 24, who turned out to be very smart: she knew something was off with James, told him to forget it, and left the show.

The result was a hilarious rose ceremony at which James had to tell the remaining three ladies– including Rachael– that Serena was gone because she didn’t want to marry him. His whole attitude was, “Well, there are three of you left and one of you is going to have to marry me.” Isn’t it romantic?

As we know, he chooses the white racist instead of the vastly superior two Black ladies. But they don’t get engaged, according to reports, and then the news breaks that Rachael is Plantation Patty. And that’s the end of that relationship. But we have to wait two or three more weeks for all that to wrap up.

Congrats to that girl Serena, the real winner of the season. I also really liked her parents. They’ve obviously done a great job.

 

HBO Woody Allen-Mia Farrow Doc a Ratings Bust, Beaten by Everything Including a Weather Channel Special

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HBO Woody Allen-Mia Farrow Doc a Ratings Bust, Beaten by Everything Including a Weather Channel Special

In the end few cared.

HBO’s “Allen v. Farrow” was a ratings bust on Sunday night. Total viewers came to 394,000. The one sided, poorly fact checked hour lost to everything on cable TV including a Weather Channel special. It even lost to a preview of The Walking Dead. The audience rejected part 1 of rehashed, manipulated material.

“Allen v. Farrow” was at least the 9th most watched cable show at 9pm including something called “Wicked Tuna.”

This doesn’t bode well for the next three Sundays at 9pm, particularly since the series is riddled with errors and fakes having Woody’s words spoken via unauthorized clips from the audio version of his autobiography.

Keep refreshing…

TV: The Bachelor Blows Up as Matt James Picks The Wrong Girl, Doesn’t Get Engaged, and Regrets the Whole Thing

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TV: The Bachelor Blows Up as Matt James Picks The Wrong Girl, Doesn’t Get Engaged, and Regrets the Whole Thing

“The Bachelor” is wrapping up a very bad season soon on ABC. Spoiler alert: Matt James chose the wrong girl, Rachael Kirkconnell, who turned out to have a racist past. Needless to say, they didn’t get engaged, and now Matt regrets the whole thing. Not only that, but host Chris Harrison has been almost wrecked by his response to the whole race thing. Most of the people who appear on “The Bachelor” are brain dead. I don’t know why Matt is surprised. The whole thing is a survey of stupidity.

Matt is clueless so far in the shows that are airing. Here’s Matt’s statement tonight in real time before the show airs:

EXCLUSIVE UPDATE: Woody Allen’s Publisher Sends Letter to HBO Over Unauthorized Use of Audio Book in Documentary

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EXCLUSIVE UPDATE: Woody Allen’s Publisher Sends Letter to HBO Over Unauthorized Use of Audio Book in Documentary

As I told you first on Saturday, Woody Allen‘s book publisher, Skyhorse, didn’t grant permission for use of audio from Woody’s book, “Apropos of Nothing,” in the HBO doc “Allen v. Farrow.” The audio segments take up quite a bit of the doc series, and make it seem as if Woody was interviewed for it. He was not. Until last week, Skyhorse didn’t know that HBO had used the audio segments.

Below is a copy of the letter sent by Skyhorse’s lawyers to HBO. Skyhorse’s lawyer writes: Skyhorse accordingly is giving notice that if, after viewing the documentary, it deems the documentary’s use of audiobook excerpts to exceed legitimate fair use, it will seek full compensation from HBO and the producers for willful copyright infringement.”

In other words, a lawsuit may be imminent. I’ve seen the remaining episodes, and there’s more of “Apropos” all through them. All without permission.

Here’s the letter:

EXCLUSIVE “Curb Your Enthusiasm” Director Challenges “Gotcha Moment” Coming Up in Woody-Mia Doc Series, Calls Them “Inherently Manipulative and Dishonest”

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EXCLUSIVE “Curb Your Enthusiasm” Director Challenges “Gotcha Moment” Coming Up in Woody-Mia Doc Series, Calls Them “Inherently Manipulative and Dishonest”

EXCLUSIVE Robert Weide is best known as the award winning director of “Curb Your Enthusiasm.” But he’s also been a staunch supporter of Woody Allen, defending him in blogs and posts for the last few years.

Now Weide is challenging the veracity of HBO’s doc “Allen v.Farrow” and directors Kirby Dick and Amy Ziering. He says Dylan’s 2014 claim that there was an electric train set in the crawl space in 1992 is incorrect. Moses Farrow said there was no train set. The Farrow side says there was. Using court transcripts, Weide has debunked the train. It’s a big deal.

 

He writes from @BobWeide:

An open Tweet thread for #AmyHerdy, #AmyZiering, #KirbyDick, @JaneDoeFilms & @HBODocs.

Someone sent me a clip of your big “Gotcha” moment from Episode 4 where you try to discredit @MosesFarrow’s claim that there was no functioning electric train set in the crawl space described in such detail by @RealDylanFarrow in her 2014 piece in @NickKristof’s @NYTimes column. Your supposed “checkmate” move presents a diagram of this space from the police report, showing a circle with the words “Toy Train Track.” *Cue ominous music.*

Now, I have a complete copy of the court transcripts, as I presume you do, since you named your film after this case. So I know exactly what’s behind your little hat trick. There are two possibilities: Either you are really half-assed researchers… or you are inherently manipulative and dishonest. Pick one. Maybe both. The question is, do you want me to reveal this information publicly, or do you want to do it? Personally, I think it would be better for you to reveal what you’ve done, rather than have me do so. Then we can move onto all the other falsehoods you’ve jammed into your 4-hour hatchet job that I can disprove without even breaking a sweat. But let’s start with the electric train set. Your move.

Daft Punk Says Goodbye: Helmeted Electronic Duo Retires with 7 Minute Video as They Walk Into the Sunset

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Daft Punk Says Goodbye: Helmeted Electronic Duo Retires with 7 Minute Video as They Walk Into the Sunset

Goodbye, Daft Punk.

The French electronic music duo formed in Paris in 1993 by Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo and Thomas Bangalter is over. Their second album, “Discovery,” had hit singles “One More Time”, “Digital Love” and “Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger.”

Their biggest hit was 2013’s “Get Lucky” featuring Nile Rodgers but they had a 20 year career before that and many loyal followers and fans.

Even though they remove their batteries, they’ll always live in our hearts.

HBO Doc “Allen v. Farrow” Misidentifies Famed Socialite Berry Berenson as Mia’s Sister Stephanie

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HBO Doc “Allen v. Farrow” Misidentifies Famed Socialite Berry Berenson as Mia’s Sister Stephanie

What else did they get wrong?

Filmmakers Kirby Dick and Amy Ziering insist they’ve got all the facts in their screed documentary “Allen v. Farrow.”

I’d already told you all the facts they left out, omitted, or let Mia Farrow lie about in order to make their point.

But now some eagle eyed viewers have noticed that the filmmakers got something big wrong. They wrongly identified a picture of Mia’s sister Stephanie Farrow (seen to the left here).

Both Stephen Paley and Steven Gaines, who know the era of 70s New York better than anyone, wrote about it on Facebook. The picture is of Mia flanked by actor Anthony Perkins on the left and his wife Berry Berenson, on the right. Berry was the sister of actress Marisa Berenson and granddaughter of famed jewelry designer Elsa Schiaparelli.

Berry died tragically in the September 11 attacks at age 53. She was on board American Airlines flight 11 which was crashed into the World Trade Center.

Labeling her Stephanie Farrow was a big mistake on the part of the filmmakers.

Paley wrote: “Amazing how much Mia Farrow’s sister Stephanie looks like Berry Berenson Perkins! If the producers of the HBO series Allen v. Farrow get something so obvious as this wrong, I wonder how many other facts they screw up in their documentary?”

Gaines responded: They said it was Mia’s sister when clearly its Berry Berenson. There was an I.D. next to the photo as Stephanie Farrow, as above. I was stunned they got that wrong. Berry was married to Tony at the time…”

Carole Mallory wrote: “Woody said something about Mia’s sister when they showed the photo of Berry •implying• it was Mia’s sister. As a former news producer, this whole episode was an exercise in shoddy journalism, and the producers would never get away with it had it been produced for a reputable news organization. This photo is the least of the problems.”

Woody Allen Responds to HBO Documentary: The Farrows and their enablers…put together a hatchet job riddled with falsehoods”

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Woody Allen Responds to HBO Documentary: The Farrows and their enablers…put together a hatchet job riddled with falsehoods”

Here is  Woody Allen and Soon Yi Previn’s official response to the HBO documentary, “Allen vs. Farrow”:

“These documentarians had no interest in the truth. Instead, they spent years surreptitiously collaborating with the Farrows and their enablers to put together a hatchet job riddled with falsehoods. Woody and Soon-Yi were approached less than two months ago and given only a matter of days ‘to respond.’ Of course, they declined to do so.

“As has been known for decades, these allegations are categorically false. Multiple agencies investigated them at the time and found that, whatever Dylan Farrow may have been led to believe, absolutely no abuse had ever taken place. It is sadly unsurprising that the network to air this is HBO – which has a standing production deal and business relationship with Ronan Farrow. While this shoddy hit piece may gain attention, it does not change the facts.”

The business deal mentioned above was indeed announced in 2018 between HBO and Ronan Farrow, who’s come up with no ideas for a documentary except this one. This is his obsession, and his mother’s. Watching the first episode tonight, it’s obvious that Dylan has been heavily coached, that nothing they talk about makes sense. I’ve written in prior pieces about slanted this story is, with no counterbalance. The documentary makes it seem like Woody was at Mia’s houses every day playing with children. Let’s not forget he made 13 movies in 13 years, in addition to plenty of published writing. He was working.

 

click here for original scoop: Woody Allen Publisher Threatens to Sue Over Use of Audio Quotes.

James Franco, Former Oscar Nominee, Settles Sexual Harassment Lawsuit with 2 Women, Career in Tatters

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James Franco, Former Oscar Nominee, Settles Sexual Harassment Lawsuit with 2 Women, Career in Tatters

James Franco, pretentious actor-student-teacher-director-author–ex Oscars host– has settled the sexual harassment lawsuit brought by two woman against him. Franco, an Oscar nominee for “127 Hours,” had a once promising career that is now in tatters.

Actresses and ex-students Sarah Tither-Kaplan and Toni Gaal, who first filed the lawsuit in 2019, agreed to drop their suit against Franco in exchange for an undisclosed sum. Their lawsuit said Franco pushed his students into performing in increasingly explicit sex scenes on camera in an “orgy type setting” that went far beyond those acceptable on Hollywood film sets.

Curiously, Franco had perpetuated a persona of being “maybe gay” by appearing in many films, many of which he directed, that suggested a fluid sexuality. He received kudos for playing Harvey Milk’s lover in “Milk,” then played poet Allen Ginsburg in “Howl,” re-created scenes from the very bad movie “Cruising,” and produced something called “Kink.” He also played a man who disavowed his sexuality to preach against homosexuality in “I Am Michael.”

But it was a cover, and a damn good one. He admitted to Vulture that it was all for show. Franco, in fact, was a lech. There was a public scandal in which he was texting an underage girl. There were other rumblings of trouble. The lawsuit alleged that Franco “sought to create a pipeline of young women who were subjected to his personal and professional sexual exploitation in the name of education.”

The lawsuit said the incidents occurred in a master class on sex scenes that Franco taught at a private acting school Franco and his fellow defendants Vince Jolivette and Jay Davis started called Studio 4, which opened in 2014 and closed in 2017.

Franco, of course, denied everything. But among Tither-Kaplan’s allegations was that claim that Franco allegedly removed plastic guards that had been placed over actors’ genitals while he simulated oral sex.

Will Franco ever direct another movie? It’s unlikely but even people with the worst scandals (see Nate Parker) seem to be able to find financial backers. On the money said, you’d think it was cash thrown away. Franco has made dozens and dozens of films either as producer or director, sometimes with him as star, that were beyond dreadful. The two worst were adaptations of William Faulkner’s “As I Lay Dying” and “The Sound and the Fury,” which not only made no money but are unwatchable. There are plenty more littering amazon.com and the Internet Movie Database, all cringe worthy.

 

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