Wednesday, July 11, 2018 – Edition: #6252

Either Sheet or Get Off the Air!

BS SHOW BIZ BUZZ:
★ George Clooney is on the mend after a scooter accident in Italy landed him in the hospital. Clooney was thrown over the top of his scooter Tuesday morning after the driver of a Mercedes failed to stop at a turn. Clooney was taken to the hospital via ambulance, and released after doctors checked him out. The actor told officials he was “fine.” He’ll reportedly be monitored by hospital staff as an outpatient.
(George Clooney:  Probably the only person who can look cool driving a scooter.)
-TheBlast
★ Johnny Depp is being sued for attacking a film crew member. Reports are, that in April 2017, while Depp was filming the upcoming Biggie Smalls film “City of Lies”, location manager Gregg “Rocky” Brooks was working with Depp and had to inform him that he only had a couple more shots to finish up a scene. Johnny apparently punched him twice in the rib cage and then yelled: “I will give you $100,000 to punch me in the face right now.” Depp was apparently removed by bodyguards. Brooks is suing for an unspecified amount and claims that Depp reeked of alcohol while he was attacking him.
(If he is paying people $100,000 to punch him, it pretty much confirms those rumors of a spending problem!)
-HotNewHipHop
★ Jonathan Rhys Meyers was held by police on Sunday after an altercation with his wife on a flight to Los Angeles. The actor had apparently been drinking when he got into a verbal altercation with wife Mara, who was sitting with their one-year-old son Wolf. TMZ is reporting that Rhys Meyers then stood up and went into the plane’s restroom to smoke an e-cigarette – which is a federal violation. When the plane landed, a number of LAX Airport cops were on the tarmac.
-TMZ
★ Stan Lee is backing off. The 95-year-old Marvel Comics icon has dropped $1-billion lawsuit against a company he co-founded. Lee alleged he was the victim of a “nefarious scheme” to “steal” his likeness. In a statement, he said: “The whole thing has been confusing to everyone, including myself and the fans, but I am now happy to be surrounded by those who want the best for me.”
(This guy gets more headlines than Spider-Man!)
-MSN
★ Kylie Jenner, the youngest of the Kardashian/Jenner clan, has amassed a lip kit beauty empire worth a staggering $420million. Now, the 20-year-old has revealed that she has removed ALL of her own lip fillers. She started to inject fillers at 16, and for the longest time denied that she had had any work done at all. Last year, she said that she felt she had “gone too far” when she first started the lip filler procedures.
-ContactMusic

TODAY’S SHOW BIZ SKED:
• “Jimmy Kimmel Live” (ABC/Global): Kathryn Hahn, Jason Mraz
• “The Tonight Show starring Jimmy Fallon” (NBC/CTV): Amy Adams, Rob Reiner, Backstreet Boys ( R )
• “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert” (CBS/Global): Dwayne Johnson, Alessia Cara
• “Late Night with Seth Meyers” (NBC/CTV): Nick Kroll, Stacey Abrams, Katie Stevens, Jennie Vee & Joe Russo ( R )
• “The Late Late Show with James Corden” (CBS/CTV): Melissa McCarthy, Chris Parnell, Wallows ( R )
• “Conan” (TBS/Comedy): Howie Mandel, Lil Rel Howery
• “Watch What Happens Live” (Bravo): Kristin Cavallari, Sonja Morgan
• “The View” (ABC/CTV): D.L. Hughley
• “The Talk” (CBS): Molly Shannon, Thomas John
• “Live with Kelly and Ryan” (ABC/CTV): Will Arnett, Chef Richard Blais
• “The Ellen DeGeneres Show” (NBC/CTV): Ice Cube, Aubrey Plaza, Arike Ogunbowale ( R )
• “TKO: Total Knock Out” (CBS): The premiere of the Kevin Hart-hosted obstacle course competition. First up: Five contestants strive to finish the course with the fastest time to win the $50,000 prize.
• “Kingdoms of the Sky” (PBS): Season premiere. See the amazing wildlife and remarkable people who inhabit this 3000-mile mountain range, home to cougars, wolverines, wolves and grizzlies.

BS MUSIC NOTES:
• Post Malone – (***Caution: language***) showed off his latest tattoos last month, when he got “Always” inked below his right eye and “Tired” below his left eye. He says the reason he chose to get facial tattoos is simple: “Anything to piss my mom off.”
• Jaden Smith – has become the first artist to release an entire album through Instagram. He has issued a revamped version of his 2017 album “Syre” on the photo-sharing app. The songs are all video clips on Jaden’s Instagram profile which, when combined, make up an ambitious selection of album artwork.
• Michael Bublé – Concert goers were left fuming following his Dublin show on Saturday night. He performed to a packed stadium, but people took to Twitter to vent their frustration over being unable even to understand the words of his songs due to poor sound quality.
• Heart – Singer Ann Wilson is paying tribute to the late Chris Cornell with a stream of her take on Audioslave’s ‘I Am The Highway’ from her forthcoming covers album, “Immortal.” She said this of Cornell’s death: “I wasn’t surprised. He always had gallows humor about being lonely in hotel rooms. ‘The only thing missing is a noose,’ he’d say…And he’s like ‘[I’m] too tired, the road is too hard, too impersonal.’ He was darkly joking.”
• Def Leppard – guitarist Phil Collen has revealed that his absence from three May dates on the group’s co-headlining tour with Journey was due to complications his wife Helen experienced while giving birth to the couple’s son, Jackson. He says that, “She actually died and they brought her back to life.” Mom and baby are both fine now.
• The Who – Singer Roger Daltrey says he is struggling to write his autobiography because he has a bad memory due to the four serious concussions he has suffered throughout his life.
• Eric Church – After the unexpected death of his brother Brandon on June 29, Eric honored him with a rendition of “Amazing Grace”, which transitioned into “Sinners Like Me”, to close his headlining set at the 2018 Country Concert in Fort Loramie, Ohio on Saturday.
• Garth Brooks –will play the first-ever concert at Notre Dame Stadium in South Bend, Indiana, in what many believe will be the kickoff to a college stadium tour of North America. No date has been set yet, as organizers are waiting for the football team’s schedule to be finalized.
• Mason Ramsey – The adorable 11-year-old whose version of Hank Williams’ ‘Lovesick Blues’ has been watched more than 50 million times on YouTube and spawned multiple remixes, will put out his first E.P., entitled “Famous” on July 20.

HANGRY LIKE THE WOLF:
Thanks to the commercial, we all know that “You’re not you when you’re hangry.” And we all certainly know the feeling of being so hungry that you’re angry. A study published last month in the journal ‘Emotion’ set out to prove that hunger alone is not enough to make you feel ‘hangry’. After a series of tests, psychologists determined that it seems hanger only rears its ugly head when a person encounters a negative situation. In other words, if you are having an OK time, or a good time, you probably won’t get hangry when you get hungry. They also found that you are much more likely to experience hanger when you’re not focused on how you’re feeling. In other words, if you’re hungry but don’t realize it, you may then not realize your bad mood is caused by hunger. Instead, you blame it on the world around you.
(Or most likely your spouse…)
(I’ve heard of ‘hangry’, but until now, I’d never heard of the word ‘hanger’, except as a thing to hang my clothes!)
(And THAT’S why I eat a snack while I’m looking for a different snack!)
-Curiosity

SICK DAYS:
To over three-quarters of us, our boss is a cause of major stress at work. Data from the American Psychology Association shows that having a bad boss can be as harmful to employees as passive smoking. And the longer you stay in a job working for someone who stresses you, the greater the damage is to your physical and mental health. In fact, employees in a demanding job who are expected to deliver more than they can give have a 35% increased risk of acute health problems. But the problem is, you get used to it. You become so accustomed to working for that nightmare boss, or accustomed to working under stressful conditions, that you are no longer motivated to search for a healthier working environment. To deal with a bad boss or a stressful job, experts suggest you make a list each morning of that day’s goals, then strike them off as they are completed, which will give you a feeling of accomplishment. And turn off the email and work phone on the weekend.
(And see what your miserable boss says about that!)
(I used to start each day with a list, but found it better to start each day with an Irish coffee…)
(A miserable boss is exactly the reason I decided to quit. Oh, I didn’t resign. I just quit working!)
(Do you think that miserable employees might make the boss sick too?)
-Apost

“COMMON KNOWLEDGE” THAT JUST ISN’T TRUE:
➠ Rabbits love carrots: Carrots can give rabbits tooth decay and digestive problems. Rabbits should eat hay with occasional dark greens such as kale or broccoli. Carrots can be given as a treat. (It’s all Bugs Bunny’s fault!)
➠ Dogs only see in black, white and gray: They can see almost the same amount of color that a human with color blindness can. Dogs have about 20% of the color-detecting cone cells that humans with normal eyesight have. (So we see better than dogs, but dogs smell better than us. Let me rephrase that…)
➠ The black belt in martial arts indicates expert level or mastery: It indicates high competence, but not necessarily mastery. It indicates that the wearer has a good understanding of fundamental concepts and ability, and basic technique. (So you’re saying that I still have a chance in a fight with one?)
➠ The oxygen we breathe comes from trees: About 70% of oxygen found on Earth is provided by phytoplanktons in the ocean. Phytoplankton, or micro algae, are microscopic plants in the ocean. (Never mind the trees…save the oceans!!)
➠ The pyramids in Egypt were built by slaves: Egyptian pyramids were built by workers, most likely paid workers. This was proved by the amount of cattle, sheep, and goat bone found at the site. The high quality of food indicated that the people feasting like royalty on prime beef were not slaves or common laborers, but rather skilled workers. (I bet they weren’t unionized, though…)
➠The red liquid coming from a steak is blood: That is mostly myoglobin, which is a binding protein. Myoglobin darkens when heated, and that’s why the liquid coming out of a well-done steak looks gray instead of red. (I’m not sure which sounds worse: blood or myoglobin!)
-UnbelievableFacts

BS CHRONOMETER 07.11.18

TODAY’S CELEBIRTHDAYS . . .
1934 [84] Giorgio Armani, Piacenza, Italy, fashion designer with a personal fortune circa $8.5 billion

1953 [65] Mindy Sterling, Paterson NJ, movie actress (‘Frau’ in the “Austin Powers” franchise)

1959 [59] Richie Sambora, Perth Amboy NJ, rock guitarist (ex-Bon Jovi-‘Wanted Dead or Alive’)/currently in RSO with partner Orianthi/Rock Hall of Fame with Bon Jovi 2018

1963 [55] Lisa Rinna, Medford, OR, Soap Opera Actress (‘Billie Reed’ on “Days of Our Lives” 1992-2013)/Reality Star (“The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills” since 2014)

1965 [53] Scott Shriner, Toledo OH, rock bassist (Weezer-‘Buddy Holly’, ‘Beverly Hills’)

1970 [48] Justin Chambers, Springfield OH, TV actor (‘Dr Alex Karev’ on “Grey’s Anatomy” since 2005)/former fashion model

TODAY’S BS REASONS TO PARTY . . .
• “Blueberry Muffin Day”, celebrating the only morning snack we can think of that turns your teeth blue.

• “Cheer Up the Lonely Day”, an opportunity to make a lonely person happy by spending time with them. (It’s a good day to give [afternoon guy] a call!)

• “Mojito Day”, an annual salute to the traditional Cuban cocktail consisting of white rum, sugar, lime juice, sparkling water, and mint. This refreshing highball is particularly popular in the summertime. (Especially if you like leaves in your drink)

• “Pet Photo Day”, a day to pose your little darlin’ and snap off a few JPEGs. (And don’t forget to further humiliate the critter by decking it out in a dress and funny hat. And be sure to photoshop the result and add the torso of a platypus.)

• “Slurpee Day”, honoring the signature frozen beverage that 7-Eleven convenience stores began selling in 1967. The 1st 7-Eleven franchise stores opened 54 years ago (1964)

• “Swimming Pool Day”, although we think EVERY hot Summer day should be swimming pool day. (And that’s what friends with swimming pools are for!)

• “World Population Day”, declared by the UN as a day to focus on the problems of overpopulation. About 150 people are born each minute. World population crossed the 5-billion mark on this day in 1987. We reached the 6-billion mark sometime in 1999 and 7-billion in 2011. Current world population? Over 7.6 billion. (and I still can’t get a date for my niece’s wedding…) According to current projections, the global population will reach 8 billion by 2024.

COMING UP . . .
[Thurs] Pecan Pie Day
[Thurs] Simplicity Day
[Fri] Embrace Your Geekness Day
[Fri] French Fries Day

THIS DAY IN SHOW BIZ . . .
2007 [11] “Harry Potter & The Order Of the Phoenix” opens in movie theaters (goes on to make $940 million in worldwide box office)

2014 [04] Former Miami Heat player LeBron James returns to the Cleveland Cavaliers (and wins the 2016 NBA Championship)

TODAY’S MUSIC EVENTS . . .
2009 [09] Black Eyes Peas single ‘I Gotta Feeling’ begins a 14-week run at #1, ending the 12-week run of the group’s previous single ‘Boom Boom Pow’

2014 [04] Tommy Ramone, former drummer and last living original member of punk-rock band The Ramones, dies at age 65 of cancer

TODAY’S FIRST . . .
2012 [06] Astronomers announce the discovery of Styx, the 5th moon of Pluto (how did they know its name?)

BULL’S BITS

BS WACK FACTS:
✓ Sleeping next to someone you love makes you fall asleep faster, reduces depression and helps you live longer.
✓ iPhones are designed to last only a few years, then begin to break down and work slower.
✓ Two-thirds of the people on earth have never seen snow.
✓ It would take over 100 years to watch every video on Youtube.
✓ If everyone in the world washed their hands properly, a million lives could be saved a year.
✓ When you’re 31 years old, you’ll live your billionth second.
-WhattheFFacts,

BS MY PERFORMANCE REVIEW IN FIVE WORDS:
• Brings donuts, two thumbs up.
• Meh, you’ll do for now.
• Nice job but wear pants.
• Security will see you out.
• Stop live tweeting this, Gary!
• You’re a lil’ pitchy, dawg.
• Can’t you do any better?
• Yes, Gary, embezzlement is bad.
• You don’t even work here.
• Doesn’t seem to know how to count.
-Twitter

BS RANDOM JOKE:
Do you think that somewhere in a parallel universe, people are always saying: “For God’s sake! Where are all these extra single socks coming from?!”

BS PHONE STARTER:
What is the dumbest thing that you believed as a child?

BS WATER COOLER QUESTION:
Question: 1/3 of kids who get allowance have to do THIS chore. What?
Answer: Clean up dog poo

BS DEEP THOUGHT:
Worrying doesn’t make tomorrow better, it only makes today worse.