Tuesday, June 9, 2020 – Edition: #6715
Sweet Sheet!
BS SHOW BIZ BUZZ:
★ According to a report, Ryan Seacrest is considering a permanent move back to L.A. following his recent health scare. He has been shooting New York-based “Live with Kelly & Ryan” from his Los Angeles home since the lockdown began, but a source says he has been feeling exhausted since his health scare in mid-May, when during the “American Idol” season finale broadcast, the 45-year-old struggled with his words, seemed confused and had a visibly droopy right eye. Reps attributed the incident to “adjusting to the new normal and finding work-home balance.” “Live” will be going on a weeks-long scheduled hiatus next month.
-NYPost
★ Former “Bachelorette” Rachel Lindsay has threatened that if “The Bachelor” franchise doesn’t address its racial diversity issues, she’s walking away from it all. Calling the long-running franchise’s output “whitewashed,” the first — and only — black lead in the “Bachelor” universe said, “I think that they have to, at this point, give us a black Bachelor for Season 25.
-MSN
★ David Beckham is reportedly in talks to launch his own cooking show. He’s held discussions with the BBC and Netflix about the prospect of creating a cooking show, having nurtured his culinary skills during lockdown with the help of his daughter Harper. According to a source, Beckham has “been recreating some of his mum’s old recipes, and got a load of pots and pans for his birthday recently.”
-ContactMusic
★ Elmer Fudd will have to find another way to bag that wascally wabbit, Bugs Bunny. Why? Because in the updated Looney Tunes cartoons streaming on HBO Max, he isn’t allowed to have a rifle. In the new versions of the classic cartoons, Fudd will still be hunting, but will use a scythe. That’s a modification in response to US gun violence. The cartoon will still will feature the use of dynamite, booby traps and the iconic anvils and bank safes dropped onto characters, but executive producer Peter Browngardt says: “We’re not doing guns.” (Gweat gwasshoppers!)
-MSN
TODAY’S SHOW BIZ SKED:
• “Jimmy Kimmel Live” (ABC/Global): Josh Gad
• “The Tonight Show starring Jimmy Fallon” (NBC/CTV): Antoni Porowski, Tan France, Karamo Brown, Bobby Berk, Jonathan Van Ness, Christian Slater, Sia
• “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert” (CBS/Global): Chris Wallace
• “Late Night with Seth Meyers” (NBC/CTV): Brad Paisley
• “The Late Late Show with James Corden” (CBS/CTV): Gordon Ramsay, Kehlani
• “Watch What Happens Live” (Bravo): Tamron Hall
• “The View” (ABC/CTV): Chris Wallace, Adrienne Bankert
• “Live with Kelly and Ryan” (ABC/CTV): Jean Chatzky
• “The Ellen DeGeneres Show” (NBC/CTV): Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms, Van Jones
• “The Kelly Clarkson Show” (CHECK LOCAL LISTINGS): Lauren Daigle, Seth Meyers, Kelly Rowland (R)
• “OWN Spotlight: Where Do We Go From Here?” (OWN): Oprah Winfrey speaks with black leaders who offer insights and plans on what matters now, what matters next and where people can go from here.
• “Lifetime Presents Variety’s Power of Women: Frontline Heroes” (LIFETIME): Spotlighting women healthcare workers, teachers, researchers, and more “who are putting themselves at risk to make a difference”.
BS MUSIC NOTES:
• BTS — and their management company Big Hit Entertainment donated $1 million to Black Lives Matter last week. Earlier in the week, the group tweeted in support of the George Floyd protests: “We stand against racial discrimination. We condemn violence. You, I and we all have the right to be respected. We will stand together.”
• Machine Gun Kelly – He and Blink-182 drummer Travis Barker have released a cover of Rage Against the Machine’s 1992 protest song ‘Killing in the Name’ in support of the Black Lives Matter movement. The pair, who are frequent collaborators, also took to the streets in Los Angeles to join a protest.
• Josh Groban – will host a special livestream concert June 27 on his website. He’ll perform some of his greatest hits, fan favorites and a few new songs. Fans who purchase a ticket will receive access to watch the livestream, and it will be accessible for 48 hours after the event. (Welcome to the future of concerts?)
• Elton John — has offered financial assistance to his former fiancée. He broke off his engagement to Linda Hannon over 50 years ago, but when she recently asked him for help because she couldn’t afford to take five weeks off work after knee replacement surgery, John quickly agreed.
• Prince – To mark what would have been his 62nd birthday on Sunday, his estate shared a powerful message from him about intolerance. The handwritten note from his personal archives reads: “Nothing more ugly in the whole wide world than INTOLERANCE (between) Black, white, red, yellow, boy or girl. INTOLERANCE”.
• Tool — have cancelled their 2020 North American tour altogether in a bid to help struggling fans secure refunds. They were due to hit the road this fall, but messages from followers convinced the group to formally scrap all upcoming concerts, instead of postponing them because “tying up our fans’ money for months, if not a full year, is unfair.”
• Lady Antebellum – recently joined “Today” co-host Savannah Guthrie to virtually greet some of their biggest fans, Mindy and Chris of Centerville, OH, whose first dance as a married couple was to Lady A’s ‘When You Got a Good Thing’. Their 10th anniversary is this summer and they planned to celebrate by going to a Lady Antebellum concert. Now they’re invited to come to a show and receive VIP treatment once the group is back on the road.
• Carrie Underwood – will release a Christmas album later this year. Although she has released a number of holiday songs, including ‘Do You Hear What I Hear’, ‘O Holy Night’ and ‘The First Noel’, this will be her first full-length Christmas album. No release date yet.
THIS WEEK’S NETFLIX (Canada) RELEASES:
➢ June 9:
• “Modern Family: Seasons 9-10” (Comedy): The ninth and tenth seasons of the show about a blended multi-generational family are added to the first eight, which are already on Netflix.
➢ June 10:
• “Lenox Hill” (Netflix Documentary): An intimate look at the lives of four doctors — two brain surgeons, an emergency room physician, and a chief resident — as they navigate the highs and lows of working at New York City’s renowned Lenox Hill Hospital in New York City.
➢ June 12:
• “Da 5 Bloods” (Military Drama): Spike Lee’s newest film tells the story of four African-American Vietnam vets searching for the remains of their fallen squad leader, as they confront the lasting ravages of the immorality of the Vietnam War.
• “The Woods” (Netflix Original): A Warsaw prosecutor’s hopes rise when a body is found and linked to his sister’s disappearance 25 years earlier. Adapted from the Harlan Coben novel.
(Full list: https://www.huffingtonpost.ca/entry/netflix-canada-june-2020_ca_5eca9ebac5b67b3741812b91
For releases in other Netflix regions, click here: https://www.whats-on-netflix.com/coming-soon/)
THE WORD AROUND THE OFFICE:
➢ As many workers prepare to return to their places of work after lockdown, a new poll reveals that the majority of us are concerned about how long our jobs will last. A study of 2,000 American office workers found that 53% fear that robots or artificial intelligence could replace what they do within 5 years. What would put their minds at ease? Nearly 90% said they would like to add to their skill-set by having the chance to “learn while they earn” about AI and other new technologies. (Siri, what’s with the gold watch?)
➢ As it reopens, a Nova Scotia company is giving its entire staff the opportunity to permanently work from home. Tech company SimplyCast, which employs about 30 people in Dartmouth, conducted a survey about a month ago asking if employees would like to go back to the office or continue working from home. While most wanted to continue working from home, about a third said they missed coming into the office and having face-to-face interactions. Workers will now have the choice of either coming in to work or continuing to work remotely, and president and CEO Saeed El-Darahali says that if enough people want to work from home, he’ll consider downsizing from the company’s current 7,000 square-foot office. (Working from home is a nice thought, but then where would I get toilet paper?)
-StudyFinds, YahooNews
YOU’RE KNEADED:
⇒ Instead of taking a “spa day”, how a “spa life”? If you can pool together $7 million with some business-savvy friends you could buy your own fully functional village in Sweden. Built in the 18th century as a health resort, Sätra Brunn, 90 minutes north of Stockholm, is a picture-perfect example of Swedish village architecture, complete with a church, a school and a hotel, and has a bottling operation to market its own local spring water. In continuous use as a spa town for 320 years, it was bought by its current owners in the early 1990s. The 62-acre village of more than 70 buildings has a program of regular events and celebrations, including an annual Midsummer party which attracts around 6,000 visitors. (The closest I get to a spa day is when the steam from the dishwasher hits me in the face!)
⇒ There’s nothing like a massage. And there’s definitely nothing like this massage. An ancient form of massage using meat cleavers (!!) is seeing a resurgence in Taiwan, and could soon be coming to North America. In the practice, known as “daoliao”, which translates to “knife massage”, practitioners pound stress points in the body using the sharpened edge of kitchen instruments usually used for cutting meat, while soothing your energy and reading your fortune. Guests are wrapped in towels and robes to protect their skin from cuts. While daoliao looks scary, devotees swear by it and practitioners — who aren’t allowed to massage if they’re in a bad mood — claim the knives have healing powers. (Sounds about as relaxing as “Texas Chainsaw Massacre”!)
-CNN, NYPost
BAD MOOD FOOD:
(Dietary contributors to blood sugar spikes and crashes, which can lead to symptoms such as low mood, irritability, brain fog, anxiety, fatigue and difficulty concentrating…)
⇒ Caffeine: Coffee and tea release dopamine and serotonin, which is fine in small doses, but too much — often as little as one extra cup — can lead to irritability, agitation and anxiety. Consider replacing that extra cup with a decaf version.
⇒ Baked goods: You know they are loaded with sugar and can cause sugar spikes and crashes. (But you also know they’re worth it!)
⇒ French fries: They’re full of saturated fats, refined carbohydrates and excess salt. That’s a perfect recipe for energy spikes and crashes, and the bad mood and exhaustion that follow. (Mmmm — saturated fats, refined carbohydrates and excess salt…)
⇒ Processed foods: Chips, Pop-Tarts pizza bites…all of them can cause terrible moods due to high amounts of refined sugars, saturated fats and preservatives. (That’s MY excuse…now tell me why [***co-host***] is so miserable!)
⇒ Alcohol: Small amounts can be fine, but regular or excessive consumption can worsen your mood. (From experience, over-consumption can also make your wife mad!)
⇒ Soda: Can rapidly lead to a sugar spike followed by severe sluggishness. (I’m guessing this isn’t a good time to ask for a rum-and-Coke?)
(This list looks like my lunch bag. And if you’re listening, boss, that booze isn’t mine!)
-YahooNews
DID YOU KNOW?
A survey found that older men are doing the least to protect themselves from COVID-19, despite the fact that they are at highest risk for contracting the disease. According to the CDC, fatality risk for coronavirus increases with age, and men are more at risk than women. The authors of the Georgia State University study note that “worry” is one of the key factors for determining whether or not someone will make behavioral changes to protect themselves, such as social distancing, eating healthy, exercising, and getting screened in a timely manner, and older males just don’t seem to be too worried about exposure to the virus.
-StudyFinds
BS CHRONOMETER 06.09.20
TODAY’S CELEBIRTHDAYS . . .
1956 [66] Patricia Cornwell, Miami FL, author (one of the world’s top-selling crime novelists, her best-known series features forensic pathologist ‘Dr Kay Scarpetta’)
1961 [59] Michael J Fox, Edmonton AB, TV actor (“Family Ties” 1982-89, “Spin City” 1996-2000)/movie actor (“Back to the Future” films)/founder of Michael J Fox Foundation for Parkinson’s Research. (What does the ‘J’ stand for? Andrew, of course.)
1963 [57] Johnny Depp, Owensboro KY, TV actor (“21 Jump Street” 1987–1990)/movie actor (“Alice in Wonderland” films, “Pirates of the Caribbean” films) COMING UP…”Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them 3″
1978 [42] Matthew Bellamy, Cambridge UK, rock guitarist-keyboardist-vocalist (Muse-‘Uprising’, ‘Supermassive Black Hole’)/actress Kate Hudson’s baby daddy
1978 [42] Michaela Conlin, Allentown PA, TV actress (‘Angela Montenegro’ on “Bones” 2005-16)/movie actress (“The Lincoln Lawyer”)
1981 [39] Natalie Portman (Hershlag), Jerusalem Israel, movie actress (Oscar-“Black Swan”, “Thor” films)
TODAY’S BS REASONS TO PARTY . . .
• “Donald Duck Day”, marking the cartoon character’s debut on this day 86 years ago (1934) as a bit player in the Walt Disney cartoon “The Little Wise Hen”. (***Insert Donald Duck impersonation here: “Oh boy, oh boy, oh boy!”***)
• “Strawberry Rhubarb Pie Day”, honoring the popular pie that mixes the sweet and the tart. Rhubarb is a very old plant. Earliest records date back to 2700 BC in China where it was cultivated for medicinal purposes.
• “Earl Day”, dedicated to those with a particular qualification and a genuine capacity for achievement. On National Earl Day we honor those legends named Earl.
• “Call Your Doctor Day”, founded by Bright Pink, a women’s health non-profit, on June 21, 2016, to encourage young women to schedule their annual Well-Woman Exam. (And in many cases, you can set up an appointment online, quickly and securely.)
• “Pet Memorial Day”, is an opportunity to celebrate the lives of our pets that have a special place in our hearts forever. (“A true friend is gone, but the memories live on…”)
AND REMEMBER . . .
[Wed] Ballpoint Pen Day
[Wed] Iced Tea Day
[Thurs] Corn on the Cob Day
[Thurs] Cousteau Day
THIS DAY IN SHOW BIZ . . .
2006 [14] The animated movie blockbuster “Cars” debuts in theaters
2013 [07] “Kinky Boots”, with music by Cyndi Lauper & book by Harvey Fierstein, wins ‘Best Musical’ and several other Tony Awards
TODAY’S MUSIC EVENTS . . .
2007 [13] George Michael becomes the first music artist to perform at the new Wembley Stadium in London, playing the first of 2 shows at the venue during his “25 Live Tour”
2017 [03] Katy Perry begins live-streaming four days straight to promote the release of her new album, “Witness”. We learn that of her ex-boyfriends, John Mayer was the best in bed
TODAY’S FIRSTS . . .
2003 [17] Hillary Clinton’s 576-page memoir “Living History” hits bookstores, for which she receives a $2.85 million advance (576 pages? That’s all she wrote?)
2007 [13] Top-seeded Justine Henin defeats Ana Ivanovic, becoming the first female to win 3 French Open championships in-a-row since Monica Seles in 1992
BULL’S BITS
BS WHACK FACTS:
✓ In England, in the 1880’s, “Pants” was considered a dirty word.
✓ Forest fires move faster uphill than downhill.
✓ A rat can fall from a five story building without injury.
✓ The world’s first television commercial aired in 1941 at the beginning of a baseball game. The Bulova watches ad cost the company $9.
✓ No two cornflakes are identical.
✓ There’s a 99.9999% chance that any given person is your 16th cousin.
-Amazing Facts, RandomFactGenerator
BS SIGNS YOU ARE LAZY:
• You watch the Weather Channel for 3 hours because the batteries in the remote died.
• You leave an outline when it rains.
• You were quarantining before it was cool.
• You planned to work out but it didn’t work out.
• You refer to the “Lazy Susan” as just “Susan”.
• A weekend wasted isn’t a wasted weekend.
• You’re a cat.
• I’ll tell you after my nap.
-Twitter
Best of BS . . .
BS SCIENTIST PICK-UP LINES:
• “I feel a lot of chemistry with you.”
• “Baby, you light my Bunsen burner.”
• “This place is Boron…Why don’t we get out of here?”
• “Will you be the constant variable in my life?”
• “You’re so hot I should call you Kelvin.”
• “I’m into chaos theory and baby, you’re a strange attractor…”
• “If you were DNA, I’d want to be your DNA Helicase so I could unzip your genes.”
• “I wish I was a derivative so I could lie tangent to your curves.”
• “Hey baby, I’m a biologist, and at this bar, you’re the Natural Selection.”
• (***Caution***) “Your bosons…they give me hadrons.”
-Twitter, first published in BS in 2019
TODAY’S SLICE OF BS:
➠ A Florida surgeon called “Dr. Miami” is offering drive-through Botox to quarantined residents. (Fine! Whatever it takes to stop all these crazy Head Lines!)
➠ The recently-released “Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, 5th Edition” did not include “Sex Addiction,” as a mental disorder. (Sex addicts feel like they’ve been screwed. And they like it…)
➠ Research has revealed that the average household spends $5,102 per month. Meanwhile, Miley Cyrus has revealed she spends $25,000 a month on personal trainers. (Yes, it sounds like a lot, but keep in mind, she saves a ton by not buying bras or makeup…)
➠ IKEA ownership has come under fire for ties to the Nazi party. (They’re also under fire from me for ruining many a Sunday trying to figure out how to assemble this damn nightstand!)
➠ Trump and Biden are neck and neck in six crucial swing states, with Biden barely in the lead. (Analysts say this could seriously hurt President Trump’s shot at re-election. Also hurting his re-election prospects: The last three and a half years!)
BS WEB GOODIE:
The sound at the end: https://tinyurl.com/ycm4q4ry
BS RANDOM JOKE:
This is the first year that I’m not going to Fiji due to COVID-19. Usually, I don’t go because I’m poor.
BS PHONE STARTER:
What’s something you thought as a child that you realize today is ridiculous?
BS WATER COOLER QUESTION:
Question: 12% of people say they hide their money HERE. Where?
Answer: In a shoe
BS DEEP THOUGHT:
A lot of problems in the world would disappear if we talked to each other instead of talking about each other.
