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Overnight Briefing & General Reality Check - Jun 11, 2021
June 11, 2021
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Ever had a problem battling with those pesky cicada bugs now that they're out and about? Cincinnati police have released bodycam footage Thursday showing a driver who totaled his Chevrolet Cruze when one of those “pesky” cicadas flew into his face while he was on the road. VINCENT BINGHAM told the NY Post “I had my windows down — I didn’t have A/C — and a cicada just came out of nowhere and hit me right in the face.” That impact caused another one --he smashed his car into a nearby utility pole. Fortunately, cops say his seatbelt and the vehicle’s airbags saved him from serious injuries. # # # Sir ELTON JOHN has warned the British Parliament that the music industry could lose "a generation of talent" because of post-Brexit restrictions on touring the European Union. In talking about the loss of visa-free and permit-free touring, Elton says "This gravest of situations is about the damage to the next generation of musicians and emerging artists, whose careers will stall before they've even started due to this infuriating blame game. If I had faced the financial and logistical obstacles facing young musicians now when I started out, I'd never have had the opportunity to build the foundations of my career and I very much doubt I would be where I am today." # # # JEFF DANIELS will be starring in the upcoming Broadway show, “To Kill A Mockingbird,” which returns to Broadway the first week in October, and will remain in the part through January 2nd of 2022. He'll play Atticus Finch in the show. Interestingly, the show's internet site says in a Library of Congress survey on books that have most affected people’s lives, “To Kill a Mockingbird” was second only to the Bible. # # # Add WHOOPI GOLDBERG to the cast of Apple's upcoming animated film, “Luck.” The film is about a woman who discovers the World of Good and Bad Luck, and partners up with mystical creatures along the way. Whoopi will do the voice of “The Captain,” the head of security for the Land of Good Luck. JANE FONDA will also be one of the voices for the film as well. # # # Tube talk: Disney is working on a big green series... about the “She-Hulk.” As you probably know, The Incredible Hulk is a big, green superhero made when a guy named Bruce Banner got blasted with radiation and although he survived, when he got angry, he turned into the green monster. Now we find out there's a female Hulk, made when Bruce Banner's cousin got a blood transfusion from him. TATIANA MASLANY will play the female superhero and JAMEELA JAMIL --who starred in NBC's “The Good Place”-- has been cast as a female supervillain who's the She-Hulk's major rival. # # #
More TV: All-star cast for a brand-new, eight-episode Peacock comedy series called “MacGruber.” As you might guess, the show is based on “Saturday Night Live's” parody of MacGyver. WILL FORTE will (of course) take on MacGruber, while KRISTEN WIIG will play Vicki St. Elmo and RYAN PHILLIPPE will play Dixon Piper. But SAM ELLIOTT, LAURENCE FISHBURNE and MICKEY ROURKE have also joined the series as well, # # # Fast (and free) food: Wendy’s will be giving away free Frosty treats with any purchase every Friday this month to celebrate the arrival of summer. To get the deal, you just have to make any purchase on the Wendy’s mobile app and show the mobile offer at the restaurant to get either a free small Frosty or Frosty-ccino. # # # DAVID HASSELHOFF has joined the ranks of celebrities asking people to get their COVID vaccinations. He does a short Twitter video (@BMG_Bund) in German telling Germans to get vaccinated. "Aermel hoch! ('Sleeves up!')" he says. "I, David Hasselhoff, am supposedly a hero because of 'Baywatch' and 'Knight Rider,' and the Berlin Wall. But I found freedom with vaccination. You can too!" -
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