Monday, November 25, 2024 – Edition: #7842
Get a Load of This Sheet!
BS SHOW BIZ BUZZ:
★ Chuck Woolery, the smooth-talking original host of “Wheel of Fortune,” who also emceed “Love Connection”, and “Scrabble” — and later became a right-wing podcaster — has died. He was 83. Mark Young, Woolery’s podcast co-host and friend, said that he died at his home in Texas with his wife, Kristen, present. Woolery, with his matinee idol looks, coiffed hair and witty banter, was inducted into the American TV Game Show Hall of Fame in 2007 and earned a daytime Emmy nomination in 1978.
-CNN
★ “Wicked” pocketed lots of green over the weekend, coming in on the upper side of projections, and scoring the third-biggest movie opening of the year. A domestic haul of $114 million puts it behind only “Deadpool & Wolverine” ($211 million) and “Inside Out 2” ($151 million) among 2024 releases. “Gladiator II” was no slouch either, landing in second place with an opening weekend take of $55.5 million.
-Variety
★ Kanye West is being sued for allegedly inappropriately touching and forcefully gagging a model during a 2010 music video shoot. Model Jenifer “Jenn” An, who was a contestant “America’s Next Top Model,” alleges in the complaint filed Friday that the rapper sexually assaulted her while on set for La Roux’s ‘In for the Kill’. The shoot reportedly took place around Sept. 7, 2010, at the Chelsea Hotel in New York City. West, who was featured on a remix version of the British pop duo’s song, allegedly “began to choke” her with one hand and then “wrapped his other hand around her neck and continued to strangle her with both hands.”
-PageSix
★ Apple TV+ won’t release its Jon Hamm-led drama “Your Friends & Neighbors” for several months, but it’s already set to get going on a second season. The streamer has renewed the show for season 2, while also setting a premiere date and offering up a first look at the inaugural run. The 9-episode first season of Your Friends & Neighbors will premiere April 11. Hamm stars as ‘Andrew “Coop” Cooper’, a hedge fund manager who’s been fired from his job and recently divorced, and resorts to stealing from the homes of his neighbors. The series also stars Amanda Peet and Olivia Munn.
-HollyWoodReporter
★ Dana Carvey isn’t done with his return to “Saturday Night Live”, but he’s probably packing in the Elon Musk impression for now. In a podcast appearance, Carvey admitted “I can’t do Elon Musk very well. But I can do something that sounds not like anything. He has an incredible accent — South Africa via Canada, via Pennsylvania…it’s a little bit of Australian in there, a little bit of British, but he’s not totally that.” Musk declared the show has been “dying slowly for years” after Carvey impersonated him in a post-election cold open.
-Deadline
TODAY’S SHOW BIZ SKED:
• “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” (ABC/Global): Garth Brooks, Drew Starkey
• “The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon” (NBC/CTV): Kaley Cuoco, Rickie Fowler, Xander Schauffele, Matt Fitzpatrick, Cameron Young, GloRilla
• “The Late Show With Stephen Colbert” (CBS/Global): John Krasinski, Francis Ford Coppola (R)
• “After Midnight” (CBS/Global): Michelle Collins, Vinny Thomas, Akilah Hughes (R)
• “Late Night With Seth Meyers” (NBC/CTV): Jim Gaffigan, Allison Tolman
• “Watch What Happens Live” (Bravo): Yachties & Hotties
• “The View” (ABC/CTV): Colman Domingo
• “The Talk” (CBS): Ralph Macchio; chef Brooke Williamson
• “Live With Kelly and Mark” (ABC/CTV): Kylie Cantrall
• “The Kelly Clarkson Show” (Check local listings): Bowen Yang, Auli’I Cravalho, Will Butler
• “The Drew Barrymore Show” (Check local listings): Sean Astin
• “The Jennifer Hudson Show” (Check local listings): John Legend, Mubi Long
• “The Voice” (NBC): The Playoffs Part 2
• “The Neighborhood” (CBS): Marty and Courtney prepare for Daphne’s christening; Malcolm is dating someone new and Tina is delighted to meet her.
• “NCIS” (CBS): Things become tense when Knight is assigned to protect his wife after the home of a high-level defense contractor is attacked. Followed by a new “NCIS: Origins”.
• “NFL Football” (ABC, ESPN, TSN): Baltimore Ravens @ Los Angeles Chargers
BS MUSIC NOTES:
• Lizzo – It’s no secret that she’s been putting in the work at the gym for a while now, and on Friday, she posted stunning new pics on Instagram, showing that her weight loss has been dramatic. The series of shots and a short video show her in a car, wearing a sheer white top, with her hair in “milkmaid braids.” Fans were quick tell her she looks amazing. LINK: https://tinyurl.com/493yjrt7
• Kendrick Lamar — is ending 2024 with a bang. He surprised fans by dropping his 6th studio album on Friday. “GNX” contains 12 songs, and features contributions from SZA, Jack Antonoff, Kamasi Washington, Roddy Ricch, and more.
• Sum 41 — will wrap up their career by being inducted into the Canadian Music Hall of Fame. The group is scheduled to play its final show in Toronto on Jan. 30, but will play one last performance when it is honored at the 2025 Juno Awards in Vancouver on March 30.
• Aerosmith – The Muppets are taking over their roller coaster. Disney has officially announced that the 25-year-old Aerosmith-themed “Rock ‘n’ Roller Coaster” at Disney’s Hollywood Studios will be re-tooled, to allow the Muppets to team up with some of “music’s biggest stars for a rockin’ music festival!” No date for the change has been announced. LINK: https://shorturl.at/n7L5p
• Lynyrd Skynyrd — The most famous piano in southern rock is being auctioned and is estimated to fetch up to $150,000. The 100-year-old Baldwin grand piano, which was used on Skynyrd’s “Street Survivors” album, as well as on Derek & The Dominos’ “Layla” and The Allman Brothers’ “Eat a Peach”, is part of an auction of memorabilia from the New York studio The Hit Factory. LINK: https://tinyurl.com/2m2sdeu3
• Luke Combs – At the CMA Awards last week, he was asked about the fact that he was named People’s Sexiest 34-Year-Old Man. The honor is part of the magazine’s “Sexy at Every Age” list, where they picked one man for every age between 20 and 40. His reaction: “I was like, down year. 1990 must have been a down year. “I thought it (must be) a Most Cheeseburgers Eaten list.”
• Riley Green – has dropped the new holiday tune ‘Christmas To Me’. The ballad is rooted in Southern traditions and family values. Last week, he won Musical Event of the Year at the 2024 CMA Awards for his duet Ella Langley, ‘You Look Like You Love Me’. LINK: https://tinyurl.com/2ktrma3j
• Jelly Roll – On Friday, the same day that he dropped ‘Hurt’, his new collab with OneRepublic, and the same week that he announced a stadium tour with Post Malone, Jelly also released ‘Run It’, a clap-along ditty for the “Sonic the Hedgehog 3” soundtrack. LINK: https://tinyurl.com/28puxnhb
SHOOTING THE BULL
GONE BANANAS:
The guy who made headlines by paying $6.2 million for a banana says he plans to – eat it. Cryptocurrency entrepreneur Justin Sun bought piece of artwork, named “Comedian”, at auction in New York last week, and naturally paid for it using crypto. Created by the Italian artist and satirist Maurizio Cattelan, it features a banana duct-taped to a wall. Sun announced: “In the coming days, I will personally eat the banana as part of this unique artistic experience, honoring its place in both art history and popular culture.” The good news for him is that his snack won’t change the value of his investment. The $6.2 million purchase got him a roll of duct tape, instructions on how to “install” the banana properly and, very importantly, a certificate of authenticity guaranteeing the artwork, when reproduced by Sun, as an original work of Cattelan’s. Good thing, too – because the banana wasn’t actually included in his winnings, and it’d probably be no-good by now anyway. Sun tweeted: “This is not just an artwork; it represents a cultural phenomenon that bridges the worlds of art, memes, and the cryptocurrency community.” LINK: https://tinyurl.com/2hpccnht
(In other words, he got stoned and bought a banana for $6 million!)
(If I get super-rich through crypto, I won’t be telling anyone, but there will be signs…)
(Apparently money can’t buy taste, but it can buy an overpriced banana…)
-NBCNews
MANIFESTING MANIFEST:
The word of the year for 2024, according to Cambridge Dictionary, is “manifest.” And that’s quite an accomplishment for a word that’s 600 years old. But manifest has been given new life by well-known people like Olympian Simone Biles, singer Dua Lipa, and social media influencers, who have increasingly been using the word to describe channelling their dreams into successes. As a verb, manifest means to use methods such as visualization and affirmation to “help you imagine achieving something you want,” according to Cambridge. Before 2024, manifest was mainly used in the self-help community. But Cambridge says that changed when Biles, a gymnast, talked about “manifesting” her success at the Paris Olympics, and Dua Lipa said she “manifested” headlining to a crowd of 100,000 fans.
(Ah — This explains so much! For the last 10 months, I’ve been thinking ‘Manifest’ is some new music festival!)
(To me, “Manifest” will always be a TV show that started off awesome, and then became a huge disappointment – just like “Lost”!)
-CBC
LIVING LONGER IS A WALK IN THE PARK:
A new study says that you could add 11 years to your life simply by adding a daily walk to your routine. The study, led by researchers at Griffith University in Australia, challenges previous estimates of the benefits of physical activity, which were largely based on self-reported data. The new data revealed that if every American over the age of 40 was as physically active as the most active 25% of the population, they could expect to live an extra 5 years, on average. And if you are among the LEAST active 25% of the population, you could add an average 11 years to your life if you stepped up (literally!) your physical activity to match those who are most active. The scientists determined that would involve adding about 111 minutes per day of normal-paced walking, which is about 3mph (5kph).
(Awesome. Now when she complains that you parked too far from the store, you can say you did it because you care!)
(The only problem for me is this: I love to smoke when I’m out for a walk!)
-StudyFinds
NAME THAT BABY:
A baby-naming expert has released her list of “icks” when it comes to selecting the right name for a child – and she also has identified which names are trending for 2025. Colleen Slagen, who works with Parents.com, said in a TikTok video that she finds it “cringey” when parents give their kids names that sound “overly matchy” with their siblings. You know the routine: When the children’s names rhyme, or when there are 4 or 5 kids whose names all start with the same letter – or maybe they all end with the “Y” sound. Slagen also has a problem with moms who “steal” someone else’s prospective baby name. She admits that no one “owns” a baby name, but if you take a baby name idea from someone simply because they haven’t had the chance to use it yet, “That’s an ick.” Her other big ick to avoid involves “crazy” spellings of common names. Quote: “Changing the spelling of a super common name is not the way to be original.” In conjunction with Parents.com, here are the “hot trending” baby names for 2025 in the USA (not necessarily the most-popular, but gaining in popularity…):
GIRLS: BOYS:
Margot George
Georgia Cal
Miller Beckham
Scottie Tate
Andie Rocky
Billie Hollis
Lottie Teddy
Goldie Boden
Louise Casey
Hallie Crew
LINK: https://tinyurl.com/43dvthw8
(Another ick for me is when people give their kid a name that’s going to sound really silly when that child grows up. Like “Judge Kaylee will now call the court to order”??)
-NYPost, Parents
DID YOU KNOW?
Police in Peru arrested a man caught trying to leave the country with 320 tarantulas strapped to his body. The 28-year-old, from South Korea, was stopped at Jorge Chávez International Airport in Lima after officials noticed that his stomach area looked “bulky.” The country’s national forestry and wildlife service said he also had 110 centipedes and 9 bullet ants strapped to his body. (Well, a tarantula’s gotta eat!)
-CNN
BS CHRONOMETER 11.25.24
TODAY’S BS REASONS TO PARTY . . .
• “Parfait Day”, saluting the yummy treat that’s concocted from layers of ice cream, whipped cream, and any combination of syrups and fruits. Yes, it’s basically a fancy word for a sundae . . . likely because it’s usually served in a fancy glass.
• “Shopping Reminder Day”, marking exactly 1 month until Christmas Day. Just what you wanted to hear, huh? (If anyone is shopping for me, I take a size large in cash!)
• “International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women”, initiated by activists in 1981 and adopted by the UN in 1999 to help raise awareness of this worldwide problem. LINK: https://tinyurl.com/yckmp8rc
• “Blasé Day”, a perfect day for the world-weary to revel in their apathy. (Eh, who cares.)
• “Eat With a Friend Day”, to bring awareness to the fact that social isolation and poor nutrition go hand in hand for many seniors. While it would be perfectly fine for you to get together and enjoy a meal with anyone who might not have much in the way of companionship, it’s particularly important to find ways to help your aging loved ones find more joy in eating — and in life!
AND REMEMBER . . .
[Tues] Cake Day
[Tues] Good Grief Day
[Wed] Electric Guitar Day
[Thurs] Thanksgiving Day (U.S.)
This Week is…Better Conversation Week
This Month is…Model Railroad Month
TODAY’S CELEBIRTHDAYS . . .
1944 [80] Ben Stein, Washington DC, movie actor (“Ferris Bueller’s Day Off”, “Mask”)/TV game show host (“Win Ben Stein’s Money”)
1947 [77] John Larroquette, New Orleans LA, TV actor (“Night Court” 1984-92″, “Night Court” sequel series since 2023, “Boston Legal” 2007-08)
1955 [69] Bruno Tonioli, Ferrara Italy, choreographer/dancer/TV personality (“Dancing With the Stars” since 2005, BBC “Strictly Come Dancing” 2004-22, “Britain’s Got Talent” since 2023)
1960 [64] Amy Grant, Augusta GA, country-pop-gospel singer (‘Baby Baby’, w/Peter Cetera-‘The Next Time I Fall’)/6-time Grammy winner/married to Vince Gill since 2000
1971 [53] Christina Applegate, Hollywood CA, TV actress (“Dead to Me” 2019-22, “Married with Children” 1987-97)/movie actress (“Anchorman” movies, “Bad Moms” movies)
1975 [49] Kristian Nairn, Lisburn Northern Ireland, 6′-10” TV actor (‘Hodor’ on “Game of Thrones” 2011-16)/“Our Flag Means Death” 2022-23)
1983 [41] Joey “Jaws” Chestnut, Vallejo CA, competitive eater (holds 52 gluttonous world records, including for eating 76 hot dogs in 10 minutes in 2021/currently ranked #1 in the world by the International Federation of Competitive Eating) LINK: http://majorleagueeating.com/rankings.php
THIS DAY IN SHOW BIZ . . .
1992 [32] “The Bodyguard”, starring Whitney Houston in her first film role (and Kevin Costner), is released. The highlight is Houston’s rendition of ‘I Will Always Love You’, which hits #1 3 days later. (Best-selling soundtrack album of all-time, est. 45 million)
2002 [22] Actor and major Elvis fan Nicholas Cage files for divorce from Lisa Marie Presley (Elvis’ daughter) after less than 4 months, citing ‘irreconcilable differences’.
TODAY’S MUSIC EVENTS . . .
1984 [40] In London, Bono, George Michael, David Bowie, Phil Collins, Paul McCartney and a host of other stars record ‘Do They Know It’s Christmas?’. The song, credited to Band Aid, is the first big all-star charity single.
2021 [03] “The Beatles: Get Back”, a 3-part series comprised of outtakes from their “Let It Be” documentary, debuts on Disney+. Directed by Peter Jackson, it provides a very detailed look at the 1969 recording of their album “Let It Be” (wins 5 Primetime Emmys, among other awards).
TODAY’S FIRST . . .
1867 [157] Chemist Alfred Nobel patents dynamite as an alternative to highly unstable nitroglycerin. He would later use his will to establish Nobel Prizes “to those who, during the preceding year, have conferred the greatest benefit to humankind”.
BULL’S BITS
BS WHACK FACTS:
✓ The first alarm clock could only ring at 4am.
✓ The year on a bottle of wine refers to when the grapes were picked, not when the wine was bottled.
✓ Dark roasted coffee is weaker than medium roast. Roasting burns off caffeine.
✓ Elvis Presley owned $60,000 worth of prescription sunglasses when he died.
✓ The words Arctic and Antarctic can be traced to the simple meanings: “Bears” and “Opposite the Bears.”
✓ Your earlobes line up with your nipples.
-BathroomReadersInstitute, BestLife
Best of BS . . .
HONEST THANKSGIVING CARDS:
• “This is just like Christmas, but without the presents: Happy Thanksgiving!”
• “So, so sorry I couldn’t make it to the 17 fun family events you scheduled: Happy Thanksgiving!”
• “No, I’d rather not help with the cooking, but thank-you for asking: Happy Thanksgiving!”
• “Yes, I have gained weight. Let’s discuss it at length while I cry into this slice of pecan pie: Happy Thanksgiving!”
• “Please stop giving me romantic advice: Happy Thanksgiving!”
• “Let’s wrap this up before the game starts: GO SPORTS! Happy Thanksgiving!”
• “Please stop baiting me into a political debate. I know you haven’t changed your mind since 1985: Happy Thanksgiving!”
• “I am never going to accept your Facebook friend request, like ever: Happy Thanksgiving!”
• “I will get there when I get there and I will leave when I leave: THIS IS NOT A DEBATE: Happy Thanksgiving!”
• “I wish I hadn’t come: Happy Thanksgiving!”
-CetoriaTomberlin, first published in BS in 2014
BS STUPID QUESTIONS AT A TAILGATE PARTY:
• “Why are we six hours early?”
• “What do you have for a vegan who doesn’t drink?”
• “See any rednecks?”
• “Who wants to drink?”
• “Is there a game today?”
• “Dude, Where’s my car?”
• “You gonna marinate that?
• “Are we staying for the game?”
• “Wanna shotgun a beer and go flip that hatchback upside down?”
• “Tell me again why we are out in subfreezing weather, four hours before game time, cooking wings and ribs in the sleet when we could be in our warm house drinking beer, ordering pizza and watching the game on the 84 inch flat screen?”
–Twitter, first published in BS in 2019
BS WEB GOODIE:
I’m having a day: https://tinyurl.com/5ajxcawn
BS RANDOM JOKE:
To me, the real heroes are people who take naps. It takes a lot of courage to wake up twice in one day…
BS U-PICK TRIVIA:
• What object does a male penguin often gift to a female penguin?
a) A fish
b) A twig
c) A pebble [CORRECT]
d) A weekend getaway in the Hamptons
• Who has served as host of “Saturday Night Live” the most times?
a) Alce Baldwin [CORRECT, 17]
b) Justin Timberlake
c) Tina Fey
d) Boris Johnson
• What is another name for cranberries?
a) Redberries
b) Bounceberries [CORRECT]
c) Jamberries
d) Yuckberries
-Brightful
BS PHONE STARTER:
☎ Which sport is the most exciting to watch? Which is the most boring?
BS WATER COOLER QUESTIONS:
• If you have one of these, you’ll open it approximately 1,500 times this year. What is it?
Answer: A garage door
• About 40 million of THESE have been sold in the month leading up to US Thanksgiving. What are they?
Answer: Boxes of Stove Top stuffing
BS DEEP THOUGHT:
The wise do at once what the fool does at last.
