Speaker 1: From Workhouse Connect and aj Benze fame. Uh he'd liked
Speaker 1: to be walked on a leash and play really dirty,
Speaker 1: kinky sex games. He's uh the guy put the cock
Speaker 1: in the peacock network. Okay, bitch, Hey everybody, AJ Benzi
Speaker 1: here with famous Bitch. This is your daily Unfiltered podcast
Speaker 1: for July one, twenty twenty six oh seven oh one
Speaker 1: two two six. Normally I don't like odd numbers, but uh,
Speaker 1: you know, today's my daughter's twenty second birth. Did I
Speaker 1: say twenty three the other day? She's twenty two. She's
Speaker 1: born in two thousand and four, and man, did that
Speaker 1: go fast? That just ripped by me. But so that's
Speaker 1: why I don't mind the odd numbers today, because they
Speaker 1: correspond to her day of birth. And I want to
Speaker 1: think back to what that was like to have a
Speaker 1: little baby daughter. I think every man should have a
Speaker 1: daughter first before a boy. If you can manage that,
Speaker 1: it's up to fate, I guess. But a daughter will
Speaker 1: prepare you to be a better man. A boy will
Speaker 1: make you remain the same man. That's the way I
Speaker 1: see it. I could be wrong, But a girl, a
Speaker 1: little girl will find your soft side well you'll find
Speaker 1: your soft side with her, and that'll make you wive
Speaker 1: a girlfriend like you more. You know, it's just a
Speaker 1: it's a good thing. And I just found some old
Speaker 1: videos on the thumb drive of her when she was,
Speaker 1: you know, potty training, actually when she was a little baby.
Speaker 1: I posted one the other day of her making a
Speaker 1: spitting noise. She was she gave the raspberry to the Yankees.
Speaker 1: She couldn't have been more than I don't know, three
Speaker 1: months old. And she was born on the day I've
Speaker 1: said this before when Derek Juda made the amazing catch
Speaker 1: falling into the stands against the Boston Red Sox. He
Speaker 1: came out of the stands bloodied. It was a remarkable
Speaker 1: catch and it was just beautiful. She was born that day.
Speaker 1: And there's a video of my wife grabbing Roxy's arms,
Speaker 1: are going yay Yankees, Yay Yankees. Yeah yeah, and then
Speaker 1: she just goes so But it was great, great stuff
Speaker 1: growing up with her. For some reason, I would read
Speaker 1: these magazines Family Fair, New York Magazine. I love to,
Speaker 1: you know, back then magazines, and I still love the magazine,
Speaker 1: but they're shot now. And this little girl a year
Speaker 1: and a half fold two years old will take the
Speaker 1: man for me and start paging through it like she
Speaker 1: knew what she was doing. She was gonna look at
Speaker 1: pictures or read stories. I had a great picture it's
Speaker 1: on an old phone where she's lying on my bed
Speaker 1: and she's gotta her leg crossed over her leg and
Speaker 1: she's reading, or she's looking on pictures of Tom Cruise.
Speaker 1: And then when she got a little older, maybe five
Speaker 1: or six, she couldn't get enough of the Nicholas Cage
Speaker 1: movie Ghostwriter. We must have seen that fifty times. It
Speaker 1: was the only thing I could do sometimes the calm
Speaker 1: her down. Ghost Okay, Daddy coming back, and we'd sit
Speaker 1: in bed, grab some chips or some something to pick on,
Speaker 1: and I'd put ghost Rider in and she was captive it. It
Speaker 1: would Nick Cage. I said, this little girl loves loves
Speaker 1: movie stars. Wow. And then I spent a lot of
Speaker 1: time when she was a baby at the house we
Speaker 1: used to live in. The computer room didn't have ac
Speaker 1: It was hot there, you know, and out here in
Speaker 1: the valley it's just you know, it could be nine
Speaker 1: o'clock at night and still eighty five degrees it's hot.
Speaker 1: So I'd sit it down on my lap and we'd
Speaker 1: I'd take her to Google. I go, I go to
Speaker 1: YouTube and Google, I go to YouTube, and I'd find
Speaker 1: all the singers I love, Sinatra, Billy Holiday, Anina, Simone,
Speaker 1: Buddy Ali, anybody, Johnny Cash, and I would let her
Speaker 1: hear them sing, and I would sing, you know, the
Speaker 1: words out loud so she could understand them. Sinatra was big,
Speaker 1: of course, and then I began to sing to her
Speaker 1: in bed and every single night, and I repeated this
Speaker 1: with Rocco. I take them into bed and I'd sing
Speaker 1: five or six song before they get to bed. I
Speaker 1: always would sing to Roxy the best is yet, the
Speaker 1: co best is yet come come day, and I poke
Speaker 1: a little fan, You're gonna be ma, and she would
Speaker 1: kick go and laugh. I would sing so many songs
Speaker 1: to five or six or seven in a row, and
Speaker 1: she'd start to get tired and full of sleep and
Speaker 1: do the same thing at Rocco. You know, and apparently
Speaker 1: it goes a long way, because you know, she ended
Speaker 1: up becoming a musician and a great voice, and she
Speaker 1: can act. Not that she's pursuing that, but she certainly
Speaker 1: could do it. She did it in high school and
Speaker 1: she was really good, so you don't know, you know,
Speaker 1: you tell these kids, you show kids everything you can
Speaker 1: think of, and let them choose what they want to do,
Speaker 1: you know, just put everything in front of them. Here's
Speaker 1: this sport, here's that sport, here's this music, here's this book,
Speaker 1: here's and they'll find it and they'll move forward with
Speaker 1: it in life. And that's all you can ask for.
Speaker 1: Find your way. We used to take I used to
Speaker 1: take her for walks. We used to get up in
Speaker 1: the morning and I put her in the stroller and
Speaker 1: I'd take a walk to Blockbuster Videos. It was about
Speaker 1: five blocks away. First I would get it like a
Speaker 1: not a milkshake, but like a nice drink from this
Speaker 1: like I don't know what you call it. Not not
Speaker 1: a bagel store, but they had bagels, they had shakes,
Speaker 1: stupid And I'd stop and get her some kind of
Speaker 1: a drink and she'd love that in her little stroller,
Speaker 1: and then we'd walk back to our little neighborhood. And
Speaker 1: whenever she saw a bunch of bumblebees on a rose bush,
Speaker 1: she would tell me to stop, daddy, and she would
Speaker 1: talk to the bumblebees and they didn't come and sting her.
Speaker 1: They didn't get angry, and she was so sweet to
Speaker 1: the bumblebees. I mister B, Hi, missus B looked at
Speaker 1: her together. I know, Mama, I know, I see that
Speaker 1: no one stung her. They didn't. They just let her
Speaker 1: talk to them and didn't bother trying to hurt her.
Speaker 1: It was wonderful And what a sweet kid. She's got
Speaker 1: my temper, though not crazy like me, but she when
Speaker 1: she don't like something, she'll tell you right off, bone bang, no,
Speaker 1: you know, and I admire that in her. She's not
Speaker 1: like being Rosalie wills to just tell you what the
Speaker 1: fuck she thinks right away, cut to the chase. I
Speaker 1: like that. And anyhow, happy birthday to the little girl
Speaker 1: who's now a young woman. Christ fuck did that happen? Right? Unbelievable?
Speaker 1: Rock those necks right behind it, right behind there right.
Speaker 1: Some of you have written me in, texted me, or
Speaker 1: written on the Patreon page that the last week or
Speaker 1: so of shows has been great. I don't know what
Speaker 1: the deal is, but my god, and I'm telling you guys,
Speaker 1: I think, honestly, I think the combination the exaltation and
Speaker 1: the depression of the Knicks winning a title after fifty
Speaker 1: three years my Knicks, which I cried when I collapsed
Speaker 1: on the floor and cried, and then Jack dying. It
Speaker 1: just brought something I don't know, brought something out of me,
Speaker 1: something new in me. I don't know what to say.
Speaker 1: I just I did feel different. And you know here
Speaker 1: we are speaking of Jack. Let me just you guys
Speaker 1: never heard that. This is the last message I have
Speaker 1: from Jack.
Speaker 2: This was.
Speaker 1: Well, the Knicks were about to win, and you wanted
Speaker 1: to see me come over, not knowing that I wasn't
Speaker 1: in Chicago. But here's what it sounded like. If you
Speaker 1: don't mind, come on. Sorry, sorry, was it working? Hold on, God,
Speaker 1: God damn it, hold on. I hate fucking I hate
Speaker 1: the shave hearing this. What the fuck is going on? Yeah?
Speaker 1: I just know if you wanted to come by, and
Speaker 1: what's the game together? So it's uh, seven fifteen and
Speaker 1: it's almost same time, see you soon by dead several
Speaker 1: days later. Fuck, I just erased it by accident. That's
Speaker 1: not good. God damn it. I erased it. Oh my
Speaker 1: love it now? Christ Anyhow'm weaving for Chicago July twelfth.
Speaker 1: Rosie's having the memorial I think the twenty fourth or fifth.
Speaker 1: But you need some help around the house and I'm
Speaker 1: going to go out there and take care of things,
Speaker 1: et cetera. But yeah, a lot of relatives are coming
Speaker 1: into Chicago flying it and it's going to be great. Sad, bittersweet,
Speaker 1: but that's that's life. But I really think the combination
Speaker 1: of the NIXT winning and him dying it maybe maybe
Speaker 1: brought something out in me that was dormant or it
Speaker 1: just wasn't awakened yet.
Speaker 2: I don't know.
Speaker 1: I don't know. So that kind of thing happens in life,
Speaker 1: and you've got to be there to be able to
Speaker 1: talk and talk through it. And I think I did
Speaker 1: a decent job. I didn't collapse on you guys like
Speaker 1: I have in the past. I kind of kept it okay,
Speaker 1: you know. But that's what's happening. And again keeping with
Speaker 1: this new angle of just talking to you. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: could tell you about movie stars and shit, but sometimes
Speaker 1: I just want to talk. And maybe you're bored by this.
Speaker 1: Is it too much? I don't know. I mean, this
Speaker 1: is what I want to do for a couple of days,
Speaker 1: because there's other things that have happened with regard to
Speaker 1: death that you know, me and death. It takes a
Speaker 1: toll on me. It's just really it affects me a lot,
Speaker 1: especially when it comes to people I love it and
Speaker 1: Mayer and it's happened a lot. But John Cena is
Speaker 1: not dead. Some might say, unfortunately. I don't care much
Speaker 1: for the guy. He's a shit actor, professional wrestler, whatever,
Speaker 1: who get you know what? I can't know whatever. But
Speaker 1: he was gone bold like a lot of men, and
Speaker 1: he decided to do something about it. There's a big
Speaker 1: alarming story about him posing with a picture with his
Speaker 1: head bold because he's with his hair transplant. Guy that
Speaker 1: did what they did and fixed his hairline or fixed everything.
Speaker 1: They gave him new hair. And this is the way
Speaker 1: this guy talks. I want to scream. He says that
Speaker 1: people during the wrestling matress would yell at him and
Speaker 1: make fun of his hair, and he said, that's what
Speaker 1: pushed me into going and see what my options were.
Speaker 1: I now have a routine red light therapy, pinoxidil Votamin's shampoo.
Speaker 1: Everybody uses fucking shampoo. Stop with the shampoo in condition.
Speaker 1: There's nothing to get your hair back. But you got
Speaker 1: a hair transplant last winter, that'll do it right there.
Speaker 1: Fucking shampoo and Cane. Oh really, you're eating carrots? She doing?
Speaker 1: Just tell the truth. You got a head transplant. I don't.
Speaker 1: I don't like the guy. I know from people who
Speaker 1: know him and have been around him. And listen, if
Speaker 1: you want to cheer your wife, go ahead, I'm gonna
Speaker 1: condemn you for it. You've got your own wife. Whatever.
Speaker 1: But yeah, he very famous for being overseas with these
Speaker 1: wrestling matches and just tagging so many women in his
Speaker 1: trailer camp or whatever you want to call it. Everybody
Speaker 1: is going a work with John Cena knows that that's
Speaker 1: what he likes to do. I mean, you know, these
Speaker 1: people all act like they're so superior. Remember he apologized
Speaker 1: in Mandarin because of something he said. What a fucking
Speaker 1: chirk off apologizing in Mandarin to to make sure that
Speaker 1: Chinese people know that you're very upset for yourself. I'm
Speaker 1: so sorry. Let me bow down to the master makes
Speaker 1: me sick. And yet I'll watch movie with him in
Speaker 1: it once in a while, but I don't like it.
Speaker 1: I hate it going in unbelievable. The other story I
Speaker 1: picked up today, Ariana Grande is rescheduling three of her
Speaker 1: upcoming shows on her tour. I was gonna say this
Speaker 1: about a week ago, when her tour began, maybe ten
Speaker 1: days ago, I was gonna tell you guys, she's not
Speaker 1: gonna finish this tour. She's eighty five fucking pounds. She's
Speaker 1: a little wisp of a nothing of a girl. And
Speaker 1: I like her. I think she's a cutie pie. Wait,
Speaker 1: she looks like she's in sixth grades. I don't. I'm
Speaker 1: not turned on by her, but I like her comedy,
Speaker 1: comedic timing. I like a little dim bulls. There's a
Speaker 1: lot I like about it, and what a great voice.
Speaker 1: But she's an asshole and she's you know, she's eighty
Speaker 1: five pounds. She's not strong enough to tour the rest
Speaker 1: of the way. So I didn't say it to you guys,
Speaker 1: And I'm like, God, damn it. And today or yesterday,
Speaker 1: I read a story that she announced that she's moving
Speaker 1: her show in July twelve at New York's Barclay Center
Speaker 1: to July fourteenth, two days later, and Safe Things happening
Speaker 1: to two concerts in Boston at TV Garden from July
Speaker 1: twenty second to July twenty fourth. I don't know what's
Speaker 1: going on. We're so sorry for these unfortunate scheduling changes.
Speaker 1: This is our best and safest option as these challenges
Speaker 1: with production have come to our attention. The utmost important
Speaker 1: thing to us is all is safety first and foremost,
Speaker 1: and also making sure you all see this show how
Speaker 1: it's intended to run. Thank you so much if you're understanding,
Speaker 1: and I cannot wait to see this is all. This
Speaker 1: is a horseshit statement. Not once do anybody in her
Speaker 1: camp or she say why the dates are moved. It's
Speaker 1: just a mystery. It's a mystery. What she's doing is
Speaker 1: mark my words.
Speaker 3: This is a little bit of a you know, testing
Speaker 3: excuse to cover up or distract the fact that she's
Speaker 3: not selling out anymore.
Speaker 1: The arenas are not shocked full. You go to Kanye
Speaker 1: westconcert there, I mean it's gigantic. Every seat is filled,
Speaker 1: not with people like Arianna. No sorry sorry. So they
Speaker 1: look at the I've said this before with other artists.
Speaker 1: They look at their the map of the arena they're playing,
Speaker 1: and they go the blue dots are all the seats
Speaker 1: that are in bought. Yet, oh my god, I don't
Speaker 1: want to perform for you two thousand people rather than
Speaker 1: eight thousand. It's just a. It's an ego thing. It's
Speaker 1: happening to music acts and and people who have a bigger,
Speaker 1: bigger catalogs than she does. But yeah, trust me, I
Speaker 1: think it's supposed to I think a Torno September one.
Speaker 1: I don't think she's gonna get there. It's my spidy sense.
Speaker 1: I think she's too weak and fragile and frail I'll see.
Speaker 1: I think Cyndia, Cyndia Cynthia Arrivo puts some kind of
Speaker 1: a crazy hex on her, curse on her because Arianna
Speaker 1: didn't respond to the gay the gay. Uh you know
Speaker 1: the fact that Arriva wanted her so bad during the
Speaker 1: two Wicked movies and they were close. But I think
Speaker 1: Arena stepped on her brakes when when Arriva wanted to
Speaker 1: go a little further. No, no, no, I think she
Speaker 1: put like some kind of hex on her. I mean,
Speaker 1: I know it's not real, but she's not going to finish,
Speaker 1: that's all. But there's so many, so many liars out there,
Speaker 1: Angeline and Jolie another bull shotters And by the way,
Speaker 1: she's doing a no movie in for US's coming out.
Speaker 1: It looks good. I saw the trailer. Looks good. You know,
Speaker 1: I still enjoy watching Angelina. You go back to mister
Speaker 1: and missus Smith, my christ was that sexy. Not since
Speaker 1: then has she done a movie that she looked that good.
Speaker 1: But Angelina was tippy top for a long time. And
Speaker 1: then she was exposed as being a brat and a
Speaker 1: fraud and pain in the ass, and with the Sony
Speaker 1: email chain, the controversy and everybody's emails got leaked and
Speaker 1: the way they spoke about her, she had to go
Speaker 1: into hiding. We she had tens of millions of dollars
Speaker 1: and lived in a fucking chalet, so it didn't really
Speaker 1: hurt her while she raised those that brood of kids,
Speaker 1: which I hate to say this, outside of Shiloh, they're
Speaker 1: ugly kids. I know. I don't want to talk about
Speaker 1: people's kids. They're an ugly bunch of kids. It's an
Speaker 1: ugly family, it really is. They don't talk to their father.
Speaker 1: They got rid of his name. Shiloh is the only
Speaker 1: one you look at to go, well, that's Angie and
Speaker 1: Brad together. Wow, the rest them, fuck yourself. Maddox knocks
Speaker 1: all this horse shit get out of here. They look
Speaker 1: at my ass, all of them, and they're nasty kids,
Speaker 1: and she's saying she hasn't dated anybody since she split
Speaker 1: from Brad Pitt about ten years ago. Then the movie
Speaker 1: is called Qutoure. She plays a filmmaker who ends up
Speaker 1: getting brets cancer while she's working at the Paris Fashion Week.
Speaker 1: I can't believe somebody wrote the script and somebody bought
Speaker 1: it and let it get made. But whatever, she looks good.
Speaker 1: She looks good. I'll look forward to it. But she says,
Speaker 1: to be candid. Nobody uses the word candid. If you
Speaker 1: hear that word, they're full of shit. To be honest
Speaker 1: or I bety? Yet? Can I be honest? Or better yet?
Speaker 1: I'll tell you something, but to be candid, go wrap
Speaker 1: your ass for a flagpole. To be candid. Okay, I
Speaker 1: haven't dated since I divorced a decade ago. So I
Speaker 1: kind of get in my head that that aspect of
Speaker 1: me is not centered in my life. If i'm if
Speaker 1: I'm focusing on my children, my family. It took me
Speaker 1: a second to kind of say, well, you know, I
Speaker 1: can love my daughter and be dedicated to my daughter,
Speaker 1: but also this woman, I need to be a certain woman.
Speaker 1: And she's just going on and on and talking shit
Speaker 1: acting like she's never been. She didn't date, since I
Speaker 1: know for a fact there were there. She was flying
Speaker 1: men in with her private jet when she was lonely. Okay,
Speaker 1: you know, maybe those aren't called dates technically, but she
Speaker 1: didn't dry up and blow away in the wind. Angeline
Speaker 1: was getting satiated, if you know what I mean. It's
Speaker 1: all bullshit. I think in some way they're bringing me
Speaker 1: back to my old self, my kids, my desire for
Speaker 1: them to have all the strength and openness and softness
Speaker 1: and yeah, because when you were fucking guys coming off
Speaker 1: the jet, they were too young to notice in your
Speaker 1: sixteen room mansions and you know, four kitchens and eighteen bathrooms.
Speaker 1: It's just give me a fucking break. They just want
Speaker 1: me to be mom. Yeah, I don't know, you're right,
Speaker 1: just want to be mom. She's so full of shit.
Speaker 1: But here's what I want to get to today, because
Speaker 1: today's the thirtieth as I record this, and yesterday obviously
Speaker 1: it was the twenty ninth, and it skipped my mind.
Speaker 1: Normally these kind of sentimental things don't, but it's skipped
Speaker 1: my mind that the great Robert Evans. His birthday was
Speaker 1: June twenty ninth he would have been ninety six years old.
Speaker 1: I saying that makes no sense to me. But this guy,
Speaker 1: a lot of you guys want to hear more about it.
Speaker 1: I mean, you've told me, tell me all Evan's stories.
Speaker 1: Let me tell you somem I don't know if you
Speaker 1: know how he began his career, and it was in
Speaker 1: women's clothing. Him and his brother used to own Evan Piccollen,
Speaker 1: which was a big brand back in the sixties and seventies,
Speaker 1: even in the eighties, and that's how they made their money.
Speaker 1: And then Bob had the better looks and just a
Speaker 1: better looking guy than Charles. And he's at the Beverly
Speaker 1: Hills Hotel pool one day, just hanging out and he
Speaker 1: gets spotted by the great Norma Shearer, who was a
Speaker 1: big actress, and she cast them to play her late husband,
Speaker 1: who was the big movie mogul Irving Thalberg, and he
Speaker 1: played a matador in the film of Ernest Hemingway's to
Speaker 1: Sun Also Rises trained several months to become good at
Speaker 1: it and understand the talent behind it, and nobody liked it.
Speaker 1: Nobody liked it. Ava Gardner, who he was banging at
Speaker 1: twenty one, Tyrone power. Even Ernest Hemingway himself. They didn't
Speaker 1: like it. They all signed a letter saying Evans needs
Speaker 1: to be off this movie. He's not an actor. This
Speaker 1: is ridiculous. And the great producer Darryl F. Zanak didn't
Speaker 1: fire Robert Evans. He stuck his ground, and he had
Speaker 1: that megaphone that all the old timers used to use.
Speaker 1: And during a scene one day in the bull ring
Speaker 1: and Evans is doing his thing, and I agree, he
Speaker 1: doesn't look like a bullfighter. But whatever. It was a
Speaker 1: long time ago. Daryl'sannak yelled out to everybody watching, all
Speaker 1: the other co stars, the kid stays in the picture,
Speaker 1: and anybody doesn't like it can quit. Evans stays and
Speaker 1: everything in his life changes. But what he wanted to
Speaker 1: be was a producer. He loved the power that Darryl
Speaker 1: Zanac had. He wanted to be him. He didn't want
Speaker 1: to be himself. Evans wanted to be a producer, a
Speaker 1: powerful producer, possibly a studiohead, but he wanted to be
Speaker 1: the guy that makes the decisions, not the guy who
Speaker 1: has decisions made for him, which is how many of
Speaker 1: us live our lives. And that's tiring, it's boring. It
Speaker 1: can be painful, pain in the ass. But yeah, there's
Speaker 1: great stories about Evans. I mean I spent a lot
Speaker 1: of time with them, and I posted a picture of
Speaker 1: him the other day with him and his ex wife
Speaker 1: Ali McGrath. They made a great baby. He's not a
Speaker 1: baby anymore, but Josh, their son. He used to always
Speaker 1: be at the house. Good kid. I'm not sure what
Speaker 1: he's up to now. I think he was into movies
Speaker 1: and doing something I haven't talked to me in years.
Speaker 1: But it was such a different world. I mean, I'm
Speaker 1: a kid watching Love Story when the fuck was love Story?
Speaker 1: Evans produced Love Story Ryan O'Neil and Alan McGraw. Love
Speaker 1: means never having to say you're sorry. What do you
Speaker 1: say about a twenty year old girl dies? I mean
Speaker 1: the poster alone was insane. Maybe we'll getting the age wrong,
Speaker 1: but basically he sold the movie based on that quote,
Speaker 1: what do you say about a twenty year old girl
Speaker 1: who dies? Like I said, the age could be different,
Speaker 1: I forget, but it caused such emotions around the country.
Speaker 1: Everybody had to see Love Story. Well do I begin
Speaker 1: to the other story? It was huge and that was
Speaker 1: his wife until he was working incessantly and obsessively on
Speaker 1: The Godfather, editing in his home, the same film room
Speaker 1: project the room ice to sit in with him, Jack
Speaker 1: and Ware and all the other guys. And he got
Speaker 1: very busy with that, and she was only shooting to
Speaker 1: get away with Steve McQueen in Vegas and you know,
Speaker 1: forty five minute flight, three hour drive. And Alan mcgrow
Speaker 1: told him, and she was a big model. She warned him,
Speaker 1: don't let me be lonely, Evans, I can't be lonely.
Speaker 1: And unfortunately, he was so obsessed with making the movie
Speaker 1: and getting it right because it's obviously the best movie
Speaker 1: of all time, that she left him, and she shocked
Speaker 1: up with McQueen. Evans hated McQueen for that. Him and
Speaker 1: Ally patch things up. You know, they always stayed clothes.
Speaker 1: In fact, when I used to stay there, she'd come
Speaker 1: over whe her turkourse jewelry or rings or necklaces or
Speaker 1: bracests and make sandwiches.
Speaker 2: And billinis and we sit by the pool, and I'm
Speaker 2: going I remember sitting in my living room as a
Speaker 2: kid and watching my sister's cry of a love story.
Speaker 1: And now I'm with her, I'm with her and him, Oh,
Speaker 1: my god, how could this happen to me? Those are
Speaker 1: those are reasons why it wasn't always about money. I
Speaker 1: didn't make millions of dollars. I mean, if you stretched
Speaker 1: my life out across my whole career at Shore, but
Speaker 1: I wasn't making a million two million a year. I
Speaker 1: was doing well and having fu having a ball, and
Speaker 1: meeting the world and shaking all my idols hands and
Speaker 1: the movie stars and the beautiful women. The model that
Speaker 1: was that was a cloud nine. And sometimes or most
Speaker 1: of the time, it was more about who did I
Speaker 1: just meet. I got to work with Stallone, I got
Speaker 1: to work at Gibson. These were like heroes of mine
Speaker 1: as a kid, And you go, wow, wow, wow wow.
Speaker 1: It's not all about money. It's not all about money.
Speaker 1: It's just being around certain people you find enthralling and
Speaker 1: heavily dedicated to what their art is, and you can't
Speaker 1: get enough of it. It sucks you in, it really did.
Speaker 1: But man, what he did with Paramount Pictures. When he
Speaker 1: got hired as the head of the studio. There were
Speaker 1: dead last Gulf and Western owned Paramount Pictures, and it
Speaker 1: was failing shit movies. Come blow your horn like the
Speaker 1: worst movies that nobody wanted. It was like the end
Speaker 1: of musicals, and people didn't give a shit about movies
Speaker 1: as much. And he reversed everything. Found Franciscoppolo, found Roman
Speaker 1: Polanski decided to go after writers and directors that nobody
Speaker 1: really knew yet, and the result was Harold and Moored
Speaker 1: Rosebery's Baby, the Godfather of Chinatown. It goes on and
Speaker 1: on because he took a shot. He took a shot.
Speaker 1: You gotta take a shot, even if it means your
Speaker 1: arm gets pulled out of its socket. You gotta try
Speaker 1: to jump and grab that next limb and climb up.
Speaker 1: You'll get help. So I'm going to help you up there.
Speaker 1: They won't step on your fingers. They want creative, dashing
Speaker 1: types of people. And Evans was exactly that, even though
Speaker 1: when I was with him. You know, I've told you
Speaker 1: these stories, he was getting all in his life. And
Speaker 1: Evans the way he threw parties, beautiful candles, let up
Speaker 1: the driveway in the backyard, that you lip his trees
Speaker 1: to pull the fountain, candles on the floor, gorgeous, gorgeous,
Speaker 1: And his thing was by forty people over so big
Speaker 1: time people like I said, you know, the biggest movie stars,
Speaker 1: Robert Shapiro, Aroldo Rivera, Jackie has said, I mean everybody,
Speaker 1: anybody that was big and making noise would come and
Speaker 1: Evans would take one trip around his yard and say
Speaker 1: hello to everybody. Can mahug, give me shake and m kiss.
Speaker 1: Then he would retreat back to his bedroom and he
Speaker 1: wouldn't leave it. And when you were going to leave
Speaker 1: the party, you went to his bedroom, pushed the door
Speaker 1: up and hey kid, I'm gonna leave, Thank you so much,
Speaker 1: and he would get out of bed. You canhg him
Speaker 1: and kiss him. But that was his thing. One trip
Speaker 1: around one that's it. And one night he had these
Speaker 1: green crushed velvet not pants like a sweatpant kind of material,
Speaker 1: but they would crushed velvet like, those are great pants.
Speaker 1: And he goes he had a houseboy named Rio, and
Speaker 1: he used to bang REO's mother. Sorry to say it
Speaker 1: so bluntly, but that's how Rio got the job. And
Speaker 1: he goes, Real's mom, they're great to fly in. If
Speaker 1: you get to an airplane, you want to be in
Speaker 1: pants like these, and those are amazing. Dropped them. Take them, kid,
Speaker 1: what are you doing? Take the pants? They're yours kating
Speaker 1: his pants god which I still had those, I don't
Speaker 1: have them anymore. But I mean, I know there's a
Speaker 1: discrepancy over the years of how much did he really
Speaker 1: do with the Godfather? And did Francis couple and him
Speaker 1: and fight? Yes, they did, tooth and nail, because when
Speaker 1: you're making something that's so amazing, when you're really creating art,
Speaker 1: you're gonna go toe to toe. I mean, me and
Speaker 1: my buddy made so be it. You know how many
Speaker 1: times we went out in the hallway and went chest
Speaker 1: to chest and grabbing him by the neck and he
Speaker 1: shoving me. I mean, I can't even tell you why.
Speaker 1: You just get so passionate about the story and the
Speaker 1: casting and the production value and distribution that it takes
Speaker 1: its toll. You go fucking bananas. He kissed the make up.
Speaker 1: But that's part of the art. If you don't have
Speaker 1: that passion while you're making art, it's not art. It's horseshit.
Speaker 1: If there's not people going chin to chin in the
Speaker 1: back room, it ain't art. Man. I told you today
Speaker 1: about Jaws. Robert Shaw drunken than a skunk. Richard Dreyfus
Speaker 1: couldn't stand him, But what he produced. Come on, shocks
Speaker 1: are in the water. You heard it. It's amazing. Evans
Speaker 1: had his He had his particular way about the people.
Speaker 1: He didn't like. He didn't like Robert Redford at all.
Speaker 1: He would die. Don't like red Rifford's overrated, an overrated schmuck.
Speaker 1: What you mean, it's an overrated schmuck. Kind and tell
Speaker 1: me why I don't like him. I don't like his
Speaker 1: He was makeup. He half a sissy. He would just go.
Speaker 1: He loved Pacino, love Nicholson, loved Baby obviously. But you
Speaker 1: couldn't mention Robert rev around him is a plastic, plastic
Speaker 1: sheen to him, kid, when he kisses a girl, I
Speaker 1: think he's kissing himself, That's what I think. He was
Speaker 1: too made up, too precise for Evans. And you know,
Speaker 1: Evans was a guy that went through hell. You know,
Speaker 1: the cocaine addictions, the bankruptcy is the seven marriages, that
Speaker 1: the Cotton Club story, the cocaine. Everything was Roy. The
Speaker 1: death of Roy Raydon, which I don't I've never talked
Speaker 1: to you guys about, but he was a big financier,
Speaker 1: Roy Raiden. He was murdered back in the eighties, very
Speaker 1: suspicious circumstances. He disappeared. He was on a business there
Speaker 1: in Beverly Hills. Couldn't find him anymore because they found
Speaker 1: him in a riverbed in a different part of California.
Speaker 1: And he was brand new in Hollywood, just got there.
Speaker 1: He met Evans through evans drug dealer, okay, and he
Speaker 1: was also banging this drug dealer, Karen Greenberger, and him
Speaker 1: and Braydon hit it off, and they did. They had
Speaker 1: a great time together. But I don't know. They went
Speaker 1: to work together on Cotton Club and it didn't work out,
Speaker 1: and he ends up dead. And then someone throws a
Speaker 1: bunch of cocaine over Robert Evans's gate and it's on
Speaker 1: his lawn and then suddenly he's up for cocaine conspiracy, distribution. Horrifying, horrible,
Speaker 1: And yet Evans did blow not in front of me,
Speaker 1: but he did it. Nicholson did it in front of me.
Speaker 1: Evans wasn't doing it back, but he did it. He
Speaker 1: was younger, sure, crazy times crazy, but I loved it.
Speaker 1: And if you go back and look, I mean, I
Speaker 1: don't know if you guys. I just saw the other day,
Speaker 1: not a preview, but a little thing about the Godfather
Speaker 1: with you know Paccino and that famous scene where he's
Speaker 1: in the in the restaurant and he kills the cop
Speaker 1: and he kills Salatso, the other mobster. Sorry if it's
Speaker 1: a spoiler alert, but it's been fucking fifty years. Get
Speaker 1: with it, and you know Salatso and this is why,
Speaker 1: this is why these movies are must see. He can't
Speaker 1: Virgil Salaso was played by an Actronym al Lettieri died
Speaker 1: after The Godfather was finished. Had a heart attack. I
Speaker 1: think he even hit his head. Was a hemophiliac. Maybe
Speaker 1: that was Mo Green. Either way, he died forty seven
Speaker 1: years old. And if you see him in The Godfather,
Speaker 1: you're gonna get the taste of all the actors that
Speaker 1: were in that movie and how perfectly precise and just
Speaker 1: kind of off center they were to make you sit
Speaker 1: up and look. You know, like listen, I'm gonna throw
Speaker 1: a weird comparison here. Most of us love dogs, right,
Speaker 1: we love it dog. What's better than a fucking dog?
Speaker 1: Ricky Jervais always says, God's done nothing better than make
Speaker 1: a dog. The Dog's the best thing in the world.
Speaker 1: A dog. It's God Spell back with dog. He's right.
Speaker 1: They're everything. You see a dog, cute little pug, Pomeranian, pitbull,
Speaker 1: fuck piples, whatever you like. She sews yr Key's beagles.
Speaker 1: I don't care. And what a great dog, but you
Speaker 1: know it gets more of your attention when you see
Speaker 1: a dog with three legs or a dog that's got
Speaker 1: two wheels in the back instead of his hind legs.
Speaker 1: It makes you sit up and look more. That's what
Speaker 1: so many actors in The god No one's gonna ever
Speaker 1: tell you a metaphor like this. This is what why
Speaker 1: On top of great writing, the Godfather is great because
Speaker 1: everybody was kind of a little off. Not everybody, but
Speaker 1: a lot of the character actors were like, can he
Speaker 1: pull this off? Oh shit, he did? You have to watch?
Speaker 1: And when you watch, you said, no, no, brilliant, brilliant.
Speaker 1: But these are guys that were just kind of I
Speaker 1: druw comparisons to the Knicks. I made the comparison the
Speaker 1: other day about broken sticks and twigs that don't mean
Speaker 1: the hill of beans, but you put them together and
Speaker 1: make a nest and they'll keep a bird alive and
Speaker 1: the eggs alive. And that's what The Godfather was like
Speaker 1: to me. A lot of broken Sticks that didn't necessarily
Speaker 1: go on to work many many, many more years. Some
Speaker 1: of them obviously did, Keaton, Cohn, Paccino, you know, of course,
Speaker 1: many several of us. But the point is, where did
Speaker 1: Appalonia go? Where did Frankie five Angels go? Where did
Speaker 1: Mo Green go? Where did Alatieri go? Like these guys
Speaker 1: are Luca Brozi, where did they go? So integral to
Speaker 1: the best plot of the best movie ever made, gone
Speaker 1: not dead, just moved on trying to find more work.
Speaker 1: But because of their ability to take themselves not too
Speaker 1: seriously and read words off the page and deliver it
Speaker 1: in a way that only they could. It's a lot
Speaker 1: of what made that those two movies tremendous. So the siery,
Speaker 1: you know, if you remember, it's a lot so in
Speaker 1: the restaurant, big, big heavy eyes, you know, thick, resounding voice.
Speaker 1: And he did something that I failed to do when
Speaker 1: I did the play at college, when I played Appacino's
Speaker 1: role in The Indian Monster Bronx. I didn't stay calm
Speaker 1: long enough. I reacted and put my hands on the
Speaker 1: guy we were terrorizing. And once you do that, you're terrorizing.
Speaker 1: Can can look you up and say well, that didn't
Speaker 1: hurt me. I'm not worried about this fucking guy. But
Speaker 1: if you don't touch somebody, or even better, like Molon Brando,
Speaker 1: if you take dust off their shoulder or pick piece
Speaker 1: of lint off their pants, suddenly you become a monster.
Speaker 1: You become scaryself. An Altieri, who I don't even know
Speaker 1: what other movies he was in. That calm, that dangerous calm,
Speaker 1: dead calm I've called a tiger calm. It's my own phrase.
Speaker 1: That's what made his work tremendous. And maybe some of
Speaker 1: you going, who the fuck's Alatari? Look at the guy?
Speaker 1: Look who played virgils Lotso he came to Michael Corleone
Speaker 1: because he wanted to get in business with his family.
Speaker 1: He wanted the politicians that Malon Brando out of his pocket.
Speaker 1: He wanted to sell drugs, you know, he just wanted
Speaker 1: to protect and a bigger army around him, and Brando
Speaker 1: turned them down. And then Brando got shot, didn't die,
Speaker 1: but they put five or six bullets in them at
Speaker 1: a fruit stand. And now al Pacino, who was a
Speaker 1: nice kid, good kid, married the kay war veteran, becomes
Speaker 1: the tough guy in the family and he's at the
Speaker 1: at the restaurant and he's with the cop and Salatso,
Speaker 1: and Salatso's talking in Sicilian to Michael and the cop
Speaker 1: has no ideas an Irish cop McCluskey, and it's a
Speaker 1: great scene and they're talking privately and basically it's a
Speaker 1: lots of saying, I'm sick of what happened to your father.
Speaker 1: It makes me sick. We need to be together, we
Speaker 1: need to work together. Ba ba bah. And Michael's just listening.
Speaker 1: He says, I got to go to the restroom good,
Speaker 1: and he that's where he pulls the gun out from
Speaker 1: behind the toilet tank, which when I lived in New York,
Speaker 1: there were several restaurants that had that toilet tank the
Speaker 1: chain up top. The toilet bowl was on the bottom,
Speaker 1: but the tank was up top by the ceiling and
Speaker 1: you pull the chain, and that's where they planted a
Speaker 1: gun for Michael to shoot these two guys. And when
Speaker 1: he comes out and does it, it's one of the
Speaker 1: best moments of all time. But the point is Salutso
Speaker 1: they called him the Turk. He was good with a knife.
Speaker 1: When he sits there and looks at Michael, you got
Speaker 1: to what He's still as great as Piccino was. Look
Speaker 1: at al the TIERI never explodes, He's always calculating. He's
Speaker 1: sitting across is a powerful guy, and he knows that
Speaker 1: violence is just another cost of doing business. And you
Speaker 1: look at his face and you're not sure what the
Speaker 1: hell is going to do next. You know. That's why
Speaker 1: it's so frightening, because most of us, when we think
Speaker 1: we're being terrifying to people, we think it's because we
Speaker 1: have a lot of noise and we're loud. And I'm
Speaker 1: guilty of this, But what's scary is control. My buddy
Speaker 1: Kenny can go loud like me, but he also has
Speaker 1: this gear where he's just in control. My nephew Joey
Speaker 1: never pops off, never goes off control. He was the
Speaker 1: catcher in high school, the quarterback in high school, and
Speaker 1: now was his sheriff. I was a crazy maniac. I'm
Speaker 1: Sonny Coleoni. He's Michael. He just has a measured calm
Speaker 1: about him. Jiu jitsu black belt, They'll kill you in
Speaker 1: a minute, doesn't have to be loud. And that was
Speaker 1: a lot so And that's why you look at a
Speaker 1: guy like Robert Evans making this movie or help editing it.
Speaker 1: How do you leave it? It's just you know, you're
Speaker 1: working on a masterpiece. And unfortunately, if you're married to
Speaker 1: a woman like Ali McGrath and she's on a film
Speaker 1: set with a big movie star, you might stand the
Speaker 1: chance of losing her. But he had to do what
Speaker 1: he had to do. And if that meant sitting in
Speaker 1: his projection room or talking to Francis for Copla or
Speaker 1: Al Ruddy or whatever the fuck, it meant, we've got
Speaker 1: to make this masterpiece. Everything else can wait. And the
Speaker 1: older you get, you know what, people don't always think
Speaker 1: they can wait forever. People have her own schedules, their
Speaker 1: own things they want to do. And it's happened to
Speaker 1: me when you think everything's great and they say, no,
Speaker 1: I gotta go. What do you mean it's not working
Speaker 1: no more? The fizz went flat. I just got to
Speaker 1: finish this book. It's okay, It's okay, I gotta go.
Speaker 1: But confidence that all the theary plays in that movie
Speaker 1: is beautiful, careful, patient, always respectful. But you know he's
Speaker 1: trying to push around Michael Corleon doesn't think this kid
Speaker 1: has the balls to do anything violent? Oh boy? But
Speaker 1: does he ever? In fact, one scene time that scene
Speaker 1: he tells him, well that he doesn't tell him, but
Speaker 1: he's saying basically, he's saying, I know this world better
Speaker 1: than you do, kid, and by the time you understand
Speaker 1: the rules, I'm going to own the room. Right. It's
Speaker 1: not his line, but it's what is in his head.
Speaker 1: You could read into it. And then he goes to
Speaker 1: the bathroom, gets the gun and blows both their fucking
Speaker 1: heads off. It's fantastic, fantastic. But you go back and
Speaker 1: look at that movie and you see what goes on
Speaker 1: in that scene. I don't know how do you pull
Speaker 1: a studio head or a producer away from that when
Speaker 1: they're trying to complete the masterpiece, trying to put the
Speaker 1: finishing touches on a painting, the last chip a marble
Speaker 1: of a statue, the last few words of a book.
Speaker 1: If you're a real artist, you can't walk away from it.
Speaker 1: You just can't. And everybody around you asked to understand,
Speaker 1: this is what I do. I make art. I make
Speaker 1: beautiful things. And what he made, what Evans helped make,
Speaker 1: remains to this day, and what al Laterry did, and
Speaker 1: so many other actors in that movie who are no
Speaker 1: longer with us. They're still here. They stayed behind because
Speaker 1: of their work, their dedication, their talent, their ability. It's
Speaker 1: a beautiful thing. It's it's it's it's you know. I
Speaker 1: could bitch about movies and bitch about Hollyer, but my god,
Speaker 1: when they get something right, it's glorious. Michael used to
Speaker 1: be everything. There are different, you know, different incarnations, life
Speaker 1: and businesses change, countries change people, change style, fashion, influenza,
Speaker 1: old changes, TikTok is bigger than Hollywood. Now, what the
Speaker 1: fuck's aw that coming? But man, you get a chance,
Speaker 1: go look at that work. If you haven't seen the
Speaker 1: movie yet, I don't know what the hell is wrong
Speaker 1: with you, But go see it. See what he was
Speaker 1: responsible for producing and what he's left the world. And
Speaker 1: I wish him happy birthday. I'm sorry it's not here,
Speaker 1: and I love the guy, and I'll believe you this
Speaker 1: story in the way out. I've said it years ago.
Speaker 1: But I went to a party for some playboy playmate
Speaker 1: in the Hollywood Hills one night and Evans had already
Speaker 1: suffered a stroke. He was with the director of Wes Craven,
Speaker 1: who was pitching of a movie, and during dinner Evans
Speaker 1: on a stroke. I think you had two, one after
Speaker 1: the other. And Craven is like beside himself, Bob, Bob,
Speaker 1: and he said, I told you it's always interesting here,
Speaker 1: It's always interesting. He could barely move his mouth, but
Speaker 1: he got that out. Fucking superstar. But I'm at this party,
Speaker 1: I'm alone, and I go in the backyard. There's a
Speaker 1: nice pool, it's lit up. It's a kidney shaped pool,
Speaker 1: and beautiful girls, typical guys, Hollywood guys all day. And
Speaker 1: I see in the corner Bob Evans, he's alone. I
Speaker 1: made a beelock kid. How you doing, a kid? What's
Speaker 1: going on? No? I just wanted to say a lot
Speaker 1: of some people, how are you? I'm great? What do
Speaker 1: you want to do? He is still your favorite? Can
Speaker 1: you hold my arm and take me into the house?
Speaker 1: And said, of course, of course, of course. Because he
Speaker 1: wasn't feeling good, grandmother elbow walk into the kitchen. As
Speaker 1: we're getting into the kitchen, these two hot girls come by,
Speaker 1: and I know him. Why don't you go over there
Speaker 1: and try to get him back to Woodland? Woodland was
Speaker 1: his address. That was a straight Woodland. See if they
Speaker 1: want to come back to Woodland with you, and I
Speaker 1: I said, okay, kid, I know they wouldn't want to go.
Speaker 1: He was a shell of his former self. I know,
Speaker 1: but that's the pride some old men still have. They
Speaker 1: still want to take down the young antelope, the old lions.
Speaker 1: I said, I'll love I'll ask them, Bob, thanks kid,
Speaker 1: what fun we to have? I know? So I leave
Speaker 1: him alone for a minute. I go to the girls,
Speaker 1: say listen. I says, look, I don't want to be
Speaker 1: out of turn here, but this is my buddy, Robert Evans,
Speaker 1: a great producer. He wants us to take you back
Speaker 1: to his house. Don't get mad at me. I know
Speaker 1: you're not going to come. I'm just laying out for you.
Speaker 1: So I can go back to them and say, you
Speaker 1: politely declined, Oh that's so cute, but yeah, we can't go.
Speaker 1: I understand. Don't worry. Guys, turn around what they say?
Speaker 1: They got some of the place to go, two cunts.
Speaker 1: And then I went back to this house and I
Speaker 1: put on pouring and watched, Oh my god, this ship.
Speaker 1: That What a great fucking time, What a great time
Speaker 1: it was. Who else is out there like that? Who
Speaker 1: are you gonna go see? Who are you gonna hang
Speaker 1: out with and have that kind of fun. And who
Speaker 1: is gonna ever tell you these stories but me. I'll
Speaker 1: tell you. Nobody loves talk to you tomorrow. Unbelievable to cunts.
Speaker 1: Can you imagine? Happy birthday, kid, Love you,