Monday, March 12, 2018 Edition: #6174

We’ve Got Our Sheet Together!

BS SHOW BIZ BUZZ:
★ The beloved children’s show “Blue’s Clues” is returning after a 12-year hiatus. And producers are seriously considering filling the host’s spot, previously held by Steve Burns and Donovan Patton, with a woman. Why is the show returning after all these years? The plan is to connect with their old audience again, many of whom are starting to have kids of their own. As for dream celebrity guests for the revival, insiders say they wouldn’t turn down Chrissy Teigen, John Legend and their daughter, Luna.
-TMZ
(A clue!)
★ Lisa Bonet, who worked with Bill Cosby on “The Cosby Show”, has for the most part, stayed quiet when it comes to the allegations against him. But while speaking with reporters, Bonet said she had no idea of the extent of his behavior, but that he had a “type of sinister, shadow energy” which could not be concealed. She also said that had she known, “the truth would have come out a long time ago”.
-CelebrityInsider
★ Following rumors that Kristen Wiig was in talks to play the villain in the upcoming ‘Wonder Woman’ sequel, director Patty Jenkins has confirmed the news via Twitter. She wrote; “Yes! It’s true! So incredibly lucky to welcome the sensationally talented Kristen Wiig to our Wonder Woman family. Can’t wait to finally work with one of my favorites. And SO excited by what we have planned.” Wiig will play Cheetah, one of Wonder Woman’s most infamous nemeses.
-Cosmopolitan
★ Black Panther has reached a milestone that only four other Marvel Studios titles have achieved. The film, starring Chadwick Boseman as newly crowned King T’Challa, has joined the $1 billion club at the global box office — in just 26 days in theaters. The other members? The Avengers ($1.51 billion), Age of Ultron ($1.41 billion), Iron Man 3 ($1.22 billion) and Captain America: Civil War ($1 billion and counting)
-MSN, HollywoodReporter
★ Whoa! Joey Lawrence has filed for bankruptcy. Court documents, actually filed back in July, show the former “Blossom” star’s monthly expenses creating $18,000 of debt every month, after his income of $6,966, which is a significant drop from his 2015 haul of $534,000, when he starred in the hit show “Melissa & Joey”. Lawrence’s wife Chandie is unemployed. It is reported that the couple sold clothes, accessories and furniture on eBay and Buffalo Exchange ahead of the bankruptcy filing.
-ETCanada

TODAY’S SHOW BIZ SKED:
• “Jimmy Kimmel Live” (ABC/Global): Lionel Richie, Yara Shahidi, Moon Taxi
• “The Tonight Show starring Jimmy Fallon” (NBC/CTV): Alec Baldwin, Billy Crudup, Nathaniel Rateliff & the Night Sweats
• “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert” (CBS/Global): Tom Brady, Sean Bean, Emmy Blotnick
• “Late Night with Seth Meyers” (NBC/CTV): Connie Britton, Rose Leslie, Gang of Youths, Brendan Canty
• ” The Late Late Show with James Corden” (CBS/CTV): Oprah Winfrey, Reese Witherspoon, Mindy Kaling
• “Conan” (TBS/Comedy): Minnie Driver, Ron Funches
• “Watch What Happens Live” (Bravo): Tom Sandoval, Tom Schwartz
• “The View” (ABC/CTV): Sara Haines returns from maternity leave
• “The Talk” (CBS): Wanda Sykes, Guy Branum, Yetta Gibson
• “Live with Kelly and Ryan” (ABC/CTV): Peter Krause, Chris Sullivan, Brian Kelly
• “The Ellen DeGeneres Show” (NBC/CTV): Bill Hader, Auli’i Cravalho, Jon Dorenbos
• “American Idol” (ABC): The auditions continue.
• “The Voice” (NBC): The vocalists compete to be selected by one of the coaches.
• “Spring Baking Championship” (FOOD): Ten bakers celebrate the bountiful fruits and bright colors of the season by making fruity, tie-dye mini cheesecakes.

BS MUSIC NOTES:
• Bruno Mars – is reportedly ‘saddened’ by new accusations that he has been appropriating black culture. After YouTube star Sensei Aishitemasu slammed him for thriving off black culture, an insider says that Mars “credits black people with creating rock, hip-hop, funk and everything else great in America and he’s proud to be part of the American music landscape”.
• Imagine Dragons and Maroon 5 – are the first performers announced for the NCAA March Madness Festival March 30-April 1. More acts will be announced.
• Chris Brown – was called out by Vanessa Carlton for posting a clip from her hit ‘A Thousand Miles’ to his Instagram account on International Women’s Day. Shortly before setting her Instagram account to private, she wrote in part: “I support survivors not perpetrators of domestic violence. I do not want to be associated with an artist that has assaulted women on a day like today… #internationalwomensday.”
• Halsey – will be a guest judge on the upcoming season of “RuPaul’s Drag Race”. Other guest judges include Shania Twain, Courtney Love and Lena Dunham. The season premiere is March 22.
• Bachman-Turner Overdrive – At age 74, singer/bassist Fred Turner has announced his decision to retire from the road. He also recorded with Randy Bachman as Bachman and Turner. Bachman says that as for him, he plans to “keep going as long as I can”.
• Whitney Houston – “Whitney,” a documentary detailing her life and career, will make its United States debut on July 6. The film also features Houston’s music and some home video content.
• Eric Clapton – has announced a pair of shows that will reportedly be among his last for the year. He’ll play two shows at New York City’s Madison Square Garden Oct. 6 and 7. He performed only a handful of shows last year, which were part of what he called his “final tour.”
• Steppenwolf – are streaming a previously unreleased song, ‘Angel Drawers’ as they celebrate their 50th anniversary with the release of a 3-disc box set called ‘Steppenwolf at 50′.
• Jason Aldean, Thomas Rhett and Miranda Lambert – are among the first acts announced to perform at the Academy of Country Music Awards. Kelsea Ballerini, Maren Morris, Luke Bryan and Dierks Bentley will also perform. Florida Georgia Line will team with Bebe Rexha for a rendition of their crossover hit, ‘Meant to Be’. The ACMs are April 15.
• Lauren Alaina – joined Cole Swindell onstage recently for a surprise duet of  Prince’s ‘Purple Rain’. She has ACM noms for New Female Vocalist of the Year and Vocal Event of the Year for ‘What Ifs’, her duet with Kane Brown.

SUN TREK:
If you’d like to have your name among the stars, here is your chance. NASA is offering to fly you to the sun – or at least your name. From now until April 27, NASA is accepting online submissions for members of the public to have their name sent on the Parker Solar Probe all the way to the sun. A memory chip containing a list of submitted names will be inserted into the probe. Once launched this summer from Cape Canaveral, Florida, it will eventually come within 4 million miles of our star, closer than any other spacecraft. Temperatures will reach 2,500 degrees Fahrenheit, as the spacecraft zips in and out of this atmospheric hot zone, studying different aspects of the sun before it meets its flaming end. Actor William Shatner, who portrayed Capt. James Kirk in the old “Star Trek” TV series, is NASA’s pitchman for the send-your-name-to-the-sun campaign.
(2,500 degrees…if you don’t know how hot that is, think Grandma’s apartment!)
(Please don’t be the first to ask if it’s a manned flight!)
-CNN

NEWS OF THE WEIRD:
• A French couple have been banned from naming their baby girl ‘Liam’ after a judge warned she could get confused about her gender. The unnamed parents wanted to give their third child, born in November, the traditionally-male name, but French prosecutors stepped in. The baby’s mother had already been advised by the registrar to give her daughter “a more feminine” baby name. Now, the prosecutor has asked a judge to ban the parents from using the name ‘Liam’ for their daughter. The prosecutor said the name “would be likely to create a risk of gender confusion” and “therefore contrary to the interest of the child and could harm him in his social relations”.
(“His” social relations? Um, I think it’s the prosecutor who is experiencing confusion about the baby’s gender!)
-YahooStyle
• A mother in Shanghai regrets giving her iPhone to her toddler to keep him busy. The boy entered an incorrect passcode so many times that she has been locked out of her phone for…47 years. She claims that she gave the boy the phone so he could watch “educational videos”, and when she checked on him, she found that she has been denied access to her phone for…25 million minutes. Apparently the lockout time increased every time the toddler entered the wrong passcode. Her only other option is to wipe the phone and do a factory reset.
(Which in my experience, takes about the same amount of time…)
(On the plus side, she’ll probably own it outright by then!)
-WGN
• Maybe you’re one of those people who says the expiration date on food is “Just a suggestion”. Well, I’d suggest you give THIS cereal a try: A Colorado family accidentally bought a box of cereal which expired 21 years ago..and started to eat it! The Carelse family say they bought the decades-old box of Quaker 100% Natural Granola cereal at a Walmart in Littleton on March 5. When the family sat down for breakfast, they noticed out their meal was stale. Anthea only had a few bites, but while Josiah also noticed the cereal tasted funny, he didn’t check the date on the box until he finished his bowl. The family plans to return it to Walmart.
(I dare Walmart to tell them they waited too long to return it!)
-CBS, OddityCentral

WEEDLAND ONTARIO:
The Ontario government has revealed the planned name and logo of the stores that will handle sales of recreational marijuana in the province when it becomes legal later this year. The name of the stores will be — drumroll, please — Ontario Cannabis Store (sad trombone sound). And the logo: just about as exciting…the words ‘Ontario Cannabis Store’ in plain font, with a circled ‘OCS’ logo alongside. How much did the powers that be spend on ‘corporate branding’? $650,000. As you can imagine, Twitter users were underwhelmed. But at least THEY showed some imagination with their responses. Here are the best:
➢ “I feel like the circle is a bit much.”
➢ “It may look better “lit” up?”
➢ “It’s very orderly. Maybe they should have called it the Ontario Cannabis Depot … OCD”
➢ “If Ontario includes grapes, etc. in their liquor store logo, why can’t they include a leaf for the cannabis store logo?”
➢ “Maybe someone should have told them about Fiverr”
➢ “Since it is possible that a significant percentage of people going to the store may be high at the time, simplicity and clarity is probably a good thing.”
➢ “Maybe they blazed one, got distracted playing PS4 or watching Netflix, realized the deadline was in an hour and just drew a circle.”
➢ “Some products sell themselves”
(I thought this stuff was supposed to help with your creativity!)
(And not one person said anything about “rolling out” a new logo?)
-YahooFinance, Twitter

THINGS THAT ARE TURNING 50 IN 2018:
✓ Bean Bag Chairs
✓ Lava Lamps
✓ “Hot Wheels” cars
✓ Ziploc bags
✓ Calvin Klein fashions
✓ ‘The Archies’
✓ Intel
✓ “2001: A Space Odyssey”
✓ IMAX
✓ The classic Adidas soccer ball
✓ The Beatles ‘White Album’
✓ The Big Mac
– DoYouRemember

BS CHRONOMETER 03.12.18

TODAY’S CELEBIRTHDAYS . . .
1946 [72] Liza Minnelli, Hollywood CA, singer/stage & movie actress (Oscar-“Cabaret”)/youngest Tony Award winner (19)/daughter of legendary singer-actress Judy Garland

1948 [70] James Taylor, Boston MA, oldies singer (‘Fire & Rain’, ‘You’ve Got a Friend’)

1960 [58] Jason Beghe, NYC, TV actor (‘Sergeant Hank Voight’ on “Chicago PD” since 2014)

1962 [56] Darryl Strawberry, Los Angeles, CA, retired baseball right fielder (Mets, Dodgers, Yankees) 8-time All-Star, 4-time World Series champ

1968 [50] Aaron Eckhart, Cupertino CA, movie actor (“The Rum Diary”, “The Dark Knight”)

1984 [34] Jaimie Alexander, Greenville SC, movie actress (‘Sif’ in “Thor” films)/TV actress (“Kyle XY” 2007-09)

TODAY’S BS REASON TO PARTY . . .
• “World Day Against Cyber Censorship”, initiated by Reporters Without Borders and Amnesty International in 2009.

• “Alfred Hitchcock Day”, his prolific film-making career spanned half a century – from 1921 to his last film, “Family Plot”, in 1976. His unique cinematic style in the genres of psychological thrillers and suspense movies earned him the title of ‘Master of Suspense’.

• “Girl Scout Day”, celebrating the creation of the first Girl Scout group in America (originally ‘Girl Guides’) on March 12, 1912 by Juliette Gordon Low in Savannah GA, who gathered together a troop of 18 girls and taught them how to milk a cow, tie up a burglar, and the complicated art of boiling water.

• “Plant a Flower Day”, a day to get a little dirt under your fingernails. Take a few minutes and plant a petunia today (or at least blow the dust off the fake ones)

• “Workplace Napping Day”, observed annually on the Monday after we lose an hour of sleep to Daylight Saving Time. It seems setting the clock ahead an entire hour messes with our brains, causing fatigue and general airheadedness. In fact, a study found an 8% increase in traffic accidents across Canada on the day after the ‘Spring Forward’ (Might be all those people running an hour late).

COMING UP . . .
[Tues] Earmuff Day
[Tues] Good Samaritan Day
[Wed] Genius Day
[Wed] Potato Chip Day
This Week Is…Sleep Awareness Week
This Month Is…National Nutrition Month

THIS DAY IN SHOW BIZ . . .
2008 [10] An all-Beatles-song episode of FOX-TV’s “American Idol” draws 31 million viewers (them was the days)

2012 [06] The movie “Hunger Games” starring Jennifer Lawrence premieres in Los Angeles

TODAY’S MUSIC EVENTS . . .
1988 [30] Rick Astley’s ‘Never Gonna Give You Up’ hits #1 in the US. The video, which shows Astley singing his way around London, does well, but really takes off two decades later with the ‘Rickrolling’ trend, as webmasters point links to the song’s video to trick unsuspecting readers into watching it.

2007 [11] Van Halen is inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame (Eddie Van Halen misses the honor due to a stint in rehab)

TODAY’S FIRSTS . . .
1894 [124] Coca-Cola is sold in bottles for the first time (Vicksburg, Mississippi)

1948 [70] (***Caution***) 1st chapter of Hell’s Angels Motorcycle Club forms, founded by a breakaway group of the ‘Pissed Off Bastards’ (no BS!) in San Bernardino, California

TODAY’S RECORD . . .
2009 [09] Financier Bernard Madoff pleads guilty in NYC to scamming $18 billion, the largest in Wall Street history

BULL’S BITS

BS WACK FACTS:
✓ Snakes can give a venomous bite for up to an hour after they die.
✓ Humans have the same number of hair follicles as chimpanzees.
✓ The roar of a lion can be heard up to 8 kilometers (5 miles) away.
✓ Zebras are actually black, with white stripes.
✓ Koala bears aren’t bears: They’re marsupials.
✓ Research shows that dogs actually like the silly, high-pitched voice their owners use to talk to them.
-Factslides

BS WEIRD SONGS TO HEAR BACK-TO-BACK:
• Stairway to Heaven/Highway to Hell
• I Can See Clearly Now/Blinded By The Light
• We Are the Champions/Loser
• Burning Down The House/We Didn’t Start The Fire
• Let’s Get it on /U Can’t Touch This
• Raindrops Keep Falling On My Head / Umbrella
• Don’t You (Forget About Me) / Who Are You
• We Don’t Have to Take Our Clothes Off /You Can Leave Your Hat On
• Man, I Feel Like a Woman/Dude Looks Like a Lady
• I Still Haven’t Found What I’m Looking For/Whoomp! (There it is)
• Summer of 69/Like a Virgin
-Twitter

BS PHONE STARTER:
What is the proper way to apply toothpaste? Do you wet the brush before or after you apply toothpaste?

BS RANDOM JOKE:
My grief counselor was so good that when he died, I didn’t care.

BS WATER COOLER QUESTION:
Question: Scientists say this has 40 times more germs than a public restroom. What?
Answer: Elevator buttons

BS DEEP THOUGHT:
By faithfully working for eight hours a day, you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day.