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Madonna’s “Celebration” Tour, Put on Pause After Medical Scare, Has Never Stopped Selling Tickets — The Show Must Go On!

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Madonna’s “Celebration” Tour, Put on Pause After Medical Scare, Has Never Stopped Selling Tickets — The Show Must Go On!

A week ago, Madonna’s manager, Guy Oseary, announced that the famed performer has a health emergency and that her “Celebration” tour had been put on pause.

Since then we learned that Madonna went to the hospital ICU, had to be intubated, had gotten a bacterial infection, everyone around her was scared. But by then, according to the tabs, she was aleady home and “uncontrollably vomiting.” Contradicting this scenario, her friend Rosie O’Donnel; that Madonna was home and “feeling good.”

And what about the tour? Was it paused? No, as turns out. Ticketmaster is still selling tickets for every show beginning July 19th in Seattle. The show are about 75% sold, mostly through brokers like Stub Hub. There are multiple dates in cities like New York and Los Angeles. Some are sold more than others.

But so far, there’s no indication that anything has changed. Maybe that’s a good sign. The show will go on as planned? If you have Madonna tickets, please let me know via showbiz411@gmail.com if you’ve received word about your show.

Nothing can keep Madonna down!

TV UPDATE: “The Idol” Comes to An End By Skipping a “Lost” Episode and Making No Sense, After 5 Weeks of X Rated Sex, Bad Acting, And Mispronunciations

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TV UPDATE: “The Idol” Comes to An End By Skipping a “Lost” Episode and Making No Sense, After 5 Weeks of X Rated Sex, Bad Acting, And Mispronunciations

UPDATE: So the end did come. It’s fairly obvious that HBO just dropped episode 5, filmed or not, and proceeded ahead to Episode 6, and an ending. The attitude was, rightly, let’s get rid of this thing. They skipped to the end without explanation.

Jocelyn suddenly turned against Tedros. The “c” word was uttered a few times. Really awful, miserable songs and dancing were shown. Everyone except Suzanna Son should be arrested. I guess in the end someone thought it would be a “plot twist” for Jocelyn to become Tedros’s possession, turning the tables. Clever, huh?

That’s done. We’ll see what the fall out is. Please, let’s move on.

Tonight at 9pm, “The Idol’ ends on HBO.

Cut short by a week to five episodes, “The Idol” featured X rated sex, S&N. and a lot of bad acting.

For star and producer The Weeknd, the end could not come any sooner. He’s released a bunch of music from the show, none of it selling or being played like his past hits. The audience has ignored the stuff.

The audience has also ignored the show. An average of 133,000 people have watched the last three episodes on HBO. The numbers are so bad that HBO is not giving Nielsen ratings anymore. We may not know how badly episode 5 does.

What will happen tonight? We’d all love it if someone killed Tedros, the Weeknd’s character. And if someone gave Jocelyn, the singing star, a brain and some clothes her actual size. A really funny ending would be Jennifer Lawrence wandering in naked from “No Hard Feelings.” But that won’t happen. More likely that Jocelyn’s assistant, Leia — played by Rachel Sennott — will kill Tedros and set the house on fire, leave town with millions she’s embezzled from her idiot boss.

However “The Idol” ends, HBO has rarely had a show people hated so much, and not for good reasons. A second season is not only unlikely, there may be a legislation to stop it. HBO has so many great shows, this one should just disappear. And The Weeknd? It may take a lot to repair his reputation.

PS Still the highlight of the show is Tedros mispronouncing “carte blanche” as cartay blanchay. It’s a clip that will never die.

Box Office: It’s Tough Out There, Not Just for Indy and The Flash, But for Asteroid City and Jennifer Lawrence, Too

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Box Office: It’s Tough Out There, Not Just for Indy and The Flash, But for Asteroid City and Jennifer Lawrence, Too

The big story at the box office are the big movies. Both “The Flash” and “Indiana Jones” are terrible disappointments.

“The Flash” is actually dead. “Indiana Jones” came in too exactly at $60 million today. It will be interesting to see if that number is a little high or low when the receipts come in tomorrow.

But it’s also tough out there for “smaller” movies. “Asteroid City” is starting to collapse. Wes Anderson’s twee of celebrities fell a sharp 58% from last week. It’s up to $18 million but a goal of $40 million is looking unlikely.

Jennifer Lawrence’s “No Hard Feelings” is also at a cross roads. The R rated comedy dropped 50% this week, and has $30 million in the bank. So Jennifer gets paid on the first dollar, but Sony may find itself pushing for big international sales soon. What will always remain is Jennifer in her birthday suit, ready for clipping from the streaming and DVD versions.

Indiana Jones Dial of Destiny Eyes Disappointing $60 Mil Weekend

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Indiana Jones Dial of Destiny Eyes Disappointing $60 Mil Weekend

The fifth and final Indiana Jones movie is a disappointment at the box office. It looks the opening weekend will come in at $60 million. It should have been $100 million.

The trouble here began in Cannes. Which was not the right venue. It was too soon. And the way Disney handled screening single premiere screening was so off putting, the movie had little good will.

Certainly no one worked harder promoting the film than Harrison Ford. He was a real mensch. But he was one man pulling a heavy plough. Dial of Destiny has lived in the shadows of Mission Impossible, Barbie, and Oppenheimer as if it were just assumed people wanted to see it.

This all too bad because Indy’s last stand is a lot of fun. It also has a sensational ending, with Karen Allen. Go see it and be pleasantly surprised.

Kelly Clarkson’s Terrible New Album Had No “Chemistry”: Was a Sales Bust Despite Her 24-7 Presence on TV, Media

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Kelly Clarkson’s Terrible New Album Had No “Chemistry”: Was a Sales Bust Despite Her 24-7 Presence on TV, Media

Kelly Clarkson has a magnificent voice. She shows it off every day on her hit syndicated talk show. These days, Clarkson is also omni present in the media. So you’d think a new album by her would be an out of the box hit.

Alas, Kelly’s “Chemistry” had none. Total sales for the week were just 53,657 according hitsdailydouble.com. Of that, around 44,000 were downloads and CDs.

But “Chemistry” — a terrible album that has spawned no single hits — finished 5th for the week in its debut.

I’m not surprised. The songs are horrid, unlistenable except the last one with Steve Martin on banjo. The album is just a collection of diatribes about Clarkson’s divorce. They are not well written or clever. Most of them sound the same as the others.

To make things worse, Kelly’s amazing voice sounds like she’s shrieking. It’s the opposite of the powerhouse vocal performance she gives every day on her show. If only she’d just recorded great cover songs.

Again, the album has launched no hit singles. Not one. Radio can’t play this stuff, and fans don’t want it. What happened to the Kelly Clarkson of “Since U Been Gone”? If she’s smart, she’ll put together an album of songs she’s performed on her show for Christmas release.

TCM Hosts Say Their Traditional Outros After Movies Were Cut, But Will Reappear After the Summer

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TCM Hosts Say Their Traditional Outros After Movies Were Cut, But Will Reappear After the Summer

TCM is in the middle of so much chaos right now.

Steven Spielberg, Martin Scorsese, and Paul Thomas Anderson had to intervene after Warner Discover’s David Zaslav gutted the beloved channel. He fired around 70 people including all the top execs who make it so informative and cozy. The directing trio somehow got Zaslav to rehire one important person, Charles Tabesh, the longtime programmer.

Now it seems that while all this was going on, someone at TCM ordered the hosts to stop filming outro’s that talked about the movie we just saw. This will become evident, says host Dave Karger, over this weekend. But not to fear– with all the tumult, the decision was reversed and the outros will resume this fall.

Karger wrote on Twitter:

“Eagle-eyed TCM viewers will notice tomorrow that I don’t appear after the films I introduce. Same with @BenMank77 tomorrow night and Alicia on Sunday. But fret not: This change has already been reversed and our “outros” will return in September for Ben, October for me and Alicia.”

Ben Mankiewicz chimed in: “I know this seems like a bad omen to @TCM fans, but it’s a good sign. Outros – the made up word we use – were ordered back even before they went away. The lag time in production means we’ll wait until September until they reappear. Think of outros as taking a summer vacation.”

This stuff may not seem important in the face of global climate change, the Ukraine, immigration, and so on, but it is– this is what makes that other stuff palatable. TCM should not be tampered with under any conditions.

Fox News Will Pay Former Tucker Carlson Producer $12 Million After Claim of Hostile Workplace

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Fox News Will Pay Former Tucker Carlson Producer $12 Million After Claim of Hostile Workplace

No wonder Tucker Carlson got the boot. He just cost Fox News $12 million.

His former producer, Abby Grossberg, sued the network saying Carlson had made her workplace “hostile.” She also said she was coerced her into providing false testimony in a deposition.

In a statement, Grossberg said: “I am hopeful, based on our discussions with Fox News today, that this resolution represents a positive step by the network regarding its treatment of women and minorities in the workplace.”

This is just another blow to Fox News, which recently was awarded a judgement of $787 million in defamation case brought by Dominion Voting. Former talking head Bill O’Reilly cost them at least $32 million in a sex harassment suit, and there have been plenty of other suits.

Today, Geraldo Rivera exited the network after 23 years because he’d been treated very badly, fired from one show because he was the only sane one. So he quit.

Grossberg was smart. She taped all her calls with Carlson and his producers, then started leaking them. When she filed her suit against Fox, they fired her. She had the evidence, and it’s proved very damaging to the network.

And yet, Fox News viewers don’t seem to care about any of this — even if they know about it. It’s unclear if they because if their only source of news is Fox, this stuff either isn’t reported, or it’s buried. A lot of them may think Carlson is just on vacation.

Congrats to Abby Grossberg.

“General Hospital” Actor Nicholas Chavez Chosen for Ryan Murphy Menendez Movie, Could Be Another Cliffhanger for the 60 Year Old Soap

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“General Hospital” Actor Nicholas Chavez Chosen for Ryan Murphy Menendez Movie, Could Be Another Cliffhanger for the 60 Year Old Soap

It’s a good news, bad news situation for ABC’s “General Hospital.”

The good news is that their ratings are up, scab writers are sharpening the show, and they can be proud of young actor Nicholas Chavez. He’s taken off as Spencer Cassadine, getting very popular as the new guy in Port Charles.

The bad news is that Chavez has been cast as Lyle Menendez, one of the two brothers who killed their parents, in new Ryan Murphy series called “Monster.” It’s a series, meaning 8 episodes or so, so Chavez will not be able to keep playing Spencer. Yes, there was already a Menendez TV movie, as well as live Court TV, but that doesn’t matter. You can’t tell a good story too many times. And now, a witness has turned up who says the Menendez father abused him, making the brothers’ story seem slightly more plausible. (Newcomer Cooper Koch will play Erik Menendez.)

It’s good news for for Chavez, who’s already won a Daytime Emmy and is probably off to a great career launched by the soap. But it’s bad news for the soap which has recently had a lot of losses and turmoil in the cast.

The losses were the tragic deaths of 40 year veteran Jacklyn Zeman, and 15 year actor Sonya Eddy. Also, Leslie Charleson, who’s played Monica for 40 years also, has vanished from the show over the last year without an explanation. Additionally, young actress Haley Pullos — who’s been on the show since she was a kid — is off the air because she’s been charged with two DUI felonies for driving her car the wrong way on a freeway. She’s also being sued by the driver of the car she hit head-on.

Well, it’s a soap opera at a soap opera. But at least the actors can keep working even if SAG AFTRA goes through with its threatened strike. Soap actors are on a different contract, which allows them to continue without interruption. Of course, the show is being written by scabs of “fi core” writers, but I’m told it’s actually improved.

Stay tuned…

Box Office: Final Indiana Jones Movie, Dial of Destiny, Lasso’s $7.2 Million in Thursday Previews

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Box Office: Final Indiana Jones Movie, Dial of Destiny, Lasso’s $7.2 Million in Thursday Previews

Indiana Jones is back for one final movie.

Last night’s previews for “Dial of Destiny,” starring Harrison Ford, Karen Allen and Phoebe Waller Bridge, took in $7.2 million, which is just right for an older-skewing finale to a 40 year old franchise. Disney is saying they expect $65 million for the weekend. They should be able to hit $20 mil a day for Friday, Saturday, and Sunday, maybe a little more — that way they can say it “over performed.”

James Mangold managed to wrap this whole thing up pretty neatly. There are a lot of references to the first three movies, and just enough new stuff to bring people in. Phoebe Waller Bridge was an odd choice, as was her character, but it works. And Indy and Marion get a happy send off.

Watch Geraldo Rivera’s Goodbye to Fox News After 23 Years: Roger Ailes Would Never Have Allowed This

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Watch Geraldo Rivera’s Goodbye to Fox News After 23 Years: Roger Ailes Would Never Have Allowed This

Geraldo Rivera is leaving Fox News after 23 years. He says he was fired by “The Five,” so he decided to quit the network. He’s been treated shabbily by the current Fox regime. Roger Ailes is turning in his grave. He loved Geraldo.

But Greg Gutfeld can he blamed for this. He had no respect for Geraldo on “The Five,” and didn’t want a “liberal” on the show. Without Geraldo, “The Five” is reduced to gibberish from lunatics.

Rivera’s contract runs through 2025, so he’ll get paid out. And then he will not likely retire. He’s got a future in streaming, podcasts, etc, if he wants it age 80.

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