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lady destroyed the door of my car? Do you think I have any answer chet for these fucking insurance companies? Heart Her insurance company, Geico, actually said to me, well, we're having a problem. What's the problem. We don't think she ever ensured this car under this policy. She had a policy for the all the other car. We're not sure if she just bought this car. So maybe it's in the mail, Maybe that we need to look at the the sales sheet. Whatever. Wait a minute, why is

this an issue? If she didn't have this on her insurance, you guys are gonna pay this. She's gonna pay a lot of money. Well, that's how they're waiting to hear Sarah, how long is it gonna take days? It could be weeks. I'm not riding around in ubers for weeks. I'm not doing it. Let's get this on the road. I call my insurance company. I keep getting the adjuster. There's nothing really be conduments to Benzo until we get the information. I swear nobody wants to work anymore. Do these people

get Goeta? They probably don't a little taste of the amount of money that maybe they are gonna give us to fix the car. Do they get a little taste? If they did, I would understand why they work hard. But if they're just sitting around on have fat asses, fielding calls and waiting for people to call them. I have to find all this out. I have to make these calls. They should be calling me unbelievable, ube believable. But nothing is uh, nothing makes sense in shitsville I'm

reading today. I mean, you know you can't make it up. A guy was found dead after he cut off his own penis on a downtown Los Angeles street. They were identify the guy as Ryan Sutherland, thirty one years old, died from sharp force injuries. Police found himself mutilating near the intersection of Figueroa and Pico. You don't want to be anywhere near those streets, especially downtown. Stethel has ruled

the suicide. He was right by the convention center. Also slashed his own throat just for good measure, then also stabbed himself and tried to no avail to cut off his own arm. Clearly, this man doesn't like living in Shitsville, doesn't like his life right now. Imagine if if he had a car and the door was ripped off it by a un a motorists. I think he wouldn't quite as bad as he does now, but it would certainly

add to his knife skills. Somebody said he took off all his clothes as he was walking towardy seven to eleven. That's a step up because sometimes they show up in the seven eleven naked. So the fact that he didn't make it in and collapsed pete. Police don't know the motivation for hur to. He's fucking nuts. He belongs to the mental hospital, which we have none of. Police don't know. They know. Another day in Shitsfield guy, But don't worry. He can still vote. I'm sure he can still vote.

You don't need ID somebody will votes Ryan Sutherland for every fucking Democrat it's around for the next ten years. Watch remember the name Ryan Sutherland. I'm also there was a story today that I got a comment on you know what's his Name's wife, Lauren Sanchez, the wife of

Amazon's owner, the multi multi billionaire. They're trying to say that years ago she was trying to get with men that had, you know, a big, big career, a big personality, which I completely know because I've told you that when I was going out in the nineties in la Lauren Sanchez was always sexy, always hot, always out. We saw her on TV in the mornings, always looking for a

guy with money. This article says she was obsessed with Bill Clinton back in ninety six, just found him enchanting, couldn't stop staring at him, and people her friends began to call her Monica because this was after the of the Dallians, the Trump Trump that Clinton had with Monica Olinsky, who, by the way, looks really good all these years later. Monica's really good. I mean really good. I think she's like fucking pretty, I do, I don't know, I mean, how to drink of them one night quickly at a

bar just shot the ship for a minute. She was nice for a couple of long and uh you know, she's come out of this thing with flying colors. I believe he looks she looks good, doesn't seem bitter. Her life didn't get didn't get derailed. But Lawrence Enche is always one of the big because I told you there was a restaurant he goes to call the Monkey Bar, which Nicholson on the piece of and some other actors.

Always great, great food, great bar. And uh yeah, I mean i'd see you there with Michael Bolton with the big director what's his name, god, the big director, Michael something, Michael Bay. She was trying to land a big fish. Then she got a football player. Okay, that's a good, good area to land. You got some money there. He's a good successful football player, Tony Gonzalez, great tight end. Okay.

And then what you get rid of him? For Patrick Whitesell, who was became the biggest agent at William Morris then was involved in the sale of that and it's William Morris and they got much bigger William Morris and Devor Patrick's a huge guy in that particular business. Was it enough left him for Jeff Bezos. Bezos has to know she's not leaving him for anybody. Clearly, the girl's chasing money in power. You can't really get more powerful and more money than Jeff Bezos unless she goes some slimy

Saudi prince for I don't think she wants that. But yeah, they're talking about it now, about her her love of older men. Who told you about it first? Me? That's who I said it first, because that's who I knew the girl to be. There's no shame in it. If that's your end game. You want to guy with money, okay, then just you know, let's admit it when it becomes the story. And now it's the story. Let's see how sheually. I don't know what you'll say about it, but that's look,

that's that's I call that. The guy cutting himself shits felt. And what that girl did at the at the bars and restaurants in LA before she land him with Bezos, that is Hollywood. That's big time Hollywood. Everybody's looking at the grass being greener with the other guy, the new guy, the new boyfriend, new husband. It's like they don't even care. I don't know these new relationships get play in the press.

I wouldn't want that shit. If I was in Hollywood and just got divorced, et cetera, I wouldn't want that. Like right away, you know this girl who's gonna marry the Cowboys quarterback Dak Prescott gets labeled somebody that she just wanted his money. She wouldn't sign the contract about the divorce. He wanted to keep a certain amount of money. She wouldn't sign the paperwork. No, he's a serial cheater. He's an NFL stud making over two hundred million dollars.

Of course he's cheating. Of course he if men, if electricians cheated, make ninety thousand a year, you tak a football player, it's not gonna cheat. We all know these guys cheat. She picked up on it. So now she got him in a does he stay able to If he does, he's gonna get more money out of let's settlement one day. That's what the game is out here. And not to notugh enough that you got all these

girls that we can go down the list again. The answer Julina Jolie's The Gwyneth Powell shows Rosanna Arcats, Rose Mcallan's Girls that clearly wanted something from Harvey Weinstein while he was the big shot starmaking producer, and we're willing to go a certain amount with him in order to get that, to be in the big show, to be part of the crowd. I know it's not, you know, really nice to say that the guy's in jail. He's in Rikers, the worst place on earth, in a wheelchair,

very ill with cancer. He's having a hell of a time in there. I know no one wants to pull the violins out and play for him, but I mean to still be at Riker's after all this time. My god, right is they want to shut Ripers down? It's so uh, it's just the worst place on earth. But I remember a few years ago a lot of big stars were, you know, pushing for Rikers to be shut down. But it remains open. Hobby was talking about he did an interview on the phone with a guy named Maya Rashaan

can't stand him, Mike. He really is juwey ju Juju used to be a little prick at New York Magazine, but he rows up the ranks and you know he is who he is now twenty five years later, What have you and that's who Hobvey called, or they set it up, and Hobby says he's been beaten up. You know. He'll go out to make a phone call and somebody was on the phone too long and Harvey said he almost done. The guy punched him in the face, left

him on the ground. He's bleeding. People have come to him for his money, you know, can get can you help my defense fund? Can you help me get a lawyer. He stays in his cell twenty three hours because he's afraid to go out. Not trying, like I said, not trying to make you play the violins, but he is miserab there. And when you're his age, you know, you don't want to have fistfights with young guys who have lived like crazy baskets for years. This is like their third, fourth,

fifth stint in jail. They know exactly what the rules are. They know who to shake down, who to beat up, and you can't tell any of the guards of the ward and who punched you. You got to keep that quiet. That's tough. That's a tough way to live, man. So he's in the cell like twenty three hours a day. He had to sit down with the Hollywood reporter, and Uh admitted that if he was in general population, he

would not last long. And he talked about some of the shit that happened, being left on a floor, bleeding, hurt badly. The cops asked me, who did it. I couldn't say. You can't be a rat. That's the law of the jungle. And you know, he calls rikers hell. Now he's sitting there waiting for a third trial. He's waiting for a retrial for the third time on charges of raping this biring actress inside a hotel in New York. But sometimes I'll go outside and those wheelchair to get

some air. But that's like for a half hour. So the guy's just stuck in a cell. He used to go out with other inmates in the yard, but then he got incessantly nagged, he said, felt like he was under siege. So it's too dangerous for him to be around anyone else. He just sits in the cell and reads reads. He's very ill. He's got a bunch of melodies. He's got chronic Myalloyd leukemia, spinal stenosis, which is why he's in the wheelchair. It's terrible people. But Rashaan asked

him if he's worried about dying in prison. Harvey, he said, it scares the shit out of me. It's cold, it's heartless. It's incredible to have the life that I had and the things that I did for society and not have the leans he to deal with me in a kinder way. Whatever they think I did bad in my life, I didn't get the death penalty, which is even more painful, I believe. He talked about the fact that he doesn't speak to two of his daughters, and he's tried to

connect with them many times. They don't respond. Their mother cut them off radio silence. One wants to prove his innocence. Thinks he can win his family back over. I doubt it. He does speak to three of his kids every day. His oldest daughter is now thirty, and the two kids he had with Georgina Chapman, the model, twelve years old

and fifteen years old. Those two he talks to. And he's got three daughters with his first wife, Eve, who let's face it, I'm the guy who found out he was cheating on Eve with Georgina, and that's why I went to him, because I just bought him. I just paid for a painting for him to have. I felt like he wasn't being treated right and I was out of the gossip game. I was in La, so I had a painting done for him that said Harveywood instead

of Hollywood. And I went to pick it up and the girl and the encounter asked me, who is this form? I said, Oh, it's my buddy. He's a producer in Hollywood. Harvey Weinstein's getting the ship under the stick. I just figured that light in his mood. Really because my girlfriend is dating him? I said, your girlfriend's dating him? Where's your girlfriend? Who is she? Oh? She lives in England, but whenever he's in London they go out all the time.

They stay together. I'm going, holy shit, this guy's married to Eve with three kids. I got the story of the year. I call them right away, Harvey, AJ, what's up? What does some girls selling art in West Hollywood know? You're cheating on your wife with some girl in England. It's bullshit. I'm not It's a lie. Next story, all right? He calls back in ten minutes. Okay, it's true. What do we do. I'm not I'm leaving my wife for I'm gonna separate. I'm gonna le I'm gonna marry this girl.

A ja. We got to do this, right, I said, Okay, all right, that's what I offer to which a lot of people don't understand. I said, your public relations team is going to get a lot of calls if this story about this relationship gets out, and you're gonna have to barter with these writers. And the only way to bother is to give them something of equal value. So you got to supply them with shit. And what I said, I can do that, I can get I still know who to call and how to get big stories. I

can supply your team with gossip every day. If anybody should call and want the Harvey hazard a fair story. You brought it with them. That sounds great. Pay me a lot of money ten grand a month to do that, and I kept it, actually kept it for ten months. No one found out. He said, I think I'm in the clear. Can we can I stop paying al and I jokingly said, no, fuck, you give me twenty more thousand as a joke. So he stopped at eighty grand.

But we kept that under wrapped, and then he did leave his wife for her, but it was also in the middle of the big Disney announcement that they were going to hunk up with mirror masks. He was being looked at really hard. But there were girls back then who wanted to be big time in the movies. They wanted their Oscar nominations, they wanted everything. Those other girls got some of them. It worked out, Jennifer Lawrence perhaps.

Gwyneth Paltrow probably, even though he says that story of Brad Pitt going to him, going to Harvey and telling him, don't ever flirt with my girlfriend again, because Harvey after they signed contracts for a movie, Harvey said how about a massage? And Gwinny said, I don't think so. I don't feel comfortable. And he said, okay, forget it. And Brad went to Harvey and said, don't do that again. Ever. That's my girl, all right, Brad. I get it. Was

that story concocted. Maybe they already fucked. I don't know. But she got a lot of Oscar nominations back then and a win or two. She was on fire. Gwyneth Paltrow, everybody thank Harvey more than God. At the Oscars which are coming up this week, I gotta see this. Timothy Shallaman movie. I gotta see it. That's probably gonna be twenty bucks. Still, I'm gonna have to break down. I started watching a ham knet that actress is gonna win Best Actress without a doubt. Figured her name now, but

she was really good. Anyhow, he's having a tough time and he's reading books. I'm gonna send him my book before you guys say you hate me. I feel like I have to write him a letter. I've been saying it. I talked to his publicist. I feel bad for the guy. I just do I know the way Hollywood works. I know we have overplayed his hand. I know he was probably pushy and seductive. I get it. But a lot of chicks I know how it works in his town. He even admits he shouldn't have gone out with the

people he went out with. I was married to a fantastic woman. I had no idea what I was doing. I lied all the time. I used my staff to hide things, which he did. But I did not ever sexually assault a woman. I never did that. He is adamant about that, even though he was convicted of raping Jessica Man in the first trial back in twenty twenty and forcing oral sex on a former Project Runway PA

Mimi Haley. That got overturned. Now the retrial, he was convinced convicted again on the Haley charge, which carries up twenty five years in prison. Jury couldn't agree on the man situation. It's a mess. If the third trial occurs, man would have to testify we do. This is back in twenty thirteen at a Double Tree hotel. Not the kind of places Harvey stays at. Kind of weird. I wonder if Gavin Newsom's wife is among those people he

corresponds with, you know what I mean. Jennifer Cybel Newsom admitted during the trial that she accused them of sexual assault, that the sexual encounter they had was consentual, transactional sex to advance her career. She said it right there. There were emails that the defense had that she sent to Weinstein after the two thousand and five situation. She testified that she was trying to play the game and maintain a professional relationship with a powerful figure to help her husband.

Imagine fucking the guy that ski him for money for her husband's election his campaign. I mean, yeah, she did. Hobby might have even given it for all I know loves all Democrats. Last meeting we had was aj you got to get Trump, you know him the best, do the long play. I'm I'm not going to take this guy down, but yeah, he wanted me to. They all did. I mean Christ even ex guys that wrote with wanted me. You must have him on tape. Take them down. You're

fucking kidding me. Take them down for the likes of who, for Biden, for Kamala Harris, Give me a break. I love everything that's going on, everything, but listen to me, and I tell you from being out here twenty seven twenty eight years. A good actor or a good actress, a good director, or a celebrity doesn't mean they're good people automatically. I hope you've learned that by now. Don't really look at celebrities and think that's a great person. They are paid to use the words written by people

the likes of me. Writers, good writers. They have nothing to offer basically except fake emotions. Yeah, there are a few who could take your words and make them gold, but most of them need your words to sound at all interesting. I'll come across interesting. So again, that's don't let Hollywood pollute your mind because they're famous. They're full of shit. Speaking of full of shit, I'm looking at this story today. I can't believe this. I mean, I

can't believe it. You know, shar is going to be eighty and she's with this ab Anthony Edwards, this rap producer. You know. I saw a picture of them too at Chastity's wedding. Chastity is marrying a woman, which is a whole different story. I don't even know where to go with this. I thought she was a lesbian many years ago, but then became a man and got a woman. I think it'll be easy for Chats to just stay gay. It's just because I don't know. I guess she has

the surgery. I don't even to think about it. But anyhow, Share Chasley's fifty seven. By the way, Oh my god, time is flying. I don't know why she would throw a lot of surgery if she was gonna end up marrying no woman. Anyway, what's the point. She was such a cute little girl. Remember when she'd come out at the end of the show. At the end of Sunny and Share show, they would hold her up on Sunny's shoulders,

and she said good night. Remember when we all ran in to watch the Sonny and Share a variety show. I remember, variety shows are dead. Back in the day, everybody had one Glenn Campbell, Perry Combo, John Denver, John Davidson's Dean Martin. It was all variety shows. If Share does marry again, because she didn't have a big ring on her left hand, on the ring for Big Diamond. If she does marry again, I wonder if Chas will

be the best man. It's suddenly something we should consider, right, I mean, she is a man after all, you know how that works. By the way, this looks like a great book to dive into. Liza Minelli's memoirs just hit. They're called Kids Wait till you Hear This, which I love that title. But you read some of the excerpts. My god, the fact that her mother, Judy Garland, was jealous of Liza's talent at one point, I forget what

I read. But the producer of some show brought Liza on stage as a surprise while her mother was singing, and Liza continued to sing the duet and Judy did what she did, and as soon as the song was over, she said to the prodict, don't ever bring another bitch on my set. It's her daughter. But she had to deal with the mother who was always high, either high and uppers or down on barbituates. I mean, Judy Garland was basically a wind up toy to the Hollywood studios.

Not to mention how many. I mean just they gave her uppers to work, get up early, go to work, go to the studio, go to the lot. They gave her downers to slow down, and made sure she got some sleep. This went on for her whole career. You hear her at the end of her life trying to sing and she's losing her temper. It's it's just said, said, said, said. And I learned from the book that Liza had this long affair with Martin Scores. As you know. It's funny.

When I met Harvey that day at the at the Hotel four Seasons, and we were talking about how I could help him, and there's this book, there's this story being written about me. It wasn't about rape. It was just a hit piece, that's all he said. I said, well, who do you think he's doing it? I need you to find out who's doing it. It could be near Magazte. It could be the Times. Can you snoop around? I go, yeah, you know, he was gonna pay me a lot of money.

It wasn't about rape. He didn't know. It was a hit piece. That's all he hurt. So I'm like, all right, And he mentioned it could be Marty. It could be the girl the Marty's with, and he's married to a woman that I think he has dementia or Parkinson's or something. And I'm like, what do you mean. He said he got a woman pregnant not too long ago, and she could be a you know, she's not really a fan of mine. I had no he was giving me like such a big story. I've never said it until just now.

But anyhow, Eliza was having an affair with Scuse as they got together because of their love of drugs, their love of cocaine in the seventies, marijuana, Kwai Lud's speed, that's all they did. It got to the point where, you know, the story goes that when he was making some of his movies before Raging Bull, he was in the hospital about to die and Robert de Niro had to really give my hard talk about how I was going to kill himself and he gets out of it.

We got a direct. He's got a direct, raging bull. He didn't want to do that. He was really down on himself, and apparently de Niro had a lot to do with getting him on his feet. But he was famous for getting high. A taxi driver, airplanes coming back with film mechanics is filled with cocaine one time, a plane, private plane film. It just cocaine so he can finish editing a movie. I mean, he was. If you look at his movies, you can see this that they smash

cuts some of the fight scenes. The beatings guy was high. And I know that people will take drugs before they do something creative. Tend to think that's what made me creative. I had a lot of those thoughts too. It's not true. I mean, I know you people say marijuana gets you more creative. I maybe, but if you're smoking a for years, that's all you're relying on. You're not relying on your mind to make you have these ideas. You're not giving your mind a shot. You're opening it up to some

drug and then another drug. We want to think, but no, I remember vividly riding so much at night, high on coke, and the next day looking at it, going oh god, this is all horrible, losing five to six pages. That sounded so great that night before, but in the morning it's fucking awful. Get rid of it and show anybody. So a lot of times that happens more than spitting out words and going, oh my god, it's brilliant. Some things have been written and performed, whether the guy's fucked up.

Of course, not all of it though, but either way. One day she says she's on the street with her husband Jack Well Jack Haley, right, his father played the tin man in The Wizard of Oz, which is kind of funny. Opposite her mother. Scorsese's walking down the street and he sees Eliza and her husband, and he begins to rip her a new ass because she apparently had an affair with the ballet star Mikhail Barishtakov. What she coped to. But he's doing this in front of her husband.

How could you do this to me? Like, imagine being the husband. Who do you get mad at? Scorsese? Eliza Barishtakov, she's fucking around unless he was gay like petere Lland was gay and other guys she dated were gay. But he still hasn't spoken to her. She says sometime in twenty fifteen or so, they met at some award show and she said hi, he turned around and walked away.

So here's my Liza's story. I do have a life story, which I feel very lucky about because you know, she's a big fucking star and uh hey, it pays to be around some of these people. So the story that I have is first I got to start with. I just saw a documentary I think on Netflix or maybe Amazon about the old Horn and Hard Art hr Dart Horn and Hard Art. The Automat in New York City, there was a few of them. The automat was where you went, but we had one right next to the

Daily News. Daily News was two twenty East forty second Street. Automat was two hundred East forty second. Tree was right there. I passed it a bunch of times. I remember hearing about it my grand Mary, my grandparents, my mother. If everybody went to the automat, because all the food was behind a piece of glass, and you put I think a nickel it back in the day, opened the glass door. There's your piece of pie, there's your mass potatoes and gravy,

whatever you want it. And everybody took it to a table at eight and there was no waiters and wakess. You just put money in the machine. It was like, people love the automat and it was an honor to work well, it was an honor to work in that building. The New York Daily News building is an institution. It's where they filmed Superman, the TV show that was the

Daily Planet. Inside that lobby is a great big planet Earth that spins and and on the floor all these mileage amounts of where how far it is to go to Malaysia, to go to you know, Tunisia, to go to Milan as you walk, but that big globe, it's beautiful. It's a beautiful thing to see in a lobby. I always loved going in there, and I loved having the automat right next door. And you know, like I said, just throw some coins in the slot, take out your comfort food, and it just was. It was a great

thing that that lasted past the good old days. Put it that way. So one night, when I was dating downtown Julie Brown, it's hard. It was hard not to be seen when you're with Julie Julie never dated or data dressed on the down low. She would come out with big elephant bell bottom, you know, polka dot jeans that a halt the top, some crazy hat. It was never like she want love being seen and everybody would

shout downtown, you know, downtown to the ground. They'd shout wubbahobhahobba, which was her sign off on the on the on the MTV show, well MTV and the Gossip Show. That was the thing. So it was hard to not be seen with her. So she's had platform boots are just crazy shit and she was just she was a moving

feast of sexuality and funny. She was so funny. And I reminded her of her ex boyfriend because she said, one of the most romantic things you ever did was he went out one he wasn't supposed to go out, and she came to the door really pissed off of him. And she said, he picked me up and put me in the washing machine and said, I can close the door and walk away where you can walk out of this.

Never say a fucking word about it again. And they both thoughted laughing, but they got a long gress that runds you with me, Well, you know you got a tough call. You know you say what you mean? I mean you say when she saw me have a fight the first time we met. So anyhow, we would call each other a lot when I was the first, when I was first at the Daily News, she and I. She was my first friend, my first girlfriend, and so to speak that I told my family I'm going to

be with her. They all laughed at me. I said, I'm you're married. I don't care, it's gonna something all divorce. I'm gonna And all these things came true, So people in my family and my friends began to believe me when I'd say the impossible, I want to be friends with Mickey Up, I'm sure you will. I'm gonna be I'm gonna work for the Daily News. Everything I said came true. Nobody doubted me. So she'd make these phone calls to me at work at the Daily News, and

she called me Ben's that I Ben to man. It was always Bens a man. And I know it's hard to believe, but back then, I didn't shave at the five o'clock shadow. I wore blue sunglasses, and I did for a smission of time resemble George Michael in his Mission of Time. Not that we look alike, but it was sudden about their hair to close the glasses and the stubble whatever. So she faxed me pictures and faxed me that's how long ago, fax me pictures of George

Michael and read Benzaman. So it was we were very flirty, with so much fun. And I called her Clicker because every time we're on the phone, she'd have coll waiting and it was always somebody calling her while she was on a phone me. So I called her Clicker. And not until months later when I began to go to her apartment and stuff. These calls were coming from Mick Jagger, from Michael Irvin and the Dallas Cowboys. Because I remember Julie used to do the field pieces for NFL every Sunday.

She had to be a stars trying to hook her. Even the Giant's greatest player, Lawrence Taylor, was after her. Anthony Mason on the Knicks, big Boys, big men were calling her. So many others I can't remember, but we began to date secretly, and one night we're at the sum spot in Alphabet City, downtown east Side. It was called Flamingo East, drag queens as waitresses, tending bar, very like, you know, a real New York kind of scene. When

drag queens didn't bother me at all. I don't know what they do now, but back then they were just part of their scene. And one night we're trying to eat in the back, trying to hide because Julie was technically still dating her boyfriend who owned restaurants downtown. He was very popular. Charles I forget his last name, owned the coffee shop, owned I think the Iguana. He was big time. I don't know it. Comes Liza Minelli and her friend Billy Stretch, just a gay guy she always

walks around to. He's a jazz penis the singer. He's been a close friend and music director for over twenty five years, right, maybe longer, always in the cabaret scene. And like I said, gay as the day is long. And they seat them next to us, and almost immediately Liza recognized that, and then suddenly we're all They pull our tables together and now we're all dining together. Dinner is over. It's like two o'clock in the morning. We're about to get a care come take come, get to

my car on my town call with Billy. Now we're in a town called her and Billy. Where do we go? Now, what's next? And Julie's like, he's a gossipt now he should know. I said, you know, it's two o'clock, there's some class. Well what we I'm actually I'm hungry. We just ate and Liza's hungry again, and she goes, let's go to the automat. I'm like, you know what, that could be kind of cool. We go to the automat. I'd never been there. I act like I was dare before,

but I'd never been there. And it was fun picking out food behind a glass window. Cheap food and good. It didn't close the nickel. I forget the price, but it was suddenly worth it. It was cool. It turns out that was the last automat to survive, and it closed at the end of nineteen ninety one, So that was the year I was there with Julie and Liza, and like a few weeks after we were there it closed down. And now her driver drops off Billy first,

then Julie. They kind of lived near each other, so at the end it's me and Liijah together in the car. And all I could think about was how many times my father told me to see Cabaret and New York, New York with Robert de Niro, which I love. But Cabaret was so big that summer of seventy four. I wrote about it in my book. It's a crucial moment in my book, the fact that that movie was so popular. And he dressed up my cousin as if he were lies of Manila. Even did it to Jackie, but he

was I'm two years old. We put a little dress on him and makeup and a black wig, and jack came in and said, get that was fucking close off my son. He wouldn't have it. But we did it to my cousin Gino, and he knew the words the Cabaret. It was a big thing in our house. So being with her was everything to me. And my back back then was really bad. This is right before, right after my first operation, which didn't work, and I'm popping perkose that's like pez and I finally go in my pocket.

I always came out with four and a couple of muscle relaxses. I'm my good, I'll go to bed soon. I popped two percocets and a muscler. I think it was a fearin all back then. Oh what a combination. And Lja saw me do it, and she's like, what nothing for me? Just as if she was in a movie. It was like it was a line written for in a script with that Liza face, those lies of lips, you know what I mean? The beauty mark I go no. I gave her two paint pills and she was so happy.

And those times were very weird because I basically had her dead to rights to answer any questions I could have asked her. Would have been a great column. But as it happened more and more in my career, especially with what's his Name's parents who were killed along with OJS Nicole Brown and Ronald Goeman's parents, I had them cornered out a play and the publicists put our seats right behind the airs. I just couldn't pull the trigger.

They'd been through enough shit. I don't need a column to ask parents that are grieving with how they feel. I just couldn't do it. And that's something they said, good good, you got a heart. Don't do it, and we walked out of the theater. But what a thing to be next to Eliza and not say, hey, can I interview you for a story. I didn't want to do it. I just wanted her to be comfortable and have a nice day and nice night. And it would have been a great story because not many journalists have

spent the night with Liza. But I said to her, I said, you know, I just liked the fact that I got to hang out with you and we had fun considering how much I love Cabaret and how much it means to my family, and I told her a story. We laughed and laughed, and it was such a normal kind of a ride. I didn't want to spoil it by peppering up with questions because they all know how to answer questions when they come from a gossip. She's a pro not gonna get shit, and she was genuinely

happy that I decided to be that way. Maybe she wouldn't like this show, but hey, you know, it's been a long time. I mean, at some point a man's gotta talk twenty some odred years, twenty five years, whatever the hell it is. But I love that I got a chance to spend the night with such a big star. And I could see it in her eyes and her how her body relaxed, and I think the gesture was really appreciate it, and I'm happy about that because it's uh,

obviously it's never happened again. I've never been in her company again, although I do remember hearing a great story from Scott Baio who uh oh. I think he was on a he was in a play or something. He was on stage somewhere and Liza Mellie was up front and she's given him the eye, like winking at him while he's performing or whatever he was doing. I forget, you know what. I'm so it might have been. It might be not. I think it was John Stables not.

I'm sorry, I get my boys confused. It was John Stainles. He was performing somewhere, Eliza was sitting up front. A couple of winks, blah blah blah. He goes back to his dressing room and somebody says, Liza and Nelly went to come in. Oh, okay, Sure, she comes in and she begins to sing for him, like she's giving him

a special concert. She just breaks out of the song and then like another song, and he's sitting on the couch and she's doing her Liza thing, Eliza with the Z kind of thing, and I said, what did you do? I fucked her. I couldn't believe. I'm like you did, He goes, I had to How do you how do you get that to end? You just throw it down at you know, that's how it ends. I could have done that. I don't know what I would have done.

That would be a horrifying experience to go through to see Eliza Manelli probably in her fifties now that're in my sixties. Fifties sound young, but still it's Liza slop. Eliza, you're gonna throw that down on the couch. I couldn't. I couldn't do it. That's why stay most is the king. It's got the most stories. If you have a podcast, oh my god, the shit you'd hear. But he'll never do it. He's too much of a good man. Me I kiss him, tell, but no kiss him with Liza.

That's it for today. Gang on aj Benz And that was your daily Unfiltered podcast from March eleventh, twenty twenty six. We'll talk again tomorrow