Transcript: Delusional and Arrogant

Hollywood is easy. Politics are hard. But both are stuck playing to the fringe

This is Rob Long with Martini Shot for The Ankler.

Around here, real estate salespeople like to refer to certain things as "adjacent" — usually to a pricier or more desirable neighborhood. So they'll sell houses that they call "Beverly Hills adjacent" or "ocean-view adjacent" or "freeway close" — and that's sort of what I'm about to do here. I am not talking about politics — haven't we all had enough of that? Instead, I'm talking about something that's politics adjacent.

I once had a meeting with a former movie star to try to convince him to agree to be in a television show I was producing. The tricky thing was, he didn’t know he was a former movie star. He thought he was a current movie star.