Last week, Drew Carey, the genial comedian and host of “The Price is Right,” unloaded on Spencer Pratt’s run for Los Angeles mayor, posting that anyone who supports the former “The Hills” personality “needs to get their head out of their ass.” While he could understand being angry or dissatisfied, Carey said, “At least get behind someone competent,” a sentiment another L.A. resident, Jimmy Kimmel, echoed on his show Wednesday.
As one of the strangest California primaries in recent memory nears next week, that sense of frustration is almost palpable. And as the nation’s most populous state and second-biggest city prepare to elect a new governor and mayor, Hollywood—and the sharp decline in entertainment industry jobs—has moved front and center, while the paths to those offices run through fields that include, respectively, a Donald Trump-endorsed former Fox News host, Steve Hilton; and Pratt, a reality-TV star running as an outsider (sound familiar?), having gained unexpected traction among some high-profile Democrats as well as the MAGA right.
The roller-coaster election, which saw Eric Swalwell withdraw from the governor’s race in April amid sexual-misconduct allegations, has divided the town, laid bare Hollywood’s existential angst, jumbled alliances, and confounded political analysis.
In an interview with Status, Hilton….
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Nate Bargatze in "The Breadwinner." (Photo by Frank Masi/Sony Pictures Entertainment)
A Half-Baked ‘Breadwinner’: When Roseanne Barr, Jerry Seinfeld, and Tim Allen scored massive sitcom hits in the 1990s, every standup comic with five minutes of material seemed to get their own series. Starring, co-written and produced by Nate Bargatze, “The Breadwinner” feels like a dismal throwback to those times, yielding a movie that would have at best qualified as about the 17th-best new comedy of 1995.
Everything about the film feels stale and dated, from the…
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