Tuesday, February 19, 2019 Edition: #6396
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BS SHOW BIZ BUZZ:
★ Jussie Smollett says he is ”angered and devastated” by suggestions that he’s familiar with his alleged attackers. Smollett, who required hospital treatment after he was attacked last month – has denied claims that he knows the people responsible for the incident, after Chicago Police announced they had ”shifted the trajectory” of their investigation. He has also dismissed the suggestion that he is somehow complicit in the incident.
-ContactMusic
★ Meg Ryan thinks ”being a million years old” is freeing. The 57-year-old got engaged to John Mellencamp in November, and says she loves the freedom that comes with getting engaged in her 50s. The pair split in 2015, before they rekindled their romance. Now, she says: ”What’s great about now is that John and I are so free to have fun. Aside from planning her wedding, Ryan says she stays busy these days writing a rom-com.
-ContactMusic
★ Former “Melrose Place” actress Amy Locane has been sentenced to more prison time for a fatal 2010 auto accident. She served about two-and-a-half years of a three-year sentence before her 2015 release, but has been given an additional five years behind bars after an appeals court ordered her to be re-sentenced for the crash that killed 60-year-old Helene Seeman and seriously injured Seeman’s husband, Fred. Locane smashed into their SUV as they were turning into their driveway. Her blood-alcohol level was likely about three times the legal limit for driving at the time of the crash, according to a state expert. Her lawyer expects her to only serve about 20 months if her appeal fails.
-MSN
★ Rose Byrne is open to adopting a child. She stars alongside Mark Wahlberg in the comedy “Instant Family” (out on video today), about a couple who find themselves in over their heads when they foster three children, and has admitted that her research for the movie ”opened her eyes” to the prospect of giving a disadvantaged kid a home. She said: ”Working on this film opened my eyes, my heart, and my mind. I immediately realized that I was profoundly naive and not very informed about these things. Would I adopt boys without a family? The answer is yes.”
-MSN
TODAY’S SHOW BIZ SKED:
• “Jimmy Kimmel Live” (ABC/Global): Regina King, Jon Bernthal, Juanes (R)
• “The Tonight Show starring Jimmy Fallon” (NBC/CTV): Jake Gyllenhaal, Jennifer Carpenter, Walk the Moon
• “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert” (CBS/Global): Andrew McCabe, Dan Levy, Sigrid
• “Late Night with Seth Meyers” (NBC/CTV): America Ferrera, Desus & Mero, Lauren Alaina, Jeff Friedl
• “The Late Late Show with James Corden” (CBS/CTV): Sen. Elizabeth Warren, 50 Cent, TNT Boys
• “Conan” (TBS): Bill Hader (R)
• “Watch What Happens Live” (Bravo): Lisa Rinna, Carson Kressley
• “The View” (ABC/CTV): Andrew McCabe
• “The Talk” (CBS): Seann William Scott
• “Live with Kelly and Ryan” (ABC/CTV): America Ferrera, the winner of the 2019 Daytona 500, Lukas Graham
• “The Ellen DeGeneres Show” (NBC/CTV): Diane Keaton, Wolfgang Puck, John Legend
• “Finding Your Roots With Henry Louis Gates Jr.” (PBS): Seth Meyers, Tig Notaro and Sarah Silverman discover forebears whose struggles laid the groundwork for their success. Gates also reveals to each one news of an unexpected DNA cousin.
BS MUSIC NOTES:
• Pink — has dropped a teaser of the first single from upcoming “Hurts 2B Human” album. She shared a brief clip of ‘Walk Me Home’ on Twitter Friday, writing, “‘Walk me home in the dead of night…’– Coming Soon!!!” It will be released this Friday.
• Ariana Grande – Her “Thank U, Next” album not only debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 albums chart, it enjoyed the biggest streaming week ever for a pop album, with 307 million on-demand audio streams for the album’s songs in its first week.
• Bad Company – singer Paul Rodgers reports that the band is currently in the studio “just kicking things around and seeing what we’ve got.” The group hasn’t released a studio album since 1996. They have scheduled dates with ZZ Top and Cheap Trick in May, and Lynyrd Skynyrd later in the summer.
• Tom Petty – The unreleased song ‘For Real’ from the upcoming two-disc career retrospective called “The Best of Everything” is now streaming. The 38-track album comes out March 1.
• The Trews – The Nova Scotia rockers have been named Canadian Ambassadors for Record Store Day 2019, which takes place April 13. They will also be releasing an exclusive pressing of their 2005 album “Den of Thieves”.
• R.E.M. – weren’t impressed that US President Trump used their song ‘Everybody Hurts’ in a meme on Twitter. The group’s official account tweeted in response: “World Leader PRETEND!!! Congress, Media–ghost this faker!!! Love, R.E.M.” Their 1988 song ‘World Leader Pretend’ contains the lyrics: “I raised the wall and I will be the one to knock it down.”
• Natalie Imbruglia – is working in the studio with The Strokes’ Albert Hammond Jr. Both confirmed the collaboration this week by sharing snaps from Rockinghorse studios in Australia. Imbruglia has said that she expects to release new music this year.
• Kacey Musgraves – has been announced as a presenter at Sunday’s Oscars. It remains unclear what award she’ll be presenting, but speculation is that it will be one of the two music awards — for best original song or best original score.
• Miranda Lambert — revealed the big news on Saturday that she secretly married her boyfriend Brendan Mcloughlin. Along with wedding photos, she wrote: “I met the love of my life. And we got hitched!” No word on when.
• Johnny Cash – is among the newest additions to Funko’s “Pop! Rocks” collectible figures collection. Two likenesses of Cash will be available. KISS figurines are also on the way.
THIS WEEK’S VIDEO RELEASES:
• “A Star Is Born” (R-Rated, Drama): A musician helps a young singer find fame, even as age and alcoholism send his own career into a downward spiral. (Lady Gaga, Bradley Cooper, Sam Elliott)
• “Green Book” (PG-13, Drama): A working-class Italian-American bouncer becomes the driver of an African-American classical pianist on a tour of venues through the 1960s American South. (Viggo Mortensen, Mahershala Ali)
• “Instant Family (PG-13, Comedy): When a couple decide to start a family, they stumble into the world of foster care adoption. They hope to take in one small child but when they meet three siblings, including a rebellious 15-year-old girl, they find themselves speeding from zero to three kids overnight. (Mark Wahlberg, Rose Byrne)
• “The Possession of Hannah Grace” (R-Rated, Horror/Mystery): When a cop who is just out of rehab takes the graveyard shift in a city hospital morgue, she faces a series of bizarre, violent events caused by an evil entity in one of the corpses. (Shay Mitchell, Grey Damon)
• “Mary Queen of Scots” (Not Rated, Drama): Mary Stuart’s attempt to overthrow her cousin Elizabeth I, Queen of England, finds her condemned to years of imprisonment before facing execution. (Saoirse Ronan, Margot Robbie)
• “Ben Is Back” (R-Rated, Drama): 19-year-old Ben unexpectedly returns to his family’s home on Christmas Eve morning. Over a turbulent 24 hours, new truths are revealed, and a mother’s undying love for her son is tested as she does everything in her power to keep him safe. (Julia Roberts, Lucas Hedges)
DON’T TELL YOUR MOTHER…
If you’ve always had a suspicion that being a dad is a lot more fun than being a mom, I’ve got news for you. You’re right! According to a Cornell University study, mothers report “less happiness, more stress, and greater fatigue” during the time they spend with children than fathers do. Why? Mostly because of the fact that according to “traditional parenting roles”, mothers have to spend more of their time with their kids taking care of the hands-on hard work of parenting, while dads get to enjoy more of the fun stuff. Moms also reports less leisure time and poorer sleep quality than fathers, which contributes to a feeling of being rushed, and less able to enjoy their time with their kids.
(And let’s face it, if you want to carry those “traditional roles” a bit further, which would you enjoy more: teaching a kid to catch a ball…or changing a dirty diaper?)
(Plus, dads get to eat their kids’ leftover chicken fingers!)
(I’m not sure, but dads might have more fun making them too!)
-Today’sParent
FREEZIN’ YOUR BUNS:
It’s a common phrase used anywhere that the temperature plunges below freezing: “Warm up the car.” Many people do it regularly, not only for comfort, but also because it’s supposed to be good for the engine, right? Nope. According to Popular Mechanics (and anyone else who knows a thing or two about the subject), driving your car right away is the fastest way to warm up your engine, and will actually prolong the life of your engine, as opposed to letting it sit idly before driving. Letting your car sit to warm up actually puts extra fuel into the combustion chamber, which can get onto your cylinder walls. That can dissolve the oil that lubricates your cylinders, leading to shorter life on crucial components. So, fire it up and go as soon as possible. But maybe drive easy for a while…because if your car is anything like mine, it might make some funny sounds that sound a lot like screaming!
(Then why does my mechanic tell me to let it idle for a half-hour every morning? Hey……!)
(OK, but I still kinda HAVE to warm it up when the windshield is covered with ice!)
(I guess that $300 remote starter was a waste…)
-Reader’sDigest
TEEN SLANG 2019:
Here are some of the slang social media and live-speak terms which are expected to be popular among teens this year…
➢ Fire: Something that is ‘really good’ or ‘cool’. (Are you telling me that ‘cool’ is no longer ‘cool’?)
➢ Low-key: Sort-of
➢ Boujee: Rich or acting rich
➢ OG: A quick way to say ‘original’ or ‘original gangster’.
➢ Extra: Over-the-top or dramatic behavior.
➢ Basic: A non-complimentary way to say someone is only into trendy things.
➢ OC: ‘Open Crib’, meaning no parents will be home or at a party.
(Learning these makes me feel low-key basic…)
(I’m awake to these!. No! Waked…um woke?)
-DailyInfographic
DID YOU KNOW?
Washing your hands in hot water doesn’t kill germs any more effectively than washing them in cold water. Water hot enough to kill germs would scald your skin.
-F’dUpFacts
BS CHRONOMETER 02.19.19
TODAY’S CELEBIRTHDAYS . . .
1940 [79] Smokey Robinson, Detroit MI, singer (w/The Miracles: ‘Tears of a Clown’)/Rock and Roll Hall of Fame 1987)
1955 [64] Jeff Daniels, Athens GA, movie actor (“Dumb & Dumber”, “Good Night, and Good Luck”)/TV actor (“The Newsroom” 2012-14)
1960 [59] Prince Andrew (Andrew Albert Christian Edward Windsor), London UK, Britain’s Duke of York/#2 son of Queen Elizabeth II/seventh in the line of succession to the British throne
1963 [56] Seal (Seal Henry Olusegun Olumide Adelo Samuel), London UK, pop singer (‘Kiss From a Rose’, ‘Crazy’)/married to model Heidi Klum 2005-12
1967 [52] Benicio Del Toro, Santurce, Puerto Rico, movie actor (“Guardians Of the Galaxy”, Oscar-“Traffic”)
1970 [49] Bellamy Young, Asheville NC, TV actress (‘Mellie Grant’ on “Scandal” 2012-18)
1975 [44] Daniel Adair, Vancouver BC, rock drummer (Nickelback-‘Photograph’, ex-3 Doors Down-‘Let Me Go’)
2004 [15] Millie Bobby Brown, Marbella Spain, TV actress (“Stanger Things” since 2016) COMING UP…”Godzilla: King of the Monsters”, 2019
TODAY’S BS REASONS TO PARTY . . .
• “Tug-of-War Day”, an annual celebration of the competitive sport in which 2 teams hold opposite ends of a large rope and attempt to pull the other towards them in order to win. The spectacle has a long and ancient history all over the world. (And works best if there is a mud pit in the middle!)
• “Chocolate Mint Day”, a celebration of one of the all-time great flavor pairings (and one of the all-time great Girl Guide cookie flavors!)
• “Lashes Day”, to appreciate both real and false eyelashes for the beauty they add to women (and men). Not only do they make our eyes “pop”, they also help keep foreign material from entering our eyes and prevent eye moisture from evaporating. (“I sentence you to two lashes…”)
• “Prevent Plagiarism Day”, to call attention to the rampant problem of high-tech theft of words, images and ideas that is all too easy in the Internet age. (I may or may not have stolen this from Wikipedia…)
AND REMEMBER . . .
[Wed] Love Your Pet Day
[Wed] Cherry Pie Day
[Thurs] Card Reading Day
[Thurs] Sticky Bun Day
This Week Is…National Engineers Week
This Month Is…National Embroidery Month
THIS DAY IN SHOW BIZ . . .
2008 [11] Toshiba announces the demise of its HD DVD video format, ending the format war between it and Sony’s Blu-Ray Disc to become the next big thing in home video (until streaming came along…)
2010 [09] In a televised news conference, the world’s #1 golfer Tiger Woods apologizes for his many, many extramarital affairs
TODAY’S MUSIC EVENTS . . .
1980 [39] AC/DC singer Bon Scott dies at 33 after a night of heavy drinking. The coroner’s report lists “acute alcohol poisoning” as the cause of death, classified under “death by misadventure.”
1985 [34] Rolling Stones frontman Mick Jagger releases his 1st solo album, “She’s the Boss” (well, that went well)
TODAY’S FIRST . . .
1985 [34] “Cherry Coke” is 1st sold bottled (after being available for decades at soda fountains and restaurants)
BULL’S BITS
BS WACK FACTS:
✓ “Donkey Kong” got his name because the creator believed “donkey” meant ‘stupid’ in English and he wanted the character to be a “stupid ape”.
✓ Mr. Potato Head was the first toy to be advertised on TV.
✓ Sonic the Hedgehog’s full name is Ogilvie Maurice Hedgehog.
✓ The stage before frostbite is called “frostnip”.
✓ The human nose can remember 50,000 different scents.
✓ Japan is facing a ninja shortage. There is high demand for “ninja shows”, but they have trouble finding properly trained ninjas because it is a dying tradition.
-TheFactSite
BS PONDERABLES:
• If you did something “like a boss”, you’d probably just pay someone else to do it.
• If you view a bald eagle at the zoo, you are looking at the American symbol of freedom in captivity.
• The only time “incorrectly” isn’t spelled incorrectly is when it’s spelled incorrectly.
• What if our use of emojis becomes so extensive that we actually circle back to writing in hieroglyphics?
• When you say the word “crisp”, it moves from the back of your mouth to the front as you say it.
• If you have a PhD, every meeting you go to becomes a doctor’s appointment.
• We say “hair” when referring to lots of it, but we say “hairs” when referring to a few.
• How far back in history do you have to go before it’s considered archaeology rather than grave robbing?
• When a pregnant woman swims, she is a human submarine.
• The person who proof-read Hitler’s speeches was literally a grammar Nazi.
-SunnySkyz
BEST OF BS:
BS EXCUSES IF YOU GET CAUGHT SLEEPING AT WORK:
• “They told me at the blood bank this might happen.”
• “This is just a 15-minute power nap like they raved about at that ‘time management course’ you sent me to.”
• “Whew! I must’ve left the lid off the printer ink.”
• “I’m just testing the keyboard for drool resistance.”
• “I wasn’t sleeping, I was trying to pick up my contact lens without hands.”
• “Geez, thought you were gone for the day, boss.”
• “I’m in the management training program.”
BS RANDOM JOKE:
I turned my phone on airplane mode and threw it in the air. Worst transformer ever.
BS PHONE STARTER:
What’s the most laughable name you’ve ever heard a parent give to their newborn because they wanted to be “unique”?
BS WATER COOLER QUESTION:
Question: The average guy will do THIS 6 times on a first date.
Answer: Lie.
BS DEEP THOUGHT:
Be somebody who makes everybody feel like a somebody.
