Friday, October 4, 2019 – Edition: #6545
Sheet Happens!
BS SHOW BIZ BUZZ:
★ One theater chain is getting pretty candid about “Joker”. Alamo Drafthouse Cinema has published a warning to parents about the controversial film. The company, which operates 40 theaters in the U.S., wrote on Facebook: “Parental warning (this is not a joke). Joker is Rated R and for good reason. There’s lots of very, very rough language, brutal violence, and overall bad vibes.” Joker, which opens today, is arguably the most controversial film of the year.
-MSN
★ Kevin Hart may be out of the hospital and adjusting to life back home following a serious car accident last month, but his recovery is far from over. In new court documents filed requesting a postponement of his upcoming trial in his court battle with his former business partners, he claims that he is still having difficulty walking. Hart suffered three spinal fractures when his 1970s Plymouth Barracuda veered off the road, crashed through a fence, and rolled down an embankment during the early morning hours of Sept. 1.
-PopCulture
★ Kevin Spacey might be in the clear in the civil lawsuit accusing him of sexual battery, all because the man died. A male masseuse (using the pseudonym John Doe) sued Spacey over an alleged incident at the actor’s home in 2016. The case was moving forward, but last month, Spacey informed the court of Doe’s death. In newly filed documents, Spacey says he is unsure how to proceed, since no estate lawyer has been established for Doe.
-TheBlast
★ Eddie Murphy has confirmed rumors that “Beverly Hills Cop 4” is on the way. He was on a press tour promoting “Dolemite Is My Name”, and took some time to mention his other upcoming projects as well. Murphy, who has a number of projects on the go, indicated that Bev Hills Cop 4 is “what we’re doing after Coming to America.” The 1984 original was one of Murphy’s first blockbuster hits. The last installment, “Beverly Hills Cop III”, came out in 1994.
-PopCulture
TODAY’S SHOW BIZ SKED:
• “Jimmy Kimmel Live” (ABC/Global): Joe Biden, Cobie Smulders, James Blake (R)
• “The Tonight Show starring Jimmy Fallon” (NBC/CTV): Joaquin Phoenix, Zoey Deutch, Gary Vaynerchuk
• “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert” (CBS/Global): Jon Hamm, Pete Alonso
• “Late Night with Seth Meyers” (NBC/CTV): Glenn Howerton, Andrew Yang, Margaret Atwood, Yesod Williams (R)
• “The Late Late Show with James Corden” (CBS/CTV): Michael Douglas, Nicole Byer (R)
• “The View” (ABC/CTV): Jessica Lange
• “The Talk” (CBS): Kristin Chenoweth
• “Live with Kelly and Ryan” (ABC/CTV): Penelope Cruz, Nick Kroll, guest co-host Lisa Rinna
• “The Ellen DeGeneres Show” (NBC/CTV): Sean Hayes, Adam Devine, Lewis Capaldi
• “The Kelly Clarkson Show” (CHECK LOCAL LISTINGS): Wanda Sykes, Jonathan & Drew Scott, Ludo Lefebvre
• “The Blacklist” (NBC): season 7 premiere
• “WWE SmackDown Live” (FOX): Moves to Fox from USA. Tonight’s episode is a live broadcast of SmackDown’s 20th anniversary special from Staples Center in Los Angeles.
SATURDAY-
• “A Very Brady Renovation” (HGTV): Season finale
• “Saturday Night Live” (NBC): Host Phoebe Waller-Bridge, with musical guest Taylor Swift
SUNDAY-
• “Batwoman” (CW): Season 1 premiere.
• “Kids Say the Darndest Things” (ABC): Series premiere, with host Tiffany Haddish
• “Madam Secretary” (CBS): Season 6 premiere
• “The Walking Dead” (AMC): Season 10 premiere
BS MUSIC NOTES:
• Bebe Rexha – had to fight back tears when she met her idol Angelina Jolie at the premiere of “Maleficent: Mistress of Evil” on Monday. Rexha provided a song for the movie’s soundtrack, ‘You Can’t Stop the Girl’, and said of Jolie: “Anything (she) does I absolutely love. She’s just always inspired me…I feel like this role is perfect for her.”
• Ed Sheeran – His company, Ed Sheeran Limited took in £32.6 million ($39.4 million US) over the last 12 months. Accounting figures show Sheeran was paid the equivalent of £47,000 ($58,000US) a day from the business. And that doesn’t include the record-breaking £607 million ($747 million US) generated by his “Divide” world tour.
• Foo Fighters — Dave Grohl says the band is getting to work on their next studio album. He told the crowd at Brazil’s Rock In Rio festival on Saturday that they planned to begin recording the follow-up to 2017’s Concrete & Gold this week after their return to the U.S.
• Wham! — Andrew Ridgeley think a biopic about the duo would be ”marvellous”. He’s written about his rise to stardom alongside his late school friend George Michael – who died in December 2016 – in the new book “Wham! George and Me” and says he has his ”fingers crossed” that it will be picked up and adapted for the big screen.
• Elton John — has added two new London dates and several European shows to his “Farewell Yellow Brick Road Tour”. He’ll now play two extra dates at London’s The O2 on November 2, 2020, and December 17, 2020. He’s surpassed 100 shows so far on his ever-extending final jaunt across the globe.
• R.E.M. — singer Michael Stipe will release his first new music since the group called it quits in 2011, with the solo single ‘Your Capricious Soul’, which comes out Oct. 5 exclusively through his website. Proceeds will benefit Extinction Rebellion, an environmental activist group.
• Judas Priest — singer Rob Halford says he is finally working on a book, after having previously insisted he would never do so because of privacy concerns. He says that it is “going to have a lot of things in there that you’re going to go, ‘Oh, I’m not really interested in that.’ You’re also going to go, ‘Oh my God, I never knew he did that!’”
• Rascal Flatts — To celebrate their 20th anniversary next year, they’ll appear at Country Radio Seminar 2020, as the featured speakers for a panel discussion called Rascal Flatts: 20 Years Of Country Radio Success. Other artists scheduled to appear at the event in Nashville next February include Miranda Lambert, Carrie Underwood and Kenny Chesney.
• Miranda Lambert – shared some photos of her adventure on Instagram Stories this week. Her post shows that she took her off-road sport utility vehicle for a ride, but it came to a sudden end when the vehicle ended up in a ditch…sunk deep into the mud. Her caption? “I’m the reason we can’t have nice things.”
• Blake Shelton – His 2018 Hallmark Channel Christmas movie “Time for Me to Come Home for Christmas”, is getting a sequel. He is producing “Time for You to Come Home for Christmas”, a new made-for-TV film, for this holiday season. It stars Josh Henderson and Megan Park, and will premiere Dec. 6 on the Hallmark Channel.
TODAY’S MOVIE OPENINGS:
• “Joker” (R-Rated, Action/adventure): Arthur Fleck is a clown-for-hire by day, and aspires to be a stand-up comic at night…but finds the joke always seems to be on him. Caught in a cyclical existence between apathy and cruelty, Arthur makes one bad decision that brings about a chain reaction of escalating events. (Joaquin Phoenix, Robert De Niro)
• “Lucy in the Sky” (R-Rated, Drama/Fantasy): Astronaut Lucy Cola returns to Earth after a transcendent experience during a mission to space, and begins to lose touch with reality in a world that now seems too small. (Natalie Portman, Jon Hamm)
• “Pain and Glory” (R-Rated, Drama, Limited): A film director reflects on the choices he’s made in life as past and present come crashing down around him. (Antonio Banderas, Asier Etxeandia)
• “The Pretenders” (Not Rated, Drama, Limited): A French film student finds his muse in a mysterious actress. Both he and his best friend fall under the spell of this beautiful woman. After years of sex, betrayal, and collateral damage, the three end up in a dangerous situation that leaves one of them fighting for his life. (James Franco, Juno Temple)
NEWS OF THE WEIRD:
➢ A South Korean mayor has come under fire for having a tonne of trash dumped on area beaches. Why? On September 21, volunteers around the world gathered on their local beaches to clean up trash and make a statement about the poor state of our environment. But Lee Dong-jin, mayor of Jindo county, was concerned because the beaches in his jurisdiction were just too darn clean. So, just in time for International Coastal Cleanup Day, he arranged for the trash to be transport to the beaches. His office later apologized, saying that they only did it to “raise awareness about the seriousness of coastal waste”. (We understand there is expected to be a lot of ‘trash-talking’ in the next election campaign…)
➢ (***Watch for dating***) When you go to a music festival, there is a good chance that you might not come home with all of your possessions. Your phone, your shoes, your keys…your car? Connor Spear lost his. The 19-year-old left his Vauxhall Corsa in a residential street after travelling more than 100 miles to attend Toyko World music festival in Bristol, UK -but then couldn’t remember where he’d parked. Later, his mother drove herself and her son back to the area where he’d last seen it and spent 11 hours roaming the streets for his car, to no avail. When that didn’t work, Mom launched an appeal online, and eventually a “kind man” sent them pictures of where the vehicle is parked. Now, almost two weeks later, Connor has not yet retrieved his vehicle, but plans to do so soon. (In his defence, ah, who am I kidding? There’s no defence for this guy!)
➢ A man in China has a handy excuse for his almost constant state of drunkenness. Medical professionals say he has a rare condition that causes him to become inebriated without consuming any alcohol because of a certain type of gut bacteria. Those treating the man discovered his gut contained “several strains of a bacteria known as Klebsiella pneumonia,” which produces “high levels” of alcohol pretty much anytime he eats. They also reported that the man has suffered “severely” damaged liver as a result. (On the plus side, he never gets a hangover!)
-OddityCentral, CoventryTelegraph, NYPost
PUTIN SOMETHING TOGETHER:
A Russian company has launched a line of human-like robots that can be made to order with any appearance. They are so lifelike that they are able to copy human expressions by moving their eyes, eyebrows, mouths and “other muscles”, and are able to answer questions, and serve as a “companion”, according to the company. Promobot, the company which developed the “Android Robo-C” says that their human-like robot has over 600 facial expressions, and features specially-developed skin. The company says the bots could be used for “professional or personal use” and as a suggestion, they threw it out there that they could create a Michael Jordan replica to sell basketball uniforms in a store, or a William Shakespeare-bot which could read the playwright’s works in a museum.
(Are people even necessary anymore?)
(600 facial expressions? That’s 599 more than Nicholas Cage!)
(Promobot? Sounds like something we could use around here!)
-Newsweek
BS CHRONOMETER 10.04.19
TODAY’S CELEBIRTHDAYS . . .
1946 [73] Susan Sarandon, New York City NY, movie actress (“Thelma & Louise”, “Bull Durham”, “Rocky Horror Picture Show”)
1956 [63] Christoph Waltz, Vienna, Austria, movie actor (“Django Unchained”, “Inglourious Basterds”)
1957 [62] Russell Simmons, Queens NY, entrepreneur (Co-founded the hip-hop music label “Def Jam” and created the successful clothing lines “Phat Farm”, “Argyleculture”, and “American Classics”)
1967 [52] Liev Schreiber, San Francisco CA, TV actor (“Ray Donovan” since 2013)/movie actor (“Goon”, “The Butler”)
1976 [43] Alicia Silverstone, San Francisco CA, movie actress (“Clueless”, “Batman & Robin”)/animal rights activist.
1977 [42] Richard Parry, Ottawa ON, alt-rock musician-composer (Arcade Fire-‘Reflektor’, ‘Keep the Car Running’)
1988 [31] Melissa Benoist, Houston TX, TV actress (‘Kara Danvers’ on “Supergirl” since 2015)
1989 [30] Dakota Johnson, Austin TX, movie actress (“Fifty Shades of Grey” films, “The Social Network”)/daughter of actors Don Johnson & Melanie Griffith.
1997 [22] Ava Sambora, Los Angeles CA, movie actress (“This Is 40”)/TV actress (“SummerBreak 3” 2015-2016) Daughter of musician Richie Sambora and actress Heather Locklear.
SATURDAY- Steve Miller (‘The Joker’) is 76; Brian Johnson (AC/DC) 72; Bob Geldof (Boomtown Rats) is 68; retired hockey player Mario Lemieux is 54; Guy Pearce (“Iron Man 3”) is 52; Kate Winslet (“Titanic”) is 44; Jesse Eisenberg (“The Social Network”) is 36; Jacob Tremblay (“Room”) is 13
SUNDAY- NFL analyst Tony Dungy is 64; Elisabeth Shue (“CSI”) is 56; Tommy Stinson (ex-Guns N’ Roses) is 53; Will Butler (Arcade Fire) is 37
TODAY’S BS REASONS TO PARTY . . .
• “Cinnamon Roll Day”, or “Kanelbullens Dag” as it’s known in Sweden, the country of the yummy sweet-bun’s presumed origin. Good excuse to scarf one with your coffee this morning.
• “Improve Your Office Day”, a day to focus on ways to make your work experience better. Among the suggestions: Keep it clean; simplify; and bring a piece of outside inside (Also: donuts).
• “International Toot Your Flute Day”, to encourage the idea of selling yourself and telling others how good you are, while rejecting the idea that self-promotion is ‘bragging’.
• “Taco Day”, an annual celebration of the great taste of the traditional Mexican dish.
• “Vodka Day”, celebrating the versatile, virtually tasteless and odorless tipple that now accounts for about 25% of spirits sold in North America. We now have an assortment of wild and wacky added-flavor vodkas available, including maple syrup, root beer float, s’mores, PB & J and – an homage to the breakfast cereal Fruit Loops – ‘Loopy’. More savory include smoked salmon, chili peppers, bacon, espresso, cucumber, rose and buttered popcorn. (Buttered popcorn flavor? I’m shaken. And stirred.)
• “National Golf Lover’s Day”, Since 1952, the PGA has held a charity event each year for National Golf Day.
• “National Denim Day”, an excellent little promotion in which Lee Jeans asks companies to allow employees to wear denim to work in exchange for a $5 donation to breast cancer research. Since 1996, more than $97 million has been raised through National Denim Day for the American Cancer Society.
SATURDAY-
• “Apple Betty Day”, honoring the dessert related to ‘Apple Brown Betty’, ‘Apple Crisp’, ‘Apple Crumble’ and ‘Apple Cobbler’. Whatever you call it … pass the ice cream!
• “World Teachers Day”, begun by UNESCO in 1994 as recognition for the vital contribution teachers make to education & development. Over 100 countries now observe the day.
• “Do Something Nice Day”, anything nice. And, do it to … or for, another individual. At the very least, it results in a smile.
• “National Get Funky Day”, turn up the energy, improve the mood, smile, laugh, dance and share the enthusiasm everywhere you go. National Get Funky Day encourages everyone to break out of their funk and get funky.
SUNDAY-
• “Mad Hatter Day”, described as ‘April Fool’s Day’ without the pranks, it’s an opportunity to celebrate silliness. The date was chosen from illustrations depicting the Mad Hatter wearing a hat with a slip of paper that reads: ‘In this style 10/6′
• “German-American Day”, honoring the likes of Albert Einstein, Lou Gehrig, John Steinbeck, and Levi Strauss. In fact, German-Americans make up 16% of the total US population. Prosit!
• “Physician Assistant Day”, honoring all those nice people who order you to take off all your clothes and put the gown on. And make sure the opening’s at the back!
• “Garlic Lovers Day”, saluting the ‘stinking rose’ that has been cultivated as long as history has been recorded. A few stinky facts …
→ Over 5,000 years ago, Chinese herbalists used garlic to reduce blood pressure.
→ In Medieval times, it was believed that garlic worn as a necklace would stop your soul from leaving your body.
→ Spraying yourself with garlic oil will repel mosquitoes.
→ It’s said that if you rub a clove on garlic on your partner’s feet at night, you’ll taste it on his or her breath the next morning.
THIS DAY IN SHOW BIZ:
1990 [29] “Beverly Hills, 90210” starring Luke Perry, Jason Priestley and Shannen Doherty, premieres
TODAY’S MUSIC EVENTS . . .
1970 [49] Janis Joplin dies of a drug overdose at 27
2005 [14] Little Big Town releases their 2nd album, “The Road to Here”, which spawns 4 top 20 country hits
2016 [03] Gwen Stefani and Bush’s Gavin Rossdale divorce after 13 years of marriage
TODAY’S FIRSTS . . .
2004 [15] ‘SpaceShipOne’ flies to an altitude of 62 miles over the California desert, becoming the 1st privately-funded rocket to reach space (thereby winning the $10-million Ansari X Prize)
2006 [13] Wikileaks is launched by Julian Assange
TODAY’S RECORD . . .
1981 [38] Oldest recorded pet gerbil, ‘Sahara’, dies in Lathrup Village, Michigan at age 8 years, 4-and-a-half months
BULL’S BITS
BS WHACK FACTS:
✓ You lose about 8 percent of your body water while on a flight.
✓ Willow bark can be used as an alternative to aspirin.
✓ In a study, “love” was found to be the most common word used in eight out of 10 music genres. The exceptions? Rap and heavy metal.
✓ The fastest reptile is the sea turtle. (They can swim as fast as 35mph)
✓ Science tells us that if a man’s ring finger is longer than his index finger, he is more likely to have an attractive face.
✓ It would take 76 workdays (if you work an 8-hour day) to read every online privacy policy you agree to in an average year.
BestLife, MSN
BS FAKE POPCORN FACTS:
• It was invented by ‘Kernal’ Sanders.
• In the south, they call it ‘sodacorn’.
• It tastes great with mustard.
• If you don’t buy it, the movie will suck.
• ‘Popcorn’ is what the Children of the Corn called their dad.
• It rhymes with “brown trout”.
• When a fire breaks out in a corn field, you wind up with 2 tons of popcorn.
• Extra butter makes your butt finer.
• If you are bitten by a radioactive popcorn you will gain all the powers of a popcorn.
• Candy corn is better.
-Twitter
Best of BS . . .
BS STARBUCKS A MOVIE OR TV SHOW:
• Foam Alone
• Murder on the Orient Expresso
• Harry Potter and the Half-Caff Prince
• Three Men and a Latte
• It’s The Great Pumpkin Spice Latte, Charlie Brown
• Mission: Impossible to get my name right
• The Grande Escape
• The Fault in Our Starbucks
• Lawrence of Arabica
• Caramel Apple Cider House Rules
• Game of Foams
• Mr. Bean
• FrappuccinO Brother, Where Art Thou?
-Twitter, first published in ‘BS’ in 2018
BS PHONE STARTER:
What’s the best work-related party or event you’ve attended? Alternative: What’s the worst?
BS RANDOM JOKE:
Friday is my second-favorite F-word. Food is first. Definitely food.
BS WATER COOLER QUESTION:
Question: The average woman spends 6 minutes a day doing THIS. What is it?
Answer: Removing makeup
BS DEEP THOUGHT:
Hang out with people who make you forget to look at your phone.
