This morning CNN This Morning‘s Don Lemon said 51 year-old Nikki Haley isn’t in her prime. Women, he said, are in their prime in their 20s, 30s and early 40s —- an obvious reference to their sexual peak, which is demeaning as hell when you’re talking about a Presidential candidate or any woman serving in any professional capacity. Haley is very much in her prime in that respect. So it’s true — Lemon (who’s since apologized) not only hurt himself, but he gave Haley a tremendous boost on both sides of the spectrum.
Day: February 16, 2023
Amusing Superstar Face-Off
The Cowboy and the Samurai, a just-released short, dramatizes an alleged excerpt from the reportedly tumultuous relationship between Jack Nicholson and John Belushi during the filming of Goin’ South in early ’78 or thereabouts.
Directed by Jake and Sam Lewis (who play the freaked-out producers), The Cowboy and the Samurai costars Jamie Costa as Jack and and Sandy Danto as John.
The Nicholson-Belushi interplay is pretty good — well written, decently played. I love the Lewis brothers’ attempt to make the film look like it was copied off a 40 year-old VHS tape.
Goin’ South wasn’t Nicholson’s directorial debut — 1971’s Drive He Said was — so that needs fixing. But otherwise not half bad.
From “John Belushi Had A Major Grudge Against This A-List Celebrity,” a Giant Freakin’ Robot article by John Kotz: “Jack Nicholson’s Goin’ South was a western, directed by the star himself, in which he played horse-thief Henry Moon, who is soon caught by a posse and through a weird series of loopholes, has to get a woman living in town to agree to marry him.
“Mary Steenburgen, then an unknown actress, accepted the role of Julia Tate, while Belushi and Christopher Lloyd played town deputies and Ed Begley Jr. played Whitey Haber, one of the locals.
“Nicholson strived to create an open atmosphere [with] everyone part of the family and working towards a common goal, etc. Goin’ South was Belushi’s first film following the success of Animal House, and the comic’s growing ego as a successful Hollywood star led to him bossing around members of the crew, arguing with other members in the cast, and worst of all, partaking in what was described as “a significant amount of cocaine” on a near-daily basis with Ed Begley Jr.
“Belushi was the type of Hollywood personality that Nicholson was hoping he could mentor, but the belligerent comic was faced with a steadily shrinking role in the film due to his bad behavior.”
Here’s a portion of Bob Woodward’s 1984 Washington Post piece about Belushi.
Thoughts About Trans-Defending Bullies
Yesterday a team of pro-trans, anti-mainstream-liberal activists wrote a complaint letter to the N.Y. Times. The beef is that the Times has passed along alleged “dangerous inaccuracies” in its reporting about trans issues.
As I explained in an intro to Jeff and Sasha’s latest podcast, it seems strange that the N.Y. Times, which has been prioritizing progressive activism alongside boilerplate gray-lady news reporting for the last four or five years and is totally in the woke progressive camp on pretty much all fronts, is being attacked like this.
What these woke bullies seem to be saying to the Times is “don’t report fairly and dispassionately on trans issues…that’s not good enough and that’s not what we want…you need to JOIN THE TEAM!”
Here’s a letter I wrote this morning to one of the signatories:
“I’m presuming that you think there’s a difference between the trans terrorist bullies who’ve signed that letter and the Red Guard who tormented and humiliated God knows how many hundreds of thousands of Chinese citizens during the Great Cultural Revolution of the mid ’60s to early ’70s.
“I’m not seeing much of a difference, but maybe you can assist.
“Everyone makes their own choices and sets upon their own path once they enter puberty, although it’s probably a good idea to allow a certain degree of emotional maturity to settle in before moving on to mutilating surgeries.
“However, when it comes to minors (pre-puberty), the application of puberty blockers, hormone replacement therapy and gender-affirming surgeries — which the fanatics claim have been “standard forms of care for cis and trans people alike for decades” — is, in the view of myself and many others, nothing short of grotesque and fiendish.
“Like, I’m guessing, 95% of the signatories, you’re probably just going along to get along. Like 95% of China’s youthful Red Guard a half-century ago. Like 95% of the people who went along with harsh punitive measures during the anti-Communist scare of the ’50s. All I can say is, the day when the crazies realize they’ve overplayed their hand and are forced to run for cover in order to protect their careers…that day can’t come soon enough for me. I relish the thought. I’m half tumescent about it.
“Oh, and all hail Pamela Paul!”
Aubrey Plaza Is Slumming, Needs Paycheck
Empty your brain, fill it with industrial sewage, wallow In cynical action crap, etc.
