Celebrities being friends is not unusual. What is, however, is how many celebrities from totally different fields (or even time periods) knew each other before they got famous.
It turns out that forcing actors to shut their mouths and act in a movie they want nothing to do with can result in massive hits, cult classics ... and, yes, the occasional turd.
Keeping up with meaningful news stories is like trying to follow a pre-dawn Twitter rant. No reasonable person can be expected to make sense of it all.