Monday, October 22, 2018 Edition: #6318
Good Morning, Sheetheads!
BS SHOW BIZ BUZZ:
★ On Wednesday, when Canada became the first G-20 country to legalize recreational marijuana, fans of “The Simpsons” might have flashed back to 2005. That’s when the episode “Midnight Rx” first aired, with neighbor Ned Flanders meeting his Great White North doppelgänger who was similar to Ned in all ways but one: he hits the “reeferino,” as he puts it. The Canadian Flanders offers Ned a toke, telling him, “It’s legal here.” Canada’s pot law isn’t the first real-world event predicted by The Simpsons, of course. Cases in point: President Trump and Disney-owned Fox.
-MSN
★ Matthew Broderick has landed a temporary role in ‘The Conners’. He’ll play ‘Peter” a love interest for Laurie Metcalf’s character, Jackie. Broderick will make his first appearance on the show in the upcoming Halloween episode, airing Oct. 30. According to ABC, in the episode, ”Jackie introduces someone new to the family at the Halloween party and insists that Dan vet him, only to immediately wish that she hadn’t.” Broderick has also just agreed to join the cast of Netflix’s upcoming “Daybreak” series.
-ContactMusic
★ In a touching tribute, Liam Neeson’s son Michéal has changed his last name in honor of his late mother, Natasha Richardson. He has officially taken the name Michéal Richardson, as opposed to Michéal Neeson, because “He wanted to hold his mother close to him”, according to the 23-year-old’s grandmother, actress Vanessa Redgrave. Natasha Richardson died in 2009 at the age of 45 of a traumatic brain injury following a skiing accident.
-MSN
★ Amy Schumer won’t be appearing in any Super Bowl commercials this year. Schumer has confirmed that she refuses to collaborate with the organization because of the league’s treatment of Colin Kaepernick, who was blacklisted from the league for his choice to kneel during the “Star Spangled Banner.” Schumer posted that the only way to hurt the NFL is to mess with their advertising revenue.
-CelebrityInsider
TODAY’S SHOW BIZ SKED:
• “Jimmy Kimmel Live” (ABC/Global): Jamie Dornan, Jovan Adepo, Jeremih & Ty Dolla $ign
• “The Tonight Show starring Jimmy Fallon” (NBC/CTV): Savannah Guthrie, Hoda Kotb, Juliette Lewis, Joey Purp featuring Rza
• “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert” (CBS/Global): Sarah Silverman, Scott Bakula, Transviolet
• “Late Night with Seth Meyers” (NBC/CTV): Ike Barinholtz, Kiernan Shipka, Courtney Barnett
• ” The Late Late Show with James Corden” (CBS/CTV): Dakota Johnson, Gordon Ramsay, Mike Posner
• “Watch What Happens Live” (Bravo): Mary McCormack, Gina Kirschenheiter
• “The View” (ABC/CTV): Anthony Scaramucci
• “The Talk” (CBS): Wendi McLendon-Covey, Jaymes Vaughan, guest co-host Katherine Schwarzenegger
• “Live with Kelly and Ryan” (ABC/CTV): Jada Pinkett Smith, Misty Copeland, Crafty Lumberjacks
• “The Ellen DeGeneres Show” (NBC/CTV): Ellen Pompeo, Demetri Martin
• “Dancing with the Stars” (ABC): Week 5 of the competition features a Disney theme
• “DC’s Legends of Tomorrow” (CW): Season 4 premiere
• “Stolen Daughters: Kidnapped by Boko Haram” (HBO): A chronicle of the ordeal endured by Nigerian school girls who were kidnapped in 2014 by Boko Haram, a violent Islamic insurgent movement, and hidden in the Sambisa forest for three years.
BS MUSIC NOTES:
• Justin Bieber — Hailey Baldwin is ready to start her fabulous new life as Justin Bieber‘s wife. She filed to register “Hailey Bieber” on October 10 for the purposes of a clothing line. She also locked up her maiden name, “Hailey Baldwin,” as well as a name called “HRB3.”
• Britney Spears – has a new direction planned for her next Vegas residency, announced Thursday. The new show — at MGM Park — will have “an urban, street, hip-hop vibe” that will be reflected in the music, wardrobe, choreography, backup dancers and set design.
• Madonna — has shared a clip of her new song ‘Champagne Rose’, which is a collaboration with rapper/producer Quavo. She is still working on her next album, which is expected next year.
• Lynyrd Skynyrd – Guitarist Gary Rossington says their current “Last of the Street Survivors Farewell Tour” doesn’t mean the end for the band. He told Dan Rather that after a few years of the farewell tour, “We’re gonna do a new record. So, we won’t go away, but we won’t be touring every year like we do.”
• Steve Perry – says that he nearly refused to let ‘Don’t Stop Believin’ be used for the final scene of “The Sopranos” series unless producers told him what happened in the show. The problem? The scene was already sequenced with the song. Perry only gave the green light when HBO relented and gave him a plot synopsis three days before the final episode was due to air, with the promise that he couldn’t share the info with anyone.
• Keith Urban – made a surprise visit to the bedside of a superfan before his show in Toledo, OH on Thursday. Video from inside the hospital room shows Urban kneeling beside 25-year-old Marissa English, singing his 2016 hit ‘Blue Ain’t Your Color’ to an iPhone karaoke track while holding her hand. English’s nurses had appealed to Urban on social media when it became clear she was not well enough to go to the concert. Urban dedicated that night’s performance to her.
• Zac Brown Band – Team up with Shawn Mendes for an episode of “CMT Crossroads”, airing this Wednesday.
• Loretta Lynn – The 86-year-old is in hospital a week after she skipped CMT Artists of The Year event, where she was being honored as Artist of a Lifetime. Her relative Michael posted on Facebook Saturday: “I am very sad to report this morning that the Queen of Country Music, Ms. Loretta Lynn has had some setbacks in her recovery and is back in the hospital with some serious issues.”
***UPDATE***Loretta Lynn later posted a Facebook update saying: “After a brief hospital visit, I’m feeling better now and enjoying a weekend of resting up at home.”
EXERCISE, NOT EXTRA FRIES:
A new study has determined that not exercising is worse for your health than smoking. Or diabetes. Or heart disease. The retroactive study of 122,000 patients who underwent exercise treadmill testing at Cleveland Clinic found that being unfit on a treadmill or in an exercise stress test “has a worse prognosis, as far as death, than being hypertensive, being diabetic or being a current smoker,” according to cardiologist Dr. Wael Jaber. In his mind, being unfit should be considered as strong a risk factor as hypertension, diabetes and smoking — if not stronger. He says that a sedentary lifestyle “should be treated almost as a disease that has a prescription, which is called exercise.” More than $200 billion is spent annually in the U.S. treating cardiovascular disease and diabetes. Jaber says that rather than pay huge sums for disease treatment, we should be encouraging people to be active and exercise daily.
(I consider my refusal to go to the gym as resistance training…)
(I suppose that smoking while on a treadmill is still a no-no?)
(Someone once said that if there were a drug that can do everything for health that exercise can, it would be called a miracle drug…)
-CNN
BLUE LIGHT THEORY BLOWN:
Every once in a while, you hear about the supposed dangers of the ‘blue light’ emanating from your electronic devices. In fact, some alarmist stories in the press and online have pointed to a future “epidemic of blindness” due to our smartphone addictions. Well, relax and check your email for the 35th time this hour, because according to the American Academy of Ophthalmology, blue light from your smartphone is not blinding you. They went to the trouble of issuing a detailed statement in response to a study published that found blue light, plus a chemical naturally found in certain eye cells, could damage cells. The problem? That study didn’t use actual cells from human eyes, and our eyes have natural defenses against this sort of damage. The Academy does, however, recommend keeping your phone out of your bed, because it is still a fact that the blue light can negatively affect your sleep.
(I’ll tell you this: Your smartphone WILL hurt your eyes…if you light it up to check messages in the middle of the night!)
(And let’s face it, if smartphone manufacturers were making devices which cause us to lose our vision, that wouldn’t bode well for business in the future!)
-Lifehacker
DID YOU KNOW?
There are five types of snorers, according to the British Snoring & Sleep Apnea Association.
• Nose snorers: Caused by an obstruction in the nasal passages or if the nostrils tend to collapse. This forces the snorer to breathe through the mouth and leads to snoring.
• Mouth breathers: Caused by an abnormally relaxed jaw. When mouth breathers fall asleep, their jaw goes slack, leading to snoring. (Mouth breathers are also known to sit behind me at the theatre…)
• Tongue snorers: Caused if the snorer’s tongue drops to the back of their mouth, blocking the airways. The subsequent turbulent airflow leads to intense snoring. (The type you can hear from the next hotel room…)
• Palatal flutterers: Caused when the palatine uvula (that’s the thing that creates saliva) and the muscular palate (that’s the thing that closes off your nasal passages while you eat) both vibrate during the middle of the night. (Sounds like something you learn when taking swimming lessons…)
• Multifactorial snorers: Someone who suffers from two or more of these conditions. (Actually, it is the person’s SPOUSE who does the suffering!)
-BestLifeOnline
BS CHRONOMETER 10.22.18
TODAY’S CELEBIRTHDAYS . . .
1938 [80] Christopher Lloyd, Stamford CT, movie actor (“Back to the Future” franchise, “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest”))
1952 [66] Jeff Goldblum, West Homestead PA, movie actor (“The Grand Budapest Hotel”, “Jurassic Park”)
1962 [56] Bob Odenkirk, Berwyn IL, TV actor (‘Saul Goodman’ on “Better Call Saul” 2015-present, “Breaking Bad” 2009-13)
1968 [50] Shaggy (Orville Burrell), Kingston, Jamaica, reggae singer (‘Angel’, ‘It Wasn’t Me’)
1969 [49] Spike Jonze (Adam Spiegel), Rockville MD, movie director (“Where the Wild Things Are”, “Being John Malkovich”)/music video director (Arcade Fire-‘The Suburbs’, Jay-Z & Kanye West-‘Otis’)
1975 [43] Jesse Tyler Ferguson, TV actor, Missoula MT (‘Mitchell Pritchett’ on “Modern Family” since 2009)
1981 [37] Michael Fishman, Los Angeles CA, TV actor (‘DJ Conner’ on “Rosanne” and “The Conners”)
TODAY’S BS REASONS TO PARTY . . .
• “international caps lock day” or is it “INTERNATIONAL CAPS LOCK DAY”? In any event, it’s the annual celebration of one of the more useful keys on the keyboard. (Unlike ‘Scroll Lock’)
• “International Stuttering Awareness Day”, originated in 1998 to raise public awareness of the millions who suffer from the speech disorder.
NET: http://www.stutteringhelp.org
• “Nut Day”. Ask anyone to name a nut and most will say ‘peanut’, which isn’t a nut at all, but a legume. Definition of a nut: A hard, dry, indehiscent fruit formed from 2 or more carpels but containing only 1 seed. In any event, it’s one of nature’s most perfect foods.
• “Smart is Cool Day”, a day to celebrate those who are often labeled ‘egghead’ or ‘smarty-pants’. If there’s ever a time to show off your IQ test results, this is probably it.
• “Used Car Dealership Day”, marking the opening of the world’s 1st used car dealership on this day in London, England in 1897. (“What do I have to do to put you in this car today?”)
• “Clean Up the Earth Day”, takes place exactly six months after Earth Day. It is a day to reflect on the progress that has been made to make a cleaner world in the past half-year, and a day to redouble efforts to make the world a cleaner place in the future.
COMING UP . . .
[Tues] Boston Cream Pie Day
[Tues] iPod Day
[Wed] Lung Health Day
[Wed] Bologna Day
This Week Is…Get Organized Week
This Month Is…Photographer Appreciation Month
ON THIS DATE . . .
2014 [04] Michael Zehaf-Bibeau attacks the Parliament of Canada in Ottawa, killing a soldier and injuring 3 others
THIS DAY IN SHOW BIZ . . .
2001 [17] “Grand Theft Auto III” is released, popularizing a genre of open-world, action-adventure games as well as spurring controversy around violence in videogames
2001 [17] Tennis power couple Andre Agassi & Steffi Graf are married in a private ceremony by a Las Vegas judge
TODAY’S MUSIC EVENTS . . .
2000 [18] Pop singer George Michael pays almost $3 million for John Lennon’s famous upright Steinway piano, on which he wrote his iconic anthem ‘Imagine’
2005 [13] ABBA’s 1974 hit ‘Waterloo’ is voted the best song in the history of the Eurovision Song Contest, decided by voters from 81 countries during a ceremony to mark the European event’s 50th anniversary
2012 [06] Garth Brooks is inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame. George Strait, Bob Seger, and James Taylor perform at the ceremony.
TODAY’S FIRSTS . . .
2013 [05] The iPad Air and Mavericks, the latest version of the OS X, are introduced by Apple
2012 [06] Cyclist Lance Armstrong is stripped of his 7 Tour de France titles (1999-2005) due to doping allegations
BULL’S BITS
BS WACK FACTS:
✓ Seven people have keys with the power to restart the World Wide Web in the event of a catastrophic event.
✓ Cows emit more methane than the oil industry and are a huge factor in global warming.
✓ In Tajikistan, the unibrow is viewed as an attractive quality in both men and women.
✓ A container of 4.8 million Legos was lost in the Atlantic Ocean 21 years ago. People are still finding them on beaches.
✓ Mount Everest is still growing.
✓ If you tickle a rat every day, it’ll start ‘laughing’ as soon as it sees you.
-WhattheFFacts
BS SIGNS YOUR HOUSE IS HAUNTED:
• The phrase “If these walls could talk” isn’t just a saying at your place.
• At midnight, you hear a voice that says “Get out!”, and for once it’s not your wife.
• There are actual skeletons in the closet.
• Your kids’ Halloween treats disappear. (It’s gotta be a ghost…honest!)
• There is a vehicle marked “Mystery Machine” with a bunch of meddling kids and a Great Dane in it, parked out front.
• The ghost dragging the dead corpses around tells you it’s haunted.
• When you bought it, there was a “Haunted House for Sale” sign in the front yard.
• Someone hired a bunch of C-level actors and made a crappy movie about it.
• Ectoplasm on the stairs!
• The ceiling bleeds blood down the walls. Not a definite sign, but a really strong indication.
-Twitter
Best of BS:
‘B’ REAL:
Here’s a list of ‘B-movie’ titles, some that actually got made. Which is real; which is a BS fake?
• “Attack of the Killer Refrigerator” [Real. 1990]
• “Amazon Girls in Shanghai” [BS]
• “Godzilla vs The Used Car Salesman” [BS]
• “Microwave Massacre” [Real. 1983]
• “Attack Of the 10-Foot Safety Pin” [BS]
• “Son of The Blob” [Real. 2004]
• “The Spy Who Ate Me” [BS]
• “Skeeter!” [Real. 1993]
• “Head Cheerleader, Dead Cheerleader” [Real. 2000]
• “Revenge of the Killer Burrito” [BS]
-First published in BS in 2015
BS PHONE STARTER:
What was your very first Halloween costume?
BS RANDOM JOKE:
You can’t buy love. But you can definitely end up paying heavily for it.
BS WATER COOLER QUESTION:
Question: We’re far more likely to buy THIS kitchen item as a gift than for ourselves.
Answer: A blender.
BS DEEP THOUGHT:
The bad news: there is no key to happiness. The good news: it isn’t locked.
