EVENING NIGHTCAP: At Least It Wasn't Florida. Quentin Does Not ♥ Paul Dano. Cackling At Leo.

 

 

 ► We all have woken up hungover in places that either: 1) we'd rather forget; or 2) can't remember how we got there. The character in this story managed to do both in grand style. A racoon broke into a liquor store to get an early start on the office holiday party season. It all happened at an Ashland, Virginia liquor store. Shocking that it wasn't Florida. The store was closed but the ringtail bandit found a way in. Once inside, it headed straight for the finest tonics: scotch and whiskey. No beer, Boone's Farm, or cheap swill for this critter. 

After breaking a few bottles, it indulged in the sweet nectar while re-creating Tammy Cruise's bartending skills in "Cocktail". It then went on a rampage, breaking more stuff and drinking more hooch until it finally passed out on the bathroom floor like White House DUI hire, Pete Hegseth after a state dinner. Good thing the racoon was alone cause had it brought friends along I'm betting they would have drawn tiny racoon penis's on its face and put its paw in a cup of warm water so it can piss all over. The next day a store employee found the racoon still passed out. Animal Control was called and they took it to detox at the local shelter. When it sobered up, it was safely returned to the wild.   Read More

Comment: This critter managed to vandalize a store, drink a bunch of expensive giggle juice, then was given a clean bed to sober up, and let go without a fine or paying for damages. That's what I call a job well done. I nominate drunk racoon to be an honorary member of PW Manor and to the DListed Hall of Fame. 

Drunk racoon passed out at liquor store. Photo: AP

►At a recent podcast, director Quentin Tarantino disclosed his least favorite actor in Hollywood. And no, it's not Dr. Scholl. It's Paul Dano (41). Quentin went on to say that the only flaw in the 2007 movie, There Will Be Blood, with Daniel Day Lewis (which earned DDL an Oscar) was Paul Dano. He called Dano's performance "weak sauce".  But the criticism for Dano didn't stop there. Quentin put his wrath in reverse and stepped on the gas peddle to finish the job: Read More 

"His apparent distaste for the actor goes beyond the one role as the conversation continued. “He’s just such a weak, weak, uninteresting guy,” he said before calling Dano “the weakest male actor in SAG” and “the limpest d--- in the world.” 

Quentin Tarantino. Photo: Frazier Harrison/Getty Images for Epic Games/Daily Beast

Comment: I can think of a dozen actors who are shittier, less talented than Paul Dano. While he's no Brando, Pacino, or Sir Olivier, the dude is okay. I would compare Paul Dano's acting to a can opener. Nothing spectacular, it does the job. Dano nor his handlers have commented. Frankly, I don't expect them to. Dano is probably asleep and DGAF.

 

► Presented with a little comment: Leo DiCatchaho on the cover of Deadline. His makeup game and the overblown widow's peak had me cackling. Ha, ha, ha! At first blush (pun intended) I thought it was an an industrial level IG filter being used on Tom Selleck in make up to promote a biopic about Mary Kay Cosmetics founder.