Despite the entertainment industry’s reputation for liberalism, not everyone in Hollywood sporting one of those “I Voted” stickers (written in half a dozen languages) cast their lot with Hillary Clinton or Bernie Sanders during Tuesday’s California primary. Many more than will admit — probably the ones on film and TV sets who remain silent as others gleefully bash Republicans — voted for Donald Trump. “It’s D-Day in California, and I voted for Trump,” says Dave Berg, who, as a co-producer on The Tonight Show With Jay Leno for several years, booked Trump as a guest more than
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- 6/7/2016
- by Paul Bond
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Donald Trump has managed to defy every law of political gravity, turning the Gop presidential race upside down while leaving veteran pundits scratching their heads as they try to explain the real estate developer’s persistent popularity among Republican primary voters. But when it comes to the Hollywood conservative crowd, Trump has been regarded with a mix of suspicion and disdain. “He’s just too rough around the edges,” one Hollywood conservative told TheWrap. “I can’t say that I know one person in Hollywood who supports him,” said Dave Berg, a former co-producer of “The Tonight Show With Jay Leno...
- 12/17/2015
- by Itay Hod
- The Wrap
According to an excerpt from a new "tell-all" book written by Dave Berg, a former producer of The Tonight Show With Jay Leno, the show had a backstage bar cart called "The Jay Bar" to loosen up guests:To help with stage fright, Leno came up with the idea of The Jay Bar, a mobile station loaded with beer and wine to help guests unwind before the show. But some guests didn’t know when to turn off the spigot. In 2003, Quentin Tarantino hit The Jay Bar so hard that he was slurring and “occasionally incoherent” on air. Other good gossip? Teri Hatcher and Christian Bale are "difficult," Helen Hunt stayed away from the show for 14 years after a producer ribbed her performance on Mad About You, and when Dave Letterman scored the first post-prison Martha Stewart interview, Leno tried to preempt his Benjamin Bratt lead interview with an animal trainer.
- 6/16/2014
- by Lindsey Weber
- Vulture
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