Thursday, February 10, 2022 – Edition: #7165
Good Morning, Sheetheads!
BS SHOW BIZ BUZZ:
★ The medic who rushed to help “Rust” cinematographer Halyna Hutchins after Hutchins was shot on set has filed a negligence lawsuit against several crew members and the film’s production entity, but notably NOT against Alec Baldwin. Cherlyn Schaefer was summoned to the Bonanza Creek Ranch near Santa Fe, N.M., on Oct. 21, after Hutchins and director Joel Souza were accidentally shot by Baldwin while preparing for a scene. In the suit, she alleges she has suffered “tremendous shock, trauma and severe emotional distress” as a result of Hutchins’ death, and has been medically unable to return to work. She’s the fourth crew member to file suit following the shooting.
-Yahoo
★ Adorable puppies may be battling it out on the field on Super Bowl Sunday, but their feline counterparts will sadly be sitting this year out. Hallmark’s annual “Kitten Bowl” has officially been canceled for 2022. A Facebook post by the Hallmark Channel says: “We are not currently developing original animal-centric programming.” The annual event, coinciding with the Super Bowl, not only offered viewers an adorable event filled with kittens running around and playing, but also proved to be a major adoption event.
-PopCulture
★ The estates of Robin Williams and George Carlin say Pandora has been “willfully” streaming the late comedians’ recorded routines without proper licensing or even “a fraction of a penny” in compensation to the trailblazing comics’ heirs. In new copyright infringement suits filed Monday alongside complaints from fellow funnymen Andrew Dice Clay, Ron White and Bill Engvall, the estates claim the comedians’ works “continue to be exploited, performed, broadcast, and streamed” across Pandora’s platforms without proper permission and without any “substantive response” to warnings over the past few years. They ask for at least $4.1 million in damages for Williams’s estate and $8.4 million for Carlin’s estate.
-Yahoo
★ When Channing Tatum hits the dance floor again for “Magic Mike’s Last Dance”, Matthew McConaughey might be joining him. Now that Tatum is busy working on the third Magic Mike movie, he’s teasing a return for McConaughey. The Oscar-winning star played ‘Dallas’, a mentor for Tatum’s ‘Mike Lane’, in the first Magic Mike, but missed the sequel, Magic Mike XXL.
-PopCulture
TODAY’S SHOW BIZ SKED:
• “Jimmy Kimmel Live” (ABC/Global): Arnold Schwarzenegger, Rachel Wolfson
• “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert” (CBS/Global): Kristen Stewart, Jonathan Van Ness (R)
• “The Late Late Show with James Corden” (CBS/CTV): Lily Collins, William Jackson Harper, St. Vincent (R)
• “Watch What Happens Live” (Bravo): Ike Barinholtz, Danielle Brooks
• “The View” (ABC/CTV): Guest co-host Alyssa Farah
• “The Talk” (CBS): Dr. Phil McGraw
• “Live with Kelly and Ryan” (ABC/CTV): Dennis Haysbert, Kelsey Barnard Clark
• “The Ellen DeGeneres Show” (NBC/CTV): Kevin Hart
• “The Kelly Clarkson Show” (Check local listings): Charlie Day, Jenny Slate, Katie Lowes, Malik Yoba, Jet Tila
• “The Drew Barrymore Show” (Check local listings): Sterling K. Brown, Joey King, Esther Povitsky
• “Jeopardy! National College Championship” (ABC): Quarterfinals #3
• “NFL Honors” (ABC): The 2021 season is celebrated with the presentation of awards for MVP, Coach of the Year and more in LA; the unveiling of the 2022 Pro Football Hall of Fame class.
• “2022 Winter Olympics” (NBC, CBC): Men’s and women’s hockey, men’s curling round robin, mixed team aerials final in freestyle skiing, men’s halfpipe snowboarding final and the women’s super-G race in alpine skiing.
BS MUSIC NOTES:
• Beyoncé — While she’s never been short on awards hardware, having broken the record for most wins by a singer in Grammy history last year, Tuesday marked the first time she has ever been nominated for an Academy Award. She’s a contender for Best Original Song with ‘Be Alive’, which she wrote for Best Picture nominee “King Richard”.
• Camila Cabello — shared on Insta a video of her lip-syncing a teaser of a new song. She also hinted fans won’t have long to wait for her next album, showing a picture of her typing out her “album thank-yous” on her Story. Ed Sheeran also recently indicated he has a collab with her on the way. LINK: https://tinyurl.com/bdevhh8s
• Lady GaGa — is set to perform her biggest-ever UK solo show. She was originally set to take to the stage at London’s Tottenham Hotspur Stadium in 2020, but it was delayed due to the pandemic, then shelved. Now she’s set to announce a new gig at the 66,000-capacity venue, and her team is even considering adding a second night.
• Michael Jackson — A biopic based on his life is in the works, called “Michael”. Film company Lionsgate has chosen Graham King to produce after he worked on the Oscar-winning Queen biopic “Bohemian Rhapsody”. It will not only depict his “most iconic performances,” but also offer “informed insight” into his personal life.
• Foo Fighters — Meta has hired the group to play a free, livestreamed concert this Sunday. The show, will start at 8 p.m. Pacific, or immediately following the conclusion of the Super Bowl, whichever occurs later. In addition to streaming on Facebook and Instagram, the performance will be presented in 180-degree virtual-reality in “Horizon Venues”, the company’s social VR app.
• The Monkees — Micky Dolenz, the last surviving member of the group, has announced a short tour. He’ll hit the road for a series of US dates in April that will serve as a celebration of the lives of Davy Jones, Mike Nesmith and Peter Tork, via song and never-before-seen personal footage.
• Blake Shelton – “Rockabye Baby! Lullaby Renditions of Blake Shelton” is now out! The collection features 12 of his best-loved songs, reimagined as…you guessed it…lullabies. Tunes include ‘Austin’, ‘Honey Bee’ and his duet with wife Gwen Stefani, ‘Nobody But You’. LINK: https://tinyurl.com/m4as7h29
• Kelsea Ballerini – will headline the 2022 Players Championship’s Military Appreciation Day Concert. She’s the first female artist to play the event, which takes place March 8 at the 17th hole at the Players Stadium Course at the TPC Sawgrass in Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida.
• Florida Georgia Line — are celebrating a decade of superstardom this year, and the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum is honoring the duo with a new exhibit in Nashville. Both Tyler Hubbard and Brian Kelley were on hand Sunday for the opening of “Florida Georgia Line: Mix It Up Strong”, which chronicles their career using personal items, career mementos and more. It runs until Jan 1, 2023.
SHOOTING THE BULL
SHELF-AWARENESS:
It turns out that the Cincinnati Bengals’ TRUE star will be making an appearance at Super Bowl LVI. The team’s now-infamous “Cart’ is rolling toward LA right now. You haven’t heard of The Cart? Commonly found in high-school classrooms, the Bengals’ three-tiered metal cart went viral in October after being wheeled out for media conferences. The contraption was initially used by the Bengals to conduct interviews outdoors as a result of COVID-19 restrictions with journalists placing microphones, recorders or phones on it. And like any awesome sporting comeback story, the improvised mic stand was initially mocked before becoming a beloved inside-joke of the Bengals team and fans. Now, it even has its own Twitter account, and as the Bengals get set to take on the LA Rams, The Cart is having its big moment. A video posted by the team’s official Twitter account shows it adorned with some of the hardware the team has already won this year, with a GPS-sounding voiceover saying: “Starting route to SoFI Stadium.” The vid includes the caption: “The journey of a lifetime. Official: The Mic Cart is going to the Super Bowl.” And if the Bengals win, don’t be surprised to see the Vince Lombardi trophy being paraded on that very special 4-wheeled chariot. LINKS: https://twitter.com/BengalsMicCart https://tinyurl.com/3wssb4js
(Still, no matter how lucky Bengals fans think that thing is, it’s not near as lucky as you felt when your teacher wheeled one of those things into the classroom . . . with a VCR and a TV sitting on it!)
-CNN
CAT’S GOT YER BACK:
The Lexington Humane Society’s annual Valentine’s “smear campaign” is back for 2022. If you have a pesky ex, or an old flame that you’d like to give the final push-off to…then listen up. Back by “poopular” demand: the Kentucky animal shelter is once again offering a chance to express your disgust for your ex. Until February 15th, you can get your ex’s name inscribed in an adoptable cat’s litter box in exchange for a $10 donation (no full names allowed). Then, as The Lexington Humane Society’s Facebook post puts it: “Our kitties will continue to fart for your broken heart through Tuesday, February 15th.”
(For those who have been “dumped”?)
(“Cat”chy idea!)
(Can you pay extra to have it delivered to your ex?)
-ABC
SESQUIPEDALIAN NARRATIVE:
Sure, a large vocabulary can make you seem – and feel — very intelligent, but according to a new survey, using too many big words can also be a turn-off. What’s more, 3 in 5 people actually use big words to sound smarter – even if they don’t know the meanings. In a poll of more than 1,900 people, commissioned by Preply, 56% said they assume that someone with a complex vocabulary is very smart. And nearly 4 in 5 (78%) agree that using big words makes someone seem even smarter than they are. Which words might make you seem smarter than you are? The survey found that words such as “articulate,” “accolade,” “brevity,” “anomaly,” and “adulation” all rank as terms that might give your IQ an apparent boost. Oh, one caveat: 43% of respondents assume that people who use overly complex language are just TRYING to sound smart, and wind up simply looking pretentious. And by the way, “caveat” finished 11th on the list of words that make you sound smart. Impressed?
(I WOULD be – if either one of us had a clue what “caveat” means!)
(My wife says I don’t NEED big words to sound smart. In fact, she says I don’t need any words at all!)
-StudyFinds
WORDS THAT GEN-XERS MADE POPULAR:
Gen X, those born between 1965-80, were often depicted as relaxed, cynical, and music-loving at their cultural peak in the 1980s and ’90s. You can kinda tell . . .
☞ Chill pill: What you tell someone to take when they are overreacting or stressed. (Needed more today than ever…)
☞ Gnarly: It can mean “bent or “twisted”. But it can also mean “amazing”. (Gnarly, I know!)
☞ Headbanger: Someone who loves heavy metal, which was huge in the 80s.
☞ Yuppie: based on the acronym “young, urban professional”, it refers to an ambitious, and well-educated city-dweller who has a career and an affluent lifestyle.” (And a scarf around the popped collar of his Lacoste alligator shirt!)
☞ Diss: To insult someone, or treat them with well, disrespect. (‘Diss tracks’ came much later, though…)
☞ Hella: It can be an adverb meaning “very, extremely,” as in “that pizza is hella good”. It can also be an adjective, meaning “many, much,” as in “we ate hella pizza last night”. (So, it’s a hella-useful word!)
☞ Trippin’: Means you’re acting like a fool, you’re being too excited, or you’re too bothered about something. (What if you’re trippin’ on chill pills?)
☞ Rock: Of course, the word goes way back before the 80s, but it was the 80s when it started to be used then as a compliment. If someone says “you rock”, it means “you’re absolutely awesome.”
☞ To the max: Short for “to the maximum,” it means “completely” or “extremely.”
☞ Dude: In the 80s, ‘dude’ became a term of address, like “hey, dude”, and of exclamation, like “Dude, that’s awesome!” (And in the 90s, “Dude, where’s my car?”)
-MentalFloss
DID YOU KNOW?
For the first time, chimpanzees have been spotted applying “medicine” to each others’ wounds. In what may be an example of empathy among animals, the chimps were seen capturing insects and applying them to their own wounds, as well as the wounds of others, possibly as a form of medication, during a study conducted in Gabon. The study lead said: “Our 2 closest living relatives, chimpanzees and bonobos . . . swallow leaves of plants with (antiparasitic) properties and chew bitter leaves . . . to kill intestinal parasites, but this is the first recorded instance of animals applying other animal matter — the insects — to open wounds.”
-CNN
BS CHRONOMETER 02.10.22
TODAY’S BS REASONS TO PARTY . . .
• “Flannel Day”, a day for people to wear their best lumberjack-esque attire and enjoy a piece of clothing made to keep them warm during a long winter. (So put on your Canadian uniform!)
• “Teddy Day”, We’ve been playing with them since childhood. This reflects our nurturing personality and is a symbol of affection. The teddy bear is named after President Theodore “Teddy” Roosevelt.
• “Umbrella Day”, honoring the famous invention designed to protect against rain or sunlight. “Parasol” usually refers to an item designed to protect from the sun; “Umbrella” refers to one more suited to protect from rain. (But some of us use ‘umbrella’ for both…sort of an ‘umbrella’ term!)
• “Home Warranty Day”, to educate home builders, real estate professionals and homeowners about insurance-backed structural warranties and home warranty service agreements, and how they can protect when the unexpected happens. (I don’t have a warranty on my A/C, but it’d be a lot cooler if I did!)
• “Plimsoll Day”, honoring Samuel Plimsoll, a member of English Parliament back in the day who championed sailors’ safety while traveling the world’s waterways in crammed-full ships. The “Plimsoll line”, or waterline on a ship where the hull meets the water surface is named after him.
• “International Cribbage Day” Cribbage is one of the oldest regularly played card games. The game was created by Sir John Suckling in the early 17th century, and is derived from the Old English game “nod”.
COMING UP . . .
[Fri] Get Out Your Guitar Day
[Fri] Don’t Cry Over Spilled Milk Day
[Sat] Freedom to Marry Day
[Sat] Darwin Day
[Sun} Super Bowl
TODAY’S CELEBIRTHDAYS . . .
1961 [61] George Stephanopoulos, Fall River MA, TV co-host (“Good Morning America” since 2009)/ABC News chief anchor and political correspondent 2014-21)/Senior advisor to the President 1993-96
1967 [55] Laura Dern, Los Angeles CA, movie actress (“Jurassic Park” movies, “Wild”, “The Fault in Our Stars”) COMING UP… “Jurassic World: Dominion″, 2022
1974 [48] Elizabeth Banks, Pittsfield MA, movie actress (“Pitch Perfect” films, “Hunger Games” films)/directed, wrote, produced, and starred in “Charlie’s Angels” film (2019)
1981 [41] Uzo Aduba, Boston MA, TV actress (‘Crazy Eyes’ on “Orange Is the New Black” 2013-19)
1981 [41] Stephanie Beatriz, Neuquen Argentina, TV actress (“Brooklyn Nine-Nine”, since 2013)
1991 [31] Emma Roberts, Rhinebeck NY, TV actress (‘Chanel Oberlin’ on “Scream Queens” 2015-16, American Horror Story 2013-19/movie actress (“We’re the Millers”)/niece of Julia Roberts. COMING UP…”About Fate”, 2022
1997 [25] Chloë Grace Moretz, Atlanta GA, movie actress (“Let Me In”, “Kick-Ass” movies)
2000 [22] Yara Shahidi, Minneapolis MN, TV actress (‘Zoey Johnson’ on “black-ish” since 2014)
THIS DAY IN SHOW BIZ . . .
2001 [21] Jennifer Lopez’ album “J. Lo” hits #1 in America. Her movie “The Wedding Planner” is #1 at the box office, making her the first artist with a #1 movie and album at the same time
2006 [16] The final episode of cult favorite “Arrested Development” airs on Fox. (a Netflix reboot airs in 2013, and another from 2018-19)
2014 [08] Actress, singer, dancer, and diplomat Shirley Temple dies in Woodside CA at age 85 (she was the top Hollywood box-office draw from 1935-38)
TODAY’S MUSIC EVENTS . . .
1993 [29] 90 million Americans tune in as Michael Jackson appears on Oprah’s prime time special, where he talks about having the skin condition ‘Vitiligo’, and claims he’s had just 2 plastic surgery operations
2011 [11] The video for Rebecca Black’s song ‘Friday’ is uploaded to YouTube and quickly becomes a viral hit, amassing over 180 million views, and becoming the year’s most watched video
TODAY’S FIRST . . .
1996 [26] IBM’s “Deep Blue” becomes the first computer to win a game of chess against a reigning (human) chess champion, Gary Kasparov
BULL’S BITS
BS WHACK FACTS:
✓ It would take about 33 million people holding hands to span Earth at the equator.
✓ Amazon.com was originally called “Cadabra”.
✓ Rabbits can see behind themselves without moving their head.
✓ Hot dogs take mare than 20 years to break down in landfills.
✓ There are no seagulls in Hawaii.
✓ Beavers can hold their breath underwater for 45 minutes (Dam!)
-BathroomReadersInstitute, FactRetriever
Best of BS . . .
BS LOVE MEANS NEVER . . .
• …having to say anything, because you’re both looking at your phones.
• …telling him what you’re really thinking.
• …remembering to close the cupboard. At least that’s what I tell her…
• …getting to decide where to have dinner again.
• …having to say you’re sorry for not being sorry.
• …gonna give you up, never gonna let you down, never gonna run around and desert you.
• (***CAUTION***)…smothering the snoring bastard with his pillow.
• …having to pay for it.
• …ordering a meal and not expecting to share part of it.
• …drinking her wine. Ever.
-Twitter, first published in BS in 2019
TODAY’S SCOOP OF BS:
➠ Valentine’s Day is this Monday. Did you realize that chocolate comes from the cocoa beans of the cacao tree? (Because of this, I consider myself a vegetarian!)
➠ Valentine’s Day is Monday. (So, get shopping guys, or wait a few days, then hustle to the convenience store and get her a card and that tire pressure gauge she’s always wanted!)
➠ For the second year in a row, Calgary has been ranked the ‘Sexiest City’ in Canada. (Nobody could be reached for comment, because they’re “all tied up” right now…)
➠ A study shows plastic surgery does not make you look more attractive. (The study was conducted by looking at Carrot Top, Melanie Griffith and Mickey Rourke.)
➠ Elizabeth Banks is 48 today. (Fans are expected to spend the day wishing happy birthday to Rachel McAdams)
BS WEB GOODIE:
Wow – the look she gave HIM! https://tinyurl.com/2p9au2wt
BS RANDOM JOKE:
Honesty is the best policy, but insanity is a better defence.
BS PHONE STARTER:
Would you prefer to leave where your hometown and never come back, or stay in your hometown and never be able to leave?
BS WATER COOLER QUESTIONS:
Question: Stats show that Super Bowl weekend is the slowest weekend of the year for THIS. What is it?
Answer: Weddings
Question: In a survey of what men want for Valentine’s Day, THIS came in at #2. What is it?
Answer: A card
BS DEEP THOUGHT:
If you love life, life will love you back.
