Tuesday, December 18, 2018 Edition: #6359
100% Grade A Bull!
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“The Bull Sheet” is shutting down for the holidays December 24th-January 1st inclusive. All subscribers will be awarded account credits for missed service days. Following the Dec 21 issue, the next edition of “BS” will be January 2, 2019. Thanks for a successful year of BS and Happy Holidays, all!
BS SHOW BIZ BUZZ:
★ Colin Kroll, CEO of the popular trivia app HQ Trivia, was found dead in his apartment on Saturday night of an apparent drug overdose, according to reports. He was 35. Kroll co-founded HQ Trivia and was named CEO in September. The trivia app was enormously popular when it launched but that popularity had waned in recent months. Kroll also co-founded Vine, a short-form video hosting service where users could share six-second-long video clips, which was acquired by Twitter in 2012.
-TheBlast
★ Pete Davidson is leaning on one of his good friends in the wake of posting a seemingly suicidal message on social media. Rapper Machine Gun Kelly flew to New York to be by Davidson’s side after he wrote on Instagram that he didn’t want to “be on this earth anymore.” Davidson made a brief appearance in the live taping of SNL to introduce musical guest Miley Cyrus.
-DailyMail
★ An actress who filed a lawsuit against disgraced movie mogul Harvey Weinstein on Friday reportedly claims he boasted about sleeping with Jennifer Lawrence — something both Weinstein and Lawrence deny. In response, Lawrence said in a statement: “My heart breaks for all the women who were victimized by Harvey Weinstein. I have never had anything but a professional relationship with him. This is yet another example of the predatory tactics and lies that he engaged in to lure countless women.” The unactress alleges that Weinstein not only assaulted her, but threatened to harm her career if she objected, saying, “I slept with Jennifer Lawrence and look where she is; she has just won an Oscar.”
-MSN
★ A lawyer representing one of the alleged victims of Bill Cosby is vowing in a civil court case to show sex tapes which were secretly recorded at the Playboy Mansion. Hefner reportedly had someone ditch a number of incriminating sex tapes into the Pacific Ocean toward the end of his life. But a lawyer says that he has uncovered a treasure trove of recordings involving “dozens” of high-profile celebrities. He says the tapes were handed over by Playboy Enterprises and appear to have been professionally edited and “produced.”
-Canoe
★ A week before “Aquaman” has its wide release in the United States, the latest DCEU film continues to do big business overseas. Over the weekend, the film earned $126.4 million at the foreign box office, bringing its current combined earnings to $261.3 million, with China remaining the biggest market for the film to date.
-CBR
TODAY’S SHOW BIZ SKED:
• “Jimmy Kimmel Live” (ABC/Global): John Cena, Eiza Gonzalez, Skylar Grey
• “The Tonight Show starring Jimmy Fallon” (NBC/CTV): Michelle Obama
• “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert” (CBS/Global): Emily Blunt, Sen. Jeff Flake, St. Paul & the Broken Bones
• “Late Night with Seth Meyers” (NBC/CTV): Amy Adams, Stephan James, Pusha T, Richard Danielson
• “The Late Late Show with James Corden” (CBS/CTV): Connie Britton, Gwen Stefani, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Emily Blunt
• “Watch What Happens Live” (Bravo): Natalie Portman, Leslie Mann
• “The View” (ABC/CTV): Michael B. Jordan, Kristin Chenoweth (R)
• “The Talk” (CBS): Laurence Fishburne, Nischelle Turner, guest co-hosts Carrie Ann Inaba & La Toya Jackson (R)
• “Live with Kelly and Ryan” (ABC/CTV): Lin-Manuel Miranda, Saoirse Ronan, Amy Nofziger, guest co-host Jeffrey
• “The Ellen DeGeneres Show” (NBC/CTV): Ryan Reynolds, Gwen Stefani (R)
• “The Voice” (NBC): The winner of Season 15 is announced.
• “Greatest Holiday Commercials Countdown 2018” (CW): A countdown of the 12 best holiday commercials ever, one for each of the 12 days of Christmas. Also: other great commercials that capture the true spirit of the holiday season.
• “Greatest Holiday Video Countdown” (CW): Featuring some of the most memorable holiday videos from around the globe. Hosted by the Holderness Family, the viral video family that rose to internet fame with their viral hit “Christmas Jammies”.
BS MUSIC NOTES:
• Cardi B — is asking her fans to treat her estranged husband Offset kindly after he crashed her show with a groveling apology and a banner reading “take me back”. She posted a video saying in part: “I’m not saying that I’m going to get back together with him. I just don’t like that bashing online thing.”
• Nicki Minaj — is asking others to show empathy for Kanye West and Pete Davidson, who both spoke publicly about living with mental illness on Saturday. Minaj tweeted: “We can be so insensitive. God bless Kanye & Pete. Being flippant about mental illness speaks more about you than them. Stop saying the word love & live it. Love is an action.”
• The Kinks — Guitarist Dave Davies has revealed that he and Dolores O’Riordan had planned to collaborate before she died, saying, “We talked about writing together – I had an idea for a song called ‘Home’, about being home again, and she understood what I was trying to say. But we never sat down to do it, and that makes me really sad…We said we’d meet when she was next in London, and that was that.”
• Stevie Nicks – says the most important part of her second induction into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame is that she will be the first woman to achieve the honor. She will be recognized for her solo career as part of the Class of 2019, after being inducted as a member of Fleetwood Mac in 1998. She’ll become the 23rd person to be inducted twice.
• Guns N’ Roses — Guitarist Richard Fortus says the band is aiming to release an album of new music “faster than you think.” While he wouldn’t divulge how much work has been completed, he did say that the release of new music by the end of 2019 “could definitely happen” and “there might be stuff started.”
• Toby Keith – His song ‘Don’t Let the Old Man In’ was inspired by a conversation he had with Clint Eastwood. Keith says he asked Eastwood how he kept working at his age, explaining: ”He said, ‘I just get up every morning and go out. And I don’t let the old man in’. And I thought, I’m writing that.”
• Garth Brooks – His “Garth: Live at Notre Dame!” TV special on Dec. 2 was so well-viewed, CBS plans to air it again. Nearly 10 million viewers tuned in to see Brooks perform the first live concert ever held at the legendary Notre Dame Stadium, at the University of Notre Dame in Indiana. The rebroadcast will air Dec. 28 at 8PM ET/PT.
THIS WEEK’S VIDEO RELEASES:
• “Bad Times at the El Royale” (R-Rated, Mystery/Suspense): Several strangers, most with a secret to bury, meet by chance at Lake Tahoe’s El Royale, a rundown hotel with a dark past. Over the course of one night, everyone will show their true colors – before everything goes to hell. (Jeff Bridges, Dakota Johnson)
• “The House with a Clock in Its Walls” (PG, Comedy/Kids): A young orphan named aids his magical uncle in locating a clock with the power to bring about the end of the world. (Jack Black, Cate Blanchett)
• “Fahrenheit 11/9” (R-Rated, Documentary): Filmmaker Michael Moore examines the current state of American politics, particularly the Donald Trump presidency and gun violence, while highlighting the power of grassroots democratic movements. (Roger Ailes, Brooke Baldwin)
• “Assassination Nation” (R-Rated, Drama/Mystery): After a malicious data hack exposes the secrets of the perpetually American town of Salem, chaos descends and four girls must fight to survive, while coping with the hack themselves. (Odessa Young, Abra, Suki Waterhouse)
• “1985” (Not Rated. Drama): A closeted young man goes home for the holidays and struggles to reveal his dire circumstances to his conservative family. (Bill Heck, Jamie Chung)
I STINK IT’S THIS WAY:
If you have a strong sense of direction, chances are you also have a good sniffer, according to new research. To test this correlation between spatial memory and the sense of smell, researchers asked 57 participants to do a couple of different tasks relating to spatial memory, and their association with different smells. They found that two similar regions of the brain (the hippocampus and the medial orbitofrontal cortex) are both involved in these seemingly very different activities. What is the co-relation between your sense of direction and sense of smell? Scientists aren’t sure, but they believe that both systems in the brain evolved at roughly the same time. “The research appears Nature Communications.”
(That’s why they say some people can find their way by “following their nose”?)
(All I know is that I’m always getting lost, and it stinks…)
-Curiosity
THERE WENT SANTA CLAUS:
Santa Claus had a rough trial run during the Christmas Fantasy Parade down Disneyland’s Main Street U.S.A. in California on Saturday. Santa’s sleigh broke during the parade and wound up launching the jolly old elf right out of his seat. He was left dangling by his safety harness while he waited for crew members to help him down. Some parade-goers posted video showing Santa remaining calm while dangling a few feet off the ground. Once he was removed, he walked the rest of the parade route, smiling at guests and spreading holiday cheer with his sleigh trailing behind. The mishap delayed the parade, but no one was injured by the float collapse.
(For the sake of the many young ears present, I sincerely hope that Santa was not “mic’d up” when the incident occurred!)
(He knows if you’ve been bad or good, but apparently he doesn’t know too much about the condition of his sleigh…)
(Do the elves make Santa’s sled, too? Because I’m guessing that if that’s the case, someone is getting fired!
-NYPost
FROM THE BS POLL VAULT:
A statistical look at who we are and the things we do …
• 82% of us say we’ll be buying cellophane (Scotch) tape this holiday season.
• 69% of us say that the worst part of the holiday season is wrapping presents.
• 87% of us have employers who allow Christmas decorations in the workplace.
• 5% of us say we are still paying off Christmas bills from last year.
• 25% of us say we have tried to get into the wrong car after holiday shopping.
• 45% of us have re-gifted a present to a friend or co-worker.
DID YOU KNOW?
Scientists say that while every planet we know of is sphere-shaped, it is technically possible, taking into account all of the known laws of physics, that a donut-shaped planet could exist.
-Curiosity
BS CHRONOMETER 12.18.18
TODAY’S CELEBIRTHDAYS . . .
1943 [75] Keith Richards, Dartford UK, classic rock guitarist (Rolling Stones-‘Start Me Up’, ‘Satisfaction’)/Rock & Roll Hall of Fame (1989)
1946 [72] Steven Spielberg, Cincinnati OH, movie director-producer (“Indiana Jones” films, “Jurassic Park” films) COMING UP…”Bumblebee” 2018
1954 [64] Ray Liotta, Newark NJ, movie actor (“The Place Beyond the Pines”, “Goodfellas”)/TV actor (“Shades of Blue”, since 2016)
1963 [55] Brad Pitt, Shawnee OK, movie actor (“12 Years a Slave”, “Fight Club”) COMING UP…”Ad Astra” 2019
1975 [43] Sia (Furler), Adelaide, Australia, pop singer (‘Elastic Heart’, ‘Chandelier’)
1975 [43] Randy Houser, Lake MS, country singer (‘How Country Feels’, ‘Runnin’ Outta Moonlight’)
1978 [40] Katie Holmes, Toledo OH, movie actress (“Batman Begins”, “First Daughter”)/TV actress (“The Kennedys” 2011, “Dawson’s Creek” 1998-2003)/Mrs. Tom Cruise 2006-12.
1980 [38] Christina Aguilera, Staten Island NY, TV personality (“The Voice” 2011-2016)/pop singer (‘Beautiful’, ‘Genie In a Bottle’)/5 Grammy Awards/30 million+ albums sold worldwide
1989 [29] Ashley Benson, Anaheim CA, TV actress (‘Hanna Marin’ on “Pretty Little Liars” 2010-17)/movie actress (“Spring Breakers”)
BS REASONS TO PARTY . . .
• “Answer the Telephone Like Buddy the Elf Day”. The idea is to answer: “Buddy the Elf, what’s your favorite color?”, a quote that comes straight from the 2003 Will Ferrell movie.
• “International Migrants Day”, a day of solidarity for migrant workers, on the anniversary of the UN’s 1990 adoption of the International Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrants Workers & Members of Their Families. (Catchy name.)
• “Roast Suckling Pig Day”. Here [co-host], put this apple in your mouth!”
• “Bake Cookies Day”. What’s the best kind of homemade cookie: Chocolate Chip, Oatmeal-Raisin, or Peanut Butter?
• “Flake Appreciation Day”, a fun day created to encourage us to take notice of snow flakes and to be mesmerized by each one that falls.
• “Wear a Plunger on Your Head Day” We’re not exactly what you are supposed to do to observe this special day…
AND REMEMBER . . .
[Wed] Holly Day
[Wed] Oatmeal Muffin Day
[Thurs] Games Day
[Thurs] Go Caroling Day
THIS DAY IN SHOW BIZ . . .
1966 [52] Dr. Seuss’ “How the Grinch Stole Christmas” airs on TV for 1st time
2009 [09] “Avatar”, directed by James Cameron, opens in movie theaters (with a reported budget of $300 million-plus, it’s said to be the most expensive movie ever made; fortunately, it’s also the most successful, with $2.8 billion in worldwide box office. ‘Avatar 2′ is slated for release in 2020)
TODAY’S MUSIC EVENTS . . .
1983 [35] With Mick Jagger serving as best man, Keith Richards weds long-time girlfriend Patti Hansen on his 40th birthday in Cabo San Lucas, Mexico
2011[07] One Direction play their first show, performing at Watford Colosseum in London. It does not go well. Niall Horan says, “We were just a joke.”
TODAY’S FIRST . . .
2006 [12] United Arab Emirates holds its 1st-ever elections
BULL’S BITS
BS WACK FACTS:
✓ Students can remember about 30% more information when doodling in class.
✓ Adults spend more time each morning checking emails than eating breakfast, according to a study.
✓ About 68% of people experience “phantom vibration syndrome” where you mistakenly think your phone is buzzing in your pocket.
✓ Using iTunes to build nuclear weapons is against their terms of service.
✓ Drunk men smile more often than drunk women.
-WhattheFFacts
BS EASY WAYS TO RUIN CHRISTMAS:
• Start your diet on December 24th
• Have a birthday on December 25th
• Give your daughter a gift certificate for a boob job
• Grandma getting run over by a reindeer
• Shoot your eye out
• Put me in charge of baking
• A well-wrapped charcoal briquette can easily be mistaken for a ring gift box
• Discuss politics
• Explain to the kids that “Santa” fell asleep and forgot to put the presents under the tree
• Invite Cousin Eddie
-Twitter
Best of BS . . .
BS TOP SIGNS YOU’RE SICK OF THE HOLIDAYS:
• You’ve got red and green bags under your eyes
• You’re serving reindeer pot pie
• When you hear, “Sleigh bells ring, are you listenin’?” you scream, “No! I’m not listening!”
• You climb on your roof and start shooting carolers with your BB gun
• You think you hear your Christmas tree taunting you
• You’re busted for running through town wearing nothing but mistletoe
• You’ve got eggnog coming out of your ears
• Your standard response, “Happy freakin’ holidays to you too”
• You opt to stay in bed until April
-Neloo, first published in ‘BS’ in 2017
BS X-MAS TRIVIA:
1. What traditional Christmas decoration is actually a parasitic plant?
a. Mistletoe [CORRECT]
b. Holly
c. Ivy
d. Cousin Eddie
2. In the TV special “How the Grinch Stole Christmas,” what three words best describe the Grinch?
a. Ho, ho, ho
b. Fa-la-la
c. Stink, stank, stunk [CORRECT]
d. Low-key, woke, GOAT
-WhiteElephantRules
BS PHONE STARTER:
What is your worst-ever Christmas shopping fail?
BS RANDOM JOKE:
What I like about Christmas is that you can make people forget the past with the present.
BS WATER COOLER QUESTION:
Question: 10% of families will do this before breakfast on Christmas morning. What?
Answer: Argue.
BS DEEP THOUGHT:
He who has not Christmas in his heart will never find it under a tree.
