Tuesday, October 15, 2019 Edition: #6551
Here’s More Bull Roar!
BS SHOW BIZ BUZZ:
★ Will Smith wants to use technology to make a movie with the late Marlon Brando. Word is that Smith was very impressed with the digital likeness created of his 23-year-old self for his new movie “Gemini Man”, and he hopes the avatar can be used again on other projects, with his ”dream” being a collaboration with the late “Godfather” star, who died in 2004 at age 80. Smith told Britain’s “OK!” magazine: ”As the technology gets better and better, can a young Will Smith make a movie with a young Marlon Brando? That’s what I’m thinking.”
-ContactMusic
★ Bryan Cranston is hailing Robert Forster as a ”lovely man and a consummate actor” following his death. Cranston, who stars alongside Forster in “El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie”, wrote on Twitter: ”I’m saddened today by the news that Robert Forster has passed away. A lovely man and a consummate actor. I met him on the movie “Alligator” 40 years ago, and then again on BB (“Breaking Bad”). I never forgot how kind and generous he was to a young kid just starting out in Hollywood. RIP Bob.” 78-year old Robert Fowler, who also starred in “Jackie Brown”, died of cancer on Friday.
-ContactMusic
★ Ryan Murphy’s five-year-old son Ford has beaten cancer. Last year, the “American Horror Story” creator revealed Ford had been diagnosed with neuroblastoma as a toddler. Following Ford’s diagnosis, Ryan Murphy and his family donated $10 million to the UCLA Jonson Comprehensive Cancer Center, which helped create a wing that specializes in helping children access the best treatment.
-MSN
★ “Pose” star Billy Porter will be playing the Fairy Godmother in Sony Pictures’ live-action reimagining of “Cinderella”. Camila Cabello will play the title role, and Idina Menzel is in talks to play the evil stepmother. Porter’s credits include FX’s “Pose” (for which he won an Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series Primetime Emmy), and most recently, Taylor Swift’s music video for her song ‘You Need to Calm Down’.
-TheWrap
★ Paul Rudd says he feared he’d be axed from “Friends” after an awkward run-in with co-star Jennifer Aniston. Rudd says that when he was on-set for his very first episode, Aniston was using a Segway because she had broken her toe. After Matt LeBlanc asked to try it out, and immediately got a handle on how to use it, Rudd says “I then asked to try it too. I spun round and rolled it right over Jennifer’s foot!” It appears there are no hard feelings between the pair, as Jennifer went on to play Paul’s wife in the 2012 movie “Wanderlust”.
-Canoe
TODAY’S SHOW BIZ SKED:
• “Jimmy Kimmel Live” (ABC/Global): Elton John, Taika Waititi, Thom Yorke
• “The Tonight Show starring Jimmy Fallon” (NBC/CTV): Demi Moore, Justin Hartley, Mark Ronson featuring Yebba (R)
• “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert” (CBS/Global): Paul McCartney (R)
• “Late Night with Seth Meyers” (NBC/CTV): John McEnroe, Toni Collette, the Hold Steady, Terri Lyne Carrington (R)
• “The Late Late Show with James Corden” (CBS/CTV): Sean Hayes, Kate Bosworth, Charlotte Day Wilson (R)
• “Lights Out with David Spade” (COMEDY): Moshe Kashe, Lara Beitz, Bella Thorne
• “Conan” (TBS): Seann William Scott, Jena Friedman (R)
• “Watch What Happens Live” (Bravo): Tamra Judge, Leeanne Locken
• “The View” (ABC/CTV): Rachael Ray
• “The Talk” (CBS): Jaime Pressly
• “Live with Kelly and Ryan” (ABC/CTV): Lupita Nyong’o, Alyssa Milano, Amy E. Goodman
• “The Ellen DeGeneres Show” (NBC/CTV): Nicole Kidman, Charlize Theron, Margot Robbie, Midland
• “The Kelly Clarkson Show” (CHECK LOCAL LISTINGS): Tyler Perry, Ben Platt
• “Arrow” (CW): Season 8 premiere
• “The Purge” (USA): Season 2 premiere
• “The Voice” (NBC): The battle rounds continue as the coaches enlist Normani, Darius Rucker, Usher and will.i.am to prepare their artists to go head-to-head in hopes of advancing to the knockouts
BS MUSIC NOTES:
• Justin Bieber – posted a photo of a gluten-free beer on his Instagram Story over the weekend, with the words: “Worst news ever. I’m officially allergic to gluten. No more Coronas unless they make gluten free beer like this! Sad day.”
• Taylor Swift — attended Madonna’s concert in Brooklyn on Saturday night, and later gave the Madame X Tour big props on Instagram. Alongside what appears to be a backstage photo with friends, Swift wrote: “Thank you @Madonna for an outstanding show. Shout out to the phenomenal dancers, singers, musicians, set designers, crew, wardrobe, glam, and M who gave it everything.”
• Elton John – In his new memoir “Me”, he remembers Michael Jackson as a “disturbing person” plagued with mental illness during the final years of his life. John writes that he met Jackson when he was a teen. But it wasn’t until his later years that John questioned “what prescription drugs he was being pumped full of.” Quote: “He was genuinely mentally ill, a disturbing person to be around.”
• Van Halen — Eddie Van Halen has reportedly been flying to Germany for 5 years for radiation treatment for throat cancer. The good news is that for the most part, it has worked to keep the disease in check. In 2000, he was diagnosed with tongue cancer and shortly afterward, doctors removed around 1/3 of his tongue.
• The Black Crowes – A reunion appears to be on the horizon. Former manager Pete Angelus said that he is “aware of the deal” that Chris and Rich Robinson “made with Live Nation for a 2020 tour.” The group has been inactive since 2013.
• Rolling Stones — Ronnie Wood says he can’t believe he’s ”still here today” after battling drug addiction. His new documentary “Somebody Up There Likes Me” details the depths of his addiction, which at one point shows him freebasing cocaine. In the film, he says that “it was controlling me…It took me about three years to get off it.” The movie premiered on Sat. at the London Film Fest.
• (***CAUTION: Album title***) Green Day — Billie Joe Armstrong he was “pulling his…hair out” while making the band’s new album, “Father of All Motherf***ers”, out in Feb. He toyed around with various sounds inspired by the 60s British mod period, but it was a lot of trial and error because he wanted to see if he “could put [it] through the Green Day filter.”
• Neil Young — has released a trailer for his upcoming movie “Mountaintop”, which documents the making of his first new album with Crazy Horse in seven years, “Colorado”. The film will hit theaters for one night on Oct. 22, just before the album’s release on Oct. 25.
• Trace Adkins — is a married man. According to a post on his Instagram account, he tied the knot on Saturday in New Orleans. The new Mrs. is Victoria Pratt, an actress that Adkins has been dating for several years. This is Adkins’ fourth marriage.
• Lady Antebellum – Charles Kelly says it was Sheryl Crow who inspired the group’s decision to get involved in music education. He says it was “really cool” to hear “how passionate she is about it. One of the things we want to get more involved with is getting younger kids interested in actually playing instruments again,” as opposed to creating music with computers.
THIS WEEK’S VIDEO RELEASES: (Streaming and/or DVD)
• “Fast & Furious: Hobbs & Shaw” (PG-13, Action/Adventure): Lawman Luke Hobbs and outcast Deckard Shaw form an unlikely alliance when a cyber-genetically enhanced villain threatens the future of humanity. (Dwayne Johnson, Jason Statham, Idris Elba)
• “Crawl” (R-Rated, Horror): A young woman, while attempting to save her father during a category 5 hurricane, finds herself trapped in a flooding house and must fight for her life against alligators. (Kaya Scodelario, Barry Pepper)
• “The Art of Self-Defense” (R-Rated, Comedy): A man is attacked at random on the street. He enlists at a local dojo, led by a charismatic and mysterious sensei, in an effort to learn how to defend himself. (Jesse Eisenberg, Alessandro Nivola)
• “3 From Hell” (R-Rated, Horror): First there was House of 1000 Corpses. Then there was The Devil’s Rejects. Now, from writer/director Rob Zombie comes the next blood-soaked chapter as crazed killers Baby Firefly, Captain Spaulding and Otis Driftwood unleash bloody mayhem after escaping from prison. (Sheri Moon Zombie, Bill Moseley)
MOBILE MOBILE:
Sure, it’s exciting when you finally take the plunge and get a new cell phone. But then you have to transfer all your data from your old one, and that’s a task that not only takes time, it is often a job better left to an expert. Cell service provider Rogers Wireless in Toronto is offering a new delivery and set-up service that offers to…well, do exactly that. They say a techie will meet you at a place and time of your choosing, and will make sure all your apps and files are transferred to the new phone, and that everything’s running smoothly by the end of the maximum two-hour appointment. There is no extra charge for the ‘Pro-on-the-Go’ service, which is provided by a third party known as “Enjoy”. The service is already offered in the U.S. and the U.K., and Rogers plans to expand the program to other major Canadian cities in the coming months.
(So if you see a lot of people at Starbucks who seem really engrossed in their phones…wait, never mind. EVERYONE at Starbucks is really engrossed in their phones!)
(I’d do this just to avoid the lineup at the Apple Store!)
(Can you imagine some of the things these guys have seen?)
-TorontoStar
NO DUMPING:
It sounds strange, but in Springfield, Missouri, they are decorating the dog poo. As part of a campaign to encourage dog owners to clean up after their pets, officials are planting small flags in piles of abandoned dog poo in the downtown area. The flags contain messages such as “Is this your turd? ’Cus that’s absurd” and “This is a nudge to pick up the fudge”. The city’s Environmental Services department says that the flags are made of bamboo and recycled paper. The campaign began last week.
(If I worked for the city, I think I’d rather clean it up than have to go around sticking flags in it!)
(“Honey? Why has the dog got a flag sticking out of his nose?”)
(***Ask listeners to come up with their own (air-able) poo messages!***)
-AP
DID YOU KNOW?
Raking your leaves destroys ecosystems. Fallen leaves create a natural layer that butterflies, moths, salamanders, chipmunks, box turtles, toads, shrews, worms and other species rely on for food and shelter.
-DidYouKnow
BS CHRONOMETER 10.15.19
TODAY’S CELEBIRTHDAYS . . .
1937 [82] Linda Lavin, Portland ME, TV actress (“Alice” 1976-85, “The Good Wife” 2014-15, “Santa Clarita Diet” 2019)
1959 [60] Emeril Lagasse, Fall River MA, TV chef (“Essence of Emeril”, “Emeril Live”)/restaurateur (a string of eateries in Las Vegas, Orlando, etc.)
1959 [60] Sarah (“Fergie”) Ferguson, London England, Duchess of York/TV personality/author/film producer/married to Prince Andrew 1986-96)
1969 [50] Kimberly Schlapman, Cornelia GA, country singer (Little Big Town-‘Girl Crush’, ‘Pontoon’)
1970 [49] Ginuwine (Elgin Baylor Lumpkin), Washington DC, hip-hop artist (‘Pony’, ‘In Those Jeans’)
1981 [38] Keyshia Cole, Oakland CA, R&B singer-songwriter (‘Enough of No Love’, ‘I Remember’)
BS REASONS TO PARTY . . .
• “Global Handwashing Day”, the 12th annual as part of a campaign to motivate people everywhere to wash their hands with soap, a key factor in disease prevention.
NET: http://www.globalhandwashingday.org
• “Grouch Day”, a day to be grumpy, ungrateful, and cantankerous, and a day to allow grouches everywhere time to spout off. (***Oscar the Grouch sounds here***): NET: https://www.soundboard.com/sb/Oscar_The_Grouch_sound
• “International Day of Rural Women”, a UN observance since 2008.
• “Mushroom Day”, saluting the fungus among us. And you thought you were the only thing kept in the dark and fed crap.
• “White Cane Safety Day”, set aside since 1964 to celebrate the achievements of the visually impaired and their important tool of independence, the white cane.
• “Face Your Fears Day”, a day to ‘fess up about your personal phobias that hold you back, and confront them head on. Some of the most common fears include creepy creatures; heights; water; enclosed spaces; tunnels & bridges; crowds; and public speaking.
• I Love Lucy Day”, It’s the 68th anniversary of the beloved “I Love Lucy” TV show. Stars Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz broke new ground with their show, which first aired on this day in 1951.
• “Cheese Curd Day”, the moist pieces of curdled milk either eaten alone as a snack, or used for other things. These are chiefly found in Quebec, Canada, in the dish poutine (made of french fries topped with cheese curds and gravy), and in the northeastern and midwestern United States. Curds are sometimes referred to as “squeaky cheese” (and apparently also pair well with ‘whey’…)
AND REMEMBER . . .
[Wed] Global Cat Day
[Wed] National Boss Day
[Thurs] Conflict Resolution Day
[Thurs] Forgive an Ex Day
This Week Is…Healthcare Security & Safety Week
This Month Is…National Bullying Prevention Month
THIS DAY IN SHOW BIZ . . .
2007 [12] Drew Carey begins hosting TV game show “The Price is Right” as its 36th season begins, taking over from long-time host Bob Barker, who retires at age 84
2017 [02] Alyssa Milano’s tweet saying “If you’ve been sexually harassed or assaulted write ‘me too’” prompts a flood of replies across social media. Although use of the phrase to raise awareness of the pervasiveness of sexual abuse and assault goes back as far as 2006, Milano’s tweet is credited with developing it into a broader movement after the Harvey Weinstein sexual abuse allegations
TODAY’S FIRSTS . . .
1989 [30] Radio and TV evangelist Billy Graham is given the 1,900th star on Hollywood Boulevard, the first clergyman to be granted a star
2011 [08] Global economic protests break out in 951 cities in 82 countries
TODAY’S RECORD . . .
2010 [09] In the Swiss Alps, final breakthrough occurs on the east bore of the Gotthard Base Tunnel, now the ‘World’s Longest Railway Tunnel’ with a route length of 57 km or 35 miles
BULL’S BITS
BS WHACK FACTS:
✓ All of the Earth’s continents are wider at the north than in the south.
✓ Earth is .02 degrees hotter during a full moon.
✓ During a total solar eclipse the temperature can drop by 6 degrees Celsius (about 20 degrees Fahrenheit).
✓ There is zero gravity at the center of earth.
✓ The ozone layer averages about 1/8 inch (3 mm) thick.
✓ Earth is slowing down: each day is longer than the previous by milliseconds. In a few million years, a leap year will no longer be necessary.
-DidYouKnow
BS THINGS NEVER SAID IN A HOSPITAL:
• “My compliments to the chef.”
• “Put your money away. Parking is free today.”
• “Would you like smoking or non-smoking?”
• “The Reaper will see you now…”
• “Trust me, I know what I’m doing. I got a B in this.”
• “Welcome to the ER. You can head right in to see the doctor.
• “I sure am getting a lot of rest between all the check ups and machines beeping.”
• “I am a doctor, but I don’t play one on TV.”
• “Our colonoscopy equipment is down today, so we’re going to be using a tapeworm with a GoPro strapped to its head.”
• “Can I stay here longer?”
-Twitter
Best of BS . . .
BS SIGNS YOU ATE TOO MUCH ON CANADIAN THANKSGIVING:
• Dad had to use electric knife to carve you out of your pants.
• You’ve been sweating ham glaze ever since.
• (***CAUTION: “Ass”***) You’re in Saskatoon, but your ass is in Manitoba.
• You’ve receive a personalized ‘Thank-you’ text from the president of Butterball.
• GPS units now tell local drivers “Turn left at the bloated guy.”
• You decide to take a little nap after dinner, you wake up in March.
• You’ve been assigned a probation officer … by Weight Watchers.
• When you plopped onto the couch, your spouse flew through the window.
-First published in ‘BS’ in 2002
BS PHONE STARTER:
What would you give up if it meant not catching cold or flu for five years?
BS RANDOM JOKE:
They say 40 is the new 30 and 50 is the new 40 and all that, but all I know is that the older I get, the more 9pm is the new midnight.
BS WATER COOLER QUESTION:
Question: 5% of people have done THIS specific thing because they think it will improve their chances of a promotion at work. What is it?
Answer: Gotten botox
BS DEEP THOUGHT:
Half of being smart is knowing what you are dumb about.
