Thursday, August 1, 2019 – Edition: #6506

If the Sheet Fits, Buy It!

BS SHOW BIZ BUZZ:
★ (***Caution: “Hell”***) Jennifer Lopez drove for the first time in 25 years after her fiancé Alex Rodriguez surprised her with a red 2019 Porsche 911 GTS to mark her 50th birthday. The moment he surprised Lopez with the car was documented in a video shared on her YouTube page. After removing the blindfold and seeing the car, she looked stunned and said: “What the hell?! What is that? Oh my god, I’m gonna have to drive? I’ve never driven a car like that… I’ve never driven a car, period.” It seems that her driving skills quickly came back though, as she was then seen taking the $140,000 car for a spin with A-Rod in the passenger seat.
-Canoe
★ Kristen Stewart hasn’t limited her Twilight talks to just vampires, because she says that she also speaks to ghosts. She told Vanity Fair that: “If I’m in a weird, small town, making a movie, and I’m in a strange apartment, I will literally be like, ‘No, please, I cannot deal. Anyone else, but it cannot be me.'” She says that although she isn’t sure exactly what ghosts are, “there is an energy that I’m really sensitive to.”
-TheBlast
★ Jason Momoa is set to star in and produce Netflix’s upcoming thriller “Sweet Girl”. The “Aquaman” star will portray a distraught husband who embarks on a mission to bring violent justice to those responsible for the death of his wife, while protecting the only family he has left, his daughter. There’s no word on when the movie will begin shooting.
-ContactMusic
★ Corey Feldman has revealed new details about the long-rumored “Goonies” sequel, saying that he co-wrote the original pitch for the movie. Feldman, who co-starred in the original as ‘Mouth’, spoke to reporters at an event in Los Angeles this week, and reminisced on how badly he had wanted the sequel to happen. Rumors of a “Goonies 2” treatment and script have long circulated in Hollywood, and while it is fun to imagine, at this point it is unlikely to happen. Feldman said that “we can’t get everyone to agree on” a single idea.
-PopCulture

TODAY’S SHOW BIZ SKED:
• “Jimmy Kimmel Live” (ABC/Global): Milo Ventimiglia, Alison Brie, the Head and the Heart
• “The Tonight Show starring Jimmy Fallon” (NBC/CTV): Hasan Minhaj, Vanessa Kirby, Sam Fender
• “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert” (CBS/Global): Meek Mill
• “Late Night with Seth Meyers” (NBC/CTV): Tony Shalhoub, Gov. Larry Hogan, Rhianne Barreto, Jeff Quay
• “The Late Late Show with James Corden” (CBS/CTV): Jamie Bell, Margaret Qualley, the Bird and the Bee
• “Lights Out with David Spade” (COMEDY): Dana Carvey, Al Madrigal, Sarah Tiana
• “Conan” (TBS): Louie Anderson, Matt Braunger (R)
• “Watch What Happens Live” (Bravo): Angela Bassett, Chace Crawford
• “The View” (ABC/CTV): Tom Steyer, Jerry O’Connell
• “The Talk” (CBS): Poppy Montgomery, Eugenio Derbez
• “Live with Kelly and Ryan” (ABC/CTV): Dwayne Johnson, guest co-host Maria Menounos
• “The Ellen DeGeneres Show” (NBC/CTV): Ben Stiller, Offset, Travis Scott, Jake & Alice Tapper (R)
• “Great White Kill Zone: Guadalupe” (DISCOVERY): Using cutting-edge technology and special cameras, scientists set out to record never-before-seen hunting behavior of great white sharks in the crystal-clear waters of Guadalupe.
• “iZombie” (CW): Season 5 finale

BS MUSIC NOTES:
• Beyoncé — is in talks with Disney to produce another project. Following the success of the remake of the 1994 animated classic “The Lion King” , Disney has opened discussions with her to embark on a partnership which would give her star ”free reign” to make films ”under the Disney umbrella”.
• Lil Nas X — Mariah Carey kept it classy when she had her chart record broken by his ‘Old Town Road’ when it hit 17 weeks at #1. Mariah wrote: “Sending love & congrats to @LilNasX on breaking one of the longest running records in music history! We’ve been blessed to hold this record with a song that means a great deal to @BoyzIIMen and myself and has touched so many. Keep living your best life!”
• David Foster – The music producer and songwriter will receive a special tribute at the 2019 Toronto International Film Festival, along with the world premiere of the new documentary “David Foster: Off the Record.” Foster has won 16 Grammy Awards, an Emmy and a Golden Globe, and has been nominated for three Best Original Song Oscars.
• Eagles — Glenn Frey’s widow is being accused of refusing to turn over information about his cut of the group’s profits. Cindy Frey sued his hospital and doctor, and in newly filed documents, Mount Sinai Hospital and Dr. Steven Itzkowitz say they have demanded an accounting of what his cut is for concert and music profits.
• The Kinks — are releasing a 50th anniversary edition of “Arthur Or The Decline And Fall Of The British Empire” with unreleased tracks, plus a lost Dave Davies solo album. The four CDs, with a total of 81 songs, also feature 28 previously unreleased versions of songs. Release date: Oct. 25.
• INXS — guitarist Tim Farriss is suing a rental boat operator after severing his finger in a 2015 accident. He was sailing the borrowed vessel near his home in Sydney, Australia, when he caught the ring finger of his left hand in an electric anchor, severing it. He alleges that he wasn’t given proper instruction and the charter company didn’t maintain a fully functioning anchor system.
• Maren Morris – has become the first solo female artist to hit #1 on Billboard’s Country Airplay chart with ‘Girl’ at the top this week. The last time was Feb. 24, 2018 when Kelsea Ballerini’s ‘Legends’ had the #1 spot.
• Florida Georgia Line — will host a group of teachers at their FGL House in Nashville tonight to celebrate Teacher Appreciation Day. The educators being honored will enjoy live entertainment, complimentary food and drinks, and prize giveaways. The first 100 teachers will also snag a signed Florida Georgia Line album.

COOL DOG YOU HAVE THERE:
We buy everything else that we can for the comfort of our four-legged friends, why not this? With the recent heatwave, air-conditioned houses for dogs are popping up outside of restaurants and stores in a bid to keep pets cool and their owners worry-free while they run errands or grab a bite to eat. A company called “Dogspot” is giving people the option to have their pup wait for them in air-conditioned comfort by using an app to reserve a nearby “house” for their furry friend up to 15 minutes in advance. The owner can unlock the house via the app, and then monitor their dog through a webcam. How much? 30 cents per minute or US$19.99 for a monthly membership. The average “stay” for a dog is 15 minutes, and the houses self-clean after each use via UV lights, plus they are manually cleaned each day. For the winter, the houses have a heated floor. To address safety concerns, the DogSpot houses are only accessible to the owner of the dog currently using the house. Coming soon: The ability to play music for your dog and to talk to your pet if he or she needs comforting.
(I have friends who would definitely use this…for themselves!)
(My problem? My dog would not set foot in there unless I brought along his blankie!)
(Finally! My dog will “Stay”!)
-GMA

OUT OF THE INN:
Hotel giant Holiday Inn has announced that it is ditching mini-shampoos in favor of bulk-size bathroom amenities in an effort to cut waste. The owner of Holiday Inn and InterContinental Hotels said that its nearly 843,000 guest rooms use an average of 200 million bathroom miniatures every year, and with public awareness of the problem of plastic waste at an all-time high, the move will allow the company to reduce their waste footprint and environmental impact.
(OK, but those things are going to be a lot harder to stuff into my luggage…)
(It’s OK, I already have a lifetime supply at home!)
(I’m good with that, as long as they aren’t asking me to use the same bar of soap as the guy who was in there before me!)
(While they’re at it, why not get rid of the shower cap? NOBODY uses that!)
-NYPost

SPIDERS AND SNAKES:
A recent study published in the British Journal of Psychology looked to identify the animals and creatures that people find most loathsome. Ready? Spiders and venomous snakes were most often rated with the highest possible fear score. The creatures most often rated with the highest possible disgust score were (again) spiders, tapeworms, roundworms, lice, and maggots. Farm and pet animals were the least “gross” and scary.
(But I have to admit that my bulldog has been known to make some pretty “gross” smells…!)
-Curiosity

HIGHEST PAID DJs in 2019:
…according to Forbes…
1. The Chainsmokers ($46 million)
2. Marshmello ($40 million)
3. Calvin Harris ($38.5 million)
4. Steve Aoki ($30 million)
5. Diplo ($25 million)
(And I used to get 85 bucks for DJ-ing a high school dance…)
-ET

DID YOU KNOW?
You should wear socks to bed. Heating cold feet causes dilation of the blood vessels, which basically tells the brain that it is bedtime. After the blood vessels open in the hands and feet, heat is redistributed throughout the body to prepare for sleep.
-Reader’sDigest

BS CHRONOMETER 08.01.19

TODAY’S CELEBIRTHDAYS . . .
1959 [60] Joe Elliott, Sheffield UK, classic rock singer (Def Leppard -‘Pour Some Sugar on Me’, ‘Love Bites’)

1960 [59] Chuck D (Carlton Ridenhour), Roosevelt NY, rapper (Public Enemy-‘Shut ’Em Down’, ‘Fight the Power’)

1963 [56] John Caroll Lynch, Boulder CO, movie actor (“The Founder”, “Fargo”)/TV actor (“American Horror Story”)

1963 [56] Coolio (Artis Leon Ivey Jr.), Compton, CA, rapper (‘Gangsta’s Paradise’, which won the MTV Video Music Award for Best Rap Video in 1996)

1964 [55] Adam Duritz, Baltimore MD, rock singer-songwriter/pianist (Counting Crows-‘Mr. Jones’, ‘Accidentally in Love’)

1965 [54] Sam Mendes, Reading UK, filmmaker (“Spectre”, “Skyfall”)

1979 [40] Jason Momoa, Honolulu HI, TV actor (‘Khal Drogo’ on “Game of Thrones” 2011-12)/movie actor (“Aquaman”) COMING UP…“Dune”, 2020

BS REASONS TO PARTY . . .
• “August”, originally the 6th month of the Roman year which was called Sextilis. In 8 BC, Emperor Augustus Caesar persuaded the Senate to change the month’s name to ‘Augustus’ in his honor. If it weren’t for him, today would be the 1st of Sextilis!

• “Girlfriends Day”, either some girl’s greedy grab at gifts from her guy, or perhaps a day for ‘the girls’ to hang out and share woman-to-woman time? (And you will notice, guys, that ‘Girlfriends’ is in the plural form. Take from that what you will…)

• “Respect for Parents Day”. So, what’s the best way to gain respect … setting an example or creating fear?

• “World Wide Web Day”, marking the birth of the Web in August 1990 at the Europe Laboratory for Particle Physics in Switzerland. Tim Berners-Lee & Robert Cailliau developed a prototype Web browser and introduced Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) (And Al Gore was nowhere to be found…)

• “Spider-Man Day”, marking the superhero’s debut in 1962 in issue #15 of “Amazing Fantasy” comics.

• “Homemade Pie Day”, pumpkin pie, which is first recorded in a cookbook in 1675, originated from British spiced and boiled squash. It was not popularized in America until the early 1800s.

• “Play Ball Day”, baseball umpires call out, “Play ball!” to start games. Here are a few ball-based sports to get the proverbial ball rolling: baseball, basketball, billiards, bocce ball, bowling, carpet ball, croquet, dodge ball, field hockey, foosball, football, four square, golf, handball, jacks, juggling, lacrosse, marbles, paddleball, paddle tennis, paint ball, polo, racquetball, softball, squash, stickball, tee ball, tetherball, tennis, volleyball, water polo and waffle ball.

COMING UP . . .
[Fri] Dinosaurs Day
[Fri] Coloring Book Day
[Sat] Airplane Crop Duster Day
[Sat] Watermelon Day

THIS DAY IN SHOW BIZ . . .
1994 [25] Michael Jackson and Lisa Marie Presley announce that they are married, having wed at a secret ceremony in the Dominican Republic 11 weeks earlier

2012 [07] A “Sight & Sound” magazine ranking lists Alfred Hitchcock’s 1958 thriller “Vertigo” as ‘Greatest Film of All-Time’

TODAY’S MUSIC EVENTS . . .
1971 [48] George Harrison’s ‘Concert for Bangladesh’ is held at New York’s Madison Square Garden to raise awareness and fund relief efforts for refugees from East Pakistan (now Bangladesh).  Among the performers: Harrison, Ringo Starr, Eric Clapton, Bob Dylan and Ravi Shankar

1981 [38] MTV goes on the air, bringing music videos to the masses – or at least the ones with cable (First video: The Buggles’ ‘Video Killed the Radio Star’)

TODAY’S FIRSTS . . .
2012 [07] Badminton teams from China, Indonesia, and South Korea are kicked out of the women’s doubles competition at the London Olympics for trying to … lose on purpose

2013 [06] Russia grants NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden 1 year of temporary political asylum (he’s still there)

TODAY’S RECORD . . .
1998 [21] Scott Gehrke & Lorrie Kilgore are wed above Perris CA in a 55-second ceremony as they, and a presiding minister, parachute from 13,000 feet (they truly fell for each other)

BULL’S BITS

BS WHACK FACTS:
✓ It is impossible to kill yourself by holding your breath.
✓ ‘Almost’ is the longest word in the English language with all the letters in alphabetical order.
✓ In France, what we call the ‘French kiss’ is referred to as an ‘English kiss’.
✓ The lyrebird can mimic almost any sounds it hears — including chainsaws.
✓ Four times more people speak English as a foreign language than as a native one.
✓ Beetles taste like apples, and worms like fried bacon.
-Bootstrike, GoodHousekeeping

BS ODD WANT ADS:
• Looking for an alibi for this Friday.
• Chameleon for sale. Green . . . no, blue . . . wait, brown. Now it’s green again…now I can’t see it at all…
• Wanted:  SWF to decide where I should eat dinner every time I’m going out.
• Mind-reader needed. My wife keeps assuming that I know what she’s thinking.
• Wanted: cat-repellent keyboard.
• For sale: Cupcakes with no icing.
• Wanted: 2 Sausage McMuffins & a large coffee
• Looking for foster parents who don’t have any issues with providing food and shelter to 44 year old man-child.
• Handsyman needed.
-Twitter

Best of BS . . .
I HOPE MY LAST WORDS ARE NOT:
• “Shut up. I know exactly what I’m doing.”
• “…but it’s SO CUTE!”
• “No one ever died from doing this…”
• “It’ll be quicker if we use a nail gun.”
• “We’ll be fine.”
• “What’s the worst that could happen?”
• “Oh, crap. It’s not a dolphin.”
• “Everyone follow me!”
• “What are you gonna do, shoot me?”
• “Yep, it’s definitely the blue wire…”
• “Raccoons can’t even GET rabies.”
• “Well, I guess we killed all the zombi—.”
• “Ooooooo…what’s this button do?”
• …said today.
-Twitter, first published in ‘BS’ in 2017

BS GUESS THE TAYLOR SWIFT TITLE:
We give you the lyric, you choose the song title . . .
1. “There I was again tonight, forcing laughter, faking smiles.”
a. ‘Enchanted’ [CORRECT]
b. ‘Dress’
c. ‘I Wish You Would’

2. “I see your face in my mind as I drive away.”
a. ‘Dear John’
b. ‘I Know Places’
c. ‘Breathe’ [CORRECT]

3. “You and I walk a fragile line.”
a. ‘Haunted’ [CORRECT]
b. ‘I Almost Do’
c. ‘Don’t Blame Me’
-BuzzFeed

BS RANDOM JOKE:
Why is it that everything I love is either expensive, illegal, or won’t text me back?

BS PHONE STARTER:
What was the worst or weirdest thing your roommate did?

BS WATER COOLER QUESTION:
Question:  One in 3 wives say they wish their husband would do THIS more often. What?
Answer:  Hold their hand

BS DEEP THOUGHT:
People do not change; they are merely revealed.