Billy who seems to be spending an awful lot of time in the UK recently laments on Channel 4 News about his six cent residuals and losing his home due to the SAG strike.
Exhausting
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Billy who seems to be spending an awful lot of time in the UK recently laments on Channel 4 News about his six cent residuals and losing his home due to the SAG strike.
Exhausting
by Anonymous | reply 28 | December 3, 2023 2:00 PM |
You LOVE him! He is a Datalounge Icon!
Do Datalounge Icons receive a monthly stipend? Asking for a friend.
by Anonymous | reply 1 | December 1, 2023 3:49 PM |
Yes, OP. Those who constantly create new threads to bitch about him.
by Anonymous | reply 2 | December 1, 2023 4:49 PM |
He’s not wrong, says what other people wouldn’t dare, yet is obscuring truth a bit, as his home was sold as some sort of agreement in his divorce.
That said, I really don’t think there’s more than six cents worth of people watching Pose reruns.
by Anonymous | reply 3 | December 1, 2023 5:42 PM |
He should stop wasting all his money on those clown dresses and put the money in the bank. Fool.
by Anonymous | reply 4 | December 1, 2023 6:14 PM |
Unfortunately pathetic narcissist queens like Ms. Porter have been emboldened by victim culture to go full narc and display themselves for the voids of human beings that they really are. Ms. Porter is an obnoxious and deranged pig person who deserves nobody’s sympathy—to provide any is to feed a bottomless, hideous pit (which coincidentally also describes Ms. Porter’s nasty, gaping hole).
by Anonymous | reply 5 | December 1, 2023 6:25 PM |
EVERY actor gets tiny residual checks sometimes!
Each tv show or film has a huge list of re-use categories, and depending on how much money it generates in each category, once divided by every actor in the show, those amounts can be just a few cents. As a program ages it throws off less and less cash, but that doesn't tell the whole story at all, and pretending it does is lying!
Take as an example Law & Order SVU- My episode reran in primetime three times, and for each rerun I got a residual check for over $1000. Sure it went down from there, but for a smallish one-episode role, I've earned about $5000 in residuals on top of my pay for the shoot day. That's because it was a network show. POSE is a cable streamer that will likely have a meager afterlife, mainly for the subject matter and because it sucked.
by Anonymous | reply 6 | December 1, 2023 6:46 PM |
Santos is just as exhausting. They'd make a fine couple.
by Anonymous | reply 7 | December 1, 2023 7:07 PM |
I first noticed him on "Broken Hearts Club" and even then he was exhausting ("As a person in a relationship...")
by Anonymous | reply 8 | December 1, 2023 8:16 PM |
[quote]losing his home due to the SAG strike.
It was a fourth month strike. If you lost your home after four months, you likely both bought more house than you can afford and foolishly didn't bother with something as simple as an emergency fund to use, you know, during an emergency like a strike, for instance.
by Anonymous | reply 9 | December 1, 2023 8:26 PM |
people with TDS
by Anonymous | reply 10 | December 1, 2023 9:00 PM |
He's like Roxane Gay for me.
Would I want to be around him? No
But on some level I do find him entertaining....
by Anonymous | reply 11 | December 1, 2023 9:02 PM |
People who constantly post about him here in order to mock him.
by Anonymous | reply 12 | December 1, 2023 9:03 PM |
He didn't lose his home due to a strike. LIES. Complaints based on lies are a sign of mental illness.
by Anonymous | reply 13 | December 1, 2023 9:07 PM |
British media are easily entranced by even the thirstiest z-list American celebrities. Nick Grimshaw’s entire career was built on sucking up to mediocrity.
by Anonymous | reply 14 | December 1, 2023 9:08 PM |
Yes, everybody gets small residual checks sometimes.
The difference is today actors are getting those micro payments for recent projects.
Integral to the financial model that enables actors to survive is counting on a decent stream of meaningful payments for past work. The syndicated model made that possible.
With streaming, that’s been obliterated. If you’re going to get a 63 cent check, it should be for a movie you did 25 years ago, not a project that would have resulted in residuals sufficient to pay some real bills.
by Anonymous | reply 15 | December 1, 2023 9:14 PM |
[quote] It was a fourth month strike. If you lost your home after four months, you likely both bought more house than you can afford and foolishly didn't bother with something as simple as an emergency fund to use, you know, during an emergency like a strike, for instance.
As r3 notes, the home was sold to liquidate assets for the divorce settlement. It is easier for him to attribute the sale to the strike than to discuss the failure of his marriage. Given his slow rise to financial stability, he likely had no more house than he could afford and I'm sure he's still doing OK now, notwithstanding the "six cent checks."
by Anonymous | reply 16 | December 1, 2023 10:21 PM |
The exhausting ones are the DL Republicans who are obsessed with attacking Billy Porter. Apparently, we need a different thread about him everyday, despite the fact that he's not even that famous.
by Anonymous | reply 17 | December 1, 2023 10:29 PM |
R17 how exactly does calling out vapid, entitled, narcissistic behavior make one a Republican? Nobody is obligated to approve of Billy Porter just because he's a sister. He is by all optics a pure nightmare person.
by Anonymous | reply 18 | December 2, 2023 2:17 AM |
He’s a good singer though.
by Anonymous | reply 19 | December 2, 2023 2:26 AM |
Humorless, tasteless, ugly-spirited egomaniac.
Go.
Away.
by Anonymous | reply 20 | December 2, 2023 3:25 AM |
I try never to be caught complaining about anything, ever. If there's something worth complaining about chances are everyone else is already well aware of it, so there's no need to be tiresome, or unpleasant.
I've found that the relatively few people I can't stand are chronic complainers. It's just such and unpleasant and ungracious bad habit to indulge.
by Anonymous | reply 21 | December 3, 2023 4:40 AM |
OP not really. I don't know what pronoun to use for Billy Porter so I'll just continue to pretend they don't exist,.
by Anonymous | reply 22 | December 3, 2023 5:34 AM |
R21 = Ghost of Queen Elizabeth II
“Never complain, never explain.”
by Anonymous | reply 23 | December 3, 2023 8:03 AM |
R24
by Anonymous | reply 25 | December 3, 2023 8:45 AM |
who?
by Anonymous | reply 26 | December 3, 2023 8:49 AM |
Santos, Porter and Markle would make a pretty good cast for Sartre's Huis Clos, where Hell = three mismatched people in a room together forever. I guess any one of them would be hell for anyone else, but together they would drive each other to despair because the one thing none of them is capable of is paying attention to others. They would all be ignored for all time BECAUSE they're all narcissists, which would be a pretty good Satanic trick.
by Anonymous | reply 27 | December 3, 2023 12:54 PM |
Is he related to Lucy Ricardo’s maid?
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