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Demi Moore says she got shamed for her paychecks twice. Striptease made it look like she had betrayed women, and then G.I. Jane made it look like she had betrayed men. She says the money was never about being paid equal to a man, just being paid what she had earned. Then people started tearing G.I. Jane down months before it came out, before anyone had even seen it. Her read is that you don't get to have too much. I think she's right, and it's still happening to actresses now. They build you up, tear you down, and then act surprised when you come back.

Ethan Hawke says there's a direct correlation in his career: the more he loves a project, the less he gets paid. His point is about the algorithm. The big money goes to whatever the algorithm already wants. A movie like Blue Moon gets made anyway, and then the people behind it are humbly begging you to watch it. Doing Shakespeare on stage pays a couple hundred bucks a week, and he still calls it a gift. That's the deal for anyone making smaller films right now. The work people keep rewatching for twenty years is rarely the work that paid best, and his own career is a pretty good example.

Susan Sarandon says that when something goes wrong on a set, women try to fix it and men try to figure out whose fault it is. She said it on Talking Pictures from HBO Max. She hedges it herself, so this isn't a blanket rule. Anyone who has worked on a crew has seen both reactions to a problem, though. Is she describing men and women, or just good and bad coworkers? ft: @hbomax Talking Pictures on youtube

He was about to hit send on an obituary for one close friend when the phone rang, and it was another close friend calling from hospice to say goodbye. Billy Crystal, on the year he just had. Bill Farley did his hair and makeup on every movie Crystal made. He said he had maybe a week, thanked him for the life they had together, and signed off with "when I see you again, I'll give you a trim." Bill hung up, and Crystal pressed send. Then he gets to losing Rob Reiner and his wife Michele, and he can't really finish the sentences. He says it'll never be okay. A comedian that quick running out of words tells you more than any speech could. ft: @CBSSunday CBS Sunday Morning on youtube

Sharon Stone says she will never get over seeing her 17-year-old prom date in his casket with their prom picture in his pocket. A drunk driver ran him off the road on his motorcycle and kept going. The night it happened, she sat up on the edge of the sofa until dawn because she already knew something was wrong. At the funeral she saw his football team standing in the back, thought they were all children, and walked out without saying a word. People mostly know the movie star. This is a teenage girl finding out in one morning that being young was over for her. Some grief stays with you for the rest of your life, and she's still carrying this one. ft: @andersoncooper All There Is on youtube

Hollywood keeps remaking the wrong movies. Leave the classics alone and go remake the ones that had a great idea and blew it. Some of the best remakes ever came from movies nobody was precious about. John Carpenter's The Thing came out of a 1951 creature feature. Cronenberg's The Fly came out of a 1958 Vincent Price movie. Scarface was a 1932 gangster picture long before Pacino got his hands on it. Now look at what happens when a studio goes after a movie people already love. Gus Van Sant remade Psycho almost shot for shot in 1998, and all it proved is that you can't trace your way into a classic. RoboCop and Total Recall both got slick new versions, and I'd still put the originals on first every time. A remake of a great movie can only tie. A remake of a flawed movie with a great idea can actually win. Which movie had a great idea and deserved a better version?

He was alone in a hotel room, bleeding after months of chronic pain, with his marriage mostly over, and he told his doctors he would not have the surgery. Joe Manganiello, on the lowest point of his illness. He was trying to finish a movie called The Kill Room in New Jersey. His doctors wanted him back in LA to cut him open and put him back on an ostomy bag. He said no and hung up. Right before he got the dog, he had given his gun away. He calls that phone call the moment he finally let go. Most people know him as the big, healthy guy from True Blood and Magic Mike, which makes this harder to hear. He tells it like a man who knows how close he came. ft: @richroll The Rich Roll Podcast on youtube