Hollywood Week: Hollywood Braces as Election Jitters Heighten, Box Office Mine Field, Teri Garr
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- Category: Entertainment News
- Published on Saturday, 02 November 2024 11:29
- Written by Janet Walker
As the Hollywood establishment braces for the results of what pundits are calling a too close to call presidential race, the dedicated effort to force President Biden to stand down to usher in change may just backfire.
Hollywood Braces as Election Jitters Heighten
Before President Biden's June debate performance, the ticket seemed secure. Although voter apathy had a strangle hold on the majority of the voting population, and the election campaigning cycle had become a circus sideshow especially as the revelations of the former President's infidelities both in his marriage, and his business dealings, resulted in a jury trial conviction and a pronouncement of guilt on each of the 36 counts.
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The debate performance, driven on the Trump side by a narcissist and vengeful need to payback the democrats for what he has maintained is a targeted campaign to ruin him, his presidency, and the hostile takeover and disinformation campaign in the 2016 election. The issue with those beliefs is the total disregard for his illegal actions, which he contends are simply a part of the process, and the Trump appointed Supreme Court has agreed that he cannot be held liable for any illegal actions as president.
For voters who are still unsure, that alone should be the deciding factor. Electing a president who has been given carte blanche to commit any crime he chooses as president without reprisal, should instill a deep concern for the American people and has global consequences. The former President will be sentenced on November 26, 2024, for his felony convictions.
A real possibility exists that the former president that many voters are entrusting with their futures will be sentenced to prison. The president of the United States cannot govern from a prison cell, even with the five conservative Justices on Supreme Court beholden to him.
The 25th Amendment dictates if the sitting president is incapacitated the Vice-president will assume the office of the president. If Trump receives a 10-month prison sentence, then for ten months J.D. Vance could be the president and the likelihood that Donald J. Trump, Jr., will be appointed and confirmed as Vice-President is very real. The seismic damage that could result from this type of upheaval goes beyond domestic and foreign relations, the stock market would revert to a bear market, the skittish investor would sell off stock to avoid further declines, the economy would spiral, the instabilities would have far-reaching implications.
The voters of the United States have survived one Trump presidency, and as we have seen the sequel isn't always as good or better then the first run feature.
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Box Office Mine Field – The Bombs Keep Coming
The holiday box office season has begun, and for studios, like retailers, the holiday season can be a make-or-break time to recoup profits and increase the bottom line. The fall film festivals hinted at the box office temperature and even with the critical acclaim the commercial success is never guaranteed.
The recent release of "Joker: Folie a Deux," starring Joaquin Phoenix, and Lady Gaga, which had been expected to perform as well as the original had a dismal domestic box office performance, and while the international box office was somewhat kinder, still, by all accounts, the sequel bombed.
"Megalopolis," the hundred million plus passion project from iconic director Francis Ford Coppola, had good memorable moments, especially from Aubrey Plaza and Shia LeBeouf, but the film flopped and was frozen out of the box office.
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"Here," the most recent release from Robert Zemeckis, who has delighted audiences with more films than can be mentioned with sounding like a fawning fan, lost his mojo on this one. The box office isn't even lukewarm for a film that has real depth. Audiences don't want to deal with the realities of life, as they deal with that daily. The audience wants and expects to be transported somewhere and for a brief shining moment, we see the Zemeckis charm with the zany inventor and his loving wife. "Here" may just be ahead of its time, which has happened before, and will find a home on streaming.
"NightBitch," the upcoming release of Searchlight Pictures, starring six time academy award nominated actress Amy Adams, after screening seemed to be all about escapism. It mixes the need to escape the reality of childrearing and a marriage going bad, with the fantasy of running free, like a wild animal. This film will be released in November, and it will join the ranks of box office bombs.
There are bright spots to the upcoming holiday season box office and here are a few: "Blitz," which is playing now, starring Saoirse Ronan; "Gladiator II," starring Paul Mescal, Denzel Washington, and Pedro Pascal opens November 22, 2024; "September 5," starring Peter Sarsgaard, John Magaro and Ben Chaplin due out November 27; "A Complete Unknown," starring Timothee Chalamet, opens December 25, 2024; "The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim," an amine prequel to "The Lord of the Rings" opens on December 13, 2024; "Sonic the Hedgehog 3," opens on December 20, 2024 and "Mufasa: The Lion King," a prequel to Disney's 2019 remake of "The Lion King," opens on December 20, 2024.
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Teri Garr, Award Winning Comedic Actress, Dies
Teri Garr, the academy award nominated actress died this week, from complications of Multiple Sclerosis, in Los Angeles, She was 79.
Lauded as a comedic genius, Garr was best known for her role in the Sydney Pollack film, "Tootsie," starring opposite Dustin Hoffman, as a professional actress who find the object of her affections is in love with someone else. She also captured hearts in a reoccurring role, as the birth mother of Phoebe Buffay, played by Lisa Kudrow, in the 1990s sitcom "Friends."
With a career spanning six decades and more than 150 acting credits, Garr began as a dancer in nine of the Elvis Presley franchise films of the 1960s and followed by moving to New York to study acting at the Lee Strasberg Theater and Film Institute. Garr's breakthrough role came in Mel Brook's "Young Frankenstein" in 1974.
"Upon her death Talk show host David Letterman called her "one of The Late Show's all-time favorite guests" adding, "Teri Garr's many appearances on Late Night gave it a cachet and importance not possible without her. She was a first-class actor and comedian and a lovely human being. She elevated all, and I'm sad she is gone." Director Mel Brooks wrote, "She was so talented and so funny. Her humor and lively spirit made the Young Frankenstein set a pleasure to work on," Wikipedia reported.
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Janet Walker is the publisher, founder, and sole owner of Haute-Lifestyle.com. A graduate of New York University, she has been covering international news through the Beltway Insider, a weekly review of the nation's top stories, for more than a decade. A general beat writer/reporter and entertainment/film critic, she is also an accomplished news/investigative news/crime reporter and submitted for Pulitzer Prize consideration "Cops Conspire to Deep Six Sex Assaults" in the Breaking News Category. Ms. Walker has completed five screenplays, "The Six Sides of Truth," "The Assassins of Fifth Avenue," "The Wednesday Killer," "The Manhattan Project," and the sci-fi thriller "Project 13: The Last Day." She is a member of the Los Angeles Press Club, the National Writers Union, and the International Federation of Journalists.
