PEOPLE ARE TALKIN’
JOSE CANSECO's reattached finger didn't stay reattached for long. On Friday he Tweeted, quote, "I was playing in a poker tournament last night and my finger fell off."
JOHNNY DEPP was at the Hollywood Film Awards over the weekend, and when he got to the podium, he seemed WASTED. He started off by commenting on the "weirdest microphone" he'd ever seen . . . slurred his way through the entire speech . . . and had trouble standing straight on his own.
BusinessInsider.com did a list of 30 celebrities who are actually really smart, including Cindy Crawford, Conan O'Brien, James Woods, John Legend, and Flavor Flav.
BILL COSBY refused to answer the rape allegations against him during an NPR interview. The host asked three times if he wanted to comment, and all he did was shake his head no. His appearance on "Letterman" on Wednesday has been canceled…
"Dumb and Dumber To" is the new #1 movie. It made $38.1 million this weekend. The first "Dumb and Dumber" made $16.4 million when it opened 20 years ago. The only other new movie to crack the Top 10 was "Beyond the Lights" in 4th place.
ALFONSO RIBEIRO may be forced to withdraw from "Dancing with the Stars" after injuring his back during rehearsals.
The new version of the charity single "Do They Know It's Christmas?" was recorded over the weekend. It's for Ebola this time. Participants included Bono, One Direction, Ed Sheeran, Chris Martin, and Robert Plant.
DAVE GROHL doesn't care how much people pay to stream his music, he just wants them to hear it. He says, quote, "Give [people] your music. And then go play a show. [If] they like hearing your music, they'll go see a show. To me it's that simple.
BACK IN THE DAY
2003 – ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGER was inaugurated as GOVERNOR of California. It took Californians seven years to get rid of him.
2003 – BRITNEY SPEARS became the youngest singer to ever get a star on the HOLLYWOOD WALK OF FAME. She was 21.
1995 – The commander of U.S. forces in the Pacific called the rape of a 12-year-old Okinawan girl, quote, "absolutely stupid" . . . and said the incident could have been avoided if the U.S. servicemen involved had simply paid for sex! Admiral Richard C. Macke later apologized for his remarks and took early retirement.
1977 – WYNNE ROBERTS OF ENGLAND BEGAN PLAYING THE DRUMS AND CONTINUED FOR 564 HOURS OVER 23 DAYS . . . SETTING A WORLD RECORD!
1973 – PRESIDENT NIXON denied any wrongdoing in the Watergate scandal, saying in a speech at Disney World, quote, "People have got to know whether or not their president is a crook. Well, I'M NOT A CROOK."
1970 – The Soviet Union lands an unmanned, remote-controlled vehicle on the moon.
1968 – NBC outraged football fans by cutting away from the final minutes of a NEW YORK JETS – OAKLAND RAIDERS game to begin its very special presentation of "HEIDI" on schedule! As a result, fans missed seeing the Raiders come from behind and score 14 points in the final 65 seconds to beat the Jets, 43-to-32.
1934 – LYNDON BAINES JOHNSON married Claudia Alta Taylor, known as LADY BIRD, which was a childhood nickname. LBJ once said, "I've learned that only two things are necessary to keep your wife happy. First, let her think she's having her own way . . . and second, let her have it."
Three Signs You're Bullying Someone at Work
A recent survey: one in four people said they've been bullied at WORK.
Here are three signs you're bullying someone at work.
1. You gossip about the same person all the time. You CAN gossip without bullying someone, but they tend to go hand in hand.
And constantly talking about someone behind their back can lead to "mobbing," when multiple people start bullying someone.
2. You conspire against them. For example, if you and your co-workers somehow make sure someone you don't like always gets the worst shifts, THAT can be considered a type of workplace bullying.
3. You're the boss, and you yell a lot. About half of the people who say they get bullied at work claim their BOSS is the one doing it. Usually because they feel like they're the one who ALWAYS gets yelled at.
Country Music Headlines
Sam Hunt has sold out 15 shows on his upcoming Lipstick Graffiti tour. Larger venues and additional shows are being considered in multiple cities where scheduling permits.
Lady Antebellum did a special "No Shave November" parody of Meghan Trainor’s “All About That Bass” to help raise money for St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital. "I'm all about that beard, 'bout that beard. No stubble."
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A drunk Dierks Bentley fan became an Internet star after puking onstage in front thousands of people at his show in Hershey, Pennsylvania. She joined him for “Drunk on a Plane,” and then hurled. Dierks did his best to recover, revamping the lyrics, “We all know why, she’s puking up on the stage.”
Frankie Ballard scores his second number-one on the Mediabase chart this week with “Sunshine and Whiskey.”
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Keith Urban’s “Somewhere in My Car” follows at number-two, while Blake Shelton’s “Neon Light” falls to number-three. Little Big Town’s “Day Drinking” and Maddie and Tae’s “Girl in a Country Song” round out the Top 5.
JASON ALDEAN, did not do a love scene in his "Burnin' It Down" video….for one reason: he says that he needs to get in better shape before taking his shirt off…
TAYLOR SWIFT surprised a "superfan" in Connecticut on Friday by showing up at her door with Christmas presents. One of them was a mini-Mercedes toy car for the woman's little boy. Taylor also hung with the family for a couple of hours.
RANDY OWEN from the band ALABAMA believes there are too many solo acts in country music: Quote, "Everything is starting to sound the same, because we're in an era of individual acts. The music doesn't have any soul. I want to hear more bands in country music."
How Six Famous Movie Sounds Were Really Made
There's a new book called "The Sonic Boom", about how sound and music affect us when they're used in visual media. More importantly, it includes the REAL story behind six famous movie sounds.
Darth Vader's breathing in the "Star Wars" movies was created by someone sucking air through a scuba mask. And the lightsabers are a combination of the motors in an old projector and TV interference through an unshielded microphone.
The roar of the T-Rex in "Jurassic Park" was a mixture of a Jack Russell terrier, a whale, lions, alligators, tigers, a koala, and a baby elephant.
The rolling boulder in "Raiders of the Lost Ark" was a Honda Civic rolling down a gravel driveway.
Spider-Man's web shooting is a combination of a cat spitting, the crack of a bullwhip, and a "processed model rocket launch."
Linda Blair's spinning head in "The Exorcist" was achieved by bending an old, cracked wallet with credit cards in it.
A Guy Walks Into a Taco Bell on Fire, and Asks For a Glass of Water?
A guy walked into a Taco Bell in Phoenix, Arizona on Thursday night . . . and he was ON FIRE.
It started in the parking lot of an Arby's next door. People in the drive thru noticed an older guy engulfed in FLAMES, and someone told the manager. So she ran out with a fire extinguisher, put him out, and called 911.
But he wasn't yelling or moving around . . . he was just standing there with no pants. Then he walked into the Taco Bell, and asked for a cup of WATER. But not to put out the flames . . . to DRINK.
The guy was still smoldering, so the place started filling up with smoke. And since there were kids and families inside, they EVACUATED.
The guy was taken to the hospital, and treated for second and third-degree burns on 90% of his body. The cops think he was homeless . . . but they DON'T think anyone else was involved.
Here's Arby's manager Lindsay Riedlinger talking about what happened…
Five Random Facts For Monday
1. Otis Redding wrote the song "Respect" in 1965 and released a version two years before Aretha Franklin. But his version focused on a MAN who wanted respect . . . with "respect" as a euphemism for sex.
2. One single Google search takes more computing power than the entire moon landing mission in 1969.
3. The "Guinness Book of World Records" exists because the director of Guinness Breweries had an argument in 1951 over which game bird is faster . . . the golden plover or the red grouse.
He thought there should be a book to help settle bar arguments, so he created the book of world records. And the faster bird is the golden plover, by the way.
4. Only one British singer or group has had their debut album hit number one in the U.S. And it was . . . the Spice Girls, with "Spice".
5. The plural of barista is baristi.
