Fired Disney Chairman Ike Perlmutter: Disney Fired Me Because I Dared to Say They Should Not Get Into Politics, But Should Keep Their Focus on Profit Instead of Propaganda

In a rare interview, the 80-year-old Mr. Perlmutter spoke to The Wall Street Journal about his dismissal from Disney last week, his relationship with Mr. Iger, and missteps he feels Disney has made in recent years.
Disney is legendary for the loyalty it engenders in most typical employees. But Mr. Perlmutter was no typical corporate employee, nor did he act like one. If he didn't like what he saw from leadership, he picked up the phone and aired his concerns to powerful allies like former CEO Bob Chapek and activist investor Nelson Peltz.
When Disney was battling with Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, Mr. Perlmutter said he called him, too. "Ron, you're right. Disney doesn't have the right to get involved with politics."
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"I have no doubt that my termination was based on fundamental differences in business between my thinking and Disney leadership, because I care about return on investment," Mr. Perlmutter said.

Bob Iger was ambushed at his shareholder earnings report meeting this week, as several Racist Homophobes asked him why Disney was burning shareholder money by emphasizing Groomer Indoctrination over actual entertainment and return-on-investment.

Before that, he ranted about DeSantis, who he, at least, does not believe to be a "Mannaged Principal Globalist" who all the corporatists just love.

Disney's Bob Iger takes aim at DeSantis and says his 'retaliation' against the company is 'anti-Florida' - as he vows to pump $17 BILLION into theme park creating 13,000 jobs (even as company lays off THOUSANDS)
Disney's CEO Bob Iger, 72, has slammed Ron DeSantis' recent decision to do away with the company's self-governing privileges in the state
It comes as a new board handpicked by Ron DeSantis to oversee Disney's self-governing district says a backdoor agreement has left the board powerless
Made between Iger and the on-the-way-out board this year, the deal transferred much of the district's power back to Disney for the next 30 years
By Alex Hammer For Dailymail.Com

Disney's CEO has slammed Ron DeSantis' decision to do away with the company's self-governing privileges in Florida - calling the maneuver 'retaliation' to the park's opposition to his 'Don't Say Gay' bill.
Longtime boss Bob Iger decried the Republican governor for getting 'very angry' over the company's position, slamming his DeSantis' actions as 'anti-Florida' during Disney's an earnings call Monday.
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When questioned about DeSantis and his supposed 'retaliation,' the entertainment boss obliquely called the governor's actions un-American, claiming they flout the First Amendment.
'Any action that thwarts those efforts simply to retaliate for any position the company took sounds not just anti-business but it sounds anti-Florida,' said Iger when asked if the very public struggle between the parties should worry shareholders, since it will see the company forced to fork over millions in state taxes each year.
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'Obviously in taking the position, the governor got very angry about the position Disney took, and it seemed like he decided to retaliate against us - including naming the new board to oversee the property and the [park] business.'

Actually, he did not say "[park] business." He just said the new board would "oversee the property and the business," thus eliminating, by this word choice, any distinction between the district and the business itself.

It should be remembered that this district is not just Disney property -- it's a place where people live and, supposedly, vote for local laws. Iger is basically admitting that, in his mind at least, Disney actually owns this district and the people within it. He sees no distinction between the district and "the business." It's all the same.

Just before the Reedy Creek district was transferred back to normal democratic control, its board members all voted to give Disney all powers over the district, just as they were being replaced.

DeSantis has ordered an investigation into those board members and Disney as well, perhaps for conspiring with them or even bribing them.

Ron DeSantis's hand-picked board overseeing Disney's district is now preparing a legal battle against the company over the board's alleged inability to effectively manage the district due to actions Disney took to reclaim power, the Orlando Sentinel reported on March 29. The governor also today ordered an investigation into the board that previously oversaw Disney's district for "self-dealing" and other "ethical violations."

I've heard that this might end up costing Disney "billions," so they'll do everything possible to keep control over this land.

But DeSantis is weighing imposing even greater costs on Disney for their corrupt evasion of the law: He's considering imposing big hotel taxes on them, and making the roads to Disney toll roads.

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis on Thursday promised a new round of action against Disney in his ongoing dispute with the entertainment giant, including looking at the taxes on Disney’s hotels and imposing tolls on roads that serve its theme parks.
The DeSantis administration is also examining if a recent agreement approved between a Central Florida board that had been controlled by Disney and the company runs afoul of the state's growth laws, according to senior administration officials. One of those laws explicitly states that development agreements must be modified or revoked to comply with laws even if the law is passed after the agreement was executed.

Disney's woke agenda is already destroying shareholder value:

The company is now trading 30 percent lower than its pre-Covid numbers and 87 percent below its 2021 peak.

Shareholders interrogated Iger about Disney's "not-so-secret Gay Agenda," as one gay propaganda officer admitted.

Iger defended taking divisive political position after divisive political position, and vowed to keep on doing it, claiming Disney had to push "its values," despite these obviously not being Disney's values, but Iger's and his woke executive corps'.

He did some double-talk and said that he would keep focus on "entertainment" while pushing Disney's "values," but refused to give an inch on pushing his radical Not-So-Secret Gay Agenda.

One shareholder asked if it was smart of Disney to take political stances that represent a small portion of Disney's customer base. Iger said that there are gray issues that they have to determine wether or not they should weigh in on, but that when they take a position, there is a true reason why and it almost always directly affects their business or people. He noted that for decades, corporations in America have expressed themselves on various issues and that the country is better for it. He cited WWII and segregation and stated Disney is "guided by a sense of decency and respect."
Another shareholder specifically expressed anger about Disney partnering with organizations such as the San Francisco Gay Choir, citing a satirical song they performed two years ago. They asked if it would be beneficial for Disney to "abandon" the LGBTQIA+ community.
Iger answered by talking about Disney's 100 years of stories aimed to entertain all types of families all over the world and how proud he is of those stories. He noted that they have touched people's hearts and infused them with good values about heroes, family, friendship, good triumphing over evil, and tomorrow always being brighter than today. Regarding recent criticism about "agenda-driven content," he said their primary mission is to entertain and continue to have a positive impact on the world.
He said that Disney should be sensitive to the fact that parents have different levels of comfort with the content they create for their children. But that they strive to tell stories that reflect the world, and greater respect and acceptance, to carry on Walt Disney's legacy of spreading joy for everyone.

You can listen to the questions about Disney's woke agenda, and Iger doubling down on divisive woke propaganda, at Midnight's Edge.

Meanwhile, the only Star Wars product people actually enjoyed in the past ten years -- The Mandalorian -- turned to total crap in its third season. No one is talking about it, no one is tweeting about it.

And, according to the site Sportskeeda, barely anyone is watching it. Its ratings have dropped off a cliff:

CosmicBookNews says the show's ratings have dropped 40% from last season.

This may be why: Just as Disney Marvel thought the way to attract Young, Diverse Viewers to She-Hulk was to have Megan Thee Stallion show up to vulgarly twerk with a superhero, they now decide that they can attract a Body-Diverse audience by having cameos by fatties Jack Black and Lizzo.

Both of these people read their lines like they just walked in off the street in exchange for a free bucket of KFC Extra-Crispy.

This is the worst "#StarWars" I have ever seen! @Jon_Favreau & @BryceDHoward you should be ashamed and embarressed for making this garbage! If you thought #Grogu jumping was an embarrassing scene, check this out! #TheMandalorian #Mando #DisneyStarWarsIsntStarWars pic.twitter.com/Nee8e4qAbt
— Raging_Ryno (@RynoRaging) April 5, 2023

The Critical Drinker
@TheCriticalDri2
Not gonna lie, I'm pretty glad I called it quits on the Mandalorian a few weeks ago.

Nerdrotic summed up the death of the last Disney Star Wars hope. He notes that the Man-dolorian has been sidelined for the Woman-dalorian. Of course.

Although, it could just be that Pedro Pascal is leaving the show, and they're passing the torch (or the "Darksaber," in this case). And no big loss on that.

But why replace him with a woman? Hasn't Disney Star Wars done enough of that? Wasn't this property purchased by Disney so they could have some "boy properties" to go along with their Princesses? Why are they determined to turn Star Wars and Marvel into just moar Disney Princess Properties?

One last bit of Disney ~~news~~ speculation based on rumor:

Diktor Von Doomcock (possibly a fake name) heard that Kevin Feige has been summoned into Bob Iger's office and given strict budget limits for Marvel movies and shows going forward: No more than $150 - $175 million per movie, and if the directors couldn't make that budget, they should "find other work."

And no more than $75 million per TV series.

At about the same time, Kamran Pasha heard that Kathleen Kennedy was trying to shift Iger's attention from the failures of her LucasFilm department to Feige's Marvel department.

Those were both rumors, but they put them together and came up with this speculation: Kathleen Kennedy knows that Iger has to sell either Marvel or Disney, and so she's trying to throw mud on Marvel to get them to sell that unit, not her LucasFilm unit.

They base this speculation on the notion that Iger is laying down the law with Marvel, but not with Disney. As if he knows Disney is beyond saving, and doesn't even want to set up parameters going forward, because he knows Disney will not be going forward with LucasFilm at all.

Possible? Sure, but based on the prior claims that she was already being Volunterminated (volunteered to be terminated), why would she care if Star Wars were sold or not? Maybe there's something in her contract that treats her poorly if Star Wars is sold, but isn't it usually the other way around? Don't you usually get a buy-out if the company is bought?

And that's it for Disney Drama today.

Posted by: Ace at 04:05 PM

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1 First.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at April 07, 2023 04:06 PM (JMAcK)

2 Disney Delenda Est.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at April 07, 2023 04:06 PM (JMAcK)

3 Of course.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at April 07, 2023 04:07 PM (lTGtQ)

4 I know lots of good, Christian people who subscribe to Disney+. I'm not sure why they give money to people who want them dead and their children mutilated, but there are many who do it.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at April 07, 2023 04:07 PM (JMAcK)

5 Ha-haaaaaaaaaaa

Posted by: Nelson Peltz at April 07, 2023 04:08 PM (63Dwl)

6 "Disney is legendary for the loyalty it engenders in most typical employees."

They get company discounts for the most sought-after kid prostitutes.

Posted by: Knock gp A Kiss at April 07, 2023 04:08 PM (MvF+J)

7 All current Disney execs need to be shown defenestration.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at April 07, 2023 04:09 PM (7ssgH)

8 Pinnochio was a tranny who wanted to be a real boy.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at April 07, 2023 04:09 PM (FVME7)

9 Fetched them.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at April 07, 2023 04:09 PM (7ssgH)

10 Hiya

Posted by: JT at April 07, 2023 04:09 PM (T4tVD)

11 Iger is basically admitting that, in his mind at least, Disney actually owns this district and the people within it. He sees no distinction between the district and "the business." It's all the same.

That is the admitted, no, bragged about plan for huge swathes of this country and others; Holland, for example.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at April 07, 2023 04:10 PM (lTGtQ)

12 willowed:

>>Fisherman found one of them and the Jig was up.
.......

and I was just about to let loose an original fish pun

Posted by: wth at April 07, 2023 04:10 PM (v0R5T)

13 It should be remembered that this district is not just Disney property -- it's a place where people live and, supposedly, vote for local laws. Iger is basically admitting that, in his mind at least, Disney actually owns this district and the people within it. He sees no distinction between the district and "the business." It's all the same.

It seems the peasants need reminding of who owns the demesne. Uppity damn villeins.

Posted by: Archimedes at April 07, 2023 04:10 PM (eOEVl)

14 9 Read that as 'felched them.' My bad.

Posted by: Knock gp A Kiss at April 07, 2023 04:10 PM (MvF+J)

15 Star Wars has been dead for some time. Why doesn't anyone tell them they are dead?

Posted by: Rick Dalton at April 07, 2023 04:10 PM (tiR3O)

16 Die Mouse Die

Posted by: Skip at April 07, 2023 04:11 PM (xhxe8)

17 Pinnochio was a tranny who wanted to be a real boy.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks

He definitely had morning wood. Hell, he had all day wood.

Posted by: Tonypete at April 07, 2023 04:11 PM (qoGsy)

18 Star Wars has been dead for some time. Why doesn't anyone tell them they are dead?

They could make a movie entitled The Sith Sense.

Posted by: Archimedes at April 07, 2023 04:11 PM (eOEVl)

19 Don't you usually get a buy-out if the company is bought
Posted by: Ace at 04:05 PM

Not if you're gone before the company is sold off...

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at April 07, 2023 04:11 PM (7ssgH)

20 Girl Starbuck appears to be succumbing to middle-age.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at April 07, 2023 04:11 PM (fs1hN)

21 Fired Disney Chairman Ike Perlmutter: Disney Fired Me Because I Dared to Say They Should Not Get Into Politics, But Should Keep Their Focus on Profit Instead of Propaganda
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What kind of heretical idea is this for a modern corporation?

Burn the heretic! (metaphorically, of course)

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at April 07, 2023 04:12 PM (YIVH2)

22 Sock Off

Posted by: Pudinhead at April 07, 2023 04:12 PM (tiR3O)

23 Remember the Bob Iger Corporate Call this week?

Some people are saying that Bob Iger said the Reedy Creek Improvement District Bonds are NOT Municipal Bonds, but are Disney Corporate Bonds.

This huge if true!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gok6h0uVxns

Posted by: rd at April 07, 2023 04:12 PM (Z32m1)

24 I think Perlmutter's age (80s) and the need to shut down Marvel departments to save money played into it as well. I have no doubt that they were longing to dump him because of his Trump support and lack of support for The Message in board meetings, and I am certain that his trying to take over Disney from Iger played into it as well.

But there were other factors

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 07, 2023 04:12 PM (0hOvj)

25 Read that as 'felched them.' My bad.
Posted by: Knock gp

Reading glasses might be in order.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at April 07, 2023 04:12 PM (7ssgH)

26 Headline from this morning.

“The Mandalorian” Episode Featuring Lizzo and Jack Black Is the Worst Rated Episode of the Entire Series

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at April 07, 2023 04:12 PM (FVME7)

27 "Star Wars has been dead for some time."

Real Star Wars has never been tried.

Posted by: Knock gp A Kiss at April 07, 2023 04:12 PM (MvF+J)

28 Hiya Skip !

Didja enjoy yer day off ?

Posted by: JT at April 07, 2023 04:13 PM (T4tVD)

29 Possible? Sure, but based on the prior claims that she was already being Volunterminated (volunteered to be terminated), why would she care if Star Wars were sold or not? Maybe there's something in her contract that treats her poorly if Star Wars is sold, but isn't it usually the other way around? Don't you usually get a buy-out if the company is bought?

And that's it for Disney Drama today.

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They just announced a few new movies today in the Star Wars.

I dunno...sounds like Kennedy is safe.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, being witty and sophisticated with Ernst Lubitsch at April 07, 2023 04:14 PM (LvTSG)

30 Like nearly all corporations, Disney is at war with normalcy. The more immediate danger is their audience is mostly children.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at April 07, 2023 04:14 PM (fs1hN)

31 Star Wars has been dead for some time. Why doesn't anyone tell them they are dead?

They are Weekend with Bernies with it right now, making it seem alive and partying on. They announced a new 3-movie Rey Skywalker project! Although it was Kathleen Kennedy and she's announced like 15 projects that never went anywhere so who knows. I think she uses the announcements as power plays: we're too deep into this, we cannot stop, the press already has this, you cannot get rid of me.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 07, 2023 04:14 PM (0hOvj)

32 “The Mandalorian” Episode Featuring Lizzo and Jack Black Is the Worst Rated Episode of the Entire Series
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at April 07, 2023 04:12 PM (FVME7)
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TBF, I don't think Laurence Olivier or Helen Mirren could have done anything with those lines.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at April 07, 2023 04:14 PM (2hlEI)

33 ...they have touched people's hearts and infused them with good values about heroes, family, friendship, good triumphing over evil, and tomorrow always being brighter than today.

********

Those sick bastards!!!!

Posted by: Muldoon at April 07, 2023 04:16 PM (ykeLU)

34 I would think a good storyline would be a murder mystery in a Renaissance Festival. Pretty sure you could get multiple of sequels out of that setup. Think of all the fags, tards and incels killing one another?

Posted by: Pudinhead at April 07, 2023 04:16 PM (tiR3O)

35 Smoke n Scan police chase still underway. LE stops one car, the fucking thugs jump out and jack another, speed off. People really need to start locking their car doors. Bonus: it makes Obama cry.

Posted by: Knock gp A Kiss at April 07, 2023 04:16 PM (MvF+J)

36 The Mandalorian” Episode Featuring Lizzo and Jack Black Is the Worst Rated Episode of the Entire Series

Damn, those are some ridiculous fake whiskers. Jack Black's don't look good either.

Posted by: Archimedes at April 07, 2023 04:16 PM (eOEVl)

37 "Star Wars has been dead for some time."

When you are young, all movies seem good, because you don't have the experience to know what a bad movie looks like.

The original star wars was the first movie I walked out of prior to the ending.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at April 07, 2023 04:17 PM (lTGtQ)

38 Disney is incapable of making anything for boys. They have a show called "Crater" coming to Disney+. The blurb for the show is about a boy who wants to see a certain crater before having to leave the moon. So who is listed as the lead? You win a prize if you say a girl. Who is at the front of the publicity still, the girl. Who is second? A black kid who is not the boy in question. Anti-male and anti-white is Disney. You're a fool if you pay for anything Disney.

Posted by: Crom Laughs at April 07, 2023 04:17 PM (dN42F)

39 The Mandalorian” Episode Featuring Lizzo and Jack Black Is the Worst Rated Episode of the Entire Series

How could it have failed! It has Baby Yoda! Everyone loves Baby Yoda! He got knighted by helping the queen cheat at whatever the hell game they were playing! He's a hero!

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 07, 2023 04:17 PM (0hOvj)

40 Often syfy shows use Zeppelins to indicate an alternate reality so Lizzo's career may rebound.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at April 07, 2023 04:17 PM (FVME7)

41 I watched that awful Mandalorian clip above. 2 minutes and 2 seconds of horrible.

Remember how Chuck Woolery used to say he'd be "back in 2 and 2" as his game show(s) went to commercial?

Posted by: Doof at April 07, 2023 04:17 PM (LLddH)

42 willowed:

>>Fisherman found one of them and the Jig was up.
.......

and I was just about to let loose an original fish pun
Posted by: wth at April 07, 2023 04:10 PM (v0R5T)
_____________

Just for the halibut?

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at April 07, 2023 04:17 PM (YqDXo)

43 When you are young, all movies seem good, because you don't have the experience to know what a bad movie looks like.

The original star wars was the first movie I walked out of prior to the ending.

Agreed. I loved it back when I was a wee sprout, but now it makes me want to jump into a volcano.

Posted by: Archimedes at April 07, 2023 04:18 PM (eOEVl)

44 A couple of years ago I read Timothy Zahn's Thrawn Trilogy. They would've been so much better off if they had used this for the sequel movie trilogy.

Posted by: Mark1971 at April 07, 2023 04:18 PM (xPl2J)

45 The next movie in my watchlist is Zardoz.

Better or worse than The Mandalorian?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, being witty and sophisticated with Ernst Lubitsch at April 07, 2023 04:18 PM (LvTSG)

46 "Star Wars has been dead for some time."

There are moron authors here who insist it is an inexhaustible story. I don't get it, but I don't write good.

Posted by: Knock gp A Kiss at April 07, 2023 04:18 PM (MvF+J)

47 Ace, you've got a couple of "Disney"s in there where you mean Lucasfilm.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at April 07, 2023 04:18 PM (JMAcK)

48 Disney is not down 87% from its peak

About 50%

Posted by: Hoss at April 07, 2023 04:18 PM (x7jaR)

49 The original star wars was the first movie I walked out of prior to the ending.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at April 07, 2023 04:17 PM (lTGtQ)

================

May I ask why?

Posted by: rd at April 07, 2023 04:18 PM (Z32m1)

50 Got my 2 hobby projects done, should make a presentation and send to hobby thread.

Posted by: Skip at April 07, 2023 04:18 PM (xhxe8)

51 "Star Wars has been dead for some time."

*******

Which one is Star Wars again? The one with the pointy-eared pedant with the quizzical raised eyebrow look?

Posted by: Muldoon at April 07, 2023 04:18 PM (ykeLU)

52 Iger is basically admitting that, in his mind at least, Disney actually owns this district and the people within it. He sees no distinction between the district and "the business." It's all the same.
____________

You own your ~~soul~~ ass to the company store.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at April 07, 2023 04:19 PM (YqDXo)

53 In the big picture, none of this matters. Disney's target audience was normies to a significant extent, so maybe it can be hurt by being so devoted to gay causes. But there's not really any non-gay alternatives. The entertainment industry is all-in on this gay stuff, and all the rest (diversity casting, even when it is goofy on its face, gender swapping roles, subverting normies' expectations).

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls - an election is simply a festival for the majority at April 07, 2023 04:19 PM (KFhLj)

54 Disney is incapable of making anything for boys.

Although Up did really well, their princess movies tend to be their biggest sellers and merchandise machines. Your daughter wants all the princess stuff, your boy doesn't give a crap if he gets an action figure of the boy from Up.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 07, 2023 04:19 PM (0hOvj)

55 Often syfy shows use Zeppelins to indicate an alternate reality so Lizzo's career may rebound.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks

Zeppelins are a known symbol of jumping the shark. Also a symbol for crashing and burning.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at April 07, 2023 04:20 PM (lTGtQ)

56 "The original star wars was the first movie I walked out of prior to the ending."

It was a drive-in. I was trapped, like in carbonite.

Posted by: Knock gp A Kiss at April 07, 2023 04:20 PM (MvF+J)

57 Star Wars has been dead for some time. Why doesn't anyone tell them they are dead?

They could make a movie entitled The Sith Sense.

Oh, come ON! That was good.
*mutters about Philistines and pearls before swine*

Posted by: Archimedes at April 07, 2023 04:20 PM (eOEVl)

58 Disney is legendary for the loyalty it engenders in most typical employees.

Where the hell did they get this howler from??? Most ex employees call the place a hell hole to work in.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 07, 2023 04:20 PM (0hOvj)

59 Disney is not down 87% from its peak

About 50%
Posted by: Hoss

This suspiciously sounds like math.

Posted by: Tonypete at April 07, 2023 04:20 PM (qoGsy)

60 54 Disney is incapable of making anything for boys.

Although Up did really well, their princess movies tend to be their biggest sellers and merchandise machines. Your daughter wants all the princess stuff, your boy doesn't give a crap if he gets an action figure of the boy from Up.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 07, 2023 04:19 PM (0hOvj)

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Frozen 2 made more than a billion dollars, plus toy sales.

Princess movies have never been more popular.

And they just announced the newest in their live action remakes of popular animated classics: Moana. You know, the movie that's less than ten years old. It will also make a billion dollars.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, being witty and sophisticated with Ernst Lubitsch at April 07, 2023 04:20 PM (LvTSG)

61 Fired at 80? I would take that.

Posted by: t-bird at April 07, 2023 04:20 PM (Sv58p)

62 Got my 2 hobby projects done, should make a presentation and send to hobby thread.
Posted by: Skip

Nice !

Posted by: JT at April 07, 2023 04:20 PM (T4tVD)

63 The Mandalorian” Episode Featuring Lizzo and Jack Black Is the Worst Rated Episode of the Entire Series

***

Who knew race-swapping Jabba the Hutt would be so unpopular?

Posted by: Azathoth at April 07, 2023 04:20 PM (wb1YC)

64 Bwahahahaha! I thought the movie clip was an ad for something like potato chips. It's so bad; it's a parody?

Posted by: Lola - ALL the 1/6 videotapes from Alexandra and Jade, too. at April 07, 2023 04:20 PM (GshMh)

65 Read that as 'felched them.' My bad.
Posted by: Knock gp A Kiss at April 07, 2023 04:10 PM (MvF+J)

ARMAGEDON!!!

Funny every time...
https://youtu.be/quqGKDqi3Yw

Posted by: Doof at April 07, 2023 04:21 PM (LLddH)

66 May I ask why?
Posted by: rd at April 07, 2023 04:18 PM (Z32m1)

May I ask why you ask? I don't really care if someone likes something I like or not. However, I find it tiresome when people feel the need to point out how they don't like something. That is along with the implication that they are a superior chooser of product. You don't have to comment if you don't like it.

Posted by: Crom Laughs at April 07, 2023 04:21 PM (dN42F)

67 Disney is not down 87% from its peak

About 50%
Posted by: Hoss

This suspiciously sounds like math.

Then it's probably racist.

Posted by: Archimedes at April 07, 2023 04:21 PM (eOEVl)

68 Why does DeSantis want to harm one of Florida's biggest tourist attractions? Because he's a fascist douche who wants to show them who's boss?

Other states should consider offering Disney incentives to move. I'm not sure where they'd go due to wanting warm climate and not Republican leadership though. Georgia maybe, but it's still run by mostly Republicans.

DeSantis’s charisma on full display
https://tinyurl.com/ycycbxs5 okay...that photo is pretty funny, and unflattering.

He'd be really smart to just drop it. The mouse bit him in the ass...and will bite again

Like Putin and Trump, DeSantis will burn everything down to win. DeSantis would kill Florida's tourist industry to get what he wants.

All of this because Disney wants to be all-inclusive. Please continue to escalate.

Is this really all because Disney is mildly supportive of LGBTQ rights? It's just insane. It's like burning down a house that has a rainbow flag. Even if DeSantis is acting out of some weird principle (he isn't, it's just "feed the magats"), it's so self-destructive.

Posted by: Intrepid Democratic Underground AoS Liaison at April 07, 2023 04:21 PM (b9IpR)

69 In much better news, I get to start Larry Correia's new book, "Tower of Silence" today! This is the 4th book in his "Saga of the Forgotten Warrior" series. (The first was "Son of the Black Sword".)

Disney? Dryer lint is more engaging than what they churn out these days.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at April 07, 2023 04:21 PM (nRMeC)

70 Where the hell did they get this howler from??? Most ex employees call the place a hell hole to work in.
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Its seems they have really good retention of the slow kid hires.

Posted by: Pudinhead at April 07, 2023 04:21 PM (tiR3O)

71 I hope DeSantis follows though on his threats. Make it a hundred bucks a night room tax for any hotel in the Reedy Creek shitlag. And a hundred bucks per axle toll on vehicles entering and exiting the shitlag.

And look into taxing power, water, and sewage, and gas, where practical, too.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 07, 2023 04:22 PM (tkR6S)

72 The Left ruins everything they touch

Posted by: Nevergiveup at April 07, 2023 04:22 PM (pVWRI)

73 68 All of this because Disney wants to be all-inclusive. Please continue to escalate.

Posted by: Intrepid Democratic Underground AoS Liaison at April 07, 2023 04:21 PM (b9IpR)

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I must have missed the television series celebrating Christians.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, being witty and sophisticated with Ernst Lubitsch at April 07, 2023 04:22 PM (LvTSG)

74 May I ask why?

Posted by: rd

I was what, 12 or 13, and yet I already knew the predictable ending, and didn't want to sit through pathetic dialogue to get there.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at April 07, 2023 04:22 PM (lTGtQ)

75 The terrible third season of The Mandalorian should not come as a surprise to anyone who's paid attention in recent years.

They use the first season to generate interest. By modern standards it's relatively non-woke. Then they go hard, hard left in the second or third season.

Amazon, being the trendsetter that it is, decided to go full woke in the first seasons of Wheel of Time and Rings of Power, but waited until at least the fourth or fifth episode, usually, before pulling out all the stops.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at April 07, 2023 04:22 PM (YIVH2)

76 It entertains me that the left is now, "What's good for big business is good for America."

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, being witty and sophisticated with Ernst Lubitsch at April 07, 2023 04:22 PM (LvTSG)

77 Who's the chunky black woman?

Posted by: That Northern skulker at April 07, 2023 04:22 PM (eGTCV)

78 Although Up did really well, their princess movies tend to be their biggest sellers and merchandise machines. Your daughter wants all the princess stuff, your boy doesn't give a crap if he gets an action figure of the boy from Up.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 07, 2023 04:19 PM (0hOvj)
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It's odd: little girls want to be princesses, but little boys don't want to be princes or kings.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at April 07, 2023 04:22 PM (YqDXo)

79 and I was just about to let loose an original fish pun
Posted by: wth at April 07, 2023 04:10 PM (v0R5T)
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Just for the halibut?
Posted by: Deplorable Jay
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It was small so probably wasn't scalable.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at April 07, 2023 04:23 PM (7ssgH)

80 "the implication that they are a superior chooser of product."

Not implied. Axiomatic.

Posted by: Knock gp A Kiss at April 07, 2023 04:23 PM (MvF+J)

81 Often syfy shows use Zeppelins to indicate an alternate reality so Lizzo's career may rebound.

A heavy-lift helicopter may be necessary.

Posted by: t-bird at April 07, 2023 04:23 PM (Sv58p)

82 The next movie in my watchlist is Zardoz.

Better or worse than The Mandalorian?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

Zardoz is, ... okay. Some decent bewbies.

Posted by: BifBewalski at April 07, 2023 04:23 PM (3CCua)

83 78 It's odd: little girls want to be princesses, but little boys don't want to be princes or kings.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at April 07, 2023 04:22 PM (YqDXo)

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Only if those princes and kings are leading charges into enemy lines.

Theoden is my spirit animal.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, being witty and sophisticated with Ernst Lubitsch at April 07, 2023 04:23 PM (LvTSG)

84 The next movie in my watchlist is Zardoz.

Better or worse than The Mandalorian?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, being witty and sophisticated with Ernst Lubitsch

Low bar but better. I liked the derivation of the name, several good quotes, and James Bond in a red diaper.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at April 07, 2023 04:23 PM (FVME7)

85 Although Up did really well, their princess movies tend to be their biggest sellers and merchandise machines. Your daughter wants all the princess stuff, your boy doesn't give a crap if he gets an action figure of the boy from Up.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 07, 2023 04:19 PM (0hOvj)

That's Pixar and I believe that was before or soon after the purchase by Disney. They've been Disney'ed as well. "Toy Story" and "The Incredibles" are boys' stories.

Posted by: Crom Laughs at April 07, 2023 04:23 PM (dN42F)

86 I only watched the first season of The Mandalorian. I thought it was really good.

Think I'll leave it at that.

Posted by: nurse ratched at April 07, 2023 04:24 PM (vRoTw)

87 . . . It's just insane. It's like burning down a house that has a rainbow flag. . . . .
Posted by: Intrepid Democratic Underground AoS Liaison

Hold on there - this may be a cromulent idea.

Posted by: Tonypete at April 07, 2023 04:24 PM (qoGsy)

88 Maybe all this riot girl power replacing and beating up on men shit is to "empower" unstable girls to shoot up things

Posted by: ... at April 07, 2023 04:24 PM (lpA/P)

89 May I ask why you ask? I don't really care if someone likes something I like or not. However, I find it tiresome when people feel the need to point out how they don't like something. That is along with the implication that they are a superior chooser of product. You don't have to comment if you don't like it.
Posted by: Crom Laughs at April 07, 2023 04:21 PM (dN42F)

People are curious. Especially when you are different from them.

Getting angry at people who are curious about why you are different is what the woke do.

In other words: "Lighten up, Francis"

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at April 07, 2023 04:24 PM (JMAcK)

90 It's odd: little girls want to be princesses, but little boys don't want to be princes or kings.

You're little boys want to be princesses too.

Posted by: zombie walt disney in hell at April 07, 2023 04:24 PM (KFhLj)

91 I watched the scene Lizzo and Black are in (how does he keep getting work??) and I have to agree with the people saying it looked and felt like a SNL sketch down to the quality of set design and clothing. None of the Star Wars art style was in it, the acting is horrible (Lizzo is a black hole of anti-talent), its just bad.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 07, 2023 04:24 PM (0hOvj)

92 84 Low bar but better. I liked the derivation of the name, several good quotes, and James Bond in a red diaper.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at April 07, 2023 04:23 PM (FVME7)

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I've actually sort of seen it a few times. I don't always fully pay attention when it's on.

But this is in the context of John Boorman's whole filmography, right after Deliverance and right before Exorcist II: The Heretic. With things like Hell on the Pacific (awesome) and Leo the Last (wtf) in the rearview, I wonder if I'll get anything more out of it.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, being witty and sophisticated with Ernst Lubitsch at April 07, 2023 04:25 PM (LvTSG)

93 It's odd: little girls want to be princesses, but little boys don't want to be princes or kings.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at April 07, 2023 04:22 PM (YqDXo)

Tell them the story about King Sobieski and they'll want to be kings.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at April 07, 2023 04:25 PM (JMAcK)

94 Who knew race-swapping Jabba the Hutt would be so unpopular?
Posted by: Azathoth at April 07, 2023 04:20 PM (wb1YC)

From Jabba the Hutt, to Blubba the Slut.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 07, 2023 04:25 PM (tkR6S)

95 They could make a movie entitled The Sith Sense.

Oh, come ON! That was good.
*mutters about Philistines and pearls before swine*
Posted by: Archimedes

*******

"I see droid people..."

Posted by: Muldoon at April 07, 2023 04:25 PM (ykeLU)

96 In much better news, I get to start Larry Correia's new book, "Tower of Silence" today! This is the 4th book in his "Saga of the Forgotten Warrior" series. (The first was "Son of the Black Sword".)

Disney? Dryer lint is more engaging than what they churn out these days.
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at April 07, 2023 04:21 PM (nRMeC)
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*sigh* I've really enjoyed the MHI series.

Now you've gone and convinced me to order this series as well...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at April 07, 2023 04:26 PM (YIVH2)

97 I only watched the first season of The Mandalorian. I thought it was really good.

Think I'll leave it at that.
Posted by: nurse ratched at April 07, 2023 04:24 PM (vRoTw)

Started it. Was slightly above average. Gave up after they canned Gina Carrano.

Posted by: Doof at April 07, 2023 04:26 PM (LLddH)

98 Since this is a "Smart Military Blog" I thought I'd post this.

We just had at least 1 but most likely 2 combat jets fly over our house. Loud. Didn't get to see them because they were gone by the time I got outside. They were so fast that I thought they had the afterburners going on.

This does not happen in the Twin Cities MN. The last time I heard something like this was 9/11. Did anyone else hear anything?

Posted by: johnd01 at April 07, 2023 04:26 PM (300Bg)

99 Who's the chunky black woman?

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A quarter wit whose claim to fame is twerking during a basketball game and stalking Chris Hemsworth in his DMs.

Oh, and she's a rapper because of course she is because everything is stupid now.

Posted by: Azathoth at April 07, 2023 04:26 PM (wb1YC)

100 Ok, I admit... as a former Disney castmember I'm enjoying the bit of inside baseball info... thanks Ace.

Posted by: Inogame at April 07, 2023 04:26 PM (53oGX)

101 They fired Perlmutter, they fires some old time exec lady from abc who was a voice of sanity over there.

Posted by: runner at April 07, 2023 04:27 PM (jA/M2)

102 In much better news, I get to start Larry Correia's new book, "Tower of Silence" today! This is the 4th book in his "Saga of the Forgotten Warrior" series. (The first was "Son of the Black Sword".)
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at April 07, 2023 04:21 PM (nRMeC)

THANK YOU!

I've been waiting for that installment.

/runs off to buy it

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at April 07, 2023 04:27 PM (JMAcK)

103 It's odd: little girls want to be princesses, but little boys don't want to be princes or kings.
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the rogue character in Tangled seemed like a role model boys could identify with. Both he and the Rapunzel characters had a good story arc. Exception that proves the rule, though. But it does show they could accomplish this but choose not too.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at April 07, 2023 04:27 PM (fs1hN)

104 It's odd: little girls want to be princesses, but little boys don't want to be princes or kings.

Princesses get all the pretty clothes and dances and parties, and are completely protected and supported. They don't even have to lift a finger to get a new tiara.

Kings have heavy responsibilities and no freedom, they are forced to do state crap and attend annoying dances. They can't go off and save the world with the magic sword, they send a knight to do that.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 07, 2023 04:27 PM (0hOvj)

105 Well, the good news is that I get fewer of the diseased toenail ads now. The bad news is that they've been replaced with cartoon women emitting barf green gases from their backsides.

I'm really looking forward to what comes after that.

Posted by: Archimedes at April 07, 2023 04:27 PM (eOEVl)

106 Zardoz?

It depends on how high you are. You might want to raid jackstraw's stash.

Posted by: The guy that moves pianos for a living at April 07, 2023 04:27 PM (7/5Su)

107 The next movie in my watchlist is Zardoz.

Better or worse than The Mandalorian?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

Zardoz is, ... okay. Some decent bewbies.
Posted by: BifBewalski at April 07, 2023 04:23 PM (3CCua)
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Once you get past the cheesiness, there are some surprisingly deep themes explored in the movie, many of which are relevant today.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at April 07, 2023 04:27 PM (YIVH2)

108 45 The next movie in my watchlist is Zardoz.

Better or worse than The Mandalorian?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, being witty and sophisticated with Ernst Lubitsch at April 07, 2023 04:18 PM (LvTSG)

Both.

Simultaneously!

Actually, "Zardoz" is better. It has a clear point of view, a clear story that it wants to tell. Good acting. Fun, whackadoodle script. And bare bewbs.

And John Boorman. Gotta give props to the guy for both Zardoz and Exclaiber among others.

Posted by: naturalfake at April 07, 2023 04:28 PM (mm6iK)

109 I watched the scene Lizzo and Black are in (how does he keep getting work??)

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I call it the Bill Murray effect.

Posted by: Azathoth at April 07, 2023 04:28 PM (wb1YC)

110 They could make a movie entitled The Sith Sense.

Oh, come ON! That was good.
*mutters about Philistines and pearls before swine*
Posted by: Archimedes

*******

"I see droid people..."
Posted by: Muldoon

This was not the humor I was looking g for.

Posted by: BifBewalski at April 07, 2023 04:28 PM (3CCua)

111 >This does not happen in the Twin Cities MN. The last time I heard something like this was 9/11. Did anyone else hear anything?

Posted by: johnd01

Happens about once a week here in metro Denver- it's the AF guys taking it out for a spin, practicing CAP

Posted by: DB - directing the fire at April 07, 2023 04:28 PM (geLO8)

112 Oh, and she's a rapper because of course she is because everything is stupid now.

She also "played" James Madison's priceless glass flute and twerked, showing the proper respect for a treasure of that sort.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 07, 2023 04:28 PM (0hOvj)

113 81 Often syfy shows use Zeppelins to indicate an alternate reality so Lizzo's career may rebound.

A heavy-lift helicopter may be necessary.
Posted by: t-bird at April 07, 2023 04:23 PM

Ah HELL nah!

Posted by: CH-47 Chinook at April 07, 2023 04:29 PM (b9IpR)

114 Once you get past the cheesiness, there are some surprisingly deep themes explored in the movie, many of which are relevant today.
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Isn't Candance Bergman naked in the movie? Peak tittie Candance, too.

Posted by: Pudinhead at April 07, 2023 04:29 PM (tiR3O)

115 It's odd: little girls want to be princesses, but little boys don't want to be princes or kings.

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Little boys want to be the hero that gets the girl and *becomes* the king.

For boys, it's about the journey, not the destination.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at April 07, 2023 04:29 PM (YIVH2)

116 Who's the chunky black woman?
Posted by: That Northern skulker

The next Marvel mutant movie star: Whale Woman, she spouts off.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at April 07, 2023 04:29 PM (7ssgH)

117 Workin' for that big ole bucket 'o chicken.

LMFAO!

Posted by: spongeworthy at April 07, 2023 04:29 PM (vZqvS)

118 The question I have is "Why replace the Mandalorian with a woman, why not just have him transition into one?"

Posted by: An Observation sez China Joe not my president at April 07, 2023 04:29 PM (CecP5)

119 Fuck Disney, toll roads all the way to the Magic Kingdom and a 100% hospitality fee in just the Disney corporate holdings.

We should have known what they were about when Michael Jackson and Jesus Juice come to the fore, but too many AWFLs *had* to have their Mickey.

Posted by: sven at April 07, 2023 04:30 PM (Lzpvj)

120 Star Wars has been dead for some time. Why doesn't anyone tell them they are dead?
Posted by: Rick Dalton

My buddy tried a necromancy spell, but ran out of glitter.

Posted by: LARPer from the ONT at April 07, 2023 04:30 PM (wUHYj)

121 This does not happen in the Twin Cities MN

Virtual Radar is not showing anything military within 200 miles of you. But they can turn their transponders off.

Posted by: t-bird at April 07, 2023 04:30 PM (amJF4)

122 "The bad news is that they've been replaced with cartoon women emitting barf green gases from their backsides."

Normally I tune out the ads, but now you've convinced me to look. Thanks, I think.

Posted by: Knock gp A Kiss at April 07, 2023 04:30 PM (MvF+J)

123 I call it the Bill Murray effect.

At least Murray has talent and is genuinely funny. Jack Black can, with good writing, be kind of entertaining but not because of him.

There are too many people getting work in Hollywood who shouldn't even be near a camera. How the hell does Seth Rogan get any work in any media???

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 07, 2023 04:30 PM (0hOvj)

124 Well, the good news is that I get fewer of the diseased toenail ads now. The bad news is that they've been replaced with cartoon women emitting barf green gases from their backsides.

I'm really looking forward to what comes after that.
Posted by: Archimedes at April 07, 2023 04:27 PM (eOEVl)

Gwynnie Paltrow has moved on to the harder stuff, chlorine?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 07, 2023 04:30 PM (tkR6S)

125 I gave up on the Mandalorian S3 after the 2nd episode.

It just seemed to be flopping around to no effect, like Lizzo on ice trying to catch and eat penguins for lunch.

Posted by: naturalfake at April 07, 2023 04:30 PM (mm6iK)

126 >It's odd: little girls want to be princesses, but little boys don't want to be princes or kings.
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I wanna be the guy who pulls the lanyard that fires the trebuchet

Git some!

Posted by: DB - directing the fire at April 07, 2023 04:30 PM (geLO8)

127 118 Posted by: An Observation sez China Joe not my president at April 07, 2023 04:29 PM (CecP5)

"Worked (sorta) for me!"

//Doctor What Who?!?

Posted by: sven at April 07, 2023 04:30 PM (Lzpvj)

128 She also "played" James Madison's priceless glass flute and twerked, showing the proper respect for a treasure of that sort.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 07, 2023 04:28 PM (0hOvj)

Hold up! TJM has a priceless glass flute?!? So THAT'S what he's trying to protect when he's always fighting me.

Posted by: Doof at April 07, 2023 04:31 PM (LLddH)

129 125 Posted by: naturalfake at April 07, 2023 04:30 PM (mm6iK)

If creators tell you they hate you and write to piss you off take them at their word and walk away.

Posted by: sven at April 07, 2023 04:31 PM (Lzpvj)

130 Tell them the story about King Sobieski and they'll want to be kings.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian

Day of the Siege didn't have a huge budget, but the story and presentation are light years ahead of any star wars story. F Murray Abraham was in it, and a famous Polish actor whose name is unpronounceable plays Sobieski.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at April 07, 2023 04:31 PM (lTGtQ)

131 Little boys want to be superheroes. And then they go to school.

Posted by: Lola - ALL the 1/6 videotapes from Alexandra and Jade, too. at April 07, 2023 04:31 PM (GshMh)

132 Not Candace, Charlotte Rampling.

Posted by: The guy that moves pianos for a living at April 07, 2023 04:31 PM (7/5Su)

133 Even my liberal daughter thought the saving of Pedro Pascal twice in 20 minutes was too much Gurl Power. It was demeaning for The Mandalorian audience, who saw their hero emasculated. But, they don’t care, imo.

Posted by: EveR at April 07, 2023 04:31 PM (MUpk6)

134 Once you get past the cheesiness, there are some surprisingly deep themes explored in the movie, many of which are relevant today.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at April 07, 2023 04:27 PM

That's right, breeders! The penis is EVIL! That's why I lopped mine of at age 12...and now that I'm on mental health drugs, deeply unhappy, and full of fear and anger, "the gun is good" messaging is also starting to resonate!

Posted by: MtF trans extremist at April 07, 2023 04:32 PM (b9IpR)

135 Its like in the early 80s, Jill Clayburgh was in everything, and she was not very attractive, flat as a board, and not very good in any of her roles. How on earth does that work?

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 07, 2023 04:32 PM (0hOvj)

136 The question I have is "Why replace the Mandalorian with a woman, why not just have him transition into one?"
Posted by: An Observation sez China Joe not my president at April 07, 2023 04:29 PM (CecP5)

Begun, the trans-clone wars have

Posted by: Doof at April 07, 2023 04:32 PM (LLddH)

137 Disney actually produced and paid for that scene featuring Lizzo Slayer of Chicken Wings, Fat Black, and Doc Brown? Wow. Ms. SOCW has the acting ability found in a 9th grade production of 12 Angry Transgenders. Disney has completely screwed up two of the most influential movie franchises in history by abandoning creating entertainment for the center of their audience and lasering in on the woke victim fringes whose only redeeming value is the will all die one day bitter, alone, surround by cats and pictures of Obama.

Posted by: Lost in Space at April 07, 2023 04:32 PM (LCgpa)

138 128 She also "played" James Madison's priceless glass flute and twerked, showing the proper respect for a treasure of that sort.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 07, 2023 04:28 PM (0hOvj)

Hold up! TJM has a priceless glass flute?!? So THAT'S what he's trying to protect when he's always fighting me.
Posted by: Doof at April 07, 2023 04:31 PM (LLddH)

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These battles are about to get so much more personal and brutalist.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, being witty and sophisticated with Ernst Lubitsch at April 07, 2023 04:32 PM (LvTSG)

139 There are too many people getting work in Hollywood who shouldn't even be near a camera. How the hell does Seth Rogan get any work in any media???
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I thought Seth broadcast from his garage? Am I rite?

Posted by: Pudinhead at April 07, 2023 04:33 PM (tiR3O)

140 Illumination has fully kicked Pixar and Disney off their perch as animated king.

The new Super Marios Bros movie will be opening to a $200M 5 day DOM (right now estimate is $195m which is a lowball) and possibly $350M WW.

Heads will be rolling at Disney's animation unit for why Comcast has figured out how to appeal to families (through Illumination and Dreamworks) and Disney hasn't.

Comcast has the top 4 animated movies that were made in the USA since 2019 - Mario, Minions 2, Sing 2, and Puss 2...

Posted by: Nova Local at April 07, 2023 04:33 PM (exHjb)

141 I abandoned the Mandalorian after they fired Gina after season 2. I have no interest in supporting anything from Disney going forward.

Posted by: Liberty at April 07, 2023 04:33 PM (xrrQ0)

142 Tell them the story about King Sobieski

I'd rather talk about Leelee Sobieski

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 07, 2023 04:34 PM (0hOvj)

143 141 Posted by: Liberty at April 07, 2023 04:33 PM (xrrQ0)

Gina Carano plays the villain in "Almost Human", anything decent Disney trashes.

Posted by: sven at April 07, 2023 04:34 PM (Lzpvj)

144 Its like in the early 80s, Jill Clayburgh was in everything, and she was not very attractive, flat as a board, and not very good in any of her roles. How on earth does that work?
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 07, 2023 04:32 PM (0hOvj)

The casting couch, perchance?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 07, 2023 04:34 PM (tkR6S)

145 Isn't Candance Bergman naked in the movie? Peak tittie Candance, too.
Posted by: Pudinhead at April 07, 2023 04:29 PM (tiR3O)

I saw Peak Tittie Can Dance open for The Hooters at The Electric Factory in 1985.

Posted by: Doof at April 07, 2023 04:35 PM (LLddH)

146 I abandoned the Mandalorian after they fired Gina after season 2. I have no interest in supporting anything from Disney going forward.
Posted by: Liberty at April 07, 2023 04:33 PM (xrrQ0)
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I abandoned them after the abomination of "The Rise of Skywalker." I knew it was going to be bad, but it took badness to whole new levels of epic excrement.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at April 07, 2023 04:35 PM (YIVH2)

147 Not Candace, Charlotte Rampling.
Posted by: The guy that moves pianos for a living

Two hubbas please. As well as for Jenny Agutter.

Posted by: Tonypete at April 07, 2023 04:35 PM (qoGsy)

148 87 Percent?

I am no Mathemagician, but that seems significant.

To me.

Posted by: garrett at April 07, 2023 04:35 PM (SIRiz)

149 "and not very good in any of her roles. "

"Silver Streak?"

Posted by: Knock gp A Kiss at April 07, 2023 04:36 PM (MvF+J)

150 I was what, 12 or 13, and yet I already knew the predictable ending, and didn't want to sit through pathetic dialogue to get there.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at April 07, 2023 04:22 PM (lTGtQ)

Thanks. I was a little older, but I was so sick of all the Anti-Hero BS Movies that were all the rage in the early 1970's. I actually liked that it was a throw back to the decades of straight up good guys vs. bad guys adventure stories, where the good guys actually won.

I was sick of Bonnie and Clyde dying in a Fusilade, the car crashing into the front end loader, and the like.

Posted by: rd at April 07, 2023 04:36 PM (Z32m1)

151 98. LT Governor released some of her balloons?

Posted by: Lola - ALL the 1/6 videotapes from Alexandra and Jade, too. at April 07, 2023 04:36 PM (GshMh)

152
Two hubbas please. As well as for Jenny Agutter.
Posted by: Tonypete at April 07, 2023 04:35 PM (qoGsy)

She plays a Nun now in Call the midwife

Posted by: It's me donna at April 07, 2023 04:36 PM (bs+z0)

153 >>I saw Peak Tittie Can Dance open for The Hooters at The Electric Factory in 1985.

The 'Our Eyes are Up Here Tour'.

Posted by: garrett at April 07, 2023 04:36 PM (SIRiz)

154 {96}... *sigh* I've really enjoyed the MHI series.

Now you've gone and convinced me to order this series as well...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at April 07, 2023 04:26 PM (YIVH2)

I hope find it to your liking, but fair warning: This is darker than MHI is.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at April 07, 2023 04:37 PM (nRMeC)

155 I thought Jack Black was OK in King Kong. Of course, he played an asshole.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at April 07, 2023 04:37 PM (FVME7)

156 153 Perfect!

Posted by: Knock gp A Kiss at April 07, 2023 04:37 PM (MvF+J)

157 Hold up! TJM has a priceless glass flute?!? So THAT'S what he's trying to protect when he's always fighting me.
Posted by: Doof at April 07, 2023 04:31 PM (LLddH)

=========

These battles are about to get so much more personal and brutalist.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, being witty and sophisticated with Ernst Lubitsch at April 07, 2023 04:32 PM (LvTSG)

*relocates Great(x4) Grandpappy Doof's priceless, one of a kind, black onyx piccolo*

Posted by: Doof at April 07, 2023 04:38 PM (LLddH)

158 137 Disney actually produced and paid for that scene featuring Lizzo Slayer of Chicken Wings...
Posted by: Lost in Space at April 07, 2023 04:32 PM

My favorite movie has always been Jurassic World. Chicken wings are always disappointing, but dreaming of pterodactyl wings....the Flintstones were a disgusting, fascist whitewashing of the past, but god DAMN did those dino ribs loom good.

Posted by: Lizzo at April 07, 2023 04:38 PM (b9IpR)

159 I was sick of Bonnie and Clyde dying in a Fusilade, the car crashing into the front end loader, and the like.
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Gay Clyde mounts a woman and then dies. Its a story.

Posted by: Pudinhead at April 07, 2023 04:38 PM (tiR3O)

160 I was a little older, but I was so sick of all the Anti-Hero BS Movies that were all the rage in the early 1970's

Yeah, it was a really low period for heroic entertainment although a lot of quality movies came out then. That trend and the trend for nebbishy little skinny soy loser leading men. I mean we're kind of in that era again with whatsisface in Dune mincing around.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 07, 2023 04:38 PM (0hOvj)

161 Iirc it was Iger that got Disney into this mess. The old ceo was not saying anything about the FL legislation so Iger, along with the Lefty employees, dragged him into it. Not surprised Iger is doubling down now.

Posted by: Lizzy at April 07, 2023 04:38 PM (spSfc)

162 He sees no distinction between the district and "the business." It's all the same.

Iger talking like a guy who would run the waste management business in Newark

Posted by: Hands at April 07, 2023 04:38 PM (786Ro)

163 155 I thought Jack Black was OK in King Kong. Of course, he played an asshole.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at April 07, 2023 04:37 PM (FVME7)

I think he's funny in the Jumanji sequels

Posted by: It's me donna at April 07, 2023 04:38 PM (bs+z0)

164 157 These battles are about to get so much more personal and brutalist.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, being witty and sophisticated with Ernst Lubitsch at April 07, 2023 04:32 PM (LvTSG)

*relocates Great(x4) Grandpappy Doof's priceless, one of a kind, black onyx piccolo*
Posted by: Doof at April 07, 2023 04:38 PM (LLddH)

========

That would go great with my prodigy musical student, a 13-year old tranny Muslim who can't play instruments because xe has no arms!

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, being witty and sophisticated with Ernst Lubitsch at April 07, 2023 04:39 PM (LvTSG)

165 Jack Black is no Robert Armstrong.

Posted by: The guy that moves pianos for a living at April 07, 2023 04:39 PM (7/5Su)

166 Ford Fusilade had the V8 that all the gangsters coveted.

Posted by: Knock gp A Kiss at April 07, 2023 04:39 PM (MvF+J)

167 OT: I've watched the first 3 episodes of The Night Agent on Netflix, and so far, it's quite good.

Posted by: Archimedes at April 07, 2023 04:39 PM (eOEVl)

168 {102} ... THANK YOU!

I've been waiting for that installment.

/runs off to buy it

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at April 07, 2023 04:27 PM (JMAcK)

You're very welcome!

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at April 07, 2023 04:39 PM (nRMeC)

169 Is that Christopher Lloyd chatting with Jack Black and Lizzo in the clip?

"Quick Marty! Man the DeLorean!"

Posted by: Muldoon at April 07, 2023 04:39 PM (ykeLU)

170 The 'Our Eyes are Up Here Tour'.
Posted by: garrett at April 07, 2023 04:36 PM (SIRiz)

Crowd kept demanding they play a cover of Van Halen's "Jump!"

Posted by: Doof at April 07, 2023 04:39 PM (LLddH)

171 Its like in the early 80s, Jill Clayburgh was in everything, and she was not very attractive, flat as a board, and not very good in any of her roles. How on earth does that work?
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor

I suppose shit like "La Luna" sold and made money. Incest stories are always in vogue.

Posted by: Tonypete at April 07, 2023 04:40 PM (qoGsy)

172 he vows to pump $17 BILLION into theme park creating 13,000 jobs

The Regime's Prog Managerial Class sure do like to colonize don't they

Posted by: Hands at April 07, 2023 04:40 PM (786Ro)

173 Funny that Reedy Creek Improvement District Board thought it would be okey-dokey to commit a fraudulent transfer of authority and property to allow Dis-nuts to retain control. That's not the way things work, even in the Crappiest Place on Earth.

Posted by: "Book 'em, Danno" at April 07, 2023 04:40 PM (VsUo2)

174 Jill Cluyburgh's dad was a manufacturing exec, she sold laundry soap on daytime TV and became the "it" girl for a bit....

it is important to remember she caught just as the WhoreWood types were embracing anti-beauty Earthiness...

she almost singlehandedly ruined Semi-Tough given she looked nothing like the literary Barbara Jane Bookman was written at all.

"In theory" she was subtly humorous but a lot like Woody Allen it was so subtle it was non-existent.

Posted by: sven at April 07, 2023 04:40 PM (Lzpvj)

175 Its like in the early 80s, Jill Clayburgh was in everything, and she was not very attractive, flat as a board, and not very good in any of her roles. How on earth does that work?

It's a mystery.

Posted by: Helen Hunt at April 07, 2023 04:40 PM (eOEVl)

176 Jack Black’s best work was in that pro-Iran deal infomercial he did with Obama and the Democrats.

Not.

Posted by: Lizzy at April 07, 2023 04:40 PM (spSfc)

177 Its like in the early 80s, Jill Clayburgh was in everything, and she was not very attractive, flat as a board, and not very good in any of her roles. How on earth does that work?
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 07, 2023 04:32 PM (0hOvj)

What was the name of the movie where the guy grabs her nekkid nipples betwixt thumb and forefinger and pulled on them like he was trying to get her boobs to grow.

That was a weird lovemaking scene..

Posted by: naturalfake at April 07, 2023 04:40 PM (mm6iK)

178 >>Jill Clayburgh was in everything, and she was not very attractive, flat as a board, and not very good in any of her roles. How on earth does that work?

Prehensile Uvula.

Posted by: garrett at April 07, 2023 04:41 PM (SIRiz)

179 thought Jack Black was OK in King Kong. Of course, he played an asshole.

He's at his best in non-comedic roles, or where the comedy is happening around him. Like Bernie.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls - an election is simply a festival for the majority at April 07, 2023 04:41 PM (KFhLj)

180 I see that King Harv has a new Top Gun ad campaign.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at April 07, 2023 04:41 PM (FVME7)

181 DeSantis is threatening (and doing) what leftists typically do - I especially love the idea of toll roads into Disneystan. This, apparently, is the only way going forward. Fight nasty and damn the torpedoes.

Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at April 07, 2023 04:41 PM (Mzdiz)

182 The Birds 1963 is on Netflix.

Posted by: Lost in Space at April 07, 2023 04:41 PM (LCgpa)

183 That would go great with my prodigy musical student, a 13-year old tranny Muslim who can't play instruments because xe has no arms!
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, being witty and sophisticated with Ernst Lubitsch at April 07, 2023 04:39 PM (LvTSG)

You win -- that's funny as all get out!

Posted by: Doof at April 07, 2023 04:41 PM (LLddH)

184 Jill Clayburgh is dead. Candice Bergin is alive and fat.

Posted by: Pudinhead at April 07, 2023 04:42 PM (tiR3O)

185 What was the name of the movie where the guy grabs her nekkid nipples betwixt thumb and forefinger and pulled on them like he was trying to get her boobs to grow.

That was a weird lovemaking scene..

Posted by: naturalfake

Is that wrong? If I had known that was wrong. . . .

Posted by: Tonypete at April 07, 2023 04:42 PM (qoGsy)

186 >>>What was the name of the movie where the guy grabs her nekkid nipples betwixt thumb and forefinger and pulled on them like he was trying to get her boobs to grow.

It works!

Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at April 07, 2023 04:42 PM (Mzdiz)

187 "Quick Marty! Man the DeLorean!"
Posted by: Muldoon at April 07, 2023 04:39 PM (ykeLU)

Well played, Muldoon. As usual!

Posted by: Doof at April 07, 2023 04:42 PM (LLddH)

188 Funny that Reedy Creek Improvement District Board thought it would be okey-dokey to commit a fraudulent transfer of authority and property to allow Dis-nuts to retain control. That's not the way things work, even in the Crappiest Place on Earth.
Posted by: "Book 'em, Danno"

Must be represented by lawyers from Stanford

Posted by: A Crook By Any Other Name at April 07, 2023 04:43 PM (VsUo2)

189 Honestly I'm not sure why anyone thought that the current crop of people working at Disney had any remote chance of writing a good story about a badass bounty hunter and a warrior culture much less anything to do with Star Wars lore.

I don't know if you've heard these people talk about Star Wars or writing but they're not exactly moving objects with their mind at home.

Posted by: Azathoth at April 07, 2023 04:43 PM (wb1YC)

190 An Unmarried Woman was the movie

Posted by: Lizzy at April 07, 2023 04:43 PM (spSfc)

191 This does not happen in the Twin Cities MN. The last time I heard something like this was 9/11. Did anyone else hear anything?
Posted by: johnd01 at April 07, 2023 04:26 PM (300Bg)

Biden Left a few days ago. I don't think anyone from DC is in the area today. Could it be a passenger flight with a problem in the cabin?

Posted by: rd at April 07, 2023 04:43 PM (Z32m1)

192 Jill Clayburgh is dead. Candice Bergin is alive and fat.
Posted by: Pudinhead at April 07, 2023 04:42 PM (tiR3O)

There's a lesson there somewhere.

Posted by: naturalfake at April 07, 2023 04:43 PM (mm6iK)

193 192 Jill Clayburgh is dead. Candice Bergin is alive and fat.
Posted by: Pudinhead at April 07, 2023 04:42 PM (tiR3O)

There's a lesson there somewhere.
Posted by: naturalfake at April 07, 2023 04:43 PM (mm6iK)

Eat ?

Posted by: It's me donna at April 07, 2023 04:44 PM (bs+z0)

194 135. Starred in An Unmarried Woman & Starting Over, so adored by the 1970s women's liberation movement. But your assessment of her acting skills is on point.

Posted by: Lola - ALL the 1/6 videotapes from Alexandra and Jade, too. at April 07, 2023 04:44 PM (GshMh)

195 It works!
Posted by: Miley

Just because your boyfriend in high school said so, doesn't mean it was true!

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 07, 2023 04:45 PM (0hOvj)

196 Someone said there were free buckets of KFC extra crispy here?

Posted by: Duke Lowell at April 07, 2023 04:45 PM (u73oe)

197 Biden Left a few days ago. I don't think anyone from DC is in the area today. Could it be a passenger flight with a problem in the cabin?
Posted by: rd at April 07, 2023 04:43 PM (Z32m1)

A Russian hypersonic missile on its way to DC?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 07, 2023 04:45 PM (tkR6S)

198 There's a lesson there somewhere.
Posted by: naturalfake at April 07, 2023 04:43 PM (mm6iK)

Eat ?
Posted by: It's me donna at April 07, 2023 04:44 PM (bs+z0)

Preach!

Posted by: Karen Carpenter at April 07, 2023 04:45 PM (LLddH)

199 You want flat flat? Mariel Hemingway in that lesbo jock flick. Then she got em pumped up to play Dorothy Stratton in "Star 80," a superb flick.

Posted by: Knock gp A Kiss at April 07, 2023 04:45 PM (MvF+J)

200 189 Posted by: Azathoth at April 07, 2023 04:43 PM (wb1YC)

Adam Driver was filming his dinosaur flick about 20 minutes from my house, a local wondered if they treated him like the aliens treated Roddy McDowall on that Twilight Zone episode "people are alike everywhere" at Disney....

kept him locked in the trailer between scenes.

Posted by: sven at April 07, 2023 04:45 PM (Lzpvj)

201 Ciampino's Rescue kitties NOW LIVE Streaming!!!

I have it streaming on Twitch at
https://www.twitch.tv/fayettepurrcy01
Enjoy The Cats.

Posted by: Ciampino - car chase, wherelse, LA on Twitch.tv at April 07, 2023 04:46 PM (qfLjt)

202 Is it "Lizzo" or "Crisco"?

Posted by: I Can't Believe It's Not Butter! at April 07, 2023 04:47 PM (VsUo2)

203 I thought that scene was parody

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at April 07, 2023 04:47 PM (yu8eA)

204 Hoorah! Smokey and the Bandit I and II are on Netflix.

“If you ever embarrass me like that again, I’m gonna get an ax, and you’re never gonna have to open your fly again.” – Sheriff Buford T. Justice

Posted by: Lost in Space at April 07, 2023 04:47 PM (LCgpa)

205 202 Is it "Lizzo" or "Crisco"?
Posted by: I Can't Believe It's Not Butter! at April 07, 2023 04:47 PM (VsUo2)

Blimpo

Posted by: It's me donna at April 07, 2023 04:47 PM (bs+z0)

206 Anyway, Deputy Vic sure has come up in the world

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at April 07, 2023 04:47 PM (yu8eA)

207 You want flat flat? Mariel Hemingway in that lesbo jock flick.

Personal Best, one of the first naughty movies I ever saw, at my oldest brother's house on HBO. For being the daughter of a crusty old alcoholic queen she turned out pretty well.

I don't get Adam Driver, either. I mean, apparently he can act when not in an Star Wars movie but he is so weird looking. Like he was drawn by an AI based on a description of humanity, without any examples.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 07, 2023 04:48 PM (0hOvj)

208 Is it "Lizzo" or "Crisco"?
Posted by: I Can't Believe It's Not Butter! at April 07, 2023 04:47 PM (VsUo2)

She needs to change her name to Polly Unsaturated.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 07, 2023 04:48 PM (tkR6S)

209 I heard DeSantis was just Jeb in a skirt or something.

Now turns out he's literally Hitler. Like Trump is not even on the radar of how Hitler DeSantis is.

Posted by: blaster at April 07, 2023 04:49 PM (pwExq)

210 >>Is it "Lizzo" or "Crisco"?

The video of her hopping onto the back of a Golf Cart is too funny.

Posted by: garrett at April 07, 2023 04:49 PM (SIRiz)

211 Ciampino's Rescue kitties NOW LIVE Streaming!!!

They seem very chill

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 07, 2023 04:49 PM (0hOvj)

212 Anyway, Deputy Vic sure has come up in the world
Posted by: vmom

I liked her in that role.

Posted by: BifBewalski at April 07, 2023 04:50 PM (3CCua)

213 What was the name of the movie where the guy grabs her nekkid nipples betwixt thumb and forefinger and pulled on them like he was...

*********

...trying to tune in Radio Free Europe

Posted by: Muldoon at April 07, 2023 04:50 PM (ykeLU)

214 "Jill Clayburgh was in everything, and she was not very attractive, flat as a board, and not very good in any of her roles. How on earth does that work? "

I thought she was pretty good in An Unmarried Woman though maybe costarring with Alan Bates made her shine a little brighter than she normally would.

Posted by: Tuna at April 07, 2023 04:50 PM (gLRfa)

215 Now turns out he's literally Hitler. Like Trump is not even on the radar of how Hitler DeSantis is.

Every Republican is Hitler for 15 minutes.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls - an election is simply a festival for the majority at April 07, 2023 04:50 PM (KFhLj)

216 Now turns out he's literally Hitler. Like Trump is not even on the radar of how Hitler DeSantis is.
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Nobody can outdo Hitler. Nobody can outdo Trump. Somethings are for an eternity.

Posted by: Pudinhead at April 07, 2023 04:51 PM (tiR3O)

217 Seth Rogan plays Seth Rogan in every movie. The only movie I liked of his was "Paul." He played the alien so you didn't have to look at him.

Posted by: Gwenn at April 07, 2023 04:51 PM (9Gr7n)

218 207 Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 07, 2023 04:48 PM (0hOvj)

He looks like an anime caricature of the Lousiana backwoodsman from the 1800s.

Posted by: sven at April 07, 2023 04:52 PM (Lzpvj)

219 Eric Roberts in "Star 80" is one of those acting performances that must destroy a piece of an actor's soul. Or maybe he's just like that all the time. Anyway, I don't know how they do it.

Posted by: Knock gp A Kiss at April 07, 2023 04:52 PM (MvF+J)

220 But why replace him with a woman? H

====
*sigh

Because Rebels and Because Clone Wars. It's canon.

Posted by: runner at April 07, 2023 04:53 PM (jA/M2)

221 189 Honestly I'm not sure why anyone thought that the current crop of people working at Disney had any remote chance of writing a good story about a badass bounty hunter and a warrior culture much less anything to do with Star Wars lore.

I don't know if you've heard these people talk about Star Wars or writing but they're not exactly moving objects with their mind at home.

Posted by: Azathoth at April 07, 2023 04:43 PM (wb1YC)

Can I vote for comment of the day..? because I'm still laughing at this one because its awesome.

Posted by: Inogame at April 07, 2023 04:53 PM (53oGX)

222 Looks like Riley Gaines WILL be on Tucker tonight.

Posted by: Bosk at April 07, 2023 04:53 PM (VMFAF)

223 It's a small world after all.

Posted by: Eromero at April 07, 2023 04:54 PM (4svuj)

224 "Seth Rogan plays Seth Rogan in every movie."

Perfect beta cuck in "Take This Waltz."

Posted by: Knock gp A Kiss at April 07, 2023 04:54 PM (MvF+J)

225 >>Looks like Riley Gaines WILL be on Tucker tonight.

Pretty sure when I was watching Rich Barris that he called her Riley Reid.

I laughed.

Posted by: garrett at April 07, 2023 04:54 PM (SIRiz)

226 O/T why would Taibbi agree to an "interview" on MSDNC? Was he eaten alive or no?

Posted by: Mr Gaga at April 07, 2023 04:54 PM (KiBMU)

227 222 Looks like Riley Gaines WILL be on Tucker tonight.
Posted by: Bosk at April 07, 2023 04:53 PM (VMFAF)

She's on there a lot

Posted by: It's me donna at April 07, 2023 04:54 PM (bs+z0)

228 222 Looks like Riley Gaines WILL be on Tucker tonight.
---------------
Will someone tell her to buy a pistol?

Posted by: Pudinhead at April 07, 2023 04:54 PM (tiR3O)

229 You want flat flat? Mariel Hemingway in that lesbo jock flick. Then she got em pumped up to play Dorothy Stratton in "Star 80," a superb flick.

She and her sister Margot played models in a really sick flick called "Lipstick." Amongst the nudity was an ugly rape scene with Margot.

Posted by: rd at April 07, 2023 04:55 PM (Z32m1)

230 "I laughed."

I don't get it.

Posted by: Bosk at April 07, 2023 04:55 PM (VMFAF)

231 What was the name of the movie where the guy grabs her nekkid nipples betwixt thumb and forefinger and pulled on them like he was...

*********
...trying to tune in Radio Free Europe
Posted by: Muldoon

"Good evening Mr. and Mrs. America and all the tits at sea"

What?

Posted by: Tonypete at April 07, 2023 04:55 PM (qoGsy)

232 Ciampino's Rescue kitties NOW LIVE Streaming!!!

They seem very chill
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 07, 2023 04:49 PM (0hOvj)
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heh. The three I can currently see remind me of three of my own kitties. (I have two tabbies, a black cat, and two calicoes).

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at April 07, 2023 04:55 PM (YIVH2)

233 I don't think they are replacing him,, though.

Posted by: runner at April 07, 2023 04:57 PM (jA/M2)

234 She's on there a lot

I didn't know that. No cable, no Fox.
Well good on her then. Looks and sounds
like she's a fighter.

Posted by: Bosk at April 07, 2023 04:57 PM (VMFAF)

235 like she's a fighter.
Posted by: Bosk at April 07, 2023 04:57 PM (VMFAF)

She is and very well spoken... Seems pretty Conservative to me but who know ?

Posted by: It's me donna at April 07, 2023 04:58 PM (bs+z0)

236 Frozen 2 made more than a billion dollars, plus toy sales.

Princess movies have never been more popular.

And they just announced the newest in their live action remakes of popular animated classics: Moana. You know, the movie that's less than ten years old. It will also make a billion dollars.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
------------------
Depends on the overall structural admin costs and how much debt Disney is carrying from prior acquisitions under Iger. Movies alone will not save Devil Mouse especially if interest rises (and contingent liabilities due to having to assume Reedy Creek debt due to Iger's unwise utterances--that alone is a chunk of 8.4 billion dollars in debt).

A fla attorney did a deep dive on this and basically Iger breached the legal fiction that Reedy Creek was a separate legal entity that graciously issued bonds to improve the district. But, if Disney caused them to do so as in ordering them, then the so called commissioners in fact were acting ultra vires (beyond Fla lawful powers) and thus the debt can be abrogated by the state and put back on Disney.

Iger screwed up badly and this might cause him to re-retire in short order.

Posted by: whig at April 07, 2023 04:59 PM (bVz3B)

237 Michael Shannon plays a great asshole, but you can tell he doesn't have to work at it. It's who he is. His little part in "Before the Devil Knows You're Dead," and in "Revolutionary Road." He's got no soul to destroy.

Posted by: Knock gp A Kiss at April 07, 2023 04:59 PM (MvF+J)

238 Ciampino's Rescue kitties stream:

They're saving most of their energy for the 3 am zoom-crash-thud event.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at April 07, 2023 04:59 PM (nRMeC)

239 Now turns out he's literally Hitler. Like Trump is not even on the radar of how Hitler DeSantis is.

Every Republican is Hitler for 15 minutes.
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls - an election is simply a festival for the majority

=================

By 2036? Trump will be a respected elder statesman, unlike the current racist, fascist, transphobic Republican Candidate for President.

Hell, they even rehabilitated Chimpy Bush McHitler.

Posted by: rd at April 07, 2023 04:59 PM (Z32m1)

240 LA police chase continues. It's OJ all over again.

Posted by: Knock gp A Kiss at April 07, 2023 05:00 PM (MvF+J)

241 You mention them selling Marvel or Disney

Do you mean Marvel or Lucas?

Posted by: EtcEtcEtc at April 07, 2023 05:00 PM (8s49i)

242 The suspect in the Idaho quadruple-murder reportedly had the driver's license of one of the victims in his room

-
Might be a tad difficult to explain. Speaking of highly publicized crimes, the DNA came back on that girl who thought she was Madeleine McCann and it's a big no.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at April 07, 2023 05:00 PM (FVME7)

243 219 Eric Roberts in "Star 80" is one of those acting performances that must destroy a piece of an actor's soul. Or maybe he's just like that all the time. Anyway, I don't know how they do it.
Posted by: Knock gp A Kiss
----------
Substance abuse. He flamed out relatively early as an actor due to it. Look up the movie Coca Cola Kid as a pretty decent comedy he starred in.

Posted by: whig at April 07, 2023 05:01 PM (bVz3B)

244 "Look up the movie Coca Cola Kid as a pretty decent comedy he starred in."

Yup, saw it.

Posted by: Knock gp A Kiss at April 07, 2023 05:01 PM (MvF+J)

245 Is Lizzo the Dylan Mulvaney of hefty women of color?

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at April 07, 2023 05:02 PM (yu8eA)

246 >>Will someone tell her to buy a pistol?

She can use my gun.

Posted by: JackStraw at April 07, 2023 05:02 PM (ZLI7S)

247 By 2036? Trump will be a respected elder statesman, unlike the current racist, fascist, transphobic Republican Candidate for President.

"Look I know in the past we've called Trump Hitler and a monster and so on, and we went too far. We have to admit that. But this [insert new Republican candidate] really is all that and people need to really listen to us this time!"
--Bill Maher

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 07, 2023 05:02 PM (0hOvj)

248 >Every Republican is Hitler for 15 minutes.
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls -

not only that- each successive Republican is more Hitler-y than the one before him- Hitler x infinity

Posted by: DB - directing the fire at April 07, 2023 05:02 PM (geLO8)

249 214 "Jill Clayburgh was in everything, and she was not very attractive, flat as a board, and not very good in any of her roles. How on earth does that work? "
---------
Decent as Gene Wilder's love interest in Silver Streak.

Posted by: whig at April 07, 2023 05:03 PM (bVz3B)

250 I think Lizzo is getting fatter.

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at April 07, 2023 05:03 PM (R/m4+)

251 PSA: MyPillow is having a sale.

Posted by: Lost in Space at April 07, 2023 05:03 PM (LCgpa)

252 Substance abuse. He flamed out relatively early as an actor due to it.

It was a short bit but he did well in the second Nolan Batman film. And yeah he was good in Coca Cola kid but that movie skeeves me out a bit. The shower scene with that itty bitty girl :/ was that really necessary?

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 07, 2023 05:04 PM (0hOvj)

253 Depends on the overall structural admin costs and how much debt Disney is carrying from prior acquisitions under Iger. Movies alone will not save Devil Mouse especially if interest rises (and contingent liabilities due to having to assume Reedy Creek debt due to Iger's unwise utterances--that alone is a chunk of 8.4 billion dollars in debt).

A fla attorney did a deep dive on this and basically Iger breached the legal fiction that Reedy Creek was a separate legal entity that graciously issued bonds to improve the district. But, if Disney caused them to do so as in ordering them, then the so called commissioners in fact were acting ultra vires (beyond Fla lawful powers) and thus the debt can be abrogated by the state and put back on Disney.

Iger screwed up badly and this might cause him to re-retire in short order.
Posted by: whig at April 07, 2023 04:59 PM (bVz3B)
_________________

All those Reedy Creek Tax Free Municipal Bonds? Are they really tax free? Or are some very rich and very pissed off people suddenly going to have to pay a whole lot of back taxes?

I can imagine a lot of lawyers yelling fraud, and how Disney better make them whole.

Posted by: rd at April 07, 2023 05:04 PM (Z32m1)

254 Lizzo doesn't trouble me much. She's not very talented and she's so heavy she does not have a long career ahead of her. She'll be in a wheelchair by 40, if her heart doesn't blow up by then.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 07, 2023 05:05 PM (0hOvj)

255 I think Lizzo is getting fatter.
Posted by: Hairyback Guy at April 07, 2023 05:03 PM (R/m4+)

Soon to develop her own Schwarzchild Discontinuity.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 07, 2023 05:05 PM (tkR6S)

256 >>I think Lizzo is getting fatter.

Larger. Lizzo is getting larger.

Posted by: JackStraw at April 07, 2023 05:06 PM (ZLI7S)

257 "Lizzo doesn't trouble me much."

Hasn't done anything to annoy me yet. I'll give her props for not twerking against the crystal flute. There are 1000 divas out there who would have.

Posted by: Knock gp A Kiss at April 07, 2023 05:07 PM (MvF+J)

258 Lizzo doesn't trouble me much. She's not very talented and she's so heavy she does not have a long career ahead of her. She'll be in a wheelchair by 40, if her heart doesn't blow up by then.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor

Or the die-of-beetus.

Posted by: Zombie Wilford Brimley at April 07, 2023 05:07 PM (WmGrA)

259 Larger. Lizzo is getting larger.

I thought it was Leon who was getting larger?

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 07, 2023 05:08 PM (0hOvj)

260 {256} ... Larger. Lizzo is getting larger.

Posted by: JackStraw at April 07, 2023 05:06 PM (ZLI7S)

Made me think of https://youtu.be/-cJmpwkUx4s

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at April 07, 2023 05:08 PM (nRMeC)

261

Goofy held me down while Mickey buggered me.

He smelled like old cheese.

Posted by: Hunter Bidet, Crack Pilot at April 07, 2023 05:09 PM (pLCy4)

262 Run Bambi, run!!!
* bam*
Nice shot Sock

Posted by: Sock Monkey * Free Jacob Chansley at April 07, 2023 05:09 PM (Wb8zJ)

263 And that's it for Disney Drama today.

Posted by: Ace at 04:05 PM

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I've got a fevah, and the only cure is more Disney hell!

Posted by: ShainS -- The Abolition of The West is from Men Without Chests at April 07, 2023 05:10 PM (YWMaw)

264 Sometimes I feel alone in this world.

Posted by: JackStraw at April 07, 2023 05:10 PM (ZLI7S)

265 It's only a gay agenda secondarily. It is the Nat Sec State agenda. It is the explicit For Pol of the US. Disney is simply furthering US Strategic Interests as they did in WWII.

And DJT is getting Eugene Debs treatment.

We'll prob get another Debs v US after Thomas is removed. But infinitely dumber because Holmes was at least brilliant.

Posted by: Thesokorus at April 07, 2023 05:10 PM (1ais2)

266
If that cocksucker Iger wants to rule Florida, the stupid motherfucker should run for Governor. But he's too much of a pussy to risk being even more of a laughing stock than Mikey Bloomberg.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at April 07, 2023 05:11 PM (n+4am)

267 Walt's Frozen Head is spinning in a freezer somewhere.

Posted by: Joe Mama at April 07, 2023 05:11 PM (WmGrA)

268 What if this gesture was recommended to DeSantis by consultants, so that he looks like he is doing something, but no actual harm is done to the actual interests of serious people.
And then he can send a fundraising email, saying he took on a big godless corporation.
I guess this is politics, this is how the sausage is made, but am a bit skeptical that the conservative solution is creating a committee. Surely some lobbying was done and a compromise was reached.
Plus, when DeSantis is in the White House, having fought the good fight, his opinions can evolve and he can bring many conservatives (out of the closet) with him.
Of course, Trump could do the same, but it woudn't have the same effect, since he is known as more gay-friendly. For such a ploy to work, even to a small extent, someone known for "Don't say gay" would be better.
Too cynical?

Posted by: PG at April 07, 2023 05:11 PM (84jHt)

269 NOOD FEC Commissioner

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at April 07, 2023 05:12 PM (nRMeC)

270 All those Reedy Creek Tax Free Municipal Bonds? Are they really tax free? Or are some very rich and very pissed off people suddenly going to have to pay a whole lot of back taxes?

I can imagine a lot of lawyers yelling fraud, and how Disney better make them whole.
Posted by: rd
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Iger may also have some criminal liability as well as shareholder lawsuits if this goes South.

Simply put, Iger made Disney bigger by acquisitions financed by debt. As interest on that debt increases plus the Covid hit to finances, Disney has to rightsize its IP portfolio by selling off or terminating non performing units in order to pay the debt down. Any surprise like having to formally assume Reedy Creek bond liability is most likely going to hasten financial problems and cost cutting.

Posted by: whig at April 07, 2023 05:12 PM (bVz3B)

271 nood FEC Commish

Posted by: Hands at April 07, 2023 05:13 PM (786Ro)

272 I don't care for Rush nor Queensryche. Have a friend who likes both. I find them unpleasant to listen to. He would "yes, but" and explain their technical brilliance and range (he was a drummer). Regardless, I found them unpleasant. Our convo, otoh, was just fine. 0

Posted by: Farmer Bob at April 07, 2023 05:13 PM (iOTWL)

273
Peak Freak happens when your local gang boss says so, homo.

Posted by: Auspex at April 07, 2023 05:14 PM (j4U/Z)

274 When the three largest stockholders are BlackRock, Vanguard, and State Street (they own $33 billion), you know the ESG stuff is in play.

The largest owners of BlackRock are also BlackRock, Vanguard, and State Street.

Posted by: t-bird at April 07, 2023 05:15 PM (Sv58p)

275 It was a short bit but he did well in the second Nolan Batman film. And yeah he was good in Coca Cola kid but that movie skeeves me out a bit. The shower scene with that itty bitty girl :/ was that really necessary?
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor
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Can't really blame that one on Roberts. There was an anything goes vibe from the 60's through the 80's in movies which stopped about the time that cable networks began showing a lot of nudity in their developed shows.

Posted by: whig at April 07, 2023 05:16 PM (bVz3B)

276 Now just cause everyone to run around screaming "I'm blind", I understand Disney plans to do a remake of Lifeforce with Lizzo in the Mathilda May role.

Posted by: An Observation sez China Joe not my president at April 07, 2023 05:16 PM (CecP5)

277 There are rumors that Apple may buy Disney.

They have the cash on hand to do it.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at April 07, 2023 05:21 PM (up/3i)

278 47 Ace, you've got a couple of "Disney"s in there where you mean Lucasfilm.
Posted by: Formerly Virginian at April 07, 2023 04:18 PM (JMAcK)

Thank you! The end of this post confused the hell out of me.

Posted by: Octochicken at April 07, 2023 05:30 PM (oCS0o)

279 Let Disney sell Marvel, maybe (hopefully) Perlmutter buys it (at discount) and brings it back to what it was WHEN HE WAS IN CHARGE!

-SLV

Posted by: Shy Lurking Voter at April 07, 2023 05:31 PM (e/Osv)

280 Just because your boyfriend in high school said so, doesn't mean it was true!

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 07, 2023 04:45 PM (0hOvj)

Heh - nobody was allowed to touch my naked breasts!

Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at April 07, 2023 05:40 PM (Mzdiz)

281 What is painful about the Mandolorian- it is potentially a good show.

Imagine season 3 thusly: No Grogu. Mando goes to Mandalore to redeem himself. he fights monsters and obstacles and succeeds. He is restored to the good graces of the armorer. But he vows - his mission is to restore Mandalore, just as he has been restored. He needs to recruit all of Mandalore for a big return. He fixes IG11 - that is his new partner.

Each episode is him finding and recruiting a new clan to return to Mandalore. As he becomes more successful, more and more powerful interests seek to oppose him.

This culminates in an epic return to Mandalore. Massive space battle, surprises. New alliances. He has made many power enemies, but lots of friends.

At the end, the clans ask him to rule Mandalore. He...declines. Says..it's not his role. He was never meant to rule, but to roam the space ways, and continue to find lost clans of Mandalore. Big noble sacrifice.

Cut to black (not jack).

Posted by: Inspector kemp at April 07, 2023 05:47 PM (+DS2f)

282 This does not happen in the Twin Cities MN. The last time I heard something like this was 9/11. Did anyone else hear anything?
Posted by: johnd01 at April 07, 2023 04:26 PM

I don't know, but this morning there was a big bird heading into Selfridge in MI. Haven't seen one in a long while.

Posted by: NaughtyPine at April 07, 2023 05:51 PM (fxCK2)

283 Who knew race-swapping Jabba the Hutt would be so unpopular?
Posted by: Azathoth at April 07, 2023 04:20 PM (wb1YC)

The Hut were once a noble, graceful people, and then apparently they just let themselves go. Jabba would be so disappointed to see the descent of xhis progeny.

Posted by: Candidus at April 07, 2023 07:29 PM (oFLDw)

284 Re johnd01 @98:
It was a flyover for the Twins' home opener. They had a couple of F-16s come down from Duluth.

Posted by: Teemo at April 07, 2023 10:08 PM (xLBTb)

285 Yeah, I’m not buying the portion of the article about DeSantis imposing hotel taxes and toll roads on Disneyworld.

I thought that DeFatso is busy on his Murdoch funded book tour and his not so secret Presidential campaign that is not yet a campaign.

Deuce, you have your head so far up DeFatso’s rectum your feet are dangling like a split tail from DeFatso’s butt crack.

I hope you are fucking stoned because you are passing along some real bs in this column.

Posted by: Dummy #43 at April 08, 2023 02:21 AM (4FBN4)

286 By the way Deuce, being anti-groomer is not the number 1 criteria for the next GOP presidential nominee, which is one reason why DeFatso’s unannounced “Save the Titties 2024” campaign has his poll numbers dropping like this turd of a column.

Posted by: Dummy #43 at April 08, 2023 02:24 AM (4FBN4)

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