Robert De Niro plays Sebastian Maniscalco’s hairdresser father in ‘About My Father’
De Niro lets his hair down
“About My Father” is about funnyman Sebastian Maniscalco’s hairdresser father. Their good friend Robert De Niro performs him.
De Niro: “I used to be in ‘The Irishman’ with Sebastian. This can be a private ingredient from his life. A basic Italian household comedy cultural conflict with WASPy stiff in-laws. His precise father was my mannequin. I at all times need an actual ingredient in anybody I play. We met in Oklahoma whereas capturing a film.
“Actors I admired included Gregory Peck and James Dean who solely did three films however was glorious. I by no means labored with Montgomery Clift. Brando, at all times nice, I knew personally. I labored with terrific Robert Mitchum twice.”
In that is Kim Cattrall. Opens Might 26. Go. Take your father. Perhaps he’ll do your hair.
Write & fallacious?
Extra of writers on strike: Author submits a narrative. It’s later stolen. The denying studio says, “Sue us!” Broke author fades away. Like Hollywood’s “Casting Sofa” earlier than the “Me Too” taboo, work stolen is just not As soon as Upon a Time.
Author Jack Piuggi of Flipp Productions claims he has hours of legally admissible audio/video footage. His lawyer Robert Hantman — who has sued Steven Seagal, Magic Johnson, Don King, Danny DeVito — has filed a David vs. Goliath lawsuit in US District Courtroom, Southern District of New York, alleging Piuggi’s “Instafamous” osmosed into cable reveals “Faux Well-known” and “FBoy Island.”
Piuggi says it goes one thing like this: Funneling concepts they’ve heard, impartial contractors submitting 1099s stay work-for-hires not home workers. Studios thus say, “We have been unaware of this individual’s actions. They don’t work for the corporate. We have been by no means knowledgeable.” Or, “This can be a parallel concept — the time period for a supposed coincidence that a couple of individual has that very same concept and thus can’t be accused of theft.”
It’s three card monte.
Piuggi claims: “I [can] show that these concepts have been mine. I even advised actors. Garrett Morosky, later solid to star in one in every of these reveals, instructed me: ‘We all know they stole your present.’ I recorded that, too.”
Re: calling
Recollections: Bernie Goetz infused himself into in the present day’s story of a Marine who killed homeless subway rider Jordan Neely, saying just lately of the Marine: “He has obtained to pay.” In ’84 Goetz shot 4 youngsters on a practice. He was acquitted. His lawyer, Barry Slotnick.
We exist in a wondrous world. I knew Bernie. I went to his 14th Road residence. He opened the door — accompanied by his live-in dwell chinchilla.
Additionally. Sunday’s NY Submit reported how busy is the late Shah of Iran’s exiled son Crown Prince Reza Pahlavi.
Way back, repeatedly obtained by His Majesty in Sa’dabad Palace, large floor-to-ceiling doorways appeared burnished in gold and — with servants on each side — opened magically in entrance or behind if you entered His Majesty’s presence.
The Crown Prince was then a baby. The Shah instructed me: “For his birthday we’re going to let him open his personal door.”
Troubled with homelessness, migrants, druggies and Biden’s open borders, San Francisco is considering to ask if Tony Bennett’s OK sufficient to cease by and choose up the guts he left there in 1960 . . . Pay attention, if not, they may give it to Kamala. She will at all times use it.
Thought principally solely in New York, children, solely in New York.
