Joe Escalante's weekly Texas two-step into the business end of showbiz... This week: the latest from the Blake Lively/ Justin Baldoni case (settled two weeks before trial), and the impact of the recent Live Nation anti-trust case, including a wrongful termination case.
Also, Joe goes into his latest struggles with getting accurate answers from the AI that he actually pays for... seriously, it's just making stuff up at this point... Mortal Kombat, Devil Wears Prada, and Michael are still on top on the box office (we verified it, chatGPT... stop trying to get Joe fired!)...
And... there's a legal battle over the home that Marilyn Monroe died in... It's a landmark, but the current owners don't want it to be. They want it to be a McMansion. The LA Cultural Heritage wants to preserve it. Joe gives his two cents...