Monday, October 24, 2022 – Edition: #7343

Thanks a Sheetload for Choosing “BS”!

 

BS SHOW BIZ BUZZ:
★ HBO’s “House of the Dragon” season finale leaked online Friday ahead of its Sunday night release. In a statement, HBO said the finale was posted to illegal torrent sites, and “appears to have originated from a distribution partner in the EMEA region,” referencing Europe, the Middle East and Africa. The network noted that it is “aggressively monitoring and pulling these copies from the internet.” HBO ended its statement by saying: “We’re disappointed that this unlawful action has disrupted the viewing experience for loyal fans of the show, who will get to see a pristine version of the episode when it premieres Sunday…exclusively in 4K”.
-NYPost
★ He sure knows how to “Rock” the box office. Dwayne Johnson’s “Black Adam” looks to have claimed the top spot on domestic movie charts, ahead of fellow new release “Ticket to Paradise.” Black Adam landed a $26.8 million opening day, including $7.6 million in Thursday previews. The DC Comics adaptation debuted in 4,402 North American theaters. An opening weekend gross of $62.2 million was projected for the superhero flick, which would mark the first wide release to debut above $50 million since Disney’s “Thor: Love and Thunder” bowed to $144 million in July. Second-place “Ticket to Paradise” was projected to nab a $16 million opening weekend.
-Variety
★ Sacheen Littlefeather – the Native American activist renowned for declining Marlon Brando’s Oscar for “The Godfather”, and who died earlier this month – was not in fact Native American, her sisters claim. In a column in the San Francisco Chronicle by Jacqueline Keeler – an Indigenous writer who has been investigating those she suspects of falsely claiming Native identity, Littlefeather’s biological siblings Rosalind Cruz and Trudy Orlandi said that the actress and Native American civil rights icon falsified her Apache and Yaqui heritage. According to Orlandi, their father – who Littlefeather claimed was a member of the White Mountain Apache and Yaqui tribes – was born in Oxnard, California, to Mexican immigrants. Littlefeather was born Maria Louise Cruz in 1946.
-TheWrap
★ Ellen DeGeneres is back with a new short docu-style comedy series. “About Time For Yourself… with Ellen” will be shared weekly on the retired talk show host’s YouTube channel, and the first episode went out on Saturday. In a clip, DeGeneres says: “You know, lately I’ve been taking some time just for myself, away from the cameras. And I’ve been having such a great time, I thought I would share some of what I’ve been doing with you. And so I yelled, ‘Portia, get the camera’…Great job, so far.” The 8-episode series finds the comedian learning new skills at home, like crocheting, bird watching, making cards, and more.
-People

TODAY’S SHOW BIZ SKED:
• “Jimmy Kimmel Live” (ABC/Global): Josh Gad, Pamela Adlon, Ariel Elias
• “The Tonight Show starring Jimmy Fallon” (NBC/CTV): Taylor Swift, Meghan Trainor
• “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert” (CBS/Global): Pete Buttigieg, Ina Garten
• “Late Night with Seth Meyers” (NBC/CTV): Danny DeVito, Tegan & Sara, Raghav Mehrotra (R)
• “The Late Late Show with James Corden” (CBS/CTV): Billie Lourd, Tyler James Williams, Andrea Jin
• “Watch What Happens Live” (Bravo): Victoria Beckham, Anne Hathaway
• The View” (ABC/CTV): Sen. Ted Cruz, Eddie Redmayne
• “The Talk” (CBS): Monica Barbaro
• “Live with Kelly and Ryan” (ABC/CTV): John David Washington
• “The Kelly Clarkson Show” (Check local listings): Lena Dunham, Fortune Feimster, Emily Kaufman
• “The Drew Barrymore Show” (Check local listings): Jennette McCurdy, Celeste Barber, Danny Seo
• “Jennifer Hudson Show” (Check local listings): Chance the Rapper
• “Sherri” (Check local listings): Dionne Warwick
• “MLB Playoffs (Check local listings): Astros @ Yankees (if necessary), Padres @ Phillies (if necessary)
• “The Voice” (NBC): Jimmie Allen, Sean Paul, Charlie Puth and Jazmine Sullivan prepare their artists to go head-to-head in hopes of advancing.
• “9-1-1” (Fox): Hen fears for Karen’s life when an explosion rocks her science lab on the day she brings Denny to work with her.
• “Bachelor in Paradise (ABC): Lace’s surprise visit continues, Rodney confesses to finding a better match; Logan is torn between several women; lovestruck Johnny escapes all temptation.

BS MUSIC NOTES:
• Taylor Swift – Her new “Midnights” album is off to a record-breaking start. It sold more than 8000,000 copies in the US on its first day of release Friday across all formats. First day sales alone gave it the largest sales week for any album since 2017, and made it the the top-selling album of 2022. It also broke Spotify’s all time record for most-streamed album in one day.
• Kendrick Lamar – “Good Kid, M.A.A.D. City” turned 10 last week, and it has remained on the Billboard 200 albums chart since its release, a total of 520 weeks. The album peaked at #2 on Nov. 10, 2012.
• Dave Grohl – His classic drum intro on the Queens of the Stone Age tune ‘Song for the Dead’ has become an online sensation. Drummers are taking to TikTok to show off their versions of Grohl’s handiwork. The Foos’ drummer was behind the kit on QOTSA’s 2002 album “Songs for the Deaf”. LINK: https://tinyurl.com/yc6s346e
• U2 — Bono takes “full responsibility” for U2’s iTunes controversy, when the band’s 2014 “Songs of Innocence” album was automatically uploaded to users and, at first, there was no way to delete it. In his upcoming memoir “Surrender: 40 Songs, One Story”, Bono says he soon realized “we’d bumped into a serious discussion about the access of big tech to our lives.”
• The Beatles — have unveiled a previously unknown demo of ‘Yellow Submarine’ sung by John Lennon, ahead of the expanded reissue of “Revolver”, out Oct. 28. Lennon sings it as a melancholy piece about the town in which he was born, where “no one cared, no one cared.” Ringo Starr was featured on lead vocals on the version which became famous. LINK: https://tinyurl.com/mr2rmvbt
• Kelsea Ballerini, Carly Pearce and Kelly Clarkson — will team up for a CMA Awards performance of their new collaboration ‘You’re Drunk, Go Home’. Ballerini is up for Single of the Year and Pearce has 5 nominations for the 2022 CMA Awards, set for Nov. 9 on ABC.
• Zac Brown Band — canceled their Friday show in Vancouver after some members of the group’s entourage were denied entry into Canada. People says that some crew members had old legal charges “that had been expunged years ago.” In a statement, the group said while they would have liked to go forward, their commitment to their team forced them to make the decision to cancel.
• Tanya Tucker – Friday, she released the single ‘Ready As I’ll Never Be’,” her first original music since 2019’s Grammy-winning album, “While I’m Livin’.” The song, written by Tucker and Brandi Carlile, serves as the end-title of the new documentary “The Return of Tanya Tucker – Featuring Brandi Carlile”, out Nov. 4.

SHOOTING THE BULL

SMILE AWHILE:
It might not come as a surprise to hear this, but a third of us smile less during the colder months, according to a study. A OnePoll survey also found 75% of people feel their mood is affected by the shorter and colder days of autumn and winter, and 61% are in dire need of a boost of positivity right now. But the results of the poll of 2,000 Brits also highlights how important smiling can be. Smiling is as infectious as laughter, say the experts, with the average smile passing on to 3 more people. Three-quarters of those surveyed agreed that a smile from someone brightens their day, and 28% said it’s better than receiving a gift. 36% said it made them want to do something nice for someone else. So why is smiling so positive? The act of smiling makes your brain release tiny molecules called neuropeptides to fight off stress. It also stimulates neurotransmitters like dopamine, endorphins and serotonin. Endorphins have pain relieving power and the serotonin acts as an antidepressant.
(It’s hard to smile during the colder months. Because of the temperature – and because of the January credit card bills!)
(Fun fact: You can’t breathe correctly while smiling. Just kidding, but I just made you smile!)
-HuffPost

NET(FLIX) PROFIT:
With the news that Netflix will officially begin cracking down on account sharing early next year, a tech analyst says the streamer could someday ask customers to scan their fingerprint or use facial recognition in order to use its service. Ben Wood, chief analyst at CCS Insight, said: “We may see one of the big streaming providers saying ‘we want some biometric proof that you’re there’.” While he doesn’t foresee your smart TV someday featuring a fingerprint sensor, “it could well be that if you want to watch something on a mobile phone, or even if you’re sitting at home, you will get pinged… ‘I want your fingerprint or I want a faceprint to prove that it’s you’.” On Oct.18, Netflix said it will go ahead with plans to “monetize account sharing”. That means primary account holders can create sub-accounts for “extra members” outside their household, at a rate of $4 per month.
(…just in case you were looking for a good reason to contact your ex…!)
(Does the price for a sub-account go up every year, too?)
-Forbes, CTV

NEW GOOD NEWS:
➢ More than 1,000 teddy bears left in tribute to Queen Elizabeth II will be donated to a children’s charity. The teddy bears – some in the image of Paddington Bear – were left outside the royal residences in London and Windsor, and other official tribute areas. Buckingham Palace says they will be professionally cleaned and donated to Barnardo’s, a British children’s charity that provides support services for vulnerable children and young adults. Queen Elizabeth II served as the charity’s patron from 1983-2016. Queen Consort Camilla became the Barnardo’s patron in 2016.
➢ Vaccines to fight cancer could be widely available before 2030, according to the husband and wife team behind one of the most successful Covid-19 jabs. Lessons learned during the pandemic will accelerate cancer treatments based on mRNA technology, say professors Ugur Sahin and Ozlem Tureci. The couple co-founded BioNTech in Germany, in 2008, to work mainly on cancer. When the pandemic hit, they changed focus to create a vaccine, working with pharmaceutical giant Pfizer. The mRNA Covid vaccine works by ferrying genetic instructions for essentially harmless spike proteins on the Covid virus into the body, where the immune system’s antibodies learn what to search for and attack. The same approach can be taken to prime the immune system to seek out and destroy cancer cells, according to Tureci.
-CNN, The Guardian

CORNY CANDY CORN COMMENTS:
(Funny tweets about our love/hate relationship with candy corn…)
❑ Parents PLEASE be sure to inspect your kids bags of candy before they eat them. Some twisted people out there might put candy corn in them -@victorpopejr
❑ Bad news guys, candy corn doesn’t count as a vegetable because technically corn is a grain. -@simoncholland
❑ The internet has taught me so much. Like did you know there are people who hate candy corn and also that civilization is crumbling around us @LurkAtHomeMom
❑ FACT: Candy corn is made out of melted down traffic cones. @SwisherGirl
❑ Candy corn, Men:  Kinda gross kinda good @GabrielleMcKeon
❑ Mike Leach on the great candy corn debate: “It’s like fruitcake. There’s a reason they only serve fruitcake once a year.” @TheoLawson_SR
❑ that time of the year to make people angry by saying that I love candy corn @jbfan911
❑ I’m pro-pumpkin spice and anti-candy corn. These are my firm beliefs and I simply ask that you respect them during these trying times. @AngryBlackLady
❑ …let’s discuss an important issue – it’s time to abolish all things candy corn. Friends don’t let friends eat sugared ear wax. @dadmann_walking
❑ Idea: Candy Corn Maze @rainnwilson
-HuffPost

DID YOU KNOW?
Researchers have found that songbirds help reduce anxiety and feelings of paranoia among people. In a study of 295 participants, a team from the Max Planck Institute for Human Development in Germany examined the impact of hearing birds versus various traffic sounds. Although birdsong did not positively impact levels of depression, it did ease the severity of other mental health issues. Conversely, traffic noise was shown to worsen depression.
StudyFinds

BS CHRONOMETER 10.24.22

TODAY’S BS REASONS TO PARTY . . .
• “Diwali” begins, a Hindu religious festival of lights, one of the most important festivals within Hinduism. It usually lasts 5 days, and symbolizes the spiritual “victory of light over darkness, good over evil, and knowledge over ignorance”.
• “Bologna Day”, a good day to fry up a slice to add to your peanut butter sandwich. Yummers!
• “Food Day”, a day to resolve to make changes in our diets and take action to solve food-related problems in our communities.
• “United Nations Day”, honoring the 77th anniversary of the day in 1945 that the majority of the world’s countries adopted the charter that formed the UN.
• “National Crazy Day”, a day to bring out the child who lives in all of us, and do something outlandish to make others roll with laughter. (I wore one brown and one blue sock. Crazy, I know!)
• “Good and Plenty Day”, this is one of those candies that you either like or you definitely don’t. The licorice treat is the oldest brand of candy in the US. Good and Plenty was first made in 1893 by the Quaker City Confectionery Company of Philadelphia.

COMING UP . . .
[Tues] Greasy Foods Day
[Tues] Punk For a Day Day
[Wed] Pumpkin Day
[Thurs] Cranky Co-Workers Day
This Week is… Disarmament Week
This Month is… Emotional Wellness Month

TODAY’S CELEBIRTHDAYS . . .
1936 [86] Bill Wyman (Perks), London England, rock bassist (The Rolling Stones 1962-93-‘Satisfaction’, ‘Under My Thumb’)

1947 [75] Kevin Kline, St Louis MO, movie actor (“Sophie’s Choice”, Oscar-“A Fish Called Wanda”)/TV voice actor (“Bob’s Burgers” since 2011)/married to Phoebe Cates since 1989

1973 [49] Korie Robertson, Louisiana, reality star (“Duck Dynasty” 2012-2017)

1980 [42] Monica (Arnold), College Park GA, pop singer (‘So Gone’, w/Brandy-‘The Boy Is Mine’)

1980 [42] Casey Wilson, Alexandria VA, TV actress (“Happy Endings” 2011-13″, “Saturday Night Live” 2008-09)/movie actress “Gone Girl”

1986 [36] Drake (Aubrey Drake Graham), Toronto ON, rapper-pop singer-songwriter (‘Hotline Bling’, ‘In My Feelings’)/TV actor (“Degrassi: The Next Generation” 2001-08)

1989 [33] Shenae Grimes, Toronto ON, TV actress (“90210″ 2008-13, “Degrassi: The Next Generation” 2004-08)/movie actress (“Empire State”)

THIS DAY IN SHOW BIZ . . .
2006 [16] “Forbes” reveals that Kurt Cobain has overtaken Elvis Presley as ‘Highest-Earning Dead Celebrity’ in the past year, $50 million vs $42 million

TODAY’S MUSIC EVENTS . . .
1980 [42] Guinness presents Paul McCartney with a special ‘rhodium’ album for being the best-selling songwriter in the history of recorded music, having written 43 platinum songs and sold over 100 million records

1992 [30] ‘End Of The Road’ by Boyz II Men ties Elvis Presley’s ‘Don’t Be Cruel’/’Hound Dog’ as the longest-running #1 single, with its 11th week at the top. It spends 2 more weeks there, but 3 months later Whitney Houston’s ‘I Will Always Love You’ stays at #1 for 14 weeks (current record: Lil Nas X ft. Billy Ray Cyrus’ ‘Old Town Road’ – 19 weeks)

TODAY’S FIRST . . .
1992 [30] Toronto Blue Jays beat Atlanta Braves, 4-3 in Game 6 at Atlanta’s Fulton County Stadium to become the first team based outside the US to win the World Series

TODAY’S RECORDS . . .
1929 [93] “Black Thursday”, occurs, as panicked sellers trade nearly 13 million shares on the New York Stock Exchange (more than 3 times the normal volume), and investors suffer $5 billion in losses, kicking off the Great Depression

2008 [14] “Bloody Friday” occurs, as many of the world’s stock exchanges crash, experiencing the worst declines in their histories (Not a great day of the year to be an investor…!)

2021 [01] Tom Brady becomes the first NFL quarterback to record 600 touchdown passes when he hits Mike Evans during the Buccaneers 38-3 rout of the Chicago Bears in Tampa Bay

BULL’S BITS

BS WHACK FACTS:
✓ One in 10 people in the world live on an island.
✓ The world average annual egg consumption per capita is 230.
✓ In the Western World, people move on average every 7 years.
✓ The melting temperature of bubble gum is 125° Fahrenheit (52°C).
✓ It would take a manned rocket ship 70,000 years to reach the next closest solar system.
✓ The probability of you drinking a glass of water that contains a molecule of water that also passed through a dinosaur is almost 100%.
-DidYouKnow, BathroomReadersInstitute

BS SIGNS YOU WORK WITH A WEREWOLF:
• Coughs up a hairball during morning staff meeting.
• Newly-installed keg of Nair in men’s room.
• ‘5 o’clock shadow’ appears around 8:30 am.
• Says, “Great job on the Harrison account!”, then humps your leg.
• In lieu of an annual bonus, prefers a good scratch behind the ears.
• Suddenly sports a beard when mooned at office party.
• Has more hair on his back than you’ve got on your head.
• Only ‘guy’ at work who circles several days a month in red on his desk calendar.
-First published in BS in 2005

TODAY’S SCOOP OF BS:
➠ A man set a NYC restaurant on fire over a botched chicken order. (It seems things went from batter to worse…)
➠ Kim Kardashian turned 42 on Friday. (She made the special day all about herself. A relaxing nap after a catered breakfast, massage by the pool, followed by endless shopping downtown.  Then, she remembered it was her birthday…)
➠ A coffee shop in the UK has made the news for charging rude customers more than DOUBLE for coffee. (So, what’s YOUR excuse, Starbucks?!!)
➠ A study found that alcohol works as an antidepressant. (In other news, MAN, I’m feeling great at work today!)
➠ A report says that Americans will spend over $8 billion celebrating Halloween. (Proving that dressing up like a cheap hooker – isn’t cheap!)

BS U-PICK TRIVIA:
(All answers begin with the letter ‘S’)
• What is the name of the Northern California tech hub that is home to companies such as Apple, Meta, and Alphabet?
a) San Francisco Bay
b) San Jose Metropolitan
c) Silicon Valley [CORRECT]
d) San Antonio

• In what video game do you control a blue character to fight the mad scientist ‘Doctor Eggman’?
a) SimCity
b) StarCraft
c) Sonic the Hedgehog [CORRECT]
d) Simpsons

• In New Zealand, which animal outnumbers people by a ratio of 6 to 1?
a) Sheep [CORRECT]
b) Squirrel
c) Skunk
d) Stinkbug
-WeLoveQuizzes

BS WEB GOODIE:
Caption says it all:  https://tinyurl.com/mt7weacb

BS RANDOM JOKE:
You know it’s Monday when you have to call in sick to your doctor’s appointment…

BS PHONE STARTER:
What question did your kid stump you with?

BS WATER COOLER QUESTION:
Question:  20% of us say they started doing THIS way back in August. What is it?
Answer:  Watching Christmas movies

BS DEEP THOUGHT:
Kind words do not cost much. Yet, they accomplish much.