Monday, May 17, 2021 — Edition: #6988

The BS Press!

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BS SHOW BIZ BUZZ:
★ “Tiger King” star Joe Exotic has revealed that he is battling prostate cancer. Although still in prison, he has gone to Twitter to update fans on his condition. In a post, he wrote “My body is tired, I have lost a tremendous amount of weight, the mouth sores are out of control, I throw up more than I eat.” He says the prison has approved testing to verify what stage it is in. Exotic then went on to discuss his ongoing battle with trying to get pardoned.
-InsideEdition
★ Tawny Kitaen was just about to launch her career as an online talk show host when she died earlier this month. The model, actress and video vixen passed away on May 7, just 10 days after a Manic-TV appearance, which served as the pilot for her new show “Tawny’s Tales”. Manic was confident Kitaen’s weekly show would be a huge hit and lure viewers to its YouTube channel, and hoped that one of her guests would be ex-husband and Whitesnake singer David Coverdale, whose 1980s videos for the hits ‘Here I Go Again’ and ‘Is This Love’ featured Kitaen in a starring role.
-Canoe
★ Robert De Niro’s injury won’t affect production on “Killers of the Flower Moon”. He hurt his leg at his home in Oklahoma – where he is living while filming Martin Scorsese’s upcoming thriller alongside Leonardo Dicaprio – and has travelled to New York for treatment. Fortunately, De Niro isn’t due back on set for three weeks, so the incident will not delay production. According to his representative, the 77-year-old De Niro injured his quadriceps muscle.
-ContactMusic
★ Last week, it was announced that “The Ellen DeGeneres Show” would be ending after the upcoming nineteenth season, which will wrap in 2022. Of course, there has already been some discussion over who will be taking host Ellen’s place as the queen of daytime television. According to Page Six, Tiffany Haddish is the “favorite” to take over for DeGeneres with a talk show of her own. Other sources have placed Kelly Clarkson as the frontrunner.
-PopCulture

TODAY’S SHOW BIZ SKED:
• “Jimmy Kimmel Live” (ABC/Global): Shaquille O’Neal, Patton Oswalt, Chase Rice
• “The Tonight Show starring Jimmy Fallon” (NBC/CTV): Pink, Eric Bana, Natti Natasha & Becky G
• “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert” (CBS/Global): Cindy McCain, Mj Rodriguez
• “Late Night with Seth Meyers” (NBC/CTV): Julianna Margulies, Josh Duhamel, Alaina Castillo, Brian Frasier-Moore
• ” The Late Late Show with James Corden” (CBS/CTV): Barack Obama, Kelly Rowland
• “Conan” (TBS): Timothy Olyphant
• “Watch What Happens Live” (Bravo): Billy Crystal
• “The View” (ABC/CTV): Day of Hot Topics
• “The Talk” (CBS): Milo Ventimiglia, Denise Richards, guest co-hosts Jerry O’Connell & David Begnaud
• “Live with Kelly and Ryan” (ABC/CTV): Scott Foley
• “The Ellen DeGeneres Show” (NBC/CTV): Daymond John, Brené Brown
• “The Kelly Clarkson Show” (CHECK LOCAL LISTINGS): Blake Shelton, John Legend, Nick Jonas
• “The Drew Barrymore Show” (CHECK LOCAL LISTINGS): Dylan Farrow, Katherine Schwarzenegger Pratt, Pilar Valdes, Sahra Nguyen
• “The Neighborhood” (CBS): Season 3 finale
• “Bob Hearts Abishola” (CBS): Season 2 finale
• “The Voice” (NBC): The top 9 perform for their chance at a spot in the finale.
• “Movie & TV Awards: Unscripted” (MTV): Nikki Glaser hosts MTV’s first awards show honoring the biggest moments in unscripted television.
• “NHL Playoffs” (CHECK LOCAL LISTINGS): Boston @ Washington, Nashville @ Carolina, St. Louis @ Colorado

BS MUSIC NOTES:
• Lollapalooza – The city of Chicago has given the green light for the festival this summer. The 4-day event, planned for Grant Park July 29-Aug. 1, will be the first major festival to be held in the U.S. since the fall of 2019. Reportedly, organizers have the go-ahead for the event to happen at near-to or full-capacity. An official announcement is expected this week.
• Nicki Minaj – is obsessed with “The Crown”. The unlikely superfan posted an open letter on her website, saying she has “watched every single episode of every single season at least 5 times each.”
• Twenty One Pilots — will perform their current single ‘Shy Away’ at the 2021 Billboard Music Awards this Sunday. The song, from the duo’s upcoming album “Scaled and Icy”, was released April 7, and quickly became their 8th #1 hit on Billboard’s Alternative Airplay chart.
• Janet Jackson — The military style jacket she wore during her 1990 “Rhythm Nation” tour sold for $81,250 at a Beverly Hills auction on Friday, more than 20 times its pre-sale estimate. The jacket, with metal hardware, was one of the highlights of a 3-day sale of her stage costumes and memorabilia.
• The Tragically Hip – will reunite at the Juno Awards, with singer Feist on vocals. The group will perform on TV for the first time since the 2017 death of frontman Gord Downie. The Hip will also receive the Humanitarian Award at the June 6 ceremony, from Rush members Geddy Lee and Alex Lifeson, who also lost a bandmate to brain cancer, drummer Neil Peart.
• Mötley Crüe – Their planned stadium tour with Poison, Joan Jett and Def Leppard has been postponed, again. The 4 legendary acts were originally due to kick off a run of stadium shows in summer 2020 but were forced to move all dates to 2021 because of the pandemic. Late last week, it was announced the tour has been pushed back again, to 2022.
• Bruce Springsteen – his 21st studio album is “coming out soon” and it will see his focus return to the American West. He made the reveal while speaking virtually at a ceremony where he was presented with the Woody Guthrie Prize, for exemplifying “Guthrie’s spirit and work by speaking for the less fortunate.”
• Maren Morris & Miranda Lambert – lead the list of nominees for the CMT Music Awards, with 4 nods each. Hosts Kane Brown and Kelsea Ballerini, along with Little Big Town and Mickey Guyton all have 3. The CMT Awards take place on June 9.
• Luke Bryan – is one of several acts, along with Carrie Underwood, Céline Dion and Katy Perry, with a residency booked at Resorts World Las Vegas, which will open this summer. His first engagement will consist of 6 shows beginning Feb. 11, 2022. The 5,000-seat concert space there features the largest performance stage in Vegas, and Bryan says “it’s going to be fun” dreaming up a unique show experience.
• Garth Brooks – Trisha Yearwood, his wife of 15 years says the one thing that surprised her most about him was that he really is that nice. Quote: “For a long time I really thought, ‘Nobody’s this nice.’ The other shoe’s gotta drop, you know? And I’m not saying he’s perfect, but he’s pretty dang close!”

SHOOTING THE BULL 

A NOVEL NOVEL CORONAVIRUS VACCINE:
An experimental ‘universal vaccine’ could offer protection against Covid variants, as well as other coronaviruses—and maybe even the ones responsible for the common cold. And it can be made on the cheap. In animal studies, the COVID vaccine protected pigs against 2 separate diseases caused by different types of coronavirus, one of which was COVID-19, according to results published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. These results represent a “great opportunity to develop universal coronavirus vaccines,” according to Dr. Amesh Adalja, a senior scholar at the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security. The experimental vaccine is based on genetically modified bacteria, which can be mass-produced at a fraction of the cost of currently approved COVID-19 vaccines. For example, the Moderna Covid-19 vaccine now in use costs about $10 a dose, a price that can be prohibitive in developing countries. But bacteria-based vaccines for cholera and pertussis can be brewed for less than $1 a dose.
(Well, it sounds like it’s worth a shot!)
(I don’t want to sound like a snob, but when it comes to getting a vaccine, I don’t necessarily WANT the cheapest one!)
(The only problem with a bacteria-based vaccine: Side effects include yeast infections…)
-MedicalXpress

POSITIONS IN BED:
One worry during the pandemic for many has been getting enough sleep. Here’s something else to worry about, especially if you ARE getting enough sleep – If you sleep on your stomach, it’s aging you prematurely. Dermatologist Dr. Bruce Robinson says stomach sleepers (and to an extent, side-sleepers) create a friction between the face and the pillow that can add years to your face in the form of wrinkles. Stomach sleepers in particular also tend to develop more forehead lines. Side sleepers may be more prone to deeper wrinkles or creases on the sides of their faces, and creases on the cheeks and chin. That pretty much only leaves the sleeping on the back as an alternative, and the doctor says doing so not only lets you avoid that skin friction, but also keeps bacteria on the pillow from coming in contact with your face. But if you do, be sure to slightly elevate your head, or fluid will gather around your eyes, leading to puffiness the next day.
(And you’ll snore, leading to pillow contact with your face…courtesy of your partner!)
(One more alternative…sleeping on the couch…but it turns out that’s not so good for the back!)
(I’m starting to understand how “Rip Van Wrinkle” got his name!)
-Ladders

MONEY LAUNDERING:
A woman says she accidentally destroyed her $26 million lottery ticket in the wash. The winning ticket for the Nov. 14 drawing of California’s SuperLotto Plus was sold at an AM/PM convenience store in the Los Angeles suburb of Norwalk…and Thursday was the last day to redeem it. No one did, but according to a store employee, a woman came in on Wednesday and claimed that she had put the ticket in her pants pocket and it was destroyed in the laundry. The store’s manager says they have turned surveillance video over to California Lottery officials, which shows a woman buying the winning ticket.
(Isn’t the old saying “You can’t win without a ticket”?)
(So, she might turn out to be a winner…AND a loser!)
(I guess it’s worth taking a chance…)
-AP

HIGHEST-PAID ATHLETES OVER THE LAST YEAR:
1. Conor McGregor: $180 million – UFC, whiskey, videogames
2. Lionel Messi: $130 million – soccer, clothing line, Adidas lifetime deal
3. Christiano Ronaldo: $120 million – Nike lifetime deal, clothing, hotels, gyms
4. Dak Prescott: $107.5 million – football, 7/11 and DirecTV endorsements
5. LeBron James: $96.5 million – basketball, acting (“Spacejam: A New Legacy”), Pepsi deal
6. Neymar: $95 million – soccer, deals with Puma, video games
7. Roger Federer: $90 million – tennis, deals with Rolex, Credit Suisse, Uniqlo
8. Lewis Hamilton: $82 million – F1 racing, endorsements for Tommy Hilfiger, Monster and Puma
9. Tom Brady: $76 million – football, deals with Christopher Cloos (eyewear), Fanatics, NFT platform
10. Kevin Durant: $75 million – basketball, Nike deal, film production, Postmates investor
-Forbes

DID YOU KNOW?
Madame Tussauds in London has revealed that Prince Harry and Meghan Markle’s waxworks are – just like their real-life counterparts — beginning a new chapter among the Hollywood elite. In 2020, the pair’s statues were moved away from Queen Elizabeth and the rest of Britain’s royal family following their decision to step down from official duties. Now, with the museum reopening today following a long closure due to Covid-19, visitors will find the Duke and Duchess of Sussex rubbing elbows with real-life celebrity friends Priyanka Chopra Jonas, Victoria and David Beckham and George Clooney, plus other A-listers like Brad Pitt, Dwayne Johnson and Nicole Kidman in the museum’s “Awards Party” zone.
-CNN

BS CHRONOMETER 05.17.21

TODAY’S CELEBIRTHDAYS . . .
1956 [65] Bob Saget, Philadelphia PA, comedian, TV actor (“Full House” 1987-1995), TV host “America’s Funniest Home Videos” 1989-1997, “Nashville Squares” since 2019)
1961 [60] Enya (Brennan), Gweedore Ireland, world music singer (‘Only Time’, ‘Orinoco Flow’)
1962 [59] Craig Ferguson, Glasgow Scotland, comedian/TV host (“The Late Late Show With Craig Ferguson” 2005-14)/TV actor (“Drew Carey Show” 1996-2004)
1965 [56] Trent Reznor, Mercer PA, rock singer (Nine Inch Nails-‘Every Day is Exactly the Same’)/film score composer (“The Social Network”, “The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo”)
1969 [52] Alan Doyle, Petty Harbour NL, folk-rock singer (‘So Let’s Go’, Great Big Sea-‘Ordinary Day’, ‘Consequence Free’)
1970 [51] Jordan Knight, Worcester MA, boy-band pop singer (New Kids On the Block-‘Hangin’ Tough’, ‘Step By Step’)
1973 [48] Josh Homme, Joshua Tree CA, rock musician-songwriter (Queens Of the Stone Age-‘No One Knows’, Eagles of Death Metal-‘Save a Prayer’)
1985 [36] Derek Hough, Salt Lake City UT, professional dancer (6-time champ on “Dancing With the Stars” 2007-2016)/brother of Julianne Hough
1988 [33] Nikki Reed, Los Angeles CA, movie actress (“Twilight” franchise, “Thirteen”)

TODAY’S BS REASONS TO PARTY . . .
• “Pack Rat Day”, celebrating people who squirrel away all kinds of ‘stuff’. What’s the oddest thing you have that you refuse to throw away? (But I might need those old soup cans someday!)

• “World Hypertension Day”, an annual observance to highlight the fact that stroke, heart, and kidney diseases caused by high blood pressure are preventable.

• “World Telecommunications Day”, a UN observance since 1969, whose goal now is to raise awareness of the possibilities that the use of the Internet and other communication technologies can bring to societies and economies, as ways to bridge the digital divide. LINK: https://www.un.org/en/observances/telecommunication-day

• “Pinot Grigio Day”, if you’ve never had this fine wine and want to know how it tastes, it has been described as having an acidic, lighter-bodied flavor, with apunchy acidity with flavors of lemons, limes, green apples and honeysuckle.

• “Cherry Cobbler Day”, dedicated to the delicious tart dessert that many enjoy with ice cream.

• “Walnut Day”, to show recognition and promote awareness of the walnut. Some Fun Walnut Facts:
⇒ Walnuts are the oldest known tree food — they date back to 10,000 BC!
⇒ 99% of the commercial U.S. supply and 2/3 of the world trade of walnuts now come from California.
⇒ Walnuts have always been considered important for their medicinal properties, including curing bad breath, reducing inflammation, and healing wounds.
⇒ More recently, the nutritional benefits of walnuts have become well-known, especially their omega-3 fatty acid content.
⇒ The Greeks called walnuts ‘karyon’, meaning “head,” because the shell resembles a human skull and the walnut kernel itself looks like a brain!

COMING UP . . .
[Tues] Museum Day
[Tues] No Dirty Dishes Day
[Wed] Devil’s Food Cake Day
[Wed] Boys and Girls Club Day
This Week Is…Emergency Medical Services Week
This Month Is…Melanoma Awareness Month

THIS DAY IN SHOW BIZ . . .
2011 [10] The final episode of “The Oprah Winfrey Show” is recorded in Chicago IL, with many celebrities attending (None of them were awarded a car!)

TODAY’S MUSIC EVENTS . . .
2012 [09] Donna Summer dies of lung cancer at her home in Naples, Florida, at age 63
2015 [06] Taylor Swift wins 8 Billboard Music Awards; Pharrell Williams, Meghan Trainor, One Direction, and Sam Smith are also multiple winners

TODAY’S FIRSTS . . .
1964 [57] The first Tim Horton’s coffee and donut shop opens in Hamilton, Ontario, then co-owned by NHL player Tim Horton (now 4,949 restaurants in 14 countries)
2004 [17] Massachusetts becomes the first US state to legalize same-sex marriage (today is celebrated as “Same Sex Marriage Day” in America)

TODAY’S RECORD . . .
2009 [12] MC/singer/pianist Gonzales (former Feist collaborator) breaks the Guinness World Record for ‘Longest Public Solo Performance’ by performing 300 consecutive songs over more than 27 straight hours in Paris, France

BULL’S BITS

BS WHACK FACTS:
✓ Cheese is the most-frequently shoplifted food item in the world.
✓ Studies have shown that lying is bad for your health.
✓ The inventor of radar (Robert Watson-Watt) was once caught speeding by a radar gun.
✓ It is only possible to dream about faces you have seen in real life.
✓ A cow produces between 40 and 150 liters (10-45 gallons) of saliva per day.
✓ Lobsters listen with their legs.
-BathroomReadersInstitute, AnimalsAustralia

Best of BS . . .
BS BAD GAME SHOW NAMES:
• Deal or No Plea Deal
• Who Wants to be a Millennial
• 64,000 Questions
• The $100,000 Pyramid Scheme
• Win Ben Stein’s Personality
• Canadian Mennonite Warrior
• Whose Smell is That, Anyway?
• Bowling for Bowling Balls
• The Newlydivorced Game
• Press Your Duck
-Twitter, first published in BS in 2019

TODAY’S SCOOP OF BS:
➠ The first-ever Oscars took place this week back in 1929. (And it should be ending right . . about . . . now.)
➠ Megan Fox turned 36 yesterday. (Machine Gun Kelly got her a beautiful bouquet of roses. But only after sheepishly asking for an advance on his allowance.)
➠ Gas prices in California reached an all-time high last week. (Also high? Anyone still living in California.)
➠ A report claims that just over 65% of adults drink alcohol to relax. (And some of us like to relax at WORK, okay, so don’t judge!)
➠ Early reviews are saying great things about the new Disney flick, “Cruella.” (Sure, but I also heard lots of great things about marriage . . . and look how that turned out…)

BS U-PICK TRIVIA:
• What historical event took place on July 20, 1969?
a) The Woodstock Festival
b) Apple Computer was founded
c) The first manned moon landing [CORRECT]
d) ‘Teddy Ruxpin’ was introduced

• Satchel Paige, Cool Papa Bell and Roger Maris starred in what sport?
a) Baseball [CORRECT]
b) Auto racing
c) Basketball
d) Scuba marathon

• On what TV series did we hear the terms “Shazbat” and “Nanu, nanu”?
a) Mary Tyler Moore
b) Mork & Mindy [CORRECT]
c) Leave it to Beaver
d) Gunsmoke

BS WEB GOODIE:
Monday so far: https://tinyurl.com/2ej33khe

BS PHONE STARTER:
What’s the craziest thing that’s ever happened to you that no one believes when you tell them?

BS RANDOM JOKE:
Keep the dream alive: Hit the snooze button.

BS WATER COOLER QUESTION:
Question: Most people own one of THESE, and, research shows it has twice as many germs as a toilet seat. What is it?
Answer: A barbeque grill

BS DEEP THOUGHT:
Now and then, it’s good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy.