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Overnight Briefing & General Reality Check - Nov 4, 2019
November 4, 2019
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It's a music Monday...
BILLY JOEL just announced his 73rd consecutive concert at Madison Square Garden --his 119th overall at the Garden. It'll be Thu, Feb 20th; tickets go on sale for Citicard members Monday; the rest of us gotta wait till Fri, Nov 8th.ANTONIO BANDERAS says he never knew MADONNA had a crush on him and didn't even know that he was featured in "Truth of Dare." "I was finishing The Mambo Kings here in Los Angeles, and she called me one morning. I thought someone was just making a joke at me," he told an interviewer. "Because I picked up my phone in my hotel room and it was Madonna. I couldn't believe it." He got married to MELANIE GRIFFITH in 1996, the same year he co-starred with Madonna in "Evita." Madonna said "I wished... I had a big crush on him [but] he was with Melanie Griffith. She never left his side."
ANNIE LENNOX and DAVE STEWART will be getting together as the EURYTHMICS one more time for STING's Rainforest Benefit December 9th in New York City. The last time they performed as the Eurythmics was in January of 2014 for 'The Night That Changed America" --A Grammy Salute To The Beatles". BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN, JOHN MELLENCAMP, JAMES TAYLOR, BOB GELDOF, RICKY MARTIN, and SHAGGY will also perform at the Rainforest benefit.
If you missed it, MICHAEL JACKSON has topped Forbes' 2019 list of the highest earning dead celebrities in 2019 for the seventh year in a row, after his estate made over $60 million last year. The rest of the top-10:
10. NIPSEY HUSSLE: $11 million.
9. PRINCE: $12 million.
8. MARILYN MONROE: $13 million.
7. JOHN LENNON: $14 million.
6. DR. SEUSS: $19 million.
5. BOB MARLEY: $20 million.
4. ARNOLD PALMER: $30 million.
3. CHARLES SCHULZ: $38 million.
2. ELVIS PRESLEY: $39 million.
1. MICHAEL JACKSON: $60 million.Meanwhile, MICHAEL JACKSON's 'This Is It 10th Anniversary' box set will be released on December 11th. There's just a thousand copies being made and it'll include a 3-D enhanced Blu-ray of the movie, a four-album version of the soundtrack on blue vinyl, a 60-page hardcover coffee-table book and an authentic ticket for the 2009, "This Is It" concert. The whole thing'll set you back $480.
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