23 Burst results for "Lee Daniels"
Monday Morning Critic Podcast
"lee daniels" Discussed on Monday Morning Critic Podcast
"At with that rob? Oh man, I believe they're filming now. Okay. I believe they're filming now, but you know, man, that's way above my pay grade. I haven't become a producer yet on anything to be able to give you those kind of answers. But yeah, I lead Daniels is phenomenal at what he does and the script was amazing, the script was strong. I think people are in for a treat. When it comes to horror, from the mind of Lee Daniels. You see everything else. He does walk its way to the ask. And so imagine what he's going to do with this strong script in this genre that he's super excited to tap into. So yeah, I can't wait for you all to see it. Yeah. Last question. I started interviewing you and I were born in the same year. I don't know about you outside of the fantastic storytelling in season four is just so, so freaking good. I mean, it's just so great. I love what I love about Stranger Things, rob. It's like a window into the past for me. I'm looking at cars that I've seen music that I haven't seen. Little food products, little things like that. Are you, do you appreciate the nostalgia? I mean, we're talking about pintos and the everything, the bikes, does it put its hands around you the same way it does me as far as the nostalgia piece rob? Oh, yeah. I mean, as soon as you put the clothes on, it gets you in character. You know? Yeah. Yeah, like let me set. I think they put so much attention to detail for the set. I think that's why the show has such a cross generational appeal. Because people who weren't even in that era are seeing it in such a specific way that they can appreciate it also. And so yeah, I mean, it's a fun time to play. It's a very fun time to play. Yeah, rob, I have to say, you're one of my all time favorite actors. You are so good at what you do. You were born, you were born to do this. And I hope you come back one day, rob. I'd love to have you again. Hey, man. You know, hopefully I can keep working to give you something exciting to talk about. On Monday morning, critic. Rob health and happiness to you and yours. Thank you so much for this. Likewise, thank you, Dave Thomas. Thank you for listening to Derek Thomas and Monday morning critic podcast. If you enjoyed this episode, you can also connect with Monday morning critic on Instagram and Facebook, MDM critic on Twitter, subscribe on Apple podcasts or wherever podcasts are found, all episodes available, WWW Don, MMC podcast, dot com..
Daily Pop
"lee daniels" Discussed on Daily Pop
"I'm gonna say. We know Zach Efron is hot. But now he's taking things to a whole new level. And his new movie firestarter, he plays a daddy. Not that kind of daddy, like a dad. He is ready to be ready to become one in real life. Maybe at some point down the road, we'll see, of course, I'd love to be a dad one day, but I don't know what if the movie made me want to do it any sooner. Now you were fantastic Brian, but I think I got a little bit more time. To wait. Our responsibility is getting her ready. Our responsibility is to protect her. For this movie, especially not only is it all about this fire and this action happening, but it's also about this family. And so Zach was always there for me and was really awesome. Let her go, it's gonna get a lot worse. Most interaction I've had with fire in a ever. You can actually tell how far we were in the movie based on how big the fires were getting and progressively as we got through the story. They got stronger. Stronger and stronger, and actually at the very end, we just started burning down the whole set. And in case you were wondering, yes, he did get burned. A few times. It kind of was just par for the course. So what superpower would Zach wanted real life? Cooking. Just being able to cook. Even simple things. If you think about it, if you had the firepower, you could just kind of light upon the cook something. That is a good point. Another item on his wish list, reuniting with his old High School Musical buddies. I'm something new. Having the opportunity to in any form go back and work with that team would be so amazing. Yeah, my heart's still there. That would be incredible. I hope it happens. And I think everybody would love to get involved. And I'll try and keep them moving in the right direction. Many moons ago, I had an audition with Lee Daniels and Zac Efron, and I only took the audition so that I could meet Zac Efron and I read with.
The Cut
"lee daniels" Discussed on The Cut
"Admire you and your work so I'm very excited for this. Oh, thank you. I'm excited for this too. I love podcasts. It's all I listen to, really. Really? Yeah, I listen to a lot of them. I watch a lot of TV too, but like when I'm moving around and doing stuff, like, you know, every time in my car, I got really bored with music lately. Oh yeah, well there's not a lot of good music out, so that also, too. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So back in 2009, obviously the major film Lee Daniels precious movie just changed so much for me and I think so much for conversations, but also so many young black women and seeing that film. And obviously, you know, from watching as an outsider, it was like, oh wow, she's dominating for an Oscar is overnight. All of these things that tell us the backstory of how you broke into acting and what your life is like before that. Wow. God, 2009 feels like so long ago, but it also feels like it was last week. Yeah. So before I was an actress, I just was like a wayward sort of young adult. Like I guess 'cause I got well precious is my first ever audition. So literally the day before I was a phone sex operator, at the time, I read that. I read that. Yeah. So to be fair, I work for a film sex company, but my official job at that point was a monitor. I had worked there for three years. I started as a talker. And after two months, I was promoted. And then eventually I became a monitor, so my job day in day out was to listen to phone sex calls for quality insurance and to make sure, you know, the rules were being fired and what have you. And so that was my life. At the point, I'd been there for three years. And I knew, I mean, there are women at that company for 15, 20 years, wow. And so, yeah, which is a long time to. And also, it seems like, I don't know what people think phone sex is, but it's exactly what I said. It's phone sex. And it's with, you know, strangers and randoms and you know, people who are paying for it and not everyone is nice and not everyone is not on a shift they're very few phone calls that you might enjoy doing. And it can be very, very degrading work. And I couldn't imagine doing it for much longer. Right. When I auditioned, I had actually just started going back to school. I had to drop out of school for a while because I was poor and also stupid. And so I had finally gone back when I got literally the week before I got precious. And so at that time, I felt like I was shiftless and I felt like I was, you know, wayward and I had no idea what I was gonna do in my life. I had no idea. I kept trying things. Right. All of it was survival. All of it was survival, honestly. Like even going to school that's about survival. This phone tech job, the monitoring, all of that, you know, and I kind of fell into that. But it's all about survival. And I survive in a very different way now. Yeah. After that, you know, after that audition, incredibly fascinating. And I love that you talk about survival because I think that is the story of a lot of women of color and specifically black women of get through this. How do I get past this? And I've heard you say in a lot of interviews before that people kind of associated since you got precious as your first role that you were really lucky, but you felt like you been an unlucky person is that because you feel like you've had to survive in a different way or where do you think that thinking comes from? Yeah. The word survive around being a black woman is so much. It's like really heavy. It's like an arbitrage. Yeah, it's an anchor around our neck in a way. And I for so long. I was like, I don't want to be your survivor. I'm not your survivor. I'm not a but, but I, yeah, I've had the hardships in my life the same way everyone has. And yeah, I would not categorize myself as a lucky person at all. I read something yesterday that was like, do you know how many somebody said, do you know how many couches and floors I slept on to be called lucky? And so and I was like, oh my God, yeah, that's it. I mean. For whatever reason, I got this strange audition and it catapulted me into a different life, completely and it's not my life was not the roughest, but it wasn't the greatest. It's very, very different than the way I live now. So yes, I would say that I probably survived a lot of things. How do you say your life is so different now and I don't mean like the external money things. I mean, how do you feel that you're different as a person and your humanity? Oh, in a lot of ways, actually when I think of how different my life is now, it's not even really about money at all. It's about what the biggest thing is just the way I live in the way I think. I think when I when I was living with my mom and my brother and growing up and you know, literally sucking dick over the phone. For a job, I did not think I could do much in life. I did not have, you know, a big, I didn't have as much self worth as I have now. And I had a very, very to be fair, I had very little experiences. I was still very young. And so the idea that I might be able to, the idea that I might be able to walk into the Hermes store and even smaller than that, the idea that I can walk into a museum and feel like I'm not being watched because I might steal something. And not that that doesn't happen randomly now. But I had no idea that I could live without fear. And not just fear of, you know, of, I don't know, like, racism or being called fatter or any of that because that absolutely still happens. The fear, the fear that I don't belong in this space. I didn't belong. And in any spaces, when I was 24, I was,.
Awards Chatter
"lee daniels" Discussed on Awards Chatter
"But yeah, mark for the director and Lee Daniels was the producer thought again like spike. I didn't look like this letitia musgrove. This woman down on her luck living in the south. And I once again said, well, what does that person look like? You know, in your mind and I just was persistent and relentless in my pursuit to get an audition and get to meet with them. And I finally got that. And then the director Mark Forrester became my champion. Lee was still not so convinced, but then Mark became my champion. So just to remind folks, this was this woman, her life's falling apart, her husband is a death row, inmate, and then she becomes involved with his executioner. And these are two broken people who kind of find solace in each other, not least in a scene that had a lot of people talking. And I just want to set it up this way because a year before that, you had done a movie called swordfish, which you said you openly acknowledge. You said, if you've ever done gratuitous nudity in a movie, that was it. But now in this case, it's like the polar opposite. This is so integral to it tells us so much about these characters. She literally is saying things that are telling you about her character in the middle of this. So I guess I just wonder, this is you, Billy Bob Thornton, who also was instrumental, I guess, in helping to get the movie financed. Again, not a long shoot, not a lot of money. And you are thrown right into the deep, maybe not right in because I think it was later in the shoot, but this is a big deal. You know, yeah. But let me speak to that. You're right. That swordfish was gratuitous nudity. And this whole story reminded me that sometimes how important it is to listen to our gut. And my gut told me when that role that gratuitous nudity of swordfish came my way, I said yes to it because I felt like I needed to get over this fear of being nude on camera. As an actor, our bodies are our instruments. And at some point, we have to get over that..
Bertcast's Podcast
"lee daniels" Discussed on Bertcast's Podcast
"I should have made your. Kelly was taken care of and i. I thought time i was doing that. But there's you know there's a weird thing when you know someone's so this sounds horrible but we know someone so rich and so successful they you go and then you look at pat and you go. I know she makes a clubs. I know she's struggling to get this project. That she's had for lee daniels for like three years to get ground. And i and i think i just looked for my. I feel my friend. That moment is the underdog. And i want to help her get her voice out. And some of the stuff was super volatile about like animal rights and michael vick and which. I don't think we kept in. But like and so am i know i. I've i've know when you do comedy. You just have to many diverse friends and you hear too many opinions about redemption and about the legal system and about how they feel like they're consistently getting fucked by by the way this is before the black lives matter summer we experienced is before that this is data. That happened yet. And so i but but still i think i don't know i just have a lot of people that are my friends or close to my family. That are people of color. And i've heard their opinions. And that michael victim came up. And i wasn't really fair to the booze used it hat in keighley joe sober because joel doesn't drink but but there was a lot of alcohol involved. I i also think. I i and i wasn't really aware of this Not to not to say they're blameless at all. I should have tracked as while it was happening. But we're moving so fast union that show. I didn't realize that like people are coming in. And no fucking clue what they're about to walk into and i'm just like jamming through shooting the show and In retrospect i wish i had spent more time and You know had everyone just sort of talk about what was going to happen and and get each other a little bit off camera before we just thrust everyone into the surprise of of of this also kaley did have a hard out that day. If you remember her having to leave unfortunately it just. We didn't have an exit. Almost kinda even together all of a sudden she walked off said look like she walked off set but that was not the case. Hard hard out and we Yeah i think that we try to come up with are on the flights or joke. I just banish i genuinely. I'm i'll never see kelly again in my life. I'm certain of that. I'm certain that She doesn't she shouldn't have to forgive anyways. Have you reached out to her at all. No i think he should. He should sit. Myrtle caller. she's cool. She's so cool like answers. Yeah joke man.
Double Toasted
"lee daniels" Discussed on Double Toasted
"Like oh. This is a wonderful story. I think that's probably going to be good based on the talent. We didn't even talk about lee daniels executive producing and Like pretty good name. I trust the people who are involved with it. But it still comes back to that thing for me where it's like. Oh i guess we can't have too much exposure. It's like the walking dead where they only have like one or two black characters at a time so whenever a third one came in one of these is about to die because the florida's album this about this new show. Yeah yeah. I mean i listen. You know the demographic is shifting as of right. now it's funny because it's scaring people. It doesn't mean that anybody's being replaced until we all start to breed each other out to become all caramel colored. But you know nobody's pushing anybody out is just that things are just becoming more. That's it you know. I'm just going to be a lot of people freak out because they heard the latest census. But you know it's not going that way. But i do understand that we are still a minority saw and i understand that we're not gonna you know black people not going dominate tv asian people on dominate tv. At this point you know what i do see at some point just not everything just being dominated by one group just sort of things being a nice even mixture or close to it at some point especially now that you have other means of consuming entertainment. I mean i think the internet is the thing that's really going to loud because stations stations only have a certain amount of time during the data. Show something you know They only have a certain block of time to do it. And with the internet man you can have as many tears and you can have as many levels and shows and whatnot. So i think as we approach more towards the internet model like the netflix model streaming model of doing things. You're going to see more multicultural and more diversity on a scale than you were with tv. Because tv's like streaming and technology is going to save the world from racism and. I don't think you're wrong about if you just look at the content. That's available on netflix. Like saying they're all great quality but definitely more diverse than your big four. Cbs nbc abc fox for sure anytime you broadcaster has a a a fin nighttime limited time do something and unfortunately they're going to give it to the demographic they think has the most money. Are you know the ones that are going to buy into the commercials. That's what they're gonna do when you don't have to do that. When everything's based on subscriptions you can have as many blocks dedicated to whoever as you want. So i mean depending on your budget of course which somebody streaming services have a lot. So that's why i look at the. You know the if know the internet is stupid. It is but at the same time. It is this thing that is coming in and adding more democracy to representation and that's cool absolutely also as someone who is a huge fan of the One day at a time remake where they kind of They they put it over here in la and it was with a cuban family. And i i was really like this is going to be great. Stopped doing the old Race switch thing ended up being really great. And i think there's a precedent of taking these older shows and being able to repurpose them. If they're done thoughtfully. I saw this trailer and again as much as i hated the punky brewster in the new house working out. Yeah i thought you talking about this trailer. Play punky brewster and loops. Hey punky brewster sorry. I was just saying as much as i hated all of those things. I think that this is actually trying to say something. That's trying to take the source material and say something different not. Just repeat it so we can get the same people who like to thirty years ago to like it today whether you go man on your on your recommendation. I'm go. i'm going to probably catch them. Episodes of the wonder years. I don't know if i can actually watch the whole thing. But before that comes out our pilot they originally had an amazing pilot. And i think people understand that that's why resonated so i hope that the pilot is great. I think it has to be to hook as many people as possible. I'll wash the pilot. Then i'll probably able to catch up with the whole series because there's so much tv to watch now. But yeah i might try to watch the pilot man all right. This is going to be our last thing and this is a little something where we save the politics for last. And i don't think we're going to get as crazy with it. I'll probably got crazy in the beginning of the show that i'll get with this but you know everybody wants to know about still hurts but go on. I'm sorry man. I am so sorry you know what i'll take dinner. Man when we see you naked york. I'll it just be you'll meet give you some wine and give you some dinner. You know candidates and other kind of stuff. I'll make it up to you. Baby love demon. You know what. I'm gonna adopt that now. You keep number demon baby folks. We'll talk about aghanistan because we really haven't addressed afghanistan with everything that's going on. You know the talent. There's been a taliban takeover of afghanistan over the last week or so and it's been weird is going to ask you about this being weird because i don't trust these foods but the taliban has been like. Yeah you know what we come in. We're going to be cool because we know that we need funds from around the world so we don't want to piss people off too much. We're we're a brand new taliban not your daddy's taliban the taliban is gonna come in we are going to be better to women and respect them a little bit more was going to beat the shadow them when we get our ally. But you know what we're going to let the pursue things more than they did under previous taliban rule of we've got to respect people not try to dictate as much people just get back to work and hey if you wanna leave.
True Love
"lee daniels" Discussed on True Love
"So let's jump right in. I want you both to tell me a little bit about yourselves. We'll start with uber. honestly after quarantine. i don't even know am i. what do i do. I don't know us evolve i. My name is amber I'm cancer I love horror and sci fi movies books. That's hard attic. Since i was a child on one of my favorite movies as a kid which i definitely shouldn't have been watching. That young was the shining. Oh gosh yes in. It's still and it was one of the first books that i've read where i actually had to put it down because it like i've never been terrified by a book before i read The shining So yeah huge. Horror fan over hia Yeah i'm an actor. And i'm a writer and i've been doing voiceover work since around two thousand eighteen two thousand nineteen And it's been great. I have an unhealthy obsession with mint chocolate chip ice cream. Welcome to the club Roca on it you know Self awareness is key. Yes i have a loving husband and who is also an actor and have a lovely pity named budhu and that's the law me all right. Kevin what can you tell us about yours. I have my my background is insane. Lee confusing And when i started telling people where i started and you know how it came to evolve every wants to start. What are you talking about. Because i actually started in representation. I was a model agent. That was my first job in the business. Yeah so i was. You know at a political graceful marco. It was the only black owned modeling agency and then i started scouting for img so like fashion by thing for a while. People kind of get like freaked out. Because i can talk about fashion all day every day. So from there. I actually transitioned into representing actors. So as a manager for a while so representing people like lauren. Voulez wes bentley. so. I have like a nice Acting stable and from their swing onto producing and kind of my first thing was. I ended up being the vice president of lee daniels entertainment. I joined after monster's ball. So i was there during the dark period. I was there for all the shit you didn't see and then just again. This is gonna get weird but then doing stunt work during you know acting my cell from a weird movie with michael madsen where i play a pimp Wait wait wait. You did stunt work like a pimp doing stuff. The character of the pimp needed to do stunt work. Is that what you're saying. Because that's i wish that would have made a much better moving about one. And then i had an idea for a movie. And i started writing and a friend of mine who went to film. School was like yeah. I think you've got something that you should keep calling. And then i just started doing movies and television and writing a lot of comedy Horror is kind of my thing right now obsessed with horror then. How did the idea of true love calm about where you inspired by any other shows. The initial idea actually came internally from wondering Marshal louis who's the Creative content officer..
The Nix
"lee daniels" Discussed on The Nix
"Where everybody's like a centaur but not just horse people like the people and draft people and most disturbingly iraivan bird person that they all have special abilities. Robin burg's ability is to get buff and make a handsome face. This is it's body fucking horror. I it i so i. And it's like these characters are like there's a giraffe that looks lobotomize human de that. Basically you're like is this is this is this is it brain-damaged like what's happening and then it just keeps going next episode again. It's just like i'm but we're giraffe face with like weird but then keep shaking it people. This show is thinks you're me. This show was recommended me because it was like you like adventure time. I guess i do like adventure. time centaur world. i don't want centaur world in my face. i don't want to recommend it to me. I don't i actually don't want to hear it like just don't talk about it like don't put it in my like a twitter. I need when i heard donald trump in the cheeseburgers. I want the centaur world block perched at because i'm not only joking. I'm traumatized please some okay. Everything's fine how i saw on the way back from these three one on the way. I can't even remember it's all blurred. I saw three movies on the plane. I have a long standing joke. In fact a great podcast movies. I saw on a plane because it always breaks your brain speaking of breaking your brain. You never can tell like if the movie was good or not. Usually if you started it and turbulence didn't scare you enough that you spit your drake out all over the screen. It was a good movie. Watch moves on a plane. I watched riot in the last dragon. The disney movie that went to premier access and was sort of carey movie. It's super fun. Aquafina is really fun and silly as this dragon. She's like this silly goofy dragon. There's fun actions. It was fantastic. This is fun movie. I don't know whether they're playing or whether it was pretty good. But i liked it also on a plane. Us united states versus billie holiday. Movie that everybody fucking trash cut. The worse reviews in the world under day is billie holiday. It struck by lee daniels precious and What's the show about the music industry empire that everybody made tests. Not likely dan lee daniels knows kind of corny. But there's something so sincere and interesting about the way that he kind of people hated this movie because they it's feels very like you know bio picky and like you know black and white. I thought it was kind of dreamy. Weird and i thought the way that it handled drug use was very interesting and might not judgmental and how it was an escape from her own past but also a so we know music but none of it was ever like this is all she was all she ever was this performance a belief she was. Did she win the oscar. she was at least nominated. Fan fucking acid this movies. We're seeing her. Singing is incredible. I like movie way. More than i thought i was going to. Finally i saw chaos walking. Wow okay this movie is made for planes. Because i didn't hate it but it is a fucking bat. Tom holland daisy ridley. You have the chemistry of a wet wool sock and birkenstock like it's like the lease..
Bertcast's Podcast
"lee daniels" Discussed on Bertcast's Podcast
"Is only eighteen. Months old is new. What was crazy is once. I shot the phone loved. I would've loved to have been in the room when they came up with the idea of bt plus a bunch of black people in the room going she we started streaming service. And you're like. I don't know i kind of use. My cousins log in throws sit around certain we have the right demographic they working on a lot of other reasons i tol is also a part of bt plus and which is a part of that calm impairment so overall umbrellas book and he wants you subscribe for that thing then be losses in that is under the umbrella yes part of paramount. I think right now as a stand alone bts apart a pair of my bt plus stan along is all viacom in one but About to say when we was what was crazy is when you know who shot the pilot who originally got the show from fox and shot the pilot and what was weird about hulu was well. What was great about hulu is that they did a great job or helping us put together. What you just watch knows was great. State was understanding. The people bought the show. Really fucking got him. But you always got some execs. Who don't get it. Somebody don't get what's being black in america is because if you seen his show. When i saw the sun that person that i was being mean no motherfucking being a mama. You ain't seven. You'll sign him down in the basement and making a bomb and coming to school shooter. The fuck you wanna do. You ain't talking to this fucking key. So i remember when we were shooting a. It was so much excitement. Everybody there and i'm trying to pull everybody to the size Then i go pick this up. I just felt it in my bones and it's like are you talking about it. Didn't that come pick it up. And i was like why is it. Because they don't get it and it's like you're not talking about six months later. They dropped it. I will never forget. Was valentine's day they raleigh north carolina. Doing this show at new improv. And lee daniels call me and damn near cracker in his voice and he said he dropped it he said but i promise you i find a home for not i did not feel like he was not gonna find a home as well. I say i got sola show here and perform. I don't care. But i knew i picked up on spears and i knew that somebody would pick it up a couple of weeks later they say bt plows picked up on a team. I said what the fuck is be diplo's not even knew a beach also they gotta streaming service they do but i you know i was low her go from hulu there you go bt look but then i had to say hey i'm gonna fuck with who wants to fuck with me plus. This is a new screaming platform. Hopefully i am their handmaid's tale to like hulu was like ham sales to hulu. You need something that you need something to bring people to the to the platform and i think these show wheel is good. Let me tell you what i like about this. Show a i watched. I watched the pilot last night. It reminds me of roseanne. Okay but it reminds me. Also of well i i kept saying. I've never seen anything like this before. And you know..
Fake Doctors Real Friends with Zach and Donald
"lee daniels" Discussed on Fake Doctors Real Friends with Zach and Donald
"It's super like done well. Donald was laying down the tracks yesterday. And i really felt like puffy. I was in the back of her studio on the couch. I had my hands like this like thinking thinking and rubbing my chin and When he was a little bit pitchy would turn to her and give her the look like On that one. And then you and then you're like guide. Let me get on the track. Then yeah and just like a normal producer. I was like how can i be on the action i say. Should i say another one. that's very. that's very puffy of you. Make sure she at least puts in one of my. I wanted to put in a. That's right that's right th- really good though. And casey it's about casey. Casey was just barking her head there. She was feeling it would have been really forgot one that we should have did another one another one another one anyway excited to share that track with you. I can tell you the funniest thing that happened to me. I told donald but you have to hear it again. Boy face what happened. I'm not making a face. it's just you know. hold on. Hold on let me finish. Wow oh shit like this doesn't happen to me. I meet these people and they're like hey. How's it going man what you got coming next. This is what happened with zach. Well i met. I was at a restaurant and the meter div. The restaurant introduced need to lee daniels. Yeah so for those. You know very very successful filmmaker. Who started i think with precious right and then he mean What did he do The billie holiday movie the butler the paper boy empire lee daniel lee. Daniel daniels is a force of nature in hollywood. He's found a way to make the movie. T- wants to make And how he wants to make it men and it's you know he's also a very funny human being when you hang. He created empire he created empire and anyway he's very very very big deal in hollywood in a super talented guy and i've met him briefly just probably at a cocktail party wants before. So i was sitting table and zach. Have you met lee daniels. And i turn around and we both smiled. Each other shook his hand and said oh. Yeah we we briefly before. Nice to see you nice to see you know standard restaurant. Small talk and lee daniels says oh. Hey have you ever met debbie allen off..
Daily Pop
"lee daniels" Discussed on Daily Pop
"Are y'all paying sharing stories. We all got money from sharing because she was really only person working about ten twenty years ago by the way. This reminds me of that time. When damon dash say tyler perry owed me money and everybody every black. Hollywood was on the director money. And then everybody was like you know what. Let's go ahead and damon dash before he starts talking about how much to the concert at the hollywood bowl and leave. Daniels was there and confronted lee daniels and put it all tate. That's how you get your money. You have to put it on the rutgers word by the way if can loaning people money. I just assume that it's not coming back in my mind when people ask me for cash and if i have the cash lynn then i have the cash to give and i don't. Don't tell that to my family members are anybody. That's coming out the woodwork. My cousin like i got really love. You dealin money. But i just don't expect it back. You better make them the contract regardless you better let. The owners had all kinds of contracts. Don't matter you just handing that you gotta send. I tried not to because of people. They i mean they come up with some stories. You know this like no. We got a payment plan. We do this. I'm gonna give it back and you will never see so you don't have to give don't loan one.
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"lee daniels" Discussed on Problematic Premium Feed
"Trash in the back of the behind the business in broad daylight in the fifties like easy not in a locked few open air getting top blew away ripen his mouth here vase gearing black stuff about them all is them having some damn nasty as they haven't sex behind the having standing fuck ryan getting the sewer is getting the trash can always Put them in the most degenerate Things lee daniels. Good for that too. He loves that too. You just makes it look so everything he does. You know you've got some problems. Va of a scumbag career different. He's inspired. I feel a lot of these people's worse. He was ahead of the curve and a lot of stuff like stuff. That's fake pro black..
Who? Weekly
"lee daniels" Discussed on Who? Weekly
"In the celebrity world in philadelphia and it looks like phillies. Scoop is the one who scooped this but they could have just been aggregating someone else. Carmelo may be seeing the niece of lee daniels. Lee daniels has a few nieces. He's talked about them in the past. He doesn't have kids so like he's very close to his nieces. A few weeks ago he instagram'd my youngest niece. Wants to get into acting lee daniels aka the writer director writer director producer oscar. Nominee the butler. Yes real. he's a real force. Hollywood renaissance man total them. Who happens to have a who he needs whom he would like to turn into them so literally. Five weeks ago he posts this carousel of images of his unease with the caption. My youngest niece wants to get into acting. Though the picks fab in my opinion she needs more conservative ones and then sort of like tongue out emoji like embarrassed tongue out emoji. I think she's got something though thoughts and it's your spouse photo of he just posted like thir- strap photos of his knees in a way. It's strange is at my niece hot. So this is happening separately. This is just sort of context then very recently. We get a story on hollywood unlocked. And they're saying that she's also pregnant. Well sort of. They're saying someone is pregnant. They don't name that it's maya lee daniels sneeze but go on. So they're saying women alleges carmelo. Anthony is the father of her. Newborn twins says nba star has been avoiding their premature babies and shares more shocking details socialites. Get into this. I guess what they call the hollywood unlocked of fans a woman who rather not share. Her name has revealed to us that carmelo. Anthony is allegedly the father of her newborn twins and she even has receipts. We were able to chat with the woman. Who alleged how who alleged how they met and how he allegedly notice how many allegedly hit his family from the public and how one celebrity allegedly and brackets got involved to get answers for mello's wife la la anthony so this woman apparently has all the receipts. She needs to that. This is true. Hollywood unlocked is definitely running with the story. they have like. They apparently talked with her on the phone. They have texts from allegedly carmelo. Even though you know we've been burned in the past we've seen faked texts and dm's before anyway. The story that the caller was reading. Is i think combining two stories without evidence because there is rumor. That carmelo was having some kind of relationship. With maya jay which i'll get into in a second and there is another story that carmelo got a woman pregnant who fled to london. And i don't know that those of the same story. And i think that because they're happening concurrently some outlets that are aggregating. The news are confusing them and combining them into one twists stead. Well let's go back to my ajay these separate rumor. This is killing me. The things that eagle-eyed instagram users find. Okay so this is centered around two photos. One that shows carmelo in a house that has railing black metal railing behind him and another photo of my j. in like a beautiful well lit white house black railing behind her that matches the railing behind carmelo perfectly so it could either mean that they were in his house together could be here house right. It could be hurt house. They were in a house. That was the same together at some point. She also celebrated his birthday on twitter on his birthday. Sort of quietly coyly in a way that people think that they were seeing each other again. None of this is confirmed and this is as far. I could tell a separate story from the paternity story. This mixed with lala asking for a divorce does seem like it's not the craziest thing in the world. Just because the timing is right with la getting a divorce right like We still don't really know why she did that. So this is the reason. This is the reason. I just can't believe that. This is lee daniels as niece like it. Sort of poetic. Like one of the kings of i dunno tv. Hollywood melodrama right now is like maybe responsible for or at least their knees is responsible for some true melodrama happening right now in celebrity culture. This tweet says watch. Lee daniels knees maya speak on carmelo anthony face timing her in lalas bed being the daddy of her premature twins trying to turn babies into british since to hide them from la la and being the reason of that is so many thing. I'm telling you it's melodrama. She's trying to turn them into british citizens to hide them from lala babe. I think it's too late. If that's the case you know yeah and also like i do think that even though you read that tweet. I don't think that these two things at the same story. I think that this is journalism gone wrong. Like people are combining to things. That don't actually go together anyway. Next call see bobby journal question about celebrity culture. Why do celebrities pit emojis over. Their babies faces their kids faces. What's the actual point and getting popped like on the regular or like. Is there a point to it anyway. Maybe not i dunno crunchy. Crunch okay lawyers. This is actually me saying lawyers call in. Because i was i really did i spent. I spent hours looking this up. But with the thing that i learned. That's really interesting. Lindsey not to make this a. You're wrong about episode. I was gonna wrong about some stuff. I always thought that the reason. Uk at like stars do it so that they can like maintain control over the votes with their kids right. Like i'm not. You're not gonna get up and i'm not gonna give them to you so i'm gonna put it sort of this winky koi of being like i control my kids photos. They don't have the authority to give consent to photos of themselves so like i'm doing this myself right right. I'm not ready to show my kid in public right but the reason publications do it. I thought was about some laws are stricter about it. Some are less strict about it. So when you have to blur the photos and the in america you don't breaks not that simple at all in the uk. There's a lot of gray area. Well that's why you notice in the uk. Daily mail faces will be blurred but then in the us daily mail faces or not a blurred. And that's like an interesting dynamic because they'll post the photos just as if you can see the kids face. But it'll be doing they'll be like oh whoever out with their children. Da da or whatever and the face will be blurred as if it's just not blurred like there's there's no there's a reference to the fact that you can actually see the kid really Yeah so the thing that i found. That's interesting is that like in the uk the only laws that are on the books about you know. Paparazzi photos of kids are like if they're on private property or if they're like quote unquote indecent as of like. I'm gonna catch irena shaken bradley cooper on the street with their baby and i want to publish this photo. The reason they're blurring it is it because it's necessarily illegal. It's that the laws are so vague that it could be and if the celebrity really wanted to sue the celebrity would probably win You know it's not that they're fully legal. It's out that it's explicit and in the us it's sort of a crapshoot because it's sort of a publication by publication decision like it's a publication deciding like what are our ethical boundaries and..
The Vibe Juice Podcast
"lee daniels" Discussed on The Vibe Juice Podcast
"It was it was tragic for the you. Know the The main character you know it was a real character who was obviously very repressed homosexuality and an isolated in a lonely lonely hurt kind of somewhat broke man but he can only live through his art. You know and feel grand. But that was just a facade. The only criticism. I've heard of lee daniels did to me. I could see all the points. Was that if you look at his characters. His characters all have qualities that connect his life probably so but look a spike lee though because people spike lee as saying criticism about his movie in his angle and there there it really there's anger and repression. You know that he's expressing about the black situation. Whatever the situation is all of them. There's really no happy movies ultimately even she's got to have it as i was really happy. Growthy the role that The father Delroy lindo lindo. I mean the movie showed the family going through some real fucked up shit. Yeah okay and i always felt like the only thing i missed was i needed. It was his name. Would alfred alfred. I wanted her perspective. Everything everything in the house revolved around her. It did but somehow the story seem to be told from over here with dell boys character. Well you know. I thought the little girl from for me. It was a little girl that was the gave the narrative of of it. But that's why i missed it. Because i'm thinking okay. I got cousins. I got you know little sister that if they would tell them a story like that kind of story and that kind of setting..
Cape Up with Jonathan Capehart
Lee Daniels and Andra Day on the hidden activist life of Billie Holiday
"Good afternoon. I'm jonathan kaye. Part opinion writer for the washington post. Welcome to washington post. Live the united states versus. Billie holiday is the incredible story of the fbi's effort efforts to keep jazz great billie holiday from singing strange fruit. Her signature song about lynching director lee daniels presents a gripping drama that shows holiday in all her glory and tragedy. Andrew o.'day gives a stellar performance. So convincing you'd think you were watching lady day herself. That's why i am thrilled and honored to welcome lee daniels and andhra dade to washington post. Live thank you both very much for being here to see you again. I know it's been a very long time. Greats isn't a you again both of you. Congratulations on this film. The moment i saw it. I immediately sent a letter to y'all saying okay here. All your options. I need to talk to you about this film. Le- let me start. Start with you. Thanks so as we saw in the in the opening clip. The film tackles pretty much everything. Racism sexism addiction art abuse. And i'm wondering. How did you come to this project. And what influenced your approach to billie. Holiday's life susan lori parks the pulitzer winning a prize winning playwright Sent me this beautiful script that really depicts the government breaking her down coming for her coming for billie holiday and and really trying to cripple her. As an artist or singing strange fruit which was about lynching black people and that wasn't the understanding of billie holiday that i had. I thought that she was a troubled jazz singer. Got in trouble with the law. And you know the drugs and was fashionable. I did know that she was a political activist. And so and i you know i pride myself in being smart about our history and i thought to myself that i i don't do this. I don't know i had. I had to do it. And i thought also like how many other stories about our people have have. They have been hidden so yeah that was more threes in selena. And so right and i am going to latch onto what you just said before. Which was you thought of billie holiday as a jazz singer But you didn't really know that she was an activist. What what more did she do. Other than being defiant about trying to seeing strange fruit despite government opposition and government targeting. What other things that she do that made you realize that she's she's more than just lady day. What other than she did. Besides stand up to the government. I guess a lot to say i couldn't. I don't know that i could today. I don't think that i could. They told me lead. You can never make a movie again or coming for your mother. I'm going to come for your kids and you will. I'm like take it. But the thing about her strength and her being born in the into the world that she was being born in tipton board she didn't she didn't get to fly in you know what because she. She had nothing to lose by living in her constantly. And let me bring you in here. I saw your interview go ahead. Go ahead now. I just wanted to back off that too. I mean. I think what shows so brilliantly in the movies that apart what she did in standing up to the government was being human. She's black queer woman in the nineteen thirties. Forties and fifties and that living in an owning their in itself is is is defiance than accident that she's integrating audiences music one of the first artists a black woman to integrate carnegie hall. She wasn't the first but she is one of the first shoes audiences in athlete. People understand. This is sort of pre. They're real reinvigorated civil rights mellon so we wouldn't have our heroes would not have been as bold in as they were no thurgood. Marshall end the light on downs. You know rosa parks on down if it were not for her singing. Strange fruit in defiance of the government for not for setting off this alarm in the nation. In letting people know that it's that this was a really really understand. How much for june that emboldened the civil rights news we know today you know as as arrested in the so and him showing her in all her. Human element is is access. Defiance all in itself nelson young. I'm proud from did work.
Cape Up with Jonathan Capehart
Lee Daniels and Andra Day take on Billie Holiday’s legacy
"Afternoon. I'm jonathan kaye. Part opinion writer for the washington post. Welcome to washington post. Live the united states versus. Billie holiday is the incredible story of the fbi's effort efforts to keep jazz great billie holiday from singing strange fruit. Her signature song about lynching director lee daniels presents a gripping drama that shows holiday in all her glory and tragedy. Andrew o.'day gives a stellar performance. So convincing you'd think you were watching lady day herself. That's why i am thrilled and honored to welcome lee daniels and andhra dade to washington post. Live thank you both very much for being here to see you again. I know it's been a very long time. Greats isn't a you again both of you. Congratulations on this film. The moment i saw it. I immediately sent a letter to y'all saying okay here. All your options. I need to talk to you about this film. Le- let me start. Start with you. Thanks so as we saw in the in the opening clip. The film tackles pretty much everything. Racism sexism addiction art abuse. And i'm wondering. How did you come to this project. And what influenced your approach to billie. Holiday's life susan lori parks the pulitzer winning a prize winning playwright Sent me this beautiful script that really depicts the government breaking her down coming for her coming for billie holiday and and really trying to cripple her. As an artist or singing strange fruit which was about lynching black people and that wasn't the understanding of billie holiday that i had. I thought that she was a troubled jazz singer. Got in trouble with the law. And you know the drugs and was fashionable. I did know that she was a political activist. And so and i you know i pride myself in being smart about our history and i thought to myself that i i don't do this. I don't know i had. I had to do it. And i thought also like how many other stories about our people have have. They have been hidden so yeah that was more threes in selena. And so right and i am going to latch onto what you just said before. Which was you thought of billie holiday as a jazz singer But you didn't really know that she was an activist. What what more did she do. Other than being defiant about trying to seeing strange fruit despite government opposition and government targeting. What other things that she do that made you realize that she's she's more than just lady day. What other than she did. Besides stand up to the government. I guess a lot to say i couldn't. I don't know that i could today. I don't think that i could. They told me lead. You can never make a movie again or coming for your mother. I'm going to come for your kids and you will. I'm like take it. But the thing about her strength and her being born in the into the world that she was being born in tipton board she didn't she didn't get to fly in you know what because she. She had nothing to lose by living in her constantly. And let me bring you in here. I saw your interview go ahead. Go ahead now. I just wanted to back off that too. I mean. I think what shows so brilliantly in the movies that apart what she did in standing up to the government was being human. She's black queer woman in the nineteen thirties. Forties and fifties and that living in an owning their in itself is is is defiance than accident that she's integrating audiences music one of the first artists a black woman to integrate carnegie hall. She wasn't the first but she is one of the first shoes audiences in athlete. People understand. This is sort of pre. They're real reinvigorated civil rights mellon so we wouldn't have our heroes would not have been as bold in as they were no thurgood. Marshall end the light on downs. You know rosa parks on down if it were not for her singing. Strange fruit in defiance of the government for not for setting off this alarm in the nation. In letting people know that it's that this was a really really understand. How much for june that emboldened the civil rights news we know today you know as as arrested in the so and him showing her in all her. Human element is is access. Defiance all in itself nelson young. I'm proud from did work.
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"lee daniels" Discussed on News 96.5 WDBO
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"lee daniels" Discussed on KCRW
"Like this one have become more common in the last couple of years in Iraq. Especially in the southern city of Nasiriyah. The economic situation to all of the people a nursery on in Iraq as getting worse day after day. Ziad al Assad is an activist who blames politicians for the wealth gap. We will see more of the administration's more of protest. And Ah streets and the square. Finance Minister Ali Allawi tells NPR. He does have a plan. There's a strong determination on the part of the executive here. To implement a full program because without it no doubt that the economy is whole be entering into very, very turbulent waters. He wants to increase taxes reduced the number of government employees improve education. Ultimately stimulate the private sector. So people aren't so dependent on government money. We have to shift a very, very distorted, dysfunctional set of economic parameters into another place. This exercise will be a number of people who who lose and I'm much greater number who'll benefit that transition is going to be painful for millions of people. In hopes of making it easier. Iraq is asking the International Monetary Fund for a loan of billions of dollars. Alice Fordham. NPR NEWS Baghdad This is NPR news. Thank you. Ow! Sponsors include who presented the United States vs Billie Holiday, Directed by Lee Daniels and starring Andra Day is jazz musician Billie Holiday for Bearing on Who, Lou February. 26 Awards eligible Maura F y si dot lulu dot com Today I'm press play. You know, the film and the song 95. It was inspired by real activists. I really believe that what I'm doing is very important to the economy and that I should have some respect for what I'm doing as well as higher pay and all my meddling brand. How 10 Boston secretaries started a movement today at noon and seven on press play on KCRW. Working. What Live.
WGN Radio
"lee daniels" Discussed on WGN Radio
"Key, who is represents the south suburbs of Chicago is predicting that Emanuel Chris Welch will get 60 votes. Head of noon when the 102nd General Assembly is sworn in. So his picture in the paper today I don't know a thing about this guy. Chris Welts. So Emanuel Chris Welch. You have speaker of the house Or maybe that maybe. Yeah, we have nothing official. But apparently the caucus has broken up just in the nick of time. You mentioned 15 minutes to go now, until that decision has to be made a long time. I don't know if we would say, buddy. But, uh, supporter of Mike Madigan ran that's investigative committee and then decided to drop the investigation. Just a couple months ago, maybe last month into, you know everything That happened surrounding comments so definitely friendly with Mike Madigan and seemingly in line right now to be the next House Speaker. Austin burglar was with us the other day kind of rolled his eyes had how cozy that is. So is mad again going to pull the strings behind the scenes is he's literally going to be on the sidelines. Is he going to quit? Not only his speakership, but his seat. I mean, I wonder what his future is well and the other issue that's propped up and you've you've talked about it to about you know some of these incidents involving women reports of domestic violence charges that were dropped some accusations of firings related to broken relationships with women. You know was he essentially set up in order to fail, And maybe Mike Madigan would scoot in there and and really claim that the speakership don't know that. That's the case right now. But it did seem pretty interesting over the last 24 hours. By the way, Ryan Chicago's afternoon news host Ebert trends on the line. So there's a guest. You guys have gotta round up, Steve. Ryan and I were texting about that story involving Chris Welch last night. It be interesting if we could ever find out where it came from. Um, and it's also fascinating that In these times, the Democratic women in the Legislature were Willing and quick to overlook it to elected speaker. You mean that voted for him this time, But he didn't win. It voted for him all those years? No, that will vote for him for speaker. I mean, that story clearly was placed that just the time that might have Some kids bid, but it wasn't enough. The Women in the Democratic caucus didn't turn on and they're going to still support him and looks like he's got the votes. I'll tell you guys, I don't understand that I do not understand the Um Fealty to Mike mad again that the Democratic Party has has exercised all these years. For instance, if you weren't Mike Madigan, it would still be a Democrat. Right, so it's not like the Republicans would suddenly take control. He would be the speaker of the House. The Democrats have the votes, so I don't know why they kept hitching their wagon to him. I don't know why they love that guy so much. He was in charge of the purse strings, right? I mean, he was in charge of the money and the building. Yeah, sure. I mean, he's also the party chairman. Right? That's a good point, so but you know it. It looks like it's gonna end today. What's it been? 37 years? Is that the number 36 of the last 37 years? I think it is 37 Last 38. There was one year where he was not, but there was just briefly. It was a couple years. Lee Daniels was the speaker in the eighties. But so if you're 37 years old, he's been to speed the speaker of the house your entire life. Yeah, Essentially, that's amazing. And I think the question will be something for you guys to worry about Steve is like S. So what's the crystal ball? Say? How does life in Illinois change like his pension reform gonna happen? Our maps going to be drawn significantly differently, stuff like that. Ryan pointed out that Welch is a was a Madigan ally eyes, but which is significant, but also not so much. I mean, the fact is that any change is monumental down there. So while Welch may well have been part of the Madigan coterie, you know, I think you're probably going to see change. It's not a coup By AH, situation. I mean, Republican leader Durkin is, you know, already being critical of Welsh in you know, they're sharp divisions there that they're gonna have to work out. But It will change the process. I don't know how dramatically but we're you know, we're coming toward change. Well, since the speaker's portfolio is going to change so radically. I wonder if he's going to want to be just another member of the house, Or is he going to wrap it up? Then? I wonder if he'll run for re election. No, I would suspect he will resign pretty quickly resign or not run again. Resigned. Um, And that's not unusual in leadership. I mean, you may well see Mitch McConnell resigned. Maybe not. But you know, there was a big deal made when Trent Lott was the Republicans, the majority leader in the Senate and the Democrats took over and lot actually stayed for a while. It was surprising. But there have been others who have been in and out. I think Harry Reid was in and out of leadership. So we'll see if McConnell thinks that they might take. I've got enough director. I'm sorry, but if McConnell thinks they might take control again in two years, he could stay. Do the headline again from Springfield and Ryan Borough. You are reading what today looks like 45 minutes away from the General Assembly being sworn in and there is feeling as though Chris Emmanuel, I guess Chris is the nickname Welch will be the new House speaker after You know what's been pretty contentious last couple days trying to figure out who that lead Who that front runner is gonna be. By the way, Tony, What did you want to say? You're on WGN Radio. Hello? Hi. This is Tony. No. See, I was the managing editor at W. Gmtv for 30 years. And I have John. Yes. Yes, Yes. Hi, Tony. What's up? Hi. Chris Welch went to Northwestern University and while he was going to northwestern, we hired him as an intern. He worked as a sports in turn in the eighties, and we do him quite well. And Steve, you might have run into him. Well, I don't know. If by then we had split and you guys went downtown. I don't remember. You know, I was with you guys up there from 84 86. So I'm being built. I might have worked with Chris Welles. Right? Judge situation, right? Didn't he entered over it? NBC five. He did? Yeah. Alright, Dad, That's the connection, And that's uh, movie was a very, very nice young student at Northwestern who was working hard. Hey, grew up and Maywood Bellwood and his dream was to become a lawyer, and he did, and I we were all rooting for him. While he was going to Northwestern, but a great story. Hey, Tony, what are you doing these days? Tony? Well, I'm a retired, did some consulting work? And, uh, you know, I did a lot of enough. I took the buyout s Oh, you were talking, Tolo. Phil and I was another one who took the buyout. And you know into interesting about Phil. We saw his picture for the first time in the theater column. We now know what he looks like. What a shame, too, Because now he's got to pay for his food filled to tell the restaurant critic. Hey, Tony, I got to go nice of you to call and listen. Thank you, sir..
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Coronavirus: Hollywood Filmmakers Issue Warning Theaters Are Facing Extinction
"This week. Some of Hollywood's biggest names names joining joining forces forces to to warn warn Congress Congress that that movie movie theatres theatres are are facing facing extinction. extinction. Jason Jason Nathan, Nathan, with with a a story story like like a a plot plot out out of of the the Avengers. Avengers. Dozens Dozens of of Hollywood Hollywood heavyweights heavyweights joining joining forces forces to save movie theaters. Clint Eastwood, Jordan Peele, Christopher Nolan, Lee Daniels, Martin Scorsese, Greta Gerwig andMe or sending a letter to the leaders of the Senate and the House, asking them to work together on cinema stimulus cinemas. Support millions of jobs, the letter states. But now we fear for their future, and it warns that the country can't afford to lose the social, economic and cultural value Theaters provide multiplexes have been mostly empty since the start of the pandemic.
CRUSADE Channel Previews
'The Wonder Years' is getting a reboot with a Black family
"We'll you remember the TV show the wonder years with Fred savage guess what it's returning with a twist, famed director Lee Daniels. Will Executive Produce and Fred savage. The Star of the original series will direct a reboot of the hit program. This time built around a black family ABC announced this on Wednesday the half hour comedy will focus on how a black middleclass family in Montgomery Alabama in the turbulent late sixties. The same era as the original series made sure it was the wonder years for them to.
Noon Report with Rick Van Cise
'The Wonder Years' is getting a reboot with a Black family
"Beloved TV classic is getting a reboot. Baby sees Christopher Watson with more on that What worked for 27 years after it aired its last episode, The Wonder Years, is returning to ABC. Like the original. The Reboot will be set in the 19 sixties. Except rather than following a white family in the suburbs. It'll follow a black middle class family in Montgomery, Alabama. During that turbulent time in America Empire Co creator Lee Daniels has the development reigns with Original Wonder Years star Fred Savage Go executive producing. Look for it late next year or early 2022.
The Frame
Biden and Sanders brace for one-on-one battle in new phase of Democratic race
"To the fray mom. John Horn the race to be the Democratic nominee for president is basically down to two candidates now Joe Biden and Bernie Sanders after Elizabeth. Warren dropped out today. Warren and former candidate Pete. Buddha judge attracted a good amount of support from Hollywood. So where do all those donors and their money go now? Ted Johnson has been covering all this for deadline dot com as its Washington. Dc correspondent Ted. Welcome back to the show. Thanks for having me so. A lot has changed in the candidate landscape since we last talked Pete. Buddha judge had the support of big names like Lee Daniels and Seth McFarland since dropping out Buddha judge endorsed Biden have some of his supporters followed. Yes some of the fundraisers have committed to Joe Biden's campaign actually did fairly quickly after people to judge endorsed Biden. And I'm talking about names that are really household. Names former executive and NBC universal a fundraising consultant. People like Lee Daniels in Seth Macfarlane. They actually hosted a fundraiser for people to judge they haven't said where they're GONNA go. Seth Macfarlane is. I actually tweeted out. The fact that in the last cycle he endorsed Bernie Sanders. So perhaps he's weighing that decision whether to go for by her whether a Gopher Sanders so I think people are still still may be a little bit on the fence even though there has been this definite movement toward Joe Biden's campaign. Let's talk more about that. There was a big fundraiser. Last night hosted by former paramount pictures head Sherry Lansing and I think a lot of the momentum hinges on his performance on Super Tuesday. You wrote in deadline that I think at one point eighty people were expected. It turned out to be a whole lot more than that. What happened. Well Yeah Actually. I talked to Sherry Lansing on Monday. And since then she continued to get phone calls for people interested in coming to the event and they finally had to cut it off. I think at about three hundred and fifty people. They just couldn't accommodate anymore to a certain extent. This isn't that surprising because Joe Biden occupies that moderate lane in. There aren't a lot of other options left so if you are not in favor of sanders you're probably naturally going to be looking at Joe Biden if you want to be engaged to this political cycle we're shaping up to have a Biden Bernie battle in Hollywood and we'll see how this plays out. It could be ended up being as as contentious and even nasty as it was back in two thousand and eight when you saw this huge division in Hollywood between Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton if there were any lessons learned about that polarization that fight between Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama. How did the town eventually choose where? There's some conflicted feelings about working with people who might have supported another candidate. Yeah for some people. I think it took them a while. I'm Savan is actually a big name. He's a longtime donor to the Democratic Party. Big Media executive known often for mighty morphin power rangers but he was a figure that was very much behind Hillary Clinton. He appeared on the today show and it took a while to actually get behind Barack Obama. I think it took him until the fall to support Obama's candidacy so it could be even more difficult when you are considering a choice between Biden and Bernie because the division isn't so much behind these two different personalities as it is ideological this race has been set up as a race between the moderates and the left or the far left. And you didn't see that back in two thousand eight. We're talking with Ted Johnson at deadline dot com about Hollywood's take on the two remaining Democratic candidates Elizabeth. Warren has officially dropped out of the race. But she's not endorsing anybody yet. She has a lot of Hollywood support. People that Krissy teagan and buried Jenkins is there any indication yet of where her supporters might go again? I think that this is where people could definitely be on the fence. Between Biden and between Bernie Sanders. I was added warrant event in South Carolina last week with John Legend. And he was. I thought an extraordinarily effective spokesperson for her campaign. He hasn't said Who He's going to endorse yet but he actually would be Think a valuable endorsement for either campaign and he seemed to really kind of reflect. This idea that weren't tried to advance that. There was kind of middle ground between what Biden represented and what sanders represented and she She just had a news conference. Apparently I was wrong about that. That there really wasn't that that lane in this Democratic primary so we'll see what someone like John Legend how he comes out in supporting either. By Sander's there are some very big Hollywood players who have yet to say where their money is going to go to be no which way they're leaning. And how influential are they in? Where other money might go after they pick a candidate? Yes people like Sabban people like Steven Spielberg and Jeffrey Katzenberg. Heaven publicly said who they're backing. I would be awfully surprised if they went for Bernie Sanders Just because people like for example Jeffrey Katzenberg. He has contributed to multiple candidates in this race except for Sanders. So I I think that might be an indication right there. Some of these figures wanted to kind of sit out the primary process but their support can be influential. It has the bandwagon effect. It probably would have been more influential earlier in the primary because it kind of would have rallied the troops behind one of these more moderate candidates but it will matter to a fair degree especially in fundraising. Especially if someone like a Katzenberg or someone like a High Sabban not only host fundraisers but also get involved in some of the Super Pacs for these campaigns where they can raise a much greater sums of money in the millions as opposed to twenty eight hundred. There might be some people in the country who would say to themselves. Well if George Clooney supports this candidate. I'm going to support that candidate. Is that really the factor though the celebrity endorsement or is it more about the money and what the check writing ability can mean for these candidates. Well I think that it depends on what time in the process. There's not a whole lot of evidence that voters look to celebrities for who they are going to vote for. But what they can do is kind of help. Elevate a candidate in terms of attention. And that's extremely important during the primary process. Probably less important when we get into the general election when it's just two candidates facing other and that's where fundraising tends to become a bigger issue especially as we get closer and closer to