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Overnight Briefing & General Reality Check - Sep 14, 2021
September 14, 2021
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If you were one of those folks who thought the crypto-currency Litecoin would get a big boost when you heard Walmart was gonna use it as payment, you were right. But then the press release turned out to be fake, and the price of Litecoin went from about £125 per token to close to £170, before falling back near its original price, at about £128.
Bad news/ good news for actor JEFF BRIDGES, who had cancer and then got COVID while he was getting chemo for his lymphoma. "Covid kicked my ass pretty good, but I'm double vaccinated and feeling much better," Bridges wrote on his website Monday. Jeff says the Covid made his "cancer look like a piece of cake." Fortunately for him, his cancer is in remission --"the 9x12 mass has shrunk down to the size of a marble," he said, and is finally outta the hospital after five weeks. Even better, he was able to walk his daughter, Hayley, down the aisle at her wedding, and enjoy the father-daughter dance with his daughter "without oxygen," he said.
Food news: The folks at Taco Bell have hooked you up with a way to get lotsa tacos --a 30-day taco subscription, called their "Taco Lover’s Pass." That's good news for folks who love tacos, and drives more visits to the restaurants --but it's only being test-marketed in their Tucson, Arizona restaurants until November 24th.
It's coming back! The Broadway musical, “Beetlejuice” will be back on Broadway beginning next year --Friday, April 8, 2022-- at New York City's’s Marriott Marquis Theatre. That's just a bit over two years since it closed because of the coronavirus pandemic on March 11, 2020.
Tube talk: There's gonna be a third season of the Disney-Plus series, “High School Musical: The Musical: The Series.” Variety reports this season will follow the Wildcats as they begin summer break away from the hallways of East High and go to a sleepaway camp --with all the shenanigans that entails.
More TV: The quintessential police show, “Cops,” is coming back for a 33rd season, this time on Fox Nation, the streaming-video service backed by Fox News Media. The first show will be on October first, with four new episodes available to stream, and Fox Nation will also make available 15 episodes from the show’s previous (32nd) season as well. The show was canceled by Paramount Networks last year in the wake of the police murder of GEORGE FLOYD and the various national protests over police brutality and systemic racism.
Finally... It's football time again and NBC has got another version of their "Sunday Night Football' song --this time sung by CARRIE UNDERWOOD. You can hear it Sunday night when the Los Angeles Rams take on the Chicago Bears, or you can hear some of it on NBC's Sunday Night Football Twitter feed --@SNFonNBC.
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