PEOPLE ARE TALKIN’
The AMANDA BYNES CRAZY WATCH is back in full effect. Now, she's been accused of: Stealing a $200 hat from Barneys in New York , scratching up a female fan who got too close to her at a club, walking around in one shoe, while mumbling incoherently
A list of the Scariest Pop Culture Clowns includes Pennywise from "It", the clown doll from "Poltergeist", the Joker from Batman and the title characters from "Killer Klowns from Outer Space".
"Bridesmaids" director PAUL FEIG is making a new female-led "Ghostbusters" movie. There's no word on casting, but he said it will star, "hilarious women".
A "Rolling Stone" readers poll on the 10 best horror movies is topped by "The Exorcist". It's followed by "The Shining", "Psycho", and "Halloween"
"Variety" reports that ABC is working on a TV show based on the 1989 JOHN CANDY comedy "Uncle Buck". This would be the second show to be based on the movie. CBS had an "Uncle Buck" sitcom back in 1990, but it was canceled after one season.
BLAKE SHELTON earned his second #1 album this week, with "Bringing Back the Sunshine". LADY ANTEBELLUM was at #2 with "747", while PRINCE had TWO albums debut in the Top 10: "Art Official Age" at #5 . . . and "Plectrum-electrum" with his band 3rdEyeGirl at #8.
Would you pay $25 a month for UNLIMITED concerts? There's a new app called Jukely that allows you to look up concerts . . . get your name put on a list . . . and then you're IN.
On Sunday, SUNNY SWEENEY posted a photo on Facebook of a man and a soldier praying together at an airport. It's now gone viral with over 1.2 million Likes, close to 700,000 Shares and over 58,000 Comments.
BACK IN THE DAY
1996 – in the opening game of the AMERICAN LEAGUE CHAMPIONSHIP SERIES, 12-year-old Jeffrey Maier turned a probable fly-out into a game-tying home run. He reached over the right-field wall at Yankee Stadium, sweeping the ball into the stands with his baseball glove. His catch helped the Yankees win, 5-4 in 11 innings.
1986 – FOX debuted as a TV network.
1983 – Helen Moss of Oxfordshire, England, became the OLDEST PERSON TO JOIN THE BROWNIES. She was 86.
1973 – ELVIS and PRISCILLA PRESLEY got divorced in Santa Monica, California, after six years of marriage. "Scilla" was awarded nearly $1.5 million cash, $4,200 a month alimony for one year, half the sale price of the couple's $750,000 home and a 5% interest in two of Elvis' publishing companies.
1946 – The first electric blanket goes on sale.
1872 – the FIRST MAIL-ORDER CATALOG was delivered. It was one page long, and was put out by MONTGOMERY WARD.
1000 – LEIF ERIKSON landed in North America.
The New Thanksgiving Trend Is "Thanksgiving in a Bucket" . . . Layering All the Dishes on Top of Each Other
When you load up your plate on Thanksgiving, all the food winds up touching each other in a giant carb-loaded orgy. So the latest Thanksgiving trend KNOWS all the food blends together . . . and saves you the hassle of serving them separately.
It's called "Thanksgiving in a Bucket." When you're making Thanksgiving dinner, instead of having everything on its own separate dish, you layer everything into a bucket . . . kind of like a Thanksgiving parfait.
You put stuffing on the bottom, because it's best at absorbing all the other flavors. Then mashed potatoes on top of that . . . then a green vegetable . . . then sweet potatoes . . . turkey and gravy . . . and finally cranberry sauce.
And you serve it with a big cake spatula so you can give someone an entire slice of Thanksgiving all at once.
Three Friends You Shouldn't Work Out With
According to researchers….
1. Your friend who's in crazy good shape. Unless you're ALSO in great shape. A recent study found you're three times more likely to keep working out if you do it with someone who's about the SAME age, weight, and fitness level.
2. Your friend who always yells stuff like, "You've got this!" Researchers at Michigan State University had people hold a yoga pose, and timed them.
And it turned out they actually held the pose longer WITHOUT someone saying things like, "You can do it" or "Keep it up." Because even though the person is trying to encourage you, they sounded patronizing instead, and make it harder to focus.
3. Your friend who HATES working out. Researchers at the University of New Hampshire found that when they asked people for a positive memory about exercise, they were much more likely to go to the gym in the next week.
And the opposite was true when they asked for a negative memory. So the idea is that if you always work out with someone who talks about how TERRIBLE the gym is, YOU'LL start feeling negative about it, and then you'll stop going.
Country Music Headlines
Blake Shelton has the overall number-one album in the USA with Bringing Back the Sunshine…..Lady Antebellum's 747 is at number-two overall. Last week's top album, Kenny Chesney's The Big Revival, drops to the third slot on the country chart. George Strait's The Cowboy Rides Away: Live from AT&T Stadium drops one place to number-four, and Tim McGraw's Sundown Heaven Town tumbles from two to five.
Florida Georgia Line will be heading out this winter for their Anything Goes tour. The 21-city trek launches on January 15th in Toledo, Ohio and wraps up on May 8th in Atlantic City, New Jersey with Thomas Rhett and Frankie Ballard opening the shows. No Texas dates are listed on the tour, but the band is at the Woodlands on Oct 23rd, and 98-3 KORA is giving away tickets every Thursday in our SONG OF THE DAY Contest…
Florida Georgia Line has a new song streaming online, called "Dance for Me". It's from their new album "Anything Goes" . . . but it's only on the Target edition. (The album will be out on Tuesday the 14th.)
Find the audio clip at this link:
http://tasteofcountry.com/florida-georgia-line-dance-for-me-anything-goes-target/
The next stop on the Garth Brooks world tour is Greensboro, North Carolina. So far he's scheduled two shows at the Greensboro Coliseum on one on November 21st and one on November 22nd. Tickets go on sale on October 17th.
You may recall that BRAD PAISLEY asked fans to send photos of themselves, or someone they know, wearing T-shirts, with the promise that the pics might make it into his "Perfect Storm" video. Well, he came through…
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We have up the video for Glen Campbell's "I'm Not Gonna Miss You." The clip chronicles moments in his career and his personal life, including the brain scans used for his diagnosis of Alzheimer's.
Time to Play "Wikipedia: Fact or Fiction" with Jason Aldean
Wikipedia is known for having the potential for a lot of inaccuracies. So, Taste of Country played a game of "Wikipedia: Fact or Fiction" with JASON ALDEAN. Turns out, yeah, you can't totally count on them. Here are some highlights:
His full legal name is Jason Aldine Williams. Fact. (But he did change the spelling to Aldean.)
He chose his stage name because Jason Williams sounded too generic, plus three NBA players at the time had that name. Fact on it sounding generic, but Fiction about the NBA players.
He was born in Macon, Georgia. Fact.
He's had 12 Number One singles. Not exactly. That information's outdated. It's 13 now.
His parents divorced when he was three. Fact.
He went to the same high school, Windsor Academy, as CNN's NANCY GRACE. Fact. (Although NOT at the same time. He's 37 and she's 54, according to Wikipedia. Heyo. Actually, I double-checked and Wikipedia is right.)
The Bigger Your Engagement Ring, the Shorter Your Marriage
A new study found the BIGGER your engagement ring . . . the SMALLER the chance your marriage will last. So go ahead and buy your girlfriend a diamond that you need a magnifying glass to see.
Researchers at Emory University in Atlanta found that men who spent between $2,000 and $4,000 on an engagement ring were 130% more likely to get divorced than guys who spent $500 to $2,000.
They also found that people whose weddings cost more than $20,000 are 350% more likely to get divorced than people whose weddings cost under $10,000.
One caveat on all this: The good people at Emory don't seem to know what wedding stuff actually costs.
The average guy now spends $5,598 on an engagement ring . . . $1,598 more than the high end of their range in the study. And the average wedding is now $28,858 . . . $8,858 more than the high end of their range in the study.
