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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. |
