May 27, 2025 • 9 mins
Lots of celebrities skipped The American Music Awards. Fans we're upset that certain celebs didn't show up. Taylor Swift fans we're upset that she wasn't there because they were expecting an announcement.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Time for Johnny Oleczinski from The New York Post, the
entertainment critic. Good morning, Johnny, how are you? Oh?
Speaker 2 (00:05):
You know it's Tuesday after Memorial Day. I'm great. I
can barely lift my head off this table.
Speaker 1 (00:12):
His head is actually on the table right now. There's
a little bit of drool. Hey, last night was the
American Music Awards. That's great. They haven't been around for
a couple of years. How were they?
Speaker 2 (00:23):
So a lot of big stars skipped it and one
small star skipped it, and that's me. But I was
looking at the responses today and the big winner, Billie Eilish,
she didn't go. She was touring in Europe. Taylor Swift,
who people wanted to make a big announcement about some song,
didn't go. Beyonce didn't go, eminem One didn't go. So
(00:47):
what you're left with is a bunch of trashy people
from Instagram who you know a few people have heard
of that, are you know? Wearing scantily clad dresses propping
up what a warchi? They probably shouldn't exist.
Speaker 1 (01:00):
Yeah, I was wondering, like Gloria Stefan was the big finale, right,
I mean, I love her she's great, but she hasn't
had a hit in decades.
Speaker 2 (01:09):
Yeah, it's all. It was all very nineteen ninety five.
So j Loo hosted and at the beginning she did
a twenty six song medley of the nominees' hits, sort
of emphasizing the fact that, hey, none of the nominees came,
so you're left with me. And a lot of people
were I won't say outrage, but a lot of them
were saddened that during a big number, Jlo started making
(01:31):
out with her background dancers of all genders, and it
kind of hearkening back to Madonna. And they said, oh,
it's so sad, so pathetic, this ploy at relevance from
j Loo. But you're right, we had Janet Jackson, Gloria Stefan,
Gwen Stefani. There was really a time machine, and not
necessarily a time machine. I want to board.
Speaker 1 (01:52):
You know what's funny about it? I guess not funny,
but they I heard today, I heard his back after
two years. It was back and they were taled it
on their network, of course, how much fun it was.
But I didn't miss it. I didn't know it was
going for two years.
Speaker 2 (02:07):
They always do this, so when the Golden Globes were
canceled somewhat egregiously canceled. But when they were canceled, I
was really happy because I thought, oh gosh, there's another
weekend in January for me to sleep in, relax. People
don't really want to watch these I think we all
think that we're.
Speaker 3 (02:22):
Oversaturated with award shows.
Speaker 2 (02:25):
We're watching celebrities behnded prizes all the time constantly. That's
all they do. They do that more than they make things.
Speaker 1 (02:31):
Yeah, that's true. And they usually show up, especially if
they think they're going to win, they usually are there.
This is really an indictment of the American Music Awards
that they think of it so little. They're not even
showing up, and they love this kind of stuff.
Speaker 2 (02:47):
Yeah, I now am okay with the Grammys. I think
they've gotten their act together. I usually enjoy watching that.
The MTV Awards. Who cares VMAs, there's just a million
of them. The country music there's an award show for
every single thing.
Speaker 1 (03:03):
Yeah, no, you're right, you know it's funny obvious. Just
looking at one of your notes here and the words
scorched earth always get me. I go right to that.
Patty Lapone scorched earth. She's unleashed on Broadway.
Speaker 2 (03:16):
Yeah, I love her because I don't love a phony.
I don't like people that pretend to be something else.
I only would someone acts classy and then you go
to the bar with them and they say the nastiest
things you've ever heard.
Speaker 3 (03:28):
I don't like that.
Speaker 2 (03:30):
But Patty Lapone just says it like it is, at
least as far as she's concerned, and a lot of people.
She did this interview in The New Yorker very long.
It will take you forty five minutes to read it,
but you should because it's dishy and oh, she says
Audrey McDonald, who's in Gypsy and is nominated for the Tony.
She says she is not a friend. She went after
Glenn Close, called Glenn Close the B word because of
(03:52):
their old scuttle of Sunset Boulevard in the nineties. It's
just Oh, she dated Kevin Klein, and she called him
a lethario who mistreated her.
Speaker 3 (04:00):
One thing.
Speaker 2 (04:01):
Mistreated in the sense that when they were a Juilliard
he kept going with other women and dangling her along.
But she just says it in the most vitriolic, venomous
possible way. Which I find delicious. Will she ever work again?
Speaker 3 (04:17):
Best of luck?
Speaker 1 (04:19):
No, I love a great scorched Darth interview. But you're
saying this is normal for her.
Speaker 2 (04:26):
It is And what I miss I missed these kind
of people, and I'm sure you have encountered plenty of them,
the old school celebrity that really felt like they had
nothing to lose, someone like a Betty Davis. Not that
you would ever encountered Betty Davis, but they'd give these
interviews where they were just kind of say the worst
possible thing about their co stars. Now, because of public
(04:47):
relations and marketing and social media, young celebrities are so
buttoned up, so perfect, so boring, and that's why we
don't like them, and they're just kind of waste, pretty
waste of time.
Speaker 1 (05:00):
Yeah, well they all went through PR training now, Yeah,
and that's that's the first one of the first things
they go through. In the past, nobody cared about.
Speaker 2 (05:07):
They're just vapid, vacuous chipmunks. Whereas people like Patty, you know,
she tells it like it just goes from the gut.
Speaker 1 (05:14):
Vapid, vacuous chipmunks. I like that a lot. So you
told me that Lelo's Stitch wasn't very good, and yet
everybody I know that saw it loved it.
Speaker 2 (05:26):
Okay, these Disney live action things. Has there ever been
a Disney live action remake that is as good as
the original cartoon? No?
Speaker 3 (05:37):
Apparently No.
Speaker 2 (05:40):
If someone driving thinks that that they are wrong, send
one of those talkbacks I hear so much about.
Speaker 1 (05:47):
What.
Speaker 2 (05:47):
You know, what they've done is they take a very colorful,
fun eighty minutes and they turn it into a kind
of sad docu drama where they drain it of color.
They you know what happens in Leelo and Stitch. There's
a little Hawaiian girl and she's raised by her eighteen
year old sister after their parents die. In the live
action movie, they're told that they have to go get
(06:08):
health insurance way to ruin childhood.
Speaker 3 (06:12):
Why are we giving.
Speaker 2 (06:13):
Kids harsh lessons, you know, when they're six years old.
Speaker 3 (06:16):
I don't think we need to do that.
Speaker 2 (06:17):
I think we can just go watch a cartoon girl
hang out with an alien and that'll be cute. The
reason it's doing so well, by the way, is because
Stitch is like a walking talking toy. Little kids love
that thing. When I saw it, a little kid yelled
by Stitch. So it's a mix of little kids who
love it and then sad, sad millennials.
Speaker 1 (06:37):
Oh that's adorable by Stitch, they said, I'm sure you
thought that was adorable at the time.
Speaker 2 (06:41):
Yeah, there's nothing I love more than little kids talking
during movies.
Speaker 3 (06:46):
So cute.
Speaker 2 (06:47):
But then sad millennials who are nostalgic for the days.
The millennials love to and fanalize themselves, so they go
see movies that are meant for ten year olds.
Speaker 3 (06:55):
So that's why people like Lee Loo and Stone.
Speaker 1 (06:57):
Most of the people take their kids. To be fair,
there's nobody. Did you see adults going to see Lelo
and Stitch without kids?
Speaker 2 (07:04):
The the demographics that they published and Variety today say
a lot of single adult millennials went to see that movie.
Speaker 3 (07:11):
That's a little sad, isn't that?
Speaker 1 (07:13):
No, I agree with you.
Speaker 3 (07:14):
I see a therapist.
Speaker 1 (07:15):
It made three hundred and forty million dollars.
Speaker 2 (07:18):
Congratulations, that's that's that's great for Disney.
Speaker 1 (07:21):
So you're gonna have a Lilo and Stitch two, and
Alilo and Stitch three, and Liedo and Stitch ad nauseum.
Speaker 2 (07:27):
Oh my god, and I'm about to tender my resignation
and you have to go see them all. I see
every you know, there's nothing weirder by the way. Then,
So I'm I am a thirty five year old male,
single male, and when I go to these kid movies
and they're yes, they're press performances, but everyone else is invited,
you know, they bring their kids, and oh the way,
(07:49):
I I have my notebook out as big as possible
to know it. I'm I am not a creep. I'm
I'm Richard Nixon. I am not a creep. I am
just doing my job seeing this stupid kids movie.
Speaker 3 (08:00):
Okay, I'd love to see.
Speaker 1 (08:01):
The reaction you get. People are like pulling their child
on the other side of them to stay away from you.
Speaker 2 (08:07):
That's how it feels, absolutely So I just make sure
I take the biggest note bad Possible.
Speaker 1 (08:13):
Mission Impossible. I feel bad about Mission Impossible because I
like Tom Cruise. I think he saved Hollywood with Top
Gun two, and now he comes out with Mission Impossible.
He announces this is going to be the last one.
He does all these stunts that I was told that
the last half hour is tremendous, and it gets beat
badly by Lelo and Stitch.
Speaker 2 (08:33):
It got beaten badly by Lelo and Stitch, but it's
the best franchise performance ever from a Mission Impossible movie.
Seventy seven million domestic, I think one ninety one globally,
it's that's the best ever.
Speaker 1 (08:44):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (08:45):
The thing about Mission Impossible, and it makes sense when
you think about it, is that it's the audience skews
to men over fifty because of the TV show. Even
though it's now this long running actions So Mission Impossible
I think it will do well. It probably won't make
the that needs to, but they're happy with it at
bear Mount.
Speaker 1 (09:03):
Anything coming up on Broadway we should know about.
Speaker 2 (09:05):
Well, the Tony Awards were two weeks away, and people
are pummeling each other.
Speaker 3 (09:09):
I'm going to five parties this week.
Speaker 1 (09:12):
When you say pummeling each other, is there of a
competition you can notice?
Speaker 2 (09:17):
Yeah, everyone is trying to out party each other. Every
voters are invited to them, They're trying to woo and
sway every last vote. A person that work on a
show told me we go through the voter rolls every
single day and try to figure out where people stand.
Speaker 1 (09:31):
Wow, thanks a lot, Johnny Oleczinski. You can read his
stuff in The New York Post appreciated Johnny
Time for Johnny Oleczinski from The New York Post, the
entertainment critic. Good morning, Johnny, how are you? Oh?
Speaker 2 (00:05):
You know it's Tuesday after Memorial Day. I'm great. I
can barely lift my head off this table.
Speaker 1 (00:12):
His head is actually on the table right now. There's
a little bit of drool. Hey, last night was the
American Music Awards. That's great. They haven't been around for
a couple of years. How were they?
Speaker 2 (00:23):
So a lot of big stars skipped it and one
small star skipped it, and that's me. But I was
looking at the responses today and the big winner, Billie Eilish,
she didn't go. She was touring in Europe. Taylor Swift,
who people wanted to make a big announcement about some song,
didn't go. Beyonce didn't go, eminem One didn't go. So
(00:47):
what you're left with is a bunch of trashy people
from Instagram who you know a few people have heard
of that, are you know? Wearing scantily clad dresses propping
up what a warchi? They probably shouldn't exist.
Speaker 1 (01:00):
Yeah, I was wondering, like Gloria Stefan was the big finale, right,
I mean, I love her she's great, but she hasn't
had a hit in decades.
Speaker 2 (01:09):
Yeah, it's all. It was all very nineteen ninety five.
So j Loo hosted and at the beginning she did
a twenty six song medley of the nominees' hits, sort
of emphasizing the fact that, hey, none of the nominees came,
so you're left with me. And a lot of people
were I won't say outrage, but a lot of them
were saddened that during a big number, Jlo started making
(01:31):
out with her background dancers of all genders, and it
kind of hearkening back to Madonna. And they said, oh,
it's so sad, so pathetic, this ploy at relevance from
j Loo. But you're right, we had Janet Jackson, Gloria Stefan,
Gwen Stefani. There was really a time machine, and not
necessarily a time machine. I want to board.
Speaker 1 (01:52):
You know what's funny about it? I guess not funny,
but they I heard today, I heard his back after
two years. It was back and they were taled it
on their network, of course, how much fun it was.
But I didn't miss it. I didn't know it was
going for two years.
Speaker 2 (02:07):
They always do this, so when the Golden Globes were
canceled somewhat egregiously canceled. But when they were canceled, I
was really happy because I thought, oh gosh, there's another
weekend in January for me to sleep in, relax. People
don't really want to watch these I think we all
think that we're.
Speaker 3 (02:22):
Oversaturated with award shows.
Speaker 2 (02:25):
We're watching celebrities behnded prizes all the time constantly. That's
all they do. They do that more than they make things.
Speaker 1 (02:31):
Yeah, that's true. And they usually show up, especially if
they think they're going to win, they usually are there.
This is really an indictment of the American Music Awards
that they think of it so little. They're not even
showing up, and they love this kind of stuff.
Speaker 2 (02:47):
Yeah, I now am okay with the Grammys. I think
they've gotten their act together. I usually enjoy watching that.
The MTV Awards. Who cares VMAs, there's just a million
of them. The country music there's an award show for
every single thing.
Speaker 1 (03:03):
Yeah, no, you're right, you know it's funny obvious. Just
looking at one of your notes here and the words
scorched earth always get me. I go right to that.
Patty Lapone scorched earth. She's unleashed on Broadway.
Speaker 2 (03:16):
Yeah, I love her because I don't love a phony.
I don't like people that pretend to be something else.
I only would someone acts classy and then you go
to the bar with them and they say the nastiest
things you've ever heard.
Speaker 3 (03:28):
I don't like that.
Speaker 2 (03:30):
But Patty Lapone just says it like it is, at
least as far as she's concerned, and a lot of people.
She did this interview in The New Yorker very long.
It will take you forty five minutes to read it,
but you should because it's dishy and oh, she says
Audrey McDonald, who's in Gypsy and is nominated for the Tony.
She says she is not a friend. She went after
Glenn Close, called Glenn Close the B word because of
(03:52):
their old scuttle of Sunset Boulevard in the nineties. It's
just Oh, she dated Kevin Klein, and she called him
a lethario who mistreated her.
Speaker 3 (04:00):
One thing.
Speaker 2 (04:01):
Mistreated in the sense that when they were a Juilliard
he kept going with other women and dangling her along.
But she just says it in the most vitriolic, venomous
possible way. Which I find delicious. Will she ever work again?
Speaker 3 (04:17):
Best of luck?
Speaker 1 (04:19):
No, I love a great scorched Darth interview. But you're
saying this is normal for her.
Speaker 2 (04:26):
It is And what I miss I missed these kind
of people, and I'm sure you have encountered plenty of them,
the old school celebrity that really felt like they had
nothing to lose, someone like a Betty Davis. Not that
you would ever encountered Betty Davis, but they'd give these
interviews where they were just kind of say the worst
possible thing about their co stars. Now, because of public
(04:47):
relations and marketing and social media, young celebrities are so
buttoned up, so perfect, so boring, and that's why we
don't like them, and they're just kind of waste, pretty
waste of time.
Speaker 1 (05:00):
Yeah, well they all went through PR training now, Yeah,
and that's that's the first one of the first things
they go through. In the past, nobody cared about.
Speaker 2 (05:07):
They're just vapid, vacuous chipmunks. Whereas people like Patty, you know,
she tells it like it just goes from the gut.
Speaker 1 (05:14):
Vapid, vacuous chipmunks. I like that a lot. So you
told me that Lelo's Stitch wasn't very good, and yet
everybody I know that saw it loved it.
Speaker 2 (05:26):
Okay, these Disney live action things. Has there ever been
a Disney live action remake that is as good as
the original cartoon? No?
Speaker 3 (05:37):
Apparently No.
Speaker 2 (05:40):
If someone driving thinks that that they are wrong, send
one of those talkbacks I hear so much about.
Speaker 1 (05:47):
What.
Speaker 2 (05:47):
You know, what they've done is they take a very colorful,
fun eighty minutes and they turn it into a kind
of sad docu drama where they drain it of color.
They you know what happens in Leelo and Stitch. There's
a little Hawaiian girl and she's raised by her eighteen
year old sister after their parents die. In the live
action movie, they're told that they have to go get
(06:08):
health insurance way to ruin childhood.
Speaker 3 (06:12):
Why are we giving.
Speaker 2 (06:13):
Kids harsh lessons, you know, when they're six years old.
Speaker 3 (06:16):
I don't think we need to do that.
Speaker 2 (06:17):
I think we can just go watch a cartoon girl
hang out with an alien and that'll be cute. The
reason it's doing so well, by the way, is because
Stitch is like a walking talking toy. Little kids love
that thing. When I saw it, a little kid yelled
by Stitch. So it's a mix of little kids who
love it and then sad, sad millennials.
Speaker 1 (06:37):
Oh that's adorable by Stitch, they said, I'm sure you
thought that was adorable at the time.
Speaker 2 (06:41):
Yeah, there's nothing I love more than little kids talking
during movies.
Speaker 3 (06:46):
So cute.
Speaker 2 (06:47):
But then sad millennials who are nostalgic for the days.
The millennials love to and fanalize themselves, so they go
see movies that are meant for ten year olds.
Speaker 3 (06:55):
So that's why people like Lee Loo and Stone.
Speaker 1 (06:57):
Most of the people take their kids. To be fair,
there's nobody. Did you see adults going to see Lelo
and Stitch without kids?
Speaker 2 (07:04):
The the demographics that they published and Variety today say
a lot of single adult millennials went to see that movie.
Speaker 3 (07:11):
That's a little sad, isn't that?
Speaker 1 (07:13):
No, I agree with you.
Speaker 3 (07:14):
I see a therapist.
Speaker 1 (07:15):
It made three hundred and forty million dollars.
Speaker 2 (07:18):
Congratulations, that's that's that's great for Disney.
Speaker 1 (07:21):
So you're gonna have a Lilo and Stitch two, and
Alilo and Stitch three, and Liedo and Stitch ad nauseum.
Speaker 2 (07:27):
Oh my god, and I'm about to tender my resignation
and you have to go see them all. I see
every you know, there's nothing weirder by the way. Then,
So I'm I am a thirty five year old male,
single male, and when I go to these kid movies
and they're yes, they're press performances, but everyone else is invited,
you know, they bring their kids, and oh the way,
(07:49):
I I have my notebook out as big as possible
to know it. I'm I am not a creep. I'm
I'm Richard Nixon. I am not a creep. I am
just doing my job seeing this stupid kids movie.
Speaker 3 (08:00):
Okay, I'd love to see.
Speaker 1 (08:01):
The reaction you get. People are like pulling their child
on the other side of them to stay away from you.
Speaker 2 (08:07):
That's how it feels, absolutely So I just make sure
I take the biggest note bad Possible.
Speaker 1 (08:13):
Mission Impossible. I feel bad about Mission Impossible because I
like Tom Cruise. I think he saved Hollywood with Top
Gun two, and now he comes out with Mission Impossible.
He announces this is going to be the last one.
He does all these stunts that I was told that
the last half hour is tremendous, and it gets beat
badly by Lelo and Stitch.
Speaker 2 (08:33):
It got beaten badly by Lelo and Stitch, but it's
the best franchise performance ever from a Mission Impossible movie.
Seventy seven million domestic, I think one ninety one globally,
it's that's the best ever.
Speaker 1 (08:44):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (08:45):
The thing about Mission Impossible, and it makes sense when
you think about it, is that it's the audience skews
to men over fifty because of the TV show. Even
though it's now this long running actions So Mission Impossible
I think it will do well. It probably won't make
the that needs to, but they're happy with it at
bear Mount.
Speaker 1 (09:03):
Anything coming up on Broadway we should know about.
Speaker 2 (09:05):
Well, the Tony Awards were two weeks away, and people
are pummeling each other.
Speaker 3 (09:09):
I'm going to five parties this week.
Speaker 1 (09:12):
When you say pummeling each other, is there of a
competition you can notice?
Speaker 2 (09:17):
Yeah, everyone is trying to out party each other. Every
voters are invited to them, They're trying to woo and
sway every last vote. A person that work on a
show told me we go through the voter rolls every
single day and try to figure out where people stand.
Speaker 1 (09:31):
Wow, thanks a lot, Johnny Oleczinski. You can read his
stuff in The New York Post appreciated Johnny
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