Right, prosecutors painting the picture of a chaotic movie set in a criminal trial against rust armor Hannah Gutierans jurors getting a look at outtakes from the Troubled Western, some of which seem publicly for the first time, showing star and co producer Alec Baldwin emerging from a wooden shed firing shots from a pistol. One more, one more, one more? Have I got the Reclright? There we go, Baldwin appearing to rush the crew to reload for another take.
Gutierra is seen quickly approaching grabbing blanks out of our fanny pack. The prosecution's expert witness, a veteran armorer, reacting to the footage. That conduct that we're seeing on the part of mister Baldwin, is that typical conduct from an actor on a movie set. No Joe Scalante live from Hollywood. If by Hollywood you mean Burbank. This is two hours of the business end of show business to do this every Sunday on k e IB eleven fifty on your AM
dial. That is some audio from the ongoing trial right now of Hannah gutierras Reed, who is the armorer on the movie Rust that was produced by and starred Alec Baldwin. As you know, he's been indicted and he's going on trial for the death of the director of photography, Helena Hutchins, and that happens in July, but right now, the armorers on trial. So she is the person that is in charge of all the guns on the set and she is, you know, obviously something went wrong and she's you know,
gonna she's gonna go to jail. So some of the stuff that's coming out is going to affect Alec Baldwin's trial in July. And I don't know, it just gets pretty bad. You know when you listen, when you on paper, you're like, hey, the guy suffered enough. He didn't do it on purpose. Somebody gave him a gun with a live round in it. He's made up with the husband. They're actually working on the completing the
film together, so why not let him go? And then when you look at this, you know, you could just see how a jury might look at this and go, wait a second. This guy is kind of a maniac. And if you see him on TV, you know when he gets in fights with reporters and stuff like that. Yeah, he's got a temper. He doesn't give other people a break, you know, that's for sure. So I think it's going to be problematic for him in this trial. You can see him rushing everybody with guns. Okay, everybody, hurry,
hurry, hurry. I think they're going to make a lot out of that. And if you're a juror and you're saying, okay, well someone's responsible for this, and there's a few people, it can't it doesn't have to be just one. It's not one person. It's the person the armorer who allowed live rounds on this set. I guess we're practicing with live rounds. You never should have done that. A couple of violations that this expert that the state has called an armorer expert. This was only her Gutierras reads for
a second movie, so she's new. They get an experienced guy to come in and look at all this footage and this trial and they're going, yeah, there's a violation. There's a violation, And those are the same things they're going to show at the Alec Baldwin trial. And they show Alec Baldwin like waving the gun around, using it as a pointer, just like, okay, we're gonna do this, We're gonna do that, We're gonna do that. But it's clear that Gutierras read couldn't control Baldwin, and who could
like she was her instructions. After the pointing of the gun around recklessly, she says, everybody, get out of the way of that gun. Everybody get out of the way of that gun, instead of saying, hey, Alec Baldwin, don't point the gun like that, because I imagine if she said that he would fire her. He would just say, who's this,
you know, bitch, That's what I would imagine he would say. And so she wants to keep her job, so diplomatically she says, hey, everybody get out of the way of that guy, because he's going to point it anyway. And you know, so the only thing you can do in a case like that is just say, hey, Alec Baldwin, I'm not gonna rush, I'm not gonna hurry, I'm not going to reload fast.
I'm gonna actually slow down. And this is what their expert says, I'm gonna slow down because this is dangerous and you have to slow down, not speed up when you're doing gun stuff. And then she would be fired and then she's, you know, really can't win in that situation, but she should, that's obviously. I'm sure she would agree that she should have just said what was right and then left after getting fired and then let someone else
deal with it so she can't win. What was pretty powerful in the testimony was the director or the first assistant director. Now that's the person that really is running the set. The first d D. They're saying, you be here, you be there, I need everybody over here. We're going to start now. The clock is ticking, we got daylight, we're losing daylight, all that kind of stuff. That person is it's a little it's unclear to me from the testimony is what that person may have handed Alec Baldwin the
gun, but the armorer should have checked it. And if he's going to hand the gun, he should have checked it. So he already pled to a negligent operating handling with a firearm and he got six months probation. And his name is Hall, and he testified because he said, I just want everybody to know what happened. His testimony was pretty powerful and emotional because that was the last words spoken by Helena Hutchins were to him when he tried.
He was trying to sort out what happened. Let's take let's take a listener. Did you speak to Mss Hutchins when you approached her? I did, What did you say? Are you all right? Did she respond? Yes? She said I can't feel my legs. Powerful stuff from David Hall's the first assistant director of the movie Rust, now that he'll probably come back for the Alec Baldwin trial and all that video video. There's some video of a
like a guy handing a shotgun to a kid, a child actor. There's a lot of shotguns that being mishandled, and I'm sure it's common, but you know, it's things like this that they may be very common, but you have to think about what happens when something goes wrong in a trial. You're gonna only see the bad. The lawyer are gonna find this video, They're gonna see the bad and they're gonna hammer away at it and hammer away
at it and try to get a conviction. Same way in these punk shows that I've been a part of for so many years, when there's so much weird stuff that goes on at punk shows, like the slam pit the stage diving. It all makes sense. It's kind of a controlled chaos until something goes wrong and there's a lawsuit and the insurance companies are getting involved in the lawyers and the plaintiff attorneys. They'll get in a trial and go, okay, what's going on in the dance floor. It looks crazy to people in
a jury. People are running around hitting each other. It looks it just looks like absolutely like you should just stop playing. Say hey, everybody, you got to stop that. It's like a fight. If you saw a fight, you would stop playing. But it looks like a fight. It's just chaos. And then people are jumping off the stage and they're and they're landing on people, innocent people. If a jury sees that video, they
go okay, irresponsible. Now what I've always told guys in bands, don't say on the microphone, all right, great stage dive, or I want to see a big circle pit like Fletcher doesn't pennyways no, no, no, no no. You have to say things like, whatever you do, don't do a stage dive. And the crowd knows you're kidding, but I just say it. Put it on the record, so your lawyer has a chance and say, hey, look, my client said, whatever you do,
don't stage dive. So this case is over because they're gonna find the worst stuff and everybody's going to be shocked by it, and juries aren't people who know what's normal at a concert or know what's normal on a set. They're just gonna look at it and go, this is chaos. A lot of guns. Someone died. Who's in charge? Oh, Alec Baldwin. He's a blowhard guilty, so I think he's got a problem here. Let's take a break and check out more celebrities behaving badly on Joe Scolante Live from
Hollywood. P Diddy Up next, Joe Escalante Live from Hollywood. By Hollywood, you need burd bank and we're going to talk about some more celebrities behaving badly. P Diddy. Did you think P Diddy was my guest that was coming back after the break? No? No, P Didty is just another defendant in the never ending lawsuits for sexual harassment, et cetera. But first, let's go to the movies. Saw a movie for you so you don't have to Let's see the number one movies, number one movie in the in
the country right now, you know what it is? Wow Dune Part two eighty one million dollars for the weekend. Huge numbers. Also the pretty much the exact number that was predicted. People are saying it it's going to do eighty million. It does eighty one million. Five. It's interesting how these people can predict these things. Bob Marley number two seven million. It's drop off there, but still successful film eighty two million gross are totally a total
at the box office. Number three Ordinary Angels for Madam Webb. Number five epos TV episodes of the Chosen What it's the power of the religious movie Migration number six, everybody loves It? Demon Slayer the anime cartoon. Number seven. Wonka just unbelievable. Still in the top ten. Can you believe that so popular? The Wonka experience in Scotland is getting a lot of attention. We'll talk about that later. Our guy all number nine. The Beekeepers still
hanging around in number ten. It's incredible, you know it's not in the number ten. A bunch of Oscar nominees. See any Oscar nominees in there? I didn't Poor Things is number fourteen could win Best Picture? What else were the Oscar nominees. They're just holdovers way down there pulling in a big eighty five thousand. This weekend, Oppenheimer pulled in one hundred thousand. But I mean, what theater is showing Oppenheimer? So what did I see?
I saw the number one movie, you know me. I'm in nothing but hits number one, Dune Part two, starring Timothy Shallowy and the uh Florence Pew. Yeah, Florence Pew is in it. So I was there, and I would say is as far as as far as long boring space movies go, it is probably the best one I've ever seen. So I recommend it's gotta be gotta follow along, gotta pay attentions, all kinds of stuff
going on. Then you're gonna want to go back to see Dune one because you didn't understand that and you fell asleep three times in Dune Part two. I got my sleep out of the way, Like after about the first ten minutes, I fell asleep, and then I woke up, and I was up for the rest of the of the movie, except for when I went to get my pizza. I missed a little bit there, not much, but what an epic Every second of It is just a production miracle. How
this stuff is made and how it's done what a hassle. I look at it and go like, oh, I don't have the energy to do any of that. So that's why it's number one. And but a little bit too much. Timothy Challame, He's everywhere. Turn on the TV. You know. I think Timothy Shalomy might be my wife's Florence Pugh because every time I turn, every time I watch her TV, I see her watching TV. So Timothy schallomey there he is. Okay, what's the most anticipating movies
coming up? Godzilla X Kong. How do you say that one? Do you have any idea? My wife says, it's Godzilla times cong Okay, the New Empire we just saw. I just had a Godzilla movie and I thought it was good. I don't really need another one so soon. I'd rather watch that other one again. It was so good. Kung Fu Panda four people are excited about Ghostbusters, Frozen Empire looks really good actually, and
Cabrini. This is a religious movie about a saint and a nun that did amazing things here in the United States, and she is coming to your town. This week, and this movie is gonna make some money. I'll tell you that. I already have my tickets to see it at the Bellata on Thursday night. It's gonna make some money. Most of these movies are kind of like Protestant movies that the religious movies that come out. But this one's
Catholic and through and through it's a Catholic story. And we'll see how the Catholic's fare at the box office this week. And what else we got. I saw I saw a trailer for the Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare when I was at the theater this weekend. It looked pretty good. You know, have you seen it? Have you heard about it? Guy Ritchie movie and just looks good. Who's in it? Well, Henry cavill Elsa Gonzalez, Alan Richson. What with these people? Anyway? It looks good. Let's go
to P Didty? What did he do? Oh my gosh, P Diddy sexually harassing man? I mean, is that embarrassing? I guess I don't know. I don't know what P Didty's sexuality is. But what if he's like I mean a lot of people like him are very homophobic. So this guy comes out and says P Diddy's sexually harassing me, grooming me for sexual activity, forcing me to lie about violence and violent things that have happened. He worked for him from September for about a year twenty twenty two to twenty
twenty three. Said he was what's the guy's name, Rodney lil Rod Jones said he was drugged, exposed to illegal activities, coerced into lying to law enforcement to cover up violent incidents and allegations involving other celebrities, and an account of being groomed for sexual exploitation. Lil Rod alleges that P Diddy displayed a pattern of reckless behavior, including flaunting firearms and admitting to pass that act of violence a big deal. He's gangster. You can't handle that. I mean,
the other stuff sounds bad if it's true. He also names like other people like big people. Lucian Grange, the head of Universal, the biggest music company in the world. He names him in the suit, and P Diddy's son Justin, and former Motile record Motown Records Ceo Ethiopia Habitimaria, Ethiopia. That's a name you can use. P Diddy has a lot of cases against him. Last year, he had to step down from a company called
Revolt TV amid ongoing sexual lawsuits. Sexual yeah, sexual assault lawsuits, accused of savagely beating and raping his ex girlfriend. You know, anyways, it's weird, and it's kind of weird, and it's not weird. But is that guy toast Kanye? He doesn't get accused of stuff like that. He just like gets accused of hating Jews. So I don't know, Kanye is still around, He's still making records, He's still I mean, I haven't seen him in my feed of live concerts coming near me, but I don't
think he's on my list. But very interesting, Russell Simmons, All these guys, I don't know. It's gangsters, gangsters, thugs and smugglers are thoroughly respected. Let's take a break and we come back. More people that are really behaving very badly, including Oprah Winfree. That's American Royalty and including actual royalty, Prince Harry and Megan Markle Joe Sclante, Live from Hollywood by Hollywood, you mean Burbank. This is two hours of the business, end
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where other people do? All right, who's being bad? Oprah Winfrey's being bad? What did Oprah Winfrey do? I'll tell you what she did. You know she works for weight Watchers, right, Well, then she's got a contract with weight Watchers. The contract says you can only use weight Watchers. You can't use you can't lose weight some other way because you'll be in trouble and then you're in breach of your agreement and they pay them a bunch
of money. How much money do you think they pay Oprah Winfrey? Well, I don't know. One hundred million dollars. I wouldn't be surprised. So when it was discovered that she was using some weight loss drug, oh, who hit the fan? Now she has to leave the Weight Watchers board after disclosing the use of the weight loss medication. What is it? Ozempic? What do people use? Go lo? Is that medicine? I just see the commercials? What do I do to lose weight? I'll tell you
what I do. A couple of things. I do intermitted fasting. So I'm only eating from like twelve to eight. It's easy. I do. Don't eat any dangerous seed oils. According to my doctor. Now we're getting into medical advice. Wow, okay, but you asked me, so I'm gonna tell you. The dangerous seed oils are things like canola oil. Here's the only oils you can have in your food if you're following my doctor's advice. Can have olive oil, you can have coconut oil, and you can
have lard. And it's about it. Yeah, olive oil, coconut oil, lard, avocado oil. You can have attle caught oil. You can't have oils that are made out of seeds, can't have canola oil, you can't have palm oil. So anyway, so I got rid of all that and it definitely changed things for me. But I don't you know, Oprah's always been giant. She's got all the money in the world. She's giant.
How does she have trouble? Why doesn't she just have like this, you know, personal trainer, hypnosis and you know, hit the gym? Does I mean, what does she have to do? She can hit the gym. She's Oprah Winfrey. She do whatever she wants every day. So I don't understand it. But obviously it's a disorder, and she's very dedicated to the fighting of this disorder. So she says she will continue to to help fight that's what she calls it, the weight loss disorder or weight gaining
disorder. Here's what a contracts said, because there's a legal show. I guess the contract says Winfrey will not grant anyone but the company the right use her name, image, likeness, or endorsement for or in connection with any other weight loss or weight management programs during the strategic term. Now, she didn't do that. She didn't lend her name to this medicine that she took.
However, she violated the second part of that sentence, which is, and she will not engage in any other weight loss or weight management business, program, products, or services during the strategic term and for one year after so she was using some bills. Why didn't she just use weight Watchers. It's not a good look, right. If weight Watchers works, which it does, then she should use it. Do you have to use something else? Or so she's resigned for the board. Do you think she liked being
on that board anyway? Probably not. So this is gonna oh shed and all the money she has made, or not the money she's made, but the shares she owns. She's getting rid of her shares and she's donating to the National Museum of African American History and Culture. Sure I don't know where that is. Oh wait, it's on the second floor of her house. That's that Part's not true. Okay, of course it's being bad. I told her. There's a lot of them. There's this Andy Cohen guy.
Do you even know this Andy Cohen guy? I would say a lot of my listeners probably don't know who Andy Cohen is. He's the guy that's like a it's like a radio TV host. He was a television executive. But he was so flamboyant and gay that they thought, man, you are just so gay, you should be on TV and you should be hosting the recaps for the Housewives shows, and you should be hosting game shows, and you
should be doing this and that. But what he's not supposed to be doing is doing a lot of cocaine and telling his employees on the shows that they should have sex in front of him or watch him have sex or whatever. It's stuff like that he's been accused of. And then what else you do. He does cocaine with some people and gives them favorable treatment. That's one of these allegations said you have to do cocaine with him to get something good
on the drug related favoritism we're calling this. So someone just sued him, named Liam McSweeney and she's forty one years old and she just filed this on Tuesday. There's all kinds of other lawsuits being filed against the guy too. He's kind of like the p Diddy of reality TV. The lawsuit says he engaged in cocaine use with housewives and other Bravo celebrities who are called Bravo celebrities that he employs, and he rewards housewives with whom he uses cocaine with more
favorable treatment and edits so they got more screen time. Yeah, so the lawyers for Andy Cohen say this is ridiculous and outrageous and the only reason this lawsuit exists is because she was denied participation. McSweeney was on some Housewives of New York thing, and then she was on something called Ultimate Girls Trip, and then she was in talks about returning to the franchise on a thing called Real Housewives of New York Legacy, which filmed after that and aired in twenty
twenty three. But she's ultimately not cast in that show because the production decided she was not a Legacy cast member because she only joined in season twelve. And the source for this article says that if she was cast in Legacy like she wanted, this would not be happening. She'd be doing cocaine with Andy Cohen and getting some good screen time. I made that part up, Okay. So she also claims this is like a constant thing going on in these
shows that are stupid. Why am I talking about them? I don't know. But it's interesting because she is complaining about she's has struggles with alcohol, but they want her to drink on the show and they won't drive her to alcoholics anonymous meetings like like was agreed in her deal, and so they just want her to be drunk and to get good ratings. And you know that's something are these are Are they encouraging these drunks to be more drunk so they
get better ratings and better TV? I hope not. They shouldn't. I mean that would that would be the day that I would quit that show. But some people say that's all they do. But to me, that's where you cross the line, and that is quite immortal. So this other star suing, Andy Cohen says that he bragged about how he'd like to sleep with another Bravo star and he was thinking about her and invited Glanville to watch over FaceTime. Yeah, I don't know, it's just just what goes on over
there, is it true? We don't know. But man, are they fighting and just you know, suing each other back and forth. So it's the last time I'll bring it up. How's that? I promise, But when we come back, I will talk about Prince Harry and Megan Markle, which is easy just as gross. So my apologies in advance. Joe Scalante Live from Hollywood, Joe ask coming on, Oh we are back. Joe Life from Hollywood, the business end of show business. Well, I forgot.
I saw a couple more movies. I rounded out the top ten or the ten Oscar nominees, so I've seen them all now. This week I saw Anatomy of a Fall from a French director, Justine Triett. She's done a lot of films in France. She's one of only the third woman to be nominated for a Palm d'ur at the Camp Film Festival. And this is a movie that's in English and French, a little German, and it is h It's a woman is suspected of her husband's murder and their blind son faces
a moral dilemma as the soul witness. Right, it's pretty hitchcock asque, but it's Let me read my review from letterbox. I saw it, I rented it. I ret Yeah, this one you have to rent. You can see it, you can see it right now, but you got to rent it on Apple or whoever else you can rent movies. I called it a clever, high brow film in English, French and German about a couple who are too smart to know how to love or raise a child. I'm glad I'm not this smart. It didn't turn out well for anyone. It's
a little spoiler. Livert. Yeah, you know, this is one of those movies where it's hard for me as a Catholic to you know, I have to suspend disbelief like all these movies that have these dilemmas. I mean, there's so many of these movies have these big problems they're trying to solve where just being a Catholic would would solve them, And so I have a hard time relating. I go, well, you guys have all these problems with this couple. Wann't you go to confession and why don't you talk to
your priest and move on with it? And you got this kid here, put them in Catechism, just move on. There's other things to worry about then this petty fighting that you're doing. But I guess it would ruin a
lot of drama. So it's kind of like cell phones can ruin stories, and so just try to plant your story in a world where there's no cell phones, like a you know, a late nineteen eighties or something that happened a lot with my murder show that I wrote for called True Nightmares for Discovery I d we had to set everything in a world with no cell phoness, not too old to where it's expensive period costumes, but not too new because
if you had cell phones, then this mystery wouldn't make sense. So that's but, madam, do I recommend Anatomy of a Fall? Yes, I do. You know. It's a good movie. I give it four stars now, but you know I'm glad I'm not them. Another one I saw is that you can see on Showtime right now, is called Past Lives.
This is directed by another female named Selene Song. She's a Korean. I think she lives in the United States and maybe it was from Canada, but she directs a lot of plays and this is her first feature and it's already nominated for Best Picture, so wow, she's sitting the ground running. My review for that was I called it a simple but modern love story about former childhood sweethearts in Korea. But I did love it, and I would tell you when I just lost it at some point in this movie, but that
would be a spoiler, so I'm not going to tell you. But it's you know what, It's a great movie, and it is free if you have Showtime, and if you have Paramount Plus, you have showtime, So I think I would definitely recommend this. I gave it four out of five stars on my letter boxed and it's one of those movies that it just might kind of watch over and over again. If you want to be sad or kind of like when you kind of like when you listen to sad country music,
you want to be sad, watch this movie. It's not that sad. It's not like it's just, you know, a little bit charming, interesting, and then it's it's hard but maybe silly. Okay, Done Too, I saw that we already talked about that Dune Too. Everything in Done Too is like really silly. The stuff they're wearing is silly, the stuff they're talking about is silly. But if you spend enough money on something, it's not silly anymore because what are you guys doing? What'd you just say?
That's silly? It's all silly. What are you wearing? What are you guys all doing? Oh? But then they spend a gazillion dollars on the battle scene and you're like, ah, this is awesome. Bringing on. So I've seen all the movies for the Academy Awards. Let's go recap them. We have the two that I just saw, Past Lives and Anatomy of a Fall, American Fiction, Barbie, The Holdovers, Killers of the Flower Moon, Maestro, Oppenheimer, and Poor Things, and Zone of Interest.
Out of all these movies, my number one. Zone of Interest number two, Oppenheimer number three, Barbie number four, Past Lives number five, Anatomy of a Fall number six, The Holdovers number seven, Poor Things number eight, American Fiction number nine, Maestro number ten, Killers of the Flower Moon. How's that? I watched Killers of the Flower Moon again, and as you may have remembered, I did not like it. I walked out of the movie. But now that I've seen it again, I can't remember
like when I walked out or why it was so important to me. So anyway, maybe I misjudged it. I like it a little better now. But the Zone of Interest definitely definitely the best. It's the cleverest. It's like, hey man, we're lucky someone made a movie about this. This is a really weird world. Maybe there's some other movies that should have been on this list that I saw, and we'll talk about that next week. Right now, I want to talk about what's going on at the willy Wonka
experience, the immersive musement park thing in Scotland. Evidently it was so bad people called the police. That's how bad it was. This is a ripoff. I've been ripped off. I'm calling the cops and that's what happened. I guess that happens in Scotland. Can't really do that here. It's a civil matter. Okay, this was so bad it was criminal. It was
just like, hey, you're gonna be in a willy Wonka. There's gonna be a lot of giant willy Wonka things, props, You're gonna be immersed in a willy Wonka, you know, chocolate world, And there was like no chocolate there. Everybody got two jelly beans and it was just really sad. So you can see some video of it on my Instagram now my Instagram facebook page Joe Ascalante Live from Hollywood Facebook page. But I just think it's funny in Scotland if like someone got so ripped off. They felt so ripped
off by this thing. It's got, you know, it's an amusement park experience kind of thing in a warehouse. They called the police. They got the police involved. Scotland Yard or someone like that or someplace like that. Anyway, let's leave it right there, and I'll leave you with just a taste of the greatest song ever written. Don't forget to get your tickets for the No Values Festival on June eighth with the Vandals and the Misfits and Sublime,
Social Distortion and others. And the Vandals will be playing at the Punk Rock Museum in Las Vegas on March thirty first, And I'll be doing some tours, maybe one of them will be for you.