EVENING NIGHTCAP: Stupid Parents, Stupid Names. Trailer For Naked Gun. Tyler Perry Getting Sued.

 

 

► The US Social Security Administration compiled a list of the stupidest names that dumb ass parents gave to their crotch droppings in 2024. I cannot imagine what these people must be like who purposely give their spawns such bad names. I have this image in my head these parents randomly flip through the owner's manual of farm equipment, a Starbuck's menu, or paper maps from the 1700s and point to the first word that catches their attention while patting themselves on the back for their "originality". Read More

Girls: Bansky, Brightly, Canary, Chai, Cinderella, Dairy, Delight, Elegance, Edelweiss, Fairy, Fauna, Hyatt, Infant, Mama, Missouri, Mylove, Oracle, Palace, Poem, Serenityrose, Universe, Versailles, Virtue, and Whisper. 

Boys: Asherjames, Cotton, Crash, Darling, Dragon, Germany, Gilead, God, Grim, Heir, Horizon, Infinity, Irish, Jaguar, Lafayette, Lancelot, Matrix, Nexus, Ontario, Portland, Ruckus, Stoic, Swift, Wyman, and Zero.   

Photo: TodaysBabyMama.com

Comment:  I get that some parents name their tax deductions after the place they were conceived or born. Sometimes it works, other times - NOPE.  If my parents followed that trend, I would be named "Beach Towel Hospital Few Words". My heart goes out to these kids (especially the ones named Zero, Infant, Grim, Crash, and Stoic) who have to live with their parents bullshit. I hope they set aside a therapy fund cause they're going to need it.   

 

► The trailer for the sequel / reboot / refresh of the 1988 mega hit comedy movie, Naked Gun: From The Files Of Police Squad was released. The movie has Liam Neeson playing the son of Lt. Frank Derbin (which was played by the late Leslie Nielsen) who follows in his dad's footsteps as a  detective. If you're not familiar with the original movie, it parodies crime movies and spoofs everything about society and pop culture with slapstick comedy. The new movie also stars Pamela Anderson who plays a femme fatale and Ed Hocken, Jr. (of I, Tonya). He will play the son of the late George Kennedy who played the police captain. The movie will hit theaters August 1st.  Read More

Comment: I love watching the original Naked Gun. My 2 favorite characters were Leslie Nielsen and Ricardo Montablan. Back in 1988, people knew how to laugh at themselves and society didn't itself too seriously. It was a simpler time. Anyway, from the trailer, Liam Neeson is spoofing his "Taken" franchise. Ha, ha! I like that he's parodying his own movie. While he's not known as a comedic actor,  I think he can pull it off with his deadpan delivery of his "Taken" character as a slapstick crime comedy.  

► America's favorite cross-dressing nana, Tyler Perry, is being sued by actor Derek Dixon for $260 million. In the lawsuit filing, Derek accuses Madea of, "creating "a coercive, sexually exploitative dynamic" between them while he was starring on the filmmaker's shows The Oval and Ruthless. In addition, Perry is also accused of "initially promising him career advancement and creative opportunities, such as producing his pilot and casting him in his show, only to subject him to escalating sexual harassment, assault and battery, and professional retaliation when Mr. Dixon did not reciprocate Mr. Perry's unwanted advances." So, I guess Tyler will dust-off his No-Nonsense pantyhose, housecoat, and Granny Clampett wig to star in a new courtroom drama: Madea Gets Sued.  Read More

Tyler Perry, December 2024. Photo: Leon Bennett/FilmMagic/People.com

Comment: I have a short list of celebs that, for whatever reason, give me the heebie-jeebies and make the hairs on the back of my neck stand up. On the list are Tyler Perry, Christian Bale, and Tom Hanks. I've never met them. They give off this aura of wearing a mask...akin to Jekyll & Hyde that I can't explain. It's like when the camera catches them at an impromptu moment the mask slip a little and there's something behind it that spooks me. I don't know what it is about them. Anywhichway, who knows what went on between Derek and Tyler Perry. Is it a money grab by Derek? Did Tyler behave like a shitbag? Was it a miscommunication? It's anyone's guess. I predict this lawsuit will be quietly settled out of court and whatever happened between them swept under the rug.