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Overnight Briefing & General Reality Check - Oct 13, 2021
October 13, 2021
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Would you vote for DWAYNE "The Rock" JOHNSON as the next President? In a new article in Vanity Fair magazine, The Rock says he may run in 2024 or 2028 and has already talked to various people but there's just one problem: "at the end of the day," he says, "I don’t know the first thing about politics. I don’t know the first thing about policy... I may have some decent leadership qualities, but that doesn’t necessarily make me a great presidential candidate."
And he's tweeted "I don’t think our Founding Fathers EVER envisioned a six-four, bald, tattooed, half-Black, half-Samoan, tequila drinking, pick up truck driving, fanny pack wearing guy joining their club - but if it ever happens it’d be my honor to serve you, the people." We'll see.
The next "Scream" movie --number five if you haven't been keeping track-- is gonna be released next year, and there's already trailers for it at theatres. The Hollywood Reporter says original stars NEVE CAMPBELL, DAVID ARQUETTE and COURTENEY COX will be back for the sequel, 25 years after the first one. It'll be in theaters January 14th.
While we're on the subject of 2022, singer DAVID BOWIE's estate says they're all ready to release a posthumous album to mark David's 75th birthday next year. That would be January 8th, if you're keeping track. The London Sun has also reported that David's widow, IMAN and his two children will likely also release various items of memorabilia including 'collectors' books, artwork, clothing, footwear, ceramics and glassware' to mark the milestone.
The folks at LEGO says they're going to get rid of any "gender bias" from their various toys, after a new survey found out 76-percent of parents would encourage their sons to play with Lego bricks while just 24-percent would do so with their daughters. The company is also marking Pride Month with its first-ever LGBTQIA+ set called "Everyone is Awesome" as well as a new campaign called "Ready for Girls," which celebrates female creativity.
Music news, take one: That's a wrap for SMASH MOUTH lead singer STEVE HARWELL, who now says he's hanging up the mic after a concert this past weekend where he was slurring his words, threatening members of the audience and looking like he was giving a Nazi salute. Afterward, he'd said he was going to take some time off from performing, but yesterday told TMZ “I’ve tried so hard to power through my physical and mental health issues, and to play in front of you one last time, but I just wasn’t able to. I cannot wait to see what Smash Mouth accomplishes next and am looking forward to counting myself as one of the band’s newest fans.”
Music news, take two: DEON ESTUS who played bass for GEORGE MICHAEL and WHAM!, died Monday. He was 65 years old. He's probably best known for doing the “Faith” tour with George in 1988 and 89 and continued to play bass with his band until the George’s death in 2016. But he also played with many other musical greats, including MARVIN GAYE, TINA TURNER, ANNIE LENNOX, FRANK ZAPPA and ELTON JOHN.
Tube talk: As rumored for the past couple of seasons, MARK HARMON has left the TV series "NCIS." If you missed it, on Monday night’s episode his character, Jethro Gibbs, retired to Alaska after working a case there with Special Agent Timothy McGee (played by SEAN MURRAY). There is some thoughts he might be back to guest star in an episode in this 19th season, but nobody's talking at CBS.
How much would you pay for a .45 automatic pistol once owned by Chicago gangster AL CAPONE? Turns out a bunch of Al's items --including photos, jewelry, furniture, and the gun-- were auctioned off by his family members over the weekend in Sacramento, California, and the pistol went for $860-thousand dollars. The Chicago Tribune says the sale of the pistol was the highest price ever paid for a 20th-Century firearm sold at auction.
When did humanity begin smoking tobacco? Would you believe more than 12-thousand years ago? In a paper published in the journal Nature Human Behavior, scientists report finding four charred tobacco plant seeds in an ancient fireplace in the desert in what is now northern Utah --dating back to 12,300 years ago. There was also various bones, stone tools and other items which helped them verify the date. Up until now, the earliest evidence of people smoking was a smoking pipe discovered in Alabama, which was 33-hundred years ol
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