December 2, 2025 • 40 mins
Joe Escalante's weekly poke into the business end of showbiz... This week: Zootopia 2 knocks Wicked for Life out of the driver's seat, taking #1 at the Box Office this weekend. Joe saw Wicked for Life, and thoroughly enjoyed it, especially because there were fewer ugly people in it. Joe also enjoyed Hamnet, about the son of Shakespeare... Melania Trump has a new movie coming out in about a month. Amazon paid $40 million for it, and we're certain it was all spent on the products of her immense talent. Also, in Celebs Behaving Badly, a Backstreet Boy really doesn't want anyone walking on "his beach." And the Notorious BIG's son is getting linked to the Diddy scandal...
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Speaker 1 (00:03):
And now it's time for Joe Escalante Live from Hollywood.
If by Hollywood you mean Burbank across the Street promo
means it's a little that serves beer.
Speaker 2 (00:26):
Okay, A lot going on in Hollywood this week. Got
new sequels, some prestige dramas, a few headlining grabbing what
do you call them? Headline grabbing, a few headline grabbing
surprises off the screen like we always have, and some AI.
(00:46):
Every week there's going to be AI. Just tragedies going
on in this business. And some copyright battles are heating up.
Got celebrity legal troubles, of course, and even Disneyland made
news with a mysteriou ring in the sky. I don't
know if any of you saw that. Movies, music, the
(01:07):
town is busy, so let's continue. I want to start
with the box office. This week, a Zutopia Wow, ninety
six million dollar debut. You and Wicked for Good keeps
Uh it's spell on the box office? Am I right? Sam?
Speaker 3 (01:27):
Hey O, yep, yep, yeah, no staring. Everybody's still going
back to catch it again. But I didn't think Zootopia
Too was gonna be what it.
Speaker 2 (01:36):
Was number one. Uh my, my, my evidently straight nephews
has seen Wicked three times since it's opened.
Speaker 3 (01:48):
To hook up with somebody. Is he trying to hook
up with somebody?
Speaker 2 (01:54):
Oh? No, wow, he just he's he's engaged and oh
that's he likes it too. I guess he's a newfound
Glory fan. I don't know if that tells you anything.
Speaker 3 (02:04):
Yeah, I get it, Okay, all right, well yeah, no, Hey,
for him, I'm sure he's feeling it.
Speaker 2 (02:11):
Yeah, I guess so. I mean he's like, you know
who he is, you know him, I do. Mister Broadway pants,
mister Broadway pants, that's right, yeahs pants. Yeah, mister Broadway pants.
Seeing Wicked for Good two times. We'll let you know
how many times I've seen it in just a moment.
So we get about. Yeah, there's some the Awards movies
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are coming out now, so you've got a lot of
movies that nobody's going to see. So if you want
to see movies and nobody's going to see, they're out,
let's start with Wicked for Good. Well, I'm gonna wait.
Let me let me do my top ten first. This
is the top ten moneymakers, not my top ten. Zootopia two.
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As you as we mentioned number one Wicked for good,
number two two, but that was a big surprise for
Wicked for I don't know, maybe I guess people predict
these things, but wow, Zutopia too just kicked its ass.
And if you go to the movies now, there's not
a lot in the theaters because Zuotopia two and Wicked
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who just pushed every movie out of the normal theaters.
And so it's hard to see these prestige oscar contenders
now because there's just not enough screens for them in
the next couple of weeks. And then after that, no
one will care. Now you see me? Now you don't
still Number three that's the Magician Caper that I could
just can't bring myself to see. Then we got Predator,
(03:37):
bad Lands running Man, who I didn't really like. Eternity
is another prestige drama from eight twenty four Rental Family.
I should have seen that week. That movie this week
I made a mistake. Number eight is Hamnet. That was
the mistake I made. Number nine see Zoo. Probably should
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have seen that. Number ten Nurnberg. Okay, do you know
what a Nurnberg Wiener is? Sam?
Speaker 3 (04:07):
Is it a kind of dog? No, it's a is
it a kind of broughtwurst? Yes, awesome.
Speaker 2 (04:15):
And you know that you have a Nurnberg when they're
really they're really thin, like they're little, they're thin and
little wieners and very narrow circumference on these wieners. And
but they're really good, really tasty. Oh trying one. The
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best place to get one is in Nurnberg itself. If
you're traveling to Nurnberg. You can also like see the
big stadium where that one guy was his name Adolf Hitler. Yeah,
he had his army. And when you see Triumph of
the Will, that's Lenny Reevenstall movie where they're doing the
big stadium Nazi rally, that's shot in the Nurnberg state
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and you can go there and you can just climb
all over it. You can go up into the podium
where that one guy whats his name, oh yeah, Adolf Hitler,
where he was, you know, doing his thing. It's pretty sobering.
Speaker 3 (05:17):
Actually, you know, I really like the fact that we
are on AM radio and not doing this on like
streaming and stuff like that or on the internet, only
because we wouldn't be able to even mention his name
without being like somehow like the the algorithm had taking
it out against us somehow, so people online refer to
(05:37):
him as the mustache man.
Speaker 2 (05:40):
Yeah, I've heard it. I've heard people do that. That's
why they do that, because they they they don't want Yeah,
because then the algorithm thinks that you're planning a neo
Nazi revolt or something, and then they got to censor it.
Speaker 3 (05:55):
Yeah. Well there's a lot. It's it's strange how all
of us are. You know, the people who are in
engaging in social media on that level have to change
language in order to remain relevant on the algorithm.
Speaker 2 (06:08):
Nazi rally.
Speaker 3 (06:09):
Yeah, well no, there's so many words that you cannot
say that they found replacements for that is we don't
that we don't have to. We have the pleasure of
not having to worry about It's really nice.
Speaker 2 (06:22):
Okay, So back to the box office Wicked for Good. Yeah,
two hundred and seventy million so far. Yeah, and the
repeat business on that thing is huge, that people noman
if you really are into it, you can't just see
it once. I did see it once, Sam, you did,
(06:42):
I did? I did? I did that?
Speaker 3 (06:44):
What I do about it?
Speaker 2 (06:47):
Wicked for Good is much more enjoyable for me than
Wicked number one. Wicked number one, just like i'd seen
the play because my neighbor was in the play, and
I've seen it and you know, it's pretty good. Then
I saw the movie and I just couldn't get over
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the ugly people in the chorus. I was why, why
did he have to be ugly?
Speaker 1 (07:14):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (07:14):
I get it. They're telling me, how dare you expect
beautiful people only to be in the chorus singing and dancing. Yes,
I do expect that, because when you go to Hollywood,
you're expecting to see beautiful people. That's where we put
our beautiful people. We put them there and then we
watch them perform and we enjoy it. Now, when they
put unattractive people in these movies, I get it. They're
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trying to tell us, Hey, you could be a better
person if you didn't expect everyone to be beautiful, and
you could appreciate the inner beauty that may or may
not be inside these ugly chorus members. Now, when the
kids are ugly, you know you've got a problem. Now
when two twins, identical twins in a movie in the
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chorus are also ugly, there's something going wrong. So that's
a disorder. On the part of filmmakers, and I'm not
buying into it. The in wikud two for good or
this movie has a cast and the chorus is twenty
percent better looking than the hideous chorus in the first movie,
So that made it better for me, you know, twenty percent,
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I'll take it. They are intertwining the characters from the
original Wizard of Oz movie and book and that one,
and so you're like, slowly, you're saying, way, who's the
tin man, who's the scarecrow, who's the and then you're like, wait,
what happened to the scarecrow? And then you get surprised
and then oh, that's the cowardly line that was easy
(08:46):
to spot, but yeah, they call the nervous line. And
then you know they're kind of intertwining that and that's
all got to resolve itself. So it's pretty fun. I
I could recommend this movie that we could for good,
you know. And then so I guess there's some new
songs in it. There's some classic songs from the first
(09:07):
movie and Ariana Grande it needs a sandwich, but what's new,
and there's a there's a love making I could do without.
It's kind of a love scene, but they don't really
show it, but it does happen. Heesh, war one that
(09:28):
Warren the parents. How much time we got in this
segment sounds.
Speaker 3 (09:33):
Like I think we could hit a break right now.
Speaker 2 (09:36):
Yeah, I mean we hit a break, because then we're
going to come back and we're going to talk about
another film I saw this week at the box office,
which was Hamnet Hamnet.
Speaker 3 (09:47):
Not Hamlet. Hamnet.
Speaker 2 (09:49):
No, but well, i'll tell you why Hamnet and Hamlet
are the same thing when we return after traffic here
on Joe Scalante Life from Hollywood, Joe's Live from Hollywood.
We are back talking about the box office and Hamnet
is the next up film I saw this week. You
(10:11):
see any films seam.
Speaker 3 (10:14):
No, I kind of stayed home. I did watch a
couple of shows that were streaming. I think Pluribus or
something like that I saw. I think it was on Netflix.
It was an interesting show that I need to kind
of watch a few more episodes on before I'm fully sold.
Speaker 2 (10:29):
But what's the name of that exeriens? I think it's
Pluribus Pluribus. Yeah, I don't know, don't know of it,
but I'll check it out.
Speaker 3 (10:36):
Yeah, it's a pluribis actually is what?
Speaker 2 (10:39):
It's that one?
Speaker 3 (10:41):
Yeah, it's on yeah, Apple TV.
Speaker 2 (10:45):
And most most things are good on Apple TV.
Speaker 3 (10:48):
Yeah, it's an intriguing show. It has kind of a
zombiesque feel, but it's not zombies. It almost could be aliens,
but it specifies that it's not aliens. And yeah, it's
kind of got it's teeth into me, so I kind
of need to see now what's going on?
Speaker 2 (11:02):
Okay, what about Yogaba Gabba? Do your kids watch Yogaba Gabba?
Are they too old?
Speaker 3 (11:07):
Not anymore? But yeah, my kids used to know all
of those songs when we were growing up or when
they were growing up for sure.
Speaker 2 (11:13):
Yeah that's on Apple, which is kind of weird, you know,
babies have Apple. But okay, let's go back to Hamnett Hamnet.
It's a prestige release looking for Oscars, directed by Oscar
winner Chloe Jao, best known for Nomadland. Do you remember
that movie about people pooping in a bucket? Yeah, Francis McDermott.
(11:36):
So this movie is starring Jesse Buckley, who you don't
really know, and Paul Mescal from a movie called After Sun.
I've seen him in things. He's very good in this film.
It adapts this novel someone wrote about Shakespeare and his
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family and did about eight hundred and eighty thousand this weekend,
So it's in the top ten. But no one's really
going to see this, and it's probably going to be
nominated for many Oscars. It is. It kind of mixes,
you know, a real history with fake history. It's about
(12:18):
a Shakespeare in the preparation to write the play Hamlet. Okay, Now,
he did have a son named Hamnet, and evidently in
the Old English you know translation, it's not really Old English,
it's gonna but it's English, Oldish English, he did have
(12:40):
a son and his name was Hamnet. This is real life.
Shakespeare had a son. He died at age eleven. Hamnet
and Hamlet. They try to tell you at the beginning
of the movie. It's the same word. It can be
interchanged Hamlet Hamnet, same thing. A little bit weird, but
that's what they try to tell you. So this is
about Hamnet as the boy. Now it's heavily fictionalized, so
(13:07):
this is not history, including the portrayal of his wife
as a witch.
Speaker 3 (13:15):
Okay, so it dabbles in history, but it's not actually history.
Speaker 2 (13:21):
No, it is not. She's a Why does she have
to be a witch?
Speaker 3 (13:27):
Everybody's a witch? I mean, Wicked is the number one
or number two movie in the country, right.
Speaker 2 (13:31):
Got to be a witch? Got how to steal some
box office thunder turn her into a witch? Yeah, okay,
it's it's okay. You this is what like, if you
loved it, you would call it emotionally powerful, visually elegant,
and historically like accurate and authentic when you're looking at
(13:55):
the visuals. But he did not have a wife who
was a witch. His wife was named Anne Hathaway, interestingly enough,
really and yeah, yeah, and they call her Agnes in
the movie, but I don't know why, so it's not real.
But and then what it's funny because when I see
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a movie about Shakespeare, you know, preparing for something and
doing something that's not like, it's not Shakespeare played by
movie about Shakespeare. Shakespeare, according to the traditions that I
have been taught, was a Catholic and so and which
is a big deal because you know, people are this
is after the time of Henry the eighth and and
(14:37):
the Protestant Reformation, and he remains a Catholic, which is
sometimes very dangerous in England, and do I have historical
evidence of that now, which is just kind of what
certain scholars say, and certainly very there's nothing uncatholic about him.
But you can't, Okay, imagine in this you try to
(15:02):
get a movie made in Hollywood. I got this movie
about Shakespeare. You're going to mass every Sunday, and yeah,
very he's really Catholic and he has bunch of kids
because you know, he's trying to procreate for the Lord.
And then he writes some place next No one in
(15:24):
Hollywood's going to do that. Wait, you're saying he was
a Catholic. You can't meet that movie.
Speaker 3 (15:30):
You can call it Shawn Beer in bed.
Speaker 2 (15:33):
Come back in and tell me something I want to hear.
All Right, I'm back Shakespeare. His wife is a witch,
hates the church. Hey, now you've got me. Yeah, more so,
(15:53):
I'm just going to tell you we have a split
decision in the household. And my wife liked it. I
did not. To me, it was too much misery. Uh,
being a witch is a disorder because she has all
kinds of problems with their witchery and witchcraft. It's it's
like another disease movie. Like I got tricked into watching
another disease movie, like I did with that movie I
(16:17):
saw last week that was about die My Love.
Speaker 3 (16:23):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, where it.
Speaker 2 (16:25):
Was it was. I thought it was gonna be cool,
and it was just really about her mental illness and
all the manifestations of it. And it's very depressing and
very dark and very exploitive and and and made me unhappy.
So this is the same one. She's a witch and
there's so much misery going on in their life, in
her life because she's a disordered person. She's she's not well,
(16:48):
but she's very interesting. So he falls in love with her. Okay,
I get it. She's unlike anyone else in the village.
So but it's so much misery. I don't know if
you one is said through it. I didn't. I was
kind of It's one of those things where I made
If I wasn't with my wife, I might have left.
And someone did leave. I'm going to tell you someone
(17:08):
left about forty five minutes into this movie in the theater.
Some lady just said I've had enough, goodbye. So I
cannot recommend Hamnett, although my wife liked it. You might, Okay,
Disney's Zootopia. But what's going on in that movie? The
voices of Jennifer Goodwin. Maybe wasn't she in uh? Yeah,
(17:32):
she was in Big Love and Jason Bateman never heard
of him? No rested development sequel to the Zutopia one,
which I didn't see, but I might see this one.
It looks kind of interesting.
Speaker 3 (17:44):
So Topia one wasn't It wasn't bad. Actually, if you
got kids, they would definitely be into it. It had
some funny moments.
Speaker 2 (17:51):
What if you like kids.
Speaker 3 (17:53):
If you like kids, it's good. It's good.
Speaker 2 (17:58):
Okay, Gary because the new character they brought in.
Speaker 3 (18:03):
Bury the Snake, Gary the Snake, Barry the Snake. Oh,
Bury the Snake is a game I used to play.
Speaker 2 (18:09):
Yeah, I bet you did. This is voiced by k
Hui Kwan from Everything Everywhere, All at Once. Early reviews
say this movie is funny, fast, sharp, and but not
quite as magical as the original. Oh Dear. Some of
these Disney movies usually the second one is better than
(18:30):
the first one, Like Toy Story.
Speaker 3 (18:31):
I'm not sure if I didn't experience any magic in
the first one.
Speaker 2 (18:36):
So what about baring the snake? Then? How did that come?
Speaker 3 (18:39):
I didn't do that in the theater during that movie.
Too many kids.
Speaker 2 (18:42):
Okay, it's already, you know, delivering these huge numbers, so
you know. And then China it became the first Hollywood film.
They're one hundred million dollars in one day. Wow ah,
all right, Okay, what are people looking forward to? Five
nights at Freddy's. Everyone's talking about that. Avatar's coming up,
(19:03):
SpongeBob movie, and kill Bill, the whole Bloody Affair. Have
you heard of this same?
Speaker 3 (19:07):
Yeah, the all the whole kitten kaboodled. I think it's
like all four hours of the kill Bill saga.
Speaker 2 (19:15):
There is an intermission, but I don't know. I think
I might do it.
Speaker 3 (19:18):
I'm gonna do it. I think that's gonna be fun.
I like Tarantino movies, and the longer ones tend to
have a lot more more fun to it. I remember
they did The Hateful Eight and they had the intermission
intermission on that one, and I think that was a
four four hour movie as well.
Speaker 2 (19:35):
When I was a young boy, intermissions were a regular
thing in the movie theater, and they would play like
some orchestral overture. During the intermission. The curtain would close
and you'd go up and get some more updouts.
Speaker 3 (19:50):
Nice.
Speaker 2 (19:51):
That was fun. I went to a lot of big
movie palaces when I was a little kid, and a
lot of that stuff happened magical time. Now I'm stuck
at the Bella Tara Huntington Beach with the platinum movie
Club membership could be worse. All right, let's take a
break and we'll come back. I'm going to tell you
(20:13):
Milania Trump's new foray into show business right here on
Joe Scalante Live from Hollywood. Okay, Joe'scalante Live from Hollywood, Hollywood.
You mean Burbank, all right? This week in Burbank, Milania
Trump unveils a new movie coming in January and her
next business venture. Sam She's there's a movie coming out.
(20:38):
This is a documentary about her. She does have a memoir,
but she's a pretty private person. You know, you don't
see a lot of stuff about her anywhere. I mean
things get leaked out, Like one time something got leaked
that she was like making like sarcastic jokes about having
to decorate the White House, Like who gets an f
(20:59):
a about Christmas decorations? But you know you got to
do it. That was one of her things. But other
than that, you know, people hate her. Of course there's
you know, half the country hates Donald Trump, and of
course they hate her. But she's got a movie company.
(21:20):
I mean, what does she do. She does She works
a lot with foster care and stuff. She seems like
a pretty stand up vice president, Madam first lady, seems
like a pretty good first lady. But now she's preparing
for life outside of the White House. The documentary's coming
out in January, and then she has just so you know,
(21:46):
here's how much a documentary about Milania Trump is worth.
I just finished two documentaries, and you know, they're in
the festival circuit right now, and you know, looking for distributors.
Who's going to you know, will someone come forward and
take on these films and distribute them and pay whoever.
I didn't put up any money in these movies. That
(22:07):
pay the person who put up the money. Blah blah blah.
That's what you do. Amazon gave her forty million dollars
to license this film, not even to buy it. So
listens forty million dollars. So if you want your documentary
to sell, become the first Lady of the United States
of America. And so you do and become mysterious. Be mysterious,
(22:27):
hide under your hat. People want to know what you're
all about. So that's how you make a documentary sell. Okay,
So people are coming up to me all the time.
How are you going to sell these documentaries? First of all,
it's not my job. I'm the writer on one, executive
proreuser on the other one, but not an owner. But
it's just hard. You know, you have to go to
(22:49):
these festivals. Hope someone will will, a streamer will, we'll
pick it up. But the streamer's not picking up very
many documentaries at all. They're kind of just recycling Indian
content and putting.
Speaker 3 (23:04):
That Bollywood stuff is cracking right now. It's hotter than
Tika Masala.
Speaker 2 (23:12):
Hotter than Tika Masala? Is that a dish?
Speaker 3 (23:15):
Yeah? Really good. I wasn't a big band of Indian
food until I discovered Tika Masala.
Speaker 2 (23:20):
Well, I might take him on that because I hate
Indian food. And but then I went to when I
went to England with for the Sex Pistols documentary, I
had dinner after the thing with Glenn Mattlocke, who's the
star of the of the Thing, and you know, we
all went out to dinner and he said, let's go
get some Indian food. And my wife went like, oh
my god, no, And she was about to like say hey,
let's not do that, and I go, what did you
(23:41):
just pipe down? This is this is Glenn Mattlock of
the Sex Pistols. We're in England. If he says we're
going to eat Indian food, it's going to be great
because Indian food is great in London and people that
know the good places, you know, even all the better.
Speaker 3 (23:58):
Yeah, but I don't understand the best Indian food outside
of India's in England for sure.
Speaker 2 (24:03):
Well, I would say the worst Indian food is probably
inside of India, if judging by my contacts who have
gone there for vacations and how sick they have gotten,
all of them, all of them, one hundred percent. So
I'm not interested in any of it. But I do.
(24:27):
I love the Indian food that I had in England
a couple of weeks ago. Okay, that's enough of movies.
Speaker 3 (24:33):
In the box office and Indian food.
Speaker 2 (24:37):
In Indian food, this will blow your mind. The ninety
ninth annual Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade to a record setting
thirty four point three million viewers across linear and streaming platforms,
the biggest combined audience in parade history. Can you imagine that.
Speaker 3 (24:59):
That's a a lot of people watching.
Speaker 2 (25:01):
Twenty five million just watching on the NBC telecast alone.
Speaker 3 (25:05):
I didn't think TV could draw that like live TV
could draw that kind of numbers. Again, but I guess
people just you know, needed something to put on the
TV while they were eating turkey and falling asleep.
Speaker 2 (25:16):
The competition is low on that day, sure, And also
I just thought we lived in a more cynical era
where people are not watching the cheesy Thanksgiving Parade full
of you know, cheesy performances. But it is a uniquely
American event, and I think people appreciate that. But and
(25:40):
then twenty five million or thirty four point three million viewers,
if we could just get each one of those viewers
to spend one dollar in Macy's, it might not go bankrupt.
You know. This year, and there's some pretty good performances,
which most of them are not LIPSYNCD. I learned this
year after about it and studying it and looking at it.
(26:01):
Most of them are not lip synced. They're singing live
really early in the morning and it's very cold in
New York, and the country stars seem to be doing
most of the lip syncing, but everybody else is singing
most of them, like the casts of the Broadway plays
and the Debbie Gibson seems to be in it every year. Anyway,
(26:22):
I like it now at Disneyland. When I go there,
I don't sit and watch the parade. I walk by it.
I figure if I go there, like you know, ten
or twenty times a year, and I like glance at
the parade while it goes by, I'm going to see
the whole thing, kind of like reading. It's like kind
of like reading the Bible. If you go to church
every Sunday, pretty soon you have heard the whole Bible.
(26:44):
It's not you don't have to like just sit down
and crack it open and finish it in one city.
Speaker 3 (26:51):
I've noticed that walking around Disneyland is a lot easier
during the parade, And that's actually what we end up doing.
We don't like try to find a comfortable cozy spot
to get a good view of the parade and like
sit there and waste time. We wait for everybody to
go and start lining up and doing all of that
stuff to line up for the parade and we'll go
and do all of the rides that we want to
(27:12):
do because now there's nobody crowding the park.
Speaker 2 (27:14):
Right or fantastmic yah another good time. Yeah, But I
have a good tip for you now that you bring
that up. On Disney Plus right now, there's a Christmas
with the Disney Family special and it's the home movies,
the Christmas home movies of Walt Disney intertwined with some
you know Disney content for all connected to the Christmas
(27:39):
holiday season. And I recommend you watching that. Some really
cool home footage that was shot by Walt Disney himself,
which I never saw before, and he obviously had the
best cameras available, and he was interested in it and
he had access to the stuff, and the lighting inside
his house was amazing, like you usually see Christmas footage
(28:01):
from fifty years ago, and it's really dark and pretty bad.
No sky like team of gaffers in his house or something.
It looks really good, but it is honest to goodness
home movies, home movies of him ice skating in Big Bear.
Nice huh skiing in Big Bear. And they had a
(28:21):
cabin up there evidently, And I really can't recommend this enough.
Disney's Home Movies at Christmas when we come back. If
you ever wondered who owns the beach in front of
somebody's house, maybe even a private beach or a public beach,
(28:45):
or how much can you own? Well, one popular singer
from boy band Backstreet Boys, Brian Litreel, found out and
he is embroiled in a legal battle over it. It
is floor it at home. Once he thought it was
going to be his dream home has now turned into
(29:05):
a litigious nightmare. How's that? Are you ready for our
next break? Or did I just do all that too early? Okay,
well we'll take a break, come back with Backstreet Boys
and his uh, his problems. Joe's Goante life from Hollywood.
(29:32):
H m hm.
Speaker 1 (29:40):
Hm Joe, ask Cavante, here's my lawyer.
Speaker 3 (29:47):
You don't want my money?
Speaker 1 (29:49):
He do?
Speaker 2 (29:52):
Hey, Joe's Goante here right here in the flesh, coming
to you on a wonderful Sunday, Southern California. Yeah, I'm
actually in Seal beach right now. Uh, because I am
you know, three remote edge. So I'm on the beach here.
I live on the beach, but right in front of
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my house there's a boardwalk anybody can walk on and
they can roll a blade by. But it's not really
one of those kinds of boardwalks, very sleepy. Just people
walking their dog or sometimes so somewhere will push their
their their their dad up to the up to the beach,
up to the edge so they can see the water
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for his last time. I see that all the time,
Like you see a guy he's so old, he's about
to die, and then his son comes and pushes him
up to see the ocean for the last time. It's
very moving.
Speaker 3 (30:52):
Is that why it's the last time?
Speaker 2 (30:55):
It's the last time because he's like he's he's gonna
meet his his maker.
Speaker 3 (30:59):
No, it's a did the sun pushing them into the water.
Speaker 2 (31:02):
No, no, no, no, how dare you think that? Oh no,
He gets right up to the edge and kind of
jiggles him and then he puts a piece of paper
in front of them, makes him sign it, and then
they go, I don't know what that paper's about, but
who owns that beach? Well, in my beach, it's a
public beach, okay, so day anybody can come and you
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get used to it. The beach people, the beach traffic,
and the beach. Not a lot of traffic here, but
there's just you know, and it's a quiet beach, but
people get to do whatever they're gonna do out there,
and you just kind of like yesterday there was a
lady playing the violin, just it's where she had to
go to play her violin. This Brian Latrell from the
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Backstreet Boys. He bought a house on the beach and
it's in the area where he lives. And this is
local areas can do different things, Like if you go
up to Malibu Colony, that's private beach, I don't think
you can. They try to keep people from walking even
along the beach. It's the surfside colony just south of
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my house. The next beach over private colony, but not
a private beach, like you might own a little space
in front of your house, but people can walk along
the beach. And I think it's you can't own the ocean,
so nobody can stop you from, like, you know, walking
along the water anywhere. I don't. I think it'd be
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very hard maybe in foreign countries, but in this country,
very hard. But where this guy bought a house, the
law says or in his local area, he owns the
beach except for the part right on the coast, like
you know where the water is, because the water the
tides change, and you can't you can't just own more
land when the tide goes out, like how far would
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it go? So I think they got a little ahead
of themselves when people just kind of started sitting on
the beach anyway, and then it doesn't look like a
very crowded beach. Of course is it not, because it's private,
but so there's really no one there, and then someone
sits there, and then I think they got all testing.
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They started saying you can't sit here, and then people
were like, well why not, Well this is a private beach.
Oh really is it? So you own the beach? Well,
actually we do, Oh well, how nice for you to
own the beach. And then I think some people got
a little resentful and they were just not moving, and
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then he kept having it. He actually sued the local
sheriff's office because they wouldn't do anything about it because
he called these people trespassers. Hey, they're trespassing. And then
the Shriff's like, well, you know, they're just going to
sit there for a while, They're going to move on
and then they won a court battle over where the
property lines lay, and it was, you know, legit they
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owned the beach, but they don't know on the edge.
But anyways, his wife, you know, made it a public campaign,
and and then they're just fighting with the public saying this,
and people are saying, how dare you say you own
this beach? And they're saying, we owned the beach. Damn it.
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I paid what he paid three point eight billion, three
point eight million dollars for this house, three bedrooms, three baths,
and they and they sold it to him, saying, hey,
it's not a big house fifteen hundred square feet that
you own the beach. If you buy give me three
point eight million, you own the beach. You give him
three point million eight million. You don't own the beach.
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You do own the beach. But people are on the
beach and they won't leave, and they're just kind of
I don't make me leave. And then okay, you're going
to have a fight with people, and you're already like
you're the rich person in the big house on the
beach and you can't let people just sit on sit.
I'm just sitting here, got problem. I don't see you
sitting out here, you know that kind of thing. You
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don't want to get into that battle. So you got
to be careful. You buy house on the beach, even
though the loss says you own it, and you go
to court and you say that this is the property lines.
I own this beach except for up to the water.
Uh okay, that's fine. But do you want to do
you want to be that person? Yeah, you probably don't.
Speaker 1 (35:27):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (35:27):
No, I have a long standing rule of not pissing
people off who know where I live.
Speaker 2 (35:32):
That's another thing. Yeah, and then yeah, I have to
be very careful about that. Here, I'm just like, Hi, Hi,
how are you? Oh, you left all your trash here?
I just I'll just pick it up. What's this a
Coney Island whitefish you left in my curb? I'm not
touching that. If people don't know what a Coney Island
whitefish is, you might want to put that in your
AI program and then and then in advance when you
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say this for you ew okay. So that case is ongoing,
but I just think there's no way they can win,
and they just have to just you have to be
just you live by the beach and people do a
lot of weird things and a lot of obnoxious things,
and you have to fight it. You have to fight
the urge to assert your rights even though you know
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it's something you paid for, or you just want quiet
enjoyment in this area. And you got to realize people
go to the beach and they get loud, and they
leave trash, and they leave other kids shoes and clothes,
and you just got to look at the ocean and go,
oh my god, I'm so fortunate to live here, and
that should be enough for you. That's my advice to
all you Hollywood people out there that are going to
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soon own beach houses, because anyone listens to this show
is destined for success. I'm going to own a beach house.
Remember ray J from the Kardashian sex tape. Yeah, we've
been covering that story a little bit. He was just
arrested on Thanksgiving.
Speaker 3 (36:57):
I heard about this. I didn't hear why though.
Speaker 2 (37:00):
Some domestic violent stuff. Oh, it's been released on fifty
thousand dollars bail. Domestic dispute is all we know at
this time. But that guy just it's almost just like
I haven't been in the news in three days. I
got to get myself arrested. So I don't feel sorry
for him, But do I feel sorry for Notorious Big.
(37:26):
He is suing this guy, Jonathan Hey, who sued him
and said, Hey, I was molested by P Diddy and
you lured me over to the house, so I'm suing you.
And then he says, no, P Diddy.
Speaker 3 (37:46):
Oh, P Diddy, I think I said Notorious Big. C J.
Speaker 2 (37:50):
Wallace, the son of Notorious Big. Oh, so some guy
named Jonathan Hey. They were making a record and the
record didn't go good and it ended up on the shelf.
Something happened. It was just not really working. And then
he then Jonathan Hey decides, I think I'm going to
get in on this P Diddy thing. And that's you know,
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this is C. J. Wallace's side of it. And he said, yeah,
you remember that time you you invited me over to
P Diddies and he molested me. Remember, Yeah, that's what happened.
Maybe did maybe he did, and I don't know, but
he says, not only did it happen, it's defamatory for
you to file a lawsuit against me for that happening
because that's and then it gets into criminal law. Now
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you're accusing me of a crime. Now you normally you
have a right to file, you know, legal papers against people,
and it's not defamation because you have a right to
say what happened. You know, you can't be but if
but if it's you know, frivolous and it's nowhere near
the truth and you're publicizing it, you could veer into
the defamation world. And that's what he's being sued for defamation.
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So that's what's going on. It's like remnants of the
my priest would call the near occasion of sin. The
closer your top diddy, the more bad things are gonna
happen to you because their sin, you know, everywhere, and
you're a part of it. So nin or nina to
stay away from sin, is what he would say. Another
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thing I can say, we're almost out of time, but
a big case. Warner Music Group has settled with a
company called Udio. Udio is an AI music company that
can like, okay, I can sum it up this way,
Hey write me a song that sounds exactly like Turnstile,
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and then they do, and then you go, well, they
must have been using turnstyle to to to train their
AI and then that is perhaps a copyright violation. We
don't know yet, but so they were. So Warner Music
was suing this place, and then they ended up settling
and saying, I'll tell you what will license you. That
is pretty good. Program will license you all the Warner
artists and then now you can do it, but we're
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going to get money out of it. So that's the
the latest way to handle something like this if AI,
if you're being ripped off by some AI program, you
might make a deal and start making money out of it.
That's what Warner Brothers is doing right now. But this
is gonna change every week. It's always going to be different.
Other than that, there's a black circle around Disneyland that
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people are worried about up in the sky. Turns out
it's a perfect black circle. It's a remnant of pyrotechnics,
not an alien portal. You can see a picture of
that on my Facebook page. You want to go look
at it. And I now leave you with just a
tape stuff. The greatest song ever written
And now it's time for Joe Escalante Live from Hollywood.
If by Hollywood you mean Burbank across the Street promo
means it's a little that serves beer.
Speaker 2 (00:26):
Okay, A lot going on in Hollywood this week. Got
new sequels, some prestige dramas, a few headlining grabbing what
do you call them? Headline grabbing, a few headline grabbing
surprises off the screen like we always have, and some AI.
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Every week there's going to be AI. Just tragedies going
on in this business. And some copyright battles are heating up.
Got celebrity legal troubles, of course, and even Disneyland made
news with a mysteriou ring in the sky. I don't
know if any of you saw that. Movies, music, the
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town is busy, so let's continue. I want to start
with the box office. This week, a Zutopia Wow, ninety
six million dollar debut. You and Wicked for Good keeps
Uh it's spell on the box office? Am I right? Sam?
Speaker 3 (01:27):
Hey O, yep, yep, yeah, no staring. Everybody's still going
back to catch it again. But I didn't think Zootopia
Too was gonna be what it.
Speaker 2 (01:36):
Was number one. Uh my, my, my evidently straight nephews
has seen Wicked three times since it's opened.
Speaker 3 (01:48):
To hook up with somebody. Is he trying to hook
up with somebody?
Speaker 2 (01:54):
Oh? No, wow, he just he's he's engaged and oh
that's he likes it too. I guess he's a newfound
Glory fan. I don't know if that tells you anything.
Speaker 3 (02:04):
Yeah, I get it, Okay, all right, well yeah, no, Hey,
for him, I'm sure he's feeling it.
Speaker 2 (02:11):
Yeah, I guess so. I mean he's like, you know
who he is, you know him, I do. Mister Broadway pants,
mister Broadway pants, that's right, yeahs pants. Yeah, mister Broadway pants.
Seeing Wicked for Good two times. We'll let you know
how many times I've seen it in just a moment.
So we get about. Yeah, there's some the Awards movies
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are coming out now, so you've got a lot of
movies that nobody's going to see. So if you want
to see movies and nobody's going to see, they're out,
let's start with Wicked for Good. Well, I'm gonna wait.
Let me let me do my top ten first. This
is the top ten moneymakers, not my top ten. Zootopia two.
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As you as we mentioned number one Wicked for good,
number two two, but that was a big surprise for
Wicked for I don't know, maybe I guess people predict
these things, but wow, Zutopia too just kicked its ass.
And if you go to the movies now, there's not
a lot in the theaters because Zuotopia two and Wicked
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who just pushed every movie out of the normal theaters.
And so it's hard to see these prestige oscar contenders
now because there's just not enough screens for them in
the next couple of weeks. And then after that, no
one will care. Now you see me? Now you don't
still Number three that's the Magician Caper that I could
just can't bring myself to see. Then we got Predator,
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bad Lands running Man, who I didn't really like. Eternity
is another prestige drama from eight twenty four Rental Family.
I should have seen that week. That movie this week
I made a mistake. Number eight is Hamnet. That was
the mistake I made. Number nine see Zoo. Probably should
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have seen that. Number ten Nurnberg. Okay, do you know
what a Nurnberg Wiener is? Sam?
Speaker 3 (04:07):
Is it a kind of dog? No, it's a is
it a kind of broughtwurst? Yes, awesome.
Speaker 2 (04:15):
And you know that you have a Nurnberg when they're
really they're really thin, like they're little, they're thin and
little wieners and very narrow circumference on these wieners. And
but they're really good, really tasty. Oh trying one. The
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best place to get one is in Nurnberg itself. If
you're traveling to Nurnberg. You can also like see the
big stadium where that one guy was his name Adolf Hitler. Yeah,
he had his army. And when you see Triumph of
the Will, that's Lenny Reevenstall movie where they're doing the
big stadium Nazi rally, that's shot in the Nurnberg state
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and you can go there and you can just climb
all over it. You can go up into the podium
where that one guy whats his name, oh yeah, Adolf Hitler,
where he was, you know, doing his thing. It's pretty sobering.
Speaker 3 (05:17):
Actually, you know, I really like the fact that we
are on AM radio and not doing this on like
streaming and stuff like that or on the internet, only
because we wouldn't be able to even mention his name
without being like somehow like the the algorithm had taking
it out against us somehow, so people online refer to
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him as the mustache man.
Speaker 2 (05:40):
Yeah, I've heard it. I've heard people do that. That's
why they do that, because they they they don't want Yeah,
because then the algorithm thinks that you're planning a neo
Nazi revolt or something, and then they got to censor it.
Speaker 3 (05:55):
Yeah. Well there's a lot. It's it's strange how all
of us are. You know, the people who are in
engaging in social media on that level have to change
language in order to remain relevant on the algorithm.
Speaker 2 (06:08):
Nazi rally.
Speaker 3 (06:09):
Yeah, well no, there's so many words that you cannot
say that they found replacements for that is we don't
that we don't have to. We have the pleasure of
not having to worry about It's really nice.
Speaker 2 (06:22):
Okay, So back to the box office Wicked for Good. Yeah,
two hundred and seventy million so far. Yeah, and the
repeat business on that thing is huge, that people noman
if you really are into it, you can't just see
it once. I did see it once, Sam, you did,
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I did? I did? I did that?
Speaker 3 (06:44):
What I do about it?
Speaker 2 (06:47):
Wicked for Good is much more enjoyable for me than
Wicked number one. Wicked number one, just like i'd seen
the play because my neighbor was in the play, and
I've seen it and you know, it's pretty good. Then
I saw the movie and I just couldn't get over
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the ugly people in the chorus. I was why, why
did he have to be ugly?
Speaker 1 (07:14):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (07:14):
I get it. They're telling me, how dare you expect
beautiful people only to be in the chorus singing and dancing. Yes,
I do expect that, because when you go to Hollywood,
you're expecting to see beautiful people. That's where we put
our beautiful people. We put them there and then we
watch them perform and we enjoy it. Now, when they
put unattractive people in these movies, I get it. They're
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trying to tell us, Hey, you could be a better
person if you didn't expect everyone to be beautiful, and
you could appreciate the inner beauty that may or may
not be inside these ugly chorus members. Now, when the
kids are ugly, you know you've got a problem. Now
when two twins, identical twins in a movie in the
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chorus are also ugly, there's something going wrong. So that's
a disorder. On the part of filmmakers, and I'm not
buying into it. The in wikud two for good or
this movie has a cast and the chorus is twenty
percent better looking than the hideous chorus in the first movie,
So that made it better for me, you know, twenty percent,
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I'll take it. They are intertwining the characters from the
original Wizard of Oz movie and book and that one,
and so you're like, slowly, you're saying, way, who's the
tin man, who's the scarecrow, who's the and then you're like, wait,
what happened to the scarecrow? And then you get surprised
and then oh, that's the cowardly line that was easy
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to spot, but yeah, they call the nervous line. And
then you know they're kind of intertwining that and that's
all got to resolve itself. So it's pretty fun. I
I could recommend this movie that we could for good,
you know. And then so I guess there's some new
songs in it. There's some classic songs from the first
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movie and Ariana Grande it needs a sandwich, but what's new,
and there's a there's a love making I could do without.
It's kind of a love scene, but they don't really
show it, but it does happen. Heesh, war one that
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Warren the parents. How much time we got in this
segment sounds.
Speaker 3 (09:33):
Like I think we could hit a break right now.
Speaker 2 (09:36):
Yeah, I mean we hit a break, because then we're
going to come back and we're going to talk about
another film I saw this week at the box office,
which was Hamnet Hamnet.
Speaker 3 (09:47):
Not Hamlet. Hamnet.
Speaker 2 (09:49):
No, but well, i'll tell you why Hamnet and Hamlet
are the same thing when we return after traffic here
on Joe Scalante Life from Hollywood, Joe's Live from Hollywood.
We are back talking about the box office and Hamnet
is the next up film I saw this week. You
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see any films seam.
Speaker 3 (10:14):
No, I kind of stayed home. I did watch a
couple of shows that were streaming. I think Pluribus or
something like that I saw. I think it was on Netflix.
It was an interesting show that I need to kind
of watch a few more episodes on before I'm fully sold.
Speaker 2 (10:29):
But what's the name of that exeriens? I think it's
Pluribus Pluribus. Yeah, I don't know, don't know of it,
but I'll check it out.
Speaker 3 (10:36):
Yeah, it's a pluribis actually is what?
Speaker 2 (10:39):
It's that one?
Speaker 3 (10:41):
Yeah, it's on yeah, Apple TV.
Speaker 2 (10:45):
And most most things are good on Apple TV.
Speaker 3 (10:48):
Yeah, it's an intriguing show. It has kind of a
zombiesque feel, but it's not zombies. It almost could be aliens,
but it specifies that it's not aliens. And yeah, it's
kind of got it's teeth into me, so I kind
of need to see now what's going on?
Speaker 2 (11:02):
Okay, what about Yogaba Gabba? Do your kids watch Yogaba Gabba?
Are they too old?
Speaker 3 (11:07):
Not anymore? But yeah, my kids used to know all
of those songs when we were growing up or when
they were growing up for sure.
Speaker 2 (11:13):
Yeah that's on Apple, which is kind of weird, you know,
babies have Apple. But okay, let's go back to Hamnett Hamnet.
It's a prestige release looking for Oscars, directed by Oscar
winner Chloe Jao, best known for Nomadland. Do you remember
that movie about people pooping in a bucket? Yeah, Francis McDermott.
(11:36):
So this movie is starring Jesse Buckley, who you don't
really know, and Paul Mescal from a movie called After Sun.
I've seen him in things. He's very good in this film.
It adapts this novel someone wrote about Shakespeare and his
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family and did about eight hundred and eighty thousand this weekend,
So it's in the top ten. But no one's really
going to see this, and it's probably going to be
nominated for many Oscars. It is. It kind of mixes,
you know, a real history with fake history. It's about
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a Shakespeare in the preparation to write the play Hamlet. Okay, Now,
he did have a son named Hamnet, and evidently in
the Old English you know translation, it's not really Old English,
it's gonna but it's English, Oldish English, he did have
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a son and his name was Hamnet. This is real life.
Shakespeare had a son. He died at age eleven. Hamnet
and Hamlet. They try to tell you at the beginning
of the movie. It's the same word. It can be
interchanged Hamlet Hamnet, same thing. A little bit weird, but
that's what they try to tell you. So this is
about Hamnet as the boy. Now it's heavily fictionalized, so
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this is not history, including the portrayal of his wife
as a witch.
Speaker 3 (13:15):
Okay, so it dabbles in history, but it's not actually history.
Speaker 2 (13:21):
No, it is not. She's a Why does she have
to be a witch?
Speaker 3 (13:27):
Everybody's a witch? I mean, Wicked is the number one
or number two movie in the country, right.
Speaker 2 (13:31):
Got to be a witch? Got how to steal some
box office thunder turn her into a witch? Yeah, okay,
it's it's okay. You this is what like, if you
loved it, you would call it emotionally powerful, visually elegant,
and historically like accurate and authentic when you're looking at
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the visuals. But he did not have a wife who
was a witch. His wife was named Anne Hathaway, interestingly enough,
really and yeah, yeah, and they call her Agnes in
the movie, but I don't know why, so it's not real.
But and then what it's funny because when I see
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a movie about Shakespeare, you know, preparing for something and
doing something that's not like, it's not Shakespeare played by
movie about Shakespeare. Shakespeare, according to the traditions that I
have been taught, was a Catholic and so and which
is a big deal because you know, people are this
is after the time of Henry the eighth and and
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the Protestant Reformation, and he remains a Catholic, which is
sometimes very dangerous in England, and do I have historical
evidence of that now, which is just kind of what
certain scholars say, and certainly very there's nothing uncatholic about him.
But you can't, Okay, imagine in this you try to
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get a movie made in Hollywood. I got this movie
about Shakespeare. You're going to mass every Sunday, and yeah,
very he's really Catholic and he has bunch of kids
because you know, he's trying to procreate for the Lord.
And then he writes some place next No one in
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Hollywood's going to do that. Wait, you're saying he was
a Catholic. You can't meet that movie.
Speaker 3 (15:30):
You can call it Shawn Beer in bed.
Speaker 2 (15:33):
Come back in and tell me something I want to hear.
All Right, I'm back Shakespeare. His wife is a witch,
hates the church. Hey, now you've got me. Yeah, more so,
(15:53):
I'm just going to tell you we have a split
decision in the household. And my wife liked it. I
did not. To me, it was too much misery. Uh,
being a witch is a disorder because she has all
kinds of problems with their witchery and witchcraft. It's it's
like another disease movie. Like I got tricked into watching
another disease movie, like I did with that movie I
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saw last week that was about die My Love.
Speaker 3 (16:23):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, where it.
Speaker 2 (16:25):
Was it was. I thought it was gonna be cool,
and it was just really about her mental illness and
all the manifestations of it. And it's very depressing and
very dark and very exploitive and and and made me unhappy.
So this is the same one. She's a witch and
there's so much misery going on in their life, in
her life because she's a disordered person. She's she's not well,
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but she's very interesting. So he falls in love with her. Okay,
I get it. She's unlike anyone else in the village.
So but it's so much misery. I don't know if
you one is said through it. I didn't. I was
kind of It's one of those things where I made
If I wasn't with my wife, I might have left.
And someone did leave. I'm going to tell you someone
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left about forty five minutes into this movie in the theater.
Some lady just said I've had enough, goodbye. So I
cannot recommend Hamnett, although my wife liked it. You might, Okay,
Disney's Zootopia. But what's going on in that movie? The
voices of Jennifer Goodwin. Maybe wasn't she in uh? Yeah,
(17:32):
she was in Big Love and Jason Bateman never heard
of him? No rested development sequel to the Zutopia one,
which I didn't see, but I might see this one.
It looks kind of interesting.
Speaker 3 (17:44):
So Topia one wasn't It wasn't bad. Actually, if you
got kids, they would definitely be into it. It had
some funny moments.
Speaker 2 (17:51):
What if you like kids.
Speaker 3 (17:53):
If you like kids, it's good. It's good.
Speaker 2 (17:58):
Okay, Gary because the new character they brought in.
Speaker 3 (18:03):
Bury the Snake, Gary the Snake, Barry the Snake. Oh,
Bury the Snake is a game I used to play.
Speaker 2 (18:09):
Yeah, I bet you did. This is voiced by k
Hui Kwan from Everything Everywhere, All at Once. Early reviews
say this movie is funny, fast, sharp, and but not
quite as magical as the original. Oh Dear. Some of
these Disney movies usually the second one is better than
(18:30):
the first one, Like Toy Story.
Speaker 3 (18:31):
I'm not sure if I didn't experience any magic in
the first one.
Speaker 2 (18:36):
So what about baring the snake? Then? How did that come?
Speaker 3 (18:39):
I didn't do that in the theater during that movie.
Too many kids.
Speaker 2 (18:42):
Okay, it's already, you know, delivering these huge numbers, so
you know. And then China it became the first Hollywood film.
They're one hundred million dollars in one day. Wow ah,
all right, Okay, what are people looking forward to? Five
nights at Freddy's. Everyone's talking about that. Avatar's coming up,
(19:03):
SpongeBob movie, and kill Bill, the whole Bloody Affair. Have
you heard of this same?
Speaker 3 (19:07):
Yeah, the all the whole kitten kaboodled. I think it's
like all four hours of the kill Bill saga.
Speaker 2 (19:15):
There is an intermission, but I don't know. I think
I might do it.
Speaker 3 (19:18):
I'm gonna do it. I think that's gonna be fun.
I like Tarantino movies, and the longer ones tend to
have a lot more more fun to it. I remember
they did The Hateful Eight and they had the intermission
intermission on that one, and I think that was a
four four hour movie as well.
Speaker 2 (19:35):
When I was a young boy, intermissions were a regular
thing in the movie theater, and they would play like
some orchestral overture. During the intermission. The curtain would close
and you'd go up and get some more updouts.
Speaker 3 (19:50):
Nice.
Speaker 2 (19:51):
That was fun. I went to a lot of big
movie palaces when I was a little kid, and a
lot of that stuff happened magical time. Now I'm stuck
at the Bella Tara Huntington Beach with the platinum movie
Club membership could be worse. All right, let's take a
break and we'll come back. I'm going to tell you
(20:13):
Milania Trump's new foray into show business right here on
Joe Scalante Live from Hollywood. Okay, Joe'scalante Live from Hollywood, Hollywood.
You mean Burbank, all right? This week in Burbank, Milania
Trump unveils a new movie coming in January and her
next business venture. Sam She's there's a movie coming out.
(20:38):
This is a documentary about her. She does have a memoir,
but she's a pretty private person. You know, you don't
see a lot of stuff about her anywhere. I mean
things get leaked out, Like one time something got leaked
that she was like making like sarcastic jokes about having
to decorate the White House, Like who gets an f
(20:59):
a about Christmas decorations? But you know you got to
do it. That was one of her things. But other
than that, you know, people hate her. Of course there's
you know, half the country hates Donald Trump, and of
course they hate her. But she's got a movie company.
(21:20):
I mean, what does she do. She does She works
a lot with foster care and stuff. She seems like
a pretty stand up vice president, Madam first lady, seems
like a pretty good first lady. But now she's preparing
for life outside of the White House. The documentary's coming
out in January, and then she has just so you know,
(21:46):
here's how much a documentary about Milania Trump is worth.
I just finished two documentaries, and you know, they're in
the festival circuit right now, and you know, looking for distributors.
Who's going to you know, will someone come forward and
take on these films and distribute them and pay whoever.
I didn't put up any money in these movies. That
(22:07):
pay the person who put up the money. Blah blah blah.
That's what you do. Amazon gave her forty million dollars
to license this film, not even to buy it. So
listens forty million dollars. So if you want your documentary
to sell, become the first Lady of the United States
of America. And so you do and become mysterious. Be mysterious,
(22:27):
hide under your hat. People want to know what you're
all about. So that's how you make a documentary sell. Okay,
So people are coming up to me all the time.
How are you going to sell these documentaries? First of all,
it's not my job. I'm the writer on one, executive
proreuser on the other one, but not an owner. But
it's just hard. You know, you have to go to
(22:49):
these festivals. Hope someone will will, a streamer will, we'll
pick it up. But the streamer's not picking up very
many documentaries at all. They're kind of just recycling Indian
content and putting.
Speaker 3 (23:04):
That Bollywood stuff is cracking right now. It's hotter than
Tika Masala.
Speaker 2 (23:12):
Hotter than Tika Masala? Is that a dish?
Speaker 3 (23:15):
Yeah? Really good. I wasn't a big band of Indian
food until I discovered Tika Masala.
Speaker 2 (23:20):
Well, I might take him on that because I hate
Indian food. And but then I went to when I
went to England with for the Sex Pistols documentary, I
had dinner after the thing with Glenn Mattlocke, who's the
star of the of the Thing, and you know, we
all went out to dinner and he said, let's go
get some Indian food. And my wife went like, oh
my god, no, And she was about to like say hey,
let's not do that, and I go, what did you
(23:41):
just pipe down? This is this is Glenn Mattlock of
the Sex Pistols. We're in England. If he says we're
going to eat Indian food, it's going to be great
because Indian food is great in London and people that
know the good places, you know, even all the better.
Speaker 3 (23:58):
Yeah, but I don't understand the best Indian food outside
of India's in England for sure.
Speaker 2 (24:03):
Well, I would say the worst Indian food is probably
inside of India, if judging by my contacts who have
gone there for vacations and how sick they have gotten,
all of them, all of them, one hundred percent. So
I'm not interested in any of it. But I do.
(24:27):
I love the Indian food that I had in England
a couple of weeks ago. Okay, that's enough of movies.
Speaker 3 (24:33):
In the box office and Indian food.
Speaker 2 (24:37):
In Indian food, this will blow your mind. The ninety
ninth annual Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade to a record setting
thirty four point three million viewers across linear and streaming platforms,
the biggest combined audience in parade history. Can you imagine that.
Speaker 3 (24:59):
That's a a lot of people watching.
Speaker 2 (25:01):
Twenty five million just watching on the NBC telecast alone.
Speaker 3 (25:05):
I didn't think TV could draw that like live TV
could draw that kind of numbers. Again, but I guess
people just you know, needed something to put on the
TV while they were eating turkey and falling asleep.
Speaker 2 (25:16):
The competition is low on that day, sure, And also
I just thought we lived in a more cynical era
where people are not watching the cheesy Thanksgiving Parade full
of you know, cheesy performances. But it is a uniquely
American event, and I think people appreciate that. But and
(25:40):
then twenty five million or thirty four point three million viewers,
if we could just get each one of those viewers
to spend one dollar in Macy's, it might not go bankrupt.
You know. This year, and there's some pretty good performances,
which most of them are not LIPSYNCD. I learned this
year after about it and studying it and looking at it.
(26:01):
Most of them are not lip synced. They're singing live
really early in the morning and it's very cold in
New York, and the country stars seem to be doing
most of the lip syncing, but everybody else is singing
most of them, like the casts of the Broadway plays
and the Debbie Gibson seems to be in it every year. Anyway,
(26:22):
I like it now at Disneyland. When I go there,
I don't sit and watch the parade. I walk by it.
I figure if I go there, like you know, ten
or twenty times a year, and I like glance at
the parade while it goes by, I'm going to see
the whole thing, kind of like reading. It's like kind
of like reading the Bible. If you go to church
every Sunday, pretty soon you have heard the whole Bible.
(26:44):
It's not you don't have to like just sit down
and crack it open and finish it in one city.
Speaker 3 (26:51):
I've noticed that walking around Disneyland is a lot easier
during the parade, And that's actually what we end up doing.
We don't like try to find a comfortable cozy spot
to get a good view of the parade and like
sit there and waste time. We wait for everybody to
go and start lining up and doing all of that
stuff to line up for the parade and we'll go
and do all of the rides that we want to
(27:12):
do because now there's nobody crowding the park.
Speaker 2 (27:14):
Right or fantastmic yah another good time. Yeah, But I
have a good tip for you now that you bring
that up. On Disney Plus right now, there's a Christmas
with the Disney Family special and it's the home movies,
the Christmas home movies of Walt Disney intertwined with some
you know Disney content for all connected to the Christmas
(27:39):
holiday season. And I recommend you watching that. Some really
cool home footage that was shot by Walt Disney himself,
which I never saw before, and he obviously had the
best cameras available, and he was interested in it and
he had access to the stuff, and the lighting inside
his house was amazing, like you usually see Christmas footage
(28:01):
from fifty years ago, and it's really dark and pretty bad.
No sky like team of gaffers in his house or something.
It looks really good, but it is honest to goodness
home movies, home movies of him ice skating in Big Bear.
Nice huh skiing in Big Bear. And they had a
(28:21):
cabin up there evidently, And I really can't recommend this enough.
Disney's Home Movies at Christmas when we come back. If
you ever wondered who owns the beach in front of
somebody's house, maybe even a private beach or a public beach,
(28:45):
or how much can you own? Well, one popular singer
from boy band Backstreet Boys, Brian Litreel, found out and
he is embroiled in a legal battle over it. It
is floor it at home. Once he thought it was
going to be his dream home has now turned into
(29:05):
a litigious nightmare. How's that? Are you ready for our
next break? Or did I just do all that too early? Okay,
well we'll take a break, come back with Backstreet Boys
and his uh, his problems. Joe's Goante life from Hollywood.
(29:32):
H m hm.
Speaker 1 (29:40):
Hm Joe, ask Cavante, here's my lawyer.
Speaker 3 (29:47):
You don't want my money?
Speaker 1 (29:49):
He do?
Speaker 2 (29:52):
Hey, Joe's Goante here right here in the flesh, coming
to you on a wonderful Sunday, Southern California. Yeah, I'm
actually in Seal beach right now. Uh, because I am
you know, three remote edge. So I'm on the beach here.
I live on the beach, but right in front of
(30:14):
my house there's a boardwalk anybody can walk on and
they can roll a blade by. But it's not really
one of those kinds of boardwalks, very sleepy. Just people
walking their dog or sometimes so somewhere will push their
their their their dad up to the up to the beach,
up to the edge so they can see the water
(30:36):
for his last time. I see that all the time,
Like you see a guy he's so old, he's about
to die, and then his son comes and pushes him
up to see the ocean for the last time. It's
very moving.
Speaker 3 (30:52):
Is that why it's the last time?
Speaker 2 (30:55):
It's the last time because he's like he's he's gonna
meet his his maker.
Speaker 3 (30:59):
No, it's a did the sun pushing them into the water.
Speaker 2 (31:02):
No, no, no, no, how dare you think that? Oh no,
He gets right up to the edge and kind of
jiggles him and then he puts a piece of paper
in front of them, makes him sign it, and then
they go, I don't know what that paper's about, but
who owns that beach? Well, in my beach, it's a
public beach, okay, so day anybody can come and you
(31:23):
get used to it. The beach people, the beach traffic,
and the beach. Not a lot of traffic here, but
there's just you know, and it's a quiet beach, but
people get to do whatever they're gonna do out there,
and you just kind of like yesterday there was a
lady playing the violin, just it's where she had to
go to play her violin. This Brian Latrell from the
(31:48):
Backstreet Boys. He bought a house on the beach and
it's in the area where he lives. And this is
local areas can do different things, Like if you go
up to Malibu Colony, that's private beach, I don't think
you can. They try to keep people from walking even
along the beach. It's the surfside colony just south of
(32:10):
my house. The next beach over private colony, but not
a private beach, like you might own a little space
in front of your house, but people can walk along
the beach. And I think it's you can't own the ocean,
so nobody can stop you from, like, you know, walking
along the water anywhere. I don't. I think it'd be
(32:32):
very hard maybe in foreign countries, but in this country,
very hard. But where this guy bought a house, the
law says or in his local area, he owns the
beach except for the part right on the coast, like
you know where the water is, because the water the
tides change, and you can't you can't just own more
land when the tide goes out, like how far would
(32:53):
it go? So I think they got a little ahead
of themselves when people just kind of started sitting on
the beach anyway, and then it doesn't look like a
very crowded beach. Of course is it not, because it's private,
but so there's really no one there, and then someone
sits there, and then I think they got all testing.
(33:15):
They started saying you can't sit here, and then people
were like, well why not, Well this is a private beach.
Oh really is it? So you own the beach? Well,
actually we do, Oh well, how nice for you to
own the beach. And then I think some people got
a little resentful and they were just not moving, and
(33:38):
then he kept having it. He actually sued the local
sheriff's office because they wouldn't do anything about it because
he called these people trespassers. Hey, they're trespassing. And then
the Shriff's like, well, you know, they're just going to
sit there for a while, They're going to move on
and then they won a court battle over where the
property lines lay, and it was, you know, legit they
(34:04):
owned the beach, but they don't know on the edge.
But anyways, his wife, you know, made it a public campaign,
and and then they're just fighting with the public saying this,
and people are saying, how dare you say you own
this beach? And they're saying, we owned the beach. Damn it.
(34:25):
I paid what he paid three point eight billion, three
point eight million dollars for this house, three bedrooms, three baths,
and they and they sold it to him, saying, hey,
it's not a big house fifteen hundred square feet that
you own the beach. If you buy give me three
point eight million, you own the beach. You give him
three point million eight million. You don't own the beach.
(34:47):
You do own the beach. But people are on the
beach and they won't leave, and they're just kind of
I don't make me leave. And then okay, you're going
to have a fight with people, and you're already like
you're the rich person in the big house on the
beach and you can't let people just sit on sit.
I'm just sitting here, got problem. I don't see you
sitting out here, you know that kind of thing. You
(35:08):
don't want to get into that battle. So you got
to be careful. You buy house on the beach, even
though the loss says you own it, and you go
to court and you say that this is the property lines.
I own this beach except for up to the water.
Uh okay, that's fine. But do you want to do
you want to be that person? Yeah, you probably don't.
Speaker 1 (35:27):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (35:27):
No, I have a long standing rule of not pissing
people off who know where I live.
Speaker 2 (35:32):
That's another thing. Yeah, and then yeah, I have to
be very careful about that. Here, I'm just like, Hi, Hi,
how are you? Oh, you left all your trash here?
I just I'll just pick it up. What's this a
Coney Island whitefish you left in my curb? I'm not
touching that. If people don't know what a Coney Island
whitefish is, you might want to put that in your
AI program and then and then in advance when you
(35:57):
say this for you ew okay. So that case is ongoing,
but I just think there's no way they can win,
and they just have to just you have to be
just you live by the beach and people do a
lot of weird things and a lot of obnoxious things,
and you have to fight it. You have to fight
the urge to assert your rights even though you know
(36:22):
it's something you paid for, or you just want quiet
enjoyment in this area. And you got to realize people
go to the beach and they get loud, and they
leave trash, and they leave other kids shoes and clothes,
and you just got to look at the ocean and go,
oh my god, I'm so fortunate to live here, and
that should be enough for you. That's my advice to
all you Hollywood people out there that are going to
(36:44):
soon own beach houses, because anyone listens to this show
is destined for success. I'm going to own a beach house.
Remember ray J from the Kardashian sex tape. Yeah, we've
been covering that story a little bit. He was just
arrested on Thanksgiving.
Speaker 3 (36:57):
I heard about this. I didn't hear why though.
Speaker 2 (37:00):
Some domestic violent stuff. Oh, it's been released on fifty
thousand dollars bail. Domestic dispute is all we know at
this time. But that guy just it's almost just like
I haven't been in the news in three days. I
got to get myself arrested. So I don't feel sorry
for him, But do I feel sorry for Notorious Big.
(37:26):
He is suing this guy, Jonathan Hey, who sued him
and said, Hey, I was molested by P Diddy and
you lured me over to the house, so I'm suing you.
And then he says, no, P Diddy.
Speaker 3 (37:46):
Oh, P Diddy, I think I said Notorious Big. C J.
Speaker 2 (37:50):
Wallace, the son of Notorious Big. Oh, so some guy
named Jonathan Hey. They were making a record and the
record didn't go good and it ended up on the shelf.
Something happened. It was just not really working. And then
he then Jonathan Hey decides, I think I'm going to
get in on this P Diddy thing. And that's you know,
(38:10):
this is C. J. Wallace's side of it. And he said, yeah,
you remember that time you you invited me over to
P Diddies and he molested me. Remember, Yeah, that's what happened.
Maybe did maybe he did, and I don't know, but
he says, not only did it happen, it's defamatory for
you to file a lawsuit against me for that happening
because that's and then it gets into criminal law. Now
(38:30):
you're accusing me of a crime. Now you normally you
have a right to file, you know, legal papers against people,
and it's not defamation because you have a right to
say what happened. You know, you can't be but if
but if it's you know, frivolous and it's nowhere near
the truth and you're publicizing it, you could veer into
the defamation world. And that's what he's being sued for defamation.
(38:51):
So that's what's going on. It's like remnants of the
my priest would call the near occasion of sin. The
closer your top diddy, the more bad things are gonna
happen to you because their sin, you know, everywhere, and
you're a part of it. So nin or nina to
stay away from sin, is what he would say. Another
(39:13):
thing I can say, we're almost out of time, but
a big case. Warner Music Group has settled with a
company called Udio. Udio is an AI music company that
can like, okay, I can sum it up this way,
Hey write me a song that sounds exactly like Turnstile,
(39:36):
and then they do, and then you go, well, they
must have been using turnstyle to to to train their
AI and then that is perhaps a copyright violation. We
don't know yet, but so they were. So Warner Music
was suing this place, and then they ended up settling
and saying, I'll tell you what will license you. That
is pretty good. Program will license you all the Warner
artists and then now you can do it, but we're
(39:58):
going to get money out of it. So that's the
the latest way to handle something like this if AI,
if you're being ripped off by some AI program, you
might make a deal and start making money out of it.
That's what Warner Brothers is doing right now. But this
is gonna change every week. It's always going to be different.
Other than that, there's a black circle around Disneyland that
(40:18):
people are worried about up in the sky. Turns out
it's a perfect black circle. It's a remnant of pyrotechnics,
not an alien portal. You can see a picture of
that on my Facebook page. You want to go look
at it. And I now leave you with just a
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