Tattle celebs tweet in on this sordid election

IT'S A few hours until the second debate, and Tattle is depressed.

Whatever happened to celebrities doing silly things?

Now they either run for president or comment on the presidential election.

A brief video has been released in which Robert De Niro (Raging Bull) goes ballistic on Republican nominee Donald Trump, using the type of language Trump might use to describe Rosie O'Donnell.

In reponse, Jon Voight (Ray Donovan) took to Twitter to call out De Niro, writing, "I am so ashamed of my fellow actor Bobby De Niro's rant against Donald Trump. What foul words he used against a presidential nominee who has worked harder than any other man I know in the past year and a half to get a good message to the American people."

And it's the next lines are the ones that really won't play well in daughter Angelina Jolie's house:

"I don't know of too many men who haven't expressed some sort of similar sexual terms toward women, especially in their younger years," Voight continued, not mentioning that Trump was nearly 60 at the time and recently married to a much younger Slovenian model. Voight went on: "Donald Trump's words were not as damaging as Robert De Niro's ugly rant. Trump's words did not hurt anyone."

* Amber Tamblyn (Joan of Arcadia) weighed in on Instagram, telling a a painful story of an ex-boyfriend who accosted her in a club and hauled her out by grabbing her by the you-know-what.

"The minute he saw me, he picked me up with one hand by my hair and with his other hand, he grabbed me under my skirt . . . and lifted me up off the floor, literally, and carried me, like something he owned, like a piece of trash, out of the club," she wrote, per Us magazine.

* One of the producers of The Apprentice chimed in that we ain't heard nothing yet, but those tapes remain under wraps.

* The New York Times reported that Trump locker room buddy Billy Bush's NBC answering machine's message said, "You've reached Billy Bush's office. He's busy making America great again. Please leave a message."

Given other comments from the Bush family, Billy may be the only one on the Trump train.

* USA Today reported that Trump had no objection to Howard Stern describing daughter Ivanka as a "piece of a--" in a September 2004 interview found by CNN.

Granted that's relatively tame language for the Stern show, although this was pre-SiriusXM, but not usually heard about one's own daughter.

* Cher tweeted (we removed the all-CAPS): "Ladies??We R not disposable blow up dolls,4rich mens pleasure.I had scary experience w/rich important film prod.& I was Cher?? I wanted job??"

Lena Dunham (Girls) tweeted: "If there was a popular male equivalent experience, being #grabbedbythepu--y would be cause for capital punishment."

Ron Perlman (Beauty and the Beast) tweeted: "Well, there goes my Billy Bush vote."

Samantha Bee (Full Frontal) tweeted that she recorded some lewd comments about men this year and then issued an apology: " . . . This was just classic girl talk, a private conversation that took place on a heavily promoted special episode of my cable TV show. I'm sorry people felt the way that they felt, but you should hear the things Phyllis Schlafly used to say on the shuffleboard. The mouth on that c---!"

* And Entertainment Tonight host Nancy O'Dell, the object of Trump's infatuation on the Billy Bush video, released a statement which said, "Politics aside, I'm saddened that these comments still exist in our society at all. When I heard the comments yesterday, it was disappointing to hear such objectification of women. The conversation needs to change because no female, no person, should be the subject of such crass comments, whether or not cameras are rolling. Everyone deserves respect no matter the setting or gender. As a woman who has worked very hard to establish her career, and as a mom, I feel I must speak out with the hope that as a society we will always strive to be better."

* No celebs in Tattle's orbit cared about Hillary Clinton's global economy speeches on Wall Street.

* Propelled by the popularity of

Paula Hawkins

' best-seller, the adaptation of

The Girl on the Train

led North American theaters in ticket sales with $24.7 million, according to studio estimates Sunday. Less successful was

Nate Parker

's

Nat Turner

biopic

The Birth of a Nation

, which opened with a disappointing $7.1 million.

Seems like everything is disappointing.

- Daily News wire services

contributed to this report.

gensleh@phillynews.com

215-854-5678 @DNTattle