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Jack Black Loses His Shirt Over Mount Rushmore
Jack Black has been seen in countless hipster T-shirts over the years
— in High Fidelity, he even sported a Ya n n i tee — but this is the first
time he’s ever landed in hot water over one. On Feb. 18, the 50-year-old
actor (and supporter of Sen. Elizabeth Warren, currently in fourth behind
frontrunner Sen. Bernie Sanders in California primary
polls) posted a photo of himself on Instagram wearing a
Mount Rushmore shirt with Warren’s face inserted next
to George Washington’s. The photo didn’t stay up long — a
matter of hours — after multiple followers pointed out that
Mount Rushmore has a complicated history with Native
Americans (the 1941 monument, carved into sacred ground, is consid-
ered a desecration by some). In fact, not only did the shirt vanish from
Black’s feed, the company that created it, Built by Wendy, also removed
it from its online store. “There were some negative responses,” Black
acknowledges to Rambling Reporter. “So I respected their wishes.”

Is the image of Elizabeth Warren on Mount Rushmore offensive? Jack Black isn’t taking chances.

Salma Hayek (left) and Evelyn O’Neill.

Why Salma Hayek Spent
Oscar Night in the ER
The emergency room at Cedars-
Sinai Medical Center had some
pretty fabulous drop-ins on
Oscar night: Salma Hayek and her
longtime manager, Evelyn O’Neill

mouthing fake dialogue — finally

have an award of their own (a

golden Stanley mug). The winner

of the inaugural Stanley Award

— named after the bankroller of

the event, Stanley PMI, a Seattle-

based steel-vacuum-bottle

manufacturer that

sponsored Telluride

Film Festival vol-

unteers in 2019 and

clearly has a knack

for publicity stunts

— is To m my B e c h t o l d, a 36-year-

old extra who’s appeared in more

than 15 movies and 30 TV shows.

“I carried a coffin on House,

had a burrito thrown at my face

on a Disney show and did a hot

dog-eating contest with Adam

Sandler,” says Bechtold, who

received a $5,000 check as one of

his prizes. “As tongue-in-cheek

as it might be, it’s a reminder

that you’re out here working, and

that’s never bad, especially in

our industry, where there are so

many people trying to break in or

break out.” — KATIE KILKENNY

Dispatch From Berlin: How Not

to Throw a Premiere Party

Remember when Universal

hosted a disco party for

Schindler’s List? Of course not,

because it never happened. And

the Feb. 21 party at the Berlin

Film Festival for Minamata — a

fact-based drama about an envi-

ronmental disaster in a Japanese

village in the 1970s, with Johnny

Depp playing W. Eugene Smith,

(of Management 360), turned up

in their gowns and jewels after

O’Neill tripped and broke her

wrist at an Oscar party. “I heard

the kind of bone-crunching

sound you don’t ever want to hear

and found my hand hanging off

my arm at a grotesquely alarming

angle,” she tells Rambling of the

incident. Hayek helped O’Neill

get to the nearest emergency

room and spent the rest of Oscar

night by her friend’s side (occa-

sionally snapping photos like this

one). “By the time we left at sun-

rise,” O’Neill says, “all we wanted

was a cheeseburger.”

And the Award for Best Extra

Goes to ...

There are no red carpets. No

tuxedos. No ceremony at all.

But background actors — the

folks who stroll anonymously on

sidewalks and sit in restaurants

Black

Caitlyn

Jenner

Rambling Reporter

By Chris Gardner

the real-life Life magazine pho-

tographer who chronicled the

tragedy — shouldn’t have hap-

pened, either, at least not the way

it did. Held in a club called Arena,

it was clearly intended to be a

dance party, with strobe lights,

a huge dance floor and thump-

ing musical tracks like “Jungle

Boogie” and “Push It.” But there

also were giant images from the

film projected on the walls — at

director Andrew Levitas’ insis-

tence, sources say — including

several of Smith’s disturbing,

iconic photographs (like the one

below of a mother and her dying

child in a bathtub). Not surpris-

ingly, partygoers were disturbed

and the dance floor was mostly

deserted. — PATRICK BRZESKI

Bechtold

Caitlyn’s Rule: ‘Don’t Worry

About Me, Worry About You’

Onetime President Trump fan

Caitlyn Jenner isn’t saying

for whom she’ll be voting in

November. Rambling ran into

the 70-year-old reality star

Feb. 5 — the day the president

was acquitted in his impeach-

ment trial — at a Sunset Tower

event celebrating the Monte Carlo

Television Festival and asked

her whom she’s supporting. “I

don’t talk politics anymore,” she

responded. “I tried the first couple

of years [after my transition]. I

went back to Washington to make

some changes and, to be honest,

I just got fed up. I don’t even want

to get involved anymore.” Indeed,

the last time Jenner spoke up was

in October 2018, when she penned

an op-ed for The Washington

Post disavowing Trump over his

treatment of transgender people.

These days, she said, she lives

by one simple rule: “Don’t worry

about me, worry about you.”

The Minamata party at the Berlin Film

Festival, where nobody felt like dancing.