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The New Story Of The Godfather III We Missed Because…

There are some reviews for Francis Ford Coppola’s remake of The Godfather Part III, which means that a few fans actually saw it. The Godfather Coda: The Death of Michael Corleone was Coppola’s gift to fans on its 30th Anniversary but most of us missed out and for a very good reason.

When the third installment of the legendary trilogy came out in 1990, it made over $6 million on opening weekend and went on to gross $136 million worldwide. As the 30th Anniversary approached, Francis Ford Coppola got a bright idea to redo the story and reviews say that it’s totally different, which is phenomenal because he didn’t go back and shoot more scenes with a much older Al Pacino, Diane Keaton, Talia Shire, Andy Garcia, and his own daughter Sofia Coppola. Nope. He pulled the cut film off the editing room floor and pasted together an entirely different take on the story to give us a whole new movie. Now, how did we miss such a miraculous thing?

I tried calling my contact at Paramount to see how many viewers had actually watched the new version because I knew that news of it had somehow missed me. The people at Paramount Pictures itself gave me a very specific answer, which was they didn’t know. So, they forwarded me to Paramount Plus to ask them but I got my subscription department for some reason. The menu on the phone was limited and it wouldn’t give me access to Francis Ford Coppola so I decided to go on the Paramount Plus website to have a chat with a representative. All I wanted to know was a general answer. They didn’t have to give me an exact number, which they weren’t about to do anyway.

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They apologized for not being able to commit to any specific answer, which only means one thing to me. The number is low. It has to be because when a film has good numbers, the production company will brag about them. If the numbers are low, it’s best not to give an answer. But I did find something.

Someone on Wikipedia had a few stats, “Upon the release of the recut version, The Godfather Coda: The Death of Michael Corleone…made $52,000 from 179 theaters. In total, the film made $95,000 domestically, and $71,000 in four international markets.” The credit for these stats was given to an article from IndieWire.

This information contributes greatly to that lingering question. Why did we miss it? Some people did get to see it, but those numbers say that it wasn’t viewed by many. How could that possibly be for such a legendary film on such a special occasion?

via Paramount Pictures

When you do the math, you discover that 30 years after 1990 was…2020! That’s right! It was released the same year we were dealing with Murder Hornets, the death of Eddie Van Halen, the West Coast caught on fire, and about a hundred other things. Not to mention, we had a PLAGUE!

News stories were teaching us how to wash our hands like we were five-year-olds. The world shut down. We were locked in our homes. And people kept buying up all the toilet paper. It was the year from hell!

Probably not the best time to release a new movie. How five people managed to learn about the new release is beyond me. But now that you know, you can catch it on Paramount Plus, and here’s something you can do if you’d like. Watch the 1990 version first to refresh your memory before watching the 2020 version. Critics say it’s an entirely different movie and I’m going to have fun finding out how.

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Rare Photos Of Hot Celebrities Leaked

In the mid-90s, Pamela Anderson and Tommy Lee’s sex tape was leaked and they didn’t really need it, but it gave them a lot of attention. Whether or not Kim Kardashian meant to do it, her leaked video actually put her on a whole new level of stardom. If it’s hot, it’s going to get the internet’s attention and sometimes it seems, that’s all the web wants.

But the trend is old now. We can move on. If people are trying to get famous, maybe they could try another way because hot photo leaks and sexy viral videos that weren’t “supposed” to go public, it’s all been done to death now. And it’s been done again. A new batch of photos have been leaked by hackers and they’re being spread across the internet so fast, celebrities didn’t get a chance to stop it.

Before enjoying the erotic photos with some videos in there as well, take a look at the history and how it got here…

The Hot Couple

The trendsetters who started it had to manage the scandal and actually, there wasn’t anything to manage. Tommy Lee had a reputation already and even as a fan of Pamela Anderson, it wasn’t as if no one had ever seen her nude before. She had done nude photoshoots for Playboy and other magazines throughout her career. Of course, a sex tape does take that to a whole new level. But remember, this video was supposed to be filmed by them and only for them.

The film somehow got leaked and that was before the internet got huge. It was in the timeframe where it could have been a digital file on a computer but it wasn’t. It was a physical tape that was stolen from the house and the fact that they were hot celebrities meant that video was worth some big money. So, it wasn’t a publicity stunt. No evidence points toward that. But it did get some publicity and eyes were watching.

Kim Kardashian Takes A Shot

After Kim Kardashian graduated high school, being a stylist and her famous last name gave her access to celebrities. Of course, she had known Paris Hilton since they were kids and she worked as a stylist for her as well at one point. But everyone knows how driven Kim is. She wasn’t going to stay a stylist to the stars forever. She wanted so much more for herself.

The story goes that she tried to keep the video from getting leaked. Her lawyer tried to stop it and who knows if that’s true. Who knows if any of it’s true because she says she has never alerted the paparazzi about who she was dating and where they would be to make sure convenient pictures were taken of her? The family is the master of getting attention and it’s hard to tell. But the video did make her famous and that was all she wanted. Everything after that is, as they say, history.

Paris Hilton Had One Too

But if you know the dates, Paris Hilton’s video was leaked first in 2003. Kim’s didn’t come out until another four years. Of course, Paris didn’t need a leaked video to make her famous. She was already known as a socialite and the heiress of the Hilton empire.

With just this history of the trend, it would appear Kim’s was possibly the only one back then that was intentional. Pam and Tommy didn’t have anything to gain from it. Paris Hilton didn’t either. But Kim watched her life go in places she wasn’t able to take it before and that has meant all the difference. Look it up anywhere and what you’ll find is that it was at that moment her life was changed.

If you’ve come to see the new batch leaked of hot celebrity photos and videos, the intimate and steamy stuff they tried to keep private, you can enjoy them here:

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The Waffle House Experience Is As American As…

In my early days of travel after only having my license for a few years, I loved getting in the car in the evenings and driving all night in the peace and solitude of the open road. The highways were empty and the Waffle House was open at all hours. That was an American experience I would have recommended to anyone who liked a little adventure with their trips.

Life got in the way and my travels up and down the highways became a thing of my past for a few years. When I picked it back up after my divorce and my daughter was fully grown, I felt a bit nostalgic and stopped into a Waffle House on a trip from Maryland to Florida. It was on the outskirts of Tampa and it was early in the morning, about the time the dancers were off work and hungry. They took up about three tables and they were just as flirty while eating pancakes as they were in the club hustling drinks.

You never know what you’re going to get when you walk into a Waffle House. What’s interesting is that it’s pretty much the same whether it’s 4 am or 2 pm. It can be peaceful one moment and all hell can break out the next. The thing is that the great old House of Waffles is such a part of America, there’s not a thing about it that can’t be compared to us.

It can be a peaceful place to eat but it can also be just like the Wild Wild West where anything goes. Everyone’s just trying to get through life as best they can and the drama doesn’t make anything any better but it gives people with cellphones and social media platforms something to talk about. If that hasn’t become what America is, I don’t know what else comes close.

The Waffle House Proposal

See Waffle House isn’t just about the fighting. There’s romance too! pic.twitter.com/V5M4F4UCAz

— charmane harbert (@callme_Chari) March 28, 2024

What a way to win her over! You can tell they’re perfect for each other. He bought her a waffle and put a ring on it. In return, she got him beef jerky.

They have couple goals and they just leveled up. If you’re going to take anything away from this, it’s how relationships should work. Get to know each other so well that you can make sure you’re on the same page. That way when you propose, it’s as easy as this. Nothing has to feel forced when you find the right one.

Protest And Unrest

Waffle house shut down in Atlanta. They’re on strike because they get your order right every time at two in the morning. pic.twitter.com/rVk27vwTYU

— Florida Savage (@FloridaShaw09) March 29, 2024

Not everything is peaches and cream though in the Waffle House multiverse. There are customers and then there are employees. The employees have several jobs that include cooking and serving, but also sometimes bouncing, therapy, nursing, refereeing, and law enforcement.

It’s a $4 billion industry and for what they have to put up with, those cooks and servers don’t deserve minimum wage. They are the backbone of Americana who make the WH everything that it is and that it stands for. They deserve to be paid for all that they do, which on many occasions isn’t on the menu.

Warning: Slight Chance Of Nudity

When is Waffle House not on a thousand ? pic.twitter.com/O9sZTNfo9m

— Stretchmi Assahpart (lowkey a fight page) (@sho_shokabreezy) March 26, 2024

When you attend a Waffle House dinner, don’t be surprised if you get a show with it. I can hardly make out what this fight is about but that’s half the fun. It could be about world-changing events like the cook accidentally putting American instead of Cheddar in an omelet. Or it could be the pettiest drama like some saucy comments made under their breath about who’s seeing who.

Either way, this World Star Entertainment was destined to go down. Of course, we got more than we bargained for when a pair of breasts showed up toward the end. But in her defense, you can’t worry about what’s flopping around when you have someone in a headlock with one hand and punching with the other.

Ok, I will only ask once about this request.
Why do some communities send me requests for "Waffle House"?

Please be sure to explain the basis for the request, including the original story, history and background.

I look forward to an explanation from someone who knows more. https://t.co/w8ozUnJ1mY

— Katsuhiro Harada (@Harada_TEKKEN) March 30, 2024

How is it possible that Katsuhiro Harada doesn’t understand the significant role a Waffle House could play in Tekken? The franchise should be in Grand Theft Auto and every rip-off of a game that’s trying to be real to the gamer. It’s an American experience that you take at your own risk when you enter those doors.

You can either walk away satisfied with your meal or limping with stitches. It really is the role of the dice. If Harada put it in the game, he just might sell a few more copies.

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The Diddy Unraveling Appears To Be Underway

Something is going down at the Diddy estate and it looks serious. Feds are apprehending people and raiding his mansions. But we knew it was coming if we had only listened.

Diddy has been getting disturbingly bad press lately. He used to be one of the most popular people in the world with his thumb on the pulse of pop culture. But that’s in the past. His star meter has dropped over the years because little by little, the truth about him was slowly being leaked.

Of course, 50 Cent has been driving this point home on several different occasions. It was hard to believe at first because it just didn’t seem to be in Diddy’s nature. Then, other celebrities started to corroborate what 50 was saying and we were still scratching our heads. But it was hard to argue against it at that point. We just had to wrap our brains around the fact that we really didn’t know Diddy all that well.

But what’s being exposed about Diddy goes beyond his sexual orientation.

Katt Williams On Diddyvia YouTube/Club Shay Shay

Katt Williams was one of the celebrities who corroborated what 50 had been trying to tell everyone. During the infamous interview with Shannon Sharpe on his weekly podcast Club Shay Shay, Williams let it all fly. He said Diddy likes to party and you have to tell him, “No!”

What 50 and Williams mean by party is not standing around the pool with drinks in their hands talking about business. They also don’t mean doing lines in the bathroom as that’s sometimes what party means to people who partake in that kind of fun. No. Williams is saying Diddy likes to invite people to his bedroom and it doesn’t matter what sex they are. He gets down with everyone.

However, the Shannon Sharpe interview went a little deeper than that. Williams was talking about the truth coming to light and people getting exposed. He even named Diddy personally in that list of people and he said that it didn’t matter who they were. He went on to say that if people took it the wrong way, know why they are taking it the wrong way.

“In 30 years, I’ve done nothing but collect information, knowledge, and your secrets. So if you and a man were in the corner doing something you shouldn’t… somebody would come tell me.”

It looks like it might be time to go back and examine everything that Katt was talking about. Now, it’s making more sense than it ever has.

The Psychic Was On To Somethingvia YouTube/Sloan Bella

The revelations don’t end with Katt. In fact, a psychic last year channeled Kim Porter and said that things were going to start “unraveling” for Diddy in 2024. The author and TV personality, Sloan Bella is a popular psychic who had her fans talking on Monday when they remembered words she had said in light of what was going on at Diddy’s mansions.

The headlines started to hit that Diddy’s homes were being raided by the Feds. Then TMZ reported that his plane was off in the Caribbean although they could not confirm whether or not he was on board. CBS reported that his mansions in both LA and Miami were hit by Homeland Security after allegations of sex trafficking.

It seems that it’s all coming true. He settled a lawsuit with Cassie and then two more victims came forward. Katt Williams called it and Sloan Bella called it when she said this would be the beginning of the end for Diddy. Well, it has begun.

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Chapter XI – When Technology Is Your Alibi

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The Sad Story Of Riley Strain

What begins as a bad night for Riley Strain turns worse when the news hit today. He had been missing for two weeks but the search is now over as it has been confirmed it is his body that was found in the Cumberland River.

Riley Strain was a college student attending the University of Missouri. He was actually about to graduate and move on with his life into a very bright future. But he thought a trip to Nashville before graduation might be a good change of pace. It was actually for a conference so technically, it was official student business. However, why not have a little fun while he’s there? It is Nashville after all and that’s a town that knows how to have fun.

Skip ahead to about 10 pm on March 8. By that time, he had been kicked out of a bar, and a friend he was with had no idea where he had gone according to a report from WZTV Nashville. According to Riley Strain’s father, Ryan Gilbert, “He was put out of the bar by himself, and there was a time that went by that his friend wasn’t able to get out. We believe they were taking care of the bar tab or whatnot. By the time they got outside, he just wasn’t there any longer.”

According to the bar where he was last served, “He was followed down the stairs with one member of his party. The individual with Riley did not exit and returned upstairs.”

What Happened To Riley Strain?

Video surveillance from bars and other businesses along Strain’s path keeps track of his every movement. From falling in parking lots to crashing into poles, it’s clear he was quite intoxicated. But Luke’s 32 Bridge owned by Luke Bryan, the last bar Strain was served, reports that he was only served one drink and two waters before he was asked to leave.

The thing is, he was in Nashville and he had been in several bars before that one. So, who knows what was going through his mind when an anonymous witness reported that he was seen at a homeless encampment where he made a scene, the kind of situation where everyone remembers his face after the incident. Then, footage catches him jogging or walking fast toward the Cumberland River in the opposite direction of his hotel. Investigators think that he got his hotel mixed up with another one and he was heading in the wrong direction.

When a body was found a few days ago in the Cumberland River, everyone jumped to conclusions. But those conclusions have finally been confirmed that it was in fact the body of Riley Strain. What casts suspicions for me is that a homeless man was seen in a shirt that they think might have belonged to Strain. He did have an altercation with a person or several of them at a homeless encampment. But the police have put out reports that the body pulled out of the river shows no signs of foul play.

The Shirt of Riley Strain

Obviously, he was a bright young man with a bright future. But that’s all gone now. As a veteran drinker and nightlife extraordinaire, the buddy system is no joke. If your friend is highly intoxicated, you may not feel responsible for him if he gets kicked out of the bar, but think about the person who was with Strain that night. What he’s going through right now won’t go away anytime soon if it ever does. That will put scars on him for life.

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Hotel Rooms For Homeless Veterans Affairs Supportive Housing

The Veterans Affairs Supportive Housing program has had a tough challenge for many years because the thought of homeless veterans, let alone anyone else, is mindboggling to the many Americans who question how it’s even possible. But there are solutions and the latest to hit the headlines is the purchase of the Old Town Inn on Anastasia Island in St. Johns County, Florida to house veterans temporarily until they get on their feet.

It’s a beautiful island in Florida where veterans will be able to call home. It will be able to house twenty residents while they work through their homelessness issues and shift into more permanent solutions to keep a roof over their heads. Home Again St. Johns teamed up with the Veterans Council of St. Johns County to purchase the Inn for $3 million and even though the ink hasn’t quite dried yet, it’s pretty much a set deal that will service homeless veterans in the very near future.

The problem that Veterans Affairs Supportive Housing has had over the years is compound. Starting with veterans who don’t want to ask for help because they don’t want a piece of paper saying they’re homeless. That sense of pride puts them on the streets to survive, a solution that is perfeclty fine with many of them.

Another reason that I personally believe is an issue is that this information isn’t readily available for veterans who are actually willing to seek help. Finding the information is often like looking for a needle in a haystack and then getting the help these veterans deserve becomes a challenge of navigating red tape and a waiting game that doesn’t seem to want to help anyone. But looks are decieving. They always are.

The bad part is that the waiting game doesn’t favor anyone and that’s what often pushes veterans into the streets. They run out of resources and options before they have a chance to get the help they need. Sleeping in subways and gas station bathrooms isn’t a myth. In fact, the situation has often been far worse. Veterans have had to find shelter in abandoned buildings, abandoned cars, and tent cities because police officers have been instructed to kick them out of bus stops and to keep them moving when they try to catch some sleep on a heated grate in the middle of a sidewalk.

Historically though, the veteran homelessness picture is actually looking better when you take all things into account. There has been a steady decrease since 2010 despite a few jumps, one such increase was by 7.4% last year. The numbers still look high but look at how far they’ve dropped just in the last 14 years.

via U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development

The good news is that the purchase of the Old Town Inn isn’t an isolated incident. It’s happening all accross America like when the Tunnel to Towers Foundation bought a hotel in Houston, Texas to house nearly 200 veterans. Following suit, the Minnesota Assistance Council for Veterans turned the Robins Hotel in Robbinsdale, Minnesota into veteran housing.

These are the kinds of changes that are making the difference. It doesn’t always take $3 million to purchase a hotel to house veterans. That’s just one solution available to them and it would be great if they would start taking advantage of them all. It’s really not a good look when a country seems to care more about what’s going on around the world than what’s happening here at home. But the first step is to make sure veterans are aware of these programs, and then it’s all on them to just be willing to ask.

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Joker Joker Deuce – Chapter X

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Script Writing Services For Your Screenplay Or Television Series

Have you looked everywhere and you just can’t find the answers you need to get started on your script writing journey? Have you been sitting on an idea for years and it’s burning on your brain to do something with it?

One of the biggest issues dreamers face is moving forward with an idea. I don’t know how many times I’ve had to coach someone just to put their work out there for the world to see. I’ve known writers who were stuck on chapter one or even the first paragraph because it wasn’t perfect. It happens to everyone and I guess, somehow, I have found that I was put on this earth to give dreamers the answers.

Like Joker Joker Deuce, a screenplay I’m converting into a book, there are directors who have requested to read it and it was even optioned at one point. I have had several producers express an interest in a Netflix series I’m representing for a client and a director has requested to read Dean’s Shadow, a thriller I recently wrote. Getting the work finished is the first step but then you have to get the work out there for the filmmakers to see. So, putting one foot in front of the other, let’s talk about that first step.

Script Consulting

I actually start as a script consultant. Before any writing on the screenplay or television series can be done, it should be planned out first. That kills 90% of the butterflies, which in this sense is a good thing. We’re not talking about the beautiful winged things out in nature. We’re talking about the emotions in the pit of your stomach that have the ability to stop progress in motion.

As a script consultant, I offer feedback about an idea and fill in the gaps that you may be missing. Then, I write up a treatment that will give you a look at how the script is going to go from beginning to end. Seeing it from a bird’s eye view instills confidence and is an encouragement to move forward.

This is when the real script writing services can begin. So to answer some of your questions before you even have to ask, a screenplay should be between 90 and 120 pages. A half-hour television show should be 25 to 30 pages and an hour should be 45 to 60 pages.

Other Script Writing Services

When the script is complete, this begins the next phase of preparation. It’s the feedback and the polish stage. I look for feedback to incorporate into the script and then rewrite it based on that plus any improvements I think it might need. Rewriting is all part of the game. A script is never done on the first run. Rewrite, rewrite, rewrite, and rewrite some more. The first rewrites are to tighten the story and to cover all the gaps. The last rewrites are to polish off the spelling and grammar mistakes that I wasn’t worried about when I was doing the most important part of the work, writing it!

There are other materials that are normally helpful once the script is perfect and ready to be shopped around. A pitch deck is necessary and it should have an introduction, synopsis, character descriptions, target audience, marketing plan, distribution plan, and at least a budget estimate. But this is a creative thing that can be fun if done right. With great imagery and a little playfulness, the pitch deck is a way to introduce agents and filmmakers to your project in an entertaining presentation.

A television series should have a bible. There should be a synopsis for each episode. A screenplay should have a synopsis and sometimes, writers get very zealous in writing these. I’ve seen them almost as long as the screenplay itself. If you’re picking up what I’m putting down, there is a lot of writing. It’s writing about writing and then, writing about writing writing. Script writing services can get rather extensive but it’s all part of the job and that’s what it takes to get the attention of the decision makers in Hollywood.

But there is always a need for entertainment. There will never be an end to the need for movies and television shows. So to answer another question before you ask, yes it’s worth doing. Your idea is worth putting together and getting out there. If you don’t know how, don’t hesitate to ask. The only way to get to it is to go through it and I’ll help you every step of the way.

Even when it comes to actually contacting the agents and the producers who make things happen!

Check out my Gig on Fiverr and let’s get started…Television Script or Full-Length Feature Screenplay!

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Pilot Delivers Baby While Flying Plane

Jakarin Sararnrakskul was the pilot aboard the VietJet flight heading to Bangkok from Taipei, Taiwan when an emergency was brought to his attention. For some reason, he was the one who had to spring into action and bring a new baby into this world.

Jakarin Sararnrakskul is a proud father himself, so he had no qualms about assisting the mother in labor. I’m sure she would have chosen a better place than in midflight to have her child, but there she was. She was in the toilet of the plane with a pilot who had come to her rescue.

With the baby in his arms, he wrote on Instagram, “I have been a pilot for 18 years. I just helped a newborn baby on the plane.”

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It’s a very heroic thing Jakarin Sararnrakskul had to step up and do. But I have so many questions and it begins with, wasn’t there anyone else who could have saved the day?

There was an entire crew aboard the flight. I’m sure out of all of them, there might have been one who knew how to deliver a baby. If not, there should be a training course for it. Because I think there’s an inherent flaw in the current plan.

I’m just saying, I know there is most likely a co-pilot on the plane who can assist in flying. But how about this? Why doesn’t the co-pilot deliver the baby and let the pilot do the flying?

It’s just a thought. The pilot has a lot of things to think about from takeoff to landing like where the plane is going to go and how it’s going to get there. I think that’s some pretty important stuff to worry about while flying the plane. It’s important to the passengers and the airline. I’m sure they’d like to see their plane land at its destination rather than at some other airport because the pilot lost focus.

But that’s neither here nor there. The fact that Jakarin was flying a plane and then had to rush back to the toilet and change gears is phenomenal. He literally took off his pilot cap and put on his doctor’s hat to help a baby come into this world.

The statistics on this are even more strange. According to a 2020 study by the International Society of Travel Medicine, there have been 74 infants born on commercial flights from 1929 to 2018. It’s not a huge number but it happens more times than one would think.

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