Pauly Shore — star of such classics as many an MTV show, Encino Man, Dream Date and Bio-Dome — might be having a big comeback.
And it involves him playing the great Richard Simmons, of Sweatin’ to the Oldies fame.
Yes, that’s right, a sentence I’d never thought I’d write, even in the early 1990s, when both of them were in the zeitgeist: Shore plays Simmons in Th Court Jester, a short movie about the man who was all about mental health and physical wellbeing and living your best life.
But the real Simmons — now retired — doesn’t sound happy about it, per a Facebook post:
https://www.facebook.com/TheWeightSaint/posts/pfbid025DvNsk3qGjqnn16GSgdR6YgQdFxif9EBYLN9EvxsgXiaN8Po4ZRxccHvXHmfizm9l?__cft__[0]=AZWW5xYZpBwht4Zu_WxatdM3CTGo1lNw6XDPWA8sjpjn4baAxSStSrBnc4wKOeFO8OE40bF09rgUb7Hf3vzxD9zLNNWMhah8Yf2A2OSwWD9EPzQNQKR1tI6MBafAl_x-zNQXR-IDEadYjHvWnl2jAtpFZBFVc5O0G7i-na9PehKq0Q&__tn__=%2CO%2CP-R
The movie does look quite amazing, but I could get where Simmons is coming from if it was unauthorized:
https://www.instagram.com/reel/C2NhWflASb8/?utm_source=ig_embed&ig_rid=6c4a87ef-3a75-4f8e-a82d-878c4074a84d