Saturday, August 28, 2021

In Ain't One To Gossip But ...

It was never lost on anyone that it seemed weird that Sex and the City never had at least one Black friend—and Jennifer Hudson, as Carrie’s assistant, doesn’t count—but now, some twenty-three years after its premiere, the producers, including SJP, have finally noticed there are people of color in New York City.

You.Don’t.Say. Yes, I do, because now Nicole Ari Parker has been added to the reboot and it’s being reported that her character will fill the vacancy left by Kim Cattrall who has had enough of SJP and left the building.

The reboot, entitled And Just Like That… so no one shrieks, “Oh my god, not another sequel to this crap,” is currently shooting in NYC with SJP, Cynthia Nixon, Kristin Davis, and Nicole Ari Parker, playing Carrie Bradshaw’s new best friend, documentary-maker Lisa Todd Wexley.

Somewhere Kim Cattrall is reading this news and saying, “Meh.”

Just like the rest of us.

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Prince Harry fancies himself an environmental activist, even appearing … again … with Oprah Winfrey on her Apple TV+ series The Me You Can’t See to talk about an issue he is passionate about: climate change.

Nice, Harry, but then please explain why you took a rich friend’s private jet from Aspen to Santa Barbara playing in a charity polo match.

Charity good, private jet bad, Harry.

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In the latter part of the last century, actress Brett Butler was making millions from her hit sitcom Grace Under Fire based on her own life and stand-up comedy act. Trouble was, Butler had addiction issues, boundary issues—she allegedly bared her breasts to a twelve-year-old boy—and was difficult on set. Things got worse when Butler became addicted to Vicodin—which a doctor prescribed for sciatica—and began butting heads with the show’s creator Chuck Lorre—who would later have the same types of issues with Charlie Sheen on the set of Two and a Half Men. As Brett battled addiction, the show’s ratings fell and cast members began quitting. The show was canceled, and Brett left Hollywood to live on a farm in Rome, Georgia, until losing that to foreclosure.

She returned to Hollywood, ready to start her career over again, and is using GoFundMe to ask her fans to help her out even though she earned some $25 million from Grace. In the last decade she was cast on Sheen’s Anger Management for 38 episodes, did a few episodes of The Young and the Restless, appeared on The Leftovers, How To Get Away With Murder, The Walking Dead, and The Morning Show. She generally gets paid over the guild minimum and sometimes makes $5,000 for a one-day shoot, but doesn’t work that often, and, you know, it’s hard out there for a former millionaire and Butler struggles to pay her $2500-a-month rent and so is down to the social media money beg.

Sorry, hon, but you seem to think you’re owed something. And you aren’t. I remember when former Cosby Show actor Geoffrey Owens, who was struggling to make ends meet after the show ended, didn’t head to GoFundMe to have the public pay his bills but took a job at a Southern California Trader Joe’s. Maybe they’re hiring Brett …

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Kanye has recently filed papers with a California court to have his name legally changed from Kanye Omari West to … Ye.

I think he should change his name to ‘Who’.

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And speaking of Kardastrophe-adjacent folks, leave it to Kylie Jenner and Travis Scott to prove themselves tone-deaf … again.

Stormi Webster, the three-year-old love child of Travis Scott and Kylie Jenner, expressed an interest in how poor people get to school, her dad surprised her with a school bus of her own so she could experience what normal people do. And because Kardastrophe-adjacent people live on social media, Kylie shared Stormi’s shock-and-awe at the bus in her Instagram Stories.

I guess it’s lucky Stormi didn’t express an interest in rocket ships because then she’d be circling the globe about now.

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11 comments:

  1. Never saw a single episode of the City series, no interest.

    Maybe harry was running late?

    Brett who?

    Who? Ye, I like that.

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  2. I thought the new regulars in SatC was Collagen and Filler.

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  3. This Brett Butler person might consider downsizing to a one bedroom flat in an area that's a bit cheaper? I don't like to say this but I wanted to live in a Penthouse in Mayfair but decided I was better off living out in the sticks....(actually that last bit is a full-time lie; I'd rather cut my throat than live in any part of London, especially Buck House).

    As for Harry - enough already.

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  4. Ye?
    Oh, Harry, please be quiet
    xoxo :-)

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  5. "Stormi Webster" -- now I'm hearing Lena Horne in my head.

    I've been hearing about Brett Butler for years but I never knew quite who she was -- and now I know why. I never watched "Grace Under Fire," though I do remember seeing advertisements for it.

    That's not Cynthia Nixon on the left in the "Sex and the City" pic, is it? It doesn't look like her.

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  6. @Dave
    Harry still didn't need to fly private, not when calling yourself an environmentalist.

    @Blobby
    And they're both white.

    @Helen
    Now, I know Brett isn't working every day but when she works she gets $5,000 a day and she wants me to drop some coins into her hat?
    Nope.

    @TDM
    I like some Hot Ginger Prince, but do as you say, sir.

    @Steve
    Yes, that is Cynthia Nixon. I guess she bought into the Botox and fillers SJP has been hawking for years!

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  7. Dear God, "daddy, how do poor kids get to school"? So you buy her a bus! Take the kid on a regular bus and let her slum it for a while!!! As for Harry, he's just a dick, all his talk about climate change and spending half his life flying in private jets. Talk is cheap ain't it!

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  8. “Daddy, where do poor people live?” Here, honey, your very own slum. Idiots.

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  9. And Harry said he wanted to live a quiet normal life, away from the glare of the midia. He is clueless, he should have stuck with strip billiards

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  10. Despise Kylie Jenner. Terrible people.

    Kanye is such a lost case. He was a no-talent to begin with, ripping off the work of others - and now a sideshow act. P.S. You forgot the question mark. It should be 'Who?'

    Brett Butler has been a mess from day one. I will never forget the last episode of Grace that I watched. She mumbled her lines, looked like utter hell, and moved like a zombie.

    Harry bores me. Monarchies are a joke.

    The SITC reboot... final nail in the coffin. Cast a 'black' woman and make her the slut. Because, you know... black women... they got to be having it, am I right? SMH

    Thanks for the dirt. Kizzes.

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  11. Anonymous10:49 AM

    This was the weird thing about the 90s: There were black sitcoms, and kids' TV has one token black character, but you also had cops beat up a black dude for speeding, black people not allowed on golf courses (including one a certain former POTUS belonged to, and no I don't mean Agent Orange), black people can't eat at Denny's, serious de facto segregation issues in schools...

    I grew up in the 90s. The whole decade can be summarized in Woodstock 99. Sounds sweet, eh?, recalling hippie days. Yeah, one girl was raped by 40 guys. And that summarizes the 90s perfectly: Veneer of sweetness, but rotten at the core.

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