November 6 2018

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Tuesday, November 6, 2018        Edition: #6329

Here, Have Another Sheetload!

BS SHOW BIZ BUZZ:
★ The Spice Girls are back together … minus one pair of stilettos.  They have have announced details of the 2019 “Viva 4 Ever” reunion tour without founding member Victoria Beckham (Posh Spice).  After months of rumours following the group’s meeting in February, Geri, Emma, Mel C and Mel B have confirmed they will play six stadium shows in England next June. Tickets go on sale this Saturday.  Mel B recently attended a Halloween party dressed as Beckham, holding up a sign that read: “No I am not going on tour.”
-TMZ, Guardian, OfficialCharts
★ Fran Drescher has said in the past that she would be super happy to have Cardi B play her daughter in a potential reboot of “The Nanny”.  Now, however, Dresher says that she and the female emcee are working on something else together.  While in attendance at the Friends of the Israel Defense Forces Western Region Gala, Drescher said “I am actually talking to her representation, and it may not be for The Nanny, but it could be for something else. A millennial-meets-baby-boomer kind of concept. I would love to work with her.” She went on to point out that she thinks the two could make a great combo, because they are both style icons and “have funny voices”.
-CelebrityInsider
★ Like most of us, the royals are already working on their holiday plans, and this year it looks like Meghan Markle’s mom Doria Ragland will be staying with the royals at their Norfolk estate for Christmas.  Apparently, Queen Elizabeth herself invited Doria to join them for the first Christmas since Markle married into the royal family. Insiders say this is highly unusual and breaks royal precedent—Kate Middleton’s family has never been invited to stay with the royals for Christmas.
(Doria must make a mean Figgy Pudding!)
-Cosmopolitan
★ Brad Pitt and his ex-wife Jennifer Aniston are said to be enjoying a solid friendship of late. The pair, who were once regarded as Hollywood’s golden couple, announced their separation in 2005, with Pitt quickly finding love again with Angelina Jolie.  An insider reports that “Jen and Brad have been on good terms for years. But since their respective break-ups they’ve been supporting each other. It’s like two lost soulmates coming together years later as mature adults.”
(Hollywood loves a sequel!)
-MSN
★ Michael Douglas will be honored with the 2,648th star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame today.
-WalkofFame

TODAY’S SHOW BIZ SKED:
• “Jimmy Kimmel Live” (ABC/Global): Jimmy Kimmel Live: After the Midterms
• “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert” (CBS/Global): John Heilemann, Alex Wagner, Hasan Minhaj
• “Late Night with Seth Meyers” (NBC/CTV): Billy Eichner, Chris Hayes, Franklin Vanderbilt
• “The Late Late Show with James Corden” (CBS/CTV): Chris Sullivan, Lil Rel Howery, Sabrina Carpenter (R)
• “The View” (ABC/CTV): Jonathan Karl, Kenan Thompson
• “The Talk” (CBS): Jane Lynch, Pistol Annies, guest co-host Robin Thede
• “Live with Kelly and Ryan” (ABC/CTV): Chrissy Metz, Kandi Burruss, Kane Brown
• “The Ellen DeGeneres Show” (NBC/CTV): Eddie Redmayne, Damon Wayans Jr.
• “Campaign 2018” (CBS/ABC/NBC): The midterm elections are covered.

BS MUSIC NOTES:
• Ed Sheeran – his song ‘We Are’, which he credits with getting him a record deal, was inspired by the tragic death of close friend Stuart Dines, who died in a traffic accident while on a school ski-trip when Sheeran was 14.  The song was played at Dines’ funeral, and although it has not been included on any of Sheeran’s albums, a live version was released on an EP.
• Demi Lovato is out of rehab. A source reports that “She just got back to L.A. a couple days ago…She seems to be doing well so far.” Lovato’s mother, Dianna De La Garza, shared last week that her daughter has been sober for 90 days.
• Carly Rae Jepsen – has released her new single ‘Party For One’! A song about self-love and independence, it’s her first new material since May 2017. Her new album is set for an early 2019 release.
• Avril Lavigne – says she is still as confused as everyone else about the conspiracy theory that claims she died 15 years ago.  The story resurfaced in 2017 when a Twitter user detailed the “evidence” in a thread, claiming that Lavigne committed suicide in 2003.  Her record company supposedly hired a double named Melissa Vandella to replace her. (Why’d they have to go and make things so complicated?)
• Queen — The Freddie Mercury biopic “Bohemian Rhapsody” is “champion of the world. The movie debuted with $50 million in weekend ticket sales in U.S. and Canada, and another $72.5 million internationally, according to studio estimates. That was well beyond expectations, which had pegged the film closer to $35-40 million for its opening weekend.
• Talking Heads – Founding member Tina Weymouth was inducted into the Connecticut Women’s Hall of Fame yesterday.  Weymouth, who also founded Tom Tom Club, lives in Fairfield.  She joins the more than 100 previous inductees, including Helen Keller and Katherine Hepburn.
• Granger Smith – has produced a documentary honoring the lives of five fallen soldiers. “They Were There: A Hero’s Documentary”, out Nov. 30 on Smith’s YouTube channel, contains an original soundtrack as well as his exploration into the legacies of the soldiers. Smith and director Paul De La Cerda delve into the heroes’ lives, meet their families, and read their personal letters aloud.
• Jason Aldean – His wife Brittany has revealed their unborn daughter’s name.  On Sunday, she posted a picture of what appears to be the trappings of a baby shower, with the name “Navy” written in cursive neon. Later she revealed the full name on her Instagram Stories: “Navy Rome Williams!”  Navy is expected in February.

THIS WEEK’S VIDEO RELEASES:
• “Papillon” (R-Rated, Drama):  Wrongfully convicted for murder, Henri Charriere forms an unlikely relationship with fellow inmate and quirky convicted counterfeiter Louis Dega, in an attempt to escape from the notorious penal colony on Devil’s Island. (Charlie Hunnam, Rami Malek)
• “Kin” (PG-13, Action/Adventure):  Chased by a vengeful criminal, the feds and a gang of otherworldly soldiers, a recently released ex-con and his adopted teenage brother are forced to go on the run with a weapon of mysterious origin as their only protection. (Myles Truitt, Dennis Quaid)
• “Life Feels Good” (Not Rated, Drama):  Based on the true story of a man suffering with cerebral palsy, who in his early childhood was diagnosed as “retarded” and was given with no contact with the outside world. After twenty-five years, it was discovered that he was a perfectly normal and intelligent person. (Dawid Ogrodnik, Dorota Kolak)
• “Intensive Care” (Not Rated, Action/Adventure):  Three low-life criminals attempt to rob an elderly dying woman’s home, but her live-in nurse turns out to be much more trouble than they bargained for. (Tara Macken, Jai Rodriguez)

PASSWORD FAIL:
It’s bad enough that it seems like you need a password every time you surf to a different website.  Now most of them require alphanumeric characters, and about 10 digits, and THEN they ask you to change your password every other time you visit the site!  On average we have 6.5 web passwords, 25 accounts that require passwords, and type an average of eight passwords per day.  That’s a lot to remember.  Here is one memory expert’s tip on how to remember number-based passwords:  First, select words that rhyme with numbers (fun for one, blue for two, free for three, etc.). Then create a visual image to associate with those numbers. For example: if your bank PIN is 1234 (then you could visualize a bun (for one) on top of a shoe (two) sitting in a tree (three) with a door (four) in its trunk. The same approach can be used for letters by assigning them an image: A is apple, B is bowl, C is crayon, and so on.  It may sound difficult, but it gets easier as time goes on.
(And you’ll look hilarious when you’re giggling to yourself at the bank machine!)
(And if your bank card PIN IS 1234, please change it immediately!)
(I have no problem remembering all my passcodes.  I just have trouble remembering where I left my phone!)
-Curiosity

IT’S ABOUT TIME:
While you might figure that you’ve pretty much adjusted to the end of Daylight Saving Time, the European Commission has proposed scrapping DST altogether…for the entire European Union. That’s 28 member countries! If approved, the last EU-wide clock change would be on Sunday, March 31, 2019.
For most of Europe, DST begins on the last Sunday of March and ends on the last Sunday of October.  Other countries have already stopped messing with their clocks unless the batteries die: Argentina stopped daylight saving in 2009. Russia ended its daylight saving in 2014. And Turkey stopped monkeying around with Father Time in 2016.  Is Europe next?  In a poll, 80% of respondents were in favor of eliminating DST.
(Everyone says they hate DST, but you’ll notice that when they talk about ending it, they all want to wait until spring…after the clocks spring forward!)
(Weren’t Europeans the ones who came up with this idea in the first place?)
(Let’s face it, nobody is “saving time”…we’re losing time while we’re trying to figure out how to change the clock on the oven!)
-Almanac

NAME SHORTFORMS THAT ARE A BIT OF A S-T-R-E-T-C-H:
⇒ Nellie is short for Helen:  Depending on your accent, the H in Helen might be silent or difficult to say, so it was dropped and “mine Helen” turned into “my Nell” and then into “my Nellie.”
⇒ Daisy and Peggy are short for Margaret:  The French word for “daisy” is “marguerite.”  Peggy? Well, Margaret was shorted to nicknames like Meg or Meggy, and the rhyming nickname trend turned Meggy into Peggy.
⇒ Dick is short for Richard:  In the Middle Ages, there weren’t that many first names yet. And so many people were named Richard that everyone needed nicknames.  Richard was shortened to Rick, and then people would rhyme it with something else to become an entirely new name — so Rick became Dick.
⇒ Sally is short for Sarah:  In the 11th and 12th centuries, people would often substitute the letter R for other letters (in this case it’s replaced by two L’s), and would add a Y to the end as well. So Sarah became Sally.
⇒ Polly is short for Mary:  Another case of the letter R being replaced by two L’s. Then, the natural evolution of language turned Mary into Molly. Then more rhyming occurred, turning Molly into Polly.
⇒ Hank is short for Henry:  No one is entirely sure about this one.  but a theory is that Hendrick is the Dutch version of Henry.  Henk became a nickname for Hendrick, which eventually became Hank.
⇒ Jack is short for John:  But They have the same number of letters! In the 11th and 12th centuries, some pronounced “John” as “Jen.” They also added “-kin” to the ends of names as nicknames. So, Jen turned into Jenkin, which eventually turned into Jakin, and finally into Jack.
⇒ Chuck is short for Charles:  This one’s a little simpler: In Middle English, Charles was actually Chukken. (Yes, really.)
⇒ Nancy is short for Anne:  Yes, the short form of Ann (or Anne) is longer than the original name. People used to use the affectionate phrase “mine Ann,” which eventually turned into “my Nan.” Nickname trends of the time also had people adding “-cy” to the ends of name, which is how Ann evolved into Nancy.  (Now could you explain how it is that sisters Ann and Nancy Wilson of “Heart” ended up with the same name?)
-Buzzfeed

BS WEB GOODIE:
45 minutes of stage banter from KISS’ Paul Stanley:
WOOOOOOOOOOHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!

BS CHRONOMETER 11.06.18

TODAY’S CELEBIRTHDAYS . . .
1946 [72] Sally Field (Mahoney), Pasadena CA, movie actress (“The Amazing Spider-Man” films, “Forest Gump”)

1970 [48] Ethan Hawke, Austin TX, movie actor (“Boyhood”, “Training Day”) COMING UP…”The Kid” 2019

1972 [46] Rebecca Romijn, Berkeley CA, movie actress (“X-Men” franchise, “Femme Fatale”)

1974 [44] Zoe McLellan, La Jolla CA, TV actress (‘Meredith Brody’ on “NCIS: New Orleans” 2014-16)

1978 [40] Taryn Manning, Tucson AZ, movie actress (“8 Mile”, “Orange is the New Black” since 2013)

1984 [34] Patina Miller, Pageland SC, TV actress (‘Daisy Grant’ on “Madam Secretary” since 2014)

1988 [30] Emma Stone, Scottsdale AZ, movie actress (“La La Land”, “The Amazing Spider-Man” films) COMING UP…”Zombieland 2” 2019

TODAY’S BS REASONS TO PARTY . . .
• “Halfway Point of Autumn”, with 45 days elapsed and 45 more remaining until the Winter Solstice on December 21st. (Or 33 more leaf rakings…)

• “International Day for Preventing the Exploitation of the Environment in War & Armed Conflict”, a UN observance since 2001.

• “Saxophone Day”, commemorating the 1814 birth of Belgium’s Adolphe Sax, inventor of the musical instrument named for him. Sax became wealthy inventing numerous musical instruments, but died in poverty in Paris in 1894.  (What is your favorite song featuring a sax?)

• “Basketball Day”, honoring the game invented in 1891 by Canadian-American James Naismith as a YMCA pastime, which evolved into big biz where players get a bazillion bucks a bucket. Naismith was born on this date in 1861.

• “National Nachos Day”, Nachos originated in Mexico.  First created circa 1943 by Ignacio ‘Nacho’ Anaya while working at a restaurant called the ‘Victory Club’ in Piedras Negras, original nachos consisted of fried tortilla chips covered with melted cheese and jalapeño peppers.  (***And just try to get through this without making a ‘Nacho cheese’ pun!***)

• “Marooned Without a Compass Day”, we can only imagine that this day came from the question most people will be asked at least once in their life.  “If you were lost on a desert island, what would you want with you?”  This question has numerous variations, you can only select one item, you can select three items, or perhaps one person.

AND REMEMBER . . .
[Wed] Hug a Bear Day
[Wed] Stress Awareness Day
[Thurs] Cook Something Bold Day
[Thurs] Cappuccino Day

THIS DAY IN SHOW BIZ . . .
2001 [17] Keifer Sutherland’s hit TV series “24″ debuts (FOX)

2012 [06] Brit MP Nadine Dorries is suspended from Conservative Party after becoming the first politician to appear on a reality TV series (“I’m a Celebrity … Get Me Out of Here!”)

TODAY’S MUSIC EVENTS . . .
1976 [42] The Steve Miller Band’s ‘Rock ‘N’ Me’ hits #1 in the US, giving the group their second chart-topper, following ‘The Joker’.

2008 [10] Thanks to internet voting, Rick Astley wins ‘Best Act Ever’ at the MTV Europe Music Awards. The show’s producer was quoted as saying: “We’ve been well and truly Rickrolled.”

TODAY’S FIRST . . .
1995 [23] NFL’s Cleveland Browns relocate to Baltimore and become the Ravens

TODAY’S SECOND . . .
2012 [06] US President Barack Obama re-elected as U.S. President

TODAY’S RECORD . . .
2010 [08] Swiebodzin, Poland announces that the world’s biggest statue of Jesus, called ‘Christ the King’, is completed (33 meters or 108 feet)

BULL’S BITS

BS WACK FACTS:
✓ Amazon’s largest warehouse is the size of 17 American football fields.
✓ All galaxies, regardless of size, rotate once every billion years.
✓ There are four times as many species of orchid as there are species of mammal.
✓ Dynamite was originally going to be called ‘Nobel’s Safety Powder’.
✓ World renowned cellist Yo Yo Ma once left his 266 year old cello, worth $2.5 million, in the back of a NYC taxi. It was returned to him in time for his evening concert.
✓ ‘All-Bran’ is only 87% bran.
-FactSlides

BS BAD REASONS TO DATE SOMEONE:
• So you can use her Costco membership.
• She shares your opinion on the “pineapple on pizza” debate.
• So you can use the HOV lane.
• For a Klondike bar.
• Your father dated her, his father dated her, your fathers grandfather dated her and you’ll be darned if you’re gonna be the one to break a family tradition.
• You need a player 2 for your Xbox.
• To get away from your spouse.
• He drives a Fiero.
• Your ex hated him.
• (***Caution***) He has big feet. That theory has been disproven!
• She has a pulse.
-Twitter

Best of BS:
BS SIGNS YOU’RE A BAD REFEREE:
• Every call you make begins with “Umm …”
• You won’t throw your flag on the field because you’d just have to pick it up.
• Every time you raise your arms, your pants fall down.
• No one pays any attention when you blow your slide whistle. [SFX]
• You can’t believe how many players’ autographs you’ve collected during games.
• You missed the last 3 calls because the beer vendor was slow giving you change.
• Just in the first half, you made 6 tackles and an interception.
• And the most telling evidence you’re a bad referee … horizontal stripes.
-First published in BS in 2015

BS PHONE STARTER:
Who is the most famous person from your hometown?

BS RANDOM JOKE:
If time is money, does that mean ATMs are time machines?

BS WATER COOLER QUESTION:
Question:  On average, parents tell their children to do THIS 4 times a week. What is it?
Answer:  “Tie your shoes!”

BS DEEP THOUGHT:
Promises are like babies: easy to make, hard to deliver.

 

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