Pop Quiz: Name the famous director who was wounded in war and received the Purple Heart and has also been jailed for drugs, in a foreign country. Is it Oliver Stone, Quentin Tarantino, George Lucas or Clint Eastwood?
Movie News: Green-lighted for 2017 shoot, Godzilla 2, green-lighted for 2018, Godzilla -vs- King Kong, really? Really. … However, not all the news is bad, coming out July 15, Woody Allen’s best movie ever, Society Cafe, set in 1930 NYC and Hollywood, starring Jesse Eisenberg, Steve Carell, Kristen Stewart and Blake Lively. Fabulous, Oscar worthy.
TV News: While ratings have been poor and it appears CSI Cyber may come back in part time production, reason, CSI Cyber is #1 in Asia and Europe. … There is going to be a weekly hour long TV show based on the film the Exorcist. … The Comedy Central Network ratings have never been worse, the network is in serious trouble, expect more lay-offs, less production, maybe a sale. … Before doing The Ellen show, Khloe Kardashian was told twice by producers she had to wear something else, reason, she was showing way too much skin. Khloe complained she wanted to talk to Ellen, Ellen said put on more cloths!
Date in History, May 19. 1992, TV’s Murphy Brown has a baby, albeit not being married, and VP Dan Quayle calls a press conference to call her morally bankrupt for having the baby out of wedlock, hello, it’s a TV show. Born on this date in 1897 perhaps the greatest Movie Director ever, Frank Capra. Who also had a great quote, “For every successful man stands an astonished woman.”
Answer – Oliver Stone got the Purple Heart in Viet Nam, and was busted for drugs in Mexico when he was 21.
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