Monday, June 17, 2019 – Edition: #6474
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BS SHOW BIZ BUZZ:
★ OJ Simpson is officially on Twitter … and officially super creepy. He joined the social media platform right after the 25th Anniversary of the double murder of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ron Goldman, beginning his video introduction by saying: “Hey Twitter world, this is yours truly.” He then asked people to follow his Twitter account, and warned against following imposter accounts. In what could be considered a spine-chilling threat, Simpson then smiled at the camera and said: “This should be a lot of fun. I got a little getting even to do.”
-TheBlast
★ Julia Roberts says that “Pretty Woman” could have ended in a much-different way. Roberts sat down with Patricia Arquette for Variety’s “Actors on Actors” series, and detailed how the original ending had her character thrown out of a car and left in a “dirty alley.” That’s a far cry from the romantic ending audiences ended up with.
-TheBlast
★ Coldplay frontman Chris Martin has reportedly split from Dakota Johnson. Martin told friends that he’s no longer in a relationship with Johnson, who is best-known for starring in the “Fifty Shades” movies. The high-profile duo dated for 20 months and had previously discussed tying the knot.
-ContactMusic
★ Jennifer Aniston is opening up about a secret crush all the ladies on “The Morning Show” had on one of the show’s stars. She appeared on “The Talk”, and shared that everyone’s on-set crush was none other than Steve Carell. Aniston explained that Carell is “like a silver fox now. And he just came in and no one expected…he’s so shy and fantastic. He’s just better with age, it’s amazing.” Aniston stars alongside the 56-year-old Carell in the Apple TV show about morning news shows.
-ET
★ According to reports, Cuba Gooding Junior’s alleged groping situation has taken a turn for the worse. Some news outlets are claiming the footage shows him touching a woman’s thigh as well as her breast. Over the last few years, Gooding has garnered a reputation for himself as a bit of a party boy, including one incident where he supposedly pushed a male bartender after aggressive fans approached him in an attempt to get a picture.
-CelebrityInsider
TODAY’S SHOW BIZ SKED:
• “Jimmy Kimmel Live” (ABC/Global): Christina Applegate, Anthony Jeselnik, Rob Thomas
• “The Tonight Show starring Jimmy Fallon” (NBC/CTV): Keegan-Michael Key, Horatio Sanz, Perry Farrell
• “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert” (CBS/Global): Dax Shepard, Preet Bharara, Lukas Nelson & Promise of the Real
• “Late Night with Seth Meyers” (NBC/CTV): Kevin Bacon, Cobie Smulders, Jordan Klepper, Jessica Burdeaux
• ” The Late Late Show with James Corden” (CBS/CTV): Tom Hanks, Gillian Anderson, David Blaine, Team U.S.A. vs. Team U.K. Dodgeball with Michelle Obama
• “Conan” (TBS): Patton Oswalt (R)
• “Watch What Happens Live” (Bravo): Hannah Ferrier, Anastasia Surmava
• “The View” (ABC/CTV): Eva Longoria, Roselyn Sánchez
• “The Talk” (CBS): Bonnie Hunt
• “Live with Kelly and Ryan” (ABC/CTV): Naomi Watts, John Leguizamo, guest co-host Anderson Cooper
• “The Ellen DeGeneres Show” (NBC/CTV): A few of the most talented kids from Season 16
• “Penn & Teller: Fool Us” (CW): Season 6 premiere. Aspiring magicians perform their best trick to try to fool Penn & Teller, who will get to see the trick only once and have to immediately try to work it out.
• “Whose Line Is It Anyway?” (CW): Season 15 premiere
• “Grand Hotel” (ABC): Series premiere. A drama about the last family-owned hotel in
multicultural Miami Beach.
• “2019 MTV Movie & TV Awards” (MTV): See who takes home the golden popcorn in categories like Best Hero, Best Kiss and Most Meme-able Moment. Hosted by Shazam! star Zachary Levi.
BS MUSIC NOTES:
• Taylor Swift — brought down the house on Friday by giving a surprise performance during a Pride Event at the iconic Stonewall Inn in New York City. During her intimate performance, Swift debuted her new song, ‘You Need to Calm Down’. The event which was co-hosted by “Modern Family” star Jesse Tyler Ferguson, who joined Swift in a rendition of ‘Shake it Off’.
• Drake — As promised, he dropped two new songs on Saturday to celebrate the Toronto Raptors’ NBA championship win: ‘Omertà’ and ‘Money in the Grave’ (featuring Rick Ross). Neither songs mention the basketball final, although the artwork does feature the Larry O’Brien trophy.
• Madonna – says her children’s lives would be “less challenging” if she wasn’t their mother. She made the remarks during an appearance on The Graham Norton Show which is set to air on Friday, and claimed her kids sometimes wish they didn’t have such a famous parent. Despite her busy schedule, she says she always makes time for her family.
• The Beatles – Their first contract with Brian Epstein is expected to sell for around US$380,000 when it goes up for auction next month. It was signed on Jan. 24, 1962, 14 months before they released their debut album, “Please Please Me”. The document is signed by Paul McCartney, John Lennon, George Harrison, and original drummer Pete Best.
• The Who – Singer Roger Daltrey told fans during a Q&A that “I think we’ve made our best album since Quadrophenia”, referring to the group’s classic 1983 concept album. The as-yet untitled LP will be the band’s first new studio material since 2006.
• Slash – says he would be an animator or illustrator if he wasn’t a rock star. He says that he has always had a passion for art and he thinks he would be in a ”creative” job if he weren’t in a band: “My family are all artists, so it would definitely be something in the art realm.”
• Sam Hunt — Is only playing four shows this year, and one of them was at Country Jam in Grand Junction, Colo., on Friday. He says the point of taking 2019 off was to have time to write and record new music. He says the songs he’s working on have a singer-songwriter vibe to them, and he plans to start recording this week.
• Granger Smith– His team has created t-shirts for fans to purchase to honor his 3-year-old son River, who died in hospital following a drowning accident. The fundraiser gives back to Dell Children’s Medical Center in Texas, where River received treatment on June 6 following the accident. The red shirt (River’s favorite color) also features one of his favorite things, an excavator.
WHEN NATURE CALLS:
How much time do you spend outdoors in an average week? And I don’t mean walking across a concrete parking lot, I mean REALLY outdoors…like in a park or near the water or in a forest? A study from the University of Exeter Medical School says that spending two hours a week outside in nature can make you feel better about your health and well-being. They asked 20,000 people about how much time they spent in a natural environment over the previous week. What they found was that those who reported spending more than two hours in nature were more likely to report high levels of health and well-being. Those who spent less than 120 minutes in nature were no more likely to report good health and well being than those who reported zero minutes.
(OK….help me move this couch outside!)
(The only time I’ve ever spent two hours in the woods was when I lost my last golf ball!)
(Ask them again about their well being after being outside in January!)
-ABC
LAUNDRY DAY: FAR AWAY
Less laundry. Does that sound good to you? That’s the mission statement of a number of start-ups which are designing clothes that require laundering less often. A lot less often. Through the selection of materials that are more resistant to odor and dirt, they feel they will be able to re-educate the consumer about how much laundering is necessary, and provide environmental benefits at the same time. A company called Pangaia has created a “seaweed fiber” T-shirt that is treated with peppermint oil to keep it fresher between washes. (Just $85). You can apparently wear it for weeks before throwing it in the laundry. They also have a dress that can be worn for 100 days straight without washing. Or so they say. Washing machines account for 17 per cent of the average household’s water usage, and these companies say their garments could save 3,000 litres of water over their lifetime. And clothing that you rarely need to wash is very handy to travel with as well. Not convinced yet these are for you? Maybe you’d like to try the $42 boxer briefs, designed to be washed “infrequently”.
(A T-shirt that can be worn for weeks without smelling? Challenge accepted!)
(OK, but this is going to make a lot of college kids look pretty funny, coming home on the weekend with a laundry bag full of nothing!)
(And once again (***Co-Host***) is a trendsetter!)
-FastCompany
THINGS YOU MIGHT THINK ARE THE SAME – BUT AREN’T:
➠ Poisonous and Venomous: “Venomous” applies to animals that bite or sting, injecting toxins. Anything that’s “poisonous” unloads toxins when you eat it. (So, a snake isn’t poisonous unless I’m eating it?)
➠ Robbery and Burglary: A “robbery” is a person-to-person interaction and theft with, “force, intimidation, or coercion.” “Burglary,” however, only requires intent to steal, it doesn’t require a personal interaction. (No personal interaction? So, the government is “burgling” me blind at tax time?)
➠ Whole wheat and whole grain: Wheat is a type of grain. A food is “whole grain” if it uses the entire grain kernel. (So, if it is whole wheat, it is whole grain, but not all whole grain products are whole wheat? Got it.)
➠ Direct and Non-stop flights: “Non-stop” flights go from the first destination to the last. A “direct” flight is an older term from days when flights made stops at airports along the route, sometimes to refuel and sometimes without making passengers leave the plane. These are rare now thanks to more fuel-efficient jets.
➠ All-wheel and Four-wheel drive: Vehicles with 4WD are usually trucks or SUVs meant for off-road driving. They send power to all four wheels equally. AWD is all about varying the amount of power to each wheel when a loss of traction is detected.
➠ Cement and Concrete: Cement is the binding ingredient in concrete. Concrete also has air, water, and a mix or combination of “aggregate” including sand, gravel, or crushed stone.
➠ Grocery stores and Supermarkets: The difference is basically size and selection. “Supermarkets” usually have a wider assortment of products beyond food, but “grocery stores” stock a handful of household items at most.
➠ Streets, Roads and Avenues: Roads are typically throughways connecting two points, but streets are public roads with buildings on both sides. So, while “streets” are “roads,” “roads” aren’t “streets.” Then there are “avenues” which run the opposite way of roads, either north-south or east-west, depending on where you live. (Great. Now could you explain “boulevard”? And how to spell it?)
-Reader’sDigest
DID YOU KNOW?
A University of British Columbia study found that tilting your head down and lowering your chin by just 10 degrees makes you appear more dominant. The effect is achieved by the “artificial appearance of lowered and V-shaped eyebrows” which “elicit perceptions of aggression, intimidation and dominance.”
(It doesn’t make me look dominant…it makes me look like I have turkey-neck!)
-CTV
BS CHRONOMETER 06.17.19
TODAY’S CELEBIRTHDAYS . . .
1943 [76] Barry Manilow, Brooklyn, NY, singer (‘Mandy’, ‘Copacabana’, ‘I Write the Songs’)
1963 [56] Greg Kinnear, Logansport IN, movie actor (“Anchorman: The Legend Continues”, “Little Miss Sunshine”)
1970 [49] Will Forte, Alameda CA, TV actor (“The Last Man on Earth” 2015-18, “Saturday Night Live” 2002-12)
1980 [39] Venus Williams, Lynwood CA, former #1-ranked women’s tennis player with fastest recorded serve in WTA history (127 mph)/older sister of tennis star Serena Williams
1982 [37] Jodie Whittaker, Huddersfield England, TV actress (“Dr. Who” since 2017)
1987 [32] Kendrick Lamar, Compton CA, rapper-songwriter (f/The Wknd –‘Pray for Me’, ‘Humble’)
1997 [22] KJ Apa, New Zealand, TV actor (“Archie Andrews” on ‘Riverdale” since 2017)
TODAY’S BS REASONS TO PARTY . . .
• “Eat Your Vegetables Day”, an observance likely begun by somebody’s mommy somewhere.
• “World Day to Combat Desertification & Drought”, observed every year to promote public awareness of international efforts to combat.
• “Apple Strudel Day”, the oldest known recipe for apple strudel (Apfelstrudel) is from Austria. It was handwritten in 1696.
• “Garbage Man Day”, men and women of the waste management industry are hard at work collecting, processing, filtering, and recycling over 250 million tons of garbage to keep our environment safe and clean. (Aren’t these guys and girls now known as “Sanitation Engineers”?)
• “Ride to Work on Your Motorcycle Day”, the 28th annual event initiated by the Ride to Work Organization to advocate and support the use of motorcycles and scooters for transportation.
NET: http://www.ridetowork.org
COMING UP . . .
[Tues] Picnic Day
[Tues] Go Fishing Day
[Wed] Garfield the Cat Day
[Wed] Eat an Oreo Day
This Week Is…National Play Catch Week
This Month Is…National Iced Tea Month
TODAY IN SHOWBIZ . . .
2018 [01] “The Incredibles 2” sets a box office record for an animated release, earning $180 million its opening weekend
TODAY’S MUSIC EVENTS . . .
2005 [14] Coldplay’s “X&Y” album achieves #1 status in 22 countries worldwide
2008 [11] Katy Perry’s major-label debut album, “One of the Boys”, is released, featuring the hit single ‘I Kissed a Girl’. It’s not her first album — in 2001 she released a gospel album under her real name, Katy Hudson.
TODAY’S FIRST . . .
2011 [08] 1st condemnation of discrimination against gays, lesbians, and transgender people is issued by the United Nations Human Rights Council
TODAY’S CHASE . . .
1994 [25] O.J. Simpson doesn’t turn himself in on murder charges, and LA cops chase his Ford Bronco for 1½ hours. He eventually gives up (seen live on TV)
BULL’S BITS
BS WHACK FACTS:
✓ The winner of the first modern Olympic Marathon stopped at a tavern mid-race for a glass of wine.
✓ During the Cold War, President Ronald Reagan and Soviet Premier Mikhail Gorbachev agreed to set aside their differences if the world was ever invaded by aliens.
✓ Shopping releases endorphins that temporarily reduce stress, boost self-esteem, and moderate pain.
✓ Studies show that drinking alcohol with meals can help prevent food poisoning if the drink is more than 10% alcohol.
✓ A microwave uses more electricity to power its clock than it does to heat your food.
✓ All Bran is only 87% bran.
-WhattheFFacts
BS POOR CAR CLEANING TIPS:
• For an excellent finish, park under a Maple tree.
• Cover any soiled areas inside with some of those fast food wrappers under the seat.
• You know that guy who stands at the corner with a squeegee? He’ll do your whole car if you stay for an extra red light.
• Drive under Niagara Falls for a quick and easy rinse.
• Leave it unlocked with the windows down and someone else will clean it out for you.
• Instead of “wax on, wax off”, skip steps one and two.
• Sand paper makes a handy scouring pad to get rid of bird droppings.
• Stop making car payments and it will soon become someone else’s job to clean it.
• Just hang a minty air freshener and be done with it.
• Put kids in it.
-Twitter
Best of BS . . .
YOU KNOW YOU’RE IN TROUBLE WHEN:
• You get a note from your boss saying “We need to talk” …. written on your rolling papers.
• There’s a sign saying “Back in 10 Minutes” … on the airport control tower.
• The company pays your wages out of petty cash.
• You tell the barber what you think about his prices before you get your haircut.
• A black cat crosses your path and drops dead.
• You take an assertiveness training course and you’re afraid to tell your wife.
• Your pacemaker only comes with a 30-day guarantee.
• The candles on your birthday cake set off the smoke alarm.
• The pest exterminator crawls under your house … and never comes out.
• Mom calls you by your full name.
-First published in ‘BS’ in 2015
BS RANDOM JOKE:
A little birdie told me I should see a shrink, which made sense since animals shouldn’t be talking at all.
BS PHONE STARTER:
If you could only eat one thing for the rest of your life, what would it be?
BS WATER COOLER QUESTION:
Question: 85% of married couples say doing this daily activity together improves their relationship. What is it?
Answer: Cooking
BS DEEP THOUGHT:
It is an equal failing to trust everybody, and to trust nobody.
