De Niro lets his hair down
“About My Father” is about funnyman Sebastian Maniscalco’s hairdresser father. Their good friend Robert De Niro performs him.
De Niro: “I used to be in ‘The Irishman’ with Sebastian. This can be a private factor from his life. A basic Italian household comedy cultural conflict with WASPy stiff in-laws. His precise father was my mannequin. I at all times need an actual factor in anybody I play. We met in Oklahoma whereas taking pictures a film.
“Actors I admired included Gregory Peck and James Dean who solely did three motion pictures however was glorious. I by no means labored with Montgomery Clift. Brando, at all times nice, I knew personally. I labored with terrific Robert Mitchum twice.”
In that is Kim Cattrall. Opens Might 26. Go. Take your father. Perhaps he’ll do your hair.
Write & improper?
Extra of writers on strike: Author submits a narrative. It’s later stolen. The denying studio says, “Sue us!” Broke author fades away. Like Hollywood’s “Casting Sofa” earlier than the “Me Too” taboo, work stolen isn’t As soon as Upon a Time.
Author Jack Piuggi of Flipp Productions claims he has hours of legally admissible audio/video footage. His lawyer Robert Hantman — who has sued Steven Seagal, Magic Johnson, Don King, Danny DeVito — has filed a David vs. Goliath lawsuit in US District Courtroom, Southern District of New York, alleging Piuggi’s “Instafamous” osmosed into cable shows “Fake Famous” and “FBoy Island.”
Piuggi says it goes one thing like this: Funneling concepts they’ve heard, impartial contractors submitting 1099s stay work-for-hires not home staff. Studios thus say, “We had been unaware of this individual’s actions. They don’t work for the corporate. We had been by no means knowledgeable.” Or, “This can be a parallel thought — the time period for a supposed coincidence that a couple of individual has that very same thought and thus can’t be accused of theft.”
It’s three card monte.
Piuggi claims: “I [can] show that these concepts had been mine. I even urged actors. Garrett Morosky, later forged to star in one in all these exhibits, instructed me: ‘We all know they stole your present.’ I recorded that, too.”
Re: calling
Recollections: Bernie Goetz infused himself into right this moment’s story of a Marine who killed homeless subway rider Jordan Neely, saying not too long ago of the Marine: “He has got to pay.” In ’84 Goetz shot 4 youngsters on a prepare. He was acquitted. His lawyer, Barry Slotnick.
We exist in a wondrous world. I knew Bernie. I went to his 14th Avenue residence. He opened the door — accompanied by his live-in reside chinchilla.
Additionally. Sunday’s NY Publish reported how busy is the late Shah of Iran’s exiled son Crown Prince Reza Pahlavi.
Way back, repeatedly acquired by His Majesty in Sa’dabad Palace, big floor-to-ceiling doorways appeared burnished in gold and — with servants on either side — opened magically in entrance or behind whenever you entered His Majesty’s presence.
The Crown Prince was then a toddler. The Shah instructed me: “For his birthday we’re going to let him open his personal door.”
Troubled with homelessness, migrants, druggies and Biden’s open borders, San Francisco is considering to ask if Tony Bennett’s OK sufficient to cease by and decide up the guts he left there in 1960 . . . Hear, if not, they can provide it to Kamala. She will at all times use it.
Thought principally solely in New York, children, solely in New York.
