Thanks to A Star Is Born, We Have to Deal with This
Thanks to the directing and marketing efforts of that actor-wastrel, Bradley Cooper, we’re now forced to deal with a woman whose actual real talent is to troll the media, get attention, and leverage that attention for ticket sales.
I never bought into the “musical talent” myth of Lady Gaga — real name Stefani Joanne Angelina Germanotta — the musical darling/cultural hero of the LGBTQI, Millennial, show tunes music spouting generation.
I could never figure out why someone who was always pushed to me as being “talented” and “brilliant” couldn’t just leverage her brilliance and talent and skills at music in a world of crowded options for attention and awareness and beat out her competitors that way.
Cause, after all, she was just “born that way.”
Instead, with Lady Gaga, the spectacle has always preceded the talent.
And, just as in A Star is Born, a needless remake of an already needless remake, Gaga’s stepping back into the world of film with a role in a film about the Gucci fashion family.
The Guy Got Killed By A Gay Serial Killer… No Wait…
See if you can figure out this convoluted plot from the trades, Goblin:
Lady Gaga will star in a movie about the Gucci family fashion dynasty and the murder of the grandson of founder Guccio Gucci.
Ridley Scott is directing the film.
Gaga will portray Patrizia Reggiani, the ex-wife of Maurizio Gucci. She had been abandoned after 12 years of marriage by Maurizio Gucci in 1985 for a younger woman. Reggiani was tried and convicted of orchestrating her ex-husband’s assassination on the steps of his office in Italy in 1995. She gained the nickname the Black Widow during the trial and served 18 years before being released from prison in 2016.
Of course, Ridley Scott is directing this.
He hasn’t had a legit hit in years—Prometheus and The Martian don’t count—and he needs to attach himself to a Progressive, LGBTQI friendly star that seems to be rising in Gaga in order to retain his relevancy at age 81.
His last film was about the Getty kidnapping—All the Money in the World—which I did not see and neither did anyone else you know, and he’s currently directing Matt Damon, Ben Affleck and Adam Driver in The Last Duel, a medieval “trial by combat” dueling picture.
Umm. Ok, Ridley. That one might be ok.
By the way, I genuinely confused the plot of this movie — and Gaga’s role — with the life of that other fashion mogul, Gianni Versace, and his bizarre death at the hands of Andrew Cunanan.
Tells you how tied in I am.
A Fashion Drama For Which I’m Not the Target Demo…
The world of high fashion and the machinations of a bunch of people who basically sew clothes together that anorexic models parade around in on catwalks in Milan, Venice, and Paris every year, interests me very little.
However, I realize that some people may not be aware of this millennium’s biggest musical star in Lady Gaga — the woman has sold an estimated 27 million albums and 146 million singles worldwide, and she has a net worth of $275 million dollars — and her level of popular influence, so I say, have it Gaga.
I won’t be seeing this drama, but I’m sure a ton of people in her core audience will be.
More power to her for playing the game.
