Saturday and Sunday 2/25 & 26/23
Celebrate:
Saturday
International Sword Swallowers Day
International Tongue Twister Contest Day
Let's All Eat Right Day
National Chocolate-Covered Peanuts Day
National Clam Chowder
Open That Bottle Night
Pistol Patent Day
Quiet Day
Sunday
Carnival Day
For Pete's Sake Day
Levi Strauss Day
National Personal Chef Day
National Pistachio Day
National Set a Good Example Day
Tell a Fairy Tale Day
Thermos Bottle Day
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After last year's infamous SLAP, the Oscars are making sure they're prepared for ANYTHING. They even went as far as assembling a "crisis team".
An Academy executive told "Time" magazine, quote, "Because of last year, we've opened our minds to the many things that can happen at the Oscars. But these crisis plans . . . the crisis communication teams and structures we have in place . . .
"Allow us to say, 'This is the group that we have to gather very quickly.' And depending on the specifics of the crisis, and let's hope something doesn't happen and we never have to use these, but we already have frameworks in place."
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According to TMZ, the Hollywood Police Department got a call on Sunday from a guy threatening to blow up the Hollywood sign.
He said he'd destroy it with pipe bombs if cops didn't pay him $10,000 in ransom.
But whoever he talked to wasn't the right person . . . because he accidentally called police in the city of Hollywood, FLORIDA, not L.A. (It's just south of Fort Lauderdale.)
It sounds like the cops in Florida let the LAPD know. Then they looked into it but found it wasn't a credible threat.
Last we heard, no one had been arrested yet, but the LAPD was still investigating.
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Fun fact: Centuries ago, the word meat used to mean any kind of food, including vegetables and dairy. Milk is now on a similar journey.
Since many people understand that word to mean something that adds creamy flavor to cereal, recipes and coffee, the FDA issued a guidance that allows milks made of oats, nuts, legumes and other plant ingredients to use the same word as the substance from a mammary gland.
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Many kids enjoy playing with toys that look like them. For Sofia, who does not have a left hand, the only Lego figurine without four limbs was a pirate. So she wrote Lego with a simple request: Could they make a toy that looked like her?
And on BBC Breakfast last week, representatives from Lego Group surprised Sofia with Autumn – a new character with a missing limb, just like her.
Autumn is part of a new line of characters in the Lego Friends Universe that the giant toy company first announced late last month. Sofia’s mother, Jessica, told BBC Breakfast that she and her daughter often discuss “that bodies come in different shapes and forms and sizes and colors.” But then why don’t our toys, Sofia and her family wondered?
Sofia wasn't the only child that wrote the company.
There are eight new “friends” in the universe, all with varying skin tones, whose background stories have them coming from different cultures and experiencing both visible or non-visible disabilities – including the character without a left hand.
The company said in a release that the goal with this new crop of toys is to inspire children to be “better friends to themselves and others while providing emotional and social development through play, to help them better understand individuality, diversity, and the modern world.”
Not surprisingly Fox News is having a problem with this "wokeness."
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Super Bowl Halftime Performance only resulted in 103 complaints to the FCC, which seems low . . . especially given what seemed like MASSIVE media outrage.
Not surprisingly, those who did complain thought the performance, and the song lyrics, were too sexual.
One person said, quote, "I don't care what someone worships but children shouldn't be exposed to pornography and as an adult I don't wish to see it . . . Where has decency gone? How about respect for others and self?"
Another said, quote, "This year the halftime show was so indecent I had to turn off the TV because of the pornographic content."
FYI, the Janet Jackson / Justin Timberlake wardrobe malfunction in 2004 generated 540,000 complaints.
We get another change to complain as she will be at the Academy Awards on March 12th.
Her track "Lift Me Up" from "Black Panther: Wakanda Forever" is nominated for Best Original Song.
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The Grinch is getting a sequal..no not a movie or TV show..a book!
It's called "How the Grinch Lost Christmas!", and it's due out September 5th. And in case you're wondering, Dr. Seuss had NOTHING to do with it . . . it's not based on any notes or manuscripts he left behind.
But it's being written and illustrated by two guys who've worked on Dr. Seuss-related projects before, so there's that.
The plot picks up a year after the events of the original. The Grinch is still a good guy, but he struggles to remember the true meaning of the holiday as he attempts to decorate the most elaborate tree and win Whoville's Christmas Crown.
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Last year HBO Max announced it was developing an "It" prequel series. Well, it's OFFICIALLY moving forward.
It's called "Welcome to Derry", and the director of the 2017 and 2019 "It" movies is returning to "expand the vision" of those movies. Still no word if Bill Skarsgard will return as Pennywise.
Stephen King gave the series his blessing. Quote, "I'm excited that the story of Derry, Maine's most haunted city, is continuing, and I'm glad [director] Andy Muschietti is going to be overseeing the frightening festivities . . .
"Red balloons all around!"
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This Weekend's Movies
Cocaine Bear - from Director Elizabeth Banks - starring Keri Russell, Ray Liotta, Margo Martindale, and Jesse Tyler Ferguson
Yes, "Cocaine Bear" is based on a true story . . . but VERY LOOSELY based. The reality is that in 1985, a drug kingpin tried to abandon his malfunctioning plane with 75 pounds worth of cocaine strapped to his body.
His parachute failed and he went splat in the Chattahoochee National Forest in Georgia. A bear came along and ATE a bunch of that coke, then overdosed and died.
Well, you can still see the REAL "Pablo Escobear", because they STUFFED him and put him on display at the park. But he was STOLEN, then changed hands a few times. One of his owners was country star Waylon Jennings.
Now he's at the Kentucky Fun Mall in Lexington.
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