who COULD come to his aid?  He was accused of being a cannibal and the press just lapped it up like mothers milk

Yeah I have it right here

And having to play the straight man to Johnny Depp at the height of his weird power

if the general public is that willing to drop you immediately and not a single person in the industry comes to your aid (that i recall?) it’s clear that, at the very least, he’s not someone who’s worth paying to be in a movie anymore.

It wouldn’t be a real money making venture, more of a passion project if I could afford it in retirement. 

Sounds like the Korean guy that I worked for that owned a few deli’s. Lots of cash and not a lor of taxes. 

before all of that stuff happened to me, I didn’t feel good

He didn’t have a lot to work with given the terrible script, though.

His family’s loaded, right? If he really wants to make something “outside of the Hollywood system,” it shouldn’t be that hard for him. He probably has a bunch of time shares he can use as locations too.

HBO gives the show a budget. As long as they deliver shows within that budget, HBO isn’t going to care what the money is being spent on. Also, delaying the Youtube posting of stories means WBD sees enough value in the show that they think people will sign up for HBO and/or Max just to see it sooner, so that’s actually…

and would sometimes be naked in front of Endemol staff.

Poor little Suzie 😢

Russell being Russell = a narcissistic charlatan with boundary issues who is only impressive intellectually to the dumbest people you’ll ever meet

Just gonna leave this here:

could he be any more pugilistic?

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The difference is monetization. Producers probably wanted even more outrageous behavior from Brand, because the public was shocked by it and interested in it. Brand did things like have sex with a homeless person on a reality show IIRC. He and I think Jonathan Ross got fired from a radio show for harassing an older…

Why are people surprised about this? His thing was specifically that he had no boundaries; that’s what his act boiled down to. They were booking him for his oversexed schtick, and that’s what they got. He knew he was being booked for this which may have played into why he was doing so much of it, consciously or…

This reminds me of when my Dad saw Mad Men. His take away was that “John Hamm is so attractive that women must forgive him” and he continued on that he was jealous of Don Draper.

Weird how people think “that’s just (blank) being (blank)“ somehow makes their behavior less bad. The fact that this is normal for them makes it better, not worse? Reminds me of this line from Taxi: “You have to forgive Louie, he’s himself today.”