February 23, 2025 • 38 mins
Joe Escalante's weekly graceful swan dive into the business end of showbiz. This week: We're a week away from the Oscars, which can only mean one thing... the SAG Awards!!! Joe ranks the nominees for Best Picture in order of preference. He really didn't like Emilia Perez... speaking of which... Karla Sofía Gascón is not showing up to the SAG Awards amid the controversy of past tweets that came back to bite her. We'll see if she shows up to the Oscars next week. Joe explores that story as it develops.
Also, James Bond has been sold to Amazon... Tech companies are taking over EVERYTHING!
Also, James Bond has been sold to Amazon... Tech companies are taking over EVERYTHING!
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Speaker 1 (00:10):
Joe Scalante live from Hollywood. If by Hollywood you mean
Burbank across the street from a Wiener snitchel that sells beer.
And I'm here with engineer Sam and producer Nicky and hours. Hello,
two hours at the business end of show business every
Sunday from five to seven on k E I B.
(00:31):
That's eleven fifty on your AM dial in Los Angeles.
And we have breaking news, guys, breaking news just happened
this morning.
Speaker 2 (00:39):
Uh breaking news sounder for this one?
Speaker 1 (00:41):
Uh?
Speaker 3 (00:42):
You got one?
Speaker 2 (00:44):
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (00:47):
Some break beat.
Speaker 1 (00:48):
Yeah, I'll take it, okay. Uh. Now, the people that
controlled James Bond on Forever, Barbara Broccoli and Michael G. Wilson,
have decided they're giving up control of the franchise Forever
(01:11):
to Amazon. Now Amazon is a you know, it's a
tech company. Now a sudden, it controls James Bond. H
I don't know if this is you know, means anything
to you guys, but James Bond is a big deal
to me in the movies. And these guys controlled Ian
Fleming's you know, franchise character for for ages and then
(01:36):
they were always fighting with with MGM about casting. You know,
just they're really in the mix. These are real producers,
and then they MGM was sold to Amazon. Then they
got fighting with Amazon, and now they've just given up,
like no one even knew this was coming. Does it
scare you? Does it do you care?
Speaker 3 (01:59):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (01:59):
Nikki, James Bond is a secret agent spy.
Speaker 4 (02:03):
Oh no, okay, all right, all right, No, I do know, Jimsond.
Speaker 3 (02:09):
That is that is pretty crazy.
Speaker 4 (02:11):
And I don't think I like where this is going
in terms of Amazon being the monopoly of you know,
historical IP holders and just being now also it's on
production platform that freaks me out. I mean, they have
made The Boys, which is pretty good, but I don't
(02:31):
love that even you know, these legacy titles are going
to be owned by Amazon or at least controlled by them.
Speaker 1 (02:39):
That's the big fear that that technic companies are taking
over Hollywood, and Hollywood is just becoming a tiny arm
of the tech industry. But you know, if you if
you run out of money because you're not making stuff
people like and pay for, and you don't have movie
theaters people want to go to, then this is what happens,
(03:02):
I guess.
Speaker 4 (03:03):
And another thing too is that I mean, Amazon does
still sell DVDs of certain movies and things like that.
But if the streaming service owns the films and they
could just restrict it to streaming and no longer even
sell hard copies or CDs.
Speaker 3 (03:21):
Yeah, and this is my my nightmare.
Speaker 4 (03:23):
Future where you know, physical media is completely eradicated because.
Speaker 3 (03:29):
One streaming service owns your access to all media, that
would really suck. I'm a big DVD fan.
Speaker 4 (03:36):
My roommates and I have a DVD collection. We watch
them on the player. You know, it's less to know
that you own the copy.
Speaker 1 (03:44):
Well, that's that's pretty antiquated of you in this as
a young Hollywood person that you're still hanging on to
this heart, these hard copies.
Speaker 3 (03:58):
It's like, we're this is as hipster as it gets.
Speaker 1 (04:00):
Okay, I guess, I guess is this like a collecting
vinyl in the music business.
Speaker 3 (04:06):
Yeah, I think it is.
Speaker 5 (04:07):
Well, there's something to it though, because you'll see it
more with video games that a lot of companies the
licenses and the licenses that they have for a lot
of the games, like the soundtracks and things like that expire.
So if it's on streaming, you may purchase it. You
may think you have the rights to it, but you're
not buying the actual product. You're buying the basically the
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right to rent it from the company you're buying. You're
renting out the license to watch it. But if they
want to pull it, and it doesn't matter if you
paid for it or not, they could pull it and
it's gone. So it's one thing. Having the physical digital
physical media actually gives you more of a sense of
ownership because if licenses expire, it doesn't mean that the
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media itself vanishes.
Speaker 1 (04:54):
Well, as a sixty two year old, I don't have
time to worry about any of this. I just you know,
I don't have time. I'm gonna watch the movie if
I have it. And if if someone from Amazon said,
oh I'm taking it, revoking the license, then I'm gonna
watch something else. So anyways, it's big news. And I
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one of the problems with this with the franchises, they
don't know who to put on as as James Bond
after Daniel Craig. People are agreeing that Daniel Craig has
kind of aged out as James Bond, and they don't
know who to put and I think some people are
worried they're gonna put that the woman, the Black woman
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from from Wicked, that she would be the next James Bond.
And although she's a very talented actress and a great singer,
is she really the person that's going to carry on
with her Majesty's Secret service as Agent W seven. That's
when you guys say, wow, that's very interesting.
Speaker 3 (06:03):
Joe, that is fascinating. Joe, thank you for posing the
philosophical question.
Speaker 1 (06:08):
I made it up because no one ever proposed that
she's going to do it. But I think she's putting
Jesus in some production too, So that's why, you know,
that's why I think it really Yeah, yeah, I.
Speaker 2 (06:20):
Think it was Christ Superstar or something like that.
Speaker 3 (06:22):
Yeah. Oh oh okay, Jesus very superstar, got it? Yeah,
you know that sounds kind of interesting.
Speaker 1 (06:29):
Oh well, well you can good luck with that now.
I mean, it's it's just designed to make people like
me like to to push my buttons. You know, why
can't Why can't I play Jesus?
Speaker 3 (06:45):
I can't?
Speaker 1 (06:47):
Okay, go ahead, So uh, anyway, I feel sorry for
whoever invests in that production. Let's go to the box office.
Number one of the box office. Can you guys guess
what it was? No, you're right. Captain America. Captain America.
Number one.
Speaker 3 (07:06):
Wait, Captain America. There's a Captain America that's out.
Speaker 2 (07:09):
You didn't hear about this?
Speaker 1 (07:10):
No starring the lady. It stars the lady from Wicked
as the new Captain America.
Speaker 3 (07:18):
Okay, you're pulling my leg here?
Speaker 1 (07:20):
What's her name? I got It's like.
Speaker 3 (07:24):
Cynthia Rago, right, isn't that it? I believe that's it?
Speaker 4 (07:28):
But wait, okay, okay, so yeah, I thought I didn't
know that came out.
Speaker 1 (07:32):
That's okay, So she plays Captain America and everybody okay,
but it's number one at the box office. I almost
went to see it, but instead I saw the number
three movie, which we'll get to. Number two is The Monkey.
Number three is Paddington in Peru. Number four, number four
is dog Man, Number five is Nija two and number
(07:56):
six Hard Eyes, number seven Mufasa the Lion King. Number eight,
Unbreakable Boy, When We Got a Tie for Love, Hurts
one of one of Them Days, and Becoming led Zeppelin.
Have you guys seen any of these movies? No, the
(08:17):
Nikki's seen any of these movies, not a single one
in the top ten. Haven't seen anyone. Okay, Now, Captain
America doing still a big dip, but still doing well,
doing really well overseas except for China, which we will
get to. Paddington Bear. I went to see that on
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Friday night because that's, you know, as exciting as my
life gets right now. And I just thought, since all
the cartoons that I saw this year were better than
most of the movies, maybe Paddington Bear in Peru is good.
Like sometimes you like like when someone said, like the
Batman movie, the Lego movies, someone said, like, like, you know,
(08:59):
I am not and I go see that and then
someone tells you how great it is, and then you
go and you see how great. You go, Wow. I
can't believe I dismissed this as a kid's movie. I
almost missed it, and I went to see it, and
boy was I glad. What a work of genius, you
know like that. Yeah, okay, that's not Paddington Improved.
Speaker 5 (09:16):
That's funny, because Paddington too was one. It was an
exceptional film. But okay, I heard that. I'm a little
saddened that Paddington in Peru didn't live up to the
expert So.
Speaker 1 (09:28):
I'll tell you it's it's a big sensation. It's made
you know, a lot of money, help me twenty five million.
But it's just one of those things that would have
been better if it was like a one hour special
that was on CBS on like you know, Friday Night
or something like that, you know, because they had a
kram it through a lot of movie trope, plot point
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things that have to happen to make a movie interesting,
and and it just didn't really it just it didn't
really pull it off. But the Paddington Bear character is
so cool, and so it's such a defined character with
a great personality. It's worth seeing, if you you know,
if you go to the theater and you've seen everything else,
(10:14):
it's it's you're better off seeing this than going miniature golfing.
But no way, yeah you are. That's what I'm gonna say.
And it and then Olivia Coleman is in it and
she's great, and Paddington Bears Grandma's at a convent. I'm going, well,
I was a Catholic. I'm really glad that these uh,
these British heretics decided that the Catholic church was a
(10:39):
it was a worthwhile, you know, place to put in
there in their British movie and have this Paddington's Grandma's
being taken care of by these nuns in Peru and
the convent. But of course I don't want to you
know what. I'm not going to do any spoiler alerts,
but you all right, you know where I'm going. But
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Olvia Coleman great in it, her and Packington barrow Worths team.
But it's not a miracle no more. My wife liked it,
so you know that made me happy. Mm hmm uh.
Do you are you saying we need to take a
break or or can I keep going with my We
got to go, all right, go to We'll go to
break and I'll tell you the other movies I've seen
(11:21):
in this list. Joe Sclante Live from Hollywood, Joe Ascolante
Live from Hollywood. By Hollywood, you mean bird Bank. I'm
here with engineer Sam, producer Nikki, and we're going over
the box office for the week. I did see, uh
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the number five movie nie Jah two, the biggest box
office release in a single market in the history of movies.
Did you know?
Speaker 3 (11:52):
That?
Speaker 2 (11:53):
Really?
Speaker 3 (11:53):
Really to.
Speaker 1 (11:58):
No other can anyone else? So that's why it's not
doing that well in the United States. It's the first
word is n E me and the second one is
z h A and and it's a sequel, so it's
number two.
Speaker 3 (12:17):
This looks really cool.
Speaker 1 (12:19):
Oh yeah, it's what the heck? Yeah, tell me about it. So,
Nijah two, let me just go over with you. What's
going on? Oh wait, let me check step my alarm
clock here reset. I just want to make sure I
know my clock a little better than I have in
the past for the so America doesn't suffer more than
(12:42):
they have to listening to this show. Now, okay, son
Jah two, you're gonna be very excited by this. It's
become a massive hit, breaking box office records and actually
fueling a new surge of national pride in China, not
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in this country, in China. But the success is also
sparked a controversy because the fans are fiercely defending the
film against any criticism at all. You cannot criticize this
film in Japan or you are unpatriotic or being accused
of being a paid hater. And it's like a nationalistic
fervor is even extended to some Chinese movie govers, moviegoers
(13:27):
vowing that Captain America brave New World must die in China.
So not only it's not good enough for NI to win,
Captain America must die. Wow.
Speaker 3 (13:39):
Wow, the word captain is really doing some heavy lifting
and not starting a global conflict in that fun sence.
Speaker 1 (13:45):
Huh, I don't I guess, I mean, I go the
only Captain America must die.
Speaker 3 (13:53):
Oh, make sure we have Captain in there.
Speaker 1 (13:56):
Yeah, Captain America must die. Okay, yeah, a year above
my head? Okay.
Speaker 6 (14:01):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (14:02):
Cynthia Evertt what's her name?
Speaker 3 (14:05):
Arivoe?
Speaker 1 (14:06):
Cynthia Riville, the star of Captain America, was quite popular
in the movie Wicked, but Chinese fans have said she
must die as Captain America in Brave New World. So
the now I saw the movie, Okay, it's got this.
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He's a little boy and he's battling demons with magical powers,
but he's also a demon, and it's a story that
borrows from Chinese mythology. So there. But in the two
hours and some odd minutes, it's not a short cartoon
for kids. But all the kids in the theater that
(14:48):
I went to one percent of Amasian, though there was
not that many of them, so it's not it's not
really catching on here but a number five in the
box office. There's so much being thrown at you in
this movie. Too much. Actually. It's like someone was in
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the Chinese you know, Forbidden City or whatever where they
have their meetings with the Communist party to decide whether
this film is good or not or if it needs
any censorship, and someone probably said, hey, you know what,
there's a little too much here. You might want to
cut it down. You know, there's a long and I
think there's a lot of stuff you don't need. And
then someone said pointed at that guy and said, you
(15:31):
are not a patriot. What would you like to cut
out of this movie? And then that guy didn't want
to say anything because you didn't want to be accused
of not being a patriot. So they left too much
stuff in the movie. And you're just sitting there just
going what are you talking about? You're trying to read
the subtitles and you're looking up and who's saying this?
And then you look at the subtitles again and you
look at me, what is going on here? And it's crazy.
(15:53):
Having said that, Wow, the animation is far superior to
our The animation at our tiny little peanut brains in
America that can come up with and the music in
the sound, like I would give it the Oscar for
best sound right now if I was in charge of that,
which I should be. But uh so, I would go
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see it, but be awake and just like be able
don't fall asleep because you know you might. It's really long,
and I think you have to see it twice. I
want to see it again because the story is so
it's not that complicated with their throwing too many things
at you, like every single thing about Chinese mythology has
to be thrown in one movie like they were afraid
they weren't going to get a chance to make another one.
(16:38):
So that's my only critician criticism of the movie. I
hope I don't be them criticized as a not a
Chinese patriot, because well, I've never been to China. I
don't know it goes on over there. But I sure
like the Kung fu movies and I like the what
I like. I like the Hu Nan Beef So True,
(17:04):
Showed You So True? Show You is Korean?
Speaker 3 (17:08):
Yes, so yeah, Sod's Korean for sure.
Speaker 1 (17:11):
I wasn't gonna tell a joke that I told a
bartender when he made me a drink with a Chinese
vodka in it. But I'm not going to be cause
I think it would it would. I don't want to
be known for telling jokes like this.
Speaker 4 (17:25):
I think there was a time on here where someone
else brought up the phrase rum Springer and I thought
it was a cocktail.
Speaker 1 (17:32):
Yeah, it sounds good to me.
Speaker 3 (17:34):
I mean, it sounds amazing. It would definitely make me
not want to go back. You know. I think it
has a great pitch, has a great name.
Speaker 1 (17:41):
It has a great title. Do you know what's in
a I don't know if you're oh, if you're familiar
with what is in a tree for it?
Speaker 3 (17:48):
What's in a tree for it?
Speaker 1 (17:50):
Playboy books and cigars?
Speaker 3 (17:54):
Nice? Sorry, it's part of the dum Springer catalog of
cocktails for sure.
Speaker 1 (18:01):
Okay. I think I think I have enough time right
now too to go over my So you guys haven't
seen Geno, so go see it or Nija Ni. I'm
saying it's worth it, way worth it, your kids all, Sam,
and but see it twice. Okay. So we we did
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my top ten, all of our top tens last week
and then but this this week. Some people can listen
to the last week's show if they want that, or
look at my Facebook page Joe's Goal and take life
from Hollywood on Facebook. I'm now I'm gonna take my
top ten movies. No that, I'm gonna take the Oscar nominees,
(18:43):
and then I'm gonna say which ones are the best,
going down to the worst, and then we're gonna talk
to Nikki about what she saw.
Speaker 5 (18:50):
Oh yeah, we got about a minute and a half here,
so let's not go too deep into this one.
Speaker 1 (18:55):
Okay, I'll just start with number ten. Yeah, no, I won't.
I'm going to start with number one. No, let's just
take a break and then we'll come back. Do you
know how to do that?
Speaker 2 (19:10):
Yeah, let's do that.
Speaker 5 (19:10):
No, I've already started the music. We are ready to
go to break anytime you like, sir.
Speaker 1 (19:14):
Hey, what was that monkey movie you were talking about
last week? Yeah, Monkey Man, the Monkey. The Monkey is
number two. But it's not the Monkey Man. No, it's
not a better Man, which has right? Okay, I just
want to get that straight, all right. Joe Scalante Live
from Hollywood. Back after this Joe Ascalante Live from Hollywood,
(19:41):
by Hollywood. Do you mean there bank there's two hours
of the business end of show business. We do this
every Sunday at five pm right here on k e
IB eleven fifty on your AM dial. Today's the Sagawards, guys,
do you know that? Yeah, I don't know that SAG
Awards today. I I actually got a invite to go
(20:02):
to the SAG Awards viewing party. Ah ah, offsite. But
you know what, am I my acting I'm a member
of that guild, but kind of only so because I
like the credit union and I like to get the screeners.
And then every once in a while someone will hire
me to do something, or the vandals. They'll hire the vandals,
(20:23):
and then I use the screen Actress Guild as my
union and instead of the musicians Union, which is a
bad taste in my mouth. No, let me go over
the Best Picture nominees in order of which of ones
I think are the best and should win. I'm gonna
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start with number one and we're gonna build it down
to the worst. Number one is Nickel Boys. Nickel Boys.
No one's seen it because it hasn't even been in
theaters yet, maybe in some you know, hipster La theater,
but it's playing an Amazon. You can buy it on
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Amazon and YouTube and stuff like that for twenty dollars,
and it is worth it. It is a story of
two boys in a reform school that needs a reform school.
This reform school is so bad it should go to
reform school in This is nineteen sixties Florida, and it's
told from the perspective of these guys who are just
kind of memori they're memory they're remembering little bits of
(21:26):
it here and there in their life, and so it's
avant garde filmmaking. But the story keeps going and it
is in many ways a little bit of masterpiece. So
I think it should win. Number two is kind of
my favorite of this list. That's my second favorite. That's
why it's number two. Did you know that? Number two Nora,
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the story about the Russian sex book A. Number three
The Brutalist, the story of a heroin addicted drug addict
from Hungary starring Adrian Brody. Number four I'm Still Here.
It's a Brazilian movie about, you know, right wing dictatorships
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in the seventies in South America and how they disappeared.
They're political opponents. Number five Dune Part two. Number sitting next.
These are the Maade my order of the best of
the worst. Number six a complete unknown. I think it's
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worse than Done Too, but still better than Number six seven,
The Substance. I know that's gonna upset you, NICKI ouh.
Speaker 3 (22:38):
You know, I understand that you couldn't handle it, and
I think that's okay.
Speaker 1 (22:42):
I thought The Substance was great up until the last
thirty minutes when it became directed by Nicky Strubinsky. Number
eight Conclave nothing but Heresies. And number nine Wicked. And
you know, Wicked is pretty goodn't movie if you'd like
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movies that are kind of lame. I mean, it's a
great movie, Wicked. Who am I kidding? It's a great movie.
People love it, but I just didn't. I'd like to
see other ones better. Number ten, Amelia Petz. That's the
worst movie nominated this year, maybe the worst movie ever nominated.
Speaker 3 (23:20):
I think it might be the worst movie ever made.
Speaker 1 (23:22):
Maybe the worst movie ever made. Nikki, you saw it,
give us your.
Speaker 4 (23:24):
Report, okay, Actually I can read you my letterbox.
Speaker 1 (23:29):
Okay? Great?
Speaker 4 (23:29):
Yes, Because I you know, I don't typically leave a
review for films unless I have a really witty thing
to say or particularly strong opinion.
Speaker 3 (23:39):
But here here we go. Okay, okay, my letterbox is
Cherry fun Betty. You can follow me, I will follow
you back. Here is my review for Emilia Perez. Wow,
this was the most dog water movie I've seen in
my entire life. I wish there was a redeeming quality
literally at all, added zero to my life. I think
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the director was, and I won't be explicit here was
good friends with I'll say that the cinematographer.
Speaker 4 (24:10):
By the way, you should watch the making of video
that follows the movie on Netflix.
Speaker 3 (24:14):
It will maybe explain why they let this happen. By
the way, the editor should consider another career path. And
I truly say this with love good luck. Also, I
suspect this film was produced as a propaganda slash fuel
for the argument that AI can in fact create better
art than humans, which really scares me because I think
Deep Dream Emulator or Gan Breeder or mid Journey or
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any AI would have produced a more OSCAR nominee worthy
film than the humans behind this mess. Wow. I made
my friends and boyfriend sit through it because you can't
fully hate until you've seen the whole thing.
Speaker 4 (24:53):
That's just how I feel, and I feel really bad.
That I did that because we gained.
Speaker 3 (24:59):
Nothing and and I stole time from their lives.
Speaker 1 (25:02):
Now you're the only You're only the second person I've
met that has seen it all the way through. The
other one was my sister who loved it.
Speaker 3 (25:11):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (25:11):
Why, oh my gosh. I don't know. She's just she's unusual.
I don't want to say. I mean, she listens to
the show, by the way, So let me just say
what I told her. Everybody's entitled to love any movie
they want. Sure, Okay, Now, maybe she's smarter than us
because she found something to grasp onto in this film
(25:31):
and to love I could not. Her time was not
wasted yours was and mine was. So who's smarter us
or Marianne Escalantato? You want to hear my letterbox review?
Speaker 3 (25:44):
Love to hear it?
Speaker 1 (25:45):
First of all, how many stars did you give it?
Speaker 3 (25:47):
Actually? Zero? Oh?
Speaker 1 (25:48):
Wow, I didn't know you could do that.
Speaker 3 (25:50):
I give it away.
Speaker 1 (25:51):
Yeah, okay, Mine says, dear diary, because it's a diary.
I don't just hate this because everyone else does. I
because it's bad and a waste of time.
Speaker 2 (26:03):
That was it.
Speaker 3 (26:05):
That was really respectful of you.
Speaker 1 (26:09):
So and I got six likes on my review of it,
which is probably more than any other review, more likes
I got than any other review. Now, Sam, are you
gonna go see Amelia Pettis.
Speaker 2 (26:23):
I after hearing all of these reviews.
Speaker 1 (26:26):
No, no, okay, Well it's on Netflix. You just turn
it on, start watching for a while, and start laughing.
It might be a drinking game movie or something like that.
Speaker 3 (26:33):
Oh yeah, so that is my plan. I am gonna
watch it again with my friends as a drinking game.
Speaker 1 (26:39):
Yeah. I mean it's cool. Like I told you, guys,
cop Rock it cop Rock.
Speaker 3 (26:43):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (26:44):
Cop Rock was so much better.
Speaker 2 (26:45):
Cop Rock is a legendary thing.
Speaker 5 (26:48):
Like you got to dig into YouTube to find those
old episodes.
Speaker 2 (26:51):
I think it only lasted four episodes.
Speaker 1 (26:53):
It was so good and we had parties. We had
parties for the when they would air, you know, like
Tuesday night at a pm. We're having a coppy party
at the Moon init Zappa's house. That is where we
used to have Okay, uh, let me give you a
little preview of the Sagawards in the last minute of
the segment here that we're in Sagawards tonight. The key
(27:14):
predictions are Wicked is going to win Best Motion Picture, cast.
These are just predictions from variety. In other people, male
actor in the leading role, Timothy shadow May is a
complete unknown, so I means he's going to beat Adrian Brodie.
So this is what tonight to look for. The Legends
versus the newcomers. Demi Moore is the outstanding actress in
(27:38):
the substance. She will win, but she will she will
be beating who who's she gonna beat. She's gonna beat
the newcomer Cynthia Rivo in Captain America. And then uh,
(27:59):
pam Anderson in the Last Showgirl. Did you see that?
Speaker 3 (28:03):
I didn't, but I wanted to.
Speaker 1 (28:04):
It's pretty good, pretty good movie, a really good role
for I'd like to see Pamela Anderson win this. But
the interesting thing is Carla Sophia Gascone, the Amelia Petez woman,
has been canceled. Prior to the Oscar she has been canceled.
Speaker 4 (28:20):
Well, she had a lot of on Twitter sharing did
you know the sam no no, I did not hear this.
Speaker 1 (28:27):
She went on that people dug up her old tweets
and said, oh, you can't have these opinions. You might
not have these opinions. So they scrubbed her from all
like the publicity in the movies. She's not allowed to
go to any of the press stuff instantly the and
she's the beloved transgender actress who was born as a
male and is now a female and is now nominated
(28:49):
for an Oscar and a SAG Awards, but she's not.
She's now persona on grata. So male actor in a
supporting role, Kieran Colcin awesome. I'd love to see him
win that. This is for the Saga worts. Tonight favorites
female actor Zoey Saldonia and Emilia Patz because everyone's afraid
to give it to Gascon. So the two hatest people,
(29:14):
the two most hated people in Los Angeles right now
are now are Carlos Sophia Gascon and George Gascone.
Speaker 3 (29:23):
Let's take it the break. Mm hmm.
Speaker 1 (29:26):
We will now take a break. Joe'scante Life from Hollywood.
Speaker 6 (29:40):
Yeah, Joe asks, he's my loyal You don't want money,
That's it all.
Speaker 3 (30:00):
M.
Speaker 1 (30:06):
Joe's go one live from Hollywood by Holly when you
meet Burdbike. All right. Amelia Petez canceled from Tonight's SAG
Awards and from the Oscars and everything. She's the star
of the worst movie you ever made, the Amelia Petez.
He's the she's the title role, she's transgender, and she
(30:27):
was a hero of Hollywood. And then they started digging
into her tweets. So her tweets are stuff like, you
know about Muslims, like what's what's what's wrong with these Muslims?
Oh they get there act together. WHOA, I didn't even
know that stuff like yeah, yeah, it's I mean, that's
not one of the tweets. That was one I read
from Sam's Twitter, because yeah, wait, what one of hers is.
(30:53):
Islam is marvelous without any machismo. Women are respected, and
then they are so respected they are left with a
little squared hole on their faces for their eyes to
be visible and their mouths but only if she behaves,
although they dressed this way for their own enjoyment. Then
it says how deeply disgusting of humanity. So these are
really like harsh and then one of them was In
(31:17):
twenty twenty one, more and more the oscars are looking
like a ceremony for independent and protest films. I didn't
know if I was watching an Afro Korean festival, a
Black Lives Matter demonstration or the eight M I don't
know what that is, Gascam wrote, and then she writes
apart from that, an ugly, ugly gella. Okay, when she
wrote that, she probably didn't think then three years she'd
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be nominated for an Oscar.
Speaker 3 (31:40):
I mean, they're kind of that one was a little funny.
Speaker 1 (31:44):
Well, all of them are like stuff that your grandpa's
gonna say or something, but you're not supposed to say it,
and they certainly don't want her to say it.
Speaker 3 (31:54):
I feel like had it been a different film than
Amelia Perez, that stuff probably wouldn't have been the craziest
thing and actors ever done, you know, Like that's not
it's like not in great taste, but it's pretty funny.
Speaker 4 (32:07):
It's not like it's still humorous. She's telling a joke.
But with the only reason that Emelia Perez can do
well is if it's a social.
Speaker 3 (32:16):
Justice yes move.
Speaker 4 (32:19):
Yeah, so those tweets are really in conflict with the
target audience.
Speaker 1 (32:22):
Yes, yeah, it's amazing how this happened. So here's one
from twenty twenty during the pandemic. Here's Gasco. The Chinese vaccine,
apart from the mandatory chip, comes with comes with two
spring rolls, a cat that moves its hand, two plastic flowers,
a pop up lantern, three telephone lines, and one euro
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for your first controlled purchase.
Speaker 3 (32:48):
Oh my god.
Speaker 1 (32:50):
Yeah, here's another one. You're not gonna hear these on
any other show. Here's another one. So many scientists in
the world making bombs, so many dollars, constructing objects for space,
so many miniciinal factories, and there's no one who can
get in line with this Chinese s h I t
In the end, it was a tremendous show for a
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new variant of the flu avion or coronavirus.
Speaker 4 (33:19):
All right, I mean, I gotta say the wording is
very artistic, and.
Speaker 1 (33:27):
It's my translations from Spanish too, so you gotta be careful.
Speaker 3 (33:30):
Oh wow, I'm okay.
Speaker 4 (33:31):
Well, and now I think there's a lot of creative
there's a lot of creative work at play.
Speaker 3 (33:35):
I think it.
Speaker 4 (33:35):
Actually this is making me think that there's something deeper
in her mind in her acting there.
Speaker 1 (33:43):
Yeah, exactly, she's an interesting person.
Speaker 4 (33:45):
This is very I mean, I'm I didn't I definitely
did not meet myself to laugh at any of these
because it's not appropriate.
Speaker 3 (33:54):
But there's an artistic there's some artistic merit to this
poet pros that is happening here.
Speaker 1 (34:02):
Yeah, someone's trying to be provocative on Twitter. So you know,
to me, it's maybe it's a little too soon, it's
too recent. I don't know that for the Academy, And
I mean, no one's taking her off the ballot. They're
just like it's the it's Netflix that is taking her
off the promotional stuff.
Speaker 4 (34:22):
And that's what happens when you know there's a monopoly
on streaming.
Speaker 1 (34:26):
Oh, very very very good point. Another other stuff on
tonight's Well, I'm gonna skip the screen actors anyway. Wait
screen actors will you'll you'll find out all the things tomorrow.
Maybe you don't care, maybe you do care. But I
got some other stuff. I'll bet you guys don't even
know about this. A Nicolas Cage's ex wife is suing
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their son Weston Copola ca Why and Nicholas Cage. Oh,
let me tell you. Their son is names Copola Cage,
Nicholas Coppola Cage.
Speaker 4 (35:09):
Well, I know he's a Coppola, but they named their
son this is last name Cage two.
Speaker 1 (35:14):
Well, my brother's middle name is Riley O'Reilly and O'reiley
is my mom's maiden name, so you know it's that's
creative as well. Okay, all right. Now, Nicholas Cage is
facing a lawsuit from his ex partner, Christina Fulton, after
their son, Weston Cage Coppola, allegedly assaulted her. Fulton claims,
this is the woman claims that Nick Cage enabled their
(35:35):
son's behavior. So this is a lawsuit. I'm suing you
because you enabled our son's behavior by ignoring his mental
health issues and bailing him out of his jail all
the time. She alleges that Cage also provided him with
a condo near his own, enabling and continued to drink
with him despite his known substance abuse. Maybe that's love.
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The lawsuit details a physical altercation that happened last April,
where Weston allegedly attacked his mother in the condo building,
causing severe injuries, including a concussion and eye damage. Fulton,
the mother, argues that Nicholas Cage failed to intervene or
provide necessary psychiatric helpful Weston despite his history of violent behavior. Now,
(36:20):
Nicholas Cage's attorney, what, of course, he calls this absurd
and frivolous stating that Nicholas Cage is not responsible for
his thirty four year old son's actions. Weston's attorney blames
Fulton for the incident. That's two attorneys, one for Weston,
one for Nicholas Cage. Weston's attorney says she changed his
(36:41):
medication which led to his breakdown. Fulton issuing both Cage
and Weston for damages, claiming the assault derailed her career
and business ventures. Like she's a model and she can't
model anymore. He's got an account of the eye. So
this lawsuit, now that we're I'm the legal zone of
(37:02):
the show, I can tell you this is the name
is going anywhere you can't sue someone for. These are
the the causes of action. Negligent supervision of a thirty
four year old and negligent undertaking undertaking. Now I thought
negligent undertaking had to do with grave robbing, but this
(37:23):
is it's an actual cause of action. This lawyer is
saying it's a negligent undertaking. So I guess if you're
gonna say you're gonna take care of this, this this
thirty four year old adult, you got to do a
better job or the ex wife is gonna sue you. Now,
I think any judge can see this coming a mile away.
She's trying to get back at her ex husband and
(37:44):
blame him for the problems that they're both having with
a kid. And it's a tragedy. The kid's obviously, I mean,
he's thirty four, but you know he needs medication, he
does need some kind of supervision. But you're gonna use
the courts, you know. And when you say, well, I
don't think Nick is doing He shouldn't be drinking with him,
and he shouldn't be buying him condos and stuff. He's
enabling him too much. So I'm going to use the
(38:06):
court system and try to punish him for that. I
don't feel right about that. What do you guys think?
Speaker 2 (38:12):
Yeah, that's not okay, it's not gonna happen.
Speaker 1 (38:15):
Yeah, yeah, well it did happen. Now. The only good
news nobody cares because I had to deep to find
this in a People magazine, And let's wrap it up.
Then nobody cares. Nobody cares. Hi, guys, I will now
(38:39):
leave both of you with just the taste of the
greatest song ever written, and we'll see you next week.
Joe Scalante live from Hollywood. If by Hollywood you mean
Burbank across the street from a Wiener snitchel that sells beer.
And I'm here with engineer Sam and producer Nicky and hours. Hello,
two hours at the business end of show business every
Sunday from five to seven on k E I B.
(00:31):
That's eleven fifty on your AM dial in Los Angeles.
And we have breaking news, guys, breaking news just happened
this morning.
Speaker 2 (00:39):
Uh breaking news sounder for this one?
Speaker 1 (00:41):
Uh?
Speaker 3 (00:42):
You got one?
Speaker 2 (00:44):
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (00:47):
Some break beat.
Speaker 1 (00:48):
Yeah, I'll take it, okay. Uh. Now, the people that
controlled James Bond on Forever, Barbara Broccoli and Michael G. Wilson,
have decided they're giving up control of the franchise Forever
(01:11):
to Amazon. Now Amazon is a you know, it's a
tech company. Now a sudden, it controls James Bond. H
I don't know if this is you know, means anything
to you guys, but James Bond is a big deal
to me in the movies. And these guys controlled Ian
Fleming's you know, franchise character for for ages and then
(01:36):
they were always fighting with with MGM about casting. You know,
just they're really in the mix. These are real producers,
and then they MGM was sold to Amazon. Then they
got fighting with Amazon, and now they've just given up,
like no one even knew this was coming. Does it
scare you? Does it do you care?
Speaker 3 (01:59):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (01:59):
Nikki, James Bond is a secret agent spy.
Speaker 4 (02:03):
Oh no, okay, all right, all right, No, I do know, Jimsond.
Speaker 3 (02:09):
That is that is pretty crazy.
Speaker 4 (02:11):
And I don't think I like where this is going
in terms of Amazon being the monopoly of you know,
historical IP holders and just being now also it's on
production platform that freaks me out. I mean, they have
made The Boys, which is pretty good, but I don't
(02:31):
love that even you know, these legacy titles are going
to be owned by Amazon or at least controlled by them.
Speaker 1 (02:39):
That's the big fear that that technic companies are taking
over Hollywood, and Hollywood is just becoming a tiny arm
of the tech industry. But you know, if you if
you run out of money because you're not making stuff
people like and pay for, and you don't have movie
theaters people want to go to, then this is what happens,
(03:02):
I guess.
Speaker 4 (03:03):
And another thing too is that I mean, Amazon does
still sell DVDs of certain movies and things like that.
But if the streaming service owns the films and they
could just restrict it to streaming and no longer even
sell hard copies or CDs.
Speaker 3 (03:21):
Yeah, and this is my my nightmare.
Speaker 4 (03:23):
Future where you know, physical media is completely eradicated because.
Speaker 3 (03:29):
One streaming service owns your access to all media, that
would really suck. I'm a big DVD fan.
Speaker 4 (03:36):
My roommates and I have a DVD collection. We watch
them on the player. You know, it's less to know
that you own the copy.
Speaker 1 (03:44):
Well, that's that's pretty antiquated of you in this as
a young Hollywood person that you're still hanging on to
this heart, these hard copies.
Speaker 3 (03:58):
It's like, we're this is as hipster as it gets.
Speaker 1 (04:00):
Okay, I guess, I guess is this like a collecting
vinyl in the music business.
Speaker 3 (04:06):
Yeah, I think it is.
Speaker 5 (04:07):
Well, there's something to it though, because you'll see it
more with video games that a lot of companies the
licenses and the licenses that they have for a lot
of the games, like the soundtracks and things like that expire.
So if it's on streaming, you may purchase it. You
may think you have the rights to it, but you're
not buying the actual product. You're buying the basically the
(04:29):
right to rent it from the company you're buying. You're
renting out the license to watch it. But if they
want to pull it, and it doesn't matter if you
paid for it or not, they could pull it and
it's gone. So it's one thing. Having the physical digital
physical media actually gives you more of a sense of
ownership because if licenses expire, it doesn't mean that the
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media itself vanishes.
Speaker 1 (04:54):
Well, as a sixty two year old, I don't have
time to worry about any of this. I just you know,
I don't have time. I'm gonna watch the movie if
I have it. And if if someone from Amazon said,
oh I'm taking it, revoking the license, then I'm gonna
watch something else. So anyways, it's big news. And I
(05:18):
one of the problems with this with the franchises, they
don't know who to put on as as James Bond
after Daniel Craig. People are agreeing that Daniel Craig has
kind of aged out as James Bond, and they don't
know who to put and I think some people are
worried they're gonna put that the woman, the Black woman
(05:42):
from from Wicked, that she would be the next James Bond.
And although she's a very talented actress and a great singer,
is she really the person that's going to carry on
with her Majesty's Secret service as Agent W seven. That's
when you guys say, wow, that's very interesting.
Speaker 3 (06:03):
Joe, that is fascinating. Joe, thank you for posing the
philosophical question.
Speaker 1 (06:08):
I made it up because no one ever proposed that
she's going to do it. But I think she's putting
Jesus in some production too, So that's why, you know,
that's why I think it really Yeah, yeah, I.
Speaker 2 (06:20):
Think it was Christ Superstar or something like that.
Speaker 3 (06:22):
Yeah. Oh oh okay, Jesus very superstar, got it? Yeah,
you know that sounds kind of interesting.
Speaker 1 (06:29):
Oh well, well you can good luck with that now.
I mean, it's it's just designed to make people like
me like to to push my buttons. You know, why
can't Why can't I play Jesus?
Speaker 3 (06:45):
I can't?
Speaker 1 (06:47):
Okay, go ahead, So uh, anyway, I feel sorry for
whoever invests in that production. Let's go to the box office.
Number one of the box office. Can you guys guess
what it was? No, you're right. Captain America. Captain America.
Number one.
Speaker 3 (07:06):
Wait, Captain America. There's a Captain America that's out.
Speaker 2 (07:09):
You didn't hear about this?
Speaker 1 (07:10):
No starring the lady. It stars the lady from Wicked
as the new Captain America.
Speaker 3 (07:18):
Okay, you're pulling my leg here?
Speaker 1 (07:20):
What's her name? I got It's like.
Speaker 3 (07:24):
Cynthia Rago, right, isn't that it? I believe that's it?
Speaker 4 (07:28):
But wait, okay, okay, so yeah, I thought I didn't
know that came out.
Speaker 1 (07:32):
That's okay, So she plays Captain America and everybody okay,
but it's number one at the box office. I almost
went to see it, but instead I saw the number
three movie, which we'll get to. Number two is The Monkey.
Number three is Paddington in Peru. Number four, number four
is dog Man, Number five is Nija two and number
(07:56):
six Hard Eyes, number seven Mufasa the Lion King. Number eight,
Unbreakable Boy, When We Got a Tie for Love, Hurts
one of one of Them Days, and Becoming led Zeppelin.
Have you guys seen any of these movies? No, the
(08:17):
Nikki's seen any of these movies, not a single one
in the top ten. Haven't seen anyone. Okay, Now, Captain
America doing still a big dip, but still doing well,
doing really well overseas except for China, which we will
get to. Paddington Bear. I went to see that on
(08:38):
Friday night because that's, you know, as exciting as my
life gets right now. And I just thought, since all
the cartoons that I saw this year were better than
most of the movies, maybe Paddington Bear in Peru is good.
Like sometimes you like like when someone said, like the
Batman movie, the Lego movies, someone said, like, like, you know,
(08:59):
I am not and I go see that and then
someone tells you how great it is, and then you
go and you see how great. You go, Wow. I
can't believe I dismissed this as a kid's movie. I
almost missed it, and I went to see it, and
boy was I glad. What a work of genius, you
know like that. Yeah, okay, that's not Paddington Improved.
Speaker 5 (09:16):
That's funny, because Paddington too was one. It was an
exceptional film. But okay, I heard that. I'm a little
saddened that Paddington in Peru didn't live up to the
expert So.
Speaker 1 (09:28):
I'll tell you it's it's a big sensation. It's made
you know, a lot of money, help me twenty five million.
But it's just one of those things that would have
been better if it was like a one hour special
that was on CBS on like you know, Friday Night
or something like that, you know, because they had a
kram it through a lot of movie trope, plot point
(09:52):
things that have to happen to make a movie interesting,
and and it just didn't really it just it didn't
really pull it off. But the Paddington Bear character is
so cool, and so it's such a defined character with
a great personality. It's worth seeing, if you you know,
if you go to the theater and you've seen everything else,
(10:14):
it's it's you're better off seeing this than going miniature golfing.
But no way, yeah you are. That's what I'm gonna say.
And it and then Olivia Coleman is in it and
she's great, and Paddington Bears Grandma's at a convent. I'm going, well,
I was a Catholic. I'm really glad that these uh,
these British heretics decided that the Catholic church was a
(10:39):
it was a worthwhile, you know, place to put in
there in their British movie and have this Paddington's Grandma's
being taken care of by these nuns in Peru and
the convent. But of course I don't want to you
know what. I'm not going to do any spoiler alerts,
but you all right, you know where I'm going. But
(11:00):
Olvia Coleman great in it, her and Packington barrow Worths team.
But it's not a miracle no more. My wife liked it,
so you know that made me happy. Mm hmm uh.
Do you are you saying we need to take a
break or or can I keep going with my We
got to go, all right, go to We'll go to
break and I'll tell you the other movies I've seen
(11:21):
in this list. Joe Sclante Live from Hollywood, Joe Ascolante
Live from Hollywood. By Hollywood, you mean bird Bank. I'm
here with engineer Sam, producer Nikki, and we're going over
the box office for the week. I did see, uh
(11:42):
the number five movie nie Jah two, the biggest box
office release in a single market in the history of movies.
Did you know?
Speaker 3 (11:52):
That?
Speaker 2 (11:53):
Really?
Speaker 3 (11:53):
Really to.
Speaker 1 (11:58):
No other can anyone else? So that's why it's not
doing that well in the United States. It's the first
word is n E me and the second one is
z h A and and it's a sequel, so it's
number two.
Speaker 3 (12:17):
This looks really cool.
Speaker 1 (12:19):
Oh yeah, it's what the heck? Yeah, tell me about it. So,
Nijah two, let me just go over with you. What's
going on? Oh wait, let me check step my alarm
clock here reset. I just want to make sure I
know my clock a little better than I have in
the past for the so America doesn't suffer more than
(12:42):
they have to listening to this show. Now, okay, son
Jah two, you're gonna be very excited by this. It's
become a massive hit, breaking box office records and actually
fueling a new surge of national pride in China, not
(13:04):
in this country, in China. But the success is also
sparked a controversy because the fans are fiercely defending the
film against any criticism at all. You cannot criticize this
film in Japan or you are unpatriotic or being accused
of being a paid hater. And it's like a nationalistic
fervor is even extended to some Chinese movie govers, moviegoers
(13:27):
vowing that Captain America brave New World must die in China.
So not only it's not good enough for NI to win,
Captain America must die. Wow.
Speaker 3 (13:39):
Wow, the word captain is really doing some heavy lifting
and not starting a global conflict in that fun sence.
Speaker 1 (13:45):
Huh, I don't I guess, I mean, I go the
only Captain America must die.
Speaker 3 (13:53):
Oh, make sure we have Captain in there.
Speaker 1 (13:56):
Yeah, Captain America must die. Okay, yeah, a year above
my head? Okay.
Speaker 6 (14:01):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (14:02):
Cynthia Evertt what's her name?
Speaker 3 (14:05):
Arivoe?
Speaker 1 (14:06):
Cynthia Riville, the star of Captain America, was quite popular
in the movie Wicked, but Chinese fans have said she
must die as Captain America in Brave New World. So
the now I saw the movie, Okay, it's got this.
(14:28):
He's a little boy and he's battling demons with magical powers,
but he's also a demon, and it's a story that
borrows from Chinese mythology. So there. But in the two
hours and some odd minutes, it's not a short cartoon
for kids. But all the kids in the theater that
(14:48):
I went to one percent of Amasian, though there was
not that many of them, so it's not it's not
really catching on here but a number five in the
box office. There's so much being thrown at you in
this movie. Too much. Actually. It's like someone was in
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the Chinese you know, Forbidden City or whatever where they
have their meetings with the Communist party to decide whether
this film is good or not or if it needs
any censorship, and someone probably said, hey, you know what,
there's a little too much here. You might want to
cut it down. You know, there's a long and I
think there's a lot of stuff you don't need. And
then someone said pointed at that guy and said, you
(15:31):
are not a patriot. What would you like to cut
out of this movie? And then that guy didn't want
to say anything because you didn't want to be accused
of not being a patriot. So they left too much
stuff in the movie. And you're just sitting there just
going what are you talking about? You're trying to read
the subtitles and you're looking up and who's saying this?
And then you look at the subtitles again and you
look at me, what is going on here? And it's crazy.
(15:53):
Having said that, Wow, the animation is far superior to
our The animation at our tiny little peanut brains in
America that can come up with and the music in
the sound, like I would give it the Oscar for
best sound right now if I was in charge of that,
which I should be. But uh so, I would go
(16:17):
see it, but be awake and just like be able
don't fall asleep because you know you might. It's really long,
and I think you have to see it twice. I
want to see it again because the story is so
it's not that complicated with their throwing too many things
at you, like every single thing about Chinese mythology has
to be thrown in one movie like they were afraid
they weren't going to get a chance to make another one.
(16:38):
So that's my only critician criticism of the movie. I
hope I don't be them criticized as a not a
Chinese patriot, because well, I've never been to China. I
don't know it goes on over there. But I sure
like the Kung fu movies and I like the what
I like. I like the Hu Nan Beef So True,
(17:04):
Showed You So True? Show You is Korean?
Speaker 3 (17:08):
Yes, so yeah, Sod's Korean for sure.
Speaker 1 (17:11):
I wasn't gonna tell a joke that I told a
bartender when he made me a drink with a Chinese
vodka in it. But I'm not going to be cause
I think it would it would. I don't want to
be known for telling jokes like this.
Speaker 4 (17:25):
I think there was a time on here where someone
else brought up the phrase rum Springer and I thought
it was a cocktail.
Speaker 1 (17:32):
Yeah, it sounds good to me.
Speaker 3 (17:34):
I mean, it sounds amazing. It would definitely make me
not want to go back. You know. I think it
has a great pitch, has a great name.
Speaker 1 (17:41):
It has a great title. Do you know what's in
a I don't know if you're oh, if you're familiar
with what is in a tree for it?
Speaker 3 (17:48):
What's in a tree for it?
Speaker 1 (17:50):
Playboy books and cigars?
Speaker 3 (17:54):
Nice? Sorry, it's part of the dum Springer catalog of
cocktails for sure.
Speaker 1 (18:01):
Okay. I think I think I have enough time right
now too to go over my So you guys haven't
seen Geno, so go see it or Nija Ni. I'm
saying it's worth it, way worth it, your kids all, Sam,
and but see it twice. Okay. So we we did
(18:22):
my top ten, all of our top tens last week
and then but this this week. Some people can listen
to the last week's show if they want that, or
look at my Facebook page Joe's Goal and take life
from Hollywood on Facebook. I'm now I'm gonna take my
top ten movies. No that, I'm gonna take the Oscar nominees,
(18:43):
and then I'm gonna say which ones are the best,
going down to the worst, and then we're gonna talk
to Nikki about what she saw.
Speaker 5 (18:50):
Oh yeah, we got about a minute and a half here,
so let's not go too deep into this one.
Speaker 1 (18:55):
Okay, I'll just start with number ten. Yeah, no, I won't.
I'm going to start with number one. No, let's just
take a break and then we'll come back. Do you
know how to do that?
Speaker 2 (19:10):
Yeah, let's do that.
Speaker 5 (19:10):
No, I've already started the music. We are ready to
go to break anytime you like, sir.
Speaker 1 (19:14):
Hey, what was that monkey movie you were talking about
last week? Yeah, Monkey Man, the Monkey. The Monkey is
number two. But it's not the Monkey Man. No, it's
not a better Man, which has right? Okay, I just
want to get that straight, all right. Joe Scalante Live
from Hollywood. Back after this Joe Ascalante Live from Hollywood,
(19:41):
by Hollywood. Do you mean there bank there's two hours
of the business end of show business. We do this
every Sunday at five pm right here on k e
IB eleven fifty on your AM dial. Today's the Sagawards, guys,
do you know that? Yeah, I don't know that SAG
Awards today. I I actually got a invite to go
(20:02):
to the SAG Awards viewing party. Ah ah, offsite. But
you know what, am I my acting I'm a member
of that guild, but kind of only so because I
like the credit union and I like to get the screeners.
And then every once in a while someone will hire
me to do something, or the vandals. They'll hire the vandals,
(20:23):
and then I use the screen Actress Guild as my
union and instead of the musicians Union, which is a
bad taste in my mouth. No, let me go over
the Best Picture nominees in order of which of ones
I think are the best and should win. I'm gonna
(20:43):
start with number one and we're gonna build it down
to the worst. Number one is Nickel Boys. Nickel Boys.
No one's seen it because it hasn't even been in
theaters yet, maybe in some you know, hipster La theater,
but it's playing an Amazon. You can buy it on
(21:04):
Amazon and YouTube and stuff like that for twenty dollars,
and it is worth it. It is a story of
two boys in a reform school that needs a reform school.
This reform school is so bad it should go to
reform school in This is nineteen sixties Florida, and it's
told from the perspective of these guys who are just
kind of memori they're memory they're remembering little bits of
(21:26):
it here and there in their life, and so it's
avant garde filmmaking. But the story keeps going and it
is in many ways a little bit of masterpiece. So
I think it should win. Number two is kind of
my favorite of this list. That's my second favorite. That's
why it's number two. Did you know that? Number two Nora,
(21:48):
the story about the Russian sex book A. Number three
The Brutalist, the story of a heroin addicted drug addict
from Hungary starring Adrian Brody. Number four I'm Still Here.
It's a Brazilian movie about, you know, right wing dictatorships
(22:08):
in the seventies in South America and how they disappeared.
They're political opponents. Number five Dune Part two. Number sitting next.
These are the Maade my order of the best of
the worst. Number six a complete unknown. I think it's
(22:29):
worse than Done Too, but still better than Number six seven,
The Substance. I know that's gonna upset you, NICKI ouh.
Speaker 3 (22:38):
You know, I understand that you couldn't handle it, and
I think that's okay.
Speaker 1 (22:42):
I thought The Substance was great up until the last
thirty minutes when it became directed by Nicky Strubinsky. Number
eight Conclave nothing but Heresies. And number nine Wicked. And
you know, Wicked is pretty goodn't movie if you'd like
(23:03):
movies that are kind of lame. I mean, it's a
great movie, Wicked. Who am I kidding? It's a great movie.
People love it, but I just didn't. I'd like to
see other ones better. Number ten, Amelia Petz. That's the
worst movie nominated this year, maybe the worst movie ever nominated.
Speaker 3 (23:20):
I think it might be the worst movie ever made.
Speaker 1 (23:22):
Maybe the worst movie ever made. Nikki, you saw it,
give us your.
Speaker 4 (23:24):
Report, okay, Actually I can read you my letterbox.
Speaker 1 (23:29):
Okay? Great?
Speaker 4 (23:29):
Yes, Because I you know, I don't typically leave a
review for films unless I have a really witty thing
to say or particularly strong opinion.
Speaker 3 (23:39):
But here here we go. Okay, okay, my letterbox is
Cherry fun Betty. You can follow me, I will follow
you back. Here is my review for Emilia Perez. Wow,
this was the most dog water movie I've seen in
my entire life. I wish there was a redeeming quality
literally at all, added zero to my life. I think
(24:00):
the director was, and I won't be explicit here was
good friends with I'll say that the cinematographer.
Speaker 4 (24:10):
By the way, you should watch the making of video
that follows the movie on Netflix.
Speaker 3 (24:14):
It will maybe explain why they let this happen. By
the way, the editor should consider another career path. And
I truly say this with love good luck. Also, I
suspect this film was produced as a propaganda slash fuel
for the argument that AI can in fact create better
art than humans, which really scares me because I think
Deep Dream Emulator or Gan Breeder or mid Journey or
(24:37):
any AI would have produced a more OSCAR nominee worthy
film than the humans behind this mess. Wow. I made
my friends and boyfriend sit through it because you can't
fully hate until you've seen the whole thing.
Speaker 4 (24:53):
That's just how I feel, and I feel really bad.
That I did that because we gained.
Speaker 3 (24:59):
Nothing and and I stole time from their lives.
Speaker 1 (25:02):
Now you're the only You're only the second person I've
met that has seen it all the way through. The
other one was my sister who loved it.
Speaker 3 (25:11):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (25:11):
Why, oh my gosh. I don't know. She's just she's unusual.
I don't want to say. I mean, she listens to
the show, by the way, So let me just say
what I told her. Everybody's entitled to love any movie
they want. Sure, Okay, Now, maybe she's smarter than us
because she found something to grasp onto in this film
(25:31):
and to love I could not. Her time was not
wasted yours was and mine was. So who's smarter us
or Marianne Escalantato? You want to hear my letterbox review?
Speaker 3 (25:44):
Love to hear it?
Speaker 1 (25:45):
First of all, how many stars did you give it?
Speaker 3 (25:47):
Actually? Zero? Oh?
Speaker 1 (25:48):
Wow, I didn't know you could do that.
Speaker 3 (25:50):
I give it away.
Speaker 1 (25:51):
Yeah, okay, Mine says, dear diary, because it's a diary.
I don't just hate this because everyone else does. I
because it's bad and a waste of time.
Speaker 2 (26:03):
That was it.
Speaker 3 (26:05):
That was really respectful of you.
Speaker 1 (26:09):
So and I got six likes on my review of it,
which is probably more than any other review, more likes
I got than any other review. Now, Sam, are you
gonna go see Amelia Pettis.
Speaker 2 (26:23):
I after hearing all of these reviews.
Speaker 1 (26:26):
No, no, okay, Well it's on Netflix. You just turn
it on, start watching for a while, and start laughing.
It might be a drinking game movie or something like that.
Speaker 3 (26:33):
Oh yeah, so that is my plan. I am gonna
watch it again with my friends as a drinking game.
Speaker 1 (26:39):
Yeah. I mean it's cool. Like I told you, guys,
cop Rock it cop Rock.
Speaker 3 (26:43):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (26:44):
Cop Rock was so much better.
Speaker 2 (26:45):
Cop Rock is a legendary thing.
Speaker 5 (26:48):
Like you got to dig into YouTube to find those
old episodes.
Speaker 2 (26:51):
I think it only lasted four episodes.
Speaker 1 (26:53):
It was so good and we had parties. We had
parties for the when they would air, you know, like
Tuesday night at a pm. We're having a coppy party
at the Moon init Zappa's house. That is where we
used to have Okay, uh, let me give you a
little preview of the Sagawards in the last minute of
the segment here that we're in Sagawards tonight. The key
(27:14):
predictions are Wicked is going to win Best Motion Picture, cast.
These are just predictions from variety. In other people, male
actor in the leading role, Timothy shadow May is a
complete unknown, so I means he's going to beat Adrian Brodie.
So this is what tonight to look for. The Legends
versus the newcomers. Demi Moore is the outstanding actress in
(27:38):
the substance. She will win, but she will she will
be beating who who's she gonna beat. She's gonna beat
the newcomer Cynthia Rivo in Captain America. And then uh,
(27:59):
pam Anderson in the Last Showgirl. Did you see that?
Speaker 3 (28:03):
I didn't, but I wanted to.
Speaker 1 (28:04):
It's pretty good, pretty good movie, a really good role
for I'd like to see Pamela Anderson win this. But
the interesting thing is Carla Sophia Gascone, the Amelia Petez woman,
has been canceled. Prior to the Oscar she has been canceled.
Speaker 4 (28:20):
Well, she had a lot of on Twitter sharing did
you know the sam no no, I did not hear this.
Speaker 1 (28:27):
She went on that people dug up her old tweets
and said, oh, you can't have these opinions. You might
not have these opinions. So they scrubbed her from all
like the publicity in the movies. She's not allowed to
go to any of the press stuff instantly the and
she's the beloved transgender actress who was born as a
male and is now a female and is now nominated
(28:49):
for an Oscar and a SAG Awards, but she's not.
She's now persona on grata. So male actor in a
supporting role, Kieran Colcin awesome. I'd love to see him
win that. This is for the Saga worts. Tonight favorites
female actor Zoey Saldonia and Emilia Patz because everyone's afraid
to give it to Gascon. So the two hatest people,
(29:14):
the two most hated people in Los Angeles right now
are now are Carlos Sophia Gascon and George Gascone.
Speaker 3 (29:23):
Let's take it the break. Mm hmm.
Speaker 1 (29:26):
We will now take a break. Joe'scante Life from Hollywood.
Speaker 6 (29:40):
Yeah, Joe asks, he's my loyal You don't want money,
That's it all.
Speaker 3 (30:00):
M.
Speaker 1 (30:06):
Joe's go one live from Hollywood by Holly when you
meet Burdbike. All right. Amelia Petez canceled from Tonight's SAG
Awards and from the Oscars and everything. She's the star
of the worst movie you ever made, the Amelia Petez.
He's the she's the title role, she's transgender, and she
(30:27):
was a hero of Hollywood. And then they started digging
into her tweets. So her tweets are stuff like, you
know about Muslims, like what's what's what's wrong with these Muslims?
Oh they get there act together. WHOA, I didn't even
know that stuff like yeah, yeah, it's I mean, that's
not one of the tweets. That was one I read
from Sam's Twitter, because yeah, wait, what one of hers is.
(30:53):
Islam is marvelous without any machismo. Women are respected, and
then they are so respected they are left with a
little squared hole on their faces for their eyes to
be visible and their mouths but only if she behaves,
although they dressed this way for their own enjoyment. Then
it says how deeply disgusting of humanity. So these are
really like harsh and then one of them was In
(31:17):
twenty twenty one, more and more the oscars are looking
like a ceremony for independent and protest films. I didn't
know if I was watching an Afro Korean festival, a
Black Lives Matter demonstration or the eight M I don't
know what that is, Gascam wrote, and then she writes
apart from that, an ugly, ugly gella. Okay, when she
wrote that, she probably didn't think then three years she'd
(31:38):
be nominated for an Oscar.
Speaker 3 (31:40):
I mean, they're kind of that one was a little funny.
Speaker 1 (31:44):
Well, all of them are like stuff that your grandpa's
gonna say or something, but you're not supposed to say it,
and they certainly don't want her to say it.
Speaker 3 (31:54):
I feel like had it been a different film than
Amelia Perez, that stuff probably wouldn't have been the craziest
thing and actors ever done, you know, Like that's not
it's like not in great taste, but it's pretty funny.
Speaker 4 (32:07):
It's not like it's still humorous. She's telling a joke.
But with the only reason that Emelia Perez can do
well is if it's a social.
Speaker 3 (32:16):
Justice yes move.
Speaker 4 (32:19):
Yeah, so those tweets are really in conflict with the
target audience.
Speaker 1 (32:22):
Yes, yeah, it's amazing how this happened. So here's one
from twenty twenty during the pandemic. Here's Gasco. The Chinese vaccine,
apart from the mandatory chip, comes with comes with two
spring rolls, a cat that moves its hand, two plastic flowers,
a pop up lantern, three telephone lines, and one euro
(32:45):
for your first controlled purchase.
Speaker 3 (32:48):
Oh my god.
Speaker 1 (32:50):
Yeah, here's another one. You're not gonna hear these on
any other show. Here's another one. So many scientists in
the world making bombs, so many dollars, constructing objects for space,
so many miniciinal factories, and there's no one who can
get in line with this Chinese s h I t
In the end, it was a tremendous show for a
(33:12):
new variant of the flu avion or coronavirus.
Speaker 4 (33:19):
All right, I mean, I gotta say the wording is
very artistic, and.
Speaker 1 (33:27):
It's my translations from Spanish too, so you gotta be careful.
Speaker 3 (33:30):
Oh wow, I'm okay.
Speaker 4 (33:31):
Well, and now I think there's a lot of creative
there's a lot of creative work at play.
Speaker 3 (33:35):
I think it.
Speaker 4 (33:35):
Actually this is making me think that there's something deeper
in her mind in her acting there.
Speaker 1 (33:43):
Yeah, exactly, she's an interesting person.
Speaker 4 (33:45):
This is very I mean, I'm I didn't I definitely
did not meet myself to laugh at any of these
because it's not appropriate.
Speaker 3 (33:54):
But there's an artistic there's some artistic merit to this
poet pros that is happening here.
Speaker 1 (34:02):
Yeah, someone's trying to be provocative on Twitter. So you know,
to me, it's maybe it's a little too soon, it's
too recent. I don't know that for the Academy, And
I mean, no one's taking her off the ballot. They're
just like it's the it's Netflix that is taking her
off the promotional stuff.
Speaker 4 (34:22):
And that's what happens when you know there's a monopoly
on streaming.
Speaker 1 (34:26):
Oh, very very very good point. Another other stuff on
tonight's Well, I'm gonna skip the screen actors anyway. Wait
screen actors will you'll you'll find out all the things tomorrow.
Maybe you don't care, maybe you do care. But I
got some other stuff. I'll bet you guys don't even
know about this. A Nicolas Cage's ex wife is suing
(34:55):
their son Weston Copola ca Why and Nicholas Cage. Oh,
let me tell you. Their son is names Copola Cage,
Nicholas Coppola Cage.
Speaker 4 (35:09):
Well, I know he's a Coppola, but they named their
son this is last name Cage two.
Speaker 1 (35:14):
Well, my brother's middle name is Riley O'Reilly and O'reiley
is my mom's maiden name, so you know it's that's
creative as well. Okay, all right. Now, Nicholas Cage is
facing a lawsuit from his ex partner, Christina Fulton, after
their son, Weston Cage Coppola, allegedly assaulted her. Fulton claims,
this is the woman claims that Nick Cage enabled their
(35:35):
son's behavior. So this is a lawsuit. I'm suing you
because you enabled our son's behavior by ignoring his mental
health issues and bailing him out of his jail all
the time. She alleges that Cage also provided him with
a condo near his own, enabling and continued to drink
with him despite his known substance abuse. Maybe that's love.
(35:56):
The lawsuit details a physical altercation that happened last April,
where Weston allegedly attacked his mother in the condo building,
causing severe injuries, including a concussion and eye damage. Fulton,
the mother, argues that Nicholas Cage failed to intervene or
provide necessary psychiatric helpful Weston despite his history of violent behavior. Now,
(36:20):
Nicholas Cage's attorney, what, of course, he calls this absurd
and frivolous stating that Nicholas Cage is not responsible for
his thirty four year old son's actions. Weston's attorney blames
Fulton for the incident. That's two attorneys, one for Weston,
one for Nicholas Cage. Weston's attorney says she changed his
(36:41):
medication which led to his breakdown. Fulton issuing both Cage
and Weston for damages, claiming the assault derailed her career
and business ventures. Like she's a model and she can't
model anymore. He's got an account of the eye. So
this lawsuit, now that we're I'm the legal zone of
(37:02):
the show, I can tell you this is the name
is going anywhere you can't sue someone for. These are
the the causes of action. Negligent supervision of a thirty
four year old and negligent undertaking undertaking. Now I thought
negligent undertaking had to do with grave robbing, but this
(37:23):
is it's an actual cause of action. This lawyer is
saying it's a negligent undertaking. So I guess if you're
gonna say you're gonna take care of this, this this
thirty four year old adult, you got to do a
better job or the ex wife is gonna sue you. Now,
I think any judge can see this coming a mile away.
She's trying to get back at her ex husband and
(37:44):
blame him for the problems that they're both having with
a kid. And it's a tragedy. The kid's obviously, I mean,
he's thirty four, but you know he needs medication, he
does need some kind of supervision. But you're gonna use
the courts, you know. And when you say, well, I
don't think Nick is doing He shouldn't be drinking with him,
and he shouldn't be buying him condos and stuff. He's
enabling him too much. So I'm going to use the
(38:06):
court system and try to punish him for that. I
don't feel right about that. What do you guys think?
Speaker 2 (38:12):
Yeah, that's not okay, it's not gonna happen.
Speaker 1 (38:15):
Yeah, yeah, well it did happen. Now. The only good
news nobody cares because I had to deep to find
this in a People magazine, And let's wrap it up.
Then nobody cares. Nobody cares. Hi, guys, I will now
(38:39):
leave both of you with just the taste of the
greatest song ever written, and we'll see you next week.
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