Peter Bogdanovich's former assistant spills some lukewarm tea

Oooooh, is this real?!? We haven’t had *any* decent gossip here on the DL for a long time.

Maybe it is “lukewarm tea”, but I don’t care! I like when the gossip includes both old and new Hollywood (from Beatty to DiCaprio, etc.); it makes it all more interesting in my opinion.

Thanks for this link and thread, OP!

All sounds very believable

Waitress, could I get some HOT water here?

Quentin Tarantino violated us while we were propped up on a dashboard!

I am *shocked* that Tarantino allegedly cheats on all his girlfriends!

When you see him the first word that always comes to mind is #gentleman....

Any new (or new-ish) Robert Evans gossip from this assistant?

(He’s right around Bogdanovich’s age and their friend groups overlap, so you’d think there might be something...)

Not even lukewarm. Most of these are obvious to Helen Keller.

Quentin Tarantino cheats on all his gfs (we know most of Hollywood has no morals)

-Warren Beatty still fucking anything that moves (see Quentin Tarantino)

-Mariah Carey was using her ex-fiance for money (I'd like to hear more details on this)

-Ariana Grande has an eating disorder (it doesn't surprise me, most famous women under 40 do to some degree)

-People pay off other people to keep sexual assault hush hush all the time (No! I'm shocked to my foundations!!)

-Leonardo DiCaprio acts like a toddler if you don't acknowledge him (I think most Hollywood actors do.)

-Every one knew Harvey Weinstein was a predator and nobody cared (I don't think nobody cared, I think they preferred keeping their jobs rather than rocking the boad)

-Bill Paxton was an angel (He's seems like one of the few well adjusted)

-Courtney Love can snort coke like nobody's business (OLD, OLD, OLD news)

-Everybody knew about Kevin Spacey but again, nobody cared (see Harvey Weinstein)

Is that "rape victim" Tarantino dated Allison Anders?

God. Imagine fucking Quentin. That horrible exhausting personality with that face, voice and head combined with his weird sexual tastes. And then he cheats on you.

[quote]God. Imagine fucking Quentin. That horrible exhausting personality with that face, voice and head combined with his weird sexual tastes. And then he cheats on you.

A girl's gotta eat.

My grandmother in Peoria has this much tea.

Tarantino is looking like Robert Englund. I thought he was handsome when young (I like cartoonishly strong jaws, they are redolent of BDF).

Everybody thinks that Mariah is super-rich because she wrote all those hit songs, but she's pissed away a lot of it due to her bipolar condition and diva ways. The bizarre engagement to the billionaire was because she's broke. She's trying to make a comeback in Vegas now.

Tommy Mottola is gay

Songwriting royalties don't go away. Mariah still makes a decent amount of money each year from her holiday music alone. The problem is the upkeep and her overextravagant spending. She's not in Tori Spelling territory. She needs to get Liza Minnelli's financial advisers. Despite being a mess, Liza has never been financially strapped.

Bill Paton was NOT an angel. He was actually really crazy, according to a close friend who worked with him for several years.

R15, Songwriters say they make very little money today, even for Top 10 hits, because nobody buys music anymore. They make pennies on streaming.

Mariah's royalties are a fraction of what they used to be. If it weren't for her Xmas album, she'd be Dionne Warwick broke right now.

And the only people Margaret ever could be even slightly delightful around were sycophants who happened also to be famous and/or titled.

I don't think Mariah is in the poorhouse but I don't think she's as rich as some think. Her heyday was in the 90's when she was selling singles at huge discounts to bolster her Billboard charts positions. I could be wrong, but I think she only had one contract with Columbia. An artist's first record contract is notoriously lopsided in favor of the record company.

Does Margaret = Mariah???

I would LOVE for that to catch on!

Mariah got paid 100 million to leave Virgin records after the Glitter debacle. She's been with Def Jam for almost twenty years.

Singles aside, her songwriting royalites were HUGE for at least two decades. We Belong Together was the biggest selling single in the US in the 2000's.

Most celebrities aren't broke in the way that average people are. A lot of them just need good financial advice and streamline their spending habits/cut down on excessive Mariah's got a lot that could be tailored and she would be just fine. Plus she gets financial support from Nick Cannon.

[quote]In a brief statement released today (Jan. 23), the label's EMI parent announced the multi-album contract, which would have paid the singer a reported $100 million, was amicably settled for $28 million. Carey also retains $21 million "paid to her or for her benefit" at the onset of her contract with the label.

She actually got $49 million for her time at Virgin. After taxes that's roughly, what, $30 million? And that's still before she had to pay her lawyers, agents, and managers.

Thanks, I know.

Uh, we knew all of this except the pubic hair thing.

I can’t believe anyone fucks Quentin. He’s the grossest guy I’ve ever seen. He makes my stomach churn. I know why he gets woman—fame and money, but still....

How can Dionne Warwick be broke, with all her hit songs and concert money?

... and Solid Gold!

Mariah's Vegas engagement is already considered a train wreck. Ticket sales are terrible and the show has been on groupon as well as another site that gives away tickets. The problem is that you can also check how many seats are available on Ticketmaster and there are always lots and lots of tickets for every performance. It was a gigantic miscalculation for her management to book her into a theater that seats nearly 5,000. Get her into a smaller place like the Wynn showroom that Diana Ross sells out and maybe you might have more interest and it wouldn't be such a disaster. But since Caesars is paying her so much money, they couldn't do that.

If people imposed the same morality on those connected to Weinstein that they do with Jim Jordan, a ton of A List people would be excommunicated from Hollywood.

That's shitty, that Maria's bipolarism caused her to squander her money.

Quentin's aging faster than his movies.

This person sounds brain damaged.

How would an assistant to Peter Bogdanovich know any gossip that’s even remotely current? When was the last time Bogdanovich could even afford to employ an assistant? How fucking old is this person?

I'd rather hear the old dirt, for instance - is it true that Cybil Shepherd would smoke weed and binge on extra- mayonnaise devilled eggs topped with pork rinds, and then fart and giggle?

The Leo one makes sense, since he looks like an evil toddler when clean shaven

Paxton was in no way, shape, or form...an angel. His substance problem made it impossible.

I hate Mariah carey's records and never bought one. I think she's extremely pretentious and not talented. hate that singing style - I also hated whitey houston

Oh, and Whitney was a carpet-muncher.

R17, Stevie Nicks makes $3 to $5 million a year JUST on her songwriting of "Landslide" alone - every single year. Even now.

Plus her songwirintg royalties for "Rhiannon", "Edge Of Seventeen", "Dreams", "Stand Back", "Sara", "Leather And Lace" and many more rake in MORE millions for her every year.

And she happily lives very extravagantly.

I'm sure Mariah makes plenty each year as well.

R39, that is such bullshit. No songwriter gets that much a year for one song. Even a huge contemporary hit doesn't get one million a year for the songwriter.

Nicks herself said she got around 7 million total in royalties from "Landslide" and that was from 1975. Since most of it went up her nose and ass, it might explain why she still tours like a crazy woman.

Reality check:

With the way the industry’s changing, do you worry about the future of songwriting?

With Maroon 5’s ‘One More Night’, which was Number One in America for nine weeks, you look at the Spotify statement for that and it was streamed over 78m times. We all had a third of that song and I made $11,000 off one of the biggest songs of that year. The reason I’m explaining how big that song was is because you think about the average songwriter who maybe has an album cut or a hit that’s maybe Top 20 on radio, that used to get you a living. Now a Number One song for nine weeks makes you $11,000 from streaming and it’s all going to go to streaming eventually. Radio might go away because of how streaming is and because of portable devices. I always read on the comments about the Taylor thing [re Apple Music] and I think she’s been super brave fighting for songwriters, and I know that she’s genuinely doing that for songwriters and not just herself. She’s telling people that there are others that have helped make this thing.

R42, can you share a link?

R43, Here's the link

Taylor Swift is not a good songwriter or singer. Her biggest hit "Shake It Off" was written by Max Martin.

R40 - how would you know what a songwriter makes in annual royalties?

I need to hear more Bill Paxton details.

Also, Mariah didn't write or co-write ANY of those songs. Any writer who had a cut on a Mariah album had to share publishing with her. Otherwise, the song would not make the album.

It was laid out explicitly in any songwriting camps for Mariah's albums that if the song was cut, the writers would have to give up a part of publishing.

I'd rather Bogdanovich's assistant dish the deets about his relationshiip & ultimate marriage to the sister of Dorothy Stratton.

So Mariah doesn't have a nearly $600 million dollar fortune then? I've always thought of her as filthy rich.

Definitely lives like she has $1 Billion in the bank.

If Mariah isn't as rich as she wants us to believe, how could she let that billionaire Packer guy get away?! Wasn't it rumored that she broke it off with him?

I've always imagined Mariah with hundreds of millions of dollars in the bank. It'll be surprising if that's not the case.

R52 she's never been a big touring artist, she's always been kind of a flop on tour , her box office numbers for her tours are quite TERRIBLE Google Mariah 's tour grosses amf attendance compated to Madonna's , it's astonishing how much more successful Madonna is, considering she had those hits.

Artists make over 90% of their income from tours, albums sales and single sales are NOTHING

R53 Got it.

Mariah seems like she spends money like crazy.

R55 I think I've seen her on the annaual Forbes Highest paid celiebtities list ONCE since 2000

Madonna, Beyonce, Celine, Taylor etc are ALWAYS on that list everytime they tour because they have huge tours . People the world over pay huge amounts to see them live

Mariah does not

I'm surprised that Warren Beatty can still get it up.

OPs link is broken.

Take this back. I didn't ask for ice tea.

lol mariah makes 400k a year from her shitty christmas song, that is not enough to support her extravagant life style. She hasn't had a hit in a decade and her being relevant in the press is the only thing that's keeping her A-list. Every millennial thinks she's a fat granny.

R60 Not true.

R51

No, he dumped her.

She eats her profits.

Mariah has never been as popular as her record company props her up. The receipts are in touring. No one wants to see her live.

Whoever said she is almost never on the Forbes list is right. She just isn't relevant with her fake #1's Tommy got her.

She is a Christmas act now who has no dignity and who clings to that Christmas song every year in a horrific display of desperation. Truly cringe-worthy in every way. And don't get me started on her attempt to be a New Years thing!

No shit r49! Can't believe it was nearly 50 replies. How about Peter grooming the 12 year old sister of his slain girlfriend, complete with getting her plastic surgery to look like her? Jesus, he's a fucking freak, who cares what he thinks of other people. Not to mention blowing so much money on that shit movie he put Dorothy in. They all laughed, indeed!

R65

I think you got lost.

Privately, Mariah can fart a few good tunes.

[quote]Tommy Mottola is gay

Tommy Mottola lives on the run....

Well, DERR!

Seriously, R49. Bogdanovich was apparently fucking Stratten's sister when she was 12, right after Dorothy was murdered. If not sleeping with her he was at least grooming her, and he did indeed pay for her plastic surgery. When they got married in 1988 he did the full PR package, including a sympathetic puff piece in People.

I can't believe he's escaped scrutiny, but he did a LOT of work to downplay his relationship with Louise Stratten.

how could the momma let the old perv fuk her 12 yr old daughter???

R53, that's because Mariah has no stage presence. She can't dance for shit. She puts on ball gowns and prances around on uptempo songs like Fantasy while her back up dancers do their thing. Whitney had the same problem.

[quote]how could the momma let the old perv fuk her 12 yr old daughter???

Uh, read up on Dorothy and Paul Snyder.

I don't believe the Warren Beatty gossip for a minute. Dude is what, 80? He probably needs help just to get out of the house these days.

I swear I can't name one Mariah song. Same with Beyonce. I don't like the genre and I don't listen to pop radio anymore.

R70, he married Louise, didn't he? Did you mean he downplayed his relationship with her while she was still a kid?

I guess since no one cares about him anymore no one is stepping forward with any accusations. Seems like his closet would be bursting with skeletons.

The whole Louise Stratton thing is creepy. Like having your dead dog cloned.

Yes r76, he and Louise married. Louise was either 12 or 13 when Dorothy was murdered; Dorothy and Peter began their relationship a few months before her death. He and Louise married in 1988; she was 20, he 49.

Bogdanovich also claimed in his book on Dorothy that Hefner May assaulted Stratten when she was staying at the Playboy mansion. Hefner sued Bogdanovich, and it got edited from the book though not totally removed.

The Chili Peppers reference it in "Californication" Dorothy is the "first born unicorn" hardcore/soft porn. Louise is the second born unicorn I guess.

R60 The christmas song may bring in $400k a year in revenues but the label owns the master, and Walter Afanasieff owns the majority of the publishing on the song. So, Mariah probably gets a mechanical, and PRR royalties. That won't amount to much. Probably under $20k a year.

New linkie

[quote]he married Louise, didn't he? Did you mean he downplayed his relationship with her while she was still a kid?

They've both said that he simply kept in touch with the family for years until she was 17 or so, then started dating. There were rumors for years prior to her being 17 that they were in a relationship, though.

But they also downplayed the marriage. If they were photographed prior to the mid 1990s it was rare, and they looked like they didn't want to be noticed. Hopefully this link will work to a 1990 photo of them where she looks like his teenaged daughter.

[quote]I guess since no one cares about him anymore no one is stepping forward with any accusations. Seems like his closet would be bursting with skeletons.

There are a ton of guys of his generation with millions of skeletons. A lot of the women they preyed on are of an older generation where they don't consider themselves victims. To a certain extent I think it's a problem to try to put our 2018 values on (for example) 1968 teenage groupies, but Bogdanovich's behavior with Louise is pretty extreme.

As mentioned, in the mid 1990s you started seeing more photos of Louise with Peter in public, probably because she started to look like an adult by then.

This one has a creepy caption: "I've spent more of my life with Peter than on my own." From 1997, when she would have been 28 or 29.

Mariah married Nick Cannon for his money too. Yes. I was surprised to discover how wealthy he was. He has developed serious chronic health problems, suffers from some kind of chronic disease, has been hospitalized,etc, but getting away from Crazy Mariah may have saved his life. When he was really sick, rushed to the hospital, diagnosed, etc. she could not deal. She was the Star. The Diva. it was all about fetching and carrying her ad her wants and needs. She is totally emotionally not equipped to deal with anyone needing anything from her, and if you're sick, tough shit. Nick soldiered on for a while, especially for the kids, but Mariah is truly a useless person. And she had a huge drinking problem. I feel sorry for her kids because she has not one motherly bone in her body. Nick is a decent guy.

Nope. BS. Don't be so fucking gullible. The only believable thing listed is the Grande eating disorder, so the high pony tail makes sense. The rest is fucking lame BS.

A high pony tail is an indication of an eating disorder? hair growth issues?

Peter is creepy

I am interested in any tea from any of Bog's sets. You got nothing?

Luke warm? My nanna could have guess half this shit. Stone fucking cold.

I am interested in Bill Patton, what was crazy about him? I loved Big Love.

I watched Peter's biopic on Natalie Wood online and it was good. It was made in Australia with mostly Aussie actors. I think it was a tv movie although I never saw anything promoting it.

R90 Bill Paxton had serious drug issues throughout his professional career.

Peter liked young blondes – Cybil Shepherd, Patti Hanson, etc. He was going to make Patti a star… That didn't work out so well.

*Hansen

- R93

So if people are insinuating Mariah's financial situation isn't what we think it is then how is she able to live so grand? Those mansions, private jets, yachts etc.

None of that stuff pays for it self. She has to have a few hundred million dollars in the bank. Mariah lives really grand.

Nick Cannon is not funding all of that. And Mariah is no where near broke. So what's really the deal?

You can live big if you're making money big and Mariah isn't. Her Vegas residency is a huge failure.

[quote]Also, Mariah didn't write or co-write ANY of those songs. Any writer who had a cut on a Mariah album had to share publishing with her. Otherwise, the song would not make the album.

you guys are morons. All of Mariah's giant hit albums/records for the first decade were written by HER and one other person. Either Ben Marguiles or Walter Afansieff. "Hero" and "All I want for xmas' were just her and Afansieff and that alone, for example.

The royalties from those 2 alone which are still played non stop will mean she never has to work a day in her life.

That no-name songwriter quoted above is talking about Spotify which does pay nothing, but radio is still not dead yet, and radio still pays songwriters (not the singers) in the US so Mariah has nothing to worry about.

I highly doubt she wrote very much of the two awful songs you mention. Madonna gets co-writer credit on most of her songs, it's in her publishing deal, but in reality she only writes a couple lines of the lyrics, Patrick Leonard or Stephen Bray, et al come up with the chord changes and the melody.

I am curious about Sandra Bullock and River Phoenix, Bogdonovich made a movie with them.

R58 NOT TRUE according to Patrick Leonard from.an interview a few years back, Madonna writes ALL the lyrics to her songs and Leonard would write the music to accompany it, that's how they worked together on True Blue and Like a Prayer. David Foster also said a similar thing about Madonna in his autobiography, that she wrote a handful of songs on the spot and he thought they were good lyrics

Quentin Tarantino looks like a male version of Madame Puppet

Why are so many men so sexist when it comes to female songwriters? Yes, Mariah is a very involved songwriter. Whitney and Celine, no.