Hey, everybody, aj Benzi here with fame is a bitch. This is your daily Unfiltered podcast or April first, twenty twenty six, oh four oh one, two oh two six. We did it. We did it outside of my car getting fucked up. I think we all did. Okay, So in like a lion, out like a land. That's the way it should be. So long and let's move on. Oh, by the way, I wanted to ask you guys a question yesterday I failed to ask this. What did you do for International Trans Day of Visibility? You know it's
a a holiday or a day of note. I guess it's very important. But yeah, the visual the trans Day of Visibility, I mean, look on top of the very important day when trans make themselves visible, ordinarily whenever they're in a murder or school shooting or that type of shit, then trends are very visible as the killers. I mean, in the past few months, trans people have killed more people than ICE agents did. And get the protests of for ICE to go, not for the trends to go
get help. I don't get it. But if you missed yesterday's also big important day, you could still get behind the trans and gay movements if you want later on this year, just to keep you up to date so you can always be there for your trends and LGBTQ people's very important. There's also trans Awareness Week. They've got a week from November thirteenth through the nineteenth, which is not a day of visibility, but it is a day
where we need to be aware of them. Okay. Then there's National Coming Out Day, which could be for anybody. That's October twenty sixth. Then we can all celebrate, well not then, but a month before that, September twenty sixth, that's celebrate Bisexual Day. Then of course there is LGBTQ Pride Day, which is on June twenty eighth. It comes at the very end of the Pride month of June. Have you ever seen our government bend over backwards so
far or even forwards? I guess in this particular instance, bending over forwards so far that there toes is stuff down their throat. How much do we need to know about the lgbtqb Less than ten percent of the country is LGBTQ Lesbians make up one point four percent. Sounds kind of low, but let's go with what I checked on gronk gronk. Trans people, as we know, represent zero point zero five percent of our country, you know, but sure give them a day of visibility, a day of
a week of awareness, and a month. That's that's more than fair for zero point zero five percent of the population. Well how about this, Let's just keep a tab on who a lot of the new like, let's keep a tab on a lot of these new spate of school shooters and assassins, rooftop assassins are. Let's keep a truck and keep tab of them, and let's see where their sexuality lies. I think the one who has no arms and legs, who killed the person in the car, then
the two friends will run over by the truck. This person fires nine millimeters even though she is I say she because I'm looking at the picture I posted it last week. It's a fucking trance, they keep saying. They keep calling her a man. Look at the picture. She's going, it's a feminine thing. It's a feminine thing, and that's it. No one wants to believe me, but either way it'll come out eventually, because you know, I actually checked how many of the recent mass shootings were at the hands
of you know of transgenders and to be surprised. Man. Of course, the internet does backflips telling you, well, they just debunk the trans shooter myth. If you type in how many mass shooters were trans page, you have the page from Google denouncing it. It's not true, it's not true. Doing all they can to make sure these sick bastards are looked upon in a good way. They the article says. One article said, there have only been four mass shootings
at the hands of transgender individuals. That's bullshit. They don't even mention the one that shooting that happened in the Canada or the Rhode Island killer. Both cases, their families spoke openly about the killer being trans or turning trans. Can't always get the truth online. This is such bullshit. It's a big reason why I can't like or sy
hypathighs with trans people. I can't. To me, they are impossible to like, as is some of these people that come up and down my block, who come out of the woods or the park, like weirdos from Michael Jackson's thriller video. And I've been telling you about the tubepole on the corner, the woman, the black woman with the dyed red wig and the boyfriend. I went out there again this morning because the trash that I asked three one want to pick up was picked up. Now there's
all new trash in front of the car. The cars held together by bungee cords. Everything's inside the car, blankets, you name. It's disgusting. I go three one mone, which I don't want to bother the nine one one. Finally, this morning, I go out there. She's yelling, I go shut the fuck up. I said, if I come out here again, I swear to Christ, you're gonna wish. The cops came, Oh yeah, it takes a wet boat, and she's barking at me. Meanwhile, she's smoking crack. She's holding
the crack pipe. Said, look at it. It's this bitch is smoking in front of me. Her boyfriend does nothing. I look on the ground. Right in the street, next to the curb is a bottle of prescription pills like halfway film. I'm like, this can't be. I threw him at the guy's chest. He's sitting in this chair. He doesn't do nothing. Pussy the girl and I going out, I said, that's it. I'm calling the fucking cops. I
call the cops. They come in and they basically tell me two big cops are like, yeah, listen, man, you know people voted for what they voted for. They're making this political liss. I didn't vote that way. That's not me. They got not us either, But the way the laws are set up by the people who are voted in, we can't pull that person away unless we're here when the threat happens. Blah blah. We checked the cars registered. Even if she's living in it, it's registered. It's pluck legally.
Right now, the garbage will be taken, I said, the garbage said, they'll take it eight Pril seventh. What the fuck most way? Eight days? Well, again, there's nothing we can do, I said. Guys, the last two cops tell me take matters into my own hands. And now you know where I live. You know him because I called, so if I take him at listen, he didn't hit that from us that. We're all laughing, but it's like, well, what the fuck do I do if you guys can't
do it? Yeah, listen, we're pissed off too, these guys that you can tell, But I'm gonn drop twenty five thirty years. They've seen what I've seen the last twenty eight years. Unbelievable. It just I mean, the cops. Just last January during the it was a big fire, burned a thousand acres. There was an illegal with a blow torch who was lighting garbage and dead Christmas trees, and the neighborhood of Woodland Hills, nice upscale neighborhood ran down and got this guy and it, you know, it held
him down and called the cops. The guy was let go a person of interest in the burning of a thousand acres. Well, cops, just the rest of them now February March, you know, it's a few months later. Finally got arrested and they look into this guy. He's done so many bad things, but vagrancy, trespassing, you know, all the shit I'm dealing with down the street. So I told the cops my son and I sleep on the ground floor. They can drive by with a fucking gnoll,
throw a rock through the fucking window. It's not gonna come to that. I'll break their heads. Listen, hear from us. Sometimes you gotta do what you gotta do. I couldn't believe it. A newfound respect for LA. Cops have to hearing that. I always approach me. Listen, my son's in the academy. My nephew's a detective sheriff. My father was a cop, my brother in law father in Lave. I'm from cops, so I always hit him with that first, so they know I'm not some crazy person. Anyhow, Look,
big story broke moments ago. We have to talk about I have to. It's about big tits. Unfortunately not on a girl. No, I'm sure you've heard the story by now. You've got to see the pictures. The former DHS security chief Christy nom says she is devastated by the allegations her husband, Brian is living a double life because he cross dresses and has these chats online with fetish models. Well,
people are saying, you know, hello, she's devastating. Family was blindsided by this and they asked for privacy and prayers at the time. So Daily Mail broke this story. They say, Byronome, there's been chatting up women from this so called bimbo fication fetish scene. This is where sicko creeps adult performers augment their breasts with massive amounts of saline to achieve a Barbie doll like appearance. We've seen these women, They're
everywhere online. Blah blah blah. Well, they found hundreds of messages from Christy Nome's husband praising, enthusiastically praising these women's augmented breaths, and then he said he loves huge, huge, ridiculous boobs. Funny because I don't think Christy Nooman had a titch job. Does she? I can't think about her upper body now, but either way, I thought she was attractive. Then she wrote a book about killing her puppy, and I'm like, you know what, I don't can't be around
her like this, but she's still attractive. But then she's hanging out with Corey Lewandowski, very openly cheating on this cross dressing husband, with this jerk off Lewandowski. I lost it for her again, Like, what do you do with him? Schmucky guy? So this Brian I said Byron briannaim is he's wearing pink, you guys. He can pictures pink hot pants and a flesh colored skin tight suit. He's got these giant balloons that he stuffed into his shirt. They're lopsided.
Of course, he's got fake protruding nipples. And he's into this shit, very into it. And you know there are some national security experts who think that the way that her husband's acting or has been acting for herever how long you know, that it could have left her vulnerable to blackmail. You know, if you if you're somebody that knows this, and you have this information, you go to Christy home. Listen, I get this thing. Okay, are you
turning your back on this or else? I'm going to get the pictures of your husband balloons down your shirt. What do you want to do? That's how easy it is, the blackmail. She wouldn't want those pictures out before I finished the story. I'll get to what I think is going on. But you know, they got three kids. They're not babies, thirty one, twenty nine, and twenty three. I didn't picture and know him having a thirty one year old kid, I don't know, uh, and and two of
them have kids in the road. So she's a grandma and he's a grandpa with his big watermelon watermelon, with his big balloon tits. But Christy's telling people with such a transparent family, you know, we're an open book. Now, you know what come on. Even Chris Jenner eventually copped to seeing Bruce Jenner in high heels and address. She eventually came forward after it broke and said, well, you know, there were those times where Bruce, you know, was honest
to me. And I came in and he had my shoes on, and you know she I mean not her shoes, but hes because her size. He could never squeeze his big the cathlon feet into those heels. But yeah, that could be it. I mean that, you know, you're an open book bullshit. You knew about this. Some of you are going to see the video in the pictures. You have to you got to run to do it. Now, put the sew on hold and come back. But here's
my take. You know this one, Christy's been out in the open traveling with Lewandowski, her lover, and there's been public displays of affection. So everybody knows they've been fucking around a while, travels with her. That's why Trump finally put a stop to it because it's embarrassing. So he you know, she's no longer he's no longer associated like like Christy with the DHS. But here's what I think happened.
First of all. Part of me is saying, hmm, even though I think it's ridiculous, part of me is going, why is this an issue with the left, which is where this is probably coming from. Probably possibly because Joe Biden had a bunch of openly trands and cross dressers in his cabinet and in senior level positions and the military, and people were told to say, hey, this is great. I mean, you know this is great. It's you that's the problem. Now, all of a sudden, the left cares
about this shit. What happened to acceptance and inclusion? You see what kind of hypocrites they are? Now? They jumping on the bandy this Trump. He's got a bunch of creeps surrounding. This is not good for Trump because you know what, when they vetted her, come on, you got to come up with this ship. You gotta find this shit. If you're vetting her family for DHS, no, you gotta vet better. It's an embarrassment. But you know, I don't
want Lewandowski anywhere near anybody who works for Trump. So my real takeaway is this, what if Trump and others in DC knew about this? Now, if you know that some of the leaders and he ran her gay. I'm sure you'd know about this, It's in your backyard. I'm sure there were rumors from some people in the know. Now what if they, meaning Trump's people, made sure this shit became public? This way, firing her would be an
easier thing, right or you know? I mean, I remember shit like this going down when I had my column. And this also feels to me like it could be an information league by her own camp to make him look bad, because maybe in anticipation of an upcoming divorce, you know what I mean, she's got to kind of have this in her pocket, you know what I mean? That could happen her camp is trying to salvage some future political career of hers. I don't know, but both
theories make sense. But this one has had some fall. She gets no sympathy, not a good tenure as the age Chess secretary. You know, didn't do much on her own to remove illegals, and then things got out of hand with her down in Minnesota. But the worst thing was spending almost a half billion taxpayer dollars on commercials with herself making believe she was an ice agent, and she wasted taxpayer money on a fleet of private jets
for her personal use with Lewandowski on board. On top of that, you know, there were a lot of corroborated stories that Lewandowski did whatever he pleased to do in DHS. Didn't have a formal role because he always told Christy Trump will pardon me, but no matter what I do, well, we're going to see. But I can understand how pistoff Trump was when it became news that Christynam used two hundred and twenty million dollars for a photoshoot of horror
on a frigging horse near Mount Rushmore. And then the air contracts went to this firm, well, a bunch of firms, but one had ties one main one had ties to Republican operatives, and there was no traditional bidding process. And you know, get this, one firm called Safe America Media was incorporated just one week before it won a one hundred and forty three million dollar contract. Okay, come on. Then she spent four thousand on hair and makeup, twenty
thousand on horse rentals. This is all our money, you know. But look, she's a bear girl, all right, be a bear girl. But let's delve into the story of a couple of Hollywood Bear girls from yesteryear. I promise you I'd dial the I'd turned the dial back the way back now. But both these women had an insatiable sexual desire, sometimes not for the same sex, but for the opposite. Obviously a breath of fresh air compared to the shit I'm reading now. So the first woman I speak about
actress is Gloria, one of my patrons. I wish I should have wrote it down, asked me, hey, j you ever do something on Gloria? Why don't I think it was Russell. Maybe I'm wrong, but you know you've done something on Gloria Graham my Mysteries and the Scandal. I said, yeah, we did an episode on her. She was It was a pretty interesting story. I never really heard of her when I did the show, which was part and parcel of a lot of people, and some people I never
heard of. You know, these quote unquote stars from yesteryear, I'd say about ninety percent I heard of some I had no idea. And somewhere there's a funny audio of me and the sound booth having to read a bunch of Monday back to back episodes of Mysteries and Scandal, starting first with Gloria Graham next with Jeff Dean, and I go like, who the fuck is Jeff Deane? What did this home moode do? And the guy who's recorded me is laughing, and I kept going up against names
I never heard of them. I said, who's this bitch? What did she do? Either way, I wish I could find that's such a funny one. Gloria Graham. Yeah, married four times, like I said, insatiable, but then got involved with her step son who she later married. I'll get into that scandal a little bit down the road on this show here. But you may have seen a movie called Film Stars Don't Die in Liverpool and that Benning played her, and that's what she did her last year's
Gloria Grams. Last year's were spent with a much younger actor named Peter Turner, and like I said, that became a movie. It's interesting movie. By the way, Speaking of movies, I gotta tell you I finished is this thing on with Will Arnett and Laura Dernt. It's really sweet and it really is so familiar to me without giving away anything, It's about marrors As going to pieces. They split up
and he finds stand up comedy. I'm not going to ruin the rest, but you know, see it soon because I'm dying to talk about that dynamic of what happens sometimes when you divorce and then suddenly a month later, once you to have new places to live, you find yourself feeling insatiable for the other one, your ex, and you might go there to give mail. Hey, listen, this came and came to the house that your mail. You instantly closed it being ripped off, and you're having sex.
It's just like, why did this happen? Now? Why didn't this happen while we were married? We'd still be married. Good movie, don't miss it, will And that's great. Laura Durna's always great. I find it so sexy and so sweet. But anyhow, Gloria Graham, something else. I got a friend watch such a gay couple. I might get this role. And if Alison Martino here's this, text me and tell me I'm wrong. But these two guys are producer directors.
They did a movie I was in called Men's Field sixty six sixty seven, all about those two years and Jane Mansfield's life on one of the talking heads in this documentary. They did a doc on Share. They did a doc on the movie with Nicholson, Oh my god, odd you know the crazy movie where he is Johnny, the Stanley Kubrick movie and all the different things that are going on during that movie, and really good. They're
really good filmmakers. Anyhow, I think it was their house, beautiflowers and palm springs, real funky and one of the bedroom I slept, and I slept over, spent the night and I'm in this bedroom that they made, I believe specifically for Gail or Gloria Graham. I think so it could be another film more actress, but that's who I think it was, and it's just an an homage. The whole bedroom is movie posters of the movie she started,
and signed shots that have framed of her face. It's crazy, but you know, gay guys love this kind of shit and I got a kick out of it. I love those guys. They're fun guys. But let's go back to the early fifties. Gloria Graham is at the Academy Awards, just on the verge of super stardom. She was twenty nine years old. The last year that she was working.
You know, there was a she was kind of portrayed in movies as like a they call it a tart with a heart like kind of a dumbish kind of chick, but like the hooker with the heart of gold kind of thing. That was her image, and that began nineteen forty four in a second comedy called Blonde Fever. Then she took a sultry job on It's a Wonderful Life for Jimmy Stewart. You might remember her. There she was with Jimmy Stewart again and Cecil b De Mills The
Greatest Show on Earth, which won Best Picture. So she began to be recognized as somebody that's a serious actress. She was nominated for her performance in The Bed and the Beautiful for Supporting Actress Oscar. That was the second one. She got one for Crossfire, and then her image began to harden as this mysterious bad girl of film noir, which I love, like the big heat and human desire. And yeah, she also did Oklahoma as the girl who just remember I'm just a girl who can't say no.
That was her part. And she married a guy named Cy Howard, a writer producer, and she was pushed. She kept getting belittle by the crew because she wasn't that good musical. She would cry to the man she married and didn't really know how to do that kind of work, couldn't carry a tune too well, and people kept telling her how horrible she was. And that's what she was good at. She was good as a film noir actress.
I mean, think of some of the actresses today that have that look and that appeal, and yeah, I wouldn't want to see them in the music of Oklahoma, you
know what I mean. I don't want to see Sidney Sweeney singing I'm just a girl, can't say no. By the way, the third season of her show on HBO is beginning April thirteenth, and this season, Sidney Sweeney's character Cassie goes on only fans, so you know there's gonna be plenty of shots of her with minimal clothes or no top on, and she's going to go right back to being who she always has been on that HBO show,
which delves into all sorts of shit. But this season, now that I'm very familiar with her work, I'll be watching for Sydney either way. Yeah, you don't want to see some sex spots in a musical like, you know, a goody goodie show. And but you know, Gloria Graham can only take so much shit. Apparently, after a while, she assaulted a couple of co stars, Charlotte Greenwood and Gene Nelson. On separate occasions, she would step on their lines. She was getting back at them, and then she said,
you know what, fuck it, I got young kids. I just got divorced nineteen fifty seven. You know, I'm going to scale my work back and concentrate on my kids. And you ready for this crazy shit. At that point, she went and married her former step son, Tony Ray, who was the son of Nicholas Ray. This happened in nineteen sixty. She was battling her ex Cy Howard for custody of their daughters, and rumors began to go around it.
You know, hey, Gloria, what about that kid used to douce Tony Ray when he was just thirteen, And that really fucked up her reputation and it made her a Hollywood out guest. So she stuck with her family and didn't do a whole hell of a lot. Got back to the big screen eventually, you know, once she went Oscars and you got a name, they'll find you again.
Sometimes you just got to disappear for a while. But she ended up doing movies like Blood and Lace, Mama's Dirty Girls, you know, not the best films, but she was getting work. But her reputation always followed her. And that affair with Tony Ray that was a huge scandal. It'd be a scandal now back in the late sixties, nineteen seventy, sixty nine, seventy terrible. You knoweople around her were aware of it while they worked with her. I guess they kept better secrets back then. Nowadays, that shit
would come out right away. People nowadays have good things to say when they look back in her career. But you know, she began to play little roles just to work. She did you know, Melvin and Howard, you know, big movie in nineteen eighty, a ward worthy movie. She was in that a very small role. Mary stein Bergen at the time, who got an oscar for that movie, couldn't believe that the great glory of grammaruld take such a little role. But that's the way it was back then,
you know. But then the final stages of her crazy relationship with showbiz never got back to her level of fame or glory. You know, no one knows even where her oscars went. Used to be on her mantle, Oscar Oscar, but she got too I believe either way one or two, they don't know where they are. The locations are unknown. Might gone to her ex husband's daughter. People. It's all like a mystery, which is kind of weird. Did she give it to him when they split? That? No one
really knows because everybody's dead. But you know, if you look at the remains of her faded career, at least her personal life began to bloom or blossom. She met Peter Turner, who I mentioned earlier, three decades younger than her. She was in London working on a movie and they have this big old whorldwind romance and it lasted all the way till her dying in nineteen eighty one at just fifty seven years old from cancer related to complications.
Peter Turner went and wrote Their Loves in his memoir called film Stars Don't Die in Liverpool. It's a good movie and the movie really doesn't dwell too much on her misfortunes like I just did, but tells the story of them being happy together before she died, which I guess is good. But bottom line is she really didn't enjoy the Hollywood system. She called it a jungle and she said, I don't want to be one of the
beasts in that jungle. How's that? I love when people can can speak like that from the heart right away. The other the other girl. I want a woman I want to mention who was a badass. Maybe we did a show on her too, and I don't remember. I had to look it up. I said, we did a mysteries. I don't remember this chick, but that's the coming. You do one hundred and seventy two shows, some you just don't remember. This chick's name was Gail Russell. She's got a star on the Walk of Fame. I stood right
on it. You probably never heard of her unless you're a real buff. But this is a chick that died young of just being a crazy ass trunk Girls like the women like this fascinate me because sometimes you run across somebody with the real sad case of you had the world by the bulls and what did you? I mean? I could curse myself at some things I did and didn't do it Like god d you could have made that work, could have made this work, but you know, it is what it is, and it's not a fair business.
You've heard enough examples, You've seen things that go on. But this girl had the world by the balls. Beautiful, young, talented. It reminds me of another Mysteries and Scandal's episode we did, but just a sad case. We did one on Billie Holiday, very famous singer. You guys know her and her story meant a lot to me because my father would play her music when I was little, and then I got a little older and Diana Ross portrayed her in a
movie called Mahogany. Soundtrack was great. My sister Lorraine had the soundtrack play constantly and that's how I learned so many lyrics of Billy Holliday said songs. Yeah, I mean, you gotta listen to songs like Strange Fruit, which is about black people hanging from trees. Oh my man, Oh my man. She just laments the fact that she's in love with a no good, dirty stay out But that's her, man, I mean the lyrics. He's not much on looks, he's no hero out of books, but I love him, Yes,
I love him. Two or three girls has he that he likes as well as me, but I love him killer killer, And she got to oh my god, this is a song called Gloomy Sunday. She didn't write it, she re recorded it. Listen, this is listen that he's a Sunday is gloomy. My eye was a slumberless Dearest, the shadows I live with, our numberless little white flowers will never awaken you, not where the black coat of sorrow has taken you. Angels have no thoughts of ever
returning you. Would they be angry if I thought of joining you. Gloomy Sunday. Oh, it's called the Hungarian suicide song. The guy who wrote it obviously was Hungarian, and there's very many tales about this. Back in nineteen thirty three became linked to suicides. It was banned by radio networks. They said in the thirties, over one hundred suicides to that song in Hungary and America were tabulated, but not quite easy to verify it. But you know, there was famine,
there was poverty, some other economic factors. But listen, man, those songs will get to you. And the guy who composed it, Rezzo Ceris, got a suicide in nineteen sixty eight, thirty five years after writing that song. But Billy Halliday's autobiography and various things I've seen on her say she had many relationships with both men and women, mostly jazz dudes and gangsters. I even heard Sinatra hata, why would you want to put your hand? She looked disgusting to me.
I guess you just want to fuck the talent. I don't know, but she wasn't a looker as far as I'm concerned, but she was interested with women. She had flings with Tallula Bankhead, I mean, not a flame. She was with her for quite a while. They kept it private, obviously, but they would go to the Allah on Azimova's retreat up in Hollywood, I think on the corner of Crescent Heights and Sunset, And like I've said in the past, al
azim of a very famous Russian actress. She bought this property where celebrities could go to and have rooms like a hotel, beautiful pool, they can get meals and nobody would snoop on them. Paparazzi weren't there. So men could have their homosexual relationships, women could have their gay ones, and all you know, heteros could cheat without having an I see them. That's the old Hollywood. It ain't that
way now. But back to Gail Russell. Successful career. But I've been reading about her a lot, and I've watched my episode. Apparently the filming process made her in their nervous and because of the nerves, she began to drink. Sorry. Interesting, I'm sorry I keep putting in, but I saw an interesting video. There was a guy at one of the airports, I'm not sure if it was California, where a big ball of vodka TSA line was taken forever. He opened up with vodka and was giving people shots with plastic
cool cups while they waited online. Nice guy. Nobody stopped them. This is this is what's happening to this country. I can't believe it anyhow serious drinking problem. It got worse and worse, and she dies of the effects of alcoholism at thirty six. We're talking like Amy winehow's kind of shit, you know? And she made some really bad decisions while she was in her addiction. But she was beautiful. She worked with Republic Pictures. He was the most their most
popular actress, or one of the most popular actresses. She was also one of the she's most troubled, beautiful brunette, dark blue eyes. Look at the picture I post a lot of talent, wanted to become a commercial artist. And because she came out when Hetty Lamar was big and gorgeous, she was dubbed the Hetty Lamar of Santa Monica because she was a local girl. Well, she was born in Chicago, but moved here when she was a kid, and they
say that something interesting in her childhood. She was very, very shy, painfully shy, and she would often hide under her parents piano whenever guests came over to the house. Now I would have had it checked out right there from her parents, get into a doctor. The fuck is wrong with this kid. But what she would do down there was pretty cool and it helped her defeat her shyness. Apparently she felt completely comfortable when she was sketching people
and places in her you know, in her life. And she began to draw at the age of five under that piano, and people said her artistry was exceptional. Her sketches, her paintings were beautiful, and that's what she wanted to do. But her mother, when she was in her late teens, her mother, Gladys said, hey, you know what, you should forget the drawing. She was fourteen. Let's take you to the Hollywood. Let's go to Los Angeles. You know, you could pursue your dream of becoming a star. But that was what
the mother wanted. So she goes to Santa Monica High School. As soon as she graduates, she auditions for Paramount Pictures signs a contract with the studio fifty bucks a week. Big money, right, but still very shy. Acting instructors were hired help her come over her timidity. If you will didn't go away. The studios brought in doctors, you name. It couldn't fix her. Then she began to make some movies John Wayne and Her Maid, The Angel and the
bad Man. Now here's where it gets interesting. The Duke specifically requested Gail Russell to play opposite him in this western. I love when actors do that. I mean, when they have the power to say, you know, I'd like to do this movie with Kate Winslet or whatever, Sophia Vergara, anybody who they think they might want to get involved in. Happens happens all the time. She plays opposite the Duke, height of his not the hype, but he's blown up as a big star. And john Way began to like
her because she was quiet, very unassuming personality. He treated her with respect. He was very kind to her, and she didn't know many other leading men like this or producers who treated it that way. So they've got to be good friends. While working on the film, he was very protective of her. Saw how vulnerable she was, how young she was, and people could take advantage of her. He didn't want that for her. So it said he was kind of a father figure to Gail Russell and
she was happy with that. Well, let's just say she saw him as a father figure, maybe as a diff dads I'd like to fuck because they began to get it on. And yes, she was successful in some of those movies, but personal life was shit. She spent a month in a sanitarium having to deal with humiliation and the hurt she experienced from a public divorce. A lot of these actors and ant Belle looked goes see Francis Farmer. So many went to the sanitariums and got you know,
electric shock treatment, all this crazy shit. Different world back then. I just saw Jessica Lang on the Francis Farmer movie. I haven't seen that for years. God, she was so great in that. But gil Russell gets released, goes right back to drinking. Then in fifty three, she's arrested for drunk driving. Two months later, at her hearing, she gets two years probation and the condition is, you have to
stop with these intoxicants. You've got to stay away from places where liquor is sold, and you got to get medical treatment and pay this one hundred and fifty dollars fine. So less than four years after she pledged to set a new course in her life, back in sixty one, she's found dead, lost her battle with alcohol. Her body was discovered by neighbors that staying came by to check guard and they saw mail piling up. They let's go
to Gale's house and see what's going on. Well, they hope they got in and she's on the floor dead next to an empty vodka bottle, but there were many other empties strewn around the home. Vodka that was her poison thirty six years old. But the John Wayne thing was something that may have led to her desire to just drink herself to death because it was a huge scandal. John Wayne had just began a divorce from his second wife, a crazy person named Esperanza Bauer. You can't blame the guy.
Esperanza one time heard that the Duke might have been fucking around with this Gail Russell. She gets nice and drunk and she shoots him. She shot John Wayne. And Wayne called it a very tumultuous relationship, like shaking two votal chemicals in a jar. All right, I haven't done him in years. I really don't do him, but very unstable woman. And the wife blamed Gail Russell for her marriage going to shit. And this is after she took a shot at John Wayne. I said, it's in court.
And that made Gail Russell even, you know, spiral out of control, quicker, as fragile as she was, as shy as she was, you know, just down with spiral into alcoholism. I'm gonna post a picture. She was acutie hie. And so look there's not there were They weren't just crazy. There aren't just crazy people in Hollywood. Now. This is a long tenured kind of thing. We have here. Plenty
of crazy women and crazy men in Hollywood. But nowadays I guess there's just more opportunity to see them talk and post and video, and we see too much of them when back in the day, what did you know about Clark Gable outside that he loved Carol Lombard? What did you know about Montgomery Cliff outside of he had such an attraction to Liz Taylor even though he was bisexual or gay. I mean, we didn't know so many
personal things about the people. We looked at in Hollywood and thought, this is the greatest do we know about Jimmy Stewart's bullshit? Now? It's just it was. They weren't always filmed, videoed, thankfully, they weren't posting about the political beliefs and all that shit. And what we have now
is just a very different Hollywood than we remember. The people that we see at award shows, now we know all about them before well they go up and get their askart, we almost know what they're going to say. As great as the Internet has been and it's brought this world closer and made some things that you would think we were impossible back in the day virtually easy to do, it's also made us so angry at one another and pushed us further apart and it's kind of
equal doses. You may have it that it's a friendly place to be and you've gotten a lot of people you like and whatever, and you might be one of those people who fight all day on the internet and tell people they're wrong. And I've been both. I've loved it on occasion, and I've cursed it on occasion, And lately I cursed it even more. Because I'm in the
news business. I love to read up on pop culture and anything that is involved with Hollywood, and I've never been around the business this long where I virtually know so much about everybody where. When I was a calumnist, there were so many secrets and things I didn't know that I had to go out and find. Now, they just they just give it to you. It's right there in the open. You got people like Shilah buff having these mental breakdowns in three different states, three different two
different countries, three different. I mean, people are losing their fucking minds. It's a different world. But where are we gonna go? What corner can we go to? They say Finland is the happiest place in the world three years running. I believe I don't want to eat fish that gets buried in dirt for a year. I don't want that kind of diet. Not that I'm thinking I'm moving to Finland, but for Christ's sake, you're happy there with the shit you eat. I can't. To me, so much of life
is about eating. So much of life is about food. Food is memory, food is love, food is imagining your family around you again. It's just food is everything. It's memories. It takes you back. I never had a fermented fish that was in a hole in the ground for a fucking year or well, blubber. I don't want that stuff. Okay, all right, that's all for today, crazy show forty two minutes. But I had to get that Christinos husband stuff in balloons down his shirt? Boy, is this story gonna be fine?
I can't wait here, Trump, Look, the guy's got a problem. Okay, he likes balloons, he likes party balloons, but down his shirt, not balloon animals, big titty balloons. How soon do we bet on calshie the Trump will say tits. If he does, that would be completely something to the world will hate. I'll love it. I'll spit my drink out by drink I mean water. Relax, all right, gang, AYJ Benzie, that was your daily unfiltered podcast for April Fool's Day and
nothing I said was a joke. Just imagine this whole show could have been a joke, especially the Christino him husband pop. But now it's all real. So enjoy your day and enjoy the craziness around you. Hom maj Benz will talk tomorrow.
