Sometimes Hollywood liberals are so stupid… all you can do is shake your head. Irony-insensitive Alyssa Milano, to protest Musk ending censorship of conservatives on Twitter, announced on Twitter itself that she had dumped her Tesla and purchased instead an EV sold by Volkswagen… a company literally founded by Hitler and the Nazis.
Just as we at OutKick predicted, the 93rd Academy Awards ceremony tanked to unimaginable lows. The 2021 Oscars fell more than 50% year-over-year in overnight ratings, OutKick has learned. Here’s a look at the past three years:
“In light of new information about misconduct by Harvey Weinstein that has emerged in the past few days, the directors of The Weinstein Company – Robert Weinstein, Lance Maerov, Richard Koenigsberg and Tarak Ben Ammar – have determined, and have informed Harvey Weinstein, that his employment with The Weinstein Company is terminated, effective immediately.”
George Clooney, who supported Hillary Clinton amid the 2016 presidential campaign and once hosted a fundraiser for her, said he believes she wasn’t fit for the White House.
Poll: Majority of Americans Don’t Care About the Oscars. So basically 91% of the U.S. doesn’t give a crap. We’ll guess the 7% that do might be Academy members and that the missing 2% really didn’t give a crap.
In response, a vast majority — 62 percent — responded that they do not care “at all” about the Academy Awards. The poll found 29 percent of respondents care “a little” about the Oscars, while only seven percent care “a lot.”
We can only assume that the California legislature has not yet heard the news that they’ve spent the state into bankruptcy. How else can what’s going to happen on June 1 possibly be explained?
We can only assume that the California legislature has not yet heard the news that they’ve spent the state into bankruptcy. How else can what’s going to happen on June 1 possibly be explained?
Want to make a movie? California will give you free money.
The Hollywood Reporter has the details:
That morning, movie and TV producers can drop off applications for a share of $100 million in annual state tax credits for productions that meet certain requirements and shoot in the state during the year.
What’s the rush? “We will exhaust all $100 million in tax breaks on June 1st,” Amy Lemisch, executive director of the California Film Commission said Friday morning at a commission meeting and breakfast for producers in Los Angeles.
In other words, the entire amount allocated by the state legislature for the year will be spoken for the first day that applications are accepted. Actually, more productions will seek tax breaks than is available for the year on that one day.
In case that didn’t make sense, let us sum it up for you:
The bankrupt state of California is handing out money to movie producers like they’re homeless beggers on Hollywood Blvd.
The only way this seems to make sense is if the entire state of California is now living in LaLaLand. It’s one giant horror movie produced, directed and inflicted on the state’s residents by Hollywood. None of it is real.
It’s like The Truman Show in real life and if a resident of California can escape to another state, he’ll find out he’s lived their entire life on one big movie set.
CEOs and Hollywood stars got their comeuppance last weekend at the annual Kennedy Center Honors. Much to their chagrin, they discovered that George Bush was much warmer and more hospitable than Barack Obama.
Words you never thought you'd hear: "So, George, can you give me some advice on winning over that Hollywood crowd?"
Comeuppance. Yeah, that’s the word we’ve been trying to think of.
CEOs and Hollywood stars got their comeuppance last weekend at the annual Kennedy Center Honors. Much to their chagrin, they discovered that George Bush was much warmer and more hospitable than Barack Obama.
Here’s how Variety, show so-called show biz bible, explains the comeuppance:
The show itself honoring Bruce Springsteen, Robert De Niro and Mel Brooks, among others, was a resounding hit, but the White House seemed to be still traumatized by the incursions of the social-climbing, state dinner-crashing Salahis.
While President Bush in past years shook every celebrity hand and posed for photos with visitors at the White House reception, the Obamas remained aloof, fleeing to their box at the Kennedy Center.
Stunned by recent security breaches, the White House kept guests shivering outside in 30-degree weather, opening the reception 10 minutes late and shuttling guests through 25 minutes of repeated screenings and pat-downs, all of which took place outside.
Several stars grumbled; one suggested to a social secretary that the Obama staff study the Academy Awards for lessons in celebrity management.
The story reaches a sad Hollywood dénouement:
White House staffers maintained a stony distance during this weekend’s events. Rahm Emanuel, the chief of staff, sat with his wife for 20 minutes before Obama’s brief presentation Sunday, and hardly anyone approached him with a greeting, nor did he circulate.
“I never thought I’d miss the Bushes,” said one prominent Hollywood actor, “but this place seemed a lot warmer when they were here.”
It was probably just global warming, but don’t you worry, Hollywood. Barack Obama is over there in Hopenchangen fixing that little problem, too.
You’ll find hundreds of names on Hollywood’s pro-Polanski petition. Here are the names and why it seems a bit eerie that they should support a man convicted of drugging and raping a child.
Is anyone surprised that Woody Allen, seen here with his wife and stepdaughter, supports Roman Polansky
You’ll find hundreds of names on Hollywood’s pro-Polanski petition. But to be honest, there are very few “Hollywood” names on the list and a ton of European names on the list. Lots of guys you’ve never heard of named Luc and Jean-Jacques and Lucien and Guillermo.
That being said, several Hollywood names stand out. Here are the names and why it seems a bit eerie (a polite way of saying “sick”) that they should support a man convicted of drugging and raping a child.
Woody Allen – Actor/writer/director and legendary lecher who married his own adopted stepdaughter.
Buck Henry – Writer/actor who played Uncle Roy, the perverted babysitter on Saturday Night Live. He also wrote “Candy,” a film that imdb.com describes with these words, “Candy Christian is an innocent young girl when she first hears McPhisto, an alcoholic Welsh poet, talk of love and self-sacrifice. Candy narrowly escapes McPhisto’s attempt to rape her, only to succumb to her father’s Mexican gardener, Emmanuel.” And it goes downhill from there. Henry also wrote “The Graduate,” a film in which an older woman seduces a naïve college-aged boy.
Jeremy Irons – Actor who starred in a remake of Lolita. imdb.com’s plot synopsis says, “Humbert Humbert, a British professor coming to the US to teach, rents a room in Charlotte Haze’s house, but only after he sees her 14-year-old daughter, Dolores (Lolita), to whom he is immediately attracted. Though he hates the mother, he marries her as this is the only way to be close to the girl….”
Sam Mendes – Directed “American Beauty.” The imdb.com synopsis says, “Lester Burnham is in a mid-life crisis, caused by his stressed wife Carolyn and rebelling teenage daughter Jane. When Lester and Carolyn go watch Jane cheerleading, they meet Angela Hayes, and Lester, caught in sudden lust for Angela, decides to change his life.”
Mike Nichols – Writer/director who directed “The Graduate.” imdb.com’s synopsis of the film says, “Recent college graduate Benjamin Braddock is trapped into an affair with Mrs. Robinson, who happens to be the wife of his father’s business partner and then finds himself falling in love with her teenage daughter…”
We can’t help but remember the words of our mother: “A man is judged by the company he keeps.”
Nicole Avant, our new ambassador to the Bahamas. At least she'll be out of the country and won't have to watch the fall of capitalism.
Some of President Obama’s biggest Hollywood financial supporters are packing their bags and heading off to become ambassadors. This despite the fact that their only previous diplomatic experience may have been spending a night in Hollywood’s Ambassador Hotel.
But that matters not if there were enough zeroes on the check you contributed to the President’s campaign coffers.
Music industry heiress Nicole Avant will represent us in the Bahamas. Wild Brain CEO Charles Rivkin gets France.
Avant is the daughter of longtime Bill and Hillary Clinton friend Clarence Avant and the sister of Democratic activist Alex Avant. She was the first in her family to break away and endorse Obama. Her experience for the ambassadorship includes being the daughter of the former chairman of Motown Records, bundling $500,000 for Obama’s campaign, and playing Protestor #2 in a 2004 film called “First Daughter.”
Why stop there, President Obama? There are lots of other Hollywood types itching to be ambassadors.
Rob Reiner. Barbara Streisand. Alec Baldwin. They all said they’d leave the country if Bush got elected, but didn’t. If a little ambassadorship is all it takes to get them out, we say it’s a small price to pay.
Just weeks after that grand Hollywood delegation visited Iran on a “cultural” exchange, they’ve received bad news from neighboring Saudi Arabia. Movies are now taboo.
As AsiaNews/Agency in Riyadh explained it:
Cinema and theatre are “against Sharia” because they distract people from work and weaken their efforts in achieving progress, said Saudi Arabia’s Grand Mufti Shaikh Abdul Aziz Alu Al Sheikh during a conference on leisure, visual arts and literature attended by students at King Saud University. “Theatrical performance, whether it is a cinema or a song, would generally make an impression that is against Sharia. People need only those (art forms) that are useful to them to change their way of life (in an Islamic manner),” he decreed.
They continued. And so did the nutcase Mufti:
In his address to students at King Saud University, the grand mufti warned against playing chess because it “causes a man to lose his wealth and waste his time.”
Conversely “photography is one of the necessities of life” because it helps in “lectures, [. . .] religious activities [. . .] while maintaining public security.”
“Only the photography of sculptures and models is prohibited,” he said.
Remuneration for poets who attend festivals and cultural events is permissible if their words are good, faultless, without “abusive words or references.”
Finally, the mufti urged students to stay away from cigarettes and avoid reckless driving, especially at night or early morning.
Hold on. He didn’t mention cable TV, did he? Can they watch cable TV Saudi Arabia? If so, we highly recommend Entourage to the Grand Mufti. We’re pretty he’ll like it.
But he might want to watch it with the blinds pulled down.
Actress Angie Harmon has had it up to here with Hollywood hypocrites who call her a racist just because she disagrees with Barack Obama.
“Here’s my problem with this,” Harmon said. “I’m just going to come out and say it. If I have anything to say against Obama, it’s not because I’m a racist. It’s because I don’t like what he’s doing as President and anybody should be able to feel that way. But what I find now is that if you say anything against him you’re called a racist. But it has nothing to do with it, I don’t care what color he is. I’m just not crazy about what he’s doing…”
“If I’m going to disagree with my President,” she concluded, “that doesn’t make me a racist…It has nothing to do with it. It is ridiculous.”
You are oh-so-wrong, Angie. Surely, anyone who disagrees with Obama is a racist. Anyone who says he’s a socialist is a racist. Anyone who thinks he isn’t the greatest president in history is a racist.
And while we’re at it, anyone who doesn’t admire Michelle’s finely-toned arms is a racist, too.
Actress Angie Harmon has had it up to here with Hollywood hypocrites who call her a racist just because she disagrees with Barack Obama.