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Category Archives: Hollywood
Meeting Stars On Set
In 1994, I was working as an extra on a film or TV show. Martin Landau was one of the stars of the production. We sat next to each other at lunch one day and had a nice chat. He … Continue reading
WEHT To Emma Watson?
Steve Sailer writes: Because movie stars are movie stars because they appear to be highly sexed. Emma Watson is an anomaly in that she was signed for an eight blockbuster run before puberty. At that point she looked like she’d … Continue reading
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What’s Rich Botto’s 33rd Act?
Richard Botto started out as a big internet pornographer until he got taken down by the FTC in 2000. Then he started Razor magazine in 2001 and that closed in 2005. Now Richard “Stage 32” Botto has hit the wall … Continue reading
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The Lost City of Z (2016)
I respect the ambition of this movie, but I couldn’t get into it. I just couldn’t bring myself to care about any of the characters and the stories. I wanted to care. I wanted to like this story. I couldn’t. … Continue reading
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Hacksaw Ridge
Steve Sailer writes: Rather like Donald Trump’s campaign for president in 2016, Mel Gibson’s 2004 movie The Passion of the Christ was not popular in Beverly Hills. I overheard the following conversation in a Rodeo Drive screening room while Gibson’s … Continue reading
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Sicario (2015)
Comment: I finally watched Sicario and one of the great aspects out of many excellent aspects in an overall great movie (80% of NCFOM wth Steve?) was the fact that Blunt was realistically a liability in hand to hand combat. … Continue reading
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Designated Survivor
The U.S. government is wiped out in the first few minutes of episode one by terrorists, and in episode two, the focus is naturally on the civil rights of American Muslims. Obviously the Jews who made Designated Survivor don’t give … Continue reading
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KM: S&M, transgenderism and Jewish holidays: Transparent is “the most Jewish show on television.”
Amy Klein writes for Hadassah Magazine: There’s a scene in the upcoming third season of Transparent—Jill Soloway’s hit show on Amazon about a father’s transgender transition and its effect on his family—where daughter Sarah Pfefferman is bound and getting flogged … Continue reading
Jonah Hill canceled all further interviews after ridiculing from French ‘local weather girl’
Business Insider: Hill, 32, was ridiculed during an appearance on France’s Le Grand Journal to promote his latest film, War Dogs, when host Ornella Fleury described her perfect sexual fantasy – which pointedly excluded the actor. Fleury said: “It’s when … Continue reading
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The Truth
Growing up as a Seventh-Day Adventist, telling the truth was ridiculously important. If you got a reputation for lying, you were finished. You were lost. You were dead. The Christian commitment to truth went to extreme lengths. For instance, if … Continue reading