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Speaker 1: This is a podcast from dou Wor Now more of

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Speaker 1: the Wor Saturday Morning Show and Larry Minty Welcome Back.

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Speaker 2: There's no question that Michael Jackson was a musical genius,

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Speaker 2: but he was also flawed with accusations of pedophilia. So

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Speaker 2: in a biopic, how is that not included? We talked

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Speaker 2: about it with New York Post entertainment critic Johnny Olegzinski. Hey,

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Speaker 2: let's talk about this new Michael Jackson biopic. Of course,

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Speaker 2: of course they have to deal with the scandal, right oenophilia.

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Speaker 3: Or you'd think they would, But there was a there

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Speaker 3: was a great story in variety. So this is this

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Speaker 3: movie is called Michael. It's going to be like Bohemian Rhapsod.

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Speaker 3: He was to Queen. It'll sell lots of tickets. So

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Speaker 3: it's coming out at the end of the month, and

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Speaker 3: they've just revealed that all the scenes that actually deal

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Speaker 3: with who he was as a person, God Forbid in

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Speaker 3: a movie about his life have been cut because the

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Speaker 3: Jackson Estate, the propaganda arm of Michael Jackson's legs see,

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Speaker 3: found out that one of his accusers, there's some like

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Speaker 3: little legallyes that says he can never be included in

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Speaker 3: a movie. So the Jackson estate ponied up fifteen million

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Speaker 3: dollars to reshoot a bunch of it. So now it's

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Speaker 3: just Michael Jackson's a superstar. Here, here's thriller, here's beat it,

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Speaker 3: and it ends with him on top. None of it's

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Speaker 3: ever mentioned, and it don't make a ton of money.

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Speaker 3: I mean, the Broadways a musical that did really well,

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Speaker 3: didn't it. It's still doing well, and I think they're

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Speaker 3: you know, the Jackson estate. I bet when they found

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Speaker 3: this document they were overjoyed because they don't want they

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Speaker 3: don't want this stuff dredged up, and audiences for the

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Speaker 3: most part, are willing to overlook it just to hear

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Speaker 3: songs they'd like. But come on, this guy was a sleazy,

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Speaker 3: alleged pedophile.

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Speaker 2: Has there any been anybody in Hollywood that has seen

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Speaker 2: the film or worked on the film that leaked out

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Speaker 2: what was in it?

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Speaker 3: Yeah? They were apparently at the end it was the

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Speaker 3: actually got into courtroom stuff and allegations in very specific terms,

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Speaker 3: and it was ending. Apparently the last shot or something

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Speaker 3: was that the cops descending on Neverland, and now it's

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Speaker 3: you know, him hopping up at a concert or something.

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Speaker 3: It's entirely different.

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Speaker 1: Ny, I'm only interested in one team. Yeah, did they

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Speaker 1: cut Tito out of thish? I mean long Jackson five member.

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Speaker 1: I've never seen again what happened in Tito. It's like

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Speaker 1: what happened to Batman and Robert? What happened to Robin?

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Speaker 1: What happened in Tito?

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Speaker 3: All all the Jackson, all the Jackson five is in it.

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Speaker 3: Janet is not that, which is a bit conspicuous. So

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Speaker 3: someone made a good joke online. And do we have

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Speaker 3: to wait till the end credits to find out about

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Speaker 3: the Janet Jackson sequel.

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Speaker 4: Hey, is Sydney Sweeney becoming the biggest star in Hollywood? Now?

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Speaker 3: I think she's the biggest star in publications about Hollywood

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Speaker 3: for sure. People people love to see Sidney Sweeney. They

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Speaker 3: don't really want to pay to see what she's in.

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Speaker 3: They don't seem to want to watch what he's in

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Speaker 3: very much, but they unless it's a bikini, they love

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Speaker 3: watching her in those. She's on this So she's on

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Speaker 3: this show Euphoria. That's what made her famous. That's what

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Speaker 3: made is In Dea famous and Jacobal, So all the

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Speaker 3: gen Z stars came out of Euphoria. And season three

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Speaker 3: is about to start and all her reviews are just terrible.

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Speaker 3: They're just terrible.

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Speaker 4: It'll still do great, It'll still do wonderfully.

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Speaker 3: Well because and gen Z loves it. And I think

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Speaker 3: it's because it makes high high school students so now

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Speaker 3: they're you know, forty five or however all the are.

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Speaker 3: But it's just a show about high school students having

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Speaker 3: lots of sex and doing drugs. And then you know,

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Speaker 3: those of us that were in the science fiction club are.

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Speaker 4: Like, what high school was this? I didn't go to

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Speaker 4: this high school.

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Speaker 2: Gooby just asked one last question about Cidy Sweeney, because

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Speaker 2: we've talked about it before and I've heard it talked

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Speaker 2: about elsewhere.

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Speaker 4: Is she going to be the Bond girl?

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Speaker 3: I I really the whole Bond thing. Every day a

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Speaker 3: different Bond rumor. I think I've come on this show

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Speaker 3: and told you with great certainty that five different men

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Speaker 3: would play that part. I think it's going to be

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Speaker 3: announced any day now. I think she has a great chance.

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Speaker 3: If Jeff Bezos is calling the shots, I think he

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Speaker 3: likes Sydney hanging out on the yacht St.

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Speaker 4: Bart's.

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Speaker 1: You know, yeah, let me take you back in the

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Speaker 1: time caps, so slowly I turned step by step Johnny O. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: my wife was all for Toots, all excited about the movie.

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Speaker 4: Cats, big right, Oh my god.

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Speaker 1: Taylor Swift right, not known for her movie appearances. I'm

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Speaker 1: really angry at Taylor Swift. You know, when I ran

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Speaker 1: for ma, I'm the catman, right she she endorsed Tampon,

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Speaker 1: Tim the governor of Minnesota's vice president of Ause.

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Speaker 4: And I didn't get any play whatsoever. But why did

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Speaker 4: that whole cash fail.

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Speaker 1: In a movie that so many people wanted to see?

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Speaker 4: What was wrong with the movie?

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Speaker 1: And now they're sort of bringing back it in a

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Speaker 1: musical form on Broadway.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, so with Cats, the movie which I believe I

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Speaker 3: gave zero stars to at the time, and I like

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Speaker 3: the musical Cats, but when you see the musical Cats,

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Speaker 3: you don't go. I can't wait until they put that

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Speaker 3: on screen. Famously, there they were for any number of things,

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Speaker 3: but they they took away a body part. They they've

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Speaker 3: on the rear end of a cat. They they smoothed

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Speaker 3: it out. So everyone was talking. No one wants to

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Speaker 3: be talking about Dame Judy Dench's you know, and that,

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Speaker 3: So that was what the critics were focusing on it

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Speaker 3: was just a laughing stock, to the point where at

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Speaker 3: the premier Andrew Lloyd Webber, the composer, sort of washed

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Speaker 3: his hands of it and said he had no involvement

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Speaker 3: and has gone on to say that it's an appalling,

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Speaker 3: appalling movie.

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Speaker 4: So that's how bad Cats. It was awful. But there's

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Speaker 4: a new Cat's musical.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, and it's this is so get this and you

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Speaker 3: might be very offended, Curtis, as you said, you're the Catman.

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Speaker 3: So in this version of Cats on Broadway called the

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Speaker 3: Jellical Ball, which is great, the cats are no longer cats,

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Speaker 3: they are people. There are no there are no ears,

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Speaker 3: there are no tails, there is no fur. This version

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Speaker 3: of Cats takes the jellical Ball competition that the cats have.

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Speaker 3: Oh he's so mad.

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Speaker 1: No no, no, no, no no, I'm taking myself back in

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Speaker 1: time the beginning of the Guardian Angels. Luther Van Josh

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Speaker 1: was performing for us in a project in Harlem.

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Speaker 4: Nobody knew who he was. I mean god, he knocked

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Speaker 4: us out in.

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Speaker 1: Advance of a mini ball three Snaps Up. I saw

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Speaker 1: some of the greatest performances of all time from the

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Speaker 1: LGBTQ community. I mean, I had never known that this existed,

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Speaker 1: and apparently this is what we're gonna say.

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Speaker 3: You're very well versed in Cats, thegelical ball, I'm impressing.

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Speaker 4: I'm there up with Larry over here. I have to

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Speaker 4: a b r oh, Larry, you've never been to a

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Speaker 4: mini ball. I've never been to a full ball. So

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Speaker 4: that's what they said.

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Speaker 3: It's it's based on Harlem ballroom culture, which is sort

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Speaker 3: of like like RuPaul's drag race. So it's outfits and

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Speaker 3: attitude and competition, which is what Cats is about. Cats

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Speaker 3: is about cats competing to go to heaven, and this

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Speaker 3: one they compete for a trophy, which is slightly more logical.

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Speaker 3: But it's tons of fun. The crowds are going crazy.

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Speaker 3: It's like a rock concert. It's good stuff. I had

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Speaker 3: a Guardian Angel leader who was in the mini bawl.

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Speaker 4: Wow, how about.

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Speaker 1: That man in the mini bowl?

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Speaker 4: I was not stunned.

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Speaker 1: The rest of the Guardian Angels was and asked, man,

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Speaker 1: his culture is existive?

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Speaker 2: Was it good?

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Speaker 4: It was great? Yeah. Johnny Alexinski, entertainment critic for The

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