WEBVTT 1 00:00:07.679 --> 00:00:11.960 Joe Ascalante live from Hollywood. If by Hollywood you mean Burbank across the street 2 00:00:12.000 --> 00:00:15.839 from a Wiener Schnitzel that serves beer. This is two hours of the business 3 00:00:15.960 --> 00:00:22.320 end of show business on this non NFL Sunday, in between the Championship game 4 00:00:22.879 --> 00:00:30.359 and the Super Bowl next week. You might hear the same thing because it's 5 00:00:30.359 --> 00:00:33.640 a super Bowl day. What am I gonna do? Anyway, You're gonna 6 00:00:33.679 --> 00:00:37.960 love it. This is two hours of the business end of show business. 7 00:00:38.000 --> 00:00:43.719 We do this every Sunday on that five pm, eleven to fifty on your 8 00:00:43.799 --> 00:00:48.759 AM dial for two hours. Today there's a lot of Oscar stuff going on. 9 00:00:48.799 --> 00:00:52.280 There's a lot of celebrities behaving badly. Let's start with Alec Baldwin. 10 00:00:53.600 --> 00:00:57.560 Alec Baldwin. Let's well, first of all, let's start with me saying 11 00:00:57.799 --> 00:01:00.679 last week that this was in Texas when it's a New Mexico. So I 12 00:01:00.719 --> 00:01:04.920 apologize for being a coastal elite and thinking that Texas and New Mexico is the 13 00:01:06.000 --> 00:01:10.680 same place. But it isn't. But what we were talking about last week 14 00:01:10.840 --> 00:01:14.599 was that, you know, maybe Texas was going to haha. We have 15 00:01:14.680 --> 00:01:19.079 Alec Baldwin. You don't like his politics, so we're gonna we're gonna indict 16 00:01:19.159 --> 00:01:23.400 him on a manslaughter and when these charges were dropped before and they revived it 17 00:01:25.319 --> 00:01:27.519 for it, But it's not Texas, it's New Mexico. So New Mexico's 18 00:01:27.560 --> 00:01:30.840 got a lot of lefties that love Alec Baldwin. So I don't know, 19 00:01:32.319 --> 00:01:38.480 maybe there's something to this. He's pleaded not guilty this week, and it 20 00:01:38.480 --> 00:01:42.439 seems like he didn't have to go in and he just was able to do 21 00:01:42.480 --> 00:01:49.760 it by some you know, entering papers in the court that say I'm not 22 00:01:49.799 --> 00:01:56.120 guilty, he says. If you'll remember in this twenty twenty one interview he 23 00:01:56.120 --> 00:01:59.480 did where he just said, hey, look there's not supposed to be live 24 00:01:59.519 --> 00:02:06.280 ammunition on the set. Someone brought live and munition onto the set and that 25 00:02:06.319 --> 00:02:13.000 person is responsible, not me. The armorer. What's her name, Hannah, 26 00:02:13.439 --> 00:02:17.280 Hannah Gutierres, she's the person in charge of the guns on the set. 27 00:02:17.759 --> 00:02:23.199 She has pleaded not guilty also, and she, I would say, 28 00:02:23.240 --> 00:02:29.199 faces real jail time when Alec Baldwin, even if he's found guilty. I 29 00:02:29.199 --> 00:02:32.039 think it's just like maybe eighteen months, but they'll never put him in jail. 30 00:02:32.599 --> 00:02:38.680 I think They just want to punish him for his hubris in general. 31 00:02:39.520 --> 00:02:45.280 Now, is that justice? Probably not. But Hanna Gutierres, what's her 32 00:02:45.400 --> 00:02:54.800 name, she's she's Her excuse is I was pleading for more firearms training, 33 00:02:54.960 --> 00:03:00.199 and that goes back to the producers, which is Alec Baldwin. I'm not 34 00:03:00.360 --> 00:03:04.719 responsible for this because I wanted more gun training, and with more gun training, 35 00:03:04.800 --> 00:03:10.039 live ammunition might not have ended up on the set, so it could 36 00:03:10.039 --> 00:03:15.520 be mistakenly put into a gun that was given to Alec Baldwin that he aimed 37 00:03:15.680 --> 00:03:24.039 and fired, killing the cinematographer. So that trial is going to be it's 38 00:03:24.080 --> 00:03:32.000 Alec Baldwin's fault. Alec Baldwin's trial is it's Hana Gutierras's fault. So I 39 00:03:32.039 --> 00:03:35.120 don't know, you know, you kind of want them both to go to 40 00:03:35.199 --> 00:03:38.280 trial so we can get to the bottom of this. Otherwise, if they 41 00:03:38.319 --> 00:03:42.039 all plead, then we never really know. Meanwhile, the movies I think 42 00:03:42.159 --> 00:03:49.240 finished because it got put back into production and then the executive producer of the 43 00:03:49.280 --> 00:03:54.759 deceased cinematographer was made an executive producer or the yeah, he was made They 44 00:03:54.840 --> 00:03:59.879 just said, well, how about you be executive producer and don't sue us. 45 00:04:00.000 --> 00:04:05.680 I think that's what's going on there and the movie normally this is a 46 00:04:05.680 --> 00:04:09.400 movie. No it would just come and go and no one would would see 47 00:04:09.400 --> 00:04:12.560 what it is, and Alec Baldwin to just take the money and pay his 48 00:04:12.680 --> 00:04:18.680 taxes or whatever he goes. And I hope no one ever saw it be 49 00:04:18.759 --> 00:04:25.240 on video and demand, And now I still don't think it'll be in theaters, 50 00:04:25.279 --> 00:04:29.560 but it will be. It will get some kind of more serious distribution 51 00:04:29.720 --> 00:04:31.319 and more eyeballs on it. I would imagine, I want to see it, 52 00:04:33.879 --> 00:04:39.839 so we'll let you know when that happens. Of course, they if 53 00:04:39.879 --> 00:04:43.839 either of these go to trial. Baldwin won't go to trial, but I 54 00:04:43.839 --> 00:04:46.759 don't think. Oh maybe, I don't know. But the armorer she goes 55 00:04:46.800 --> 00:04:49.000 to trial. That's going to be interesting because then we're going to find out 56 00:04:49.000 --> 00:04:53.839 why was there live ammunition on the set? Was she part of those people? 57 00:04:53.839 --> 00:04:57.480 People were doing target practice on that set? Some of the reports say 58 00:04:57.720 --> 00:04:59.639 so they were, you know, have them find hey, do you want 59 00:04:59.639 --> 00:05:01.600 to put bullets and these guns and go do target practice over there? And 60 00:05:01.680 --> 00:05:03.879 the in the hills, you know, they're all in the desert and some 61 00:05:04.240 --> 00:05:13.560 making some Western and things. People get bored and they start goofing around and 62 00:05:13.800 --> 00:05:16.519 did that happen? Stupid? But I don't know what that has to do 63 00:05:16.560 --> 00:05:19.480 with gun training. If you're the armorer, don't allow live ammunition on the 64 00:05:19.560 --> 00:05:24.399 set. But we'll see. And as I've said, I've been the armorer 65 00:05:24.480 --> 00:05:30.639 on a show and it's it's uh, it's really serious and and and you 66 00:05:30.720 --> 00:05:39.920 don't goof around you just but some people goof around. I guess now in 67 00:05:40.000 --> 00:05:46.560 the Gutierra's trial, there is actually some interesting stuff floating around. Uh. 68 00:05:46.959 --> 00:05:51.639 The she was offered a plea deal, according to the prosecutor. Prosecutor's name 69 00:05:51.680 --> 00:05:58.800 is Carrie Morrissey, by the way, So Morrissey offered Gutierras what she called 70 00:05:58.839 --> 00:06:02.439 a favorable plea last September if she would accept responsibility for bringing in the live 71 00:06:02.519 --> 00:06:11.759 rounds. I guess she doesn't want to do that because that's you know, 72 00:06:11.879 --> 00:06:17.319 doesn't want to implicate herself that much, and she doesn't have to. But 73 00:06:17.800 --> 00:06:25.040 that's a big sticking point. And then she she's supposed to testify against Alec 74 00:06:25.120 --> 00:06:33.519 Baldwin and say that she brought the live rounds in, and she says that 75 00:06:33.600 --> 00:06:39.959 she didn't and the prosecutor says there was training and they blew off the training. 76 00:06:41.279 --> 00:06:49.079 And then there's some text messages floating around between A. Gutierras Reid is 77 00:06:49.079 --> 00:06:54.879 her full name, and others that make apparent reference to the use of marijuana 78 00:06:55.040 --> 00:06:58.639 and cocaine on the set. Not good. One of them said, do 79 00:06:58.680 --> 00:07:01.079 you want me to get any of Do you want me to get us any 80 00:07:01.120 --> 00:07:09.759 coke? One person asked Gutierras Read in September twenty twenty one, and Gutierras 81 00:07:09.800 --> 00:07:19.839 Reid replies, already got some. She should have said diet coke. Another 82 00:07:19.920 --> 00:07:27.600 exchange indicated Gutiras Read smoked marijuana the night before the shooting headed down to get 83 00:07:27.720 --> 00:07:33.279 high out back. She wrote, So you don't want to an armorer that 84 00:07:33.360 --> 00:07:45.319 smokes pot and does cocaine. And the propmaster has stated that I think she 85 00:07:45.439 --> 00:07:49.279 was so drunk that she didn't know she brought live ammal onto the truck when 86 00:07:49.360 --> 00:07:57.319 she went to get a gun from the safe. This is the prop master 87 00:07:57.480 --> 00:08:07.319 who was given a mune unity for his testimony. So yeah, she's going 88 00:08:07.360 --> 00:08:11.199 down. I mean she's she's taking if she's if she's handling guns and taking 89 00:08:11.240 --> 00:08:16.879 drugs on a movie set. That's how you go to jail. So I 90 00:08:16.879 --> 00:08:24.279 don't feel that bad for her, But Alec Baldwin I do feel bad for 91 00:08:24.639 --> 00:08:28.360 because you know, he's just maybe there's some cutting corners here and he should 92 00:08:28.360 --> 00:08:33.679 have been. If you want to be a producer, be a producer and 93 00:08:33.720 --> 00:08:39.200 get into the weeds and see if these are who they're hiring, and what's 94 00:08:39.240 --> 00:08:43.519 the experience, what's the resume of this armor. Let's let's not cut corners 95 00:08:43.559 --> 00:08:46.519 on the armor. And I'll bet no one ever does in Hollywood after this. 96 00:08:48.440 --> 00:08:54.759 So I just say he's been through enough. And I'm not really a 97 00:08:54.759 --> 00:08:56.480 fan of the guy, but I just think he's been through enough, because 98 00:08:56.480 --> 00:09:00.679 you don't want this to happen to you if you work in Hollywood. You 99 00:09:00.720 --> 00:09:03.240 know, you don't want to be accused of this. You don't want to 100 00:09:03.279 --> 00:09:07.879 be You don't want to have to have someone say, hey, why don't 101 00:09:07.879 --> 00:09:11.639 you testify against Alec Baldwin in exchange for not going to jail? And then 102 00:09:11.679 --> 00:09:15.679 you never work in Hollywood again anyway, because you're the person that did that. 103 00:09:15.720 --> 00:09:18.759 You just have to choose another career. But a lot of people in 104 00:09:18.799 --> 00:09:22.320 Hollywood have to choose another career all the time because it's a you know, 105 00:09:22.399 --> 00:09:26.559 it's a weird up and down business. I'm going to take a break right 106 00:09:26.600 --> 00:09:28.639 now and check the traffic. When we come back, we're going to talk 107 00:09:28.679 --> 00:09:33.799 about the films, the Academy Award nominees, Poor Things, and Zone of 108 00:09:33.840 --> 00:09:41.399 Interest Joe Sclante Live from Hollywood. If by Hollywood you mean Burbank, and 109 00:09:43.480 --> 00:09:50.159 we're talking about Academy Award movies this segment, let's start with Let's see any 110 00:09:50.480 --> 00:09:56.480 meany miny mo. Let's start with Zone of Interest. Zone of Interest is 111 00:09:56.519 --> 00:10:03.639 a British film, actually with German language in English subtitles or whatever subtitles you 112 00:10:03.679 --> 00:10:18.159 want to get. And it's directed by a guy named Jonathan Glazer, loosely 113 00:10:18.200 --> 00:10:24.399 based on a twenty fourteen novel by someone named Martin Amis, and it qualifies 114 00:10:24.440 --> 00:10:28.639 as a foreign production. It's kind of a co production between the US, 115 00:10:30.200 --> 00:10:37.000 the United Kingdom and Poland. And it stars a guy named Christian Fredell as 116 00:10:37.039 --> 00:10:39.279 a I'll just describe it to you this way how I describe it to most 117 00:10:39.320 --> 00:10:46.120 people. It's about this family. This family lives in a really nice house. 118 00:10:48.240 --> 00:10:56.759 They love the house. It's like nineteen forty two Ish and they've been 119 00:10:56.759 --> 00:11:01.360 living in the house for a few years. It's basically it's in Auschwitz, 120 00:11:03.519 --> 00:11:05.919 so it's butted up against the concentration camp. They share a wall with the 121 00:11:07.200 --> 00:11:18.559 concentration camp, and concentration camp is in full swing. The guy that Christian 122 00:11:18.559 --> 00:11:24.000 Friedell plays is the commandant Rudolph Haas, and he's striving to build this dream 123 00:11:24.039 --> 00:11:33.600 life with his wife Hedwig in this home. But it's in Auschwitz. So 124 00:11:33.759 --> 00:11:39.799 it's about just you know, how the people. I mean, you don't 125 00:11:39.840 --> 00:11:41.600 have to blame it on the Germans really, but it could be anywhere where 126 00:11:41.879 --> 00:11:50.080 there's something going on and the government has created this, you know, just 127 00:11:50.320 --> 00:11:56.080 horror and it needs people to carry out the horror. So how does it 128 00:11:56.120 --> 00:12:01.840 get those people? Well, I think it's one of the way it gets 129 00:12:01.919 --> 00:12:07.679 them is by promising them things. And of course in a war like in 130 00:12:07.799 --> 00:12:09.960 Nazi Germany, they're like, okay, you, I promise not to put 131 00:12:09.960 --> 00:12:13.440 you in jail if you go fight this war as a soldier. But then 132 00:12:13.759 --> 00:12:20.240 more higher elevated people in the social strata they're like, I will give you, 133 00:12:20.759 --> 00:12:26.159 I'll make your dreams come true that weren't going to come true if you 134 00:12:26.240 --> 00:12:30.399 carry out this horror at the concentration camp, or turn a blind eye while 135 00:12:30.399 --> 00:12:35.399 other people do. And so these people turned a blind eye to what was 136 00:12:35.440 --> 00:12:43.039 going on, and it was very dark, but you can imagine that it 137 00:12:43.080 --> 00:12:46.200 had to happen because someone had to run these concentration camps and where do they 138 00:12:46.240 --> 00:12:56.759 live, and if they're efficient and qualified and desirable, you got to pay 139 00:12:56.799 --> 00:13:00.120 them a lot, and you got to give them a good house. You 140 00:13:00.200 --> 00:13:01.679 got to take care of their family. So that's what they did for this 141 00:13:01.720 --> 00:13:05.279 guy. And then the wife is just trying to build a home with her 142 00:13:05.360 --> 00:13:09.320 kids in a good yard, in her greenhouse and her bees and her pool 143 00:13:09.440 --> 00:13:13.919 with a slide, and it's just so wonderful until you hear the screams outside 144 00:13:13.960 --> 00:13:22.200 the wall. But they don't they don't listen. So the whole time you're 145 00:13:22.200 --> 00:13:26.879 watching this movie, you're thinking, did that just happen? Then someone else 146 00:13:26.879 --> 00:13:31.960 happens something else, did that just happen? You know? I'm watching it 147 00:13:31.960 --> 00:13:35.720 with my wife. I saw it at the Bella Terra Theater in Huntington Beach, 148 00:13:35.799 --> 00:13:43.519 and I'm just like what you're watching? Every scene You're like, Okay, 149 00:13:43.639 --> 00:13:46.559 this looks like idyllic children, you know, playing, for example, 150 00:13:46.600 --> 00:13:50.159 in the yard or in the pool. But what else is going on? 151 00:13:50.240 --> 00:13:52.200 So you got to look at every inch of the screen and go, oh, 152 00:13:52.200 --> 00:13:56.320 look at that over there. Oh, let's be on the wall. 153 00:13:56.919 --> 00:14:01.679 Maybe there's a train smokestack can bare coming in. You know what that is? 154 00:14:01.799 --> 00:14:09.159 There's a giant incinerator smokestack spewing ashes. What could that be? I 155 00:14:09.159 --> 00:14:13.120 don't know. They don't care. I mean they know. It's like it's 156 00:14:13.159 --> 00:14:18.039 I think they all know. Are these just innocent people that were just fell 157 00:14:18.120 --> 00:14:24.919 for the spiel of don't worry what you know, We're we're carrying out some 158 00:14:28.240 --> 00:14:35.519 complicated missions. And you gotta put these people in the uh in these camps, 159 00:14:35.600 --> 00:14:39.679 and then this is how you treat them because they're less than human. 160 00:14:41.399 --> 00:14:45.480 And then you get fed that for years and years, and you're you, 161 00:14:46.399 --> 00:14:52.080 I guess you're after a while, you just believe it because the alternative is 162 00:14:52.159 --> 00:14:58.960 to take your family out of this house. I don't know, but wow, 163 00:15:00.279 --> 00:15:03.720 filmmaking it is one of the best movies I've ever seen. It's just 164 00:15:05.399 --> 00:15:07.799 they just did it perfectly. So as for some people might be a little 165 00:15:07.799 --> 00:15:13.200 too dark, but it is. I mean, it's just something that happened 166 00:15:13.279 --> 00:15:18.519 had to have happened, and someone wrote a book about how it happened, 167 00:15:18.600 --> 00:15:28.879 and someone made a movie about how it happened. Is it true? I 168 00:15:28.879 --> 00:15:39.440 think it's just based on things that probably happened, and box office not much. 169 00:15:41.919 --> 00:15:46.799 It's like, you know, only made a million or so, so 170 00:15:46.039 --> 00:15:52.519 like a maybe a three million, the three or four million total, what 171 00:15:52.639 --> 00:15:56.639 is it? I don't know what the the budget was, but anyway, 172 00:15:56.679 --> 00:15:58.840 you shouldn't see it. Let's see what else we got. Okay, so 173 00:16:00.200 --> 00:16:11.039 now let's go to Poor Things. Poor Things is a film by Yurgos Lanthromos 174 00:16:11.039 --> 00:16:17.600 I think is his name? Greek director? He made Oh wait, who 175 00:16:17.639 --> 00:16:26.279 made Let's go back to the Zone of Interest? Who made Zone of Interest? 176 00:16:26.840 --> 00:16:32.799 You ask, well, it's Jonathan Glazer. What did Jonathan Glazer make? 177 00:16:33.000 --> 00:16:38.399 He made Sexy Beast? I mean, he made other films that I'm 178 00:16:38.399 --> 00:16:45.759 not that familiar with, but Sexy Beast. And this is kind of the 179 00:16:45.799 --> 00:16:51.240 life of a director. I've noticed a successful director he directs a film in 180 00:16:51.240 --> 00:16:55.200 the year two thousand. He doesn't direct a film until the year two thousand 181 00:16:55.200 --> 00:16:59.240 and four, so that's four years he's running around trying to get some film 182 00:16:59.240 --> 00:17:03.159 made kind of life? Is that not fun? Sexy Beast was a hit. 183 00:17:04.119 --> 00:17:07.160 So he makes a movie called Birth in two thousand and four, that 184 00:17:07.200 --> 00:17:15.279 one he writes, and then he doesn't make another film until twenty thirteen. 185 00:17:17.799 --> 00:17:19.880 Okay, so that's two thousand and four to twenty thirteen. And the movie 186 00:17:19.880 --> 00:17:27.559 Birth, it's a it's a big movie. He's working with Lauren Butcall and 187 00:17:27.640 --> 00:17:36.559 Nicole Kidman and Hash doesn't make another film for nine years. So that's the 188 00:17:36.599 --> 00:17:38.440 life of a successful director. What kind of director are you going to be? 189 00:17:44.079 --> 00:17:49.640 Then doesn't direct another film until The Zone of Interest in twenty twenty three. 190 00:17:51.200 --> 00:17:53.759 That's ten years. What's he doing during that ten years besides driving his 191 00:17:53.799 --> 00:17:59.680 wife nuts? So you want to be a film director. That's a successful 192 00:17:59.680 --> 00:18:03.880 film director. So hats off to the film directors that stick it out and 193 00:18:04.079 --> 00:18:08.240 stick it out, make movies like Sexy Beast, Hang in There, and 194 00:18:08.279 --> 00:18:18.200 then twenty three years later, make a movie nominated for Best Picture called The 195 00:18:18.279 --> 00:18:25.799 Zone of Interest, and congratulations on the rewards that he's getting. He's nominated 196 00:18:25.799 --> 00:18:30.440 for Best Director and that's a big deal. I don't know how many times 197 00:18:30.440 --> 00:18:36.079 he's been nominated. I'm gonna guess zero. Certainly not for Sexy Beast, 198 00:18:36.160 --> 00:18:40.240 even though it's just a fantastic film if you haven't seen Sexy Beast. The 199 00:18:40.240 --> 00:18:45.319 film is nominated for Best Picture, as I've said, Best Adapted Screenplay, 200 00:18:45.440 --> 00:18:51.400 also by Jonathan Glazer, so he's got a writing Oscar nomination and a directing 201 00:18:51.599 --> 00:18:57.680 nomination, and it's also nominated for Best Feature Film, International Feature Film. 202 00:19:00.119 --> 00:19:06.480 It could do a you know, like a everywhere everything all at once or 203 00:19:06.559 --> 00:19:11.279 parasite kind of thing. Best Sound. Also on the sound, oh man, 204 00:19:11.359 --> 00:19:15.759 the sound is haunting. I would see it for the sound. Zone 205 00:19:15.759 --> 00:19:18.680 of Interest. We'll get back, we'll talk about poor things. Joe's Galante 206 00:19:18.720 --> 00:19:23.400 Live from Hollywood. Joe Ascalante live from Hollywood. If by Hollywood you mean 207 00:19:23.480 --> 00:19:29.599 Burbank, across the street from the Wonderstonize that serves beer. We are talking 208 00:19:29.599 --> 00:19:37.160 to Oscar Movies right now, and we just talked about Zone of Interest. 209 00:19:37.759 --> 00:19:41.839 Nominated for Best Picture, director by Jonathan Glazer, also nominated for Best Director. 210 00:19:42.599 --> 00:19:49.119 Highly recommend seeing this film. I don't know. I hard to imagine 211 00:19:49.119 --> 00:19:59.799 a better film, just in terms of how well it's made and the subject 212 00:19:59.799 --> 00:20:07.200 matter fascinating. Just now I'm gonna turn to a very different film. It's 213 00:20:07.200 --> 00:20:14.359 called Poor Things, Poor Things. They describe it as a science fantasy, 214 00:20:14.440 --> 00:20:26.519 black comedy drama film. I would call it a morally offensive masterpiece directed by 215 00:20:26.559 --> 00:20:32.799 yourgos Lanthromos. He directed the movie Lobster that we talked about a couple weeks 216 00:20:32.799 --> 00:20:37.799 ago, maybe a month ago. He's a Greek, He's a Greek freak. 217 00:20:37.920 --> 00:20:41.240 Really, when you see this movie, hey, I think it's safe 218 00:20:41.279 --> 00:20:45.400 to say this man's a freak. Who else is a freak? Emma Stone 219 00:20:45.759 --> 00:20:52.400 that acts in the movie, and she's also a producer, and I think 220 00:20:52.000 --> 00:20:56.599 you wouldn't be able to get a star of her magnitude to do the weird 221 00:20:56.680 --> 00:21:00.680 things that are happening in this movie. She wasn't also the producer, Like, 222 00:21:00.720 --> 00:21:03.160 no one could tell her to do this. Okay, now you do 223 00:21:03.240 --> 00:21:07.960 this, Now you do that. In this scene, Emma Stone, you're 224 00:21:07.000 --> 00:21:14.640 going to have simulated sex again naked with a weird, ugly old man, 225 00:21:14.720 --> 00:21:18.000 because the idea is you're a prostitute and you have sex with everybody, so 226 00:21:18.079 --> 00:21:22.599 we got to really mix it up. Here's another troll. There's troll number 227 00:21:22.680 --> 00:21:29.119 fifteen. Anyway, that's a little spoiler. Sorry, Because she does become 228 00:21:29.119 --> 00:21:36.200 a prostitute at some point in the movie. I apologize for that, but 229 00:21:37.599 --> 00:21:41.680 everybody loves this movie. I mean, it's, like I said, morally 230 00:21:41.720 --> 00:21:48.319 offensive masterpiece. It is as if Tim Burton and Crispin Glover collaborated or maybe 231 00:21:48.359 --> 00:21:55.039 got married and had a baby, and this movie was the baby the I 232 00:21:55.079 --> 00:22:00.559 don't know if you've seen any Crispin Glover movies, but I mean I saw 233 00:22:00.599 --> 00:22:07.079 one. I saw one when I was doing the morning radio on Indy one 234 00:22:07.279 --> 00:22:08.960 three to one. I had them on my show all the time because I 235 00:22:08.960 --> 00:22:12.839 had a lot of directors on the show, and he was my favorite, 236 00:22:12.920 --> 00:22:17.720 or one of my favorites for sure. And he did this film that was 237 00:22:17.880 --> 00:22:23.960 the cast was entirely actors with down syndrome, and he invited me to a 238 00:22:26.319 --> 00:22:30.240 screening. The screening was in his bedroom. Yeah, in his Hollywood Hills 239 00:22:30.279 --> 00:22:38.519 bedroom. I sat on a red velvet chase lounge in Crispin Glover's bedroom and 240 00:22:38.680 --> 00:22:45.279 watched the movie. Now, before you get weird ideas, there was another 241 00:22:45.359 --> 00:22:48.680 journalist there too. We were both invited. So there's some lady. She's 242 00:22:48.680 --> 00:22:53.160 sitting on a chair, I'm on the chase lounge and we watched a movie 243 00:22:53.160 --> 00:22:57.160 with him. And it was a good movie. But I mean, when 244 00:22:57.200 --> 00:23:02.960 you watch Poor Things and think about Chrispin Glover in the kind of movies he's 245 00:23:02.960 --> 00:23:08.880 made, and the dialogue in a Crispin Glover movie so like bizarre and direct, 246 00:23:10.039 --> 00:23:15.039 and this movie is similar. But it has the budget of a Tim 247 00:23:15.039 --> 00:23:26.319 Burton movie or beyond, and it is sweeping the awards. So it's nominated 248 00:23:26.319 --> 00:23:29.200 for Best Picture in eleven categories. I mean everywhere, like you know, 249 00:23:29.279 --> 00:23:37.039 makeup, production design, hair wardrobe, best Supporting Actor, Mark Ruffalo, 250 00:23:37.079 --> 00:23:45.519 who's fantastic in it. Emma Stone, I mean, she's, you know, 251 00:23:45.799 --> 00:23:48.640 always been one of my favorites. In this movie so disturbing to watch 252 00:23:48.640 --> 00:23:52.519 her. I'm just kind of I'm done. Okay, you acted so well, 253 00:23:52.680 --> 00:23:56.880 I can't look at you anymore. How's that Best Picture in the Golden 254 00:23:56.880 --> 00:24:03.000 Globes for a Musical or Comedy? And yeah, she went Best Actress in 255 00:24:03.000 --> 00:24:07.640 the Golden Globes, probably will win Best Actress in the Academy Awards. And 256 00:24:07.839 --> 00:24:11.200 you're kind you're probably wondering, like, hey, Joe, why do you 257 00:24:11.240 --> 00:24:14.799 talk about these movies? Earlier? You already did your top ten for the 258 00:24:14.839 --> 00:24:18.240 year. I know, but then I forgot about the all these Academy Award 259 00:24:18.279 --> 00:24:19.720 movies. So I used to live in LA and you just see them naturally, 260 00:24:21.519 --> 00:24:25.160 you know, in the theaters around town, and they'd be playing. 261 00:24:25.279 --> 00:24:29.039 Maybe you could walk to a theater that played these movies. But now that 262 00:24:29.119 --> 00:24:33.799 I live in Seal Beach, I gotta work to go see these movies. 263 00:24:33.319 --> 00:24:38.519 Although Poor Things was playing at the Beltara in Huntington Beach, but I didn't 264 00:24:38.559 --> 00:24:42.039 see it, probably because I was waiting for my wife to be available, 265 00:24:42.240 --> 00:24:48.119 and and she just looks so weird in the trailer. I wasn't sure I 266 00:24:48.119 --> 00:24:51.480 wanted to see it. I was hoping it would just be terrible and I 267 00:24:51.519 --> 00:24:56.680 wouldn't have to see it. And then I did finally get a screener from 268 00:24:56.680 --> 00:25:03.680 the Screen Actress Guild, and I watched it that way, and Holy Moses, 269 00:25:06.680 --> 00:25:10.160 you know, if you like set design and you like hair and makeup, 270 00:25:10.240 --> 00:25:15.440 and I don't know, it's a fantastic movie. It's just morally very 271 00:25:15.480 --> 00:25:19.200 offensive. Don't take your kids. Do some binding prayers after you see it, 272 00:25:19.240 --> 00:25:23.720 so the devil doesn't get inside of you from the horrible things your witness 273 00:25:23.759 --> 00:25:29.440 too. But then you know it doesn't. It's not heavy handed in its 274 00:25:29.480 --> 00:25:33.720 message. I wouldn't say it's an eat your p's movie. It's in the 275 00:25:33.720 --> 00:25:37.519 long line of movies where they say, you know what, this message I 276 00:25:37.640 --> 00:25:44.880 have explains the whole world, and there I did it. Some movies like 277 00:25:44.920 --> 00:25:49.640 that are just crap. I've seen many of them, or even books I've 278 00:25:49.640 --> 00:25:56.680 read that say, oh, this is like movies or TV shows that say 279 00:25:56.720 --> 00:26:00.359 like, oh, God is just an all knowing fatherly being that likes all 280 00:26:00.400 --> 00:26:07.400 religions and and all we have to do is love each other yawn, not 281 00:26:07.519 --> 00:26:15.440 brave, and this one is a little bit like that, but with utter 282 00:26:15.519 --> 00:26:23.160 genius in the dialogue and the pacing and the delivery of the lines. It's 283 00:26:25.640 --> 00:26:30.279 some people are just gonna hate it because the way that actors talk. It's 284 00:26:30.759 --> 00:26:40.599 an affected dialogue, a lot like the movie Lobster that I watched a while 285 00:26:40.680 --> 00:26:52.079 ago. And it turns out your ghost Lanthemos directed Lobster. So if you 286 00:26:52.200 --> 00:27:00.920 like Lobster, this is like Lobster with a one hundred million dollars added to 287 00:27:00.559 --> 00:27:04.279 the budget. Where can you see it? It's still playing in theaters, 288 00:27:07.319 --> 00:27:15.160 so here I'm checking out. Okay, So what's next on my movie list? 289 00:27:15.720 --> 00:27:21.160 Probably I've seen Barbie. These are the Best Picture nominees American Fiction, 290 00:27:21.240 --> 00:27:25.160 Anatomy of a Fall, Barbie, Holdovers, Killers of the Flower Moon, 291 00:27:25.240 --> 00:27:27.680 Maestro Oppenheimer, Past Lives, Poor Things, Zone of Interest. A lot 292 00:27:27.680 --> 00:27:32.640 of these movies are just so obscure. They haven't come my way. But 293 00:27:32.720 --> 00:27:37.880 I do have a copy of American Fiction and the Holdovers, so I will 294 00:27:37.880 --> 00:27:41.640 see those next, and then Poor Things, Past Lives, and Anatomy of 295 00:27:41.640 --> 00:27:48.119 a Fall. I don't know what I'm gonna do, but that's uh, 296 00:27:48.480 --> 00:27:52.720 it's coming up. Who's gonna win? So far? Who would I say 297 00:27:52.759 --> 00:27:57.680 is gonna win? I'd say, uh, poor Things is gonna win. 298 00:28:00.160 --> 00:28:06.000 I haven't seen Holdovers or American Fiction or Past Lives, but if I was 299 00:28:06.000 --> 00:28:11.720 gonna put money on something, I'd put it on Poor Things. The Best 300 00:28:11.720 --> 00:28:22.000 Director Oppenheimer, Christopher Nolan, and Best Actor I'm gonna go with I haven't 301 00:28:22.039 --> 00:28:26.119 seen a lot of these movies, so I'm gonna maybe maybe Bradley Cooper. 302 00:28:26.359 --> 00:28:30.519 The movie is like who cares about Leonard Bernstein? Like, you know, 303 00:28:30.880 --> 00:28:32.759 ay, great music? Why are you making a movie about this guy? 304 00:28:33.720 --> 00:28:37.160 Anyway, I'm rambling, so let's take a break and we'll come back after 305 00:28:37.240 --> 00:28:41.440 this look at the traffic, et cetera. On eleven fifty A M K 306 00:28:41.640 --> 00:29:11.279 E I B. Joe Ascalante Live from Hollywood, Joe Askanti, here's my 307 00:29:11.440 --> 00:29:15.559 lawyer. You don't Joe Scalante Live from Hollywood by Hollywood, you mean Burbank. 308 00:29:17.559 --> 00:29:19.279 We're talking about the business end of show business as usual, like we 309 00:29:19.359 --> 00:29:26.519 do every Sunday from five to seven on eight M eleven fifty K E I 310 00:29:26.680 --> 00:29:30.880 B. It's kind of fun. I mean, I can't I you know, 311 00:29:30.920 --> 00:29:33.839 I go see these movies. You're probably in the same game as me. 312 00:29:33.960 --> 00:29:37.920 It's like you see these movies and you talk to everybody at a party 313 00:29:37.960 --> 00:29:41.240 and nobody's seen anything. Used to be we would sit around and talk about 314 00:29:41.279 --> 00:29:45.200 the movies we saw and the speakers we have. I don't really miss the 315 00:29:45.200 --> 00:29:51.720 conversations about the speakers that all the dudes had in the seventies, but I 316 00:29:51.759 --> 00:29:56.839 do miss the movie stuff, so we talk about it here. It's kind 317 00:29:56.839 --> 00:30:02.160 of fun. I appreciate it. You indulging. If you want to give 318 00:30:02.200 --> 00:30:06.920 your two cents, easiest way go to the Facebook page Joe Scalante Life from 319 00:30:06.920 --> 00:30:11.039 Hollywood on Facebook. And I mean, we're not going to be pimpals. 320 00:30:11.079 --> 00:30:17.559 But you know, you should talk about it. So there's other stuff going 321 00:30:17.599 --> 00:30:23.119 on that we should probably get into a little bit, and a lot of 322 00:30:23.160 --> 00:30:26.279 it is, Oh, here's some of it. I'll just kind of rattle 323 00:30:26.279 --> 00:30:30.640 through it. We talked about Vince McMahon from WWE resigning and he's just he's 324 00:30:30.680 --> 00:30:36.960 got an onslaught of lawsuits against him and now they're investigating him. The FBI 325 00:30:37.039 --> 00:30:41.920 is actually investigating him, according to Reports four. That's Chewy, make a 326 00:30:41.960 --> 00:30:48.960 noise back there, Chewy, calm down. The FBI is investigating him for 327 00:30:48.519 --> 00:30:55.480 trafficking. Sex trafficking, by the way, that kind of trafficking. So 328 00:30:56.319 --> 00:31:03.200 he's in a lot of trouble's he's kind of like the Harvey Weinstein of sports 329 00:31:03.279 --> 00:31:07.720 right now. So I don't look, I don't envy him. And here's 330 00:31:07.759 --> 00:31:11.720 another guy. Look how much money that guy had. Did you envy him 331 00:31:12.039 --> 00:31:17.359 his women and his money and his material possessions. Well, if you did, 332 00:31:18.920 --> 00:31:22.720 that was chewy. He did envy him. But look at him now. 333 00:31:22.759 --> 00:31:25.079 I mean, I'm not wishing shaden freud on him, but I'm just 334 00:31:25.079 --> 00:31:30.960 saying, let's appreciate our own lives and yeah, not worry about everything everyone 335 00:31:30.960 --> 00:31:36.079 else has. Now look, I like to I'm just gonna take a little 336 00:31:36.440 --> 00:31:41.079 side step here. I'm interested in things that have an ounce of humility, 337 00:31:42.599 --> 00:31:48.160 and there's no humility in WWE wrestling. I think there is a fair amount 338 00:31:48.160 --> 00:31:53.400 of humility in other professional sports. I mean, what do you mean by 339 00:31:53.480 --> 00:31:56.720 humility. I don't know. I mean, you know, just a guy 340 00:31:56.759 --> 00:31:59.559 who at the end of the game says, you know, it's not me, 341 00:31:59.640 --> 00:32:02.160 it was God, you know. I like that. I want to 342 00:32:02.160 --> 00:32:07.880 thank my mom. I like that this is a team effort. It's not 343 00:32:08.000 --> 00:32:10.319 me, it's my team, it's my front line. I take my front 344 00:32:10.319 --> 00:32:14.720 line out too. It's like the quarterbacks used to do, take the front 345 00:32:14.759 --> 00:32:20.200 line out for a stake every week. That kind of stuff. It doesn't 346 00:32:20.200 --> 00:32:22.960 happen in WWE. I don't care if it's fake or not. It just 347 00:32:22.960 --> 00:32:29.240 doesn't happen. I don't like it. Rap music doesn't hip hop. I 348 00:32:29.279 --> 00:32:34.039 mean I used to love like the old stuff back in the day, of 349 00:32:34.079 --> 00:32:44.559 course, but then it's just like everything's about how much money they have and 350 00:32:44.599 --> 00:32:47.599 how much power they have, and how they're better than you. Not interested. 351 00:32:47.759 --> 00:32:55.079 So the same goes with wrestling to me. But this guy, he's 352 00:32:55.119 --> 00:32:58.519 out here a lot of people like it. I did like The Iron Claw, 353 00:32:58.559 --> 00:33:04.279 the movie about wrestling. That was human story and they could have used 354 00:33:04.279 --> 00:33:09.319 a little humility, maybe the dad stuff like that. Another big story this 355 00:33:09.400 --> 00:33:13.759 week, huge story of music. First of all, you have the Grammys 356 00:33:13.799 --> 00:33:19.519 this week. I don't know if you're going to the Joe Scolante Live from 357 00:33:19.640 --> 00:33:25.200 Hollywood Grammy party after the awards at the Wiener Schnitzel in Burbank, the one 358 00:33:25.200 --> 00:33:30.319 that serves beer on olive. We'll be there. There's a red carpet, 359 00:33:30.599 --> 00:33:37.160 there's a band, there's a buffet. Well, the buffet is just a 360 00:33:37.240 --> 00:33:42.759 counter where you go. It's kind of self. It's a no host buffet 361 00:33:42.839 --> 00:33:49.000 of hot dogs and hamburgers and tasty freeze items and three beers on tap. 362 00:33:50.400 --> 00:33:54.039 So we'll see you there like we do every year. And other than that, 363 00:33:54.279 --> 00:33:59.759 the Grammys. Wow, what a puke fest? Right? I mean 364 00:34:00.359 --> 00:34:05.279 yet I can already tell you that, so who cares? But the big 365 00:34:05.319 --> 00:34:12.639 news in music this week is Universal has pulled all their artists masters from TikTok. 366 00:34:13.440 --> 00:34:16.519 So now, is that kind of like cost them a lot of money? 367 00:34:16.719 --> 00:34:21.800 Nope, it's a little bit of money. But the TikTok is so 368 00:34:21.880 --> 00:34:23.679 heavy in the you know, the promotion racket. I mean people using it 369 00:34:23.639 --> 00:34:27.719 to promote stuff. So they're going to feel it all the artists. So 370 00:34:28.119 --> 00:34:30.199 is this something the artist wanted? Why did they pull it? They pulled 371 00:34:30.239 --> 00:34:35.199 it because they said, you're not paying enough. Your royalty rate is too 372 00:34:35.199 --> 00:34:39.480 small. We analyze what you make TikTok, and you make so much money, 373 00:34:39.480 --> 00:34:45.480 you could pay more for your content. And they phrase it as, 374 00:34:45.519 --> 00:34:46.800 you know, you got to pay the artist. But by the time it 375 00:34:46.840 --> 00:34:52.360 trickles down to the artist, it's even less so universal. I don't feel 376 00:34:52.360 --> 00:34:54.000 sorry for them. You know, by the time they've taken their cut, 377 00:34:55.000 --> 00:34:58.000 they could take less of a cut and give it to the artists if they 378 00:34:58.079 --> 00:35:02.840 cared about the artist. But they have. They're the biggest game in town. 379 00:35:02.880 --> 00:35:10.599 They're the biggest music distributor and content owner there is, and so they're 380 00:35:10.639 --> 00:35:15.199 the big gorilla. And if they say, TikTok, we want you to 381 00:35:15.239 --> 00:35:16.960 pay more, TikTok has to pay attention or they're gonna lose all the all 382 00:35:17.000 --> 00:35:23.239 the all the music. And now there's no Taylor Swift music on TikTok, 383 00:35:23.519 --> 00:35:29.679 just maybe silent dances. Without Taylor Swift on there so that's a problem. 384 00:35:30.280 --> 00:35:31.800 I mean the football. You see how the football people do it. The 385 00:35:31.800 --> 00:35:38.800 football people like while everyone else is struggling with advertising revenue. And you know, 386 00:35:38.840 --> 00:35:44.320 even wokeness was a problem for all sports, football and I fill football 387 00:35:44.360 --> 00:35:47.920 kind of cleaned up their act. I don't see any woke stuff on there 388 00:35:47.960 --> 00:35:59.719 anymore, like the overt things they've you know, without totally angering the people 389 00:35:59.719 --> 00:36:04.519 who have pressured them in the first place to be woke. Seems like they've 390 00:36:05.360 --> 00:36:10.760 they're serving them and serving the fan. And the ratings are huge. Taylor 391 00:36:10.800 --> 00:36:15.599 Swift comes to town. Ten million more people watch the Kansas City Chiefs games 392 00:36:15.920 --> 00:36:21.760 than they did previously on TV, so you have ten million more eyeballs and 393 00:36:21.800 --> 00:36:24.719 that's a lot of revenue. NFL is just just basking in that. And 394 00:36:24.719 --> 00:36:28.519 somehow they made it. They didn't ruin it. You know, it's just 395 00:36:28.559 --> 00:36:31.760 happening. They could have ruined it somehow. You know, they cut to 396 00:36:31.800 --> 00:36:37.400 her and her friend, you know, high fiving each other after the good 397 00:36:37.400 --> 00:36:45.599 big plays. But now the music business they lost. Taylor Swift live touring 398 00:36:45.679 --> 00:36:54.599 benefits from Taylor Swift, NFL benefits from Taylor Swift. Somehow, TikTok has 399 00:36:54.639 --> 00:37:01.559 blown it and Universal they're not getting that the all that Taylor Swift income they 400 00:37:01.559 --> 00:37:06.119 were getting. So I hope they get their act together. And a lot 401 00:37:06.159 --> 00:37:12.639 of people say that. The arguments go like this, Universal is always asking 402 00:37:12.679 --> 00:37:15.920 for something outrageous because they have so much market share. And then the other 403 00:37:15.960 --> 00:37:23.280 hand, people say, TikTok and these music services will bleed you dry and 404 00:37:23.400 --> 00:37:27.840 leave you with nothing if you let them. They will build an entire empire 405 00:37:28.000 --> 00:37:30.400 off of your work and not pay you a cent unless you fight them every 406 00:37:30.400 --> 00:37:37.280 single day. So maybe we're happy for a Universal leading the way, but 407 00:37:37.320 --> 00:37:39.480 if you're one of those artists, it's just like this is how you get 408 00:37:39.519 --> 00:37:44.960 going and then Universal, I mean, your career is just kind of getting 409 00:37:45.000 --> 00:37:49.480 going, and then Universal takes all your music off of TikTok. Some of 410 00:37:49.519 --> 00:37:55.559 these people only have one shot, and that shot could have been already lost. 411 00:37:57.480 --> 00:38:00.000 The other big news in music this week is talk Heads turning down eighty 412 00:38:00.039 --> 00:38:05.960 million dollars to do a tour. So that shows you how badly they do 413 00:38:06.039 --> 00:38:08.280 not want to do anything together. So does no one asked them to go 414 00:38:08.320 --> 00:38:13.320 into a cage fight and beat the crap out of each other or build a 415 00:38:13.480 --> 00:38:15.480 dig ditches. They said, would you like to go play music? You're 416 00:38:15.519 --> 00:38:20.079 amazing, awesome music for eighty million dollars, saying Nope, don't want to 417 00:38:20.119 --> 00:38:27.480 do that. So okay, loud and clear, I'm going to be at 418 00:38:27.480 --> 00:38:30.920 the Punk Rock Museum on February seventeenth. People are always asking me, Hey, 419 00:38:30.960 --> 00:38:32.599 Joe, when are you going to be at that museum again? I 420 00:38:32.599 --> 00:38:37.360 want to see your tour. So February seventeenth, I will be doing two 421 00:38:37.440 --> 00:38:42.519 tours at the Punk Rock Museum in Las Vegas. I get tickets online punk 422 00:38:42.599 --> 00:38:45.400 Rock Museum, and I will see you there. Now leave you with just 423 00:38:45.400 --> 00:38:47.159 a taste of the greatest song ever written.