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  Photo / Gif: The Daily Beast The Mouse House (Govt Name: Disney) has had a rough year. Between fighting with Florida Governor Ron DeathSatan DeSantis, the WGA-SAG-AFTRA strike, and disappointing box office results for their movies - it's been a trail of mouse droppings for the company. The box office disappointments for 2023 include the live action remake of Little Mermaid, Indiana Jones and Dial for Dollars Dial of Destiny, Antman & The Wasp: Quantumania, and Haunted Mansion. Like other studios, Disney has over played its hand and reliance on tent pole franchises and remakes.  Disney announced they're pushing back the release of Snow White and Magazine Dreams “until further notice”. Two other untitled Pixar movies and a few other live-action remakes (Tarzan, Princess and the Frog to name a few) that were under development have been cancelled. They blame the SAG-AFTRA strike. No doubt that's a major reason but IMO, there are other underlying issues plaguing the co...

When Drea De Matteo recently announced that she'd opened a semi-nudie OnlyFans account, many people scratched their heads, asking, "For why? She's a rich actress." But as the ongoing strike has taught us, nearly 90% of actors do not earn a steady paycheck, and when they do, it's not all that much. Drea confirmed this recently in an interview with "Fox Digital" in which she said, "People think I'm made of fucking gold - and I'm not." She also has two kids to support. Fair enough. So open and shut, right? Not exactly. In another example of Many Actors Are Not Too Bright, Drea confirms the real reason she's broke and doing OnlyFans. During the height of Covid, she refused a lot of acting work - and also wasn't hired for a lot of jobs - because she refused to get a Covid vaccine. Yes, this moderately talented character actress is anti-vax. She almost lost her home, she claims, because of this. "I guess you could say I was a bad...

  Various news outlets  - along with social media uproar - are reporting that Bradley Cooper is being dragged for using a ridiculously large fake nose in his latest Oscar bait Netflix movie "Maestro". Bradley stars, co-wrote, and directed it. The movie is a biopic of composer Leonard Bernstein. A trailer was released which shows Bradley in the fake nose which looks like a disguise someone would wear as part of a tacky Halloween costume (sans the eyeglasses). IMO, real talent doesn't need to rely on cheap gimmicks or a stereotype to portray the life of Mr. Bernstein. In an article on Page Six, Jewish actress Tracy Ann Oberman made an excellent point about this horseshit and Bradley's use of this excessive monstrous prosthetic: "If Cooper was able to play the Elephant Man without any prosthetics, he should be able to play a Jewish man without any need for prosthetics - especially a Jewface".  Good point. When Chicken Coop Bradley portrayed the Elephant Man on...

In an interview with the Evening Standard, Billy Porter - the actor, writer, director, and fashionista, said that he has to sell his house due to the SAG-WGA strike.  Billy said, "I have to sell my house. Yeah, because we're on strike. The life of an artist, until you make F-you money - which I haven't made yet - is still check to check." Billy has a reported net worth of $5 million. According to various sources, he was making $300,000 for the TV show Pose and has a monthly net income of $25k from various ventures. Let's not get into what he's comped from designers and companies for his wardrobe, swag, and other niceties. Billy is likeable enough. I appreciate his advocacy work for the LGBT community. I know he's had it rough. Billy and his husband, Adam Smith, filed for divorce earlier this summer after 6 years of marriage. In 2007, Billy filed for bankruptcy, and disclosed he had been living with HIV and diabetes for years. While the strike is affecting ...

Ben Platt, seen above in a blouse even Ruth Buzzi might have been embarrassed to wear, along with the darlingest meemaw-approved high-waisted pants, has just about had it with you poors calling him out for being a wealthy Nepo Baby, so knock it off.  As you may recall, last year "New York" magazine published a story on Hollywood Nepo Babies, which explained the obvious: the sons and daughters of wealthy Hollywood stars and execs have it real easy when it comes to breaking into showbiz. How easy is it for them? Easy as a dead whore, I'd say, but what really rankled said nepo babies? The article named names.  This included Ben Platt, an arguably insufferable performer and singer whose vibrato is so out of control that he sounds like Woody Woodpecker on his best days (and on his worst, Anthony Newley). But I digress. When recently asked about his status as a Nepo Baby - given that his father, Marc, is one of the richest, most successful producers of the past two decades - he...

File this under, "Uh-oh Spaghetti-Os!" 63 year-old Rosanna Arquette - who entered Hollywood meemaw territory the moment she turned 30 - had a meemaw moment in Hollywood yesterday. According to the L.A. Times , the "Crash" actress - Ba-dum tsss! - crashed her car into a Malibu shopping center.  Thankfully, Rosanna wasn't hurt by her oopsie and neither was anyone else. Also, she freely allowed herself to be tested for drugs and alcohol, and get this, she was clean. This is good news and bad news. It's good news, because the actress was not popping dolls like half of Hollywood. (side note: should one drive on Ozempic?!). And neither was she boozing it up, like some stars have been known to do.  On the other hand, she could be a Toonses-level driver - this is not a good thing! - or worse, maybe she really has entered meemaw territory, because police determined that the crash was caused by her footsie when she pressed the gas pedal instead of the brakes while p...

There ain't no wrath like the wrath of an actor ignored,  and yesterday, SAG President, Fran Drescher - sporting a bold, " I'm totally serious, you guys " look with no make-up, her hair disheveled - called for SAG actors to strike against AMPTP,  or the Producers, streamers and major studios  Hilariously, AMPTP reps, including Disney's head honcho, Robert I. Iger, are calling SAG's demands "unrealistic," even though Iger is taking home over 20 million a year in compensation, and that's without hefty bonuses. "Let them eat Mickey's ass," he may as well say, since everyone knows Goofy's cakes are messy. Also, guess who's being notably cool, and sometimes outright silent, about the strike? Democratic politicians, you silly, like California governor Gavin Newson, all of whom rely on big donations from AMPTP's fat cats, including their fundraising events thrown by producers, such as Jeffrey Katzenberg and David Geffen. ...