Monday, January 7, 2019 Edition: #6366
Can You Believe This Sheet?
BS SHOW BIZ BUZZ:
★ Kevin Hart doesn’t understand the volatile reaction he received after sitting down with Ellen DeGeneres to address his past homophobic remarks and the situation with hosting the Academy Awards. On Instagram on Saturday, Hart asked: “When did we get to the point where we forgot that we all learn, then we have the ability to grow and with that growth comes a wealth of knowledge.” Ellen defended the interview by explaining, “I believe in forgiveness. I believe in second chances.”
-TheBlast
★ Brian Dunkleman is defending his new job as an Uber driver. The former “American Idol” co-host took to Twitter last week to respond to trolls shaming him for his employment with the ride-hailing service. Dunkelman wrote that he “chose to stop doing standup comedy and started driving an Uber” so he could be there for his son as much as he needed after “our life as we knew it was destroyed.” He is currently in an ongoing divorce and custody battle with his estranged wife over their 5-year-old son, Jackson. Dunkleman co-hosted Idol alongside Ryan Seacrest during the show’s first season in 2002.
-MSN
★ Jim Parsons knew it was time to say goodbye to “The Big Bang Theory” because, as he puts it, the writers “had chewed all the meat off this bone” when it came to storylines. In an interview, Parsons said that “It’s both as complex and as simple as just feeling innately that it was time. There is no negative reason to stop doing Big Bang. It felt like we have been able to do this for so many years now, it doesn’t feel like there is anything left on the table.” The Big Bang Theory will wrap at the end of its current season.
-Canoe
★ Ashton Kutcher wanted to give his own heart to his twin brother when he needed a transplant at the age of 13. Kutcher’s twin brother Michael is alive today because of a heart transplant he had after being diagnosed with cardiomyopathy as a child, and having his heart grow to four times its normal size. And Michael – who is living with cerebral palsy, says he has a ”deep appreciation” for Ashton, who was willing to give up his own life to save Michael, before another suitable donor was found.
-ContactMusic
TODAY’S SHOW BIZ SKED:
• “Jimmy Kimmel Live” (ABC/Global): Courteney Cox, Brian Tyree Henry, Mt. Joy
• “The Tonight Show starring Jimmy Fallon” (NBC/CTV): James Spader, Lindsay Lohan, Noname featuring Smino & Saba
• “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert” (CBS/Global): Ethan Hawke, Jon Glaser, Taylor Bennett
• “Late Night with Seth Meyers” (NBC/CTV): Chris Hayes, Donna Missal, Charlie Hall
• ” The Late Late Show with James Corden” (CBS/CTV): Adam McKay, John David Washington, Alec Benjamin
• “Watch What Happens Live” (Bravo): Lisa Vanderpump
• “The View” (ABC/CTV): Malala Yousafzai
• “The Talk” (CBS): Keanu Reeves, Kevin Frazier, Mike Bayer
• “Live with Kelly and Ryan” (ABC/CTV): Josh Hutcherson, the newly-crowned Miss Universe, Tamara Duker Freuman
• “The Ellen DeGeneres Show” (NBC/CTV): Jesse Tyler Ferguson, Kalen Allen
• “America’s Got Talent: The Champions” (NBC): Terry Crews hosts a special edition, bringing in top acts from past seasons of the various international versions of America’s Got Talent.
• “The Bachelor” (ABC): Special three-hour live premiere.
• “Antiques Roadshow” (PBS): Season 23 premiere. Family heirlooms, thrift store finds, and an item valued at $77,500 are appraised at Meadow Brook Hall in Rochester Hills, Mich.
BS MUSIC NOTES:
• Ed Sheeran – is being sued for allegedly copying Marvin Gaye’s hit ‘Let’s Get It On’ in his 2014 song ‘Thinking Out Loud’. Kathryn Townsend Griffin claims she owns a partial copyright to Gaye’s 1973 song as an heir of Ed Townsend, who co-wrote it. Sheeran recently settled copyright claims over his song ‘Photograph’ and one he co-wrote with Tim McGraw and Faith Hill called ‘The Rest of Our Life’.
• Justin Timberlake — Just over two months after postponing numerous dates of his “Man of the Woods” tour due to bruised vocal cords, he is healthy and hitting the stage once again. He posted a triumphant video to Instagram on Thursday night before the tour resumed in Washington, saying: “D.C., we here. We’re back! Can’t wait. Excited — y’all ready?”
• Meghan Trainor — wishes she was pregnant. Trainor, who married actor Daryl Sabara in December, says she cannot wait to become a mother and if she had the choice, she would already be preparing for the arrival of their first child.
• Britney Spears — is taking time off from her Las Vegas residency to head home and care for her father. Jamie Spears had emergency surgery for a ruptured colon and spent 28 days in hospital in Las Vegas. He has since been released to recover at home and is expected to make a full recovery. Jamie is Britney’s conservator and is involved in every facet of her life.
• Santana — will release a new EP, “In Search of Mona Lisa” on Jan. 25. The EP includes three new recordings. The first two songs, ‘Do You Remember Me’ and ‘In Search of Mona Lisa’, were inspired by a trip to Paris, where Carlos Santana saw the famous painting. A Full album is expected in the summer.
• Fleetwood Mac — An online campaign to persuade Stevie Nicks to work at the McDonald’s restaurant in Fleetwood, U.K., has attracted over 20,000 likes. The invitation for Nicks to pull a shift at the “Fleetwood Mac” branch of “The Chain” restaurant is introduced with the pun “sell me fries, sell me sweet little fries,” and a poll for the favorite menu item. Offerings include “Never Going Big Mac Again,” “You Make Grubbin’ Fun” and “Go Your Own Shake.”
• The Tractors — Guitarist Steve Ripley, who served bandleader and producer, died at his home in Pawnee, Okla., on Thursday after a battle with cancer. He was 69. Ripley also played guitar for Bob Dylan, Leon Russell, JJ Cale, Roy Clark, Johnnie Lee Wills and more.
• William Shatner — is set to make his Grand Ole Opry debut. The 87-year-old, best known for his role as Captain James T. Kirk in “Star Trek”, will perform on Feb. 15 alongside Alabama co-founder Jeff Cook. Shatner and Cook previously collaborated on a 2018 country album titled “Why Not Me”.
• Kacey Musgraves – has been booked for two appearances at 2019’s Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival in Indio, Calif. Her performances are scheduled for April 12 and 19.
PUPPY LOVE:
Have you ever been so overwhelmed with how cute a puppy is that you hear yourself saying that you just want to “squish its face”? Or jokingly said that a kitten is so cute that you just “want to eat it”? Among scientists, that is known as “cute aggression”. And it’s not necessarily a bad thing. Researchers at the University of California decided to investigate what happens inside our brains when we experience cute aggression, which they defined as the desire to “to squeeze, crush or bite cute things, albeit without any desire to cause harm.” They conducted an experiment using equipment that measured electrical signals in people’s brain neurons when shown photos of babies and animals. The cuter the animal in the image, the more likely participants were to report cute aggression, and be overcome by positive emotions and caretaking urges. Scientists think that could mean that cute aggression is the brain’s way of ‘bringing us back down’ by mediating our feelings of being overwhelmed. It could be that cute aggression serves as a tempering mechanism that allows us to function and actually take care of something we might first perceive as overwhelmingly cute. Interestingly, in the study, cute aggression toward babies was not observed.
(No matter how cute a baby is, I can’t be “cute overwhelmed” with something that does THAT to a diaper…)
(Cute aggression isn’t necessarily a bad thing…until you end up with a puppy with a squished face!)
(I guess it’s kind of like when you love your teenagers, but you also kinda want to kill them!)
-Newsweek
AND THAT’S AN ORDER:
Grade school officials say they are dealing with a new concern: Students having burgers, paninis and sushi delivered right into their hungry hands at school. It’s a growing trend that has school boards wondering whether they should impose rules on the use of food delivery apps, including Skip the Dishes and Uber Eats, or ban their services altogether. The problem isn’t that students are able to have their lunch delivered, but one of security. A principal of a school in B.C. says about 5-10 lunches were being delivered every day earlier this school year, with delivery drivers showing up at different times and walking through the school to meet students. The school now requires students to pick up food deliveries off school property – — and not during class time.
(THAT sounds a lot safer!)
(Let’s face it, we all wish we could have done this when we were in school!)
(Anything to avoid the gruel they serve up in the cafeteria…)
-CTV
BS POLL VAULT:
• 8% of adults claim that they spent NOTHING on gifts this holiday season.
• 59% of adults admit that they have no idea how to check the oil in their car.
• 41% of us admit to having been paid for something “under the table”.
• 63% of balding men say that losing their hair has negatively affected their career.
• 22% of women say they couldn’t date someone who roots for a team that they hate.
• 44% of us admit that we have watched our kids’ favorite cartoons when they aren’t around.
DID YOU KNOW?
The blue end of the common pink and blue eraser is not designed to erase pen marks. It was designed to erase pencil marks on heavy grades of paper. The pink end is designed to erase pencil marks on lighter grades of paper.
(That explains a whole lot about the condition of my homework in high school!)
-ScoopWhoop
BS CHRONOMETER 01.07.19
TODAY’S CELEBIRTHDAYS . . .
1948 [71] Kenny Loggins, Everett WA, pop singer (‘Danger Zone’, ‘Footloose’, Loggins & Messina- ‘Your Mama Don’t Dance’
1957 [62] Katie Couric, Arlington VA, TV show host (“Today” 1991-2006, “CBS Evening News” 2006-11, “60 Minutes” 2006-11, “Katie” 2012-14, Global Anchor of “Yahoo! News” 2014-17)
1964 [55] Nicolas Cage (Coppola), Long Beach CA, movie actor (“National Treasure” films, “Leaving Las Vegas”)/movie director Francis Ford Coppola’s nephew
1971 [48] Jeremy Renner, Modesto CA, movie actor (“The Bourne Legacy”, “The Hurt Locker”, “Avengers” films)
1974 [45] John Rich, Amarillo TX, country singer (Big & Rich-‘Lost In this Moment’, ex-Lonestar-‘Amazed’)
1982 [37] Lauren Cohen, Philadelphia PA, TV actress (‘Maggie Greene’ on “The Walking Dead” since 2011, “The Vampire Diaries” 2010-12)
1983 [36] Brett Dalton, San Jose CA, TV actor (‘Grant Ward’ on “Marvel’s Agents of Shield” since 2013)
1985 [34] Lewis Hamilton, Stevenage UK, race car driver (2008, 2014, 2015 Formula One World Champion)/first Brit driver in history to win consecutive F1 titles
2000 [19] Marcus Scribner, LA CA, TV actor (‘Andre Johnson Jr.’ on “black-ish” since 2014)
TODAY’S BS REASONS TO PARTY . . .
• “Bobblehead Day”, an annual celebration of the dumb dolls with wobbly noggins that are often handed out as giveaways at sports events. (Then collect dust on a shelf for decades.)
• “I’m Not Going to Take It Anymore Day”, a day to stand up for your rights.
• “International Programmers Day”, honoring the geeks behind many of today’s technological conveniences, pastimes, and work tools.
• “Orthodox Christmas” in many countries worldwide. Why? Both Eastern Orthodox Churches and Oriental Orthodox Churches still use the old Julian calendar.
• “Tempura Day”, celebrating the Japanese cooking tradition of dipping seafood or vegetables in a thin batter of flour and water, then frying them in oil.
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• “Harlem Globetrotter’s Day”, they’ve played a strange part in the lives of us who grew up in the age of classic Scooby-Doo. They were so famous that they would even make appearances in animation. Of the 10 honorary Harlem Globetrotters, two are Popes (Francis and John Paul II), and one is Whoopi Goldberg.
COMING UP . . .
[Tues] Argyle Day
[Tues] Bubble Bath Day
[Wed] National Apricot Day
[Wed] International Choreographers Day
This Week Is…National Pizza Week
This Month Is…National Hobby Month
THIS DAY IN SHOW BIZ . . .
2015 [04] Two gunmen commit a mass shooting at the offices of “Charlie Hebdo” magazine in Paris, France, killing 12 and injuring another 11
TODAY’S MUSIC EVENTS . . .
2006 [13] P!nk marries her motocross racer-boyfriend Carey Hart on a beach in Costa Rica
2012 [07] Lady Antebellum singer Hillary Scott weds drummer Chris Tyrrell near Albany, New York
2012 [07] Beyoncé and Jay-Z have their first child: a daughter named Blue Ivy Carter.
TODAY’S FIRSTS . . .
2009 [10] Then-US president George W Bush invites president-elect Barack Obama and former chief execs Bill Clinton, George HW Bush, and Jimmy Carter for a 5-president luncheon at the White House (the first of gathering of its kind in 27 years)
2018 [01] It snows in the Sahara desert – 15 inches reported in Aïn Séfra, Northwest Algeria
BULL’S BITS
BS WACK FACTS:
✓ If a wolf is kicked out of his pack, he never howls again.
✓ Crabs have teeth in their stomach.
✓ Squirrels can’t burp.
✓ Most elephants weigh less than the tongue of a blue whale.
✓ Bats always turn left when exiting a cave.
✓ The fingerprints of a koala are so indistinguishable from humans that they have on occasion been confused at a crime scene.
-TheDodo, FactsD
BS NEW RELATIONSHIP STATUSES:
• In it for the health insurance
• It’s not complicated, I just refuse to accept that it’s over.
• Willing to explore other options
• I love her, but she still can’t use my toothbrush
• GoFundMe a husband
• I sleep in bed diagonally
• Taken, but in the Liam Neeson sense
• (**CAUTION**) Divorced AF
• It’s constipated
• 404 not found
-Twitter
Best of BS . . .
BS THINGS PEOPLE WHO HATE MORNINGS KNOW TO BE TRUE:
✓ You shower the night before so you can sleep in for an extra 15 minutes.
✓ You also pick your outfit the night before.
✓ You often skip breakfast so you can sleep longer.
✓ As soon as your alarm goes off, the first eleven phrases you utter are all swearwords.
✓ Your life is all about setting a new record for getting ready.
✓ You are incapable of stringing together coherent sentences before 9 am.
✓ You get super confused when people rave about how amazing the sunrise was.
✓ You have perpetual ‘resting bitch-face’ until at least noon.
– Adapted from BuzzFeed.com, first published in ‘BS’ in 2015
BS RANDOM JOKE:
An apple a day keeps the doctor away, but an onion a day keeps everyone away.
BS U-PICK TRIVIA:
1. Although it is rare on Earth, what is the second-most abundant element in the known universe?
a. Helium [CORRECT, Earth is actually running out of helium]
b. Oxygen
c. Hydrogen
d. Common sense
2. Founded as “Mound Metalcraft”, this organization became a household name after changing its name to what?
a. Volkswagen
b. Tonka [CORRECT]
c. Metallica
d. Larry’s Aluminum
-PubTimeTrivia
BS PHONE STARTER:
If you (or your family) had a hashtag, what would it be? #TMI?
BS WATER COOLER QUESTION:
Question: 57% of singles experience this before a first date. What is it?
Answer: Sweaty palms
BS DEEP THOUGHT:
When nothing is sure, everything is possible.
