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  • ‘Comeback King’ Kevin Spacey – Actor Seeks To “Leave The Nonsense Behind”

    ‘Comeback King’ Kevin Spacey – Actor Seeks To “Leave The Nonsense Behind”

    As Kevin Spacey’s eccentric ‘friend’ Geoffrey Mark claims the “exonerated” actor will now “leave the nonsense behind” and begin his comeback, we remind of his friendships with ‘curious sorts’ including Prince Andrew, Jeffrey Epstein, Ghislaine Maxwell and Harvey Weinstein

    A ‘friend’ of Kevin Spacey, Geoffrey Mark, has declared that the Academy Award winning actor and ‘friend’ of the jailed sex offender Ghislaine Maxwell “was always innocent, and just preferred enjoying a bachelor’s lifestyle rather than an abuser’s.”

     

    Asked further about Spacey being “exonerated recently in a London court” at an event for the Hollywood Museum, self-professed “walking encyclopedia of show business history” Mr Mark replied:

     

    “Yeah… It’s very rare, in or out of showbusiness, when someone has a very strong opinion about something, that one is shown to be absolutely correct.”

     

    “I’ve known Kevin for many years. I knew he was innocent. I knew why these charges were being brought. I understood how wrong the whole thing was. We’ve discussed that off camera. I am thrilled to discuss it on camera.”

     

    “Kevin Spacey is one of the most talented human beings on the planet and he needs to get his career back because we’re missing out on all the wonderful, wonderful, wonderful performances that he’s still got left in him.”

     

    “So, let’s leave all this, erm, nonsense behind. Let’s celebrate Kevin Spacey. He’s my buddy. I do.”

     

    “[Kevin’s] a brilliant conversationalist and yes, erm, he does like younger men. Men. Yeah, they’ve been times he’s shown up with a blonde or a brunette on his shoulders, but they were grown folks who were intelligent, brilliant conversationalists.”

     

    “Kevin has given so much to charity that people don’t even know about. That’s the guy I know; this charity loving, charity giving bon vivant, raconteur who is more talented and more attractive than even he realises and I just feel blessed… I just feel blessed. It’s so good to be just a little part of his life.”

     

    “Was it fair the way he was treated? I think yes and no. An allegation is an allegation. I don’t think someone should lose their livelihood over an allegation. On the other hand, all of us who sign contracts have moral clauses in them. Alienating a good part of your audience is a money loser.”

     

    “I think it happened too quickly. I think it happened too much, but I don’t think it is unfair because there are folks out there who are guilty of these things. We can’t just look the other way about paedophilia. We can’t just say: ‘Kevin wasn’t guilty, so therefore nobody else is’ as no, unfortunately, a lot of people are. Just not him and sometimes we have to air on the side of children and say, well, erm, ‘I take it on the chin because you gotta [sic] keep the kids’ welfare the most important thing.”

     

    “I think if the scandal were about anything else, I would say he was terribly and unfairly treated. Only because the subject was children, you’ve got a take a stab and say: ‘This is unfair, but in a way it’s understandable’ and I am thrilled that he has been exonerated. That’s fair.”

     

    Turning to “what’s next for Spacey,” the decidedly eccentric Grammy Award nominee Mr Mark warbled on and opined:

     

    “I think it’s all going to all be about the money. If Kevin comes up with something that looks like it’s going to make studios money, they’re going to forgive him and if Kevin can’t come up with that, then they’re going to use these false accusations as an excuse.”

     

    “So, it all depends on what he comes up with next and what happens in this country politically because unfortunately even outrage like this comes and goes in fads and we’ll have to see who really screws up to get headlines to see how much forgiveness Kevin gets.”

     

    “I’m sure he is asking himself exactly that. ‘What is next? What will people accept from me?’ He lost so much, he’s going to have to rebuild.”

     

    “Even though it was never his fault, he should never have had to go through this. He’s going to have to rebuild and in doing so, my opinion is he’s going to go in a direction we hadn’t considered before. He’s going to do something new and creative because that’s who Kevin is and we’re gonna [sic] see a whole new creative side to him come out. And I’m gonna [sic] say that of course and most folks are gonna [sic] say: ‘Wow, I never knew.’ There’s a lot more coming; there’s a lot more coming and I’m thrilled to see it.”

     

    Spacey was exonerated of nine sexual offence charges relating to four men between 2001 and 2013 by a jury at Southwark Crown Court in July. A claim by Star Trek actor Anthony Rapp that he was sexual assaulted by the former House of Cards star when Rapp was only 14 was also previously dismissed whilst allegations concerning 15 other individuals have continued to “tarnish” his reputation.

     

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    Pictured top – Kevin Spacey at Buckingham Palace with convicted sex offending mucky madam Ghislaine Maxwell in 2001. The pair were guests of he who paid £12 million to a woman he claimed never to met, Prince Andrew.

     

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    Whilst leaping to the defence of his chum Kevin Spacey, Geoffrey Mark (pictured) conveniently forgot to mention the actor’s involvement with disgraced individuals including Prince Andrew, Bill Clinton, Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell.
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    Friendships most curious definitely abound for the South Orange, New Jersey born 63-year-old actor Kevin Spacey. Amongst them Peter Mandelson – a most curious sidekick of his fellow mucker, the since deservedly croaked ‘Paedo Island’ owning Jeffrey Epstein.
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    From Presidents… With alleged, erm, guilty of, erm, many things President Bill Clinton and with the temper tantrum prone model Naomi Campbell and the temper tantrum prone crooner Sir Elton John.
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    To Princes… With alleged sex pest Prince Andrew.
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    To Prime Ministers… With alleged war criminal Sir Tony Blair.
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    To paedophiles… With convicted sex offender Harvey Weinstein.
  • Not Quite The Full Ticket – Disgraceful Omid Scobie And Disgraceful Duke & Duchess of Sussex Strike Again

    Not Quite The Full Ticket – Disgraceful Omid Scobie And Disgraceful Duke & Duchess of Sussex Strike Again

    As a ticket package to a dinner with the Duchess of Sussex is laughably peddled for £795,000, Matthew Steeples reminds the much loathed ‘MeGain’s’ PR peddler Omid Scobie that “recollections may vary” as he heads to court to support Prince Harry

    “Recollections may vary” was the late Queen Elizabeth II’s deservedly punchy response to the ongoing insults piled on her family by the Duke and Duchess of Sussex in March 2021 after the commencement of the couple’s train wreck ‘interview tour’ with the likes of Netflix and Oprah Winfrey.

     

    Now, with the pomp and ceremony of the coronation over, Prince Harry is again causing trouble by forming part of a group action against Mirror Group News (MGN) at the High Court in London. Meanwhile, back in America, his whack job wife is back being ‘me-me-me-and-a-little-more-me’ and ‘doing the circuit’ of awards galas later this month in New York and Beverly Hills, California.

     

    Laughably, guests at the Ms. Foundation Women ceremony – where the meddling menace formerly known as Meghan Markle will be awarded the ‘Woman of Vision’ award on 23rd May – are being touted tickets for astounding sums of upto £795,000 for a ‘lead’ package that includes 24 tickets. The cheapest offering comes in at £20,000 and includes hospitality for 10 guests.

     

    In Beverly Hills, however, the event where the dastardly duchess will receive a digital media national winner award for her Spotify podcast Archetypes, is illustrative that Californians are tiring of this moaning Minnie. So-called ‘Sussex Squaddies’ will be able to nab a seat for ‘just’ £397.

     

    Returning to the Prince Harry v Mirror Group News case, predictably Finding Freedom ‘co-author’ and guffawing gossip Omid Scobie has yet again stuck in his sticky fingers. Very much like Prince Andrew, who very distinctly remembered going to a Pizza Express on the night in 2001 when the then Virginia Roberts Giuffre claimed she was with the non-sweater, Scobie is now behaving as if he has “one of the great memories of all time” in Donald Trump-like fashion.

     

    Offering, as ever, his undying support to the domineering duke and duchess, the little read YahooNewUK ‘executive editor (royals)’ has curiously not shared anything other than retweets since 8th May, but has submitted evidence in support of Prince Harry’s accusations in the case.

     

    According to Newsweek’s Jack Royston: “[Scobie] approached Harry’s lawyer offering evidence. It allegedly tied [Piers] Morgan to illegal acts at his newspaper, [the Mirror].”

     

    The filing reads:

     

    “As a journalism student [Scobie] spent a week at the showbiz desk of the Sunday People [another MGN title]. He was given a list of mobile telephone [cellphone] numbers and a verbal description of how to listen to voicemails, as if it were a routine newsgathering technique.”

     

    “In April/May 2002, he did additional work experience on the Daily Mirror’s 3AM column. He recalls during one of those days in the office the editor, Piers Morgan, came over to talk to someone about a story relating to Kylie Minogue and her [then] boyfriend James Gooding.”

     

    “Mr Morgan asked how confident they were in the reporting, and was told that the information had come from voicemails. After informing the claimants [Prince Harry and others who are suing] about this information, Mr Scobie found an article online dated 11th May 2002 which appears to relate to that discussion.”

     

    Going further, Royston added: “Scobie told the court he did not carry out the request to hack phones at the Sunday People viewing the practice as ‘immoral.’” He failed, however, to mention that in November 2021, the Duchess of Sussex was forced to apologise to the Appeal Court in London for making a misleading statement about her involvement with Finding Freedom in her another privacy case against The Mail on Sunday’s publishers.

     

    The truth is no doubt stranger than fiction, but in the case of the anything-but-selfless Scobie: “Recollections may vary, recollections may indeed vary.”

     

    Editor’s Note – Unlike as is the case in many publications, this article was NOT sponsored or supported by a third-party. Follow Matthew Steeples on Twitter at @M_Steeples.

     

    This morning on Twitter, Matthew Steeples asked: “What is to be made of PR peddling pillock Omid Scobie’s allegations that he supposedly overheard Piers Morgan talking about a story gained via phone hacking whilst on work experience at ‘The Mirror’ some 21 years ago?” By 11:30am on Thursday 11th May 2023, the very clear majority of respondents had voted in favour of the option: “He’s telling porky pies.”

    The Forthcoming Known Diary Dates Of The Not-So-Private ‘Privacy Seeking’ Duke & Duchess Of Sussex

    10th May onwards for 6 to 7 weeks – The Duke of Sussex v Mirror Group Newspapers lawsuit at the High Court in London. The Honourable Mr Justice Fancourt is the presiding judge in the case.

     

    Prince Harry will be cross-examined over the allegations and will be the first senior royal to appear in court since his aunt, Princess Anne, appeared and was found guilty in November 2002 after her English bull terrier dog, Dotty, bit two children in Windsor Great Park in April that year.

     

    The prince forms part of a group litigation and amongst others bringing the action are the former Girls Aloud ‘star’ Cheryl Cole, the Coronation Street actor Michael Le Vell, the estate of the late singer George Michael, the model Paul Sculfor, the actor Ricky Tomlinson and the television presenter Ian Wright.

     

    Prince Harry is represented by David Sherborne QC, whose previous clients have included ex-Prime Minister Tony Blair and his wife Cherie, actor Johnny Depp, actress Sienna Miller, model Kate Moss, ‘Wagatha Christie’ Coleen Rooney and the somewhat reclusive businessman James Stunt.

     

    16th May – ‘MeGain’ to be awarded ‘Woman of Vision’ award at the Ziegfeld Ballroom at 141 West 54th Street in New York by the Ms. Foundation for Women.

     

    Amongst those organising the event is the New York magazine journalist Gloria Steinem. Astoundingly, a package of two tables (24 seats) is offered for the sum of £795,000 ($1 million, €915,000 or درهم3.7 million); whether that includes an audience with the former Suits actress is unknown but those opting for this do get 2 Twitter posts about them or their company as a ‘Brucie bonus.’

     

    Also on 16th May – Fifth ‘wedding’ anniversary of the Duke and Duchess of Sussex – if you believe the former Meghan Markle’s statement to Oprah Winfrey in March 2021 that: “Three days before our wedding, we got married. No one knows that. But we called the archbishop, and we just said, ‘Look, this thing, this spectacle is for the world, but we want our union between us.’ So, like, the vows that we have framed in our room are just the two of us in our backyard with the Archbishop of Canterbury.”

     

    Justin Welby, the Archbishop of Canterbury, later called out this as utter baloney stating the only valid marriage occurred on 19th May 2018.

     

    19th May – Fifth wedding anniversary of the Duke and Duchess of Sussex.

     

    23rd May – ‘MeGain’ to be awarded a digital media national winner award for her Spotify podcast Archetypes at the 48th annual Alliance for Women in Media awards at the Beverly Wilshire hotel in Beverly Hills, California.

     

    Tickets to this event are far cheaper and start at just £397 ($500, €458 or درهم1,836) – clearly the good people of Beverly Hills aren’t willing to pay as much to have a knees-up with the bestie of Sir Elton John and his titleless hubby David Furnish.

     

    Twitter reacts to Matthew Steeples’ poll and Omid Scobie’s audacious antics…

  • UnAppealing Ghislaine – Will Wicked Wench Ghislaine Maxwell Succeed At Appeal?

    UnAppealing Ghislaine – Will Wicked Wench Ghislaine Maxwell Succeed At Appeal?

    As mucky madam Ghislaine Maxwell gets a new appeal lawyer in spite of owing a fortune to her previous representatives, journalist Daphne Barak PR peddles for her after posing for pictures with the feckless fool that is the ultimate grifter, Sarah, Duchess of York

    It must be noted that scum tends to inevitably float to the top of any pond and that birds of a feather tend to stick together. Examples of such came last week with revelations that Ghislaine Maxwell is now being represented by the pugnacious paedophile Harvey Weinstein’s lawyer and that a PR peddler named Daphne Barak is about to share a new interview with the noxious nonce in the coming days.

     

    Whilst Barak – whom also posed for snaps with she who has never confirmed if she repaid loans taken from the croaked paedophile Jeffrey Epstein, Sarah, Duchess of York last month – was this morning given acreage to promote her ‘interview’ with her old chum of many years in both The Sun on Sunday and The Mail on Sunday, it was Page Six that revealed that Maxwell was becoming “jailbirds of a feather” with her old chum Weinstein after taking on attorney Arthur L. Aidala.

     

    Maxwell (AKA prisoner 02879-509), who is now laughably also supposedly currently teaching “etiquette lessons” in the clink if the Independent is to be believed, still owes a sum estimated at £3 million ($3.7 million, €3.4 million or درهم13.5 million) to lawyers previously hired by her, her brother Kevin and her estranged husband Scott Borgerson.

     

    Editor’s Note – Unlike as is the case in many publications, this article was NOT sponsored or supported by a third-party.

     

    Pictured Top – Ghislaine Maxwell with Jeffrey Epstein sat outside a cabin at Balmoral during a visit their when they supposedly met the late Queen even – if Daphne Barak is to be believed. Of this, Barak shares that Maxwell has now declared: “The Queen was one of the most exceptional women I ever had the honour and privilege of meeting.” The convicted sex trafficker added that the monarch had a “sparkle” in her eyes and declared she was “profoundly sorry” to learn of her death last year.

     

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    Birds of a rotten feather… The gruesome trio of paedophiles that was Harvey Weinstein, Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell pictured at a party given by he who paid a sum alleged to be as high as £12 million to a woman he claimed he never met, Prince Andrew, at Windsor Castle in 2006.
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    Arthur L. Aidala is very much of the publicity hungry school of lawyers. Aside from Harvey Weinstein, his firm, Aidala, Bertuna & Kamins, has also represented other mates of Ghislaine Maxwell including Alan Dershowitz. In documents submitted this week, he claimed: “[Maxwell] was malnourished… And yet she’s supposed to sit for a trial [with her] life on the life… In the United States of America, anyone who’s accused of any crime should not be abused by the US government the way she was abused… She did not get a fair trial… The judge ignored the many claims of malnourishment, living with vermin in her cell, lack of sleep, and overall deplorable conditions. There were also issues regarding lack of access to her lawyers. This is all in violation of her fundamental constitutional rights and will be powerfully brought to the attention of the appellate courts.” Of how he came to be involved with the mucky madam and her family, scions of a pension pot plundering tyrant, Aidala added: “After her sentencing… her trial team was done representing her and her family quite frankly reached out to us. Obviously we’d been in the headlines with Mr Weinstein’s case.”
    Arthur Aidala Harvey Weinstein
    Scotch drinking “Arthur cancels ‘cancel culture’” Aidala – pictured with Harvey Weinstein – was described in a July 2022 article in ‘The New York Times’ as “camera-ready” and “a lawyer who welcomes press attention.” Amongst this registered Democrat’s previous clients are the accused “socialite granny shover” Lauren Pazienza, the crossdressing oddity Rudolph W. Giuliani, cleared “killer crane rigger” William Rapetti, “daddy’s penis chopper-offer” Brigitte Harris and “boyfriend stabber” John Pickett. Of him, Alan Dershowitz tellingly remarked: “Arthur is the new me.”
    Daphne Barak Sarah Duchess of York Hillary Clinton
    Daphne Barak pictured in December with Sarah, Duchess of York and with Hillary Clinton – whom she references her as having “hosted” and “supported the presidential bid” of. Here is a ‘journalist’ whose close connections clearly muddy her mind when it comes to interviewing her subjects. Why didn’t this ‘journalist’ ask mucky madam Maxwell about ‘Killary’s’ husband taking at least 27 flights on Jeffrey Epstein’s ‘Lolita Express’ and his convicted sex trafficker co-collaborator attending Chelsea Clinton’s wedding? Curious that; very curious indeed.
  • Hacked Off Piers! Piers Morgan’s Twitter Infiltrated

    Hacked Off Piers! Piers Morgan’s Twitter Infiltrated

    As Piers Morgan gets hacked on Twitter, we remind readers of his ongoing spat with the especially ‘Hacked Off’ actor Hugh Grant

    The scourge of the red tops that is the actor Hugh Grant tweets from the handle @HackedOffHugh and ironically last night, one of his favourite targets, Piers Morgan – who formerly worked at papers that most definitely engaged in phone hacking – literally found himself hacked also.

     

    Targeted supposedly by what the DailyMail.com’s James Gordon subsequently termed “a foul-mouthed troll” on Twitter, Morgan’s 8.3 million followers witnessed “[his] account sending out expletive-laden messages.”

     

    The hackers, supposedly a group named the “Chuckling Squad” initially demanded the recognition of “the territorial integrity of Somalia” and used hashtags including #HandsOfSomalia [sic]. One can only presume them to have been a little illiterate and probably to have meant to have tweeted suggested “hands off” instead.

     

    According to Mr Gordon: “The group purportedly behind the attack, Chuckling Squad, is a group of hackers who gained notoriety in 2019 for taking over a number of high-profile Twitter accounts, including those belonging to various celebrities and public figures.”

     

    Though Morgan and Grant’s public spats have been longstanding, their pugnacity most definitely peaked in December 2019 when the pressman and the press reform campaigner “traded insults at each other for many hours” on Twitter.

     

    In one missive, at that time, Morgan declared of Grant and fellow actor Steve Coogan sharing their views about the then ongoing general election campaign: “Who gives a flying f**k what Coogan and Grant have to say about this election? Honestly, the stupefying pomposity of these clowns trying to thwart democracy is beyond parody.” In another, he added: “I suggest you put the halo away, ‘Saint’ Hugh.”

     

    Responding, before getting sent back pictures of himself after his 1995 arrest for participating in “lewd conduct” in a public place with Divine Brown near Sunset Boulevard, California, Grant observed: “Your paper caved and paid off millions to hundreds of victims of phone hacking. And issued grovelling apology. Those were the civil cases. As for criminal charges… I refer to my old friends Mr Tick and Mrs Tock. Happy Xmas.”

     

    In January 2020, Morgan – whose full name is actually Piers Pughe-Morgan and whose birth name was Piers O’Meara – went further and branded Grant “a stuck-up arrogant twerp” and “disgusting” after the latter branded the election result “a catastrophe” and claimed “the country is finished.”

     

    Marmite-like Morgan, loved and loathed in equal measure in Britain and beyond, attended a lunch in Mayfair just before Christmas earlier this month where fellow guests included not only his ‘Brenemy’ Jeremy Clarkson, but also the Queen Consort, Camilla. Fans of the mendacious menace formerly known as Meghan Markle subsequently went mental.

     

    Editor’s Note – Unlike as is the case in many publications, this article was NOT sponsored or supported by a third-party.

     

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    The veteran newsman’s account was targeted supposedly by a group named the Chuckling Squad, but it did also share a picture of someone who accompanied a picture with the hashtags #selfie and #Somalia.
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    Pictured here with monstrous sex offenders Harvey Weinstein, Max Clifford, Rolf Harris, Gary Glitter and Ghislaine Maxwell, the Marmite-like figure of Morgan is someone whose controversial comments make him a natural target. His decisions to call out the Duchess of Sussex and to repeatedly involve himself with Donald Trump have also attracted ire and praise in equal measure.
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    Some people have gone as far as to laud the former ‘Mirror’ editor a “National Icon” whilst others such as Lord Justice Leveson referenced his testimony under oath on phone hacking at the Leveson Inquiry as “utterly unpersuasive.” In May 2011, the journalist and broadcaster banned Hugh Grant from his shows “in perpetuity” after Grant “spoke out against the need for the tabloid press.”

    Twitter users reacts to Piers Morgan’s account being hacked…

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  • Arse v Ass – Amusing John O’Hara Letters For Sale

    Arse v Ass – Amusing John O’Hara Letters For Sale

    Bonhams to sell amusing letters from “alcoholic crank” and author John O’Hara that examine the difference between “arse” and “ass;” of his work ‘BUtterfield 8’ Elizabeth Taylor once raged: “I think it stinks!”

    “Bingeworthy” American short story author John O’Hara (1905 – 1970) was once described as “may not [having] been the best story writer of the twentieth century, but he [was] the most addictive.”

     

    “Unfashionable in literary circles in the 1960s” and known for his “easily bruised ego, alcoholic crankiness, long-held resentments and politically conservative views,” an amusing letter from O’Hara – whose notable works included Appointment in Samarra and BUtterfield 8 – that was held in the collection of the Frasier screenwriter and producer David Lloyd (1934 – 2009) is to be auctioned by Bonhams in Los Angeles this month.

     

    Written on 9th July 1938 to one Mr Mavrogordato and sent from 52 Chesil Court, Manor Street, Chelsea, London, SW3 – which was also for a time home to the “cheeky Cockney” actor Harry Fowler MBE (1926 – 2012) – the second of the letters points to the difference between the word “arse” in England and its counterpoint “ass” in America. It reads:

     

    “In America the word is pronounced and spelled ass. In England, where I have had one book published, and another to be published in September, they spell it your way in my books. I happen to think it’s inconsistent to do that with a writer whose stuff is so completely American, but after a certain point has been reached, I always let publishers have their way.”

     

    It comes with an earlier typed letter dated 4th July 1938 written to Fred J. Feldkamp (1914 – 1981), the editor of For Men, in which O’Hara submits an article (not present with the lot). The author informs that he will be “traveling through Europe for most of the summer” and complains:

     

    “I admit that I was a little surprised at the small size of the cheque for the other piece, but we can take that up when I get home. Over here every little bit helps, and anyway it takes so God damn long to argue by mail.”

     

    The letters – which come with an original transmittal envelope – will be sold as part of an online only sale that concludes on 10th August at 10:00 PDT. The lot has a guide of £247 to £411 ($300 to $500, €293 to €488 or درهم1,102 to درهم1,836) and the current bid is just £4.11 ($5, €4.89 or درهم18.36).

     

    Whether this argumentative author subsequently made an “arse” or an “ass” of himself with his bosses remains unknown, but one thing is for sure, John O’Hara considered Americans above Brits to the end. In 1952, he concluded: “Sometimes I almost feel that I ought to apologize [sic] for having the ability to write good dialogue, and yet it’s the attribute most lacking in American writers and almost totally lacking in the British.”

     

    Pictured top – One of the two letters that Bonhams are to sell on 10th August (left) and its “among the greatest short-story writers in English, or in any other language” – according to his fellow ‘New Yorker’ contributor Brendan Gill (1914 – 1997) – author John O’Hara (right).

     

    A July 2013 ‘Chicago Tribune’ tribute to the “floating from one newspaper job to another… generally fired in a matter of months” author by Rick Kogan began: “John O’Hara was not a nice man, but he was, for a while, one hell of a great writer.” It ends: “As you might have guess, he wrote his own epitaph: ‘Better than anyone else, he told the truth about his time. He was a professional. He wrote honestly and well.’ ‘Better than anyone else?’ C’mon. ‘Honestly and well’? I can’t argue that.”
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    Elizabeth Taylor starred in the 1960 drama film adaptation of O’Hara’s novel ‘BUttterfield 8” alongside her then husband Eddie Fisher. In spite of it being MGM’s biggest hit that year, Taylor “hated it” and cuttingly commented: “I still say in stinks.”
    “Witty” and known for being passionate about the “relationship of a man and his typewriter” David Lloyd – pictured with his son Christopher in 1998 with Emmy awards for ‘Frasier’ and the longtime owner of the letters and other lots to be offered on 10th August – died in November 2009 of prostate cancer. He was the co-creator of ABC’s ‘Modern Family’ and known for “his enormous first edition collection (a stunning number of which he actually read) and travelling the world with his leading lady.” His favourite restaurant, La Dolce Vita, has a dish named ‘Lambchops Lloyd’ on its menu in his honour.
  • Meg & Amber – A Pugnacious Pair Of Woke Wazzocks Who Should Be Heard Less

    Meg & Amber – A Pugnacious Pair Of Woke Wazzocks Who Should Be Heard Less

    Both blubbing bed sh*tter Amber Heard and boring botherer the Duchess of Sussex should be heard less and ignored more; it is time to cancel these woke wazzocks

    Audacious and awful Amber Heard is an actress and so used to be the wicked wench formerly known as Meghan Markle. Here, indeed, is a pair who are very similar and in both of them this week we’ve seen yet more shameless attention seeking.

     

    Whilst Johnny Depp’s clearly crackers ex blubbed in court and was made an utter berk of by Kate Moss over her clear lies, that the Duchess of Sussex decided to visit a town in Texas she has utterly no connection with is just plain wrong.

     

    The grieving families of those so disgustingly shot by a deranged madman do not need or require a visit from a woman who forced her husband to quit his royal duties to seek privacy. Her presence, instead, was nothing but wrong in all senses and that she turned up to profiteer with her camera crew in tow was beyond reprehensible.

     

    The Duke and Duchess of Sussex might believe Netflix’s cash to be their future; it will soon be their deserved undoing. Shame on them and shame on bed sh*tter Amber Heard also.

     

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    The deranged diva’s decision to use a tragedy for her own PR purposes was rightly slammed on social media. That she stood looking over photographers sums up how self-serving this dreadful toerag truly is.
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    If the Duchess of Sussex had wished to support the families of the victims of the Uvalde shootings, she could have sent a donation. Instead, she used this tragedy for her very own benefit. Shame on her.
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    Meanwhile elsewhere in the Fairfax County Courthouse in Virginia, Johnny Depp looked on as his ex-lover Kate Moss proved Amber Heard nothing but a loopy liar yesterday.

    Can anyone solve a problem like ‘MeGain’?

    • In November 2021, the duchess was forced to apologise to the Appeal Court in London for making a misleading statement in her privacy case against The Mail on Sunday’s publishers.
    • Her very own father, Thomas, has called out her many untruths about him and others again, again and again.
    • Of her claiming having got married the day before she actually did, Mr Markle stated: “Lying about the archbishop? How can you say: ‘We’ve been married three days before we got married’? Her lies are so obvious, I don’t know why she says them.”
    • Her very own half-sister, Samantha, has called her out as a liar on multiple occasions also. It has been proven that the duchess’s claim that she hasn’t seen her sibling in over 20 years was proven untrue when a photo of the pair 13 years ago emerged.
    • Her very own half-brother, Thomas Jr., said of her: “I told Prince Harry, I think she’s going to ruin your life. She’s very shallow… She’s a phony, a bully, a jaded, shallow, conceited woman.”
    • The former Meghan Markle has been called out on multiple occasions for spinning stories against other members of the royal family, most especially the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge.
    • Staff who’ve worked for her have complained that she is a bully and investigations into this remain ongoing.
    • The Duchess of Sussex is a known manipulator of the press and paparazzis and it has been claimed that she’ll “twist the truth” to get any headline she wants.
    • Questions remain as to how many times she’s actually been married in total. Some say twice, some say thrice.
    • “Would you trust this woman with a bargepole?” is something often asked of this money motivated minx.

     

    ‘Buzzfeed’ botherer Ellie Hall claimed a “scoop” on the story of the mendacious meddling minx that is the decided drip Prince Harry’s wicked wastrel wife visiting the scene of a massacre. She announced: “SCOOP: Meghan, the Duchess of Sussex, traveled to Uvalde, Texas, where she donated food to a community blood drive center and visited a memorial for the victims of the deadly school shooting.”
    Piers Morgan rightly said of the “self-promoting” visit: “I don’t know why she’s there?”
  • Depp v Maxwell –Trial Media Coverage Differences

    Depp v Maxwell –Trial Media Coverage Differences

    Matthew Steeples suggests those moaning that Ghislaine Maxwell’s trial should have been covered by the media in the same way as Johnny Depp’s libel suit do not understand the differences between the two cases; there is simply no “conspiracy” or “cover-up” going on here

    In April 2014, whilst promoting the film Transcendence, Johnny Depp remarked: “People get famous now for I-don’t-know-what.” He was right and the level of interest in both his British and American court appearances and that of Ghislaine Maxwell’s 2021 trial have provided opportunity for goodness only knows how much of the dirty linen of famous faces to be grubbily bandied around.

     

    Now, amongst others ‘blue ticked’ on Twitter Nick Adams, a “four-time best-selling author” and presidential appointee in the Trump administration, are rather stupidly asking: “Why didn’t the Ghislaine Maxwell trial have the same transparency as the Johnny Depp trial?”

     

    Many others – including some you’d clearly expect better of – go further and ludicrously suggest it to be a “conspiracy” that Maxwell’s criminal trial wasn’t aired on television, whilst Depp’s civil trial of libel allegations has been. Quite rightly, however, this week AP News’s Angelo Fichera called out this “widely shared misinformation” for what it truly is – sheer claptrap and utter baloney.

     

    As was also pointed out by the crusading author of Ghislaine Maxwell: An Unauthorized Biography Kirby Sommers on Twitter also, the Maxwell matter was held in a federal court and “federal courts do not allow cameras like some state courts do.” Depp’s civil suit, meanwhile, is taking place in a county circuit court and as, Fichera adds, “that court court does allow photo and video with a judge’s permission.”

     

    Frankly, it is as simple as that and the “Conservative activist” who Fichera quoted who tweeted: “Sooooo, the Johnny Depp trial can be live streamed but the Maxwell trial can’t? Make that make sense” really ought to just learn to keep up.

     

    Whilst many of us, myself included, would very much liked to have watched the mucky madam and daughter of a pension pot plundering and wartime murderer squirm before the cameras as she was convicted, the rules are the rules and there simply was no “gag order” in the case of Ghislaine Maxwell.

     

    Pictured top – Though both now internationally known, the legal matters that this acclaimed actor and this notorious sex trafficking mucky madam are now forever linked to are being handled by the American legal system quite correctly. One was dealt with in a federal court whilst the other is a civil matter and that is exactly why media coverage – including most pertinently video footage – of these cases has been not-allowed and allowed respectively.

     

     

    Kirby Sommers
    Crusading author Kirby Sommers very accurately summed up the differences between the two cases in a tweet shared on 22nd April 2022. It pointed out the differences between “federal” and “civil” case and ended: “Please learn the difference.”
    Dame Brigitte Gabriel
    Self-anointed “quintessential example of a 21st American Dream story” and one-time news anchor ‘Dame’ Brigitte Gabriel – a “survivor of terrorism” and “NYT best-selling author” told her 435,800 Twitter followers: “The media live streams the Johnny Depp trial and not the Ghislaine Maxwell trial because they think we’re stupid” on 23rd April. Clearly, ‘Dame’ Brigitte ought to be sent to a school in fact checking and learn she’s been duped by what Donald Trump might term “fake news, fake news.”
    Shane Hazel
    Equally, 2022 Republican candidate for Governor of Georgia Shane Hazel is another fine example of a boorish berk who doesn’t get it. He tweeted: “When the news covers Johnny Depp 24/7 but didn’t say shit about Epstein & Ghislaine Maxwell you can be sure it’s because American billionaires are molesting kids” on 22nd April. Mr Hazel has an astonishing 38,900 followers; followers he’s clearly misleading whilst at the same time running for high office.
    Trial differences
    Those claiming to be “kept in the dark” about the criminal trial of the late paedophile Jeffrey Epstein’s one-time lover and co-conspirator in sex trafficking whilst banging on about the live-streaming of an actor’s libel action simply do not understand that there is no conspiracy going on in terms of how media coverage of such matters is handled.
    Tweets 1
    Twitter users have gone utterly bonkers about this, let’s be frank, non-issue. Live-streaming is allowed in some courts and it is not in others and those screaming “conspiracy” and “cover-up” from the rooftops on this subject simply need to accept that there was no “gag-order” in the case of media coverage of the pension pot plunderer’s daughter’s December 2021 trial in New York.
    Tweet 5
    Continuing, the anything but rational Twitterati claimed “money doesn’t talk, it shuts everyone up” whilst others suggested “LMAO” of how the French born associate of amongst others Jean-Luc Brunel, the Duke of York and Harvey Weinstein “couldn’t be recorded” whilst the ‘Pirates of the Caribbean’s’ legal case can.
    Tweet 4
    Amongst words used of the two matters were “distractions” and “should tell you all you need to know.” Wallaby killer Russell Brand even got a mention.
    Tweet 3
    The very same conspiracy theorists claimed also a “media blackout” in the 2021 case whilst the 2022 one “live-streamed for all to see.” One argued: “You can clearly see the media’s agenda here” and another added: “I know which one I care about the most.” Others brought up their thoughts on Ukraine, Hunter Biden and his father, 46th President of the United States of America Joe Biden. Here are people who believe the current coverage is “a joke” yet here also are people who cannot accept that the mucky madam’s trial was heard in a federal court in New York – a place where cameras simply are not allowed to be present.
    Tweets 2
    “Something stinks” and “hush hush” claimed one Scot named Gordon Cameron of what he and countless others on social media believe to be a case lacking in transparency of Maxwell’s trial. He and those like him would do better to ask why none of those that the decidedly deviant mucky madam supplied her victims to have yet been brought before the justice system. As the cook and football club owner Delia Smith once slurred (whilst drunk admittedly): “Come on, let’s be ‘avin ya.”
    The libel case brought by the star of ‘The Tourist’ against his ex-wife Amber Heard has descended into moments of comedy and mirth. It is completely the antithesis of the trial of the one-time lover of Prince Andrew – a trial in which victims of sex trafficking and abuse by the powerful and the privileged was very clearly highlighted. Shamefully, however, none of those other powerful and privileged individuals have yet been brought to book. With sentencing due on the 28th June in the Maxwell case, one can only hope that justice will finally be served on the other evil parties who’ve still to this day remained under the radar.
  • From ‘TwIt Girl’ to ‘InstaIdiot’ – Lady Victoria Hervey

    From ‘TwIt Girl’ to ‘InstaIdiot’ – Lady Victoria Hervey

    Dumber than dumb non-entity Lady Victoria Hervey morphs from ‘TwIt Girl’ to ‘InstaIdiot’ in a series of Instagram posts about her mucky madam mate Ghislaine Maxwell; she charmingly labels one victim she doesn’t even know a “complete whore” and another she claims to actually know a “drug addict slut and a f*ck up”

    True to her predictably pathetic form, in a series of messages and stories on Instagram, pompous prattling pillock Lady Victoria Hervey has gone and stuck her cloven hooves in the proverbial yet again. Here, today, we present a supposedly aristocratic woman who mocks victims as “money hungry” whilst shamelessly taking wonga for media interviews herself.

     

    Exposed by the journalist Lisa Tait of The Prince & The Pervert podcast on Twitter on Sunday, 45-year-old Lady Victoria – a wack job woman who has been on every news channel known to humanity banging on about Ghislaine Maxwell’s case in spite of not even having been called as a witness in that case and having previously claimed not to have even seen her so-called “friend” since 2018 – made herself out to be some kind of expert on the December conviction. Frankly, anyone rational realises this former bit of “toff totty” would have been about as much use giving evidence in that New York courtroom as a chocolate teapot.

     

    Indulging in totally uncalled for and utterly vulgarly styled victim shaming, ‘Lady Herpes’ announced that she “could not do with the sob stories” and suggested that though she is of the view that “Ghislaine is obviously not a saint,” the victims themselves number a “complete whore” (whom she claims not to actually know) and a “total money hungry drug addict slut and a f*ck up” (whom she does claim to actually know).

     

    Previously herself branded “unpleasant” and “a right snob” by the by contrast lovely and sadly late Tara Palmer Tomkinson, when realising she wouldn’t be winning any argument with the clearly intelligent Ms Tait, Lady Victoria – who also believes “charming, very well-liked guy” Jeffrey Epstein rejected her because she “was too old” (even he likely actually just couldn’t stand her) – then helpfully concluded: “I am so over this.” She then chucked the remainder of her toys out of her pram; whether that included one of ‘Grubby Ghislaine’s’ dinner party dildos remains unknown.

     

    Lady Victoria Hervey Ghislaine Maxwell Shizue Nobuta
    Mouthy moron Lady Victoria Hervey with the since convicted sex trafficker and abuser Ghislaine Maxwell and a handbag designer named Shizue Nobuta at a party hosted by Tamara Beckwith in Hollywood, California on 25th February 2004. In a documentary in June 2021, Lady Victoria claimed the pension pot plunderer’s decidedly deviant daughter liked to get more personal at dinner parties and would “demonstrate how to give a blowjob” to girls present, herself included.

    ‘InstaIdiot’ Lady Victoria Hervey’s Instagram Stories

    Here are just a few of this noxious nitwit’s Instagram posts and missives – complete with her (unedited by us) appalling grammar, punctuation and spelling. They clearly illustrate that this wastrel woman’s aristocratic family didn’t bother to provide her with access to an exactly stellar education and amongst them are:

    • “This was about to go Live on Lorraine last week. Please can someone let me know what the age of consent is in the UK. I thought it’s 17. Some of these stories sound like a case study of Regret turning into Revenge. This story has been so blown out of proportion. Or has it. Nobody knows.”
    • “People are literally murdering people in LA and getting out of jail. It’s a real life gotham city blood bath. I know Ghislaine is obviously not a saint and should pay back the trauma caused to her ‘victims’ but lifetime in jail for touching a girls tit 20 years ago and taking them on yacht, private jet and shopping trips. Come on. This has become a witch hunt. Thoughts on this? What does she deserve?”
    • “And while I’m here I may as well let out some other thoughts. That Virginia Roberts is a complete whore. She was no innocent girl. At 15 she ended up in hospital with alcohol poisoning. She’s just a ghetto opportunist whose seriously mixed up. I really genuinely wanted to feel bad for these girls but the trial gave us nothing.”
    • “And yes drinking yourself into hospital doesn’t necessarily mean you’re a whore but it shows how mentally unstable you are.”
    • “I just can’t with the sob stories. Virginia was a classified train wreck. She wanted to go on those trips. In fact she’d do anything to be invited. During the recent trial her friend said she texted her after prince andrew and was boasting about it. Money hungry girls like her do not help the real people going through human trafficking.”
    • “You cannot compare Virginia to the character in my friends movie totally different girl was literally kept in a cage. Virginia was living the high life. I’m so sick of these me too girls cashing in and ruining it for the girls that really do need help and are desperate that are being killed and tortured.”
    • “Basically you cannot question a victim in today’s climate. So even though Virginia was of age and clearly became a co conspirator herself, we in the public are not allowed to question her or her motives.”
    • “Would she be suing these people if they were broke and molesting her in a trailer park? Which by the sounds of things she was dropping her knickers in al sorts of places. I also knew one of the other ‘victims’ who was also a total money hungry drug addict slut and a f*ck up. I’m so over this.”

    Lady Victoria Hervey Virginia Roberts Giuffre
    Bird brained Lady Victoria – whose Motcomb Street, Belgravia shop closed with estimated debts of £350,000 in 2001 – has recently been sharing Instagram stories in which she calls Virginia Roberts Giuffre a “complete whore” and suggested she was “dropping her knickers in all sorts of places.”
    Lady Victoria Hervey offensive message
    In a comment on another post, the late 6th Marquess of Bristol’s daughter predictably misjudged the importance of what is quite possibly the most significant sex trafficking scandal in decades given it involves, amongst others, three Presidents of the United States and the Queen’s “favourite” son and declared: “This story has been blown out of proportion… People are literally murdering people in LA and getting out of jail. It’s a real life Gotham City blood bath.” In response, one is simply left asking: “What planet is this washed-up wastrel on?” and wondering: “Is she on acid?”
    Lady Victoria Hervey Hollywood nonsense
    Lady Victoria hasn’t exactly shown herself to be up there on the rational scale whilst using Instagram. In one previous post, she banged on about filtering out “good versus evil” and “The Cabal” and claimed that Hollywood – where she lives is known for having threesomes and party crashing – is “like a bunch of mk ultra zombies [sic] walking around” and full of “dark satanic cults.” If that was actually true, it would be the perfect place for her.

    What Do Social Media Users Make Of ‘InstaIdiot’ Lady Victoria Hervey?

    Twitter users really do truly dislike the ultimate ‘TwIt Girl’ and of her in recent days comments have unsurprisingly included:

    • “Scurvy Hervey.”
    • “You’ll never see Lady Victoria on Mastermind.”
    • “Lady Victoria Hervey – A horse faced bint that makes me feel happy to have been born a mongrel without privilege.”
    • “Lady Victoria sounds like anything but a lady… Sounds more like a slag.”
    • “She’s been cocked more times than John Wayne’s gun.”
    • “How much publicity and TV time has ol’ Lady Victoria Hervey had out of this whole Ghislaine Maxwell sh*t? She’s swiftly becoming the new Paul Burrell.”
    • “Lady Victoria Hervey has been close to Ghislaine and Epstein, Ghislaine’s business partner Jemma Kidd, Prince Andrew and Flavio Briatore.”
    • “She is embarrassing herself with her bile and viciousness.”
    • “Has she any moral or ethical fibre in her body?”
    • “Unbelievable. Honestly, I can’t believe how much entitlement breeds stupidity and ignorance.”
    • “May I present Lady Victoria, friend of Ghislaine Maxwell and Prince Andrew. Apologist as well… Look how she spoke about a CHILD. This why survivors rarely come forward.”
    • “Lady Victoria Hervey… Normalised Jeffrey and Ghislaine’s network of girls and young women.”
    • “She’s a dickhead. Lady Victoria, friend of Ghislaine Maxwell. Apparently, Maxwell just touched a tit. Oh really, truly.”
    • “Lady Victoria Hervey… Sounds like a complete idiot implying that all men have impulses they cannot control FFS.”
    • “What a thoroughly disgusting Knightsbridge piece of trash. What a gutter-snipe. Drag a lump of cocaine through Harvey Nichols and you never knew what you’ll find.”
    • “She’s vile… Like perhaps Lady H needs to be looked into more. She clearly sounds like she knows ‘exactly’ what has [been] happening enough to make vile disgusting judgments.”
    • “Did you ever see Lady Victoria Hervey dashing in and out of the palace while she was dating Andrew? She has some very strident views.”
    • “She called Ghislaine Maxwell ‘scapegoat’ and the photo of Andrew and his victim ‘stupid.’ How out of touch with reality is she?”
    • “Tara Palmer Tomkinson was a nice girl and she had this numpty’s number.”
    • “It’s very simple. Lady Victoria is very, very, VERY thick.”
    • “Dear Lady Victoria Hervey – You’ve been skint for years, you use your title to bum around the world as a ‘guest.’”

    Lady Victoria claims to have dated Prince Andrew in 1999, but according to ‘The Sun,’ quite predictably, “romance failed to blossom.” Twenty years later, attempting to cash in on her decidedly brief encounter, this tedious twerp went on ‘Good Morning Britain’ and tried to defend the royal. As was to be expected, she didn’t exactly excel in that role either.
  • Who Is Gatsby Randolph?

    Who Is Gatsby Randolph?

    Matthew Steeples previews ‘Who Is Gatsby Randolph?’ and finds it not only refreshingly raucous, but also proof that anyone can achieve their dream

    In England, we have party crashers like David Pun – a bow tie wearing blaggart who pretends to own Harvey Nichols, but actually lives in a bus shelter in Hammersmith. Freakish toerags like him and the bigoted berk Marie-Claire, Baroness von Alvensleben pollute events, hoovering up canapés and nabbing gift bags with audacity and awfulness, but in Hollywood there’s a marvelous man who has got the art of getting into the Vanity Fair Oscars after-party down to a fine art.

     

    David Pun and Marie-Claire, Baroness von Alvensleben
    London’s leading liggers, amongst them bow tie wearing David Pun (right) and convicted racist Marie-Claire, ‘Baroness’ von Alvensleben (left, with disgraced ‘entertainer’ Michael Barrymore), flash business cards lacking class, style and elegance, but still somehow get their wicked way into society bashes. How they get away with it remains a mystery and though there have been proposals to make documentaries about their antics, these have yet to reach the viewing public.
    Alexa Jago
    English actress turned award winning producer Alexa Jago, however, has managed to bring the remarkable yet totally true story of a humble boy from Memphis, Tennessee who sought out and achieved his dream of getting to the top in Tinseltown to the big screen.
    Oscar and Dom Perignon
    With a (borrowed but real) Oscar and a bottle of Dom Perignon (or five), this bio-documentary of an aspiring music producer turned tastemaker illustrates the power of Instagram. In it, the star claims “social media is archival footage” and through weaving his posts into a cohesive story, Gatsby Randolph becomes a genuine and welcomed personality.
    https://vimeo.com/423678137

    A ‘mockumentary’ in style and deservedly lauded as “Borat meets Entourage,” Who Is Gatsby Randolph? tells the story of Memphis, Tennessee born Kobie Randolph’s transition as he seeks out fame and fortune in Tinseltown. Rather like in F. Scott Fitzgerald’s novel from which he takes his adopted moniker, “people were not invited – they went there” is the premise of our suave, cigar chomping protagonist.

     

    Produced by talented English theatre and film actress turned award winning producer Alexa Jago – best known for having worked alongside amongst others Kevin Costner and for having been part of the team behind the 2015 hit Kajaki (AKA Kilo Two Bravo) – and due for theatrical release in the coming months, here is a film about a young man’s rise from poverty to the pinnacle of power and privilege living in a mansion in the Hollywood Hills.

     

    With 101,000 followers on Instagram currently, but ironically without 101 Dalmatians, in what has been described as “a poignant wild ride through red carpets with unlimited access to all the glitz and glamour,” this bio-documentary examines not only success, but also struggle.

     

    Reinvention is key to Kobie Randolph’s transition into his alter-ego ‘Gatsby’ and of his journey, the star recently told FilmInk: “As a filmmaker, I recognised that my own story of rags to riches was, in fact, a movie in the making.” He most certainly has achieved that and Who Is Gatsby Randolph? most definitely looks set to be one of the hits of 2022.

     

    Pictured top – Kobie Randolph, a man described by British actor Hainsley Lloyd Bennett as making him “feel like I could take over Hollywood.” Of him, the ‘Pennyworth’ star recently remarked: “His electric spirit jumps through the screen… He projected that he was somebody, so everyone treated him like he was and that was irrespective of his race, his age and his looks.”

     

    Anna Wintour
    Here (pictured with Anna Wintour) is a hustler who threw convention to the wind and got himself in front of Steven Spielberg even.
    Glenn Close and Emily Blunt
    This is an amusing and lighthearted tale that echoes F. Scott Fitzgerald’s character’s intrepid pursuit of the American dream. Its protagonist (pictured here with screen sirens Glenn Close and Emily Blunt) really did get into ‘Vanity Fair’s’ Oscar after-party not only once but four times.
    Angelina Jolie
    On his journey, Gatsby Randolph met everyone from Angelina Jolie (pictured) to Reese Witherspoon.