“Someone who still is trying to convince Americans that this election stuff, it doesn’t really work.”
“Take a minute, acknowledge that maybe it wasn’t the right call [to hire Ronna McDaniel]. It is a sign of strength, not weakness, to acknowledge when you are wrong.”
HE agrees that Timothee Chalamet‘s simulation of Bob Dylan, as revealed in Entertainment Weekly‘s shots of recent filming of A Complete Unknown, is agreeable.
Earlier today homeland security (HSI) officials raided two homes owned by Sean “P. Diddy” Combs. They were apparently responding to (a) concerns about alleged sex trafficking or (b) possible concerns about a music producer’s allegation that Combs and his son were involved in a 2022 shooting at a Los Angeles recording studio, or (c) something else.
Combs’ home in Holmby Hills (a huge white mansion on So. MapletonDrive, south of Sunset and right next door to Humphrey Bogart‘s former home) and another super-pad in Miami Beach’s Star Island were targeted.
May I ask a stupid question? Combs is extremely wealthy, and we all know that loaded guys rarely have difficulty persuading beautiful women to shed their clothing and submitting to whatever. (Not that HE in any way approves of sexual predation under any circumstance.) So why would Combs, 54, or any associates or employees or even his sons, Justin and Christian, be so stupid as to engage in sex trafficking, which would obviously be idiotic from a legal standpoint?
Wiki defines sex trafficking as “a form of reproductive slavery and/or commercial sexual exploitation…the transportation of persons by means of coercion, deception and/or force into exploitative and slavery-like conditions.”
Over the past several months four women have accused Combs of sexual assault and similar allegations. Some dude has also complained about aggressive behavior from Combs.
Last November Combs was accused of sexual assault by a woman in a lawsuit filed in New York County Supreme Court. A month later (December) a Jane Doe accused Combs of sexual assault, sex trafficking and gang rape. Another Jane Doe has alleged that Combs and singer-songwriter Aaron Hall took turns raping her and a friend in New York City more than 30 years ago (i.e., early ’90s) Another accuser, Casandra “Cassie” Ventura, reached a settlement with Combs right after she filed a lawsuit against him for allegations of rape, sex trafficking and domestic violence in November.
Because…think about it…the Jurassic franchise peaked roughly 30 years ago (1993’s Jurassisc Park + 1997’s The Lost World) and there’s obviously nothing classy or even exciting about making one of these godawful things, which currently appeal to the absolute lowest common denominator…the dregs of megaplex culture.
It would seem that Johansson’s current game is largely or significantly about wanting to keeping living in the lap of luxury and having to occasionally hold her nose when she makes certain films. Paycheck gigs are a fact of life. Nobody likes them, but almost everyone accepts the fact that appearing a well-paying dreck is an unfortunate necessity.
Plus Johansson is pushing 40 (she was born on 11.22.84) and a voice is probably telling her “you’ve had a great 20-year run and although you’re sure to make many more smart and edgy films, your highly-paid glory period is winding down and so it’s probably wise to snag as many hefty-paycheck roles as you can, regardless of quality….get it while you can.”
HE is passively into discouraging or diminishing interest in Proof of Concept Accelerator movies…no offense. I simply wish to align myself with the tens of millions of relatively slender, well-educated squares out there (i.e., those who are not obese or MAGA or who don’t wear whitesides)…an alignment with the 95% of the Americans who don’t live inside the progressive woke-trans-nonbinary bubble…Americans who inherently don’t love the idea of white-male-hating narratives.
Nor is HE “against” PoCA’s eight-person committee — i.e., Chloé Zhao, Emma Corrin, Eva Longoria, Greta Gerwig, Jane Campion, Janicza Bravo, Lily Gladstone and Lilly Wachowski.
HE just wants to stay as far as possible from movies inspired or influenced by any kind of girl-boss, white-male-hating, trans-nonbinary lobby or community. All power to them…just leave me out of it…thank you & God bless.
