Remember when Jayson Tatum never picked up Jaylen Brown’s phone calls, but answered Jeff Teague’s call in one ring? 🤔
I believe everything Jaylen Brown is saying about him.
Footage released of Fresno police shooting 39 year old Joanna Lopez in California
She was holding a woman hostage with a knife pressed to the victim's neck
The officer acted quickly and shot Lopez before she could hurt the woman. She later died at the hospital.
Terrence Howard says he gave up $1,000,000 of his own salary to help Robert Downey Jr. get Iron Man after prison. Then Marvel cut his pay from $8,000,000 to $1,000,000, the week his mother died.
In the video below, he tells Joe Rogan what happened when he called Downey for help back.
Howard was cast in Iron Man before Downey, and was reportedly the highest-paid actor in the first film.
He says he had a 3-picture deal: $4,500,000 for the first movie, about $8,000,000 for the second, $12,000,000 for the third.
Back then, the studio didn't want to insure Downey because of his past. Howard says he offered to put up $1,000,000 from his own fee so Downey could get the part.
Before the sequel, Marvel came back with $1,000,000 instead of $8,000,000. His agent hung up on them. The role went to Don Cheadle.
Howard says he called Downey 27 times asking for the same help he once gave him, and didn't hear back for 3 years.
Marvel and Downey have never confirmed his version.
Did Robert Downey Jr. owe Terrence Howard, or is that just how Hollywood works?
Chris Tucker was paid a reported $25 million for Rush Hour 3.. then mostly disappeared from movies.. and in 2014 the IRS filed an $11.5 million tax lien against him.
That is almost half of the biggest check of his career, owed back to the government.
In the 1990s he went from Smokey in Friday to Jackie Chan's partner in Rush Hour.
"I don't do stuff for money," he says. "Never did."
The court record:
1995: Friday comes out. He plays Smokey.
1998: Rush Hour pairs him with Jackie Chan.
2007: Rush Hour 3 hits theaters. It is his last big studio payday.
2014: the lien is filed, for unpaid federal taxes.
2023: he returns in Air, playing Nike's Howard White. He says he wrote all six of his scenes.
"I got to pay these bills," he says. "I'm tired of seeing these notices."
The case for Chris: he says he stepped away on purpose, to grow, travel "the world 10 times over" and only take roles he could do his best in.
The case for the IRS: a tax lien is the government's legal claim on your property until the bill is paid. The taxes were owed on money he had already earned.
Then the twist.
He says the IRS is no longer the problem.
"I done paid the IRS off," he says. "But I owe some more people now."
His offer to them, in his words: "Let's make a deal."
And his own summary of the fortune: "I got rich," he jokes. "I ain't got nothing. No more."
If you have ever let one big check carry you for years, you know how fast a payday turns into a payment plan.
In the video below, Chris Tucker says: "I was the highest paid in Hollywood, 25 million a movie and back end."
Did stepping away from Hollywood cost him more than the IRS ever did?
Gilbert Arenas says that for Domantas Sabonis to publicly call out Darius Acuff Jr. shows he doesn't see the writing on the wall. This isn't his team anymore; he needs to fall in line, or they are going to trade him. Arenas recalled that when the Washington Wizards drafted John Wall and he saw him in the first practice, Gilbert immediately knew it was time to fall in line.