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“Succession” Meets “Stranger Things” and “Avatar” as Animated “My Love Affair with Marriage” Sets Summer Release

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“Succession” Meets “Stranger Things” and “Avatar” as Animated “My Love Affair with Marriage” Sets Summer Release

Eventually “Succession” and “Stranger Things” had to meet “Avatar” somehow.

Now “My Love Affair with Marriage,” an animated film directed by Signe Baumane and featuring the voices of Matthew Modine, Stephen Lang, and Dagmara Dominczyk, is headed to theaters and streaming this summer thanks to MVD Entertainment.

“My Love Affair With Marriage” — a New York Times Critics Pick– premiered at the Tribeca Festival in June 2022 and went on to screen at over 110 film festivals around the world winning 25 awards. Baumane recently completed a 24-city tour around the U.S., presenting the film to audiences, holding Q&As and giving away original drawings from the film.

The highly praised film also stars Michele Pawk and Cameron Monaghan.

Set against a backdrop of historic events in Eastern Europe, “My Love Affair With Marriage” follows Zelma (Dominczyk), who navigates through a series of romantic encounters, each one shaping her understanding of love and marriage.

My Love Affair With Marriage was produced by Signe Baumane, Raoul Nadalet, Roberts Vinovskis and Sturgis Warner and executive produced by John Jencks, Adam Rackoff and Matthew Modine.

Tom Selleck Isn’t Going to Lose His Ranch, He’s Worth $45 Million Despite His Begging to Keep “Blue Bloods” on the Air

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Tom Selleck Isn’t Going to Lose His Ranch, He’s Worth $45 Million Despite His Begging to Keep “Blue Bloods” on the Air

I’m really gobsmacked about how gullible people are sometimes.

Tom Selleck was weeping on CBS Sunday Morning about “Blue Bloods” going off the air after only 14 seasons.

Hello? That’s the run of two successful series.

Selleck’s net worth is reported at $45 million — it’s probably higher. But he indicated in the interview that he had to keep working so he could keep his lavish 63 acre ranch in Ventura, California.

Give me a break. Now TMZ has picked it up.

Tom Selleck’s not losing his ranch. CBS Sunday Mornings, however, is losing its mind. After gabbing on and on about “Magnum PI” and Selleck losing the part of Indiana Jones in “Raiders of the Lost Ark,” the so called news show left out one important detail:

In 2018, Selleck resigned from the board of the National Rifle Association in 2018 after 13 years of promoting their message. He was a member for decades before that.

Might that not have been a subject for this ridiculous interview?

(Also PS, Selleck made $5 million a year making “Magnum.” He also made a lot of money on “Three Men and a Baby” movies, and so on.

In 1999, Selleck defended his stance on the Rosie O’Donnell Show:

“American Idol” Struggles with Ratings in Season 22, Down 12% from Last Year, Sparks No Cliffhangers

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“American Idol” Struggles with Ratings in Season 22, Down 12% from Last Year, Sparks No Cliffhangers

Sunday should have been a good news headline for “American Idol.” They had the highest ratings of the season so far — 5.3 million viewers.

But they are down 12% overall from last year. Even worse, the Monday shows really fall off from Sunday. This past Monday, the show fell by 700,000 viewers. The Monday shows are also down from last year.

“Idol” cannot seem to build a cliffhanger from Sunday to Monday. And the entire temperament this season is askew. One reason might be that Katy Perry is leaving to resume her music career. She’s either jumping from a burning boat or she’s caused the fire.

Who will replace Katy? Jennifer Lopez wants to come back, but ABC has to be smarter than to go backwards. Lopez’s recent album and longform video were huge failures. She looked drawn, almost gaunt, at last night’s Met Ball. Maybe she didn’t care for husband Ben Affleck’s performance at the Tom Brady roast. But JLo is a no go for “Idol.”

Last night Blake Shelton was on Jimmy Kimmel in a network cross-promotion. ABC has been doing a lot of this as the season finale nears, plus stunt casting, anything to get viewers’ attention. They have Jon Bon Jovi coming in as a mentor. Presumably, Katy will perform on the final episode of the season. (If she doesn’t, wow.)

So stay tuned…

Trump Freaks Out About Stormy Daniels Court Appearance in Social Media Post (Since Deleted)

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Trump Freaks Out About Stormy Daniels Court Appearance in Social Media Post (Since Deleted)

Donald Trump freaked out this morning when he found out Stormy Daniels is the witness today in his hush money case.

He posted a nasty item to his Truth Social, then deleted it. But the post is a veiled threat, and could be seen as another violation of his gag order. I’m guessing Judge Merchan won’t stop the trial, because this could provide series-high ratings.

To quote Dennis Yost and the Classics IV from Buddy Buie’s “Stormy”:

Yesterday’s love was like a warm summer breeze
But like the weather, you changed
Now things are dreary, baby
And it’s windy and cold
And I stand alone in the rain
Callin’ your name

Anna Wintour Didn’t Just Invite Celebs to Met Ball: Aussie Billionaire Anthony Pratt Spotted, Trump May Have Shared Nuclear Secrets with Him

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Anna Wintour Didn’t Just Invite Celebs to Met Ball: Aussie Billionaire Anthony Pratt Spotted, Trump May Have Shared Nuclear Secrets with Him

Anna Wintour didn’t just invite people like Nicole Kidman, Naomi Watts, Lily Gladstone, and other celebs to the Met Ball.

Spotted on the red carpet tonight: sketchy Australian billionaire Anthony Pratt, BFF of Donald Trump. If you think the Kardashians are bad news, check this guy out.

Pratt is allegedly part of the big Jack Smith case, Trump’s potential next trial. Special prosecutor Smith says that after he left office, Trump discussed military secrets about nuclear submarines with Pratt.

Pratt made his billions as the executive chairman of Visy Asia-Pacific, a packaging and recycling business.

According to The Guardian: New recordings and documents – reported by Australia’s Nine newspapers and 60 Minutes programme as well as the New York Times – have shed extraordinary further light on Pratt’s relationship with Trump and other key global and Australian figures.”

The covert tapes included: Pratt’s claims Trump that had told him in 2019 of ordering an airstrike on Iranian-linked militants in Iraq, before it hit the headlines, and said that Iraq’s president had called him to complain. Pratt says Trump responded: “I [Trump] said to him [Iraq’s leader], ‘OK, what are you going to do about it?’”

Trump responded to these revelations by calling Pratt — who was seen in a pink suit tonight — as a “red haired weirdo.”

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The reports suggest Pratt spent hundreds of thousands dollars on memberships at Trump’s private Mar-a-Lago resort, helping him cultivate a close relationship with the president and leading to regular private conversations between the pair.

(Exclusive) Met Gala 2023 Receipts Were Down by $11 Million from 2022: Is Interest Fading?

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(Exclusive) Met Gala 2023 Receipts Were Down by $11 Million from 2022: Is Interest Fading?

This is a surprise.

As Anna Wintour prepares for tonight’s annual Met Ball aka Halloween show, finances are becoming a big problem.

According to the Metropolitan Museum’s form 990 tax return, receipts for the 2023 Met Ball were down by about $11 million from 2022.

In 2022, the Ball produced $33 million, less a whopping almost $10 million of direct expenses.

But in the new filing for 2023, last year’s event netted just $22 million, although direct expenses were cut to $6 million.

How could the Gala generate so much less in 2023? After all, the ticket prices keep skyrocketing. Numbers like $275,000 a table are commonly heard.

Is interest in this hoary spectacular fading? Or is it costing too much to pay for celebrities, their stylists, and so on? Someone’s footing those bills, and it’s not the celebrities themselves, trust me.

Regardless, when the Met Gala is factored into the Museum’s total fundraising events, the final numbers are always in the red. Last year, the Gala weighed heavily on the bottom line bringing net income from all events to MINUS $7.6 million. At least that was better than in 2022, when that number was at MINUS $10.3 million.

Billie Eilish Brooklyn Listening Party for New Album Attracts At Least 86,000 Requests

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Billie Eilish Brooklyn Listening Party for New Album Attracts At Least 86,000 Requests

This morning Billie Eilish announced listening parties in New York and Los Angeles for her new album.

“Hit Me Hard and Soft” releases on May 17th at midnight. So Billie — and I guess Finneas — will appear in those cities on May 15th and 16th.

The Brooklyn Barclays Center “show” has attracted at least 86,000 requests on Ticketmaster. Somehow, from those requests, offers will be made to fans.

Eilish told Rolling Stone this month that there are no singles coming from the album. Fans will decide what tracks they like the most, and send them onto iTunes, etc. There’s no impact single for radio.

This could be tricky, especially if there is no actual standout single. When artists do this with albums they tend to fade faster. But it’s her decision. Maybe it will change if one song turns out be to a really catchy favorite.

Not included: the siblings’ “What Was I Made For,” which won the Oscar and Grammy and was a big hit.

Spoiler Alert: Superman Puts His Boots on One at a Time in First Still from New Movie

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Spoiler Alert: Superman Puts His Boots on One at a Time in First Still from New Movie

It turns out Superman puts his boots on one at a time, like everybody else.

 

In the first still from the next “Superman” movie, actor David Corenswet is very carefully pulling on a red boot in the 2024 version of the Superman uniform. It would have been cooler to see him putting them on two at a time, or jumping into them. He looks like he’s in the Metropolis Florsheim shop.

 

The new outfit? It looks a lot like the old outfits, just spiffed up. If Lois Lane from the old TV show saw this guy on the street, she’d recognize him in a minute!

 

No word on whether this movie will explain why Superman isn’t Super Man, like Spider Man. Was it a name he got on Ellis Island? Instead of remaking the Krypton story over and over why doesn’t someone remake “The Mole Men”? Now, that would be cool! Stephen Miller could star.

 

Broadway: In the Bizarro World, “The Great Gatsby” — No Tony’s — Gets 11 Audience Nominations, But “Suffs” and “Doubt” are Out

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Broadway: In the Bizarro World, “The Great Gatsby” — No Tony’s — Gets 11 Audience Nominations, But “Suffs” and “Doubt” are Out

In the world of the Tony Awards, musicals like “The Great Gatsby,” “The Notebook,” and “Back to the Future” are considered, well, “bad,” and get no nominations.

But in Broadway.com’s Audience Award world, they are hits!

Almost all of the nominees for the Audience Awards were panned by critics, ignored by other awards groups, or taken seriously. But somehow they’ve all sprung back to life with this group. I hope all the nominees got expensive gift baskets.

Even “The Wiz” pulled off two noms, for Wayne Brady and Deborah Cox. “Lempicka,” which just posted a closing notice, got some love, too.

The Audience Awards love Big Stars! Four of the five leading men in a play got no Tony nominations. Serious work like “Suffs” and “Doubt” received one nom each. Of course!

Isn’t it nice? Everyone gets something.

FAVORITE NEW MUSICAL
Back to the Future
The Great Gatsby
The Notebook
The Outsiders
Water for Elephants

FAVORITE NEW PLAY
The Cottage
Grey House
Mary Jane
Mother Play
Stereophonic

FAVORITE MUSICAL REVIVAL
Cabaret at the Kit Kat Club
Gutenberg! The Musical!
Merrily We Roll Along
Spamalot
The Wiz

FAVORITE PLAY REVIVAL
Appropriate
Doubt
An Enemy of the People
Purlie Victorious
Uncle Vanya

FAVORITE LONG-RUNNING SHOW
Hamilton
Hadestown
Moulin Rouge! The Musical
SIX: The Musical
Wicked

FAVORITE TOUR
Beetlejuice
Come From Away
Hadestown
Hamilton
Wicked

FAVORITE PERFORMANCE OF THE YEAR (MUSICAL)
Josh Gad, Gutenberg! The Musical!  
Jonathan Groff, Merrily We Roll Along 
Jeremy Jordan, The Great Gatsby 
Eva Noblezada, The Great Gatsby 
Maryann Plunkett, The Notebook

FAVORITE PERFORMANCE OF THE YEAR (PLAY)
Steve Carell, Uncle Vanya  
Jessica Lange, Mother Play 
Rachel McAdams, Mary Jane
Leslie Odom Jr., Purlie Victorious 
Sarah Paulson, Appropriate 

FAVORITE LEADING ACTOR IN A MUSICAL
Josh Gad, Gutenberg! The Musical!
Jonathan Groff, Merrily We Roll Along
Jeremy Jordan, The Great Gatsby
Casey Likes, Back to the Future
Eddie Redmayne, Cabaret at the Kit Kat Club

FAVORITE LEADING ACTRESS IN A MUSICAL
Eden Espinosa, Lempicka
Isabelle McCalla, Water for Elephants
Eva Noblezada, The Great Gatsby
Kelli O’Hara, Days of Wine and Roses
Maryann Plunkett, The Notebook

FAVORITE LEADING ACTOR IN A PLAY
Steve Carell, Uncle Vanya
Danny DeVito, I Need That
Eric McCormack, The Cottage
Leslie Odom, Jr., Purlie Victorious
Jeremy Strong, An Enemy of the People

FAVORITE LEADING ACTRESS IN A PLAY
Laura Bell Bundy, The Cottage
Jessica Lange, Mother Play
Rachel McAdams, Mary Jane
Laurie Metcalf, Grey House
Sarah Paulson, Appropriate

FAVORITE FEATURED ACTOR IN A MUSICAL
Eric Anderson, The Great Gatsby
Roger Bart, Back to the Future
Wayne Brady, The Wiz
John Cardoza, The Notebook
Daniel Radcliffe, Merrily We Roll Along

FAVORITE FEATURED ACTRESS IN A MUSICAL
Shoshana Bean, Hell’s Kitchen
Julie Benko, Harmony
Lindsay Mendez, Merrily We Roll Along
Samantha Pauly, The Great Gatsby
Joy Woods, The Notebook

FAVORITE FEATURED ACTOR IN A PLAY
Alex Brightman, The Shark is Broken
Will Brill, Stereophonic
Colin Donnell, The Shark is Broken
Alfred Molina, Uncle Vanya
Jim Parsons, Mother Play

FAVORITE FEATURED ACTRESS IN A PLAY
Sophia Anne Caruso, Grey House
Lilli Cooper, The Cottage
Lucy DeVito, I Need That
Elle Fanning, Appropriate
Celia Keenan-Bolger, Mother Play

FAVORITE DIVA PERFORMANCE
Shoshana Bean, Hell’s Kitchen
Deborah Cox, The Wiz
Eden Espinosa, Lempicka
Leslie Rodriguez Kritzer, Spamalot
Gayle Rankin, Cabaret at the Kit Kat Club

FAVORITE FUNNY PERFORMANCE
Roger Bart, Back to the Future
Alex Brightman, The Shark is Broken
Danny DeVito, I Need That
Josh Gad, Gutenberg! The Musical!
Andrew Rannells, Gutenberg! The Musical!

FAVORITE ONSTAGE PAIR
Roger Bart and Casey Likes, Back to the Future
John Cardoza and Jordan Tyson, The Notebook
Josh Gad and Andrew Rannells, Gutenberg! The Musical!
Jonathan Groff and Daniel Radcliffe, Merrily We Roll Along
Jeremy Jordan and Eva Noblezada, The Great Gatsby

FAVORITE BREAKTHROUGH PERFORMANCE (MALE)
John Cardoza, The Notebook
Steve Carell, Uncle Vanya
Hugh Coles, Back to the Future
Brody Grant, The Outsiders
Grant Gustin, Water for Elephants

FAVORITE BREAKTHROUGH PERFORMANCE (FEMALE)
Lucy DeVito, I Need That
Elle Fanning, Appropriate
Rachel McAdams, Mary Jane
Shaina Taub, Suffs
Jordan Tyson, The Notebook

FAVORITE REPLACEMENT (MALE)
Alex Brightman, Spamalot
Tituss Burgess, Moulin Rouge! The Musical
Jordan Fisher, Hadestown
Joe Locke, Sweeney Todd
Aaron Tveit, Sweeney Todd

FAVORITE REPLACEMENT (FEMALE)
Ani DiFranco, Hadestown
Sutton Foster, Sweeney Todd
Mary Kate Morrissey, Wicked
Solea Pfeiffer, Hadestown
Lola Tung, Hadestown

FAVORITE NEW SONG
“21st Century,” Back to the Future
“Beautiful Little Fool,” The Great Gatsby
“Carry You Home,” The Notebook
“For Her,” The Great Gatsby
“My Green Light,” The Great Gatsby

TOTALS BY SHOW
The Great Gatsby – 11
The Notebook – 9
Back to the Future – 7
Gutenberg! The Musical! – 6
Hadestown – 6
Merrily We Roll Along – 6
Appropriate – 5
Mother Play – 5
The Cottage – 4
I Need That – 4
Mary Jane – 4
Uncle Vanya – 4
Cabaret at the Kit Kat Club – 3
Purlie Victorious – 3
The Shark is Broken – 3
Spamalot – 3
Sweeney Todd – 3
Water for Elephants – 3
Wicked – 3
The Wiz – 3
Grey House – 3
An Enemy of the People – 2
Hamilton – 2
Hell’s Kitchen – 2
Lempicka – 2
Moulin Rouge! The Musical – 2
The Outsiders – 2
Stereophonic – 2
Beetlejuice – 1
Come From Away – 1
Days of Wine and Roses – 1
Doubt – 1
Harmony – 1
Six – 1
Suffs – 1

PERFORMERS WITH MULTIPLE NOMINATIONS
Josh Gad, Gutenberg! The Musical! – 4
Roger Bart, Back to the Future – 3
Alex Brightman, The Shark is Broken/Spamalot – 3
John Cardoza, The Notebook – 3
Steve Carell, Uncle Vanya – 3
Jonathan Groff, Merrily We Roll Along – 3
Jeremy Jordan, The Great Gatsby – 3
Rachel McAdams, Mary Jane – 3
Eva Noblezada, The Great Gatsby – 3
Shoshana Bean, Hell’s Kitchen – 2
Danny DeVito, I Need That – 2
Lucy DeVito, I Need That – 2
Eden Espinosa, Lempicka – 2
Jessica Lange, Mother Play – 2
Leslie Odom, Jr., Purlie Victorious – 2
Sarah Paulson, Appropriate – 2
Maryann Plunkett, The Notebook – 2
Daniel Radcliffe, Merrily We Roll Along – 2
Andrew Rannells, Gutenberg! The Musical! – 2
Jordan Tyson, The Notebook – 2

No Strike! Conde Nast Union Reaches 11th Hour Deal! Anna Wintour Can Keep Wearing Sunglasses Inside! Bathroom Breaks Allowed!

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No Strike! Conde Nast Union Reaches 11th Hour Deal! Anna Wintour Can Keep Wearing Sunglasses Inside! Bathroom Breaks Allowed!

Our long national nightmare is over!

Conde Nast has reached an agreement with the union representing magazine employees. There will be no picket line today at the Met Gala.

Whew!

It only took the spectre of celebrities in Halloween costumes having to walk past strikers to bring Conde Nast to its knees. The literally waited until the last minute to give the Union some of their demands.

Top of the list was Anna Wintour gets to keep wearing sunglasses indoors.

Also employees will be allowed to eat occasionally!

Here is an actual statement from the Union:

“WHEN WE FIGHT, WE WIN: We are excited to announce that we have a tentative agreement with Conde Nast on our first contract. Our pledge to do ‘whatever it takes’ ahead of the Met Gala moved the company and our progress at the bargaining table kicked into high gear…

“Just some of our wins: $61,500 starting salary floor; an end to the two-tier permalance system, just cause, expanded bereavement leave, two more weeks of family leave (14 total) and $3.3 million in total wage increases…For our colleagues on the layoff list we secured eight weeks severance, three months of COBRA coverage or, in lieu of COBRA, a one time lump sum payment; an additional $1,000 payment and much more.

“Our persistent fight for our rights and for the best win possible is why we have this tentative agreement. Ratification will take place this week.”

Well, mazel tov! If they’re happy, we’re happy! I did think COBRA was automatic for at least six months, but what do i know?

And now, on with the show!

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