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From workhouse connect in aj Benza fame, He'd like to be walked on a leash and play really dirty, kinky sex games. He's the guy put the cock in the peacock network. Okay, bitch, Hey, everybody aj Benzi here with fame is a bitch. This is your free show for Friday, April twenty first, twenty twenty three. Hope the week went well for you. Very got very busy here in Hollywood gossip. Laying here in shiptown. Things are really kicking up, kicking up a storm out here. Hopefully I

can catch up on some of this stuff. Number one, it looks like the me too hashtag is still very much alive in Hollywood, six years after it was introduced. We know the long list of studs and creeps that they caught in its net. And we know the men who went down for good. Actually, since Bill Cosby is now a free man, the only guys whose careers are through and in fact in prison er R Kelly and Harvey Weinstein. I don't think I've missed anybody. That's pretty amazing, Just two guys.

I mean, think about that. They got a lot of people down, They stopped a lot of creeps from acting the way they've acted over the years. But just two went to prison. Okay, but now this movement has taken down Oscar winner F Murray Abraham. I'm not sure how loud how long he'll be down for, but he definitely took a hit. The story this week from Rolling Stone and it went into detail about the allegations against F. Marie Abraham. Of course he should a statement right away. He said.

This is a sincere and deeply felt apology, and it goes on to talk about the fact that lions Gate it was lions Gate's decision last year not to bring him back for season three of Mythic Quests. I haven't seen this show yet Mythic quest he said, though never my intention to offend anyone. I told jokes, nothing more, jokes that have set some of my colleagues,

and as a result lost a great job with wonderful people. I have grown in my understanding from this experience, and I hope they will forgive me. I hate to read that from actors who have been out there a long time paid The dudes always always put in quality work, always just always nail a role. I hate to see them bowing and cow telling you know, hope, I learned my lesson. I've grown in my understanding. I never believe those sentences. No one grows from this. You just go are you're

fucking kidding me. I told a joke. Got damn it, that's what they say. But then again, just to be fair, I talked to some girls that I knew for a long time in New York when this stuff was really raining down in twenty seventeen, twenty eighteen nineteen, and a number of them told me when I bring up names, you know, like Trolley

Rose, you have no idea how many girls said, oh yeah. Charlie put his hand up my thigh at a lunch, up my skirt during the lunch, wanted to come back to his house to see his new kitchen remodel. He's a girls who with thirty forty years younger than he was, So, you know, maybe there was something more to f Murray Abraham's behavior than just a joke. Maybe one day will know, But most of these people

stayed pretty tight lipped about this stuff. But he worked as his character was C. W. Longbottom, a writer who works at a game studio at the center of the series. He joined the cast in twenty nineteen. Recently, Mythic Quest got renewed for seasons three and four. It's on Apple TV Plus. And look, you know, Abraham went on to snag a role in the second season of HBO's The White Lotus. He's going to be in

Netflix's upcoming series Gielmo del Toro's Cabinet of Curiosities. But yeah, the series is still coming back for it and the fourth season, but he ain't gonna be around. I never saw this series. I did like m F Murray Abraham and White Lotus. You know, like I said, he doesn't nail in the performance once he's a real actor. Oh put him pin in that for a second. I'll get back to that. But I was listening to Mark Marin's podcast and he had Ray Romano on and they're shooting the ship,

you know, and I look, I love Ray Romano. Rosalie used to beg me to watch Everybody Loves Raymond because of the way, you know, everybody treated each other, the big brother, the way he acted Peter Boil as the father the mother was great, his wife was great. I mean, there's a great show, great jokes. Every It's like six last per page. Like, you know, one laugh over the other, laf you gotta be careful you miss a joke if you're laughing too much. It was

a great show. And plus he was a sports right living on Long Island. And my sister would be like, that's you. You're a sports treddy. You lived on Long Island. I said, I know, bro, I get it, but I hate these canned comedies on network TV. But once I start to watch it, I liked it. I was hooked, so I if it's on TV, I'll keep it on. But then they start talking about you know, Ray Romano has got a lot of work lately

on dramas, no more comedy's. He was an HBO's series Vinyl about the music business, which I love, but it got can to left the one season. He used to be on a show called Men of a Certain Age. Not really what I like to watch, but all right, he's making his moves, coming up the ladder in the world of drama. Then of

course he was in The Irishman and some other smaller things. Now he's got a movie that's coming out that semi autobiographic, though it's also he also directed it, called Somewhere in Queens and as you know, Mark Barron has been acting here and there. He's you know, his own series called Maron for a while. He acted in that naturally, then he's thought as in the female series wrestling series Glow, and he's doing movies here and there with some

big, heavy hitters. But when I used to watch these guys, whenever I watched these guys in a movie or a TV series, I never really believe. Then when it's a drama, I just don't. And now I know why. So during this episode, Ray Romano was talking about how it's tough to be around those people and had this one heavy scene where his character and Vinyl had to contemplate suicide, and he was very, very sad and forlorn. He didn't know how to do it. He couldn't imagine what that

meant to be in midlife and want to commit suicide. So he asked his daughter to make him a tape, a playlist of sad songs, and he's listened to the sad songs and by the time you know it's time to shoot the scene, he's got these songs in his head and he's thinking of old things that used to hurt him make him cry. What made him sad and then he could conjure up the emotion he needed to do the scene. And Naron's like, yeah, same thing, same thing, man, same thing.

Man. I go there and I try to find things in my life. Man, you know that's what you do. Man, it's not what you do. I don't want to sell like an acting snob here. It's not what you do. That's not That's a different thing. Substitution is a different thing. When I studied the method, my teacher Mirror Rostovo, my coach, Mirror Rostovo from Russia was tremendous, coach, Brando Montgomery Cliff, so many Alec Beholden Madonna, not that she's a great actress, but great

performer. A lot of people, you know, Richard Kylie, Oh what's on end, Jessica Lange anyhow, So Mirror was the whole thing was like you old, substitute another crying memory of a dead dog and make that your tears for your dead father or your marriage coming to an end. Those are two different emotions. Your dead dog lying on the street is different from twenty years of marriage going down the drain and the tears that might stir up in

you. You understand to different emotion. So Mira would say, it's as simple as hard and as hard as this. You have to find that emotion in the scene and make it real. It has to be the same emotion. I don't care how you do it, even thoughf you haven't been married or you've never lost a pet. You've got to find that emotion in your body to know what the true, actual, true emotion is going on in that scene, in that monologue what have you, And that'll produce the right

tears, and amazingly it'll produce the right tears and people watching it. I didn't cry, but a rabra Mino was having a midlife crisis on vinyl. I wanted to kill himself. They didn't bother me. It was like, all right, guys, losing to stuff in mind. But you know, when you see other movies with great dramatic actors, just a look on their eyes, something makes you just I can't watch DeNiro and some of those older movies. I can't watched Peccino in some of his movies because I just know

what's coming. They they grab you anyhow, So that bothered me. I'm like, oh, no, wonder, I don't like them. On screen. I liked them, but not as dramatic actors because they're not doing it right. But any hello, I don't want to get to forty torny. But with respect to f Murray Abraham, I'd like to know the joke of the jokes he told. I can't see him. I can't see him being creepy or over sexed, you know what I mean. They also got Jeff

Garland in the same in the same manner off his show The Goldbergs. Nothing actually central was reported when he was taken down. It was said that it was the way he was on set. He told stories and jokes and sin of all sins, he was a hugger. You know. I have some knowledge in when things like this happen. And when I produced a movie called so Be It, there was a sexual harassment charge that was leveled against one of my co producers and then subsequently on my executive producer, and it was

all horseshit. And I'll tell you about that after the break. So yeah, I have some knowledge about how this stuff works in an office. Maybe you guys do too. This girl that worked with us, I'm not gonna see her name, Honestly, I actually forgot her name, and that's horribles. I worked with her for five years, but I threw out of my mind when she did this. She was hard executive assistant secretary, always at

the front desk, you know. She handled a lot of things, took Paul's, took messages, mailed athenex packages, whatever, anything that executive assistants are asked to do. She did purposely. Wasn't a looker, you know, because all of us had wives or girlfriends, and you know, don't hire a sexy executive assistant because you know, it's all it could be an issue with your wives or your girlfriends. It just it just could be, you know, I gotta stay late. It was just me and so and

so. Oh really, what are you guys talking about? Nothing? I was on the phone. But so in all to avoid that, a lot of bosses will hire somebody who's not that hot. That was part of my job when I first got there. He my buddy Adam, put me in charge of also hiring people and bring them in and sit down in the twenty minutes and talk to them. If they're too pretty as a girl, it's an automatic no, all right, you gotta hire nothing higher than a seven.

That's it, and all right, I didn't anyhow, So this was a money grab. The movie was about to be filmed, and she wasn't really enjoying her time there. Got very hectic toward the end, trying to raise seven million dollars shooting a movie, pre production, principal photography. It's

a lot distribution. There's a lot of shit, a lot of arguments, a lot of blood, sweat and tears, literally, and she was She knew she wasn't gonna be around there longer though after the movie was done, so she's looking for some kind of payout, so she files this sexual harasment suit against a co producer named Jerry. Armless guy. Jerry came in late, didn't really raise a lot of dough, but he had like maybe nine

to ten clients that he got My fifteen grand have a piece. He couldn't hit the he couldn't get the big numbers, but you know, we kept them in there, and he went to task with the young, the people who didn't have a lot of a lot of dought. But when he found that this suit was filed against him, he got sick right away and had to leave work. He really was legitimately sick older guy, you know, in his mid seventies. At one time he worked wardrobe and a ton of

TV shows and movies. And then in the midst of this suit, he dies. He wasn't that sick to die. We couldn't believe it. But this ship that he was going through proved to be too much. He died while he was looking for an attorney. And then the secretary just turned around and turned his suit into a sexual harassment suit against my partner Adam, because he's the one who rented the office where this hat and he was her immediate boss. And guess what. He eventually settled with her, just handed a

ten thousand and she went away. This happens everywhere, not just in Hollywood, and it's scary, but you know, it's like Jerry would come in and ask all of us you care to go to lunch today? What are you eating for breakfast? He just wanted company. Oh no, Jerry'm gonna hang out here or whatever. And he had interesting stories. He wasn't like the kind of guy you want to run away from. He was interesting.

He had some stories from the old days in Hollywood and who he worked with, et cetera, that some bit parts, and you know, we would just all being nice to him because he was a decent man. But he'd come in to your office and asked, you do you want to get lunch? Can I get you something? And he would say the same thing to this secretary, except on top of that, he would say, I like, I love your dress today. That's a very beautiful dress. Not stand

up, turn around, let me look at you. She was like twenty eight, he's like seventy six. It's no romance gonna happen. No sex is gonna happen. Jerry Ka Bailey walks straight, but this bitch calls its sexual arrastment. It gets her ten grade. It just makes me sick. It's happening everywhere. I remember one night I felt like I was going to come under the gun too. I was headed to be on camera one of the documentaries I'm in about Harvey Weinstein and his whole takedown. And these producers,

these two female producers from England have been in touch with me. We really want you on board. You know, you're so good. You know everybody aj we're gonna be in Hollywood these dates. Good for you? Yeah, and I you know, I did my old thing. I have to be paid because they don't pay anymore. They just they expect, you know,

they don't even offer money anymore. They say, hey, can you come in and tell us everything you know about Harvey Weinstein so we can construct the story and you know, then sell the documentary and make a lot of money. Yeah, I can, but I'm not gonna do it. I need you need to pay me for this information. It's only my information. It's exclusive. You're not telling me what to say back to the camera,

like I see that constantly on TV shows. Now, you know, like repeat the repeat the question in your answer, and the personal on camera will go. The thing John Kennedy's mother was such that, like you're feeding the talking head. No one ever has to feed me. I just go and for that you gotta pay me. Anyhow, the house she chose to do the filming it was way up in the height in the Hollywood Hills. I hate driving up those winding roads, guardrails that act as if they might stop

you from plummeting to your death in the canyon below. They wouldn't stop you, But a lot of people have driven off the cliffs in the Hollywood hills, Jan and Dean for one. At the time, I was driving his big Mercedes. Sorry that was Rocko calling about what Tommy's coming home to the hotel. But anyhow, I'm driving this big Mercedes. It's not not a van, but like a bigger a bigger issue of the I forget the letters and the numbers. Don't ask me. I never care about you know the

letter old was there a three sixty year I don't give a shit. It drove well, it was decent looking, let's take it. So I didn't want to hit up that hill because it was a one way driveway, and I knew that meant I would have to back down that hill. And it was long. It wasn't like thirty feet, but talking like one hundred and fifty foot driveway and a night in the dark with concrete walls on each side of a narrow driveway. I was pissed because nobody can move the cause to

make me go down forward. So now I'm a little bit I got in gods and gob in Italian, that means I'm a little bit pissed off. I could go in any second. I can pop off at any second, Godson, God, So I'm doing reverse. I got my hand over the seat, looking back, straining my neck, looking at the rear views, the side views, and she's kind of conducting me a little bit too right. Yeah, you got this, just go straight straight, keep coming. I'm like, I feel that I'm gonna hit that wall. None, you

got it straight, straight, good? Good. Then I hear a crunch. I hit the fucking wall, back, rear bumper. It's all scratched up. I go, Jesus Christ, and I started to get a little bit of shit. I said, how thought you let me hit the wall? You didn't see it? No, I thought you had. It's so dark, I said, I know, it's so dark. That's what I complained him out when I was first coming down the hill. I don't even

know why we're in this house. I love the view, I know, but there's so many dues in Los Angeles that didn't thought to me up in the Hollywood Hills. He'd go anywhere. Jesus. So, I'm like, I'm a little bit heated up. And she was almost in tears. She was like, I'm so sorry. I said, we'll pay for I said, I know, but Jesus Christ, I just hate the whole Righam roll of you know, getting something figs. I just hate that stuff, and we got a good attiview says, she made a lot of fun up there.

And she's speaking to me through the driver's window, the windows rolled down, and she's crying, go please, Agent. I'm so sorry. He was so good up there. I said, don't worry, don't worry. I put my hand on his shoulder, not in a caressing manner at all, just to say, hey, it's okay. I'm sorry. I said, I'm sorry, I'm sorry. I know you didn't do this on purpose. Don't worry. As soon as my hand touched her upper arm, lower

shoulder, she recoiled as if I dropped the rattlestink in her lap. And like I said, I was merely trying to console her for a second. I wasn't standing up offering a hug. I just put my hand on her arm to say, all right, I'm sorry, don't worry. She wasn't even attractive. There's no malice in my gesture. But she went, don't touch me like so aghast of which has happened like that. Don't touch me

like a movie. And this is like twenty nineteen, when every guy was getting dragged through the mud, and I thought for a second, Jesus gives a female producer heading a documentary producing a documentary which was which was made to help take him down, and now she's recording. As I touch her, I could see the headlights Weinstein pal accused of sexual misconduct. While filming a doct about Weinstein's sexual misconduct. I said to it, Oh my god,

come on, I was just trying to be nice. Don't don't like I was trying anything. Please Jesus, come on. And we both went on our merry ways. But anyhow, throw f Murray Abraham on the pile of dozens and dozens of older men who got kneecapped in this me to era. By the way, I had told my Patreon audience for almost a year that Alec Baldwood would never see a day in prison and the manslaughter charges against him would be dropped. And today the big story in Shiptown is exactly what I

told my Patreon audience a long time ago. The charges against Balwin have been dropped. There's a lot to comprehend with this deadly shooting on the set of the movie Rust. Now this is like a movie that everyone's gonna want to see now, not in the theaters, but at one point we're gonna want to see that move where Bowind draws the gun. I hope they keep it in. Maybe they won't because Helena Hutchins's husband is now a producer, he

probably doesn't want to see that I'll relive it. But now I'm interested, and they're starting to film right now. I think today is the first day. But I can only imagine how tone death the Instagram posts are going to be from Hilaria Ball in the next few days. I can't can't make this up. You got Chrissy teaging. She's got a new baby to show off, and she's all over Instagram lately in the past month or so, showing everything about a body, the baby, and her tits out she had side

boobs showing in the bathtub just has to be seen. And now the other most insufferable woman on earth, Hilaria, is gonna go how you say banana, it's loco and that's what Hilaria is gonna go loco to get pictures of Alec coming home parties, cake banners, noisemakers, rattlers, all that shit, kids and T shirts. But look to get the full story, go to patreon dot com. Slash Fame is a bit for more of my take

on Baldwin and others I've commented on for close to six years. I get so many things right, and I'm fast, and you deserve to be there. Now, then let's stay in the sexual misconduct space. The LA District Attorney's Office is investigating claims of sexual assault made against the actor Army Hammer after an ex girlfriend, remember, accused him of raping her. But now there's

more. They're probing and people are saying that the LAPD has presented a case regarding Army Hammer to the LA DA's office and it's under review right now. So get ready for more stuff on Army Hammer. Then I'm talking Hammers. People aren't talking, but the d tails are a little unclear, But it is known that Hammer's former girlfriend, Effie Angelova, accused him back three years ago two years ago of violently raping her and abusing her mentally and sexually.

Back in twenty seventeen, he denied it. He denied any criminal wrongdoing. Hasn't been charged in the case for now. At the time, he would say through his attorney that his interactions with her during their four year relationship, as well as with other girls, have been all consensual, discussed and agreed upon in advanced and mutually participatory. This is a guy who not only says I want to eat your heart. I'm one hundred percent cannibal, but also

he says things like I have a thing about somebody that I love. I want to put you in a public space to tie you up and watch men walk by you and see if they can have their way with you. But I'm not there, blah blah while I'm there, but just looking on like six ships six shit. Some women have accused him of being into cannibalistic fetishes as well, and all these b DSM fantasies. He was really into rope tying a couple of these girls, or three of them at least, and

they sased all the ropes that you know. They's got artwork of bondage women, women in BDSM outfits and shit. He's really headlong into this stuff. It's a great documentary I think it's on Netflix about their Army Hammer family going back to his grandfather, maybe even his great grandfather. But all the men had sick shit about them, whether it was alcoholism or or you know, um just losing businesses through through through terrible practices or sex sex situations. It's

breaking the law. Every man in the Hammer bloodline is fucked up. So it was only a matter of time for this to end up. All that DNA end up in Army Hammer's head and caused him to be such a fuck up, such a fuck up that at one point, he said, he contemplated suicide. He walked out into the ocean, swim out as far as he could. First of all, swimming as far into the ocean as you can is scary enough for me. I can't do that. I'm too afraid of sharks. I'll go knee deep. I'll ride away or too with the

kids. But you ain't getting me in chest deep water. I'm too old, fat, I can't out swim a shark. But I in twenties and thirties I felt that had better chance of it. Now, no, no, wait, but they're out there. But Army had'm a division of him swimming out as far as he could swim and hoping that he either drowned or was hit by a boat or eaten by a shark. That's what he thought about doing. He actually was doing it, and this is out in the

Cayman Island. But he didn't do it because he looked around and stored his kids on the beach and said, I can't leave my kids like this. But what do they think of me if daddy just disappears like this? So he came back, came to his senses, thank god. But he does tell people, I'm here to own up to my mistakes, take accountability for the fact that I was an asshole, that I was selfish, that I used people to make me feel better, and when I was done, I

moved on. Yeah, because you know what it is. When you're a big movie star and the girls are swimming around you like crazy, you have to kind of remember, even for a half celebrity like me, it was like you are a celebrity in their eyes. And when you allow a woman or a younger girl, let's say twenty two twenty three. I know that's a woman, but I'm talking about younger woman into your life. And you have this fast paced life. Your friends are stars. The restaurants you go

to all love you. You got the best table, no reservation, everybody calls your name out, You got money to burn your dress, right, you got a nice car. Well, young girls, women in general get very turned on by this, like Wow, this world is so great, and if the sex is good, and then you just abandon them and walk away and go on to the next one. That causes a lot of not only embarrassment in the woman, but anger, disillusionment, and you leave them

with this, this horrible taste in him. And I was like this, look like, I'm just I had a year of that and now I'm done. No more best restaurants, no more movie star meets, no more premiers, no more parties. I lost all that, And you take it out on the actor, But it's also the actor's fault for being, as Army said, you know, kind of an asshole about things and selfish about his

feelings. And then, of course he blamed his behavior on the trauma he says he suffered at the hands of a youth pastor who he says sexually abused him when he was thirteen years old. I don't know, do we believe this, Do we believe this? I kind of don't believe it, you know, I just I think it's the way people go, like, I

don't want to say it, but I was abused you know. I just when Harvey Weinstein was going through his shit, I remember saying to him, listen, are you sure there wasn't a rabbi or an uncle that didn't touch you in the wrong places when you were a kid, Because Harvey, it takes a monster to make a monster. And first he said no, no, no, that never happened to me. Then he switched on a dime and said, yeah, it did happen. But I can barely talk about it. But when I get out of here, I'll write a book.

You'll help me and I'll discuss that. Well. I was never gonna help him write a book, but you know, it is a place to go for a man to get away from stuff and go. It's not my fault, it's what was implanted in my brain. I don't know it could be true, but I kind of don't believe it either way. Army Hammer acted like a creep. But nowadays you gotta be scared. You gotta be really scared to date a woman. I'm sorry. I don't mean to a badmouth women. I love women, but I can't trust all them. You don't

know what's running through their brain, what plans they have for you. If you scorn them. What kind of revenge they have planned, What lies they're willing to swear to in order to get you, you know, you back after years after your relationship has ended. It happens. It happens, man, anyhow, changing subjects, you know, I was also first and way ahead of the pack when the rapper Coolio died, and I said to my Patreon audience, they would they'll be drugs in this system, No, TMZ

said, complications with pneumonia. He was a smoke roll his life. Now it just gonna be drugs all over Coolio, Mike Good. He probably went to the hospital with drugs in his pocket. I know, guys, I came. He gets high constantly. And of course, a few weeks back we found out Sentino Crystal missed. You know, so I was right on that, and I'm right again with Iron Carter's death. You must have heard

obviously he heard he died. But his ex fiance and mother of his child is telling TMZ that the results of the autopsy that say that Aaron Carter died as alt of drowning and they had found zanex in his system, and also the fact that he was huffing compressed cans with gas in it, and that gets you a very immediate high, to the point where you could pass out.

Heavy zannex use and huffing can make you pass out. And if you if you drew a bath for yourself and sitting at bath and you're huffing in that room, and he took a bunch of zanix, you're gonna slip underwater and drown. That's what the That's what the medical examiners said. That was the finding. He died as a as a result of drowning. The mother of his child doesn't believe this. She doesn't like the fact that he was wearing a T shirt and a necklace in the bathtub, which doesn't make sense

a necklace. I wear every o all my jewelry in the bathtub. I don't take bath much, but when I do, it's usually in Las Vegas with a big tub. I don't take anything off. I take my T shirt off naturally. But he was fucked up. He was fucked up, So I think she's prying up their own tree here. To be honest with you, she says she's still in shock, but what she saw and what she heard from the emmy doesn't make sense. That is closed on I missed

Aaron every single day. I don't understand the chain of events, and this report only has us asking more questions. Look, he was a drunk addict. We all knew it. We saw it on Instagram live, we saw it in his We know he did test on Doctor Phil. He came back positive on a number of drugs. That guy was on a downward spiral for a long time. But the La County Emmy says their finding show he trowned

in the bathtub. He took generic zonex inhaled compress what's it called dive florathane, which is the propellant used in cans of compressed air not gas air. Sorry, And they say he became incapacitated while he was in the bathtub due to the effects of the drugs and the huffing, and he slipped under the water and drowned, and they ruled his death accidental. You know, the pictures of that bathroom really are upsetting because the water is a is a green

color, not brown green, it's green. I don't know if he could I don't know what he put in that bath I don't know if his fecal manner made it turn that color, or his vomit was green or had he eaten something green and it came I don't know what. It's such an ugly color. And you see fecal stains on the bathroom floor and a bunch of towels and shirts laid out because apparently he'd been in there a while and he must have been puking or shipped himself, because that's what happens when you're dying,

when you're overdosing, that that happens. Did he shit in the water? I don't know. It's all disgusting, but for her to talk about it over and over again, act like this doesn't seem right. You knew you were dating a drug ad. That's why you didn't want your kid around him. That's why you went for the soul custody. Stop worrying about the T shirt and the jewelry in the water in the bathtub makes it? Who

cares? You know? In her expertise in determining causes of death, it's like on the same level as how do you how do you go about selecting a fiance like Aaron Carter? I mean, I'm not gonna believe how you determine causes of death. If you're the same person who actually said that's the hill I want to die on, that's the car I'm driving off this lot? Who would do that to complete fuck up a drug addict drowning because of negligence doesn't pay as well as a wrongful death murder case, does it.

So of course she's gonna push that agenda for herself and obviously for their child. But I think her first mistake is to believe that Aaron Carter might behave in some sort of coherent logical manner. The bottom line is Aaron Carter was

a drug addict who died during a misadventure. I mean, I sort of understand her defending his memory for her sake and the kid's sake, But if she loved him so much, what was he doing alone when he was in such a vulnerable state and we all knew it because he was putting it on social media. Honey, he's gone. Let him rest in peace and look forward to working to making you or your kid's life the best it can be. But you know, I hate to say it, that was just gonna

stay a nightmare forever. I'm sad that he died, but it never would have made you and your kids safe for her, more happy by the way, rough day for Bridget Fonda. I'm sure you saw the pictures. You saw a picture of her months ago, and she's kind of the kind of didn't want a piece of Hollywood anymore. So she retired some twenty years ago. But last we saw of her, she was just cute, petite,

pretty blonde. But it was only a matter of time before paparazzi would eventually find her and then, you know, do what they do, take a bunch of pictures of her, and how unrecognizable she's become since she's stopped acting and has become this recluse while packing on at least one hundred and fifty hundred and seventy pounds for getting how to get a hair done, or wear a makeup, or wear anything but a sweatshirt. That's the way she's been.

She's fifty nine years old. She really does look seventy seven. But she was spotted by paparazzi as she made a rare outing going through Lax Airport. She was wearing reading glasses the top her head, which was makeup free, which is in vogue now, why way makeup? Where you're going to an airplane and landing someplace. Maybe she does airplane makeup on the plane. I doubt it. Hairs in a ponytail. Her hair's gray now, I mean

just she just said, fuck you, Hollywood. I'm done. She had her eighteen year old son with her, Oliver Elfman, that's she and Danny Elfman's son. They made their way through the airport through the terminal, they was snapped by a couple of different paparazzi rolling their own suitcases, carrying their own bags in the escalade. Blah blah blah. When she got to the curb, they chatted with the paparazzi for a few minutes and they were scrolling

through their phones waiting for their ride. And as fun as Scud pulled up, one of the paparazzi approached. Hi would submit impressions, and he said, everyone wants to know if you want to make a movie come back in Hollywood, And she couldn't say no quick enough. Is there a chance? He pressed, She said no and shook her head no. Then he began to praise her for her iconic career. That's what paparazzi's doing, to give you all this bullshit. Sugar up front. You know, they give the

worst picture of you in the in the press. But you know, look, she had like kind of career. She left in two thousand and two to start a family with Danny Elfman and just pop Ronzi wouldn't let go. Oh my god, you were in some of the best movies god Father Part three, Single white Female Jackie Brown, And once again she shot down his question. She said, it's too nice being a civilian. I like that answer. And then she told him there's no director who can ever convince me

to make a comeback, and then she slammed the car door shut. Look, you know what, she was a really good actress and a fetching beauty twenty seven years ago. Like I said, single my Female on Jackie Brown, I loved it, but I didn't I didn't know how sexy she could look. When I saw Jackie Brown. That scene was she's making fun of Robert de Niro who couldn't find his car in a mall shopping shopping lot, and Bridget Fund that has this tank top on shorts, little jean shorts.

I think so sexy. I think, yeah, I think I read she put like um rubber cutlets in a broad because some chest is not big. But in this scene, she's walking quickly behind de Niro and they're bouncing. I'm like, that's bridget find that, Jesus Christ. I didn't kN that, but that was all done with, you know, rubber whatever you call him, silicon, what do they called cutlets? Whatever the hell? But she's behind DeNiro, can find his car, and he's in a mood I

talked about in Dons and gob That's where DeNiro's at right now. He wants these bees fucking pissed off. And she's going, can find your car, Lewis? Is this the al you parked your car, Lewis? Lewis? Is this the ale? Hey? Did gus? Do you lose your car? You? Rob Banks? What the fuck up you are? Where's your car? Lewis? And DeNiro just snaps, grabs up, puts his fist back like the puncher in the face, which you can never see in a

movie. Again, he's hyperventilating. He wants to strangle it. He's like, hey, don't say nothing else, don't say anything else, okay, just keep your mouth shut, keep it shut, and she goes, whoa, And that was it. It said them all No another word, don't say another word you and she goes okay. Lewis whips out a gun and shoots her dead in the parking lot. It's it is hard to see how she let herself go. Like I said, married to the film composer Danny

Elfman. But he's a weirdo too. I don't know if there's any sex there and beyond this kid being born because they both look insane. But luckily give her any shit over this, I'm not She did some quality movies and then felt like it was not what she liked anymore. I not respect for her, wanting anonymity and a normal life. Hopefully this hunt for her will slow down and she'll he gained more privacy. They did it to Shelley Duval, remember who mental illnesses, and he took her on Doctor Phil. They

stopped picture of everywhere. Now she's actually coming back down and I think she's in a movie sooner or about to start a movie. So they do this, they the vultures man. Now they have to find that she's their next carcass I say, leave bat if someone like her with a great career resume behind her from a Hollywood dynasty family can walk away. What the hell does that tell you about that business as a whole. That's what I want to know. Because the name alone, Bridget Fonda, Peter Fond, the Henry

Fonder. You got people that family that have done iconic films. She can have stuck around for a long time and acted into her eighties if she wanted. But she wants a different life for a kid, and Elfin's making a ton of money as a film composer. Bridget feels like, screw it. I'm kicking back. So I don't have anything against people who want a normal life, because eventually, no matter what you're chasting, no matter what you're shooting for, you always want to balance it out with a normal life.

But if Hollywood was not in the picture, you can have that normal life really easy without the stress of this bullshit town. So I say good for her and back off. I'm a J Benza. That was your free show for Friday, April twenty one, twenty twenty three. I'll talk to you Monday, Thank you for listening. Fame as a Bitch is an AJ Benza Workhouse Connect production featuring the endless wisdom, insightful commentary, and sometimes fucked up perspective of A J. Benza. Executive producer Mike Agavino