Monday, July 27, 2020 – Edition: #6748

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BS SHOW BIZ BUZZ:
★ Kelly Ripa called Regis Philbin “the ultimate class act” upon hearing news his death at the age of 88. In a statement, his family said they are “deeply saddened to share that our beloved Regis Philbin passed away”, and thanked fans and admirers for their support over his 60-year career. Philbin became host of “Live! With Regis and Kathie Lee” in 1988. In 2001, the franchise became “Live! with Regis and Kelly”, co-starring Kelly Ripa. Philbin left in 2011 after 23 years. He also served as the original host of “Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?” from 1999 to 2002. The New York City native’s hosting credits also include “Million Dollar Password”, the first season of “America’s Got Talent”, as well as a recurring co-host seat on “Rachael Ray”.
-People
★ Shaquille O’Neal surprised a doctor who is on the front lines fighting COVID-19, by jumping in on a Zoom call. The NBA legend and the FORTO coffee company have donated over 900,000 coffee shots to fuel frontline workers, and in the process, he came across the story of a Detroit doctor named Kevin Morton who years earlier was shot and only given a 10% chance to live. But he recovered and became a surgeon at the same hospital that saved his life. The heartwarming viral video shows Shaq surprising Morton with a Zoom call, and offering up tickets to an MSU basketball game — as soon as fans are allowed back in the arena. LINK:  https://tinyurl.com/y5rk7zs7
-TheBlast
★ It looks like the coronavirus has shaken things up for “The Walking Dead” in more ways than we’d realized. While fans will finally be able to see the delayed finale episode of Season 10 on October 4, that apparently won’t actually be the end of Season 10. Instead, Season 10 will be getting an additional six episodes that will air in 2021. The bad news? Season 11, which was supposed to begin this October, won’t be happening until at least next year, due to disruptions in the shooting schedule caused by the pandemic.
-TheWrap
★ Tom Hanks has gone back to his hot dog-selling roots to make Oakland Athletics players feel at home in an empty baseball park. He’s added his voice to the atmospheric noise that will be played at A’s games in RingCentral Coliseum during the pandemic-shortened season which began on Friday. Hanks can be heard offering up ballpark food and other concessions during games to make it sound as if people are in the stands.
-Canoe

TODAY’S SHOW BIZ SKED:
• “The Tonight Show starring Jimmy Fallon” (NBC/CTV): Mike Tyson, Adam Devine, Chronixx
• “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert” (CBS/Global): John Bolton (R)
• “Late Night with Seth Meyers” (NBC/CTV): Sen. Kamala Harris, Pete Carroll
• “The Late Late Show with James Corden” (CBS/CTV): Anna Kendrick, Alanis Morissette (R)
• “Conan” (TBS): Jesse Eisenberg
• “The View” (ABC/CTV): Rahm Emanuel
• “The Talk” (CBS): Sebastian Maniscalco, Rita Wilson
• “Live with Kelly and Ryan” (ABC/CTV): Kiefer Sutherland, Michael Symon
• “The Ellen DeGeneres Show” (NBC/CTV): Nicole Kidman, Charlize Theron, Margot Robbie, Midland (R)
• “The Kelly Clarkson Show” (CHECK LOCAL LISTINGS): Demi Lovato, David Boreanaz (R)
• “The Bachelor: The Greatest Seasons — Ever!” (ABC): Reliving the dramatic moments of Sean Lowe’s season.
• “Sharks of the Bermuda Triangle” (NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC): Marine biologist Dr. Austin Gallagher searches for the holy grail of shark research — the secret breeding grounds of tiger sharks.

BS MUSIC NOTES:
• Billie Eilish – has announced the new single ‘My Future’ will be released this Thursday. It’s her first release since ‘No Time to Die’, her James Bond theme for the now-delayed film.
• Justin Bieber — visited Kanye West at the rapper’s Wyoming ranch in the wake of his concerning behavior at his presidential rally and subsequent Twitter sprees. West, whose new album was not released on Friday as announced, shared a photo of himself and Bieber as they sat in a garage.
• Taylor Swift — Smash Mouth is feeling the backlash of the Swifties after throwing some shade at Taylor Swift. After the surprise release of her new album “Folklore”, the band tweeted: “borelore”. Swift fans’ responses included: “You had one hit in a children’s movie about ogres. she has eight albums spanning three genres and worldwide recognition. u are not the same.”
• ABBA – will release five new songs in 2021, according to Bjorn Ulveaus. The group announced they had recorded new music over two years ago, but because of technical difficulties with a planned hologram tour, then the pandemic, its release has been put off again until next year.
• Fleetwood Mac – Original guitarist and blues legend Peter Green has died at the age of 73. A statement from his family says that he “Died peacefully in his sleep”. He co-founded the group in 1966 and was inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in 1998.
• Alanis Morissette – says she fears she’d have died young if she did not have a “whole team” of therapists. She has survived eating disorders an alcohol problem, as well as postpartum depression after the birth of her third child last year. She says in addition to therapy, she works through her issues by writing music. Her new album “Pretty Forks in the Road” comes out Friday.
• Elton John – His ex-wife, Renate Blauel, is seeking an estimated £3M ($3.8M) in damages over claims John broke the terms of their divorce agreement. She is suing over sections of his 2019 memoir “Me”, and the biopic “Rocketman”. They were married for four years in the 1980s.
• Blake Shelton – In an interview, he seemed less than confident that the upcoming season of “The Voice” will happen as planned. Shooting for the blind auditions is scheduled to begin in two weeks, but he said with “the waves of bad news that keep coming out of California…I still hope we can get it in…but we will see what happens.”
• Tenille Townes — leads the list of contenders for the 2020 Canadian Country Music Awards with six nominations. Brett Kissel and Dean Brody have five nods apiece, and James Barker Band, The Reklaws, and Dallas Smith, all have four. The 38th Canadian Country Music Awards will air Sept. 27.

SOCIAL DISTANING: NOW AN EVEN BETTER IDEA:
These days, you’re probably going out less and spending more time at home. And according to Unilever, that means you don’t need to wear deodorant as often. And you’re buying more ice cream. The consumer goods company reports that with social distancing guidelines in effect and people quarantining at home, demand for personal care items, such as deodorant — and their brands Dove soap and Axe deodorant — have declined, while home consumption of their ice cream brands Breyer’s and Ben & Jerry’s are up 26% between April and June compared to last year. Sales of soups, meal kits and mayonnaise have also spiked during the pandemic.
(Deodorant sales are down? What does it say about us that we make sure we smell nice when we’re out in public among total strangers, but we think it’s OK to stink around our family?)
(Or maybe people aren’t buying Axe these days because they finally grew up!)
(I know what they mean! I haven’t worn cologne since there was snow on the ground!)
-CNN

HATERS GONNA HATE:
It should come as no surprise to you that there plenty of trolls on social media. But maybe that’s an indicator of another problem: Internet addiction. That’s what a team of Michigan State University researchers say. They surveyed 472 college-aged people, measuring the time they spend on Facebook and Snapchat, and how many times they’ve tried to quit. The found that there is a correlation between problematic use (addiction) on both platforms and “negative social potency”, which is defined as people’s desire to be cruel, callous and use others for personal gain. It seems the more problematic use a participant displays, the more enjoyment they derive from that negative social potency. That, of course, means that the more addicted you are to social media, the more you enjoy being a jerk.
(Now, what about the people who enjoy being a jerk in real life?)
(Apparently I have a lot of people on my friends lists who are addicts…)
-StudyFinds

ONE CONCERT THAT WON’T BE CANCELED:
Many of us are missing going to live music shows in the midst of the pandemic. How would you like to go and rub shoulders with 4,200 others at a concert next month? German researchers are putting one on in an effort to study how COVID-19 spreads at large indoor venues. They are looking for healthy volunteers between 18-50 years old see German singer Tim Bendzko perform at a stadium in Leipzig Aug. 11. Concertgoers will wear a tracking device that transmits data on each person’s movements and their proximity to other crowd members every five seconds. They will also use fluorescent hand sanitizer to help researchers identify what surfaces are used the most, and therefore pose the most risk, and a fog machine will be used to visualize the potential spread of the virus through aerosols. Volunteers will be outfitted with a face mask. The experiment coordinator says they are trying to determine if there is a middle ground between the “old and the new normal that would allow organizers to fit enough people into a concert venue” to turn a profit. Over 1100 people have already volunteered.
(Umm, has anyone checked to see if this guy is a real scientist and not a sleazy concert promoter?)
(When I first heard about this, I thought for sure it’d be happening in Florida!)
(But really, who hasn’t been to a concert where they were surprised they didn’t pick something up?
-Dazed

WINNERS:
➢ A man who made a pact with his fishing buddy 28 years ago that if either of them ever won the lottery, they’d split the winnings has come clean on his end of the deal. Thomas Cook of Elk Mound, WI reached out to Joseph Feeney with news of his $22 million windfall in the Powerball lottery. The pair chose the cash option of $16.7 million, which means they each took home about $5.7 million after taxes. (At least that’s what they CLAIM they won. You know fishermen…)
➢ A man in Jamaica who won more than $95 Million in a lottery showed up to collect his winnings dressed as Darth Vader in an attempt to hide his identity. Lotto winners in Jamaica must show up in person to claim their winnings, but the man, who identified himself as W. Brown, said he disguised himself as the Star Wars villain because he likes to keep to himself. (It’s a shame he was “forced” to show up…)
-CNN, Global

DID YOU KNOW?
If time travel was possible, would you rather visit the future after the pandemic, or opt for simpler times and visit the past? A survey of 4,000 people found that the most popular choice across all age groups was the past, with 65% saying they’d travel back in time. Young people were much more likely to say they’d travel to the future. 47% of those under 25 said they’d check out the future, compared to less than a third of people over 50.
-LifeHacks

BS CHRONOMETER 07.27.20

TODAY’S CELEBIRTHDAYS . . .
1970 [50] Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, Rudkobing Denmark, TV actor (‘Jaime Lannister’ on “Game of Thrones” 2011-19)

1972 [48] Maya Rudolph, Gainesville FL, TV comic (“Maya & Marty” 2016, “Saturday Night Live” 2000-07, 2012, 2015) movie actress (“The Angry Birds Movie”, “Bridesmaids”)

1975 [45] Alex Rodriguez (‘A-Rod’), NYC, former MLB baseball player (NY Yankees/Seattle/Texas))/14-time All-Star/5-time HR leader/3-time AL MVP/2014 season suspension for doping/engaged to J Lo

1977 [43] Jonathan Rhys Meyers (O’Keeffe), Dublin Ireland, TV actor (“Dracula” 2013-14, “The Tudors” 2007-10)/movie actor (“Mission: Impossible III”, “Bend It Like Beckham”)

1984 [36] Taylor Schilling, Boston MA, TV actress (‘Piper Chapman’ on “Orange Is the New Black” 2013-19)

1994 [26] Winnie Harlow, Mississauga ON, model (gained prominence as a contestant on “America’s Next Top Model” in 2014 while having a form of the skin condition vitiligo)

TODAY’S BS REASONS TO PARTY . . .
• “Bagpipe Appreciation Day”, celebrating the ancient musical instrument that’s viewed by some as an obnoxious, migraine-inducing tool of cacophonic destruction. (Good for funerals though)
Here is some pipin’ that we can get into:
NET: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WbY8eNkaW4k
And even though bagpipes were NOT invented in Scotland, it’s also…

• “Scotch Day”, celebrating the malt (or grain) whisky that was originally exclusive to Scotland. All Scotch must be aged in oak barrels for at least 3 years. The first written mention of Scotch whisky is in the Exchequer Rolls of Scotland from 1495.

• “Korean War Veterans Armistice Day”, commemorating the 1953 negotiated cease-fire that ended the war on the Korean peninsula. During the 3 years of fierce struggle, over 600,000 Allied lives were lost.

• “Walk on Stilts Day”, celebrating the feat most often seen in parades and at the circus. Stilt-walking is an ancient art that only requires a pair of stout sticks and lots of practice. (And maybe some extra butt padding)

• “Crème Brûlée Day”, saluting the yummy French dessert consisting of a rich custard base topped with a contrasting layer of hard caramel. It’s normally served at room temperature.

• “Chicken Finger Day”, first made and named in 1976 by the owners/operators of Spanky’s in Savannah, Georgia. One of the original owners continues to operate Spanky’s today and it is known as the Home of the Original Chicken Finger.

COMING UP . . .
[Tues] Buffalo Soldiers Day
[Tues] Hamburger Day
[Wed] Tiger Day
[Wed] Lasagna Day
This Week Is…National Moth Week
This Month Is…Cell Phone Courtesy Month

THIS DAY IN SHOW BIZ . . .
1940 [80] Bugs Bunny, voiced by Mel Blanc, makes his debut in “A Wild Hare”

2003 [17] Legendary comedian, movie actor, and TV host Bob Hope dies at age 100 at his home in Toluca Lake, California

TODAY’S MUSIC EVENTS . . .
1983 [37] Madonna releases her self-titled first album. While it doesn’t burn up the charts and is derided by Rolling Stone (which calls her voice “irritating as hell”), it eventually spawned the hits ‘Holiday’, ‘Borderline’ and ‘Lucky Star’

1984 [36] The Prince film “Purple Rain” is released. He plays as an upstart musician who clashes with his band. It parallels his life story, but is not strictly autobiographical

TODAY’S FIRSTS . . .
1999 [21] Tony Hawk becomes the first skateboarder to land a “900”

2012 [08] Queen Elizabeth II opens the 30th Olympics in London, UK (with some help from 007)

BULL’S BITS

BS WHACK FACTS:
✓ Only 2% of humans have green eyes, the rarest of eye colors.
✓ It takes 200 muscles to take one step.
✓ In 1500s England, beards were taxed according to their length.
✓ The world has been at peace only 8% of the time over the last 3,500 years.
✓ It takes 6,000 gallons of paint, 60 people, and four months to paint the Eiffel Tower.
✓ The inventor of revolving doors did so because he hated opening doors for women.
-WhattheFFacts, BathroomReadersInstitute

Best of BS . . .
BS WIMPY ACTION MOVIES:
• Ironing Man
• Co-Dependence Day
• Worms on a Plane
• Mission: Plausible
• Rambo: First Paper Cut
• The Texas Coleslaw Massacre
• Conan the Librarian
• The Last Auction Hero
• Batman Begins…Making Excuses
• Single Jeopardy
• Cry Hard
-Twitter, first published in BS in 2018

BS SILLY TESTS TO FAIL:
• Clown College entrance exam.
• A test of the emergency broadcast system.
• “Pull my finger”
• “What’s the number for 911?”
• “How old do you THINK I am?”
• “What is the average air speed velocity of a laden swallow?”
• Eye exam
• Blood test
• The one where she asks, “Do these jeans make my butt look big?”
• My patience.
-Twitter, first published in BS in 2019

TODAY’S SLICE OF BS:
➠ Virtual Comic-Con is over. (Which means thousands of nerds have officially packed away their superhero costumes. Until next weekend.)
➠ A “fugitive of the week” sought by the U.S. Marshals Service was found sleeping on a porch in New Hampshire. (At least he wasn’t charged with resisting a rest…)
➠ A Florida Woman who threw another lady into a wall because of an unpaid debt was found by police hiding in a clothes dryer.  (The judge is worried bail may be made with laundered money…)
➠ Two Ryanair pilots are being investigated after one was caught handling the plane’s throttle with a rubber chicken. (In his defense, it was at the end of a long shift and he was totally plastered!)
➠ Helen Mirren turned 75 yesterday. (She’s the only senior citizen I’d have sex with. Yes, I’m still feeling burned by that Wal-Mart greeter who never called me back…)

BS WEB GOODIE:
Mondays:  https://tinyurl.com/yxtfpdo6

BS U-PICK TRIVIA:
• Which jersey number is retired for all of major league baseball teams?
a) 42 [CORRECT – Jackie Robinson]
b) 37
c) 12
d) 73

• In darts, what is the maximum number of points you can score with a single throw?
a) 20
b) 60 [CORRECT]
c) 100
d) 42

• How many designated face-off spots are there on a hockey rink?
a) One
b) Five
c) Nine [CORRECT]
d) Two
-JetPunk, Zoo, TriviaPlaying

BS PHONE STARTER:
What is the weirdest ‘home remedy’ that you’ve ever heard of?

BS RANDOM JOKE:
If you think eggplant is good, you should try any other food; it’s much better.

BS WATER COOLER QUESTION:
Question:  When men were asked “When did you know you were turning into your father?”, what was the number one answer?
Answer:  Taking grilling too seriously

BS DEEP THOUGHT:
Your best teacher is your last mistake.