But getting the interview is most of the game in Hollywood. And if getting the interview isn’t a big deal, then the nepo babies should do just fine without their parent pulling strings to get them auditions. 

This ignores everything outside of the interview itself, which is frequently a sticking point for me in these conversations. IGNORE the “last name got me an audition” talking point. You still get to live in the town where the industry exists. You still have a place to crash just about everywhere you go. You don’t have…

Emma Roberts doesn’t have to prove herself “more.”  She’s a middling actress with a solid career based on looks and connections.  She’s skated by on being just good enough and will continue to do so for the rest of her career. 

Who can forget the enormous power Rosemary Clooney wielded in 1980's Hollywood when George Clooney got his start? Studio executives cowered in fear that she might sic Danny Kaye on them.

I don’t think it’s a minority opinion, most people really don’t give a shit.

I like middle aged, don’t give a fuck, nothing left to prove so let’s take jobs for the fun and the money Russell Crowe. Much better than the angsty early version.

Hoping for The Nice Guys 2.

Batman is bitching about toy sales?  Huh?

“Tonight is What it Means to be Young” may be Steinman repeating himself a little- you can hear a LOT of “Total Eclipse of the Heart” in it- but honestly I think it’s a better song. 

So I didn’t watch Streets of Fire until my local friend group decided to do Discord Movie Nights in the early pandemic. Nowhere Fast is one of those songs that just stuck around in my head forever afterwards and Jim Steinman’s passing afterward resonated for me because, while I love Meatloaf’s stuff, this is the song…

The early-blockbuster era is interesting because while the studios were moving away from the New Hollywood type of risk taking, they still couldn’t really tell what was going to catch people’s attention. Star Wars and Raiders and E.T. had all been original screenplays so it wasn’t all about branding or IP, so hey,…

Michael Paré is also the titular Eddie in Eddie and the Cruisers. So, in the 1980's, if you wanted to make an old-time Rock ‘n Roll themed movie that was going to be largely ignored by audiences in theaters but later gain a respectable cult following on cable TV and home video, Paré was your guy.

Bill Paxton also got an early role in this as a comic-relief bartender. I unironically love this movie. Much like Hill’s earlier film The Warriors, it’s set in a world that looks superficially like the real world, but clearly had a different history than our own, and has a culture that is a mixture of elements from…

Pretty sure dudes have been fighting over Diane Lane since The Fabulous Stains.

basically spend the whole time fighting over Lane.

Tonight is What it Means to be Young is actually so awesome that it literally saved the entire movie. The studio execs were very underwhelmed with the footage they were seeing and were on the verge of scrapping the whole thing, but then Steinman delivered that song and they loved it so much that they let the movie be…

He won long before he penned that line.

tryna strike a chord and it’s probably A-minor

Kendrick>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>Drake

While I’ve enjoyed Kendrick repeatedly beating Drake worse than Homer beat the Krusty Burglar, I’m skeptical it will do any lasting damage to Drake’s career. Kendrick is a rapper’s rapper, whereas Drake is more of a pop star. He (or rather his ghostwriters) write rap that Taylor Swift fans can enjoy.

“I’m not writing shows about him or promoting them in the media, am I?”