Drew Carey explains why he helped striking writers pay for their meals
CNN
Drew Carey picked up a really big tab last year and does’t regret it.
Drew Carey picked up a really big tab last year and doesn’t regret it. The actor and host of “The Price is Right” covered meals for members of the Writers Guild of America at Bob’s Big Boy and Swingers in Los Angeles during their 148-day strike last summer and fall. Carey appeared at the WGA Awards ceremony on Sunday night, where he joked about the bill they rang up. “Honestly, I didn’t know it was going to cost me so much money,” Carey said on stage. “The last time, I think the total bill (during a 2007 strike) was like $67,000, fifteen years ago. I thought it was going to be about the same thing, but then some of you decided, ‘Oh yeah, I’m going to get a shake and dessert.’” He said his accountant called him up concerned about how long the strike was going on. “When the bills started piling up, my accountant called and was like, ‘Is there any way we can dial this back?’” he said.
Despite being based on a grim true-crime yarn, “Under the Bridge” makes several poor choices in translating the book to the screen, beginning with inserting the author, Rebecca Godfrey, into the story. This bridge into the familiar waters of troubled teens thus proves most notable as Lily Gladstone’s follow-up to “Killers of the Flower Moon,” albeit in a rather drab role as the local cop investigating the case.