Quentin Tarantino Shares Michael Madsen ‘Reservoir Dogs’ Story During Private Memorial: ‘I’m On Your Side, Buddy’

Quentin Tarantino Shares Michael Madsen 'Reservoir Dogs' Story During Private Memorial: 'I'm On Your Side, Buddy'

Quentin Tarantino is remembering Michael Madsen, whodied on July 3in his Malibu home. He was 67. According toTMZ, Tarantino held a closed memorial for Madsen on Friday at his Vista Theatre, during which he recalled a needed moment of support from his frequent collaborator while filming "Reservoir Dogs." More from Variety Everything We Know About David Fincher's 'The Adventures of Cliff Booth' Michael Madsen Delivers One of His Final Performances in 'Concessions' Clip (EXCLUSIVE) Stormzy, Michael Madsen, Viola Davis, Stephen Fry, Idris Elba Set for HollyShorts Film Festival's 21st Edition (EXCLUSIVE) "It was the last hour of the last day of the first week of shooting. So, I had never directed a movie before," Tarantino said on stage. "And Lawrence Tierney was a fucking nightmare. He was completely insane. He was so crazy, and I'd never directed before, so I'm dealing with a crazy man Monday through Saturday." He continued, "All the other actors and the crew can't stand him. And all of a sudden, he yells at me or something, does something disrespectful. The other times, he was being disrespectful, but he didn't quite mean it. This time, he meant it." Tarantino went on to act out his expletive-laden response, which ended in him firing Tierney in front of the entire cast and crew, who broke into "applause" at his termination. Although his team was excited, Tarantino thought his career was over after firing the actor. "I just spent a week shooting this fucking guy, now I just fired him," Tarantino recalled. "Live Entertainment is gonna fucking fire me. That's it for my career. It was nice while it lasted. But I had to do it, I had to stand up for myself." That night, Tarantino got a voicemail from Madsen, who backed up his decision to get rid of Tierney. Doing his best Madsen impression, Tarantino recalled the message: "'Yeah, Quentin, it's Michael. Just calling to say that I really respected what you did tonight. It was important, and needed to be done. He was busting your balls and you had to do it. And I want you to know that I respect it, as a director, I respect it as a captain, and I respect it as a man. So, I'm on your side, buddy. Thanks.'" With an acting career spanning over 40 years, Madsen was best known for his collaborations with Tarantino. The director cast Madsen as a psychotic thief in "Reservoir Dogs" and a hitman in "Kill Bill: Vols. 1 & 2." He also appeared in Tarantino's "The Hateful Eight" and "Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood." According to Madsen's rep, he was found unresponsive on July 3 and said the cause of death appeared to be a cardiac arrest. "In the last two years Michael Madsen has been doing some incredible work with independent film including upcoming feature films' Resurrection Road', 'Concessions' and 'Cookbook for Southern Housewives,' and was really looking forward to this next chapter in his life," his rep said in a statement. "Michael was also preparing to release a new book called 'Tears For My Father: Outlaw Thoughts and Poems' currently being edited," Madsen's managers, Susan Ferris and Ron Smith, and publicist Liz Rodriguez said in a joint statement. "Michael Madsen was one of Hollywood's most iconic actors, who will be missed by many." Madsen's acting career also spans television, with appearances in "Miami Vice," "Quantum Leap," "The Hitchhiker," "Vengeance Unlimited" and dozens more. In addition to film and TV, Madsen voiced characters in video games such as "Grand Theft Auto III," the "Dishonored" series and "Crime Boss: Rockay City." Over the past two decades, his recent work has featured his appearances in dozens of low-budget films, as well as publishing poetry and photography. Best of Variety New Movies Out Now in Theaters: What to See This Week What's Coming to Disney+ in August 2025 What's Coming to Netflix in August 2025 Sign up forVariety's Newsletter. For the latest news, follow us onFacebook,Twitter, andInstagram.

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Quentin Tarantino Shares Michael Madsen ‘Reservoir Dogs’ Story During Private Memorial: ‘I’m On Your Side, Buddy’

Quentin Tarantino Shares Michael Madsen 'Reservoir Dogs' Story During Private Memorial: 'I'm On Your Side, Buddy' Quenti...

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Mandy Moore Calls Out Driver Who Rear-Ended Her Family in Hit-and-Run: 'What Kind of Human Does That?'

Mandy Moore Calls Out Driver Who Rear-Ended Her Family in Hit-and-Run: 'What Kind of Human Does That?'

Alberto Rodriguez/Variety via Getty Mandy Moore is calling out a driver who rear-ended her family in a hit-and-run incident "The woman who rear ended my family and then drove off [when] we pulled over, hope your karma finds you," theThis Is Usstar wrote on her Instagram Stories on Friday, Aug. 1 Moore shares three children with her husband, Taylor Goldsmith: sons August "Gus" Harrison, 4, and Oscar "Ozzie" Bennett, 2, as well as daughter Louise "Lou" Everett, 10 months Mandy Mooreis calling out a driver who rear-ended her family in a hit-and-run incident. On Friday, Aug. 1, theThis Is Usalum, 41, revealed on her Instagram Stories that a woman struck her family's car before speeding off. "The woman who rear endedmy familyand then drove off [when] we pulled over, hope your karma finds you," she wrote in the since-expired post, perPage Six. "Thankfully everyone was OK but what kind of human does that?" Moore shares three children with her husband, musicianTaylor Goldsmith: sonsAugust "Gus" Harrison, 4, andOscar "Ozzie" Bennett, 2, as well as daughterLouise "Lou" Everett, 10 months. The actress didn't specify in her post which of her family members were present during the accident. Mandy Moore/Instagram Moore has been candid about her family's struggles following the loss of their Los Angeles home in theEaton Fire in January. On Feb. 11, she posted a photo of her house onInstagram, sharing that "the contents of our home are a near total loss" due to its proximity to the fires and other burning structures. Moore previously said on Jan. 9 that"miraculously" the "main part" of the house was "still standing." "Pretty much everything will have to be disposed of…maybe even the walls too," she wrote. "We won't be there for a very long time as it and the neighborhood itself get sorted out and cleaned and the rebuilding starts." Six months after the fires, Moore's friend and formerThis Is UscostarChrissy Metzshared in an interview withExtrathat Moore was "doing well." "I mean, thank goodness. A lot of the structure was able to be salvaged, which is great, but it's so jarring. It's so life-altering, and she has children and pets," Metz said. In an Instagram update in March, Moore revealed that she and Goldsmith, 39, were ready to begin rebuilding, as she shared photos taken before their home burned down. Never miss a story — sign up forPEOPLE's free daily newsletterto stay up-to-date on the best of what PEOPLE has to offer​​, from celebrity news to compelling human interest stories. "I miss this space and our home and Altadena immensely, so I'm looking forward to rebuilding version 2.0," theA Walk to Rememberstar said at the time. Micelotta/Disney via Getty The Eaton Fire was one of aseries of wildfires in L.A.that leftmore than 80,000 people displaced, including numerous celebrities, anddestroyed more than 1,000 structures. The deadly blaze ignited on Jan. 7 and wasfully containedon Jan. 31, along with the Palisades Fire. Moore and Goldsmith have also been candid about wanting to still have fun as a new family of five amid the loss of their home. https://people-app.onelink.me/HNIa/kz7l4cuf Earlier this week, theTangledstar shared an adorablephoto of her familyonInstagramas she recounted her time spent at the beach on vacation. In the sweet image, Moore could be seen sitting in the surf alongside her husband while her son Ozzy hung on around her neck. Sitting beside the star, Gus was pictured squishing his hands into the sand and looking down. Goldsmith propped up the couple's youngest child, daughter Lou, as she sat in his lap. Other snaps showed the family enjoying the beach and watching sunsets. "Nothing beats a beach vacation with some of your besties (here's looking you at you@whatsgabycookin)," Moore wrote in the post's caption. "What an epic few days,@fspuntamita! We can't wait to come back (Gus hasn't stopped talking about it)!!" Read the original article onPeople

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Mandy Moore Calls Out Driver Who Rear-Ended Her Family in Hit-and-Run: 'What Kind of Human Does That?'

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Prince Looked at Spike Lee Like He ‘Had 5 Heads’ After This Request

Prince Looked at Spike Lee Like He 'Had 5 Heads' After This Request

Prince Looked at Spike Lee Like He 'Had 5 Heads' After This Requestoriginally appeared onParade. Spike Leeonce asked Prince for a unique request, and although the late musician looked at the director as if he "had five heads," he honored the big ask. During a Thursday, July 31, appearance onThe Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon,the late-night TV host asked Spike, 68, if certain stories about him were true. Jimmy pulled out a photo of Spike and Prince sitting courtside at Madison Square Garden during the 1998 NBA All-Star Game as they engaged in a deep conversation. "And is it true you asked him for a guitar at this game?" Jimmy, 50,askedthe Oscar-winning director. Spike confirmed that he did ask Prince for a personal instrument, but "not at that game." "But he looked at me like he had five heads," Spike said. "And a year later, a big ass guitar case shows up," theHighest 2 Lowestdirector revealed. "A year later!" Before going on to the next topic, Spike expressed how deeply he misses the legendary artist, with whom he had been friends after collaborating throughout their respective careers. In 1991, the "Lover" singer reached out to Spike in hopes of hiring him to direct the music video for "Money Don't Matter 2 Night." The song was released when Prince was a part of the band New Power Generation. "If he didn't have the belief in my ability, he would've never called me out of the blue, so that wasn't a problem," Spike toldOkayPlayerin 2016. "There was no problems. In fact, he didn't need to give me notes, you know? He said 'love it,' and they just put it out." In 1996, Prince lent his track list to Spike for the filmGirl 6. Prince died on April 21, 2016, after an accidental fentanyl overdose. Since then, Spike has honored his late friend and music icon in his films, includingBlacKkKlansman. 🎬SIGN UP for Parade's Daily newsletter to get the latest pop culture news & celebrity interviews delivered right to your inbox🎬 Prince Looked at Spike Lee Like He 'Had 5 Heads' After This Requestfirst appeared on Parade on Aug 2, 2025 This story was originally reported byParadeon Aug 2, 2025, where it first appeared.

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Prince Looked at Spike Lee Like He ‘Had 5 Heads’ After This Request

Prince Looked at Spike Lee Like He 'Had 5 Heads' After This Request Prince Looked at Spike Lee Like He 'Had 5 Heads' After T...

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White House economic adviser Kevin Hassett defends Trump's firing of labor statistics head

White House economic adviser Kevin Hassett defends Trump's firing of labor statistics head

White House economic adviser Kevin Hassett on Sunday defended President Donald Trump'sdecision to firethe head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics, as well as the president's claim that weaker-than-expected jobs reports were "rigged," but failed to produce any evidence to support Trump's claim. "What we need is a fresh set of eyes over the BLS," Hassett, the director of the National Economic Council, told NBC News' "Meet the Press." On Friday, the Bureau of Labor Statisticsreleased a monthly jobs reportthat included weaker-than-expected numbers for July, plusmajor downward revisionsof May and June's numbers. In a post on Truth Social on Friday, the president said the jobs numbers were "rigged" and that he'd asked his team to fire BLS Commissioner Erika McEntarfer. "We need accurate Jobs Numbers. I have directed my Team to fire this Biden Political Appointee, IMMEDIATELY. She will be replaced with someone much more competent and qualified. Important numbers like this must be fair and accurate," Trumpwrote. In another Truth Social post, the president added, "In my opinion, today's Jobs Numbers were RIGGED in order to make the Republicans, and ME, look bad." On Sunday, Hassett cast similar doubt on the accuracy of the jobs numbers, pointing to past revisions that were made to jobs reports after then-President Joe Biden stopped running for re-election last year. "There have been a bunch of patterns that could make people wonder. And I think the most important thing for people to know is that it's the president's highest priority that the data be trusted and that people get to the bottom of why these revisions are so unreliable," Hassett told "Meet the Press" moderator Kristen Welker. He added later in the interview that the Trump administration's goal was to understand why there was such a sizable revision to past months' jobs numbers. "The bottom line is that there were people involved in creating these numbers. And if I were running the BLS and I had a number that was a huge, politically important revision, the biggest since 1968 actually ... then I would have a really long report explaining exactly what happened. And we didn't get that," Hassett said. It's not uncommon for jobs reports to be revised in the months following their release, but Hassett on Sunday emphasized that July's revision was one of the largest he's seen in decades. Trump faced criticism from Democrats and Republicans in Congress on Friday when he decided to fire McEntarfer, with several Republican senatorsquestioning whether the firingwould actually help the Trump administration improve future jobs numbers. "We have to look somewhere for objective statistics. When the people providing the statistics are fired, it makes it much harder to make judgments that, you know, the statistics won't be politicized," Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., told NBC News on Friday. "I'm going to look into it, but first impression is that you can't really make the numbers different or better by firing the people doing the counting," he added. On Sunday, Hassett said that installing Trump's "own people" will help achieve more "transparent and reliable" jobs reports in the future. "The president wants his own people there so that when we see the numbers, they're more transparent and more reliable. And if there are big changes and big revisions — we expect more big revisions for the jobs data in September, for example — then we want to know why, we want people to explain it to us," he said. Hassett also spoke about the president's evolving tariff agenda. Last week, Trump formalized trade deals with countries including the European Union, Japan, South Korea and the United Kingdom andimposed sweeping tariffson some of the U.S.' largest trading partners, like Canada, which now faces a 35% tariff rate on goods not covered by the Canada-U.S.-Mexico trade agreement. Hassett on Sunday echoedTrump's statements to NBC Newsfrom earlier in the week, indicating that there was still room to make trade deals for nations that hadn't yet concluded negotiations. "For the deals that aren't ready yet. They're going to get the reciprocal rates soon, and then we would expect that there might continue to be negotiations with those countries," he told Welker. Hassett also cast doubt on the idea that higher tariffs on consumer goods could lead to inflation, as economic analysts have been predicting for months. Instead, Hassett blamed inflation on the Biden administration. "Every measure of inflation, if you aggregate it, if you look at the top line numbers, is lower than it's been in five months," he said, adding later: "So inflation has come down. And inflation has come down for a lot of reasons, but I think the main reason is that we're no longer printing money and sending it to people like the Bidens did. That's a recipe for inflation."

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White House economic adviser Kevin Hassett defends Trump's firing of labor statistics head

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Larry Summers says Trump's accusations of manipulated jobs numbers are ‘preposterous’

Larry Summers says Trump's accusations of manipulated jobs numbers are 'preposterous'

Former Treasury Secretary Larry Summers called President Donald Trump's accusation without providing evidence that the top Bureau of Labor Statistics official manipulated jobs report numbers "a preposterous charge" on Sunday. Speaking with "This Week" anchor George Stephanopoulos, Summers said that one official would not be able to change the numbers. "These numbers are put together by teams of literally hundreds of people following detailed procedures that are in manuals. There's no conceivable way that the head of the BLS could have manipulated this number," Summers said. MORE: Trump fires BLS commissioner after weak jobs report and baseless claim of 'faked' stats He added, "The numbers are in line with what we're seeing from all kinds of private sector sources. This is the stuff of democracies giving way to authoritarianism. It — firing statisticians goes with threatening the heads of newspapers. It goes with launching assaults on universities. It goes with launching assaults on law firms that defend clients that the elected boss finds uncongenial. This is really scary stuff." Trump blasted Erika McEntarfer, the now-former commissioner of Labor Statistics, after the release of some disappointing jobs numbers on Friday and the revision downward of previous months' reports andsaid he had fired herfor manipulating the figures for political purposes, but provided no evidence to support his claim. "This is the same Bureau of Labor Statistics that overstated the Jobs Growth in March 2024 by approximately 818,000 and, then again, right before the 2024 Presidential Election, in August and September, by 112,000. These were Records -- No one can be that wrong? We need accurate Jobs Numbers," Trump posted to his social media platform. Stephanopoulos asked Summers, "I guess this firing of the BLS commissioner goes in the category of shocking but not surprising?" "This is way beyond anything Richard Nixon ever did," Summers said of Trump's firing McEntarfer. "I'm surprised that other officials have not responded by resigning themselves, as took place when Richard Nixon fired people lawlessly." MORE: Trump's long history of bashing jobs report numbers dates back to 2016: ANALYSIS Here are more highlights from Summers' interview Stephanopoulos:Adding to that uncertainty is the president's campaign against Jerome Powell, the head of the Federal Reserve, saying he's been a 'moron,' I think was the word the president used for not lowering interest rates so far. What's the impact of that? Summers:Look, I think that this kind of political Fed-bashing is a fool's game. The Fed doesn't listen. So, short-term interest rates aren't going to be different because of it. The market does listen. So, longer-term interest rates are going to be higher, which is going to make it more expensive to buy a house. This is hurting the economy, not helping. I think the president understands that. And what the president is doing is recognizing that for all kinds of reasons, of which his policies are very important ones, the economy's got a lot of risk, and he's looking to set up a scapegoat if the economy performs badly. That's what this attacking Chairman Powell is really about. It's not really about trying to change policy. There's no chance that that's going to happen to any substantial degree. Stephanopoulos:The jobs report on Friday probably does increase the chances that the Fed will cut interest rates in -- in September. What's your take on what that report told us? Summers:I think it told us that the economy is closer to stall speed than we thought that it was. The July number was weak. The big deal is the downwards revision for the two months before that. And that means there's a real possibility that we're in a stall speed kind of economy, which means we could tip over into recession. That wouldn't be my prediction right now, but the risk is greater certainly than it was before. And it's a risk we don't need to be taking, but it's a risk that's made more serious by these tariffs. What your viewers should understand is that these tariffs are not job creators. When you raise tariffs on steel, for example -- yeah, there's some people who work in the steel industry, but there are 50 times as many who work in industries like the automobile industry who are now going to be much less competitive when they try to compete all over the world. So, this is a immense gift that we are giving to our country's adversaries. By alienating our allies like Canada, like Europe, we are making it much easier for China to grow and flourish in the global economy. And I just don't understand why we would want to do that, especially when what we're getting out of it is an increase of more than $2,000 in the bills that typical middle-class families are going to have to pay. Stephanopoulos:You know, the markets have been pretty complacent about the tariffs so far. Are we seeing their impact in this underlying jobs report? Summers:I think that that is an element in it. I think both the direct effects of the tariffs, but probably more importantly, this sense of uncertainty that anything could happen, and who knows what business is going to be attacked next? Who knows what the rules are going to be? In an environment like that, what should a business do? It should sit and it should wait. Wait in terms of hiring people, wait in terms of new factory construction. What's keeping the economy going in significant part is not anything actually that's coming out of the president's policies.

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August 03, 2025

Larry Summers says Trump's accusations of manipulated jobs numbers are ‘preposterous’

Larry Summers says Trump's accusations of manipulated jobs numbers are 'preposterous' Former Treasury Secretary Larry Summers ca...

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