February 19, 2024 • 38 mins
Joe Escalante's weekly escapade into the business end of showbiz. This week: Joe talks about the precursor to the Oscars, the BAFTAs (it's a British award show). Poor Things and The Holdovers look like they are poised for Oscar night success, even though Joe can't understand why. Also, is ESPN/Disney/Fox creating a sports programming monopoly? Are you ready to pay $40 to watch your favorite sports team? And one of Joe's old bosses, Les Moonves, keeps finding himself in the Celebs Gone Bad section of the show.
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Joe Escalante Live from Hollywood. Ifby Hollywood you mean Burbank, across the
street from a Wiener Schnitzel that servesbeer. And we are two hours of
the business end of show business,every Sunday from five to seven here on
k e IB eleven fifty on yourAM dial. And it is February eighteenth.
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The baft Awards happened this weekend,and that is definitely a precursor to
the Oscars. If you're still interestedin the Oscars. If you talked to
most people on the street, they'relike, I don't watch that anymore,
or I don't go to movies,or I don't care. But we still
like it, right, Sam,Yeah, yeah, I mean we're in
Hollywood. This is part of theblood of the city. We serve the
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Hollywood community here on Live from Hollywood. You know this is the company town.
It's a company business. We're talkingabout it. Let's talk about BAFTA.
BAFTA is the British version of theAcademy Awards and Best Film, Sam,
what do you think at a guess? Barbie Close, Oppenheimer excellent same
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movie, Best Actor, Killian Murphyin Oppenheimer, Best Actress Emma Stone in
Poor Things and this Do you seePoor Things? No? I didn't.
I heard a lot of very goodthings about it, though I heard it's
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very good movie. It's a moraloffensive masterpiece, is what it is.
Emma Stone, she's a producer onit. They made her look so ugly
there's no way they could have beenand weird. There's no way she would
have done gone for it, andso much sex scenes and stuff like she
had to be a producer, Likeyou couldn't have a producer tell her to
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do these things. She had tobe the producer tell herself to do these
things. Wow, but you knowshe's committed. I'll say I'll say that
the Zone of Interest won Best BritishFilm because this is, you know,
the hometown favorite. A lot ofpeople think that's a German film, Sam
because it's in German and it's takesplace with this family and their really idyllic
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home that happens to be in Auschwitz. Number Okay, what else have we
got? Best supporting actress Divine JoyRandolph in Holdovers. She Divine Joy Randolph.
She's been in a lot of stuff. A lot of movies came from
from Broadway and she was great init, and you know, congratulations to
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her. I think she got theGolden Globe too. And Holdovers was one
of those low key, really goodmovies. We'll talk about it. I
sense that you didn't like you sawit much. No, I did like
it. I did like it.I did like the movie. Best Supporting
Actor Robert Downey Jr. In Oppenheimer, where he plays like a different,
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you know, kind of character that'snot all weird marvelized, so great,
happy for him. Best Director ChristopherNolan and Oppenheimer. No surprise there.
Best film not in the English languagezone of interest. So it's weird how
a British film wins this. Thiswin's Best British Film and Best not English
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Film, even though it's still British. Best Documentary. This is a movie
called Twenty Days in Mariopole. It'sa Ukraine War documentary. It's one best
documentary. I have to believe it'snominated in the US for best Documentary.
It is. You can watch itright now on YouTube for free. On
the if you go to the PBSYouTube page or just look for twenty Days
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in Maripool, you'll find it.It's free. Best Original Score Oppenheimer.
Best Animated Film, The Boy inthe Hair on which I still haven't seen.
That's the Hyo Miyazaki final movie.Specially Best Special Visual Effects. Poor
Things. That's not undeserved. It'scrazy. It's a crazy universe and poor
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things that every scene and every it'skind of like Tim Burton but a little
class here. And you're gonna likeit. I mean, unless you're you
don't even have to be easily offendedby the stuff in this movie. If
you're offended at all. Actually,I wouldn't recommend anyone seeing it. But
it's a good movie. I mean, it's well done. They did it.
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Let's see American Fiction. Best AdaptedScreenplay, American Fiction. Did you
see that, Sam No, Idid not. It's a It's written,
I directed and starring, scored Jefferson. It is is again, nothing wrong
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with that, it's just the waythe move. They don't make a lot
of these like Oscar type movies anymore, These like you know, mid budget
artie films. You know, theydon't get not often don't get made,
it seems like. And there's tennominees for the Oscars, so American Fiction
is nominated. But to me,it just came off like a a Netflix
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movie, like a Netflix almost arom com but not funny. Why was
it even nominated if it didn't feellike it was, you know, enough
bang for the buck. I don'tknow. You can maybe you watched it
and you tell me. But theBest Adapted Screenplay is like a bone.
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I think they threw to it.It wasn't that great of them. It
was just it's good. I'm gladI saw it. A very interesting topic.
The guy is a author of ablack He's a black author, and
he just wants to be an author, but everyone keeps the only books that
sell are books that are like showblack people as criminals or in you know,
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gang infested gang areas, and hejust wants to write normal stories.
But the pressure is to write thesekind of stories. And I won't give
away any spoilers, but it's great. It's a great Netflix movie. I
just don't understand Best Picture nomination.But I liked it. Same with let's
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the other one we talked about Holdovers. I love that movie. Best Picture.
Now, im you have a FallI haven't seen it looks really cool.
Best Original Screenplay. It's about likea man that falls off a balcony,
and then the only one around isthe wife, and so you know
she has to prove she didn't doit or whatever. Best Costume Design,
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poor Things, Holdovers, Best Casting, well, yeah, sure best.
They don't have that award in theUnited States, Sam, you know that
casting directors don't get anything. Butthis year that would be a great word.
I know plenty of people friends ofmine that work is you know,
in casting. That'd be awesome ifthey can actually be up for an award.
This year is the first year they'regoing to have it, and the
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ward will go to the most diversecast. I guarantee you Best Makeup and
Hair, poor Things, Best EditingOppenheimer, Best Production Design, poor Things,
and Best Cinematography Openheimer. So youcan look at that and you can
kind of see what's gonna if you'rehandicapping the oscars themselves, which are coming
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up a couple of weeks. Right, let's take a break, Sam,
is it time? We actually havean extra minute? But if you want,
we can cut early and do thenext segment a little long. Yeah,
let's take a break now and thenwe come back. We have some
complicate his stories I don't want toget into, right away, and I'll
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talk a little bit more about thesemovies and other movies I saw this week
right here on Joe Scalante Live fromHollywood, Joe A. Scalante Live from
Hollywood. By Hollywood, you meanBurbank, And we are two hours of
the business end of show business righthere every week on k e IB eleven
fifty on your am dial. Sam, we were talking about the Bafterwards,
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the precursor to the Oscars, andit looks like poor things got more attention
than anything. The big prize goesto Oppenheimer, a couple big prizes,
best Director, best Actor, thesupporting Actor, but all the technical stuff
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went to poor Things, and theyreally pushed the envelope. So it shows
that the Academy likes. Academy abunch of perverts, Sam, What can
I say? So? March tenth, twenty four is the the the Oscar
telecast here in Hollywood. But whowho among us? Sam? Are not
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perverts? So really all of usin our own ways, but the Academy
is letting loose. We are perverts. Well, the BAFTAs are the Bafta
people are perverts, and we arekinky and we like we like it really
weird. That's what we like.You want to win a BAFTA. Get
real kinky. Hey, they're lettingthat freak flag fly. That's exactly what
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they're doing. Sam, you couldn'thave put it better. Okay. So
we talked a little bit about themovies that that you and I saw.
So you saw the Holdovers. Iloved Holdovers. I just it's just odd
to me that it's the best picture. But I have nothing against it.
I don't know you thought it wasbest picture of quality. I mean the
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this really was the first year sincethe pandemic where everything started to get back
to high quality filmmaking. It feltlike. So I feel like this movie
was very, very good, andI think it was. I think it's
just one of those industry darling movies, one of those sweetheart movies that everyone
in the industry liked well. AlexanderPayne, the director, is a favorite
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of mine. He's made some ofthe best movies ever made. About Schmidt
two thousand and two, good moviemasterpiece, Citizen Ruth. You've seen that
one with Laura Dern and she getspregnant. She's a paint huffing unwed mother
to be and she's being trying appropriatedby both sides of the abortion fight in
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some small town, and it's hilarious. It's a great subject for a movie,
and he did it very well.He did sideways paulgi. I guess
he likes Paul Jamotti. I thinkit's Paul J. Mooney. Uh yeah,
and Paul Jamotti's in this. Hedid the descendence. But he hasn't
done that many movies. And ifyou look up his Wikipedia, it's as
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an area of twenty seventeen to twentytwenty two. He had a career slump.
I guess it was and oh themovie Downsizing. I guess he had
a trouble during that period. Iguess maybe that's why he didn't make that
many movies. But if he makesa movie, you got to go see
it. And I can highly recommendThe Holdovers. I just thought it just
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wasn't like just just like a mesmerizingbest picture experience. But a lot of
the best pictures are you know,they don't make as many movies anymore and
not and they have twice as manycategory. So I just I guess I
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have to recalibrate my expectations. UsuallyI'm used to seeing movies that I think
are really good, but they're notgoing to be in the Best Picture category.
But good for Alexander Payne and goodfor Paul Giamati and all those people.
Another movie that I actually saw isa movie called But before I get
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to that one, let's go backto the American fiction. American fiction,
innovative fun just not a best pictureto me. But again I got to
recalibrate Hassim and so, okay,great, fine, I can recommend American
fiction and Holdovers. And then Isaw a film called The Taste of Things.
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Now I'm shocked that this is notnominated. It it was just a
wonderful film. It could flawless film. The filmmaking match the story and the
mood and the the acting and everything. Like I think there's a little American
fiction and the Holdovers are very uneven. It's just like, wait, this
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looks really cheap? This part?Does this part looks cheap? In American
fiction, a lot of stuff lookreally cheap, would look like it was
it was, you know, likepart of it looked like what is this
Sex and the City or something,you know, just look like a TV
show that, But then it wouldget really deep and good but uneven holdovers,
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uneven taste of things. It's aFrench movie about a by a Vietnamese
director, Tran On Hong. Ithink her name is. I think she's
French, but she's Vietnamese and it'sabout food. Basically, it's a guy
in France and it's a period piece, so it's a it's a while back
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that I didn't really tell you whenit is. It's just like, okay,
there's a long time ago. Theydon't have electricity. But he lives
out in the countryside. This guy, dough Dan is his name, and
he is a master culinary expert andchef, and I think he's like a
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duke or something. So he's like, you're kind of wondering, why does
this guy have so much time toworry about how good food and wine could
be? And then he has acook that he hired and the cook has
to be the best, so it'skind of the relationship between him and his
cook and there's a little apprentice comingup. But man, the visuals,
I mean, don't see this moviehungry, because you will be in pain
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the entire time because the food looksso good and the wine and the pastries
and the kitchen is like, youknow, it's like an old country kitchen
from the French countryside. And youknow, my wife just wanted every single
one of their crazy stoves into tensouls and the way they could make fire
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and all that. So it wasvery, very enchanting. So I highly
recommend the taste of Things. AndI saw that at the theater. I
saw it at the Bellatara right hereon Huntington Beach. There a lot of
these movies that are you know,these art movies or form movies. You
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know, see them out back herein Orange County. You know, that's
what I missed about living, youknow, right in LA you see all
these movies. But so that wasa rare one. It's there were there
anybody in the theater and watching it. Man, I know everybody was over
watching the One Love Reggae movie.But I'll see that. Bob Marley,
Yes, Bob Marley, Bob Narley. You know. The last movie I
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saw was Naiad starring Annette Benning andwhat's your name? Crepol When you're sixty
one? This happens net betting,Could you Indulge Me? By Jody Foster?
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That was it. A see Ijust needed to think about it for
a little while that I did acouple of tours in Las Vegas yesterday too,
a little running on fumes. Idrove home from Las Vegas this morning.
I did the tours at that punkrock museum and I forget names there
to by the way. So anyother movies you saw, oh wait,
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now yeat? Okay, So Ididn't say anything about Night Nya is a
movie about a lady that swims fromCuba to Key West. She's famous.
It's a little irritating because she's acomplete narcissist, so it's hard to listen
to her talk. It's hard towatch he or do anything. It's cringey.
But then you go on YouTube andsee what she was really like.
Oh my gosh, net Betting nailedit, just nailed it. And Jody
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Foster is great in it. Andit's directed by two people that looks like
they used to do wildlife films orsomething. I don't know, I don't
know. I can't pronounce her names, Elizabeth Chai and Jimmy Chin. Okay,
I pronounced that anything you saw,Sam I saw a Strays, the
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movie with the dogs that was horriblyobscene yet hilariously funny. Oh yeah,
that was potty mouth, Peepy poopooeverything as a cartoon. Pretty funny.
It was entertaining. And also Irewatched Death of Stalin because it's a great
movie. Oh yeah, I thatThe Death of Stalin is like on my
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list of like, like you know, I've never seen it and it's on
my list of like there's a coupleof movies that like, you know,
like they Live that's a great that'sa great movie. But Death of Stalin
may be one of my favorite alltime films. That is a great movie.
Where did you watch it? It'son one of the free streaming side
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right now, like on What toBe or Pluto. It's flowing on that
one right now. The Death ofStalin. Yes, I put that on
my list just like last week.I'm like, why haven't I seen this?
The way that they blanket the atrocitieswith such just biting, beautiful humor
is so great. Really a uniquefilm and it's great movie. Actually it's
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playing on the Disney Plus bundle thatwe're going to talk about a little bit
and how much time do we havein this segment. Let's take a break
and then come back. Okay,So We're going to talk about this bundle
that Disney is offering Disney, WarnerDiscovery and ESPN and Hulu that is supposed
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to solve all your sports problems.But is it legal? Joe Scoalante Live
from Hollywood back after this, JoeEscalante Live from Hollywood. If by Hollywood
you mean Burbank. So, Sam, what do you think of this new
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bundled service that's being proposed by Disney, Fox and Warner Discovery that is supposed
to just be your one stop sportsviewing hub for all sporting, all your
sporting needs. It makes it veryconvenient. I guess I already have the
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ESPN app and like I'm signed intothat. I know that they somehow,
I think they acquired Fox Sports andnow they're trying to incorporate a lot of
the Fox Sports content. So you'regoing to see a lot of sports.
Local sports are gonna like a lotof Fox Sports have affiliates in different locales,
so you're gonna get more local programmingregion or access to it nationally regionals.
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Yeah, yeah, so it soundsgood. People talk about the price.
Price might be like thirty five dollarsa month, not you know,
seven, ten, fifteen or nineteenthirty five dollars a month. Now,
how do you feel about it?It sounds like the kind of thing that
I would be tempted to order onceand then like forget that I keep getting
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charged for it. Yes, exactly, give it a try, and then
it's one of those things where yourwife goes, you don't watch this,
but maybe maybe we will. I'mnot sure, but I'm a little confused
because I just, you know,got used to the Disney Disney ESPN plus
Hulu thing, So that was that. When I get confused, Disney pluses
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ESPN plus Hulu is a new bundle. Now we have something. This is
different. This is uh ESPN,Fox and Warner Brothers. Yeah, basically
Disney and ESPN being the same thing. Uh. Well, I mean it
all sounds great and until someone says, hey, wait, that's a big,
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giant monster and I don't want Idon't want it to exist. Now
who might want it? Not wantit to exist? That would complain about
it and call the cops and bea tattletale. Probably, I don't know
at this point. Jeez, likeBig the Big ten Network and some other
like little tiny performers. Well,it's Fubo. That that that sounded the
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alarm at first. Are you familiarwith Fubo? You're familiar with this?
Yeah? Yeah, it's like oneof these uh streaming apps that has a
lot of sports. Like sometimes ifyou're looking at like, hey, there's
an NFL playoff game and you can'tfind it anywhere, and you go,
why isn't it on my TV?And you start searching and searching, and
then here comes Fubo. I gotit for you. All you got to
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do is subscribe Fubo. As soonas it was announced, they filed the
complaint with the Department of Justice.Now, the why would the Department of
Justice care about this? Because theDepartment of Justice oversees competition, and we
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have something in this country called theSherman Antitrust Act and other various anti monopoly
regulations that prevent you from becoming toobig, even though we you know,
we think we live in a freeenterprise country. But if you get too
big, the government will come inand say you have to They might break
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you up, like they did withthe phone companies in the seventies I think
it was the sixties seventies. Theymight They did it with the oil companies
a while back. And if youare growing so big that you are creating
barriers for other people to enter themarketplace, then you may have an illegal
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monopoly if you are growing so bigthat you can dictate prices, or if
you're or if you maybe you're notgetting big, maybe you're just small.
But you go to all your competitorsand say, hey, let's get in
a room and decide what price we'regoing to charge for these competing goods.
And then we'll charge a real highprice. But everyone in this room has
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to agree to charge the high price, and then we'll all make a bunch
of money. We'll have a windfallof money because no one will be able
to go anywhere else, and wehave all the market here together with all
the people in this room, andyou know, we'll get rich. That's
not a way you're allowed to getrich in this country. That's called price
fixing. So in this instance,the Fubo complaint had said they would control
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sixty to eighty five percent of allsports content. Now that could be trouble
for the consumer. Charge whatever theywant if they're the only ones so they
so the government might come. Isthe big news is the government is going
to scrutinize this and they're going tosee if this should even happen. And
that happens anytime somebody combines companies,like if you know, when when Discovery
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Bot Warner Brothers, you know,the government comes in and just make sure
that they're not creating something that isanti competitive. So we don't really know
if this will work. But Disneyhas other problems there. There's like activist
board member or activist shareholders that youknow, they're just always going after Disney
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saying I don't like the way you'redoing things, and I own a bunch
of shares, so I'm gonna makea big stink and and I have some
power, and you better be.You better hope that I don't get together
with other people and create real problemswith Like if there's a big voting block
wants to make changes, or theycan sue also Sam, they can file
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a derivative shareholders suit I think it'scalled, and they sue the board and
say you are acting against the interestsof the shareholders. You're breaching your fiduciary
duties to raise the price of theshare so to just you know, improve
the business. It's going on rightnow with Disney. This one's kind of
silly. I think it's they're accusingthe board of hiding who they are donating
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money to, and that looks likethey're mad because Disney is giving money to
gender transition companies or paying for people'sgender transition operations, and the people like
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you shouldn't do that because research isuh, you know, it's undecided whether
that's good or harmful to people.That's their position. But on the other
hand, regardless how you feel aboutthis, I think you can really get
that. I worked up about itbecause and accused Disney. You see what
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they're trying to do. They're tryingto say Disney is too woke, you
know, so they and and Disneyknows they're too woke. And Disney,
you know, has made some changesand is trying to swing the pendulum back
the other way. But this one, I'm not sure it applies. Because
in the world we have today,if someone could sue the employees, could
sue them, say I need this, uh this treatment because other if you
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don't give me this treatment, you'rediscriminating against me because of my sexual orientation,
and I will take you to court. So Disney's you know, between
a rock and a hard place,and bob Eyger is probably just like,
what was I thinking? You know, just play golf, although you know,
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second I ever, was he everreally going to go play golf?
Now he was going to start something. So we'll see what happens with those
people. How many shares do yougot, Sam of Disney? Yeah?
Currently, I think I've got maybeseven hundred. Look at you? Are
you? Are you the active ashareholder trying to yes, I am,
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make them, make them be moretransparent on their transgender care they're giving.
Hey, it's a matter of genderaffirming care and if that affirms their gender
then cool. All right, Well, yeah, so some people are not
cool about it. I'm okay withpeople having their feelings about it. Yeah,
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yeah, that's how I feel aboutIt's like, you know what,
I'm not smart enough to know whatis actually the the right way to handle
this stuff, but we have tolet everybody have their deeply held beliefs,
and you know, it gets weirdwhen they push them on people. So
okay, I don't mind when peopleare getting mad at Disney for if they're
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pushing an agenda, Okay, allright, then you don't buy their stuff
or don't take your kid to Disneyland. Good luck. But in this case,
I don't know Disney. Disney's gotto do what they got to do
to avoid lawsuits. I got somefamous people acting badly, Sam, let's
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save it for the next segment.Then, Okay, we got some new
news about less Moon vest and VinceMcMahon and expelled representative. Oh Jimmy Kimmel.
Jimmy Kimmell behaving badly? Or ishe Joe Scalante from Hollywood back after
the traffic Yeah, h m hmhm Joe Ashanti, he's my lawyer.
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You don't want money, Joe Wiscalantelife from Hollywood? If by Hollywood you
mean Burbank. Okay, we're inthe celebrities behaving badly section. Let's start
with Jimmy Kimmel. Uh. JimmyKimmel is uh yeah, I mean,
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I know you're gonna think this isfunny, but is it right? He
is using CAMMI, you know,cameo app where you get so you can
pay celebrities as a happy birthday toyour friend or whatever. Yeah, yeah,
I've seen it. So evidently thedisgraced ex Congressman George Santos who was
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expelled from the Senate. I guesshe was a senator. It was crazy
how that guy became a senator.Oh no, he's a just a representative.
So he got expelled for lying.And he's just a freak and of
kook. But so he's a SoJimmy Kimmel goes after him for comedy.
He's he hired him. They gotphony people to get cameos out of him,
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and they broadcast those on Jimmy Kimmelfor content. Okay, uh,
that's pretty funny. It's funny.You know it's funny. I haven't seen
it, but I guarantee it's funny. That's pretty But right, you just
you want to see it now.I mean, Jimmy Kimmel is funny and
his writers are funny, and theycan do this. But is it a
low blow? Is it? Isit? Is it a low blow?
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Is it? Is it unfair?Is it? Is there a better way
to create comedy work a little harderthan just just trying to destroy some guy,
even though he might be a kook. But now I could say if
they if they say, hey,it's Jimmy Kimmel, I'm here, it's
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me Jimmy Kimmel, I'm giving youfive hundred dollars and I want a cameo,
and he goes, oh, hi, Jimmy Kimmel. Hi, everybody
on Jimmy Kimmel, this is me. I have a great show today.
And then make fun of him allyou want. But they were making him
do things like congratulating a woman whofor successively successfully cloning her schnauzer named Adolph.
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Okay, that's like I said,I get it. It's funny,
but he doesn't know what he's doing. You know, he doesn't know that
it's going to so they tricked himbasically. So I guess the legal question
is are you allowed to trick someonelike this to create content for your TV
show and to fame him in thisway? What do you think? He's
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a public figure. He subjected himselfto this level of ridicule and buffoonery.
I don't see any issue with it. I I don't know, I don't
know. I don't know about it. I mean, I think you got
I think you have to. Isit illegal? I don't know. It
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might be, it might be afraud, it might be a consumer fraud,
or depending on what the language islike he he got a platform,
and he's paying a percentage of hisincome to cameo. You know, it's
a business. The person who engagesstarts wanting ad buys the cameo. I
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don't know what they fill out andwhether they are violating the terms of that
contract because they're lying. Maybe they'reallowed to lie, Maybe they're allowed to
be anonymous. Maybe they are,maybe they aren't. If if it's anything
goes and he was part of hisdeal. Because if I'm cameo, I
would want to prevent being sued byany of this, So I would tell
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the stars, the people that areon Cameo, Hey, anybody can come
in and they might embarrass you.They might do something because some people have
been embarrassed. They've been asking celebritiesto endorse like controversial like Nazi organizations and
stuff like that. Don't they havethe right to refuse? Well they don't.
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Oh yeah, they can refuse,But if they don't know what it
is, they don't refuse it.And they're aware of what's going on.
But the question is are they aware? I don't know. I think it
depends on the terms of the service, like if but I would imagine if
I'm cameo would I would have thecameo celebrity people agree that that this might
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happen, that you're you're you're goingto get this money, but you're going
to create them content. You haveno idea what they're going to do with
it. You have no idea ifit's going to be shameful. And that's
what I would put in the cameoterms of service, so that they're freely
uh entering into this with full knowledgethat someone might take that footage, misrepresent
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themselves and do something really weird withit. Uh So if but it could
it rise to defamation? H ifif they trick, if they trick them
and then they edit it in away that causes people to spit on the
ground in a diabolical way, andthat it is as the prerequisites for the
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malice for a defamation case. Couldthat happen? I think that's what the
lawyers who took his case and aresuing Jimmy Kimmel are bank king on that
there is malice here and he wasdefamed with malice. They set out knowing
this stuff wasn't true, and theyset him up to defame him. Now,
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they couldn't have found a least aless sympathetic victim. So I think
that's part of it too. Nobodylikes this guy. But did they go
too far? I don't know.We will find out. That's gonna be
interesting. Jimmy Kimmel, he's like, he's not worried about it. He's
like, this is funny, andhe's getting more. I mean, you
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know, he wanted he loves this, he says. Okay, so Les
Moonvest the other guy that's, youknow, the bad boy. This one
isn't that bad. He was orderedto pay a fine of eleven two hundred
and fifty dollars by the Los AngelesCity Ethics Commission for his role in a
twenty seventeen lapd scandal connected to hisdownfall at CBS. Full disclosure. He
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was my boss. Let's CBS.He had a woman named Philis Golden Gottlieb
who accused him of sexually assault sexuallyassaulting her, and she filed the police
report. There was a cop.The cop was named Corey Palka. That
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cop said, hey, I knowless Moonvest. He hires me to be
a private security I see this policereport. I alert him and I send
him a copy of the police report. Say, hey, be on the
lookout. This girl says you sexuallyassaulted her. And when I say girl,
she died two years ago at ageeighty six, so she was not
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she was pretty old when it hashappened. I mean, you think of
his victims as these you know,young on news, but this one's a
different case. And he was soand then that allowed him to go after
her. So this is really badand he should probably you know, be
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libele in the millions to the victim. But the fine for doing something like
that was only eleven It was fivethousand dollars usually, and since he's so
rich and it's so serious, theysaid you got to pay eleven thousand.
So he's not really that worried aboutthat. And after settling his thirty million
dollar thing with the the Security andExchange Commission, because let's not forget,
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he got in trouble and CBS gotin trouble when all this is going on,
and everybody knew within CBS knew thathe was about to go down.
They didn't tell the shareholders he wasin trouble at all. So if you
would have told the shareholders, theywould sell their stock. But they didn't,
so they hid it and then bythe time it was leaked, the
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shareholders were left holding the bag.Sam, how many shares of CBSD at
Oh, I ditched them. Icaught early wind of that and just ditched
them a little insider trading. Ohare you are you connected to Corey Palka
from the commander of the Hollywood divisionof the of the LAPD. I have
I can't confirm or deny that.Now, Okay, what this slick investor?
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You are? All right? Ithink we I think we've I think
we've done enough for Hollywood today.What do you say? Yeah, I
think we've done our damage. Allright? All right, more more Oscar
movies to come. Then I'm goingto see this week and March tenth will
be the Oscars and we'll be havingour usual Oscar party at the Wienerschnitzel on
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what is it all of that streetout in front of the studio here,
Yeah, where they serve the beer, so the red carpet, the lights
and everything. You'll see it whenyou drive by. And I will now
leave you with just a taste ofthe greatest song ever written. See you
next week, Sam,
Joe Escalante Live from Hollywood. Ifby Hollywood you mean Burbank, across the
street from a Wiener Schnitzel that servesbeer. And we are two hours of
the business end of show business,every Sunday from five to seven here on
k e IB eleven fifty on yourAM dial. And it is February eighteenth.
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The baft Awards happened this weekend,and that is definitely a precursor to
the Oscars. If you're still interestedin the Oscars. If you talked to
most people on the street, they'relike, I don't watch that anymore,
or I don't go to movies,or I don't care. But we still
like it, right, Sam,Yeah, yeah, I mean we're in
Hollywood. This is part of theblood of the city. We serve the
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Hollywood community here on Live from Hollywood. You know this is the company town.
It's a company business. We're talkingabout it. Let's talk about BAFTA.
BAFTA is the British version of theAcademy Awards and Best Film, Sam,
what do you think at a guess? Barbie Close, Oppenheimer excellent same
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movie, Best Actor, Killian Murphyin Oppenheimer, Best Actress Emma Stone in
Poor Things and this Do you seePoor Things? No? I didn't.
I heard a lot of very goodthings about it, though I heard it's
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very good movie. It's a moraloffensive masterpiece, is what it is.
Emma Stone, she's a producer onit. They made her look so ugly
there's no way they could have beenand weird. There's no way she would
have done gone for it, andso much sex scenes and stuff like she
had to be a producer, Likeyou couldn't have a producer tell her to
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do these things. She had tobe the producer tell herself to do these
things. Wow, but you knowshe's committed. I'll say I'll say that
the Zone of Interest won Best BritishFilm because this is, you know,
the hometown favorite. A lot ofpeople think that's a German film, Sam
because it's in German and it's takesplace with this family and their really idyllic
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home that happens to be in Auschwitz. Number Okay, what else have we
got? Best supporting actress Divine JoyRandolph in Holdovers. She Divine Joy Randolph.
She's been in a lot of stuff. A lot of movies came from
from Broadway and she was great init, and you know, congratulations to
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her. I think she got theGolden Globe too. And Holdovers was one
of those low key, really goodmovies. We'll talk about it. I
sense that you didn't like you sawit much. No, I did like
it. I did like it.I did like the movie. Best Supporting
Actor Robert Downey Jr. In Oppenheimer, where he plays like a different,
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you know, kind of character that'snot all weird marvelized, so great,
happy for him. Best Director ChristopherNolan and Oppenheimer. No surprise there.
Best film not in the English languagezone of interest. So it's weird how
a British film wins this. Thiswin's Best British Film and Best not English
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Film, even though it's still British. Best Documentary. This is a movie
called Twenty Days in Mariopole. It'sa Ukraine War documentary. It's one best
documentary. I have to believe it'snominated in the US for best Documentary.
It is. You can watch itright now on YouTube for free. On
the if you go to the PBSYouTube page or just look for twenty Days
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in Maripool, you'll find it.It's free. Best Original Score Oppenheimer.
Best Animated Film, The Boy inthe Hair on which I still haven't seen.
That's the Hyo Miyazaki final movie.Specially Best Special Visual Effects. Poor
Things. That's not undeserved. It'scrazy. It's a crazy universe and poor
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things that every scene and every it'skind of like Tim Burton but a little
class here. And you're gonna likeit. I mean, unless you're you
don't even have to be easily offendedby the stuff in this movie. If
you're offended at all. Actually,I wouldn't recommend anyone seeing it. But
it's a good movie. I mean, it's well done. They did it.
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Let's see American Fiction. Best AdaptedScreenplay, American Fiction. Did you
see that, Sam No, Idid not. It's a It's written,
I directed and starring, scored Jefferson. It is is again, nothing wrong
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with that, it's just the waythe move. They don't make a lot
of these like Oscar type movies anymore, These like you know, mid budget
artie films. You know, theydon't get not often don't get made,
it seems like. And there's tennominees for the Oscars, so American Fiction
is nominated. But to me,it just came off like a a Netflix
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movie, like a Netflix almost arom com but not funny. Why was
it even nominated if it didn't feellike it was, you know, enough
bang for the buck. I don'tknow. You can maybe you watched it
and you tell me. But theBest Adapted Screenplay is like a bone.
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I think they threw to it.It wasn't that great of them. It
was just it's good. I'm gladI saw it. A very interesting topic.
The guy is a author of ablack He's a black author, and
he just wants to be an author, but everyone keeps the only books that
sell are books that are like showblack people as criminals or in you know,
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gang infested gang areas, and hejust wants to write normal stories.
But the pressure is to write thesekind of stories. And I won't give
away any spoilers, but it's great. It's a great Netflix movie. I
just don't understand Best Picture nomination.But I liked it. Same with let's
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the other one we talked about Holdovers. I love that movie. Best Picture.
Now, im you have a FallI haven't seen it looks really cool.
Best Original Screenplay. It's about likea man that falls off a balcony,
and then the only one around isthe wife, and so you know
she has to prove she didn't doit or whatever. Best Costume Design,
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poor Things, Holdovers, Best Casting, well, yeah, sure best.
They don't have that award in theUnited States, Sam, you know that
casting directors don't get anything. Butthis year that would be a great word.
I know plenty of people friends ofmine that work is you know,
in casting. That'd be awesome ifthey can actually be up for an award.
This year is the first year they'regoing to have it, and the
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ward will go to the most diversecast. I guarantee you Best Makeup and
Hair, poor Things, Best EditingOppenheimer, Best Production Design, poor Things,
and Best Cinematography Openheimer. So youcan look at that and you can
kind of see what's gonna if you'rehandicapping the oscars themselves, which are coming
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up a couple of weeks. Right, let's take a break, Sam,
is it time? We actually havean extra minute? But if you want,
we can cut early and do thenext segment a little long. Yeah,
let's take a break now and thenwe come back. We have some
complicate his stories I don't want toget into, right away, and I'll
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talk a little bit more about thesemovies and other movies I saw this week
right here on Joe Scalante Live fromHollywood, Joe A. Scalante Live from
Hollywood. By Hollywood, you meanBurbank, And we are two hours of
the business end of show business righthere every week on k e IB eleven
fifty on your am dial. Sam, we were talking about the Bafterwards,
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the precursor to the Oscars, andit looks like poor things got more attention
than anything. The big prize goesto Oppenheimer, a couple big prizes,
best Director, best Actor, thesupporting Actor, but all the technical stuff
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went to poor Things, and theyreally pushed the envelope. So it shows
that the Academy likes. Academy abunch of perverts, Sam, What can
I say? So? March tenth, twenty four is the the the Oscar
telecast here in Hollywood. But whowho among us? Sam? Are not
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perverts? So really all of usin our own ways, but the Academy
is letting loose. We are perverts. Well, the BAFTAs are the Bafta
people are perverts, and we arekinky and we like we like it really
weird. That's what we like.You want to win a BAFTA. Get
real kinky. Hey, they're lettingthat freak flag fly. That's exactly what
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they're doing. Sam, you couldn'thave put it better. Okay. So
we talked a little bit about themovies that that you and I saw.
So you saw the Holdovers. Iloved Holdovers. I just it's just odd
to me that it's the best picture. But I have nothing against it.
I don't know you thought it wasbest picture of quality. I mean the
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this really was the first year sincethe pandemic where everything started to get back
to high quality filmmaking. It feltlike. So I feel like this movie
was very, very good, andI think it was. I think it's
just one of those industry darling movies, one of those sweetheart movies that everyone
in the industry liked well. AlexanderPayne, the director, is a favorite
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of mine. He's made some ofthe best movies ever made. About Schmidt
two thousand and two, good moviemasterpiece, Citizen Ruth. You've seen that
one with Laura Dern and she getspregnant. She's a paint huffing unwed mother
to be and she's being trying appropriatedby both sides of the abortion fight in
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some small town, and it's hilarious. It's a great subject for a movie,
and he did it very well.He did sideways paulgi. I guess
he likes Paul Jamotti. I thinkit's Paul J. Mooney. Uh yeah,
and Paul Jamotti's in this. Hedid the descendence. But he hasn't
done that many movies. And ifyou look up his Wikipedia, it's as
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an area of twenty seventeen to twentytwenty two. He had a career slump.
I guess it was and oh themovie Downsizing. I guess he had
a trouble during that period. Iguess maybe that's why he didn't make that
many movies. But if he makesa movie, you got to go see
it. And I can highly recommendThe Holdovers. I just thought it just
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wasn't like just just like a mesmerizingbest picture experience. But a lot of
the best pictures are you know,they don't make as many movies anymore and
not and they have twice as manycategory. So I just I guess I
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have to recalibrate my expectations. UsuallyI'm used to seeing movies that I think
are really good, but they're notgoing to be in the Best Picture category.
But good for Alexander Payne and goodfor Paul Giamati and all those people.
Another movie that I actually saw isa movie called But before I get
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to that one, let's go backto the American fiction. American fiction,
innovative fun just not a best pictureto me. But again I got to
recalibrate Hassim and so, okay,great, fine, I can recommend American
fiction and Holdovers. And then Isaw a film called The Taste of Things.
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Now I'm shocked that this is notnominated. It it was just a
wonderful film. It could flawless film. The filmmaking match the story and the
mood and the the acting and everything. Like I think there's a little American
fiction and the Holdovers are very uneven. It's just like, wait, this
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looks really cheap? This part?Does this part looks cheap? In American
fiction, a lot of stuff lookreally cheap, would look like it was
it was, you know, likepart of it looked like what is this
Sex and the City or something,you know, just look like a TV
show that, But then it wouldget really deep and good but uneven holdovers,
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uneven taste of things. It's aFrench movie about a by a Vietnamese
director, Tran On Hong. Ithink her name is. I think she's
French, but she's Vietnamese and it'sabout food. Basically, it's a guy
in France and it's a period piece, so it's a it's a while back
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that I didn't really tell you whenit is. It's just like, okay,
there's a long time ago. Theydon't have electricity. But he lives
out in the countryside. This guy, dough Dan is his name, and
he is a master culinary expert andchef, and I think he's like a
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duke or something. So he's like, you're kind of wondering, why does
this guy have so much time toworry about how good food and wine could
be? And then he has acook that he hired and the cook has
to be the best, so it'skind of the relationship between him and his
cook and there's a little apprentice comingup. But man, the visuals,
I mean, don't see this moviehungry, because you will be in pain
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the entire time because the food looksso good and the wine and the pastries
and the kitchen is like, youknow, it's like an old country kitchen
from the French countryside. And youknow, my wife just wanted every single
one of their crazy stoves into tensouls and the way they could make fire
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and all that. So it wasvery, very enchanting. So I highly
recommend the taste of Things. AndI saw that at the theater. I
saw it at the Bellatara right hereon Huntington Beach. There a lot of
these movies that are you know,these art movies or form movies. You
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know, see them out back herein Orange County. You know, that's
what I missed about living, youknow, right in LA you see all
these movies. But so that wasa rare one. It's there were there
anybody in the theater and watching it. Man, I know everybody was over
watching the One Love Reggae movie.But I'll see that. Bob Marley,
Yes, Bob Marley, Bob Narley. You know. The last movie I
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saw was Naiad starring Annette Benning andwhat's your name? Crepol When you're sixty
one? This happens net betting,Could you Indulge Me? By Jody Foster?
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That was it. A see Ijust needed to think about it for
a little while that I did acouple of tours in Las Vegas yesterday too,
a little running on fumes. Idrove home from Las Vegas this morning.
I did the tours at that punkrock museum and I forget names there
to by the way. So anyother movies you saw, oh wait,
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now yeat? Okay, So Ididn't say anything about Night Nya is a
movie about a lady that swims fromCuba to Key West. She's famous.
It's a little irritating because she's acomplete narcissist, so it's hard to listen
to her talk. It's hard towatch he or do anything. It's cringey.
But then you go on YouTube andsee what she was really like.
Oh my gosh, net Betting nailedit, just nailed it. And Jody
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Foster is great in it. Andit's directed by two people that looks like
they used to do wildlife films orsomething. I don't know, I don't
know. I can't pronounce her names, Elizabeth Chai and Jimmy Chin. Okay,
I pronounced that anything you saw,Sam I saw a Strays, the
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movie with the dogs that was horriblyobscene yet hilariously funny. Oh yeah,
that was potty mouth, Peepy poopooeverything as a cartoon. Pretty funny.
It was entertaining. And also Irewatched Death of Stalin because it's a great
movie. Oh yeah, I thatThe Death of Stalin is like on my
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list of like, like you know, I've never seen it and it's on
my list of like there's a coupleof movies that like, you know,
like they Live that's a great that'sa great movie. But Death of Stalin
may be one of my favorite alltime films. That is a great movie.
Where did you watch it? It'son one of the free streaming side
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right now, like on What toBe or Pluto. It's flowing on that
one right now. The Death ofStalin. Yes, I put that on
my list just like last week.I'm like, why haven't I seen this?
The way that they blanket the atrocitieswith such just biting, beautiful humor
is so great. Really a uniquefilm and it's great movie. Actually it's
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playing on the Disney Plus bundle thatwe're going to talk about a little bit
and how much time do we havein this segment. Let's take a break
and then come back. Okay,So We're going to talk about this bundle
that Disney is offering Disney, WarnerDiscovery and ESPN and Hulu that is supposed
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to solve all your sports problems.But is it legal? Joe Scoalante Live
from Hollywood back after this, JoeEscalante Live from Hollywood. If by Hollywood
you mean Burbank. So, Sam, what do you think of this new
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bundled service that's being proposed by Disney, Fox and Warner Discovery that is supposed
to just be your one stop sportsviewing hub for all sporting, all your
sporting needs. It makes it veryconvenient. I guess I already have the
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ESPN app and like I'm signed intothat. I know that they somehow,
I think they acquired Fox Sports andnow they're trying to incorporate a lot of
the Fox Sports content. So you'regoing to see a lot of sports.
Local sports are gonna like a lotof Fox Sports have affiliates in different locales,
so you're gonna get more local programmingregion or access to it nationally regionals.
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Yeah, yeah, so it soundsgood. People talk about the price.
Price might be like thirty five dollarsa month, not you know,
seven, ten, fifteen or nineteenthirty five dollars a month. Now,
how do you feel about it?It sounds like the kind of thing that
I would be tempted to order onceand then like forget that I keep getting
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charged for it. Yes, exactly, give it a try, and then
it's one of those things where yourwife goes, you don't watch this,
but maybe maybe we will. I'mnot sure, but I'm a little confused
because I just, you know,got used to the Disney Disney ESPN plus
Hulu thing, So that was that. When I get confused, Disney pluses
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ESPN plus Hulu is a new bundle. Now we have something. This is
different. This is uh ESPN,Fox and Warner Brothers. Yeah, basically
Disney and ESPN being the same thing. Uh. Well, I mean it
all sounds great and until someone says, hey, wait, that's a big,
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giant monster and I don't want Idon't want it to exist. Now
who might want it? Not wantit to exist? That would complain about
it and call the cops and bea tattletale. Probably, I don't know
at this point. Jeez, likeBig the Big ten Network and some other
like little tiny performers. Well,it's Fubo. That that that sounded the
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alarm at first. Are you familiarwith Fubo? You're familiar with this?
Yeah? Yeah, it's like oneof these uh streaming apps that has a
lot of sports. Like sometimes ifyou're looking at like, hey, there's
an NFL playoff game and you can'tfind it anywhere, and you go,
why isn't it on my TV?And you start searching and searching, and
then here comes Fubo. I gotit for you. All you got to
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do is subscribe Fubo. As soonas it was announced, they filed the
complaint with the Department of Justice.Now, the why would the Department of
Justice care about this? Because theDepartment of Justice oversees competition, and we
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have something in this country called theSherman Antitrust Act and other various anti monopoly
regulations that prevent you from becoming toobig, even though we you know,
we think we live in a freeenterprise country. But if you get too
big, the government will come inand say you have to They might break
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you up, like they did withthe phone companies in the seventies I think
it was the sixties seventies. Theymight They did it with the oil companies
a while back. And if youare growing so big that you are creating
barriers for other people to enter themarketplace, then you may have an illegal
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monopoly if you are growing so bigthat you can dictate prices, or if
you're or if you maybe you're notgetting big, maybe you're just small.
But you go to all your competitorsand say, hey, let's get in
a room and decide what price we'regoing to charge for these competing goods.
And then we'll charge a real highprice. But everyone in this room has
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to agree to charge the high price, and then we'll all make a bunch
of money. We'll have a windfallof money because no one will be able
to go anywhere else, and wehave all the market here together with all
the people in this room, andyou know, we'll get rich. That's
not a way you're allowed to getrich in this country. That's called price
fixing. So in this instance,the Fubo complaint had said they would control
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sixty to eighty five percent of allsports content. Now that could be trouble
for the consumer. Charge whatever theywant if they're the only ones so they
so the government might come. Isthe big news is the government is going
to scrutinize this and they're going tosee if this should even happen. And
that happens anytime somebody combines companies,like if you know, when when Discovery
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Bot Warner Brothers, you know,the government comes in and just make sure
that they're not creating something that isanti competitive. So we don't really know
if this will work. But Disneyhas other problems there. There's like activist
board member or activist shareholders that youknow, they're just always going after Disney
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saying I don't like the way you'redoing things, and I own a bunch
of shares, so I'm gonna makea big stink and and I have some
power, and you better be.You better hope that I don't get together
with other people and create real problemswith Like if there's a big voting block
wants to make changes, or theycan sue also Sam, they can file
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a derivative shareholders suit I think it'scalled, and they sue the board and
say you are acting against the interestsof the shareholders. You're breaching your fiduciary
duties to raise the price of theshare so to just you know, improve
the business. It's going on rightnow with Disney. This one's kind of
silly. I think it's they're accusingthe board of hiding who they are donating
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money to, and that looks likethey're mad because Disney is giving money to
gender transition companies or paying for people'sgender transition operations, and the people like
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you shouldn't do that because research isuh, you know, it's undecided whether
that's good or harmful to people.That's their position. But on the other
hand, regardless how you feel aboutthis, I think you can really get
that. I worked up about itbecause and accused Disney. You see what
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they're trying to do. They're tryingto say Disney is too woke, you
know, so they and and Disneyknows they're too woke. And Disney,
you know, has made some changesand is trying to swing the pendulum back
the other way. But this one, I'm not sure it applies. Because
in the world we have today,if someone could sue the employees, could
sue them, say I need this, uh this treatment because other if you
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don't give me this treatment, you'rediscriminating against me because of my sexual orientation,
and I will take you to court. So Disney's you know, between
a rock and a hard place,and bob Eyger is probably just like,
what was I thinking? You know, just play golf, although you know,
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second I ever, was he everreally going to go play golf?
Now he was going to start something. So we'll see what happens with those
people. How many shares do yougot, Sam of Disney? Yeah?
Currently, I think I've got maybeseven hundred. Look at you? Are
you? Are you the active ashareholder trying to yes, I am,
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make them, make them be moretransparent on their transgender care they're giving.
Hey, it's a matter of genderaffirming care and if that affirms their gender
then cool. All right, Well, yeah, so some people are not
cool about it. I'm okay withpeople having their feelings about it. Yeah,
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yeah, that's how I feel aboutIt's like, you know what,
I'm not smart enough to know whatis actually the the right way to handle
this stuff, but we have tolet everybody have their deeply held beliefs,
and you know, it gets weirdwhen they push them on people. So
okay, I don't mind when peopleare getting mad at Disney for if they're
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pushing an agenda, Okay, allright, then you don't buy their stuff
or don't take your kid to Disneyland. Good luck. But in this case,
I don't know Disney. Disney's gotto do what they got to do
to avoid lawsuits. I got somefamous people acting badly, Sam, let's
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save it for the next segment.Then, Okay, we got some new
news about less Moon vest and VinceMcMahon and expelled representative. Oh Jimmy Kimmel.
Jimmy Kimmell behaving badly? Or ishe Joe Scalante from Hollywood back after
the traffic Yeah, h m hmhm Joe Ashanti, he's my lawyer.
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You don't want money, Joe Wiscalantelife from Hollywood? If by Hollywood you
mean Burbank. Okay, we're inthe celebrities behaving badly section. Let's start
with Jimmy Kimmel. Uh. JimmyKimmel is uh yeah, I mean,
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I know you're gonna think this isfunny, but is it right? He
is using CAMMI, you know,cameo app where you get so you can
pay celebrities as a happy birthday toyour friend or whatever. Yeah, yeah,
I've seen it. So evidently thedisgraced ex Congressman George Santos who was
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expelled from the Senate. I guesshe was a senator. It was crazy
how that guy became a senator.Oh no, he's a just a representative.
So he got expelled for lying.And he's just a freak and of
kook. But so he's a SoJimmy Kimmel goes after him for comedy.
He's he hired him. They gotphony people to get cameos out of him,
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and they broadcast those on Jimmy Kimmelfor content. Okay, uh,
that's pretty funny. It's funny.You know it's funny. I haven't seen
it, but I guarantee it's funny. That's pretty But right, you just
you want to see it now.I mean, Jimmy Kimmel is funny and
his writers are funny, and theycan do this. But is it a
low blow? Is it? Isit? Is it a low blow?
(30:57):
Is it? Is it unfair?Is it? Is there a better way
to create comedy work a little harderthan just just trying to destroy some guy,
even though he might be a kook. But now I could say if
they if they say, hey,it's Jimmy Kimmel, I'm here, it's
(31:18):
me Jimmy Kimmel, I'm giving youfive hundred dollars and I want a cameo,
and he goes, oh, hi, Jimmy Kimmel. Hi, everybody
on Jimmy Kimmel, this is me. I have a great show today.
And then make fun of him allyou want. But they were making him
do things like congratulating a woman whofor successively successfully cloning her schnauzer named Adolph.
(31:49):
Okay, that's like I said,I get it. It's funny,
but he doesn't know what he's doing. You know, he doesn't know that
it's going to so they tricked himbasically. So I guess the legal question
is are you allowed to trick someonelike this to create content for your TV
show and to fame him in thisway? What do you think? He's
(32:15):
a public figure. He subjected himselfto this level of ridicule and buffoonery.
I don't see any issue with it. I I don't know, I don't
know. I don't know about it. I mean, I think you got
I think you have to. Isit illegal? I don't know. It
(32:37):
might be, it might be afraud, it might be a consumer fraud,
or depending on what the language islike he he got a platform,
and he's paying a percentage of hisincome to cameo. You know, it's
a business. The person who engagesstarts wanting ad buys the cameo. I
(32:58):
don't know what they fill out andwhether they are violating the terms of that
contract because they're lying. Maybe they'reallowed to lie, Maybe they're allowed to
be anonymous. Maybe they are,maybe they aren't. If if it's anything
goes and he was part of hisdeal. Because if I'm cameo, I
would want to prevent being sued byany of this, So I would tell
(33:19):
the stars, the people that areon Cameo, Hey, anybody can come
in and they might embarrass you.They might do something because some people have
been embarrassed. They've been asking celebritiesto endorse like controversial like Nazi organizations and
stuff like that. Don't they havethe right to refuse? Well they don't.
(33:40):
Oh yeah, they can refuse,But if they don't know what it
is, they don't refuse it.And they're aware of what's going on.
But the question is are they aware? I don't know. I think it
depends on the terms of the service, like if but I would imagine if
I'm cameo would I would have thecameo celebrity people agree that that this might
(34:00):
happen, that you're you're you're goingto get this money, but you're going
to create them content. You haveno idea what they're going to do with
it. You have no idea ifit's going to be shameful. And that's
what I would put in the cameoterms of service, so that they're freely
uh entering into this with full knowledgethat someone might take that footage, misrepresent
(34:23):
themselves and do something really weird withit. Uh So if but it could
it rise to defamation? H ifif they trick, if they trick them
and then they edit it in away that causes people to spit on the
ground in a diabolical way, andthat it is as the prerequisites for the
(34:50):
malice for a defamation case. Couldthat happen? I think that's what the
lawyers who took his case and aresuing Jimmy Kimmel are bank king on that
there is malice here and he wasdefamed with malice. They set out knowing
this stuff wasn't true, and theyset him up to defame him. Now,
(35:14):
they couldn't have found a least aless sympathetic victim. So I think
that's part of it too. Nobodylikes this guy. But did they go
too far? I don't know.We will find out. That's gonna be
interesting. Jimmy Kimmel, he's like, he's not worried about it. He's
like, this is funny, andhe's getting more. I mean, you
(35:35):
know, he wanted he loves this, he says. Okay, so Les
Moonvest the other guy that's, youknow, the bad boy. This one
isn't that bad. He was orderedto pay a fine of eleven two hundred
and fifty dollars by the Los AngelesCity Ethics Commission for his role in a
twenty seventeen lapd scandal connected to hisdownfall at CBS. Full disclosure. He
(36:00):
was my boss. Let's CBS.He had a woman named Philis Golden Gottlieb
who accused him of sexually assault sexuallyassaulting her, and she filed the police
report. There was a cop.The cop was named Corey Palka. That
(36:27):
cop said, hey, I knowless Moonvest. He hires me to be
a private security I see this policereport. I alert him and I send
him a copy of the police report. Say, hey, be on the
lookout. This girl says you sexuallyassaulted her. And when I say girl,
she died two years ago at ageeighty six, so she was not
(36:53):
she was pretty old when it hashappened. I mean, you think of
his victims as these you know,young on news, but this one's a
different case. And he was soand then that allowed him to go after
her. So this is really badand he should probably you know, be
(37:14):
libele in the millions to the victim. But the fine for doing something like
that was only eleven It was fivethousand dollars usually, and since he's so
rich and it's so serious, theysaid you got to pay eleven thousand.
So he's not really that worried aboutthat. And after settling his thirty million
dollar thing with the the Security andExchange Commission, because let's not forget,
(37:37):
he got in trouble and CBS gotin trouble when all this is going on,
and everybody knew within CBS knew thathe was about to go down.
They didn't tell the shareholders he wasin trouble at all. So if you
would have told the shareholders, theywould sell their stock. But they didn't,
so they hid it and then bythe time it was leaked, the
(37:57):
shareholders were left holding the bag.Sam, how many shares of CBSD at
Oh, I ditched them. Icaught early wind of that and just ditched
them a little insider trading. Ohare you are you connected to Corey Palka
from the commander of the Hollywood divisionof the of the LAPD. I have
I can't confirm or deny that.Now, Okay, what this slick investor?
(38:21):
You are? All right? Ithink we I think we've I think
we've done enough for Hollywood today.What do you say? Yeah, I
think we've done our damage. Allright? All right, more more Oscar
movies to come. Then I'm goingto see this week and March tenth will
be the Oscars and we'll be havingour usual Oscar party at the Wienerschnitzel on
(38:42):
what is it all of that streetout in front of the studio here,
Yeah, where they serve the beer, so the red carpet, the lights
and everything. You'll see it whenyou drive by. And I will now
leave you with just a taste ofthe greatest song ever written. See you
next week, Sam,
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