Valerie Bertinelli told Wolfie not to release a Van Halen Biopic before she dies!

**Ashe** · 04.16.25, 07:02 PM

Originally Posted by Brett

And she’s still annoying.

Ha ha, you got that right.

**fudd** · 04.16.25, 08:32 PM

Originally Posted by Ashe

Ha ha, you got that right.

It’s not like her acting career is taking off again. All she does is talk about the past. Ed, Betty white and one day at a time.

It’s all she has.

But yes, she’s still annoying as hell.

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**James in New York** · 04.17.25, 11:31 AM

**Daisy Hill** · 04.17.25, 12:10 PM

Originally Posted by Little Dreamer

Val is far from perfect but she absolutely did NOT break up Van Halen. Any comparison with the Beatles is ludicrous. Val was a working actress in the 80s. She was always on set working. Yoko was a musician (at least in her own mind) so in some ways, she got herself involved in John's music, and in the band. Totally different situations.

She was working A LOT. in addition to the series she was making a couple of TV movies a year and those are mostly location shoots. She had a full time job as an actress and a part time job ferrying Ed to rehabs. She was the Jen Garner of her day. I believe if she was not working so much away from Ed their marriage would have ended much sooner, not the band

Originally Posted by Van Squalen

She had little to do with anything VH. Dave wasn’t happy his gunslinger was marrying a Hollywood sweetheart, but that was more or less the extent of it…other than what wives normally hear or say or observe behind the marriage curtain. I’m sure Sue, Kari, the ‘other’ Valeri, Kelly, stein, and Valerie know things that few of us do.

She just recently talked about her and Ed recording some kind of cover duet in private, but I’m forgetting what song it was.

Ed composed Dirty Movies for her, right? Surprised Dave agreed to pen lyrics for it.

And FYWS was for her too.

I think it was a cover of Leather and Lace and I never want to hear it.

But she also talked about how naive she was early in their marriage when she would travel to see him on the road and he expressed less interest in her than she thought he would. She said she talked to other women on the road with the band about it but they kind of brushed her off because they didn't want to tell her that Ed was not as lonely on the road and she was at home, if you get my drift.

Ed was not going to break up his band for her. I believe he was telling his truth when he said it would be easier to get a new wife than a new career. And that is what it would have come down to if she made some kind of demand.

**Van Squalen** · 04.17.25, 01:06 PM

Originally Posted by Daisy Hill

I think it was a cover of Leather and Lace and I never want to hear it.

I want to hear it.

**I Coulda Hada VH** · 04.17.25, 01:23 PM

Originally Posted by Van Squalen

I want to hear it.

The original with Stevie Nicks and Don Henley is awesome. I believe it was during the time they recorded Leather and Lace that Henley got her pregnant. Stevie aborted the child and then wrote the song Sara about the daughter she never had.

**jimmy812** · 04.17.25, 04:13 PM

Originally Posted by I Coulda Hada VH

The original with Stevie Nicks and Don Henley is awesome. I believe it was during the time they recorded Leather and Lace that Henley got her pregnant. Stevie aborted the child and then wrote the song Sara about the daughter she never had.

That's a bit of Dirty Laundry.

**Number 47** · 04.17.25, 04:34 PM

Originally Posted by I Coulda Hada VH

The original with Stevie Nicks and Don Henley is awesome. I believe it was during the time they recorded Leather and Lace that Henley got her pregnant. Stevie aborted the child and then wrote the song Sara about the daughter she never had.

**Number 47** · 04.17.25, 04:36 PM

Originally Posted by jimmy812

That's a bit of Dirty Laundry.

Hollywood hillbilly gossip. ?

I've heard that before but I think it was here.

**I Coulda Hada VH** · 04.17.25, 04:58 PM

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sara_(Fleetwood_Mac_song)

**Number 47** · 04.17.25, 05:10 PM

Originally Posted by I Coulda Hada VH

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sara_(Fleetwood_Mac_song)

**seenbad** · 04.17.25, 07:42 PM

wtf is a biopic? Is that what you fancy guys call movies?

**Brett** · 04.17.25, 08:53 PM

Originally Posted by seenbad

wtf is a biopic? Is that what you fancy guys call movies?

A movie that’s a biography.

**Little Intruder** · 04.17.25, 09:08 PM

With streaming services so popular these days, biopics can be made about anybody. They are basically what Lifetime did years ago but with better production values. Reelz does this all the time with their music programs and the wigs still look horrible!

**Dave's Dreidel** · 04.18.25, 04:29 AM

Originally Posted by VHrox12

I know you guys are not big on the Gary years but they would have to be shown in a Van Halen biopic because Ed got clean and was in good spirits and than after Gary left went on a downward spiral going right into those live shows with Hagar before rehab. You also have to factor in Al's divorce. I would guess it would be like 15 or so minutes of the movie. More Dave and Hagar years obviously.

Nah, just a scroll like in Star Wars, apologizing for it and saying that it would be cruel and unusual punishment to submit the viewer/listener to it a second time.