May 20, 2025 • 8 mins
Johnny explains Tom Cruises decision on his career in Hollywood. There's some new movies and plays that may catch your attention including Lilo and Stich, Stranger Things and more!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Well, let's talk to Johnny Oldleazinski in New York Post
(00:02):
entertainment critic.
Speaker 2 (00:04):
What did you think of Jeffrey Ross? What do you think?
Speaker 1 (00:06):
How do you think he would do in a Broadway show? Here,
one person Broadway show.
Speaker 3 (00:10):
Well, he has a comedy chops already, and what I
like about him is he's very grounded and has a
certain kind of pathos, even though of course he's known
for saying awful, awful things about people. So it's it
was interesting hearing him be so starting to get a
little bit more introspective. But I'm excited for the show.
Speaker 2 (00:30):
Yes, so am I I want to see it.
Speaker 1 (00:31):
I love the idea that he's going to bring audience
members up at the end and roast them, so you
get a little bit of what Jeffrey Ross is, even
though that's not the entire play.
Speaker 3 (00:41):
That's a bit like Dame Edna if you remember Dame
Edna Everage, the Australian drag queen who would come to
Broadway and then she'd talk to audience members the entire
show and then at the end bring them up and
embarrass them in front of everyone. And the people paid
for that.
Speaker 1 (00:56):
Yeah, well they will for Jeff Ross too. I'm excited
about it, but I'm not so excited about this headline.
Tom Cruise makes a bold statement about his future retirement
from Hollywood.
Speaker 3 (01:08):
All right, So Tom Cruise was on the red carpet
at the New York premiere of Mission Impossible, Final Reckoning,
and he'd previously said that his desired retirement day he
wanted to work as long as Harrison Ford. He said
this two years ago. Harrison Ford is eighty two. So
Tom Cruise updated his answer on the red carpet and said, actually,
(01:29):
I would like to work into my one hundreds, which
is he said, I'd like to make action. I'd like
to make comedy. I'd like to make drums. He said,
I'd like to make action into my one hundreds.
Speaker 2 (01:41):
He'll do his own stunts.
Speaker 3 (01:42):
And when you see the movie this week, he is
clinging to a bye plane thousands of feet in the air.
He's running across London Bridge. You know, you see his
skin flapping. If he's doing that, if he is looking
like Clint Eastwood and doing that, you know, God bless him.
But I would hope that he goes out with grace
(02:03):
whenever he chooses, because I remember when Roger Moore. Remember
when Roger Moore was doing James Bond, he was fifty eight,
and at that time in the eighties, fifty eight looked
a little older. And he's Roger Moore, mackin on all
these twenty two year old girls. And I don't want
to see Tom Cruise doing that.
Speaker 1 (02:18):
Although Tom Cruise will look exactly the same even in one.
Speaker 3 (02:22):
Hundred, well maybe with some medical intervention it look the same.
Speaker 1 (02:25):
Well, I think there's always been a little bit of
medical intervention with Tom Cruise.
Speaker 2 (02:28):
He doesn't allegedly change, does he.
Speaker 3 (02:31):
When you really zoom now with today's high definition cameras,
you can see a hint. Not quite risky business anymore.
So what do you have against Leelo and Stitch? Okay,
it's not. It's not all about Leelo and Stitch. It's
the entire enterprise of these live action Disney films. I
(02:52):
love the cartoons. These cartoons are classics for a reason,
Aladdin and the Lion King and Little Mermaid. But Disney
is so bereft of ideas. There's not a brain cell
left in that company, one of the biggest innovators in
American history. Not a brain cell left up there. That
all they can do is remake movies with normal people.
(03:15):
So if you go back to Little Mermaid, the song
kissed the Girl and Little Mermaid's a nice romantic song
and it's being sung by a cartoon crab. If when
you see it live action, you go, why is this
guy trying to make out with a mute girl he
barely knows? There's just the live action robs these movies
of magic. Suddenly you're asking questions about them. They make
(03:35):
you feel very uncomfortable. And that's what happens with Lee
Loo and Stitch in that movie. This little girl is
going to be taken from her home because she's being
raised by her eighteen year old sister. And in a
cartoon you can turn that charming. Then she meets an
alien and it's really nice. But live action, I just thought, Wow,
who's going to bring their kids to this? It's so
depressing and sad, right, who wants to depress their little kids?
Speaker 1 (03:58):
Because suddenly it's it's real. Yes, it's real then, and
that's a great that's a great way you phrased that.
It takes the magic out of it.
Speaker 3 (04:06):
You know, bugs Bunny hitting somebody in the head with
the frying pan is very funny. An actual rabbit hitting
someone in the head with a frying pan, not that
you know, if a real person punches somebody, it's different
than when a cartoon does it.
Speaker 1 (04:19):
I would argue that's why Lion King worked because they
tried to keep the magic a little bit, you know,
even though they were humans playing it. You they had
the mask and they made themselves look like animals.
Speaker 2 (04:29):
You don't think so?
Speaker 3 (04:30):
Is that what you would argulary that the Lion King?
They made a lot of money if you statistically, yes,
it did work. But that was weird because then you
have it's like watching Planet Earth and then suddenly they're
breaking out into songs. They all have real looking lion faces.
They barely moved and they're singing. I just can't wait
to be King. It was ridiculous. It's a ridiculous movie.
Speaker 2 (04:51):
It was I love Lion King. What is wrong with you?
Speaker 3 (04:55):
You?
Speaker 1 (04:55):
Everything that's great about the country you tear down?
Speaker 2 (04:59):
Lion King was wonderful.
Speaker 3 (05:00):
The Lion Kings? What's great about which? Which country? South Africa?
The Lion King?
Speaker 1 (05:06):
No? I love two grown men about.
Speaker 3 (05:10):
The Lion Can I tell you? I was so I
was at the barbershop the other day, and uh, it
was right before the Knicks game, which is not something
I know about or we'll ever watch. I'm sorry, Go Nix,
Go Nicks, Go Nick. But I'm sitting at the barbershop
just decompressing after work, and the barber goes, so you're
gonna watch the game tonight? And I just broke out
(05:33):
into a sweat. I just start shaking. I go, I go,
what what game?
Speaker 2 (05:43):
I was?
Speaker 3 (05:44):
It was very, very embarrassing. And then then I said, well,
you know, I'm a movie in theater critic. Would you
like to talk about Mission Impossible instead? Tomorrow night is
another game? Just so you know, the Nicks, the Knicks game.
Speaker 2 (05:57):
The Knicks.
Speaker 3 (05:58):
Yes, they dribble and pass here. It's a big one.
Speaker 1 (06:02):
Anytime somebody asked you, just say go Nicks. Sure, just
you know, go Nicks, and you'll you'll pass with that.
Stranger Things the Broadway play. On paper, that sounds pretty good.
It sounds like it would make money, is it.
Speaker 3 (06:14):
You'd think it'd be like Harry Potter and The Curse Child,
which is ran on Broadway now maybe seven years and
was a big It has been a big, big hit.
Stranger Things is sixty to seventy percent sold on any
given week, and that's including you know, Saturdays and Sundays.
So if you go on a Tuesday, you might have
a whole road to yourself. And at first it surprised
me because it's a big The TV show is such
(06:36):
a huge thing. It's one of Netflix's the biggest things. Ever,
then it occurred to me, beyond this show being quite bad,
by the way, don't go. I'm not saying it's great
people should go. It's bad, do not go. But beyond that,
Netflix is Netflix because it tells people to stay home binge,
watch a whole season on their couch in their underwear,
(06:56):
and pay fourteen dollars for that privilege. Right, yeah, it
So how does the company that did that, say, the
company that says stay home, don't go to the movies,
let's ruin full industries suddenly turn around and say, go
to a cramped theater with two thousand people and spend
two hundred dollars for a three hour show. It's sort
(07:17):
of a it's opposite business models. Why would Netflix customers
want to do that?
Speaker 2 (07:21):
Right? Exactly?
Speaker 1 (07:22):
So people like stranger things when it's free. Yeah, or
basically free. Fourteen dollars is nothing because you're watching, you
get all this stuff. They don't like stranger things when
they have to pay free.
Speaker 3 (07:35):
You can pause it, you can go to the bathroom
during it. Broadway it can be a very I love Broadway.
I love Broadway. It's a very restrictive, expensive experience.
Speaker 1 (07:44):
I want to get to this Denzel Washington story because
I saw the video and i've you know, I got
to meet Denzel Washington a couple times, and everybody, by
the way that covers Denzel Washington loves him. He's a
very nice man, he's very engaging, doesn't have any of
that stars stay away from me. So for him to
flip out, for him to get mad, the other guy,
(08:07):
I assume had to be wrong.
Speaker 3 (08:08):
Well, he's on a bit of a grumpy streak lately,
because when even before a Fellow on Broadway opened, there
was a big press day and page six reporter of that,
Denzel was yelling at publicists and yelling at reporters for
whatever reason. He was grumpy. But yeah, he yelled at
this photographer. Uh and then apparently he missed at can
and apparently he missed the press conference too. Though I'm
(08:30):
gonna give him the benefit of the doubt. Apparently he's
gonna be on Broadway tonight, so he might have just
been catching a quick flight home and maybe that's why
he missed it.
Speaker 2 (08:37):
Yeah, he's just having a bed. I guess a month.
Aren't we all coming up next?
Speaker 1 (08:43):
Thanks a lot, Johnny Oleazinski, entertainment critic for the They
Get That Right for The New York Post for the
Yeah me, you looked at me like I was gonna
say something wrong,
Well, let's talk to Johnny Oldleazinski in New York Post
(00:02):
entertainment critic.
Speaker 2 (00:04):
What did you think of Jeffrey Ross? What do you think?
Speaker 1 (00:06):
How do you think he would do in a Broadway show? Here,
one person Broadway show.
Speaker 3 (00:10):
Well, he has a comedy chops already, and what I
like about him is he's very grounded and has a
certain kind of pathos, even though of course he's known
for saying awful, awful things about people. So it's it
was interesting hearing him be so starting to get a
little bit more introspective. But I'm excited for the show.
Speaker 2 (00:30):
Yes, so am I I want to see it.
Speaker 1 (00:31):
I love the idea that he's going to bring audience
members up at the end and roast them, so you
get a little bit of what Jeffrey Ross is, even
though that's not the entire play.
Speaker 3 (00:41):
That's a bit like Dame Edna if you remember Dame
Edna Everage, the Australian drag queen who would come to
Broadway and then she'd talk to audience members the entire
show and then at the end bring them up and
embarrass them in front of everyone. And the people paid
for that.
Speaker 1 (00:56):
Yeah, well they will for Jeff Ross too. I'm excited
about it, but I'm not so excited about this headline.
Tom Cruise makes a bold statement about his future retirement
from Hollywood.
Speaker 3 (01:08):
All right, So Tom Cruise was on the red carpet
at the New York premiere of Mission Impossible, Final Reckoning,
and he'd previously said that his desired retirement day he
wanted to work as long as Harrison Ford. He said
this two years ago. Harrison Ford is eighty two. So
Tom Cruise updated his answer on the red carpet and said, actually,
(01:29):
I would like to work into my one hundreds, which
is he said, I'd like to make action. I'd like
to make comedy. I'd like to make drums. He said,
I'd like to make action into my one hundreds.
Speaker 2 (01:41):
He'll do his own stunts.
Speaker 3 (01:42):
And when you see the movie this week, he is
clinging to a bye plane thousands of feet in the air.
He's running across London Bridge. You know, you see his
skin flapping. If he's doing that, if he is looking
like Clint Eastwood and doing that, you know, God bless him.
But I would hope that he goes out with grace
(02:03):
whenever he chooses, because I remember when Roger Moore. Remember
when Roger Moore was doing James Bond, he was fifty eight,
and at that time in the eighties, fifty eight looked
a little older. And he's Roger Moore, mackin on all
these twenty two year old girls. And I don't want
to see Tom Cruise doing that.
Speaker 1 (02:18):
Although Tom Cruise will look exactly the same even in one.
Speaker 3 (02:22):
Hundred, well maybe with some medical intervention it look the same.
Speaker 1 (02:25):
Well, I think there's always been a little bit of
medical intervention with Tom Cruise.
Speaker 2 (02:28):
He doesn't allegedly change, does he.
Speaker 3 (02:31):
When you really zoom now with today's high definition cameras,
you can see a hint. Not quite risky business anymore.
So what do you have against Leelo and Stitch? Okay,
it's not. It's not all about Leelo and Stitch. It's
the entire enterprise of these live action Disney films. I
(02:52):
love the cartoons. These cartoons are classics for a reason,
Aladdin and the Lion King and Little Mermaid. But Disney
is so bereft of ideas. There's not a brain cell
left in that company, one of the biggest innovators in
American history. Not a brain cell left up there. That
all they can do is remake movies with normal people.
(03:15):
So if you go back to Little Mermaid, the song
kissed the Girl and Little Mermaid's a nice romantic song
and it's being sung by a cartoon crab. If when
you see it live action, you go, why is this
guy trying to make out with a mute girl he
barely knows? There's just the live action robs these movies
of magic. Suddenly you're asking questions about them. They make
(03:35):
you feel very uncomfortable. And that's what happens with Lee
Loo and Stitch in that movie. This little girl is
going to be taken from her home because she's being
raised by her eighteen year old sister. And in a
cartoon you can turn that charming. Then she meets an
alien and it's really nice. But live action, I just thought, Wow,
who's going to bring their kids to this? It's so
depressing and sad, right, who wants to depress their little kids?
Speaker 1 (03:58):
Because suddenly it's it's real. Yes, it's real then, and
that's a great that's a great way you phrased that.
It takes the magic out of it.
Speaker 3 (04:06):
You know, bugs Bunny hitting somebody in the head with
the frying pan is very funny. An actual rabbit hitting
someone in the head with a frying pan, not that
you know, if a real person punches somebody, it's different
than when a cartoon does it.
Speaker 1 (04:19):
I would argue that's why Lion King worked because they
tried to keep the magic a little bit, you know,
even though they were humans playing it. You they had
the mask and they made themselves look like animals.
Speaker 2 (04:29):
You don't think so?
Speaker 3 (04:30):
Is that what you would argulary that the Lion King?
They made a lot of money if you statistically, yes,
it did work. But that was weird because then you
have it's like watching Planet Earth and then suddenly they're
breaking out into songs. They all have real looking lion faces.
They barely moved and they're singing. I just can't wait
to be King. It was ridiculous. It's a ridiculous movie.
Speaker 2 (04:51):
It was I love Lion King. What is wrong with you?
Speaker 3 (04:55):
You?
Speaker 1 (04:55):
Everything that's great about the country you tear down?
Speaker 2 (04:59):
Lion King was wonderful.
Speaker 3 (05:00):
The Lion Kings? What's great about which? Which country? South Africa?
The Lion King?
Speaker 1 (05:06):
No? I love two grown men about.
Speaker 3 (05:10):
The Lion Can I tell you? I was so I
was at the barbershop the other day, and uh, it
was right before the Knicks game, which is not something
I know about or we'll ever watch. I'm sorry, Go Nix,
Go Nicks, Go Nick. But I'm sitting at the barbershop
just decompressing after work, and the barber goes, so you're
gonna watch the game tonight? And I just broke out
(05:33):
into a sweat. I just start shaking. I go, I go,
what what game?
Speaker 2 (05:43):
I was?
Speaker 3 (05:44):
It was very, very embarrassing. And then then I said, well,
you know, I'm a movie in theater critic. Would you
like to talk about Mission Impossible instead? Tomorrow night is
another game? Just so you know, the Nicks, the Knicks game.
Speaker 2 (05:57):
The Knicks.
Speaker 3 (05:58):
Yes, they dribble and pass here. It's a big one.
Speaker 1 (06:02):
Anytime somebody asked you, just say go Nicks. Sure, just
you know, go Nicks, and you'll you'll pass with that.
Stranger Things the Broadway play. On paper, that sounds pretty good.
It sounds like it would make money, is it.
Speaker 3 (06:14):
You'd think it'd be like Harry Potter and The Curse Child,
which is ran on Broadway now maybe seven years and
was a big It has been a big, big hit.
Stranger Things is sixty to seventy percent sold on any
given week, and that's including you know, Saturdays and Sundays.
So if you go on a Tuesday, you might have
a whole road to yourself. And at first it surprised
me because it's a big The TV show is such
(06:36):
a huge thing. It's one of Netflix's the biggest things. Ever,
then it occurred to me, beyond this show being quite bad,
by the way, don't go. I'm not saying it's great
people should go. It's bad, do not go. But beyond that,
Netflix is Netflix because it tells people to stay home binge,
watch a whole season on their couch in their underwear,
(06:56):
and pay fourteen dollars for that privilege. Right, yeah, it
So how does the company that did that, say, the
company that says stay home, don't go to the movies,
let's ruin full industries suddenly turn around and say, go
to a cramped theater with two thousand people and spend
two hundred dollars for a three hour show. It's sort
(07:17):
of a it's opposite business models. Why would Netflix customers
want to do that?
Speaker 2 (07:21):
Right? Exactly?
Speaker 1 (07:22):
So people like stranger things when it's free. Yeah, or
basically free. Fourteen dollars is nothing because you're watching, you
get all this stuff. They don't like stranger things when
they have to pay free.
Speaker 3 (07:35):
You can pause it, you can go to the bathroom
during it. Broadway it can be a very I love Broadway.
I love Broadway. It's a very restrictive, expensive experience.
Speaker 1 (07:44):
I want to get to this Denzel Washington story because
I saw the video and i've you know, I got
to meet Denzel Washington a couple times, and everybody, by
the way that covers Denzel Washington loves him. He's a
very nice man, he's very engaging, doesn't have any of
that stars stay away from me. So for him to
flip out, for him to get mad, the other guy,
(08:07):
I assume had to be wrong.
Speaker 3 (08:08):
Well, he's on a bit of a grumpy streak lately,
because when even before a Fellow on Broadway opened, there
was a big press day and page six reporter of that,
Denzel was yelling at publicists and yelling at reporters for
whatever reason. He was grumpy. But yeah, he yelled at
this photographer. Uh and then apparently he missed at can
and apparently he missed the press conference too. Though I'm
(08:30):
gonna give him the benefit of the doubt. Apparently he's
gonna be on Broadway tonight, so he might have just
been catching a quick flight home and maybe that's why
he missed it.
Speaker 2 (08:37):
Yeah, he's just having a bed. I guess a month.
Aren't we all coming up next?
Speaker 1 (08:43):
Thanks a lot, Johnny Oleazinski, entertainment critic for the They
Get That Right for The New York Post for the
Yeah me, you looked at me like I was gonna
say something wrong,
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