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Director MIKE NICHOLS died of a heart attack on Wednesday. He's the guy who made "The Graduate". He was one of the only people to have won the EGOT . . . where you've won an Emmy, a Grammy, an Oscar, and a Tony. He was 83.
Four women came out yesterday with new accusations against BILL COSBY. LOU FERRIGNO's wife says he tried to assault her at his house in 1967, but she got away. An actress from "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" says Bill forced himself on her in the green room of "The Tonight Show" in 1971. And a nurse from Florida and a woman from Pittsburgh say he drugged and assaulted them.
The third "Hunger Games" movie is the only new movie hitting theaters this weekend. "Mockingjay Part 1" has Katniss joining the rebels of District 13 and becoming the face of the rebellion in all their propaganda . . . as Peeta is used for the opposite purpose in the Capitol.
AMC's "Breaking Bad" spin-off "Better Call Saul" will premiere on Sunday, February 8th, after the mid-season return of "The Walking Dead". There will be a second episode the following night, when it settles into its Monday night timeslot.
Rumor has it ABC is nervous that JENNIFER LOPEZ and IGGY AZALEA'S performance of "Booty" at the American Music Awards on Sunday will be too raunchy. Iggy says it'll be fine, but, "We aren't performing in turtleneck sweaters."
BACK IN THE DAY
2010– JIMMIE JOHNSON won his fifth straight NASCAR Sprint Cup Series. He is the only driver to accomplish that feat.
1995 – DISNEY released the first entirely computer-animated movie . . . "TOY STORY".
1980 – an estimated 83 Million TV viewers tuned in to "Dallas" to find out "WHO SHOT J.R.?" The payoff was a pretty big letdown. It turned out to be the relatively minor character Kristin Shepard, played by Mary Crosby.
1980 – DON HENLEY was arrested in Los Angeles after paramedics treated a NUDE 16-YEAR-OLD GIRL suffering from drug intoxication at his home.
1976 – the first "Rocky" was released!
1963 – President JOHN F. KENNEDY and his wife, Jackie, arrived in San Antonio, Texas, to start their two-day tour of the state . . . which would end with a sniper's bullet in Dallas.
1942 – TWEETY BIRD debuted in the Warner Brothers cartoon "A Tale of Two Kitties".
1877 – THOMAS EDISON announced his newest invention: A hand-cranked foil cylinder PHONOGRAPH, which he dubbed a "talking machine". The first thing recorded? "Mary Had a Little Lamb".
The 11 Most Popular Things to Do on Thanksgiving
1. Visit family, 89%.
2. Go shopping, 68%.
3. Watch football, 67%.
4. Eat a special dinner, 66%.
5. Take a nap, 64%.
6. Watch the Macy's Thanksgiving Day parade, 54%.
7. Eat a special lunch, 52%.
8. Decorate for Christmas, 45%.
9. Spend time outdoors, 37%.
10. Eat a special breakfast, 25%.
11. And in last place by a large margin . . . volunteer, 4%.
10 Signs Your Relationship Isn't Going Anywhere….If it feels like things might not be on the right track…
1. You never talk about the future. If you're not talking about your future together, it's probably because one or both of you don't see one.
2. He's told you he's not the marrying kind. Go ahead and trust him on that one.
3. You're keeping other people on the back burner. You can't expect a commitment if you're keeping other people around "just in case."
4. You have nothing in common except sex. Hot sex is great . . . an actual relationship needs more than that.
5. You have lots in common, but no sex life. On the flip side, if you're best friends but there's no chemistry, a problem.
6. You live together. If you're already doing all the stuff that goes along with married life without the commitment, there's no motivation to take things to the next level.
7. You're both acting like you're single. If you're staying out late, hanging w/friends more than each other, that's a bad sign.
8. You're settling. you know someone's not the one, but you're keeping them around as a backup plan, end disappointment
9. You don't have your own life. If you're always waiting on someone else to make plans with you, they have no incentive to get more serious. you come off as needy, which is a big turnoff.
10. You avoid fights. If you're not fighting with each other, it could be because you've become complacent, and just don't care.
Country Music Headlines
Carrie Underwood isn't worried about raising a boy even though she grew up with only sisters. She says her husband Mike has a pretty good handle on raising boys since there are a lot of kids in his family. She is worried about what condition her house will be in when the baby gets a little older.
Miranda Lambert has added more than $66,000 to the Mutt Nation Foundation kitty. She raised money the through the auction of a customized truck, signed copies of her Platinum CD, signed guitars and tickets to one of her concerts in 2015, including a pre-show cocktail with her.
Billy Bragg has apologized on his Facebook page for saying that Taylor Swift had "sold her soul to Google." The veteran English folk-rocker had called Swift's decision to pull her music from Spotify "nothing more than a corporate power play" But now says he was misled by "a number of credible sources."
Will Reba McEntire be the next country star to take up residency in Las Vegas? Speculation is that perhaps Reba will be stepping in when Shania Twain wraps up her stint at the Coliseum at Caesars Palace.
Top 5 Country Albums
1. Garth Brooks, "Man Against Machine"
2. George Strait, "The Cowboy Rides Away: Live from AT&T Stadium"
3. Jason Aldean, "Old Boots, New Dirt"
4. Florida Georgia Line, "Anything Goes"
5. Zac Brown Band, "Greatest Hits So Far .
Top 5 Country Songs
1. Carrie Underwood, "Something In The Water"
2. Sam Hunt, "Leave The Night On"
3. Keith Urban, "Somewhere In My Car"
4. Tim McGraw, "Shotgun Rider"
5. Little Big Town, "Day Drinking"
"Mockingjay" Part One Hits Theaters This Weekend (PG-13)
Anyone who cares at all about "The Hunger Games" should have seen "Catching Fire" by now. It's been out for a year and even hit Netflix last month. If you haven't, well it's your own fault. So brace yourself for some SPOILERS.
The trend of turning trilogies into an extra movie lives on. Even though there were only three books in the "Hunger Games" series, "Mockingjay" will be split into two movies. "Mockingjay: Part 2", won't be out until November of next year.
The second movie was all about how they forced two dozen winners to compete again, in order to avoid a rebellion by destroying everyone's hope if they watched Katniss die. Obviously she didn't. And she sparked a rebellion anyway.
To bring you up to speed, "Catching Fire" ended with Katniss destroying the games annex . . . being rescued by the rebels . . . and then being told that the Capitol had retaliated for her escape by bombing her home.
There were 5 other survivors after she took out the game arena. The rebels rescued Katniss, Finnick, and 'Volts' . . . while the Capitol recaptured Peeta, the chick who dug the tracker out of Katniss' arm, and the chick whose teeth are filed into fangs.
As for Philip Seymour Hoffman, he was almost done filming Part 1 when he died in February and still had a week left to do for Part 2. The director refused to use CGI for his remaining scenes, and instead moved the rest of Hoffman's lines to other actors.
Scientists Found a Gene That Makes You Bad at Relationships
Researchers at Peking University in China recently tested hair samples from 579 students. And the ones who had a certain version of a gene called 5-HTA1 were 20% more likely to still be single.
In other words, they found a gene that makes you bad at relationships. It's because the gene causes your brain to produce less serotonin. And when you have less of it, you're more likely to feel uncomfortable getting close to people and maintaining relationships.
They also factored in things like how much money people had, and how good-looking they were. But it didn't make a difference.
38% of the people in the study had that version of the gene.
It also makes you more likely to suffer from depression and be mentally unbalanced.
And now, Three New Things to Worry About
1. Sugar ruins your life. A new study from Emory University in Atlanta found sugar doesn't just make you gain weight.
It also makes you more depressed and anxious . . . makes your brain worse at responding to stress . . . and is linked to conditions from heart attacks to dementia. (Health Canal)
2. Hand dryers are worse than towels. A lot of bathrooms have switched to hand dryers . . . and that's good for the environment. But it might be bad for YOU.
Researchers at the University of Leeds in England found hand dryers just spread germs around the bathroom. In fact, there are about 27 times more bacteria in the air around a hand dryer than around a stack of towels. (The Telegraph)
3. Being "skinny fat" is more dangerous than being obese. Researchers have found people who are "skinny fat" are in MORE danger for diseases than people who are obese.
It's because they don't THINK they have potential problems, so they don't get treatment or develop any healthy habits.
