Tuesday, June 18, 2019 Edition: #6475
Ah, the Sweet Smell of BS!
BS SHOW BIZ BUZZ:
★ Stars including Justin Timberlake, Halle Berry, Charlize Theron, Laverne Cox and LL Cool J are buying out entire theaters for screenings of “Emanuel,” a documentary produced by Viola Davis and Stephen Curry about the Dylann Roof shootings. It tells the story of June 17, 2015, when 21-year-old Roof, walked into Bible study at Emanuel A.M.E. Church in Charleston, SC, and murdered nine African-Americans during their closing prayer. The celebs are purchasing all the seats for nine screenings around the U.S. today and Wednesday, then handing them out to “local organizations and communities,” including churches. Celebs are taking part in the buyouts because they feel it’s an important film, and that as many people as possible should see the flick.
-PageSix
★ Tiffany Haddish is the first celebrity to cancel an appearance in the state of Georgia over their recently adopted, and controversial, new abortion law. Haddish was scheduled to appear at the Fox Theatre in Atlanta on June 22. She released a statement on Saturday saying, “After much deliberation, I am postponing my upcoming show in Atlanta. I love the state of Georgia, but I need to stand with women and until they withdraw Measure HB481, I cannot in good faith perform there.” While many celebrities and production studios have talked about canceling work in the state, Haddish is the first performer to cancel a live show because of the law.
-TheBlast
★ Jimmy Kimmel hosted the grand opening of his comedy club at Las Vegas’ Linq Promenade Friday night. In doing so, he told the crowd: “It’s so exciting to be doing this…Our goal is just to get the funniest people possible, new comedians, veteran comedians, and bring them together here.” Invited guests were treated to a surprise lineup at “Jimmy Kimmel’s Comedy Club” that included Sarah Silverman, Chris Tucker, Pete Holmes and Kimmel’s sister Jill. Long-time warm-up guy Don Barris opened the show and Gina Brillon closed it.
-MSN
★ Daniel Craig is on the mend and expected to return to filming “Bond 25” this week. On Saturday, the official 007 Instagram page posted a picture of Craig working out at a gym. He was wearing an ankle brace as his left leg heals following the accident on set in May which required him to undergo ankle surgery.
-MSN
★ Jennifer Aniston will forever rue the day she snubbed Christopher Reeve because at the time, she had no idea who he was. Aniston appeared on “The Talk” and explained how she grew up around a number of famous faces because her acting parents hosted celebrity dinner parties at their family home. As she puts it: “My mum would constantly try to get me to go back to bed… and then finally one night she had Christopher Reeve… read me a bedtime story. (I) fell sound asleep – (he) didn’t impress me one lick!” It was only when the “Superman” movie was released that the young Aniston realized she had missed her chance to share a few moments with the movie superhero.
-MSN
TODAY’S SHOW BIZ SKED:
• “Jimmy Kimmel Live” (ABC/Global): Joel McHale, Betty Gilpin, Santana
• “The Tonight Show starring Jimmy Fallon” (NBC/CTV): Willie Nelson, Adam Devine
• “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert” (CBS/Global): Chris Matthews, Jessie Buckley
• “Late Night with Seth Meyers” (NBC/CTV): Eva Longoria, Jacki Weaver, Michael Torpey, Jessica Burdeaux
• “The Late Late Show with James Corden” (CBS/CTV): Lily James, Millie Bobby Brown, Little Mix
• “Conan” (TBS): Sean Penn (R)
• “Watch What Happens Live” (Bravo): Celeste Barber, Lisa Rinna
• “The View” (ABC/CTV): Willie Nelson, Dax Shepard
• “The Talk” (CBS): Rocky Carroll
• “Live with Kelly and Ryan” (ABC/CTV): Shania Twain, Cat Deeley, guest co-host Anderson Cooper
• “The Ellen DeGeneres Show” (NBC/CTV): Season 16’s most inspiring stories
• “The Detour” (TBS): Season 4 premiere
• “Wig” (HBO): A showcase of the 1980s origins of Wigstock, the historic festival that signaled the end of summer for New York City’s gay community.
BS MUSIC NOTES:
• Lorde – Sunday marked the second anniversary of her sophomore album, “Melodrama”, and to mark the occasion, she shared a message to her Instagram story, thanking fans for how they “Took that record and made it your own.” She also revealed that her third album is “in the oven.”
• Kid Cudi — has been cast in the next “Bill & Ted” movie. He’ll star alongside Keanu Reeves and Alex Winter in the much-anticipated threequel, which is slated for release in 2020. His role has not yet been revealed.
• Spice Girls — Geri Horner apologized on stage for leaving the group in 1998 at the height of their fame. During the final date of the group’s reunion tour on Saturday at London’s Wembley Stadium. Horner said: “I need to say something I should have said a long time ago. “I’m sorry. I’m sorry I left. I was just being a brat. It is so good to be back with the girls that I love.”
• Beastie Boys – They marked the 15th anniversary of their “To the 5 Boroughs” album by releasing a dozen of the LP’s B-sides, remixes and more to digital services for the first time.
• Chris Cornell – His widow and ex-wife are fighting in court over the late singer’s US$20 million estate. While widow Vicky Cornell and the Cornell Family Trust are listed the sole beneficiaries, the singer’s first wife, Susan Silver, and their daughter Lillian are headed to court demanding they also get a cut.
• Santana — Carlos Santana says that friends have warned him of committing “career suicide” on a number of occasions because of the way his music has changed style and form over the years. He says that while it sometimes led to difficulties with securing mainstream attention, it was a valuable approach to making music that remained important to him. He released the new album “Africa Speaks” on June 7.
• Cheap Trick – have shared their new cover of the Nilsson classic ‘Ambush’ from the forthcoming tribute album “This Is The Town: A Tribute to Nilsson (Volume 2).” It will hit stores on June 21st.
• Maren Morris — After teasing a Playboy collaboration on her socials in April, she posted a few semi-revealing pics from the shoot last week, indicating that “something with Playboy is coming (this) week.”
• Luke Combs — was surprised by John Conlee, Chris Janson and Craig Morgan with an invitation to join the Grand Old Opry during his set last Tuesday. The trio of Opry members joined Combs onstage to extend the invitation after he sang his recent No. 1 hit, ‘She Got the Best of Me.’
• Trisha Yearwood — Fresh off of releasing her new single, ‘Every Girl in This Town’, she has announced she will hit the road for her first solo tour in five years with the “Every Girl On Tour.” A planned 23 dates begin Oct 3 with a three-night run in Nashville with the Nashville Symphony.
THIS WEEK’S VIDEO RELEASES:
• “The Beach Bum” (R-Rated, Comedy): Moondog is a stoner who has a penchant for living life by his own rules. The hilarious hijinks of Moondog and his sketchy circle of friends soon gives way to a character study that explores his reason for being. (Matthew McConaughey, Snoop Dogg, Isla Fisher)
• “Under the Silver Lake” (R-Rated, Comedy/Drama): A disenchanted young man finds a mysterious woman swimming in his apartment’s pool one night. The next morning, she disappears. Sam sets off across LA to find her, and along the way he uncovers a conspiracy far more bizarre. (Andrew Garfield, Riley Keough, Topher Grace)
• “Slaughterhouse Rulez” (Not Rated, Comedy/Horror): An illustrious British boarding school becomes a bloody battleground when a mysterious sinkhole appears at a nearby fracking site, unleashing unspeakable horror. (Michael Sheen, Margot Robbie, Simon Pegg)
• “Crypto” (R-Rated, Drama): Demoted back to his hometown, a young Wall Street banker is drawn into investigating a tangled web of corruption and fraud in Upstate New York. (Cat Alter, Alexis Bledel)
TAKE A “PASTA” ON DA SMALL PIZZA:
It has to be the most commonly-asked question when preparing to order pizza: “Should we get the large?” The people at Groupon wondered the same thing, so they ran the numbers. They looked at data from six major U.S. pizza chains and found that when it comes to value for your buck, a large pizza was found to be a better value by far than a small. They discovered that a 16-inch pizza is actually 2½ times more food than a 10-inch pizza. Pricewise, instead of spending an average of $19.23 on a large, you’d end up spending $32.76 on small pizzas to get the same amount of food. Among their other findings: Two-to-three slices of a 14-inch (medium) pizza costs about $5. But the same serving size from a small costs about $8. Groupon’s advice? “You should “never, ever buy the small pizza.”
(Unless you’re on a diet!)
(On the other hand, if you have leftovers, a small pizza box is easier to fit in your fridge!)
(If you’re getting anchovies…order the small!)
-TorontoStar
WEED BETTER GET TO THE GYM:
Dope smokers are often thought of as being the “couch potato” type. As a result, marijuana is not often mentioned in the same breath as words like “exercise” and “physical activity.” But now, a study that surveyed marijuana users in U.S. states where it is legal has found that more than 80 percent of participants take the drug shortly before or after exercise. And – surprise! — many of the participants reported that cannabis actually motivated them to work out, helped them to enjoy exercise more and/or improved their recovery. Interestingly, the researchers found that week-smoking exercisers worked out for about 43 minutes more per week on average than non smokers.
(Boosted their motivation? That must be some pretty strong stuff!)
(That explains a lot of those “treadmill fail” videos I’ve seen on YouTube!)
(Maybe they were just motivated to THINK about working out…)
-Newsweek
DID YOU KNOW?
Humans have started growing spikes on the backs of their necks as a result of smartphone use, according to David Shahar, a health scientist at the University of The Sunshine Coast, Australia. The phenomenon involves what is known as an “external occipital protuberance”: a growth which appears on the back of the skull, just above the neck. A study found that 41% of 18-to30-year-olds had the lump, with 10 percent having a spike at least 20mm long. Shahar wrote that their findings could be explained by the rise in the use of hand‐held technologies, and said ways to prevent and treat the growths should be considered.
-Newsweek
BS CHRONOMETER 06.18.19
TODAY’S CELEBIRTHDAYS . . .
1942 [77] (Sir) Paul McCartney, Liverpool UK, rock billionaire (Wings-‘Band on the Run’, The Beatles-‘Hey Jude’)/Rock & Roll Hall of Fame (1999)
1952 [67] Isabella Rossellini, Rome Italy, movie actress (“Death Becomes Her, “Blue Velvet”)/daughter of Ingrid Bergman
1965 [54] Kim Dickens, Huntsville AL, TV actress (‘Madison’ on “Fear the Walking Dead” 2015-18/ movie actress (“Gone Girl”, “Thank You for Smoking”)
1971 [48] Nathan Morris, Philadelphia PA, oldies singer (Boyz II Men-‘I’ll Make Love to You’, ‘End Of the Road’)
1976 [43] Blake Shelton, Ada OK, country singer (‘Boys ’Round Here’, ‘Sure Be Cool If You Did’)/TV personality (“The Voice” since 2011)
1980 [39] David Giuntoli, Milwaukee WI, TV actor (‘Nick Burkhardt’ on “Grimm” 2011-17)
1981 [38] Scooter Braun (Scott), New York City NY, entrepreneur (talent manager who represents musical acts such as Justin Bieber, Ariana Grande and Carly Rae Jepsen)
1986 [33] Richard Madden, Elderslie Scotland, TV actor (‘Robb Stark’ on “Game of Thrones” 2011-16, “The Bodyguard” since 2018
1990 [29] Jacob Anderson, Bristol UK, TV actor (‘Grey Worm’ on “Game of Thrones” 2013-19)
TODAY’S BS REASONS TO PARTY . . .
• “Autistic Pride Day”, an annual celebration of the ‘neuro-diversity’ of people on the autism spectrum that’s designed to shift views of autism from ‘disease’ to ‘difference’.
• “Go Fishing Day” which, if you can pull it off, would allow you to post a sign on your door saying ‘Gone Fishing’. Work, after all, is for people who don’t know how to fish.
• “International Picnic Day”, It’s a pseudo-holiday for humans but a regular working day for ants.
• “International Sushi Day”, the 11th annual observance conceived originally as a Facebook page. If you’re looking for an excuse to eat raw fish, this seems as good a day as any.
NET: http://bit.ly/10Xizp
• “Splurge Day”, when we’re encouraged to go out and do something indulgent. If funds or guilt were no problem, what would you blow bucks on? $40-a-lb Comté cheese … mmm!
• “Panic Day”, when you’re encouraged to run around all day telling people you just can’t handle it anymore. In other words … just a regular day.
AND REMEMBER . . .
[Wed] Garfield the Cat Day
[Wed] National Martini Day
[Thurs] American Eagle Day
[Thurs] Ice Cream Soda Day
[Fri] Summer arrives in the Northern Hemisphere
TODAY’S MUSIC EVENTS . . .
2009 [10] Jammie Thomas-Rasset, a 32-year-old woman from Minnesota, is found guilty of illegal sharing of music files via the Internet and is ordered to pay $1.92 million, $80,000 per song
2011 [08] Clarence Clemons, saxophone player in Bruce Springsteen’s E Street Band, dies at age 69 after suffering a stroke. He is eventually replaced in the band by his nephew, Jake Clemons
2018 [01] Rapper XXXTentacion [Jahseh Dwayne Onfroy] dies after being shot during a robbery
TODAY’S FIRSTS . . .
1905 [114] The wooden chair that’s become a symbol of Summer, the ‘Adirondack Chair’, is patented by Harry Bunnell of Westport NY (in Canada, it’s known as the ‘Muskoka Chair’)
2014 [05] Internet retailer Amazon.com releases its own smartphone, ‘Fire’
TODAY’S RECORDS . . .
2000 [19] Tiger Woods wins the US Open Golf Championship by a record 15 strokes
2012 [07] ‘World’s Fastest Supercomputer’, Sequoia, is installed at US Department of Energy
2013 [06] The biggest version of Boeing’s Dreamliner plane, the 787-10, debuts at the Paris Air Show in France
BULL’S BITS
BS WHACK FACTS:
✓ Squirrels can climb trees faster than they can run on the ground.
✓ A bumblebee beats its wings about 160 times per second.
✓ An iguana can hold its breath for 28 minutes.
✓ A pig always sleeps on its side.
✓ Sharks are the only fish that can blink with both eyes.
✓ The oldest-known goldfish lived to 41 years of age. Its name was Fred.
-TotallyAwesomeUselessInformation
BS RANDOM THOUGHTS IN AN ELEVATOR:
• “Please don’t talk to me. Please don’t talk to me. Please don’t talk to me. Especially about the weather.”
• “When I get off, I’m totally gonna hit every button…”
• “Don’t tuck the label back into her collar. Don’t tuck the label back into her collar…”
• “Why did she push the button that I already pushed? Does she think it’s now MORE pushed?”
• “Do superstitious people who live on the 14th floor realize it’s actually the 13th floor?”
• “Maybe THIS time people will appreciate it when I say ‘Abracadabra’ just before the doors open.”
• “Please let Aerosmith use a different one…”
• “We should start a Fight Club right now.”
• “I shouldn’t have had Chipotle for lunch…”
• “This is wrong on so many levels.”
-Twitter
Best of BS . . .
BS LESSER KNOWN SUNBURN TREATMENTS:
• Rubbing alcohol
• Guacamole, because everything’s better with guac on it
• More cowbell
• Steel wool and vinegar
• Deny, deny, deny
• Rub a jellyfish on affected area then pee on it
• Frank’s RedHot Sauce. “Cause I put that [STUFF] on everything”
• Fight fire with fire. Stay out in the sun.
• 3 Long Island Iced Teas and you’ll forget all about that crap
• Thoughts and prayers
-Twitter, first published in ‘BS’ in 2018
BS PHONE STARTER:
What famous singer, to you, is not a good singer at all?
BS RANDOM JOKE:
No man has ever won a game of “Notice anything different about me?”
BS WATER COOLER QUESTION:
Question: Men who have THIS are better at attracting women than men who don’t. What is it?
Answer: A deep voice
BS DEEP THOUGHT:
A person should design the way he makes a living around how he wishes to make a life.
