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Donald Trump — desperate now that his taxes have been revealed and his former campaign manager is in a mental health lockdown — is Tweeting lies to his followers to scare them.
He Tweeted at about 10:25am Eastern: The Ballots being returned to States cannot be accurately counted. Many things are already going very wrong!
THIS IS NOT TRUE. This Tweet is designed to stop voters from mailing in ballots.
All the states have reported in many reports that there is NO mail fraud for voters. I hope Jack Dorsey and Twitter will suspend Trump for sending out fake information.
Here’s the other video from the group Chick which Mariah Carey says she sang on in 1995. The song is called “Malibu,” the video and the sound are like a Blondie parody. There’s a red butterfly on the tape player, a little clue that no one got when the video was posted in 2009.
Here are the lyrics:
Yeah
If I were Malibu Barbie and you were suntan Ken
I’d probably dump your ass for G.I. Joe ‘cause he’s macho, yeah
And if I wear my shit braided, yeah, and you were Keith Partridge
I’d probably cheat on you with Davy Jones, uh oh oh oh oh
You don’t care that I don’t care at all
I’m using you
You don’t care that I don’t care at all
If I were Roger with Jeannie and you were “Melrose Place” (Melrose Place)
I’d probably blink my eyes and send your ass to “Lost In Space”
You don’t care that I don’t care at all
I’m using you
You don’t care that I don’t care at all
I’m using you
You don’t care that I don’t care at all
Coz I’m only using you
You don’t care that I don’t care at all
You know I think you’re kinda stupid
Why can’t you get it through your big fat head
I hate you, I hate you, I wish you were dead (wish you were dead)
You don’t care that I don’t care at all
I’m using you
You don’t care that I don’t care at all
I’m only using you
You don’t care that I don’t care at all
Coz I’m only using, only using
You don’t care that I don’t care at all
Using, using, using, using
I’m using you
‘Cause I’m only using, using, using you
I’m using you
I’m using, using, using, using, you
If I were Malibu Barbie and you were suntan Ken
Tracklist:
1. Joe
2. Love Is A Scam
3. Violent
4. Malibu
5. Demented
6. Freak
7. Agony
8. Surrender
9. Hermit
10. Prom Queen
11. Stork: Orphan In My Room
Exclusive: Here’s the video for “Demented,” a song from Mariah Carey’s “secret grunge album.” Yesterday on Twitter Mariah revealed she made an album called “Someone’s Ugly Daughter” with a group called Chick back in 1995. It was on the Sony label, recorded at the time Mariah was making the “Daydream” album, and disappeared quickly. The video has 29,990 views on YouTube, posted October 25, 2009. I guess the numbers will take off now. I
Mariah says she sang with a friend named Clarissa, I don’t know if that’s her in the video or an actress. If anyone knows who she is, shoot me an email at showbiz411@gmail.com. The video for “Demented” looks like a parody of Blondie, circa 1979. It was definitely shot on Canal Street in New York in 1995, you can tell because Uncle Steve’s stereo store is in the shot. There’s a clue that Mariah was involved– a red butterfly makes a nano appearance.
The album — which sounds like Courtney Love and Hole — contains a cover of Cheap Trick’s “Surrender.” It was released on August 22, 1995, recorded at the Hit Factory, the studio where Mariah made most of her albums in the 90s.
Mariah posted a video to YouTube over night for fans of a medley of the songs. The album is unavailable now. There’s one copy selling for $975 on amazon. This is all to promote Mariah’s memoir, published tomorrow, called “The Meaning of Mariah Carey” from Andy Cohen Books (I’m not kidding).
Tracklist:
1. Joe
2. Love Is A Scam
3. Violent
4. Malibu
5. Demented
6. Freak
7. Agony
8. Surrender
9. Hermit
10. Prom Queen
11. Stork: Orphan In My Room
Police said Parscale, who doesn’t believe in gun control, of course, had weapons at home. His wife called 911. The police sent a SWAT team.
Is it a coincidence? What does Parscale know? He’s been working for the Trump family since 2012, very involved in their business via his digital acumen.
So stay tuned. And don’t cry for him. Whatever drove Parscale over the edge tonight came from years of doing very bad things for Trump.
“Saturday Night Live” is the hottest ticket in New York. Everyone wants to see the show in person. There are two performances, dress rehearsal and live. It’s almost impossible to get into either one of them all season.
Not anymore. Would you die to see Chris Rock and Megan Thee Stallion in person for the opening show? Kate McKinnon? Kenan Thompson?
“SNL” is now soliciting audience members. What’s really crazy is that you can request up to 9 tickets if they’re in your “COVID bubble”– meaning people you’re quarantined with.
The first four episodes are up for grabs. Seats are being held for health workers at two of the shows.
Here’s the description:
All ticket applicants should request either 2, 7, 8 or 9 tickets, depending upon the size of your “social bubble.” Please note that all people for whom you’ve requested tickets must come to the show, in order for any of you to be seated.
If selected for tickets the following rules/guidelines will apply:
All guests will be required to take a mandatory COVID-19 test upon arrival. This is a self-administered lower nasal antigen test with results yielded before the show.
Temperature checks will also be required at check in.
Face coverings/masks are required at all times while inside the building – no bandanas, no gaiters, no masks with vents will be allowed.
All audience members will be asked a series of questions prior to admission:
Are you exhibiting any symptoms related to COVID-19?
Have you exhibited any symptoms to COVID-19 in the last 14 days?
Have you had a positive COVID-19 test within the past 14 days?
Have you been in close contact with anyone with COVID-19 symptoms, or anyone who has tested positive for COVID-19, within the past 14 days?
Have you traveled to any of the following states in the past 14 days? Alabama, Alaska, Arizona, Arkansas, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Guam, Iowa, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Minnesota, Missouri, Mississippi, Montana, Nevada, North Carolina, North Dakota, Nebraska, Oklahoma, Puerto Rico, Rhode Island, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Virginia, West Virginia, Wisconsin, Wyoming (list updated as of 9/26/20; list changes, based on NY State guidance)
Please note anyone who has a temperature of 100.4 or higher will not be allowed admission and the party may not be granted admission either. A positive COVID-19 test for any member of your group will result in the entire group not being granted admission.
You know, at this point, I’d go depending on the host and musical guest artist. Bring on the Rolling Stones, and I’m there, virus or no virus!
“Donald J. Trump paid $750 in federal income taxes the year he won the presidency. In his first year in the White House, he paid another $750.
“He had paid no income taxes at all in 10 of the previous 15 years — largely because he reported losing much more money than he made.
As the president wages a re-election campaign that polls say he is in danger of losing, his finances are under stress, beset by losses and hundreds of millions of dollars in debt coming due that he has personally guaranteed. Also hanging over him is a decade-long audit battle with the Internal Revenue Service over the legitimacy of a $72.9 million tax refund that he claimed, and received, after declaring huge losses. An adverse ruling could cost him more than $100 million.”
Let’s face it, the Rock– Dwayne Johnson– is the biggest movie star of this generation. He’s also a gigantic TV cable star. And now he’s endorsed Joe Biden and Kamala Harris for the presidency. He says: “Progress takes courage, humanity, empathy, strength, KINDNESS & RESPECT.”
It’s Johnson’s first ever political endorsement.
Watch the video:
As a political independent & centrist, I’ve voted for both parties in the past. In this critical presidential election, I’m endorsing @JoeBiden & @KamalaHarris.
When Florian Zeller’s psychological thriller, “The Father,” played on Broadway, Frank Langella had the part of Anthony, a man who was suffering from severe dementia and couldn’t differentiate what was real from his imagination. Langella won the Tony Award and the Drama Desk Award for Best Actor in a Play.
Now that Anthony Hopkins has stepped into the role for the movie, I’m at least consoled that Langella will get a Supporting Actor nomination at the next Oscars for “The Trial of Chicago 7.”
You do have to have a commanding actor to play Anthony, it’s not like he’s an award winning slam dunk. Hopkins, with five Oscar nominations, is as good as it gets. He’ll get a sixth nomination and could easily win Best Actor for this performance, which is so nuanced and rich, it’s kind of breathtaking. Just as in “The Two Popes,” last year, Sir Anthony delivers a master class in acting. You can’t take your eyes off of him.
Ditto for the two Olivias– Colman and Williams– the second part of the puzzle that makes “The Father.” When we first meet Anthony, we’re pretty sure he has dementia and maybe this is one of those tearjerking movies about having to deal with a deteriorating parent. But then the Olivias emerge, and so do questions about what exactly is going on here. Add to the mix two men who appear in Anthony’s flat who may or may not be married to Olivia Colman’s Ann: Rufus Sewell and Mark Gatiss. Zeller quite clever makes us feel as if we might have dementia ourselves.
Audiences should eat up “The Father” the way they loved “Get Out,” simply as a thriller that requires 100% attention. It may not have the racial undercurrent, but it’s sly enough that it transcends all genres. And Hopkins, who’s known forever as Hannibal Lecter, gets a rare second iconic role on his long, storied, resume.
Actor Dennis Quaid is not going to be cancelled by The Cancel Culture. An angry Quaid has posted a video to Instagram defending his PSA interview with Dr. Anthony Fauci about the importance of wearing masks and how the pandemic is going.
Yesterday a rumor grew out of control that Quaid had been paid a lot of money to help Donald Trump communicate his own success in the handling of the virus. Quaid says that it wasn’t a political PSA, and that he took no money for it. But this is how rumors mushroom. I’m glad that Dennis set us all straight!
Okay, so way back in 2000, there was a dud of a movie called “The Million Dollar Hotel” that had a great soundtrack. U2 had a few tracks on it, including “Never Let Me Go” and “Stateless.” The latter, therefore, didn’t make it onto U2’s instant classic of an album that came out then called “All That You Can’t Leave Behind.”
But NOW the album turns 20 and is getting a big anniversary box set. “Stateless” has been remastered, given its own video, and will be in the box, along with a lot of other cool things. This has been a great box set season– McCartney, Stones, Elton, now U2.
Here’s the new “Stateless.” There’s a remastered video for “Stuck in a Moment You Can’t Get Out of It.” U2 makes me happy, like the Police, REM, and Pretenders, Squeeze and XTC.
