Wednesday, October 10, 2018 – Edition: #6310
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BS SHOW BIZ BUZZ:
★ In case you’re still baffled by the news that Dakota Johnson and Coldplay’s Chris Martin are dating, strap in, because within one hour, a Dakota pregnancy rumor came and went. TMZ reported on Monday that not only is the pair expecting, but that they already had a gender reveal party on the weekend. Paparazzi caught celebrities walking into Martin’s home and there were blue and pink balloons tied into arches. But according to Johnson’s rep, they were all actually there to celebrate her 29th birthday.
(At least the balloons weren’t grey…)
-Cosmopolitan
★ Jamie Dornan and Amelia Warner are going to be parents of three! The “Fifty Shades of Grey” actor and his musician life partner are expecting again. The two got married in 2013 and share two daughters together – 4-year-old Dulcie and two-and-a-half-year-old Elva.
-CelebrityInsider
★ The CW announced two new cast members for Riverdale Season 3 at their New York Comic Con panel on Sunday. Gina Gershon will play Gladys Jones, the mother of Jughead, while newcomer Trinity Likins will play Jughead’s sister, Jellybean ‘JB’ Jones. Both will make their Riverdale debuts during the episode airing December 12.
-DailyMail
★ Great news for those still not over the experience of seeing “A Star Is Born” on the big screen: Now you can buy official merchandise. On Sunday, Lady Gaga (who plays the film’s rising star, Ally) announced on Twitter that T-shirts featuring both her character and Bradley Cooper’s ‘Jackson Maine’ are now available on the movie’s website.
(A Star is Born…and a sucker is born every minute!)
-PageSix
★ Jimmy Kimmel is headed back to the Big Apple. “Jimmy Kimmel Live” has scheduled a week’s worth of shows to be taped from the Brooklyn Academy of Music’s Howard Gilman Opera House starting Monday, Oct. 15. This will mark the fourth time that Kimmel and his show have broadcast from BAM. Guests for the week are expected to include Adam Sandler, John Krasinski, Cardi B, and Julia Louis Dreyfus, with musical performances from St. Vincent, BeBe Rexha, and Wu-Tang Clan.
-PageSix
★ Arnold Kopelson, a versatile film producer whose credits ranged from the raunchy teen smash “Porky’s” to the Holocaust drama “Triumph of the Spirit” to the Oscar-winning “Platoon,” died Monday. He was 83.
-Canoe
TODAY’S SHOW BIZ SKED:
• “Jimmy Kimmel Live” (ABC/Global): Jamie Lee Curtis, Rod Stewart
• “The Tonight Show starring Jimmy Fallon” (NBC/CTV): Timothee Chalamet, Amandla Stenberg, Guy Raz, Ella Mai
• “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert” (CBS/Global): Tiffany Haddish, Iain Armitage (R)
• “Late Night with Seth Meyers” (NBC/CTV): Anna Kendrick, Natasha Rothwell (R)
• “The Late Late Show with James Corden” (CBS/CTV): Joe Manganiello, Jennifer Love Hewitt, Why Don’t We (R)
• “Watch What Happens Live” (Bravo): Lena Dunham, Maggie Gyllenhaal
• “The View” (ABC/CTV): Guest co-host Yvette Nicole Brown
• “The Talk” (CBS): Ron Livingston, Scott Evans, guest co-host Sheila E.
• “Live with Kelly and Ryan” (ABC/CTV): Amanda Peet, Taye Diggs, Mike Posner
• “The Ellen DeGeneres Show” (NBC/CTV): Melissa McCarthy, Billie Eilish
• “Survivor” (CBS): One paranoid castaway calls a tribal meeting to put a stop to side conversations, and two castaways bump heads when their Survivor lives are on the line.
• “Riverdale” (CW): Season 3 premiere
• “All American” (CW): Premiere: South Crenshaw High student Spencer James is recruited to play for Beverly High School. He’s then forced to move in with his coach and family, and they soon discover a deeper connection despite their surface differences.
BS MUSIC NOTES:
• Katy Perry – plans to take a step back from music now that she has wrapped up “Witness: The Tour.” In an interview, she said, “I’ve been on the road for like 10 years, so I’m just going to chill. I’m not going to go straight into making another record.”
• Justin Bieber — Scooter Braun says he discovered the popstar ”by mistake” and ”was blown away” instantly by what he saw. The music manager says he found 12-year-old Bieber on YouTube and saw “a kid singing who had 60,000 views in his church in Canada and I was blown away with what I saw. I knew I could make this kid one of the biggest artists in the world, I just knew instantly.”
• Lil’ Wayne — Chaos erupted during his set at the 2018 A3C Festival in Atlanta on Sunday after fears of a possible shooting sent crowds running in panic. At least six people were injured, none of them serious. Organizers say that there was no shooting and that the panic was caused by a fight.
• Bee Gees — A biopic about them could be in the works soon. Robin Gibb’s widow Edwina says that the family is in talks to bring the trio’s story to the big screen.
• Moby — is unloading nearly 200 drum machines from his personal collection. They went on sale yesterday at online music gear marketplace Reverb, and 100 percent of the proceeds go to the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine.
• Journey – Former singer Steve Perry has ruled out the possibility of working again with guitarist Neal Schon. Speculation has ebbed and flowed over the years that Perry might one day rejoin the band he fronted from 1977 to 1987 and again from 1995 to 1998. In a new interview, Perry says it’s not something he can imagine doing any time in the future. (OK…. now back to you, Robert Plant…)
• Rush — will release a series of expanded reissues of their 1978 album, “Hemispheres”, on November 16. The “Hemispheres” 40th Anniversary series will be available in a Super Deluxe Edition, a 2CD Deluxe Edition, a 3LP Deluxe Edition, and a Deluxe Digital Edition.
• Nirvana – Video has been posted online of surviving Nirvana members Dave Grohl, Krist Novoselic and Pat Smear reuniting for a six-song set to close out the Foo Fighters’ Cal Jam 18 festival in San Bernardino, CA on Saturday. Joan Jett joined them for two songs. Video here: https://youtu.be/bCdzN7PIb-0 and here: https://youtu.be/5HywxkdqP7c
• Carrie Underwood – was trolled by her husband Mike Fisher after posting a photo of her rehearsing for the American Music Awards while wearing a denim shirt with jeans. Less than three minutes after she posted the photo, Fisher commented: “Love the Canadian tuxedo babe!!”
• Old Dominion – has announced the 2019 “Make It Sweet Tour”, which will launch Jan. 18 in Chicago. It will hit mostly arenas and wrap in San Jose on April 27. They will be joined by special guests Jordan Davis, Morgan Evans and Mitchell Tenpenny on select dates.
I’LL RISE, BUT I WON’T SHINE:
Do you grunt and groan when you first get out of bed in the morning? Do you sometimes swear that you can hear your back creaking when you first stand up? Or does getting up just sometimes make you swear? For people of a certain age, or those who have overdone it the day before, that’s what they can expect. But why? It turns out that our bodies produce ‘natural ibuprofen’, but not so much at night. While we sleep, our circadian clocks supress the body’s production of anti-inflammatory proteins, our natural pain-dampeners. Once morning kicks in, and we’ve struggled to get up and moved around a bit, the body begins producing anti-inflammatory compounds again, and we start to feel more flexible with less pain. Researchers say that these findings may eventually lead to new treatments for rheumatoid arthritis and other inflammatory conditions.
(It’s too bad we can’t set our circadian clock for a half-hour before our alarm clock!)
(That explains my back and my knees. Now can someone explain the pounding headache I seem to wake up with every Sunday?)
(To paraphrase the old joke: Sometimes I wake up stiff and achy…sometimes I let her sleep!)
-TheOldFarmersAlmanac
HUGE EUGENIE NEWS:
Here’s a little something that you can share with that irritating royal-watcher who won’t stop talking about Friday’s marriage of Princess Eugenie and Jack Brooksbank. He or she is pronouncing the Princess’s name wrong. That’s right. Or at least that vast majority of us are. If you, like most people, say “You-Janie” or “You-Jee-nie,” listen up. According to her mother, Sarah Ferguson, it’s actually pronounced “YOO-junnee.” And Fergie has even come up with an easy way to remember how to say it correctly. She has been known to coach people by telling them that the correct pronunciation is like “Use your knees.” Eugenie’s full name is Eugenie Victoria Helena of York.
(Now I have to watch the wedding to hear how the minister says it!)
-YahooStyleUK
FAD DIETS THAT YOU SHOULDN’T TRY:
► The Drinking Man’s Diet: This was a thing for a while in the 1960s, and included eating “manly” foods like steak and fish, washed down with as much alcohol as you wanted. (It was fun while your liver lasted!)
► The Lemonade Diet: An alternative health enthusiast came up with this in 1941. It supposedly killed your cravings for junk food and drugs. It involved downing a mixture of lemon or lime juice, maple syrup, water, and cayenne pepper six times a day for at least 10 days. (It would certainly kill your taste for sweets!)
► The Sleeping Beauty Diet: You can’t get hungry if you’re not awake, right? Elvis Presley was rumoured to follow this one. He would down a sleeping pill and sleep the hunger away. These sleeping bouts were believed to inhibit eating. (Until, you know…you wake up!)
► The Blood-Type Diet: This one uses your blood type to dictate what exactly you should be eating to lose weight. It is claimed that following a diet designed for your blood type will help you lose weight, have more energy, and help prevent disease. Although some have lost weight on this plan, it is probably due to the limiting of processed foods and simple carbs.
► The Tapeworm Diet: You’ve probably heard the old horror stories that people in Victorian time purposely swallowed tapeworms to gobble up the food they themselves have eaten. Supposedly, these tapeworms came in the form of eggs tucked into swallowable capsules. This one might be an urban legend.
► The Cabbage Soup Diet: This requires you to eat large amounts of cabbage soup for seven days. You can also eat certain fruits and vegetables, beef, chicken, and brown rice, according to a set schedule. This plan is dangerous because it drastically limits calories, and is low in complex carbohydrates, protein, vitamins, and minerals.
(It gets a bit windy, too…)
► Cleanse/Detox: Newsflash: “cleansing” or “detoxifying” your system is a myth. That’s what your liver and kidneys already do.
–Curiosity
DID YOU KNOW?
While searching for evidence of a huge planet lurking beyond Pluto’s orbit, astronomers have made a surprise discovery: a previously undetected dwarf planet, which has been nicknamed “the Goblin.” Astronomers hypothesized there must be a roughly Neptune-sized world far, far away in the solar system which affects the orbits of nearby space rocks. They called this world “Planet Nine.” They still haven’t found Planet Nine, if it exists, but they did find “TG387”. They were inspired by the “TG” to nickname it “the Goblin.” The Goblin takes 40,000 years to complete a single orbit of the sun. (When it takes that long, you have to ask yourself, “Why bother?”)
-Curiosity
BS CHRONOMETER 10.10.18
TODAY’S CELEBIRTHDAYS . . .
1954 [64] David Lee Roth, Bloomington IN, rock singer (Van Halen – ‘Jump’, ‘Dance the Night Away’)
1967 [51] Mike Malignin, Washington DC, rock drummer (Goo Goo Dolls-‘Name’, ‘Iris’)
1969 [49] Wendy McLendon-Covey, Bellflower CA, TV actress (“The Goldbergs” since 2013, “Reno 911!” 2003-08)
1973 [45] Mario Lopez, San Diego CA, TV personality (“Extra!” since 2008, “Saved By The Bell” 1989-1992)
1974 [44] Dale Earnhardt Jr., Kannapolis NC, semi-retired NASCAR racer (Busch Series Championship winner, 1998, 1999, Daytona 500 winner, 2004,2014)/TV analyst for NASCAR on NBC
1979 [39] Mya, Washington DC, pop singer (‘Lady Marmalade’ with Christina Aguilera, P!nk, and Lil’ Kim)
1982 [36] Dan Stevens, Croydon UK, TV actor (‘Matthew Crawley’ on “Downton Abbey” 2010-12, “Legion” since 2017)
BS REASONS TO PARTY . . .
• “Angel Food Cake Day”, honoring the dessert every starving dieter touts as being ‘fat-free’ … just before inhaling it in its entirety. (With a ton of high-fat whip cream!)
• “International Stage Management Day”, the 6th annual, celebrating all the work that stage managers do in theaters and on film sets. (Like referees, if you don’t notice them, they’re doing a great job!)
• “World Homeless Day”, to draw attention to the needs of the homeless and provide opportunities for communities to get involved in responding.
• “World Mental Health Day”, a day for global mental health education and awareness. It was first celebrated in 1992 as an initiative of the World Federation for Mental Health, which operates in more than 150 countries.
• “World Porridge Day”, a celebration of Scotland’s traditional national dish. It began in the wee Scottish Highlands village of Carrbridge (home of the annual “World Porridge Making Championship”) as a fundraiser to help feed needy children. So how do you like your gruel? (I like mine not too hot, not too cold…. but JUST RIGHT!)
• “Emergency Nurses Day”, celebrated annually on the Wednesday of “Emergency Nurses Week” to recognize the dedication and commitment of ER nursing professionals, who bring care, comfort, and compassion to patients.
COMING UP . . .
[Thurs] Myths and Legends Day
[Thurs] National Coming Out Day
[Fri] World Egg Day
[Fri] World Arthritis Day
THIS DAY IN SHOW BIZ . . .
2004 [14] Christopher Reeve (‘Superman’ actor) dies at age 52
2013 [05] Canadian writer Alice Munro wins the 2013 Nobel Prize in Literature
TODAY’S MUSIC EVENTS . . .
2001 [17] Former frontman Dennis DeYoung sues Styx for touring and singing his songs without him (he’d left in 1999 due to Chronic Fatigue Syndrome)
2007 [11] Sting tops a ‘Blender Magazine’ list of worst lyricists ever, for such sins as name-dropping Russian novelist Vladimir Nabokov, quoting a Volvo bumper sticker (‘If You Love Someone Set Them Free’), and co-opting the works of Chaucer and Shakespeare (Not to mention ‘De Do Do Do, De Da Da Da’…)
2007 [11] Radiohead offers their 7th studio album, ‘In Rainbows’, via a unique pay-what-you-want download (most people opt for … nothing)
TODAY’S FIRST . . .
2014 [04] Taylor Swift is named “Billboard Woman Of the Year 2014”, making her the 1st to receive the award twice
TODAY’S RECORD . . .
1976 [42] Greece’s 98-year-old Dimitrion Yordanidis becomes ‘Oldest Person to Complete a Marathon’ (he’s even older when finally finishing 7 hours, 33 minutes later) (since broken by 100 year-old Fauja Singh)
BULL’S BITS
BS WACK FACTS:
✓ The ‘black box’ that houses an airplanes voice recorder is actually orange so it can be easily detected amid the debris of a plane crash.
✓ More than 1,000,000 Earths could fit inside the Sun.
✓ About 20% of all volcanoes are under water.
✓ Roughly 70 percent of an adult’s body is made up of water.
✓ The Koala bear is not really a bear, but is really related to the kangaroo and the wombat.
✓ You replace every particle in your body every seven years. You are literally not the same person you were 7 years ago.
-Brightside.Me
BS WHEN MORE ISN’T MERRIER:
• Zits
• The lineup for the bathroom
• Sneezes. After two or three, no one is going to bless that.
• Spiders
• Details
• Funerals
• In a word: kale
• Laundry
• The ‘10 items or less’ line at the supermarket
• Your wedding night
–Twitter
Best of BS . . .
TERRIBLE BS NAMES FOR HAIR SALONS:
• ‘Jack the Clipper’
• ‘The Best Little Hair House’
• ‘Choppers’
• ‘Grateful Head’
• ‘Running With Scissors’
• ‘British Hairways’
• ‘Dude, I’m So Buzzed’
• ‘Get The Hell Out Of Hair!’
• ‘Curl Up & Dye’
• ‘Clipping Penalty’
-First published in BS in 2015
BS U-PICK TRIVIA:
1. Which two characters are the only ones in The Simpsons to have 10 fingers instead of 8?
a. Mr. Burns and Smithers
b. Bart and Lisa
c. God and Jesus [CORRECT]
d. Side Show Mel and Side Show Bob
Who is Dora the Explorer’s cousin?
a. Diego [CORRECT]
b. Pedro
c. Tomas
d. Juan
-TriviaCrackAnswers
BS RANDOM JOKE:
I used to breed rabbits. Then I realized they can handle it themselves.
BS PHONE STARTER:
What one thing did your child do that made you most proud?
BS WATER COOLER QUESTION:
Question: THIS made almost 30% of women cry when they saw it for the first time. What is it?
Answer: Their first wrinkle!
BS DEEP THOUGHT:
There are no traffic jams along the extra mile.
