Battle of the queens?
01.04.2022 - 01:05 / nypost.com
HBO Max docuseries, “The Invisible Pilot,” premiering Monday, April 4 at 9 p.m. The three-part, eye-opening tale covers Betzner’s unlikely transition from family man to drug maven, wrangling covert US government operations in Central America.“We see him as this sort of ‘Forrest Gump’ character, he’s everywhere,” Ari Mark, who co-directs with Phil Lott told The Post of Betzner, who is still alive and is now in his 80s.
The docuseries, executive produced by Adam McKay who is known for wild anti-establishment stories like “The Big Short,” was “a dream come true” collaboration for the directors.Even the directors, who sat down with Betzner a number of times through the course of the project, say it’s hard to pin down who he really is.He grew up in the South, with an abusive father who left his mother when Gary was young. Years later, he joined the Navy, where he served in a communications branch.
Betzner also says he was trained as a pilot, learning how to fly undetected with precious cargo.“He is as cagey about [his military service] as he is about anything and we desperately tried to get his records from the Navy,” Lott said. “Whether it was piloting or he was in communications, he definitely picked up something [about evading radar] there.”After starting a family in Arkansas, the crop duster moved briefly to Alaska in 1976, in the hopes of working in the state’s booming oil industry.
It was there he started dabbling in small-time pot smuggling. A year later, Betzner — an anti-establishment hippie whose love of substances was not limited to marijuana — was busted in Miami on narcotics charges.
He returned to Arkansas, but was picked up for possession a second time there. His choice was simple: spend half his life in jail
.Battle of the queens?
Cinema Guild has acquired U.S. distribution rights to Juan Pablo González’s fiction feature debut, Dos Estaciones, which won a special jury award for lead actor Teresa Sánchez’s performance when it premiered at the 2022 Sundance Film Festival.
This post is sponsored by Unshackled Wines, official wine of VIP at Coachella. Create your own Coachella VIP experience at home by purchasing the Unshackled Coachella Bundle. The first 100 purchases will be gifted a FADER poster.
Former Hillsong Church pastor Carl Lentz and his wife Laura have taken yet another hit to their reputation!
Johnny Depp’s defamation trial against ex-wife Amber Heard got underway in a Virginia courtroom on Tuesday, with lawyers for the actor arguing Heard faked her domestic abuse to advance her career.
Gene Maddaus Senior Media WriterJohnny Depp’s lawyers accused his ex-wife, Amber Heard, of fabricating domestic violence claims against him in order to advance her own career, as a defamation trial got underway in Virginia.Depp has sued Heard for $50 million, alleging that she devastated his career when she revived her allegations against him in a 2018 op-ed in the Washington Post. Depp’s attorneys — Ben Chew and Camille Vasquez — noted that the piece was published just before the release of “Aquaman,” in which Heard starred, and helped her portray herself as a sympathetic advocate for women.“She presented herself as the face of the #MeToo movement — the virtuous representative of innocent women across the country and the world who have truly suffered abuse,” Vasquez said.
PlayStation boss Jack Tretton has said he wishes Sony had backed the PlayStation Vita more.The handheld console was released in 2011 as a successor to the PSP. It is believed to have sold around 15million units before it was discontinued in 2019.However, following the success of the Nintendo Switch and the Steam Deck, Tretton has said that forward-thinking tech was “orphaned a little bit” by Sony in a new interview with Axios Gaming.
EXCLUSIVE: Chernin Entertainment has hired former Red Arrow Studios Chairman and CEO Jan Frouman.
BAFTA-nominated St. Trinian’s, Johnny English Reborn and An Ideal Husband director Oliver Parker has launched a production shingle with former Red Arrow Studios CEO James Baker and Metro International Partner Sam Parker, and the outfit is taking a packed slate to Mip TV.
Brazillian singer-songwriter, activist, and drag queen Pabllo Vittar has teamed up with Rina Sawayama for a new song called "Follow Me." The new song comes with an electrifying video directed by Amber Park with Lauren Kessler serving as creative director. Check out some of their vintage Dior looks below.
Laying low. Cole Sprouse hinted at how his split from Lili Reinhart has changed the way he approaches his relationship with current girlfriend Ari Fournier.
Cole Sprouse just made some rare comments about his ex girlfriend and Riverdale co-star Lili Reinhart.
[Warning: Potentially Triggering Content]
Pablo Schreiber meets up with a real life Master Chief at the premiere of his new Paramount+ series, HALO, held at Hollywood Legion Theater on Wednesday (March 23) in Los Angeles.
In today’s episode of Bingeworthy, our revitalized TV and streaming podcast, co-hosts Mike DeAngelo and Rodrigo Perez dig into Paramount+’s long-gestating sci-fi epic, “Halo.” Based on the video game franchise of the same name, the show takes place in the 26th century amidst a war between humanity and an alien race called The Covenant. At the center of the story is Master Chief (Pablo Schreiber), a genetically enhanced super-soldier who uncovers an artifact that changes the course of his life, and potentially all life as he knows it (read our review here).
A dedicated supporter of an Ayrshire charity has tragically died after a jet crash over mountains in Italy.