Thursday, June 20, 2019 – Edition: #6477

Here’s Sheet in Your Eye!

BS SHOW BIZ BUZZ:
★ James Corden has hinted he could leave “The Late, Late Show” to return to the UK when his contract ends next year. Speaking on a podcast, he said: ”I have a year left on my contract. It’s hard. It’s so much more than just, ‘What do I want to do?’ ”We’re a long way from home, my wife and I, and our children, and there are people at home that we miss deeply and we care about and they’re getting older.” He also pointed out that he also has questions about where his children should receive their education and “where is the best environment for them.” 40-year-old Corden and his wife Julie relocated to the U.S. in 2015. They have three children ranging in age from 18 months to 8 years.
-ContactMusic
★ Dennis Quaid thinks it is ”really time” for Lindsay Lohan to make an acting comeback. He starred alongside the Lohan in her first ever film, “The Parent Trap” – and says he was “blown away”. Quaid calls her ”One of the most talented people I’ve ever met at 11 years of age.” Lohan has most recently been seen in her MTV reality show “Lindsay Lohan’s Beach Club”’, which documented the opening of her Mykonos club, and she recently admitted it was a ”challenge” for her to show off her life on screen.
-ContactMusic
★ A statue of Marilyn Monroe that sat atop a gazebo on the Hollywood Walk of Fame was stolen on Monday night, and one city official is calling it “The great Marilyn caper of 2019.” The statue in question sat atop the Hollywood Gazebo, which celebrates women in film from different cultures. Dolores Del Rio, Dorothy Dandridge, Mae West, and Anna May Wong have statues around the gazebo, while Monroe sat on top.
-TheBlast
★ Sylvester Stallone shared a sweet message to his fans on Instagram as he celebrated the 40th anniversary of his 1979 sequel film “Rocky II”. He wrote: “A heartfelt thank you for accepting these characters and their stories into your lives! It seems like only yesterday when Adrian was telling me to ‘WIN! And Mickey pushing me to be an ‘Italian Tank! an [sic] go through him!’” He continued: “And finally the battle with the amazing Apollo Creed… So lucky I am, and incredibly grateful after all this time and I shall always be, Keep punching, Sly.”
(Beautiful post. I can’t wait for the sequel!)
-MSN
★ “Queer Eye” fans, rejoice! Netflix announced Tuesday that it has renewed the hit makeover series for both a fourth and fifth season, with Season 4 beginning on July 19. Netflix also announced that for Season 5, the Fab Five is headed to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
-TheWrap

TODAY’S SHOW BIZ SKED:
• “Jimmy Kimmel Live” (ABC/Global): Kumail Nanjiani, Jim Acosta, Himesh Patel
• “The Tonight Show starring Jimmy Fallon” (NBC/CTV): Madonna, Ari Lennox
• “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert” (CBS/Global): Russell Crowe, Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot, the Raconteurs
• “Late Night with Seth Meyers” (NBC/CTV): Aubrey Plaza, Louie Anderson, Jessica Burdeaux
• “The Late Late Show with James Corden” (CBS/CTV): Michael Sheen, Paul Giamatti, Mumford & Sons
• “Conan” (TBS): Taylor Schilling (R)
• “Watch What Happens Live” (Bravo): Bethenny Frankel
• “The View” (ABC/CTV): Nik Wallenda
• “The Talk” (CBS): Bill Pullman
• “Live with Kelly and Ryan” (ABC/CTV): Cobie Smulders, Audra McDonald, Gary Woodland, guest co-host Mark Consuelos
• “The Ellen DeGeneres Show” (NBC/CTV): Favorite moments with actors who star in superhero films, including Chris
• “Family Food Fight” (ABC): Season 1 premiere. Ayesha Curry hosts a cooking competition featuring family teams.
• “Holey Moley” (ABC): Season 1 premiere. Rob Riggle and Steph Curry are among the commentators on this “extreme” miniature golf competition series.
• “Spin the Wheel” (FOX): Premiere. A game show that mixes pop culture trivia, strategy and simple luck. Contestants face a colossal, spinning 40-foot wheel that holds upwards of 20 million dollars in its rotation.

BS MUSIC NOTES:
• Rihanna – Her father is once again asking the court to dismiss her lawsuit against him, saying he never illegally profited off her and that he used the name “Fenty” before she did. Ronald Fenty says he planned to launch his own reality show about himself in hopes of becoming famous.
• Drake – has tied The Beatles with 34 songs in the Billboard top 10 after Chris Brown’s song ‘No Guidance’ featuring Drake debuted at No. 9. The Beatles and Drake now both hold the number two spot with Madonna leading with 38 top 10 singles.
• Adam Lambert – wants to play Elvis Presley in an upcoming biopic. Appearing on an Australian talk show, Lambert said that he has “been compared to him quite a bit…I got the lip, the lip goes up.” Then he went on to imitate Elvis’ thick southern accent. Baz Luhrmann will direct the flick, and Tom Hanks will play Elvis’s longtime manager Colonel Tom Parker in the movie. Further details have yet to be announced.
• Mötley Crüe — Vince Neil and Nikki Sixx are dismissing the new Reelz network documentary about the group. An episode of “Breaking the Band” focuses on the Crüe’s turbulent history, and Neil is especially miffed about how the show portrays his departure from the band in 1992, blaming him for prioritizing motor racing over music.
• Sheryl Crow – says her upcoming “Threads” album of collaborations may be her last. She says she plans to keep making music, but maybe not in full projects like she has in the past. Threads features 17 duets with artists like Mick Jagger and Keith Richards, Joe Walsh, Maren Morris, Chris Stapleton, Brandi Carlile, the late Johnny Cash, Willie Nelson, Kris Kristofferson, Emmylou Harris and Vince Gill.
• Luke Bryan – says he sings “The Star-Spangled Spanner” in the shower. He told “Good Morning America: “You can never have enough practice singing ‘The Star-Spangled Banner.'” The quote came from a hilarious interview that Bryan did with Blake Shelton in promotion of Shelton’s new venue the “Doghouse”, which is an extension of his popular restaurant Ole Red, in his hometown of Tishomingo, Okla.
• Chris Lane – and Lauren Bushnell are engaged! The 34-year-old ‘Take Back Home Girl’ singer proposed to the 29-year-old alumnus of TV’s “The Bachelor” in the backyard of her family’s home in Oregon on Sunday.

ANOTHER USE FOR DUCT TAPE:
Apparently one in seven of us is driving around with the “check engine” light on. That is one of the findings of a new survey commissioned by Jiffy Lube in the US. And while that may be a fun fact, there could be serious repercussions if left for too long. The survey also found that 29% of drivers ignore their “check engine” light for a month or more before taking it to the mechanic. The study of 2,000 drivers also found that the average car currently has three things that don’t function as they should, including 17% with a rattling noise, 15% with squeaky brakes, 14% with a cracked windshield and 14% with a leak of some kind.
(Was there a box for “all of the above?”)
(When my “check engine” light came on, I checked. Yup, it’s still there.)
(As far as I’m concerned, that’s just a missed opportunity to take it to the shop and have the flux capacitor topped off…)
-NYPost

DRONE HOME:
While Amazon and the pizza places keep going on about making deliveries with drones, a small group of entrepreneurs is thinking bigger…like delivering PEOPLE bigger. That’s right, some investors are betting that the next wave of travel for humans will involve autonomous, people-carrying drones.  The only problem: They will need a place to land. And that’s why they are looking to build the landing facilities, often called “vertiports,” that these electric, vertical-takeoff drones will need. Widespread use of people-carrying drones is at least a decade away from commercial reality, and it isn’t clear yet which drone designs will ultimately be used, so it’s pretty tricky to design a vertiport that will be effective when the time comes. But investors say it is important to start securing sites now so that landing pads are available when the vehicles are ready. The idea is to charge drone operators to land, replenish batteries and store vehicles overnight, leading to potentially substantial revenue if hundreds of drones use them.
(Sounds awesome. But you also need a place to land when you get to work!)
(And this is all assuming that people-carrying drones will TAKE OFF at all!)
(I’m less concerned about where these things can land, and more concerned about whether they will crash-land!)
-WallStreetJournal

ADDICTIONS THAT ARE SHOCKINGLY REAL:
(***Remember, these can be a form of mental illness, so treat them sensitively***)
➠ Piercings:  Yep, people can become addicted to all kinds of body modifications, not just plastic surgery. Tattoos and piercings can also fall under this classification.
➠ Eating dirt:  This is a form of something called Pica Disorder, which involves eating non-food items. Although eating dirt — geophagy – is actually very normal in some cultures, if consumed in large amounts (and depending on what’s in it), it can be very bad for you. (And if you’ve ever played rugby, you’ve eaten dirt whether you wanted to or not!)
➠ Eating glass:  It even has an official clinical name – hyalophagia. People addicted to eating glass often admit to enjoying the attention, but also often sustain serious injuries, as you’d imagine.
➠ Bodybuilding:  It is considered a separate addiction from exercise, though it still very much is based around being in control, or seeking the “perfect” body or physique, much like those addicted to plastic surgery. (What’s the opposite of this?  THAT’S what I have!)
➠ Unrequited Love:  Yes, people can become addicted to the pain of romantic rejection. This has actually been studied, and brain scans have been done on people showing that it’s similar to a cocaine craving. (Did you hear that, Cindy from third grade?)
➠ Coffee enemas:  This can stem from a caffeine addiction because taking it in through your bottom allows it to be absorbed into your body more quickly…or it could just be because they like having enemas. (And you thought coffee made you run for the toilet when you DRINK it!)
(And then, of course, there’s “addiction to social media”. Not shocking, but it’s real!)
-List25

DID YOU KNOW?
A team of researchers recently determined that Mona Lisa’s smile is “non-genuine.” Scientists applied the principles of neuroscience to the world-famous Italian Renaissance painting, which is seen by millions of visitors every year in Paris’ Louvre Museum. Using a so-called “chimeric face” technique, whereby the woman’s mouth is cut in half and placed alongside its mirror image, the researchers concluded that the Mona Lisa is smiling asymmetrically. The asymmetric smile “reflects a non-genuine emotion and is thought to occur when the subject lies,” according to the researchers.
(Or the fact that she had to sit there motionless for hours while Leonardo was painting…)
-MSN, FOX

BS CHRONOMETER 06.20.19

TODAY’S CELEBIRTHDAYS . . .
1942 [77] Brian Wilson, Inglewood, CA, rock singer/songwriter (The Beach Boys -‘Good Vibrations’, ‘Surfin’ USA’)/co-writer of over 25 Top 40 hits

1945 [74] Anne Murray, Springhill, Nova Scotia, pop/country singer (‘Snowbird’, ‘Could I Have This Dance’, ‘You Needed Me’)

1949 [70] Lionel Richie, Tuskegee AL, pop singer (‘All Night Long’, Commodores-‘Easy’)/Reality TV judge (“American Idol” 2018-present)

1952 [67] John Goodman, Afton MO, movie actor (“10 Cloverfield Lane”, “Argo”)/TV actor (“Roseanne” 1988-97, 2018, “The Conners” 2018-2019)

1954 [65] Michael Anthony, Chicago, IL, rock bassist (Van Halen-‘Jump’, ‘Runnin’ With the Devil’/ currently plays in “The Circle” with former Van Halen singer Sammy Hagar)

1960 [59] John Taylor, Solihull England, bassist (Duran Duran- ‘Hungry Like the Wolf’, ‘Rio’)

1967 [52] Nicole Kidman, Honolulu HI, movie actress (“The Others”, “Moulin Rouge!”)/Mrs. Keith Urban since 2006/Mrs. Tom Cruise 1990-2001. COMING UP… “The Goldfinch”, 2019

1968 [51] Robert Rodriguez, San Antonio TX, movie director-producer-screenwriter (“Machete” movies, “Sin City” films)

1989 [30] Chris Mintz-Plasse, LA CA, movie actor (“Kick-Ass” films, “How to Train Your Dragon” films) COMING UP… “Promising Young Woman”, 2020

TODAY’S BS REASONS TO PARTY . . .
• “World Productivity Day” … better today than on a Monday! Start looking at your processes and seeing where waste can be cut out, set yourself a list of things to accomplish and where you think productivity is lacking, identify problem areas and start an action plan to solve it. (Then when you see all the time you’ve wasted, get back to work and do things the way you always do, only faster!)

• “World Refugee Day”, first declared by the UN in 2001 as an expression of solidarity with Africa, which hosts the most refugees.

• “American Eagle Day”, to commemorate America’s national symbol, the Bald Eagle. In a 1784 letter to his daughter, Benjamin Franklin complained about the choice of the Bald Eagle as America’s symbol, saying he preferred … the turkey. (If they went with that, would I be wearing jeans with “American Turkey” written on the label?)

• “New Identity Day”, have fun thinking about who you might want to be for a day. (***See Today’s Phone Starter, below***)

• “Ice Cream Soda Day”, you should invest some time in slurping this frothy wonderment up a stripy straw. The drink is comprised of only a couple of scoops of ice-cream in any carbonated beverage.

• And for those who don’t like to rock the boat, today is also “Plain Yogurt Day” and “Vanilla Milkshake Day”.

COMING UP . . .
[Fri] Summer arrives in the Northern Hemisphere
[Fri] Go Skateboarding Day
[Fri] Seashell Day
[Sat] Great American Campout
[Sat] Onion Rings Day

THIS DAY IN SHOW BIZ . . .
1975 [44] The movie “Jaws”, based on the book by Peter Benchley, directed by Steven Spielberg and starring Roy Scheider, is released

2006 [13] The BBC cancels its landmark weekly pop music show “Top Of the Pops” after a record 42 years on-air

TODAY’S MUSIC EVENTS . . .
2008 [11] Jimmy Buffett announces his Margaritaville Holdings is buying Trump Marina Hotel Casino for $316 million, adding to Buffet’s vast business empire that already includes tequila, beer, frozen food, footwear, restaurants, a resort, a record label, and recording studio

2008 [11] Surrey University in England awards Led Zeppelin’s Jimmy Page an honorary Doctorate in Music

TODAY’S FIRST . . .
2013 [06] Instagram first offers users the ability to upload videos to the service

TODAY’S RECORD . . .
1986 [33] In Rochester NY, competitive eating champ Peter Dowdeswell sets a new record by downing 144 prunes in 32 seconds (sets another record the next morning)

BULL’S BITS

BS WHACK FACTS:
✓ Sleeping on your stomach can induce weird, scarier and sexier dreams.
✓ The average cloud weighs 1.1 million pounds.
✓ Flowers can grow faster by being exposed to music.
✓ On average, football (soccer) players run as far as 9.5 miles in a single match.
✓ NASA accidentally taped over the moon landing. There are no known original recordings of the event.
✓ A “gut feeling” is a chemical signal that your stomach creates to warn the brain of danger.
– WhattheFFacts

BS REJECTED ROCK BIOPICS:
• Keeping it Real: The Milli Vanilli Story
• How I Roll: The Rick Astley Story
• On the Road Again (and other places people found me unconscious): The Willie Nelson Story
• Weird Al Yankovic: The World Accordion to Al
• Sting: My Battle With Chinese Food Addiction: MSG in a Bottle
• The Cure: Worse Than the Symptom
• The Break of Dawn: The Downfall of Tony Orlando
• I’ll be Home By 9PM: Pat Boone…R&B Legend
• Courtney Love: Driving Miss Crazy
• A Survey of Radial Velocities in the Zodiacal Dust Cloud by Brian May (that was his actual PhD thesis!)
-Twitter

BEST OF BS . . .
BS POTENTIAL PROBLEMS WITH TAKING YOUR DOG TO WORK:
(It’s “Take Your Pet to Work Week” culminating in “Take Your Dog to Work Day” tomorrow.)
• He thinks every day is ‘Hump Day’.
• Just one more obnoxious individual slobbering over the cute receptionist.
• Constant assembly line shutdowns at your job in the hydrant factory.
• Spends all day chasing tail just like the slimy guys in sales.
• Total confusion when your Doberman finds employee washroom has 8 ‘drinking bowls’.
• The sight of your Chihuahua wearing scrubs in the Operating Room keeps your patient in stitches.
• It just adds another one to the list of those barking orders at you.
• At the end of the day, your future has a lot in common with the boss’ left leg.
– First published in “BS” 2000

BS PHONE STARTER:
If you could be anyone else for a day (famous or not), who would it be?

BS RANDOM JOKE:
A cowboy walks into a German car showroom and says, “Audi!”

BS WATER COOLER QUESTION:
Question:  20% of people say THIS is the first thing they do when their car breaks down. What is it?
Answer:  Call their Father

BS DEEP THOUGHT:
Do not call any work menial until you have watched a proud person do it.