We watched Killers of the Flower Moon the other night. Well, it was actually the other night and the next afternoon because no matter how good a movie is, I will always, always fall asleep unless I took a nap in the daytime.

Anyway, it was excellent. My main man Leo was in it. I don’t even care that he played a sweaty, bloated, dullard – it’s still Leonardo DiCaprio.

He could’ve played Brendan Fraser’s part in The Whale and I’d still think he was hot. It’s Leonardo DiCaprio, people.

Let him date all the 20-year-old models until he’s 101 and crapping his pants, I do not care. I will reiterate – it’s Leonardo DiCaprio.

*side note. Brendan Fraser was also in this movie. I met him at a deli in Northport, Long Island in the nineties. He was filming a movie there. I was standing at the deli counter and this really tall guy was next to me. I looked allll the way up at him and he looked allll the way back down. I recognized him and said, “Hi” and he said, “Hi”.

That’s my “I met Brendan Fraser” story.

This blog post is not about Leo or Brendan though, it is about the magnificent, Robert DeNiro.

After watching the rest of the movie on Saturday afternoon, PJ and I went out to dinner.

I’d just inhaled a dirty martini and was feeling nostalgic about Bob (that’s what his friends call him. I feel like we’re old friends so I’ll call him that too.)

Because I’m totally nuts and was also a bit tipsy, I felt myself getting a little choked up telling PJ that Bob is getting up there in age and he’s one actor I know I’m going to be deeply upset over when he dies.

I pulled myself together because crying over a man I’ve never met before and is probably nowhere near death, is a bit much – even for me.

However, I did go on to express my admiration of Bob’s perfect southern accent in the movie, and that while watching it, I was astonished that it was also the same man who asked Greg “Gaylord” Focker, “I have nipples Greg, can you milk me?” in the classic, Meet the Parents.

PJ told me he saw an interview with Bob and Sebastian Maniscalco where Maniscalco asked, “Do you ever watch one of your movies and think, ‘Man, I am awesome!!!’”?

He was joking, but I think it’s a valid question.

I laugh when I think about guys I grew up with who worshipped him; many are Trump supporters now.

I picture them turning on Fox News in 2020 and seeing Bob expressing his disdain for our treasonous ex-president and running into their bedrooms and ripping down their Goodfellas posters in an angry rage.

I also imagine them sneak-watching The Godfather 2 in the middle of the night thinking, “Why Bob, why?! You’re supposed to be the racist gangster you played in your movies! Why are you defending the rights of people who aren’t like us?!?!”

If at that point they also discovered that Bob has been married to, or dated women of color almost exclusively his whole life AND had children with them – I wonder if their heads actually exploded right then and there.

Love him or hate him, you have to respect a man who, in order to stand up for what he believes, killed off more than half his fan base. Good ol’ Bob cut them with the same bravado as young Vito Corleone slicing Don Ciccio up his big fat belly!

It makes me love him even more 😍