Some People Had A Really Bad Year

First up Amber Heard.  She started the year off as Aquaman's love interest in what looks like series of movies that will spawn many sequels.  And, she was also a bonified member of the Metoo victim class with her claims that her ex-husband and well known actor Johnny Depp, beat her.  She ended the year down 10 million or so and everyone now knows she liked to use her bed, the one with Johnny Depp in it, as a toilet.  Somewhere echoing amid the background music in this sad, little tale, is the old saying.  "You'll never work in this town again."

Next up, Todd and Julie Chrisley who were the stars of their own reality TV show 'Chrisley Knows Best'.  With Todd the Real Estate tycoon in charge of his empire holding court on this TV show.  But then reality caught up to them.  Turns out the Real Estate Empire was built on fraudulent loans they got from banks and money they didn't pay the IRS.  Now, they're both starting their 12 year stretch in Federal Prison and they have to cough up 17 million, in fines.  Maybe Chrisley Knows Best wasn't the best idea as a title or a career choice either.  When you're a thief, it's not a good idea to show off the stolen merch on TV.  Maybe the background music here could be, "Jailhouse Rock."

Then there was poor Will Smith.  He must have wondered as we did, what with all the allegations of abuse by the hands of powerful men in both Hollyweird and the Mass Hysteria...  Why didn't one of those women have a husband, a boyfriend, an older brother, a younger brother or an uncle, who could have smacked the crap out of those nasty guys?  If they had, wouldn't that have been great?  Then Will Smith must have taken it one step farther.  Why don't I, me, Will Smith, be that guy?

So Will must have worked it out with his good friend Chris Rock.  They figured that since Chris was one of the Hosts at the Academy Awards all they had to do is have Chris say something nasty about Will's wife actress Jada Smith.  Then Will would come up and smack him.  But like they say, the best laid plans of mice and men.  

So, while Chris is 5 feet 10 inches tall, he's a real skinny guy.  And, Will, well he's over 6 feet tall and heavier, a lot heavier.  So when he smacked Chris it didn't look like the scene in the movie where the good guy gives the bad guy what he deserves.  No, it looked like the big kid beating up the little kid.  And, the camera wasn't set up right.  If they would have taken the shot from behind and below Will, it wouldn't have looked so bad.  Chris would have looked taller, bigger.  And, there wasn't enough light.  The optics were bad, really bad.

So Will Smith had to go on an apology tour which never works.  When you're cast as the bad guy, the mob nowadays, doesn't want to hear you're sorry.  They want blood.  So, of course that didn't work.  But now Will has a movie coming out and just before Christmas too.  So, maybe in the spirit of the season, people will forgive.  Or maybe, with the mob having all these other people to skewer in the last year, people have just forgotten.  So, maybe they go and see the movie.  Then again, maybe the background music to this sad, little tale just might be, "Thanks For The Memories."

All in all, some people won't be sad to see 2022 end.  They had a really bad year.

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