Tuesday, January 17, 2012        Edition: #4670

Another Sheetload of Bull!

BS SHOW BIZ BUZZ:
Today actor Terrence Howard (“Iron Man”) & estranged wife Michelle Ghent are due in court for a hearing on their increasingly ugly divorce battle (he’s asking for a restraining order – to match hers) . . . “Work It”, the cross-dressing comedy despised by critics and transgender activists, has been yanked from ABC-TV’s Tuesday schedule after just 2 episodes, with “Last Man Standing” repeats airing in its slot starting tonight (it might have worked if it was actually funny like the YouTube series “Sh-t Girls Say”) . . . Facebook has added a new ‘listen with’ feature which allows users to enjoy the same song at the same time as a friend via the site (this was previously known as ‘radio’) . . . 56-year-old “Golden Globe”-winner Kelsey Grammar (“Boss”) has confirmed he & 4th wife Kayte Walsh are expecting twins (his oldest daughter, 28-year-old Spencer is also expecting) . . . Actor and wannabe singer David Hasselhoff (“Baywatch” and, most recently, “Baywatch”) has had to scrap most of a 7-date UK tour featuring ‘music & laughter’ due to poor ticket sales (1 show in London has survived – for now) . . . 70-year-old actor Nick Nolte (“Hotel Rwanda”) is campaigning against 3-D TV because he’s convinced it  ‘disconnects the eyeball lens from the brain, so that whole system doesn’t function’ (speaking from experience?) . . . Actors Adrien Brody, Gary Oldman, Jamie Bell, and Willem Dafoe have donned dapper suits and strutted their stuff while serving as celeb fashion models for Prada during Men’s Fashion Week in Milan, Italy (ah celebrity – free flight, free suit!) . . . And actor Sean Penn has accepted the unofficial job of ‘Ambassador-at-Large’ for the country of Haiti, after assisting in relief efforts ever since it suffered a devastating earthquake 2 years ago (is this a tricky way of getting him to leave?).

TODAY’S SHOW BIZ SKED:
• “Ellen DeGeneres Show” (syndicated/CTV2) – Aerosmith’s Steven Tyler (“American Idol”); Chris Young performs his country hit “You”, from his recently released album “Neon”.
• “George Stroumboulopoulos Tonight” (CBC) – Raine Maida (Our Lady Peace).
• “Jimmy Kimmel Live” (ABC/CHCH) – Grouplove (“Grouplove”); Ne-Yo (“Apprenticeship of Mr Smith”).
• “Last Call With Carson Daly” (NBC) – Game (“The RED Album”); Thievery Corporation (“Culture of Fear”). Rerun.
• “Late Night With Jimmy Fallon” (NBC/CTV2) – Outasight (“Get It Together”).
• “Late Show With David Letterman” (CBS/NTV/Omni1) – Kathleen Edwards (“Asking For Flowers”)
• “Tonight Show With Jay Leno” (NBC/CTV2) – Adam Lambert (“Trespassing”, out March 20th).

BS MUSIC NOTES:
• Martina McBride – Her greatest hits package “Hits & More” is out today, a career-spanning collection that includes four #1 country singles as well as 3 new songs from her old label RCA Nashville.
• Mumford & Sons – Marcus Mumford & actress Carey Mulligan are planning to wed in Britain this April once they’re finished with present commitments. She’s filming “The Great Gatsby” in Australia and he’s in the studio, recording the band’s next album. They met in February 2011 when she attended one of his concerts in the US.
• Reba McEntire – She’ll be appearing on an episode of NBC-TV’s “Who Do You Think You Are?” this season, the show that investigates family trees.
• Rise Against – Tonight in Austin, Texas they launch a Winter leg of tour dates in support of their most recent album, “Endgame”. The North American dates are sandwiched between UK and European treks.
• The-Dream – TMZ.com reports the singer-producer (real name Terius Nash) is in trouble with the Georgia Department of Revenue over an alleged unpaid tax bill of $117,000. The original figure was near $60,000, but interest and penalties have now almost doubled it.

TODAY’S VIDEO RELEASES:
• “Abduction” ( PG-13 Thriller ): Taylor Lautner (“Twilight Saga”) plays a young man who sets out to uncover the truth about his life after finding his baby photo on a missing persons website. The storyline has been described as ‘Bourne lite’.
• “Bucky Larson: Born to Be a Star” ( R-Rated Comedy ): Nick Swardson (“Reno 911!”) plays a nerdy guy who heads for Hollywood, hoping to follow in his parents’ footsteps as adult film stars. Co-stars Don Johnson, Christina Ricci.
• “The Ides of March” ( R-Rated Drama ): George Clooney plays a presidential candidate with an idealistic young staffer (Ryan Gosling) who gets a crash course on dirty politics during his stint on the campaign trail. Co-stars Paul Giamatti, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Marisa Tomei.
• Also released today: “Delocated! The Complete Seasons 1 & 2” (TV); “Eat This New York” (Documentary); “Merlin: The Complete 3rd Season” (TV); “Sliders: The 5th & Final Season” (TV); and “Waking the Dead: Season 6” (TV).

LIFE BY THE NUMBERS:
A BS breakdown of who we are and what we do …
• 73% of men would rather NOT go dancing on a first date … or any date.
• 67% of us have experienced deja vu.
• 50% of women could forgive gambling away family savings, but only 30% could forgive an affair.
• 37% of us would actually ‘take it all off’ if we ended up on a nude beach.
• 30% of men say they’d feel insecure if their partner had more male friends then they.
• 24% of women try a new hairstyle at least once a year.

FACING FACTS:
A new beta service called SocialMedia-live is tracking some 38 million Facebook pages, generating stats on total number of ‘likes’, fan growth, and gender breakdown. A few interesting trends it’s unearthed …
• Adele is the music artist with the fastest-growing Facebook page, gaining 175,000 followers in a single 24-hour period over the weekend. Female fans make up 62% of her followers.
• Eminem’s Facebook page is also hot, attracting about 35-40 new ‘likes’ every minute.
• “Mob Wives” (VH1) is the TV series with the most action on its Facebook page, perhaps thanks to its current ‘Swear Jar Sweepstakes’ promotion.
– ReadWriteWeb.com

TV SHOWS BASED ON MOVIES:
BEST …
✓ “Buffy the Vampire Slayer”
✓ “Friday Night Lights”
✓ “M*A*S*H”
✓ “The Odd Couple”
✓ “Parenthood”
WORST …
✗ “Clerks: The Animated Series”
✗ “Delta House”
✗ “Ferris Bueller”
✗ “My Big Fat Greek Life”
✗ “Working Girl”
(So how about the new shows based on movies, “The Firm” and Napoleon Dynamite”?)
– Yahoo! TV

AUTO LITE:
At this year’s North American International Auto Show in Detroit, there’s been a lot of hoopla over fancy new electric cars and hybrids, but less-noted has been the fact that automakers are shifting to smaller and lighter vehicles … with good reason. It’s by far the easiest way to boost gas mileage. A car’s weight is responsible for about two-thirds of the energy needed to move it, so slimming vehicles down is a simple way to boost fuel economy. Lighter steel and better designs have been bringing the weight of cars down dramatically, without hiking the price tag. (Still happy with that Hummer?)
– “Washington Post”

ANOTHER %#@#?!!!! STUDY:
Who has fouler language, men or women? A nationwide study on cursing finds that men are fully twice as likely to use swear words when angry as women. And they know more as well. While the average woman has 29 cuss words in her vocabulary, the average male is fluent with 50. (That’s a heck of a lot of body parts and religious expressions to memorize!)
– PA News

ROMANCE ONLINE:
Highlights of a recent poll on dating and the Internet …
• Internet users who’ve used it ‘romantically’ … 74%
• Think online dating can be dangerous … 66%
• Know someone who’s used a dating website … 31%
• Believe online dating is only for those in ‘dire straits’ … 29%
• Know someone who’s gone on a date after visiting a website … 26%
• Know somebody who found a long-term partner online … 15%
• Will admit to visiting a dating website … 10%
– Pew Internet & American Life Project

FOR THE RECORD:
The shortest scheduled flight in the world is just 1-and-a-half miles long (2.4 km), from Westray to Papa Westray in the Orkney Islands of Scotland. The journey takes 1 minute, 14 seconds.
– “The Telegraph”

BS AMAZING ANIMAL FACTS:
• A snail can sleep for 3 years.
• Many hamsters only blink one eye at a time.
• The housefly hums, middle octave, key of F.
– ListsOPlenty.com

BS CHRONOMETER 01.17.12