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Overnight Briefing & General Reality Check - Oct 5, 2020
October 5, 2020
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They're coming back! The band SPINAL TAP --which was created for the 1984 “mockumentary” of the same name-- will be getting back together for a virtual fundraiser on Wednesday, October 14th. Variety reports CHRISTOPHER GUEST (who played guitarist Nigel Tufnel), HARRY SHEARER (who played bassist Derek Smalls), and MICHAEL McKEAN (who was singer David St. Hubbins) will be teaming up with ROB REINER (who "directed" the original film) to raise funds for Democrats in Pennsylvania. PATTON OSWALT will be hosting the reunion.
More problems for HARVEY WEINSTEIN, who was charged with six more forcible sexual assault counts on Friday. The Hollywood Reporter says the charges involve two victims related to incidents that allegedly occurred more than ten years ago. One of the incidents happened between September 2004 and September 2005 when he allegedly raped a woman at a hotel in Beverly Hills. The other alleged rapes happened to a woman on two separate occasions in November 2009 and November 2010 at a hotel in Beverly Hills.
COVID-19 update: Canada will reopen its border to international students and extended family beginning October 20th. However, any visitors to the country must quarantine or isolate for 14 days upon entry because of the pandemic, and the border is still closed for non essential travelers.
The folks at Christie's will auction off a T-Rex skeleton tomorrow (Tuesday). STAN --who's named after his discoverer STAN SACRISON-- was found in South Dakota in 1992 and is one of the most complete skeletons ever found, standing 13 feet high, and almost 40 feet long with his tail fully extended.
Yet still more postponed films: Universal becomes the latest movie company to delay a movie over the COVID pandemic. "F9" --its upcoming "Fast & Furious" sequel-- will now be out on Memorial Day weekend in 2021. MGM also moved "No Time to Die," DANIEL CRAIG's last film as James Bond, to April 2nd of next year.
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