June 5 2018

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Tuesday, June 5, 2018 Edition #6227

Deja Moo!

BS SHOW BIZ BUZZ:
★ Roseanne Barr made a tearful appearance on a podcast hosted by a rabbi friend, and used the occasion to cry about her show being cancelled by ABC. Barr reached out to New Jersey-based Rabbi Shmuley Boteach, who is a longtime spiritual advisor to the Jewish actress. Rabbi Shmuley used to advise Michael Jackson and is a supporter of U.S. President Donald Trump. A source says “She was sobbing and very apologetic about the whole thing.”
-Canoe
★ Heidi Klum says she and Mel B have ”dance parties” backstage on ‘America’s Got Talent’. The two have become great friends as a result of sitting on the judging panel of the NBC talent show together, and to pass the time off set they like to try and out-dance each other in their dressing rooms. Klum says that “Howie (Mandel) never comes because he can’t dance to the beat.” One of her favorite tracks to get down to is Silento’s 2015 hit ‘Watch Me (Whip/Nae Nae)’
-ContactMusic
★ Simon Cowell says that giving up his mobile phone for 10 months has improved his mental health. Despite it being a “strange experience”, Cowell says giving up his phone “absolutely” made him happier. Cowell reports that he is still not using a cell phone and at this point, the thing that irritates him most is “When you have a meeting, everyone’s on their phone – and I was probably in that place too. You can’t concentrate.” Elton John and Sarah Jessica Parker are among other celebrities said to have ditched their mobiles.
-MSN
★ Cate Blanchett says she has a nasty habit of accidentally picking up accents wherever she goes. According to her, it is a “terrible thing that I do. When I’m around Americans I take on an American lilt and when I’m in China, I can’t help it and I start to pick up a (slight accent).” She says doing so is politically incorrect and it embarrasses her kids.
-MSN
★ Laura Prepon of “Orange Is The New Black” and Ben Foster have tied the knot! Prepon announced the exciting news on Instagram, posting a wedding photo of the new husband and wife smiling and embracing. They welcomed their first child, daughter Ella, in August.
(Just out of curiosity, how did people announce things like this BEFORE social media? I forget!)
-People
★ Janet Jackson called police on Saturday night over concern for her 1-year-old child. Malibu County Sheriff’s Office were called to check on the welfare of Jackson’s son, who was with his father, Jackson’s estranged husband, Wissam Al Mana. Jackson was not on the scene at the time. Randy Jackson says that his sister called 911 after being contacted by a nanny who was helping Al Mana care for the child at the time. According to Randy, the nanny became frightened by Al Mana’s behavior which she believed was aggressive and locked herself in a bathroom, so she could contact Janet.
-FOX

TODAY’S SHOW BIZ SKED:
• “Jimmy Kimmel Live” (ABC/Global): Claire Danes, Jason Mitchell, Pusha T ( R )
• “The Tonight Show starring Jimmy Fallon” (NBC/CTV): Ariana Grande ( R )
• “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert” (CBS/Global): Bill Clinton, James Patterson, Tig Notaro
• “Late Night with Seth Meyers” (NBC/CTV): Priyanka Chopra, Mike O’Brien, Lord Huron, Carter McLean ( R )
• “The Late Late Show with James Corden” (CBS/CTV): Lucy Liu, Mandy Patinkin, Shawn Mendes
• “Conan” (TBS/Comedy): Chris Hardwick, Leslie Bibb
• “Watch What Happens Live” (Bravo): TBA
• “The View” (ABC/CTV): Newt Gingrich, a performance by the Broadway cast of “SpongeBob SquarePants”
• “The Talk” (CBS): Meghan Trainor, guest co-host Jessica Dean
• “Live with Kelly and Ryan” (ABC/CTV): Cate Blanchett, Debi Mazar
• “The Ellen DeGeneres Show” (NBC/CTV): Jim Parsons, Sean “Diddy” Combs
• “Humans” (AMC): Season 3 premiere
• “America’s Got Talent” (NBC): A variety of acts perform for the judges.

BS MUSIC NOTES:
• Azealia Banks – claims that RuPaul ripped off her song ‘The Big Big Beat’ with his release ‘Call Me Mother’. She says that she reached out to Spotify to remove RuPaul’s song from their streaming service, and at last check, ‘Call Me Mother’ is no longer available on the music platform.
• Harry Styles – is partial to Gucci, so it was only a matter of time until they made him the face of new advertising campaign. Styles dons two looks in the photo spread, a grey three-piece suit, and an elaborately embroidered jacket.
• Lionel Richie – says he loves performing and never wants to stop touring. Quote: “Once someone asked me how long is this tour gonna last, and I said, well I’ve been on tour since ’71.”
• Prince – his estate is suing an Oklahoma man for alleged copyright infringement. The lawsuit accuses Phil Shadid of violating the estate’s copyright by distributing videos from the band Vanity 6’s self-titled 1982 album on the digital music distributor, TuneCore.
• Ann Wilson – The Heart singer has released some details about her covers album, now called ‘Immortal’, out September 14. In it, she pays tribute to some departed rock stars, including versions of songs by David Bowie, Tom Petty, Chris Cornell, The Eagles and more. She’ll launch the project with her first-ever solo television special.
• Little Big Town – Singer Phillip Sweet says the group won’t be roasting other artists when they host the CMT Music Awards tomorrow night. He says, “I think if we roast with four people it might be overwhelming. When you prank four-times over, you’re bound to get pranked back.”
• Luke Combs – says that nobody is more surprised at his whirlwind year of success than he is, saying: “I would have thought we’d have a little bit of success, but not the year that we’ve had.” That includes the two No. 1 hits ‘Hurricane’ and ‘When It Rains It Pours’, and a third single, ‘One Number Away’, which just might follow those songs to the top.

THIS WEEK’S VIDEO RELEASES:
• “Death Wish” (R-Rated, Action/Adventure): After an attack on his family, a trauma surgeon accustomed to saving lives embarks on a mission for justice. (Bruce Willis, Vincent D’Onofrio, Elisabeth Shue)
• “A Wrinkle in Time” (PG, Action/Adventure): After the disappearance of her scientist father, three peculiar beings send Meg, her brother, and her friend to space in order to find him. (Oprah Winfrey, Reese Witherspoon)
• “Thoroughbreds” (R-Rated, Drama/Mystery): Two upper-class teenage girls rekindle their unlikely friendship after years of growing apart. Together, they hatch a plan to solve both of their problems-no matter what the cost. (Olivia Cooke, Anya Taylor-Joy, Anton Yelchin)
• “Gringo” (R-Rated, Action/Comedy): An exploration of the battle of survival for businessman Harold Soyinka, when he finds himself crossing the line from law-abiding citizen to wanted criminal. (Joel Edgerton, Charlize Theron, David Oyelowo)
• “Everyday” (PG-13, Drama/Romance): 16 year-old Rhiannon falls in love with a mysterious soul named “A” who inhabits a different body every day. Feeling a connection, Rhiannon and A work each day to find each other, not knowing what or who the next day will bring. (Angourie Rice, Justice Smith)

ONE THEORY DOWN THE DRAIN:
Finally! A bit of science that comes out on my side! It’s the answer to the age-old argument (and by “age-old”, I mean since dishwashers were invented) about whether or not to rinse the dishes before you put them into the dishwasher. And the answer is: NO! If you’ve ever pulled a bowl out of the freshly run dishwasher only to see it’s still covered in caked-on oatmeal, you can place the blame squarely NOT on the person who didn’t rinse the bowl, but whoever rinsed the other dishes. That’s because modern dishwashers have a sensor that measures the amount of food debris floating around at the start of the cycle and adjusts as necessary. If most of the plates and spoons in the cycle have been rinsed, the crud caked to that one bowl you couldn’t be bothered to rinse won’t trigger the sensor, and it’ll result in a shorter, lighter wash cycle, regardless of which setting you choose. Most dishwashers purchased in the last five years for $500 or more have this ability. One caveat: small food particles are good, but big food particles are not. Give your plates a scrape into the trash before you put them in the dishwasher.
(Or just let the dog handle the pre-wash…)
(I always thought that ‘washing the dishes’ before washing the dishes kind of defeated the purpose of a dishwasher…)
-AskACleanPerson

BOXING BARE:
The first legal bare-knuckle boxing matches in the U.S. since 1889 took place on the weekend in Cheyenne, Wyoming. Arnold Adams, a 32-year-old MMA heavyweight, pounded ex-UFC fighter D.J. Linderman’s face “into a bloody mess” in front of 2,000 rowdy fans at a hockey rink on Saturday night, in the headline event of a group of 10 bouts, including one featuring women. Tens of thousands more tuned in for the pay-per-view event. While bare knuckle boxing — essentially boxing without gloves — has been thriving in the United Kingdom for years, no state would sanction and regulate the activity until lawmakers in Wyoming reviewed research that indicated bare-knuckle boxing would be safer than other combat sports, especially when it comes to concussions. The last significant bare-knuckle bout in the U.S. was July 8, 1889, when John L. Sullivan went 75 rounds to beat Jake Kilrain.
(75 rounds? I can’t even stand up for that long!)
(Bare knuckle boxing was illegal? Have these guys never seen a hockey game?)
-CTV, Maxim

FIVE THINGS THAT SCIENTISTS STILL CAN’T AGREE ON:
➠ Is Pluto a Planet? An editorial by two astronomers in the Washington Post argues that the 2005 redefinition of the word “planet” that left Pluto in the dust should be reconsidered. Under the current planet definition, even Earth was not one for the for the first 500 million years of its existence.
➠ What is death? There are a lot of different ways to define death, and they don’t always line up with each other. You can be brain-dead, but with working organs. Or your heart could stop, but the brain works for a while. The traditional definition of death requires all three elements: circulatory failure, respiratory failure, and not being on life support. (With attending a child’s piano recital a close fourth!)
➠ Are Viruses Alive? They’ve been considered many things in the 100+ years since their first discovery — poisons, life forms, biological chemicals, and life forms again. Scientists can’t quite decide if they’re alive or not. (But we do refer to ‘killing’ the virus…)
➠ Is It Brontosaurus or Apatosaurus? A paleontologist dug up a set of bones in 1877 and called the animal “Apatosaurus,” then dug up another set two years later and named that animal “Brontosaurus.” In 1903, another paleontologist convinced the dinosaur community that these were, in fact, two versions of the same animal, and thus the older name won out. (Which is too bad, since “Brontosaurus” rolls off the tongue so much better. (I know. Sometimes I lose sleep about this one too.)
➠What Happened Before the Big Bang? Perhaps our universe sprung out of another, older one. Perhaps our Big Bang was just one of several similar spatial expansions, each one exploding into its own universe-in-a-bubble. Or maybe we’re all living on a giant space turtle. It’s unlikely we’ll ever know. (Especially with Hawking gone…)
(Plus there’s that whole ‘to-may-to, to-mah-to’ thing…)
-Curiosity

BS CHRONOMETER 06.05.18

TODAY’S CELEBIRTHDAYS . . .
1956 [62] Kenny G, Seattle, WA, Saxophonist who has been recognized as one of the most commercially successful instrumental musicians of all time. (Whitney Houston ft. Kenny G. – ‘All the Man That I Need’)

1962 [56] Jeff Garlin, Chicago IL, TV actor (“The Goldbergs” since 2013. “Curb Your Enthusiasm” 2000-2017)

1971 [47] Mark Wahlberg, Dorchester MA, movie actor (“Ted”, “Boogie Nights”)/TV producer (“Boardwalk Empire”, “Entourage”)/Businessman ( co-owns ‘Wahlburgers’ chain with his brothers Donnie and Paul) COMING UP… “Mile 22” 2018

1978 [40] Nick Kroll, Town Of Rye, NY, TV actor (“Kroll Show 2013-2015, movies “Sausage Party”, Captain Underpants: The First Epic Movie”)

1979 [39] Pete Wentz, Wilmette IL, rock bassist-singer (Fall Out Boy-‘Sugar, We’re Goin’ Down’, ‘This Ain’t a Scene It’s an Arms Race’)

1980 [38] Mike Fisher, Peterborough ON, retired-again NHL player (Nashville Predators)/wed to country star Carrie Underwood since 2010

1981 [37] Sebastien Lefebvre, Montréal QC, rock guitarist (Simple Plan-‘Summer Paradise’, ‘Welcome to My Life’)

TODAY’S BS REASONS TO PARTY . . .
• “Hot Air Balloon Day”, commemorating the 1st hot air balloon flight, by the Montgolfier Brothers in Annonay, France in 1783

• World Environment Day”, declared annually since 1972. The 2018 theme is “Beating Plastic Pollution”

• “Gingerbread Day”, gingerbread is a sweet food that typically uses honey or molasses rather than just sugar and is flavored with ginger.

• “Apple II Day”, celebrating the day back in 1977 when the Apple II computer was released. A hulking beige mammoth with 4KB of RAM (upgradeable to a whopping 48KB), the Apple II was the computer that defined Apple for a generation of fans. Retailing at $1,298, it cost the equivalent of two ipads today — even though it seemed a total bargain at the time.

• Attitude Day”. Attitudes are contagious … is yours worth catching? A day to appreciate those whose attitude makes those around them happy.

AND REMEMBER . . .
[Wed] Drive-in Movie Day
[Wed] National Yo-yo Day
[Thurs] Daniel Boone Day
[Thurs] Chocolate Ice Cream Day

THIS DAY IN SHOW BIZ . . .
2005 [13] “Monty Python’s Spamalot” wins 3 Tony Awards, including ‘Best Musical’

2010 [08] The UN Environment Agency appoints actor Don Cheadle a ‘Goodwill Ambassador’ at a ceremony in Rwanda to mark “World Environment Day”

TODAY’S MUSIC EVENTS . . .
2004 [14] About 40 guests watch as Jennifer Lopez weds her 3rd husband, Marc Anthony, in an intimate ceremony in the backyard of her LA home (they separate in 2011, divorce 2012)

2017 [01] Kesha is rebuffed when she tries to hug Jerry Seinfeld at a red carpet event – turns out he’s not a hugger. The video quickly goes viral.

TODAY’S FIRST . . .
1993 [25] Julie Krone rides 13-to-1 longshot Colonial Affair to victory in the Belmont Stakes, to become the 1st female jockey ever to win a Triple Crown horse race

TODAY’S RECORD . . .
2003 [15] 37-year-old Indiana native Brad Hauter arrives in NYC after riding his Yard-Man lawnmower 5,600 miles across the USA from San Francisco CA … at 10 mph

BULL’S BITS

BS WACK FACTS:
✓ Polar bears are almost invisible to infrared cameras.
✓ The only difference between white and brown eggs is the hen that lays them. The color of a hen’s earlobes determines the color of her eggs.
✓ Bald eagles don’t have vocal cords, but they use sounds to communicate by pushing air through the bones in their necks.
✓ Horses can’t breathe through their mouth.
✓ Elephants produce enough methane in a day to power a car for 32 km.
✓ Cockroaches can withstand 10 times more radiation than a person.
-Factsd

BS HEARD ON SPEAKERPHONE…
• “Tell her I’m not here.”
• “Your call is very important to us! Now, please listen to this 8 minute flute solo.”
• Someone saying “Hellooo…” while I have it on mute because I’m yelling at my kids to shut up because I’m on the phone.
• Me, cussing out every stupid driver, while on the phone with my mother.
• “$3.99 for the first minute, $5.99 each additional minute.”
• Chewing sounds.
• “Eww, did you see the dress Sarah is wearing today?” “Yes I did. She’s standing right next to me.”
• “She wants another 130 thousand.”
• “Hello? Is it me you’re looking for?”
• “Do you have me on speakerphone?!?”
-Twitter

BS RANDOM JOKE:
You know what they say about people who are paranoid…

BS PHONE STARTER:
What’s the creepiest urban legend you’ve ever heard?

BS U-PICK TRIVIA:
1. The Lion suit in the movie “The Wizard of Oz” was made of what?
a. Horses
b. Goats
c. Lions [CORRECT]
d. Donkeys

2. The first product ever to have its barcode scanned was?
a. Cadbury Easter Creme Egg
b. A bag of frozen peas
c. Bird’s Eye fish fingers
d. Wrigley’s Gum [CORRECT]
-AbsurdTrivia

BS WATER COOLER QUESTION:
Question: 70% of men have done this to please their significant other. What?
Answer: Watch a “chick flick”

BS DEEP THOUGHT:
Not all storms come to disrupt your life. Some come to clear your path.

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