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3 weeks ago | hollywood-elsewhere.com | Jeffrey Wells

Orange Mussolini has curiously acquiesced to Kid Rock’s idea of a White House dinner with Bill Maher this week, but he’s clearly uncomfortable with the fact that Maher isn’t a devotional boot–licker. The meeting wouldn’t have been scheduled in the first place, of course, if Maher hadn’t earned a certain respect from righties for having routinely trashed woke lunatics over the last few years, and yet the authoritarian-in-chief still feels antsy…what a fragile child.

1 month ago | hollywood-elsewhere.com | Jeffrey Wells

“Not happening…way too laid back…zero narrative urgency,” I was muttering to myself. All to say that the sixth episode of White Lotus Thai SERIOUSLY disappoints. Waaay too slow. Things inch along but it’s all “woozy guilty lying aftermath to the big party night” stuff. Glacial pace…waiting, waiting, waiting. I thought the story strands were going to begin to tighten up, but they’re just lying there. Flaccid, lazy, leisurely.

1 month ago | hollywood-elsewhere.com | Jeffrey Wells

Really Nice RideJuly 3, 2024To my great surprise and delight, Christy Hall‘s Daddio, which I was remiss in not seeing during last year’s Telluride... More »

2 months ago | hollywood-elsewhere.com | Jeffrey Wells

Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth will be able to score very handily now, and a 5 pm “happy hour” inside the Pentagon will become an instant thing.

Jan 23, 2025 | hollywood-elsewhere.com | Jeffrey Wells

Consider the opening paragraph of David Rooney’s Sundance review of Jimpa. It contains a word that gave me pause. Correction — vaguely pissed me off.