I doubt any of these places that are still open would consider for a second to give monetary compensation to a guy who already has a money making machine.

You inspired me to do a little research. They have changed a lot. I stopped living full time in LA around 2001 so I haven’t been there forever. I see they’ve updated their menu to being more in line with a high end steakhouse.

Google their menu and look for “Classics to Order”. That’s what the menu was like back in my day. Grenadine of Beef, Sauerbraten, liver and onions. It was like antique food. There was a point when they were so on the ropes they were only open 4 days a week. I’m glad they survived.

This thread is starting to feel like the Jason Statham: Angelino tangents on How Did This Get Made.

Brad Pitt will be competing in the Best Supporting Actor category so as to not be up against Leo

A big Oscar question answered: Brad Pitt is campaigning as supporting for ‘Once Upon a Time in Hollywood’ — for now

To both lead or to have only one lead, that is the big Oscar question for one pair of male co-stars, still firmly perched at the top of their games, as Gold Derby launches its Academy Award prediction site today. The ultimate answer is below — but first some background.

Once upon a time in Hollywood, male co-leads in a film were allowed to go mano-to-mano and duke it out in the same Oscar category. The first instance of this situation was when cast mates Clark Gable, Charles Laughton and Franchot Tone went up against each other in 1935’s “Mutiny on the Bounty.” In that case, there was no other choice since supporting acting categories weren’t added to the ballot until 1937. Alas, all three stars were bested by Victor McLaglen in “The Informer.”

Since then, there have been 12 instances when two male performers from the same movie engaged in lead double-dipping. The last occasion was 1984’s “Amadeus,” with F. MurrayAbraham as Salieri and Tom Hulce as Mozart were pitted against one another. Unlike his villainous composer, who was bested by his more talented rival, Abraham took the prize.

But these days, when every nomination in awards season is seen as opportunity to boost box office and up the odds of winning trophies, having actors face off and risk cancelling each other out doesn’t make sense even if it might summon accusations of category fraud.

But this situation has become a hot topic recently as Leonardo DiCaprio and Brad Pitt, both in their middle-aged prime at age 44 and 55, are paired on the big screen for the first time with each receiving rave reviews for their performances in Quentin Tarantino‘s nostalgic look at the summer of 1969 in “Once Upon a Time in Hollywood.” After the showbiz fable that details the three days leading up to the Manson Family murders in Los Angeles premiered in Cannes, social media was rife with speculation from pundits and critics about whether they should be treated as co-leads.

The answer, at least as it applies to our prediction site at least for now: DiCaprio is lead and Pitt is in supporting. All placements of potential nominees have been confirmed by studios or their campaigners for now. But, of course, such decisions often change as the months-long awards season drags on. Recall that Viola Davis, who won a supporting Oscar for 2016 “Fences,” lingered in both categories on the Gold Derby site for a considerable amount of time until her status was settled.
Critic Justin Chang of the “Los Angeles Times” is not alone when he shared his opinion on the matter as he wrote, “The second-billed Pitt may be the lower man on the industry totem pole, but this is very much his movie.” Part of the rooting passion for Pitt is the fact that while he won an Oscar for producing the Best Picture winner “12 Years a Slave” in 2013, he has never won an acting Oscar despite being nominated three times — supporting for 1995’s “12 Monkeys,” and lead for 2008’s “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button” and 2011’s “Moneyball.” DiCaprio, on the other hand, finally won an Oscar on his fifth try for his lead role in 2015’s “The Revenant.”

Few wouldn’t applaud any honor won by Pitt. But his role in “Once Upon a Time in Hollywood” as Cliff Booth, stunt double extraordinaire, faithful companion and go-fer for DiCaprio’s TV Western star Rick Dalton as he struggles to switch to films as his preferred small-screen genre goes out of favor, is very much in the mode of a loyal sidekick. It’s doubtful that anyone who has sat through the two-hour and 45-minute film and actually timed the amount of screen time for each actor (all bets will be off, however, once screeners are out). But I suspect that Pitt might actually have more with his extended choreographed fight sequences. But his very role is that of a supporting player –and there is much honor in that as Cliff clearly proves.




https://www.goldderby.com/article/20...-in-hollywood/

It reminds me of those individual news articles that come out when anyone with moderate success gets cast in a big movie (which is probably due to the actors publicist pushing for it). There was an article about Daniel Sunjata (from Rescue Me) being cast in The Dark Knight Rises. One year later, movie comes out, he has two lines and gets killed within one minute of his introduction.

What’s not to like about Reservoir Dogs?

They do show a clip of the crazy Italian crime movie.

The whole point of the TV western scene is that we’re on this cheap backlot set. But when the guy says action QT shows it like it’s the most lush, gorgeous western ever. Possibly a reflection of Rick’s point of view. That this is GREAT when it probably is just so-so.