BACK IN THE DAY – April 15
1992 – LEONA HELMSLEY began serving a four-year prison term for tax evasion, because, as she said, "Only the little people pay taxes."
1983 – James L. Hardy Jr. won $25,000 in damages from a lawsuit against DAYS INN. He said he checked into their hotel in East Ridge, Tennessee, went to his room, opened the door, and was shocked to see a "skimpily clad" woman! He tragically injured his neck when he turned around to leave.
1971 – GEORGE C. SCOTT refused to accept his Best Actor Oscar for "Patton", because he said actors shouldn't be in competition with each other, and because he considered the Academy Awards . . .Quote, "a two-hour meat parade, a public display with contrived suspense for economic reasons."
HAPPY BIRTHDAY!
25 – Emma Watson
33 – Seth Rogen
82 – Roy Clark
No, Norman Reedus Probably Won't Lick You
There's an urban legend about NORMAN REEDUS that he just loves to randomly lick people. He plays DARYL DIXON on the Walking Dead…..He says, quote, "The licking thing, that got way blown out of proportion, I'll be honest. I do lick people from time to time, and they asked me to stop licking people, but I don't lick strangers . . . I lick people I know."
Norman said the rumor got started because he would lick his co-stars on "The Walking Dead"
R&B Singer Percy Sledge Has Died
R&B singer PERCY SLEDGE died yesterday from liver cancer. He was 73. His biggest hit was "When a Man Loves a Woman" in 1966. According to his family, he'd been battling liver cancer for a while, and was under hospice care.
He was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2005.
JOHNNY MANZIEL fresh out of REHAB was at the Texas Rangers game last night…Johnny Football will report to the Cleveland Browns' next offseason session, slated to begin April 20.
In case you haven't seen it, MEGHAN LINSEY did a "bluesy" version of LITTLE BIG TOWN's "Girl Crush" on Monday's "Voice". Here's how guest mentor REBA MCENTIRE described it, quote, "She kicked the dog poo out of that."
Will Garth Brooks Be Lip-Synching at the ACMs?
GARTH BROOKS is afraid his voice may give out between now and Sunday's ACMs . . . so he's already taped his vocals in case he needs to lip-sync during the show.
He's wrapping up a five-concert series tomorrow in Portland, Oregon, and he's pretty sure his voice will be shot by then.
Sunday's ACMs Will Be the First Awards Show Broadcast From a Football Stadium
Sunday's "50th Annual ACM Awards" will be special for several reasons: It's the first awards show to be broadcast from a football stadium, it's going to cost four times as much as last year's show, and CBS is so excited they're giving them 30 extra minutes of airtime.
AT&T Stadium is so big that it takes 30 minutes for a tech person to get to the top just to start work.
Stadiums aren't designed for theatrical-type shows so they had to create their own special rigging for stuff like lights, curtains, sound, and video. They even constructed two full-size stages.
One of the producers estimates it'll be four times higher than when they do the show in Vegas.
The Six Ways People Will Use Their Tax Refund
The average tax refund this year is $2,815, and a new survey asked people what they plan on doing with it. Here are the top six answers . . .
1. 33% will spend it on a vacation.
2. 32% will put it into savings.
3. 31% will pay off debt.
4. 2% will put it towards buying a home.
5. 1% will go on a shopping spree.
6. And 1% will buy something for their kids.
Four team members of the defending NBA champion SPURS have an 80s tribute band….they are calling … Spuran Spuran.
Matt "Bonner Jovi" Bonner, Aron "Head Banger" Baynes,
Kawhi "I fought the claw and the claw won" Leonard,
Patty "Aussie Osborne" Mills, and The Coyote.
Five Random Facts For Wednesday
1. The Secret Service wasn't protecting Abraham Lincoln the night he was shot, because he'd just signed the bill CREATING them . . . right before he headed out to Ford's Theater.
2. State senators in Minnesota are banned from looking at each other during debates . . . there's a rule that requires them to look directly at the president of the Senate when they're talking.
3. There was a Lexus model that still came standard with a cassette deck in 2010 . . . they finally got rid of it for their 2011 edition.
4. Buddy Holly spelled his last name "H-o-l-l-e-y" . . . but his first record label left out the "e" on his contract and the misspelled version of his name stuck.
5. When Outback Steakhouse was started in Tampa in 1988, none of its four founders had ever been to Australia.
JASON ALDEAN wouldn't mind winning Best Male Vocalist or Entertainer of the Year at the ACMs . . . but his top goal is to see "Old Boots, New Dirt" take home the Album of the Year trophy.
He explains, quote, "There's a lot that goes into launching an album, and whatever that album does sort of sets you up for the next year-and-a-half or whatever. So, it's big to win that."
