Dailymail.com - Diller suggested that Hollywood's top-earning actors and executives take a 25 percent pay cut as he warns of a devastating collapse for the industry if the SAG-AFTRA and Writers Guild of America strikes are not settled soon. 'Everybody's probably overpaid at the top end,' Diller said. 'The one idea I had is to say, as a good faith measure, both the executives and the most-paid actors should take a 25 percent pay cut to try and narrow the difference between those who get highly paid and those that don't.' Among the highest paid in industry is Tom Cruise who has an estimated net worth of $600 million as of 2023. And Warner Bros Discovery chief David Zaslav made over $498 million from 2018 to 2022.
The strike is the first time film and television actors have taken industrial action since 1980, and the first time two major Hollywood unions have been on strike at the same time since 1960.
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I think we all spend too much time talking about the
weather when we all know damn well ain't nobody
gonna do anything about it...
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WILTON MANORS, Fla. (AP) — When Alicia Griggs steps outside her suburban Fort Lauderdale home, Florida’s latest invasive species comes a-hoppin’ down the street: lionhead rabbits.
The bunnies, which sport an impressive flowing mane around their heads, want the food Griggs carries. But she also represents their best chance of survival and moving where this domesticated breed belongs: inside homes, away from cars, cats, hawks, Florida heat and possibly government-hired exterminators.
Lionhead rabbits aren’t the only invasive species causing headaches or worse for Floridians. Burmese pythons and lionfish are killing off native species. Giant African snails eat stucco off homes and carry human disease. Iguanas destroy gardens. Like the Wilton Manors lionhead rabbits, those populations all started when people illegally turned them loose.
Griggs is spearheading efforts to raise the $20,000 to $40,000 it would cost for a rescue group to capture, neuter, vaccinate, shelter and then give away the estimated 60 to 100 lionheads now populating Jenada Isles, an 81-home community in Wilton Manors. Thank goodness she has nothing better to do with her time, huh?
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saw this GIF, but I remember that the caption under
it read 'Die you Jap muthafucka'...
CNN - Iran’s morality police will resume patrols to make women comply with strict Islamic dress codes, state media reported Sunday, 10 months after the death of a young woman in their custody triggered nationwide protests.
These Iranian women are pictured protesting the fact that they will be forced to wear the Hijab after the overthrow of the Shah. This protest happened just days after the revolution in Iran in 1979. The Hijab rule is still in effect.
Things were a lot different back in 1966. Paper dresses were an actual thing, and Andy Warhol's iconic soup can bullshit was oh-so hip and popular. This was a pretty cool marketing idea at the time, and the company actually had to re-order more dresses three different times, eventually selling more than 13,000 of them.
We don't hardly ever see the Arch from the 5th Avenue perspective.
We are living in the strangest of times, my friends...
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Saeid Montazeralmahdi, spokesman for Iran’s enforcement body, Faraja, said police will restart vehicle and foot patrols across the country from Sunday, the state-run Fars news agency reported. Officers will first warn women who are not complying, while those who “insist on breaking the norms,” may face legal action, he said.
That's pretty fuckin' crazy that they (the governing jerkoff men, the Mullahs) would be so willing to go so far backwards just because some guy in a book written god knows when said they should. Go figure...
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A CLASSIC Aston Martin driven by Pierce Brosnan in a James Bond film has sold for an eye-watering sum at a recent auction. The 1965 Aston Martin DB5 Sports Saloon was used by Brosnan in the famous opening scene of Goldeneye - released in 1995.
The iconic scene shows Bond in a high-speed chase with his arch villain Xenia Onatopp, played by Famke Janssen, through the hills of Monaco. The silver DB5 went on auction at the Goodwood Festival of Speed (in England) auction yesterday.
It was snapped up by the highest bidder at the ridiculous price of £1,961,500 ($ 2,570,000) - making it the most valuable piece of Bond memorabilia ever sold. Aston Martin has become synonymous with the spy film franchise, particularly the DB5 and earlier the DB Mark III. The DB5 has featured in Bond films from Thunderball in 1965 through to Spectre in 2015.
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This could happen to any of us...
A woman in France recently enjoying coffee with her friend was struck by a small meteorite in what is considered an extremely rare event, according to local news.
The woman was chatting with her friend outside on a terrace when she was hit in the ribs by a mysterious pebble, French newspaper Les Dernières Nouvelles d'Alsace (DNA) reported.
"I heard a big 'Poom' coming from the roof next to us. In the second that followed, I felt a shock on the ribs. I thought it was an animal, a bat!" the woman, who has not been identified, told the news outlet. "We thought it was a piece of cement, the one we apply to the ridge tiles. But it didn't have the color."
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Things were a lot different back in 1966. Paper dresses were an actual thing, and Andy Warhol's iconic soup can bullshit was oh-so hip and popular. This was a pretty cool marketing idea at the time, and the company actually had to re-order more dresses three different times, eventually selling more than 13,000 of them.
Nowadays they'd probably have a fuckin' guy wearing the dress.
Different times, my friend. Different times.
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It's still pretty spectacular no matter how you see it...
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Screw Hollywood. Turn off your TV. Better yet, put it in the attic.
ReplyDeleteIt's not like Holland doesn't have some smokin' hot XX women (the Dutch Army female truck drivers I worked with in Bosnia were hotter than that guy). WTF were the judges thinking?
ReplyDeleteBetter yet, sell your old CRT TV as an antique
ReplyDeleteWell, unlike those nasty lizards that are invading Florida those rabbits are tasty. They might come in handy in the future.
ReplyDeleteRikki is still a guy, a mutilated guy.
ReplyDeletemy dad used to snort at the clowns when they talked about the weather. he went thru the storm of 44 where
ReplyDeletethe navy lost a few ships to the weather. he told me one time on deck during the storm, he watched a ship ride a wave and you could see both the front and back out of the water, screws spinning like mad in the air.
and then the ship dropped like 50 or more feet. he always said only GOD can control the weather, the best we can do is try to live with it. he also said that scared him more than the japs shooting at them.
dave in pa.
Slight quibble on the highest paid actor. It isn't Tom Cruise. Its some guy from eastern Europe
ReplyDeleteMark in PA