Archive for 2019

WORST. RACIST. PRESIDENT. EVER. Trump’s Economy Is Working for Minorities. “Despite his reputation for being racially divisive, President Donald Trump’s approval ratings have drifted upward among nonwhites in the last two years. While it’s impossible to say exactly why, one reasonable explanation is that the U.S.’s long economic expansion has been particularly beneficial for minority workers.”

Related: ‘The best is yet to come’ pledges Donald Trump at ‘Blacks for Trump’ event as he says African-Americans have the ‘worst schools than anybody’ and Democrats care more about illegal aliens than them. Well, he’s not wrong.

HE’S NOT ALL THAT POPULAR A GUY: Michael Bloomberg’s potential 2020 bid is getting hammered online. He should run for NYC mayor again; they really need somebody competent, and he was okay.

Related: It would cost Bloomberg something like $12B to ‘buy’ the presidency. “In 2009, running for a third term as mayor, Michael Bloom­berg spent $102 million to get a mere 51%, total of $174 per vote. If he were to spend $174 per vote in this bid for the presidency in 2020 we’re hearing so much about, the White House would cost him something like $12 billion.”

Political consultants and political media outlets everywhere are drooling, but once outside their circles enthusiasm drops off a lot.

UPDATE: Related.

GET WOKE, GO BROKE: How Climate Activist Arnold Schwarzenegger Became Box Office Poison.

Some images are hard to shake, like a floppy-haired Hugh Grant begging for forgiveness on The Tonight Show after getting caught with a prostitute.

Similarly, close your eyes and you’ll see Schwarzenegger flaunting his fame sans guilt.

Remember the pictures of him puffing on massive cigars and driving around in a gas-guzzling Hummers? Few stars enjoyed the spoils of success quite like Schwarzenegger.

These days, he’s singing from the eco-choir. He even supports suing oil companies for hurting the planet. This week Schwarzenegger embraced the radical left’s climate change sage.

The newest Terminator movie reportedly had a budget of $185 million. Considering the giant carbon footprint of a film production that size and its advertising campaign, Arnold should be thrilled that his former audiences kept their own carbon footprint low by not driving to see his movie! Similarly, its expected low output of merchandising and Blu-Ray sales should make producer James Cameron feel pretty darn chuffed as well.

NBC, WHILE COVERING FOR HARVEY WEINSTEIN, STILL TACKLING THE BIG HOLLYWOOD STORIES: James Dean set to star in new film through digital resurrection, horrifying fans.

Magic City Films said it had obtained the rights from Dean’s estate to digitally recreate the “Rebel Without A Cause” star, who died in a 1955 car accident aged 24, for a Vietnam War-era action drama called “Finding Jack.”

Dean will be recreated through a mixture of old photos and footage, along with computer-generated creations projected over stand-ins. A different actor will lend his voice to what will be a secondary role for Dean’s character.

“We feel very honored that his family supports us and will take every precaution to ensure that his legacy as one of the most epic film stars to date is kept firmly intact,” producer Anton Ernst said in a statement.

“The family views this as his fourth movie, a movie he never got to make. We do not intend to let his fans down.”

However, many fans were horrified at the idea. Esquire.com ran a story listing “35 working actors they could have cast instead,” while Vice.com pleaded, “Please don’t do this.”

It certainly horrified the Onion, which ran the headline, “‘No, God, No!’ Screams Agonized James Dean Disappearing From Heaven As Filmmakers Finish Constructing CGI.”

But as I wrote in August, when Will Smith’s Gemini Man and Martin Scorsese’s The Irishman were being heavily promoted, both of which feature de-aged versions of their stars, All-Digital Hollywood Actors? Arthur C. Clarke Called It Over 30 Years Ago.