Early Movie News: The talk of the town is The Last Duel, the true story about France’s King Charles the 6th who had a serious mental illness and a thirst for war. Sounds like Braveheart gone sideways. The script was written by Ben Affleck and Matt Damon and both star in the film, however Adam Driver plays the mad king. Jodie Comer from Killing Eve also stars. Ridley Scott who directed Gladiator also directs! The movie is set in the late 1300’s and is more violent than Game of Thrones. Release date is August 15th. … After a two week meeting of the Hollywood Foreign Press, there are still no black members in the Golden Globes! They just don’t get it, sad!
TV News: Who ever came up with the idea that after Alex Trebek died they should have a bunch of guest hosts, should be fired. Ratings have gone down with every new guest host, worst ever was last weeks guest host, Dr. Sanjay Gupta. Where’s Ken Jennings? … Netflix subscriptions are flat for first time ever. Reason, competition.
Odds and Ends: Cambodia authorities have opened an investigation on Angelina Jolie to see if she duped the parents of Maddox into allowing her to adopt him. Stay tuned! … California legislators have an idea how to fill the open jobs, release prisoners to do them. … Most interesting nugget of the day, Eric Clapton, who gave us Cocaine and believes in freedom above everything else, has canceled all concerts where audience must prove they’ve been vaccinated. … The other day I talked about road rage and here are the celebrities with the worst tempers who may tend to have road rage tendencies, Jennifer Lopez, Rosie O’Donnell, Leonardo DiCaprio, Russell Crowe, Christian Bale and Nicki Minaj. Somehow I’m guessing there are others. … Jennifer Garner (49), looks 30 and wants people to know how she stays looking so young. It’s her own morning smoothy concoction and here’s the recipe, chocolate coconut collagen, flax seed, chia seed, almond butter, unsweetened almond milk, at least two cups of spinach, blueberries and ice, then blend together. I prefer chocolate eclair.
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