Remember the founders of the Center for Responsible Lending? Those subprime-mortgage billionaires Herb and Marion Sandler, the “people who should be shot”?
The “responsible” Sandlers got rich selling out the little guy, then pressured NBC into editing the online archive of a “Saturday Night Live” sketch that body-slammed their profiteering with a subtitle suggesting that, well … they “should be shot.” NBC has apparently also removed references to the Sandlers from the sketch as it airs in SNL reruns. You know — those Sandlers. The ones who should be shot.
Well, apparently the Sandlers (who, by the way, totally should be shot) weren’t done throwing their weight around.
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BadFish from Winners Use Drugs tipped us off to Mickey Rourke running his mouth about political celebrities.
“Actors should shut up about politics, because they tend to be ill-informed finger-pointers who just cozy up to some flavor-of-the-month liberal, you know?” The Wrestler star says in this month’s edition of GQ.
You know where I’m going with this.
In 2006 Mickey issued a big “piss off” to people who disagreed with President George W. Bush’s foreign policy, saying:
“George is doing a hell of a job during very difficult times, more power to him. Screw all them people who don’t like him.”
The rest of that GQ article also has him on a pro-Bush rant where he claims he’s shocked by how Muslims are allowed freedom of speech in Great Britain. Yup.
Now I know he just won Best Actor and everything at the Golden Globes yesterday, so a lot more microphones are going to be shoved in his face between now and Oscars night, but this is just Pete Sampras-style bitching.
Piven and his store-bought forelock showed up at the Golden Globes last night. It’s been just three weeks since he dropped out of Speed-the-Plow on Broadway because… heh… because he said he… hn hn… he ate too much… hnnkkt… too much sushi and got mercury poisoning HA HA HA HA HA!!!
Ahem. Here’s how Piven played it off at the Globes:
Piven spoke briefly with former football player Tiki Barber, who worked as a reporter during NBC’s red carpet preview.
Piven likened his abrupt departure from the show to a team doctor telling Barber that he had to leave a game.
Barber joked that he often ignored such orders.
Yeah, but Barber wasn’t performing Mamet, was he? That s*** is grueling.
Roger Friedman is more sympathetic than most of us:
So here now is Piven’s side of things, as he explained it to me last night: “I was so sick for most of the run of the show. Some days I would sleep right until the time I had to go to the theater. I didn’t know what was wrong with me. I was exhausted. Finally, I went to a doctor at Greenwich Hospital in Connecticut just so it wouldn’t turn into a circus. He said, ‘you’ve got to stop working.’ My heart rate was 47. My mercury level was off the charts. I hadn’t had a real break in 20 years of acting…’”
And the truth is, Piven could not have gotten out of the play without a real diagnosis for insurance purposes. He says that years of being a fish eating vegetarian was enough to do the trick and act as a catalyst.
Another fish-eating “vegetarian”! (Kind of like a God-fearing atheist or a virgin with chlamydia.) Well, I’m convinced. Let’s hope eating all that fish isn’t what made his hair grow back, or else it might start falling out again and he’ll have to get a hairpiece or something silly like that.
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