Born on this day!! Composer Philip Glass is 86. Actor Stuart Margolin (“The Rockford Files”) is 83. Bluesman Charlie Musselwhite is 79. Actor Jonathan Banks (“Better Call Saul,” ″Breaking Bad”) is 76. Actor Glynn Turman (“The Wire,” ″A Different World”) is 76. Singer Harry Wayne Casey of KC and the Sunshine Band is 72. Singer John Lydon (Johnny Rotten) of the Sex Pistols is 67. Actor Anthony LaPaglia (“Without a Trace,” ″Murder One”) is 64. Actor Kelly Lynch is 64. Singer-guitarist Lloyd Cole is 62. Actor Paulette Braxton (“The Parkers,” ″In The House”) is 58. Bassist Al Jaworski of Jesus Jones is 57. Actor Minnie Driver is 53. Actor Portia de Rossi (“Arrested Development,” ″Ally McBeal”) is 50. Comedian Bobby Moynihan (“Saturday Night Live”) is 46. Actor Kerry Washington (“Scandal,” ″Ray”) is 46. Singer Justin Timberlake is 42. Actor Tyler Ritter (“The McCarthys”) is 38. Singer Tyler Hubbard of Florida Georgia Line is 36. Singer Marcus Mumford of Mumford and Sons is 36. Actor Joel Courtney (“Super 8,” “The Kissing Booth”) is 27.
THIS DAY IN GENIUS HISTORY
1606 – Guy Fawkes, a co-conspirator in the Gunpowder Plot, was executed.
1865 – Robert E. Lee was appointed commander-in-chief of the Confederate forces.
1865 – The House of Representatives approved the Thirteenth Amendment to the Constitution, which abolished slavery in the United States.
1940 – The first social security check was issued to Ida Fuller for $22.54.
1958 – The first U.S. earth satellite, Explorer I, was launched.
1990 – The first McDonald’s opened in Russia.
Today Is: A.F.R.M.A. Fancy Rat & Mouse Day, Appreciate Your Social Security Check Day, Inspire Your Heart with Art Day, National Plan For A Vacation Day, Street Children Day
TODAY ON TV!
Primetime TV (All Times Eastern)
CBS – 8:00 – FBI / 9:00 – FBI International / 10:00 – FBI Most Wanted
NBC – 8:00 – Night Court / 8:30 – American Auto / 9:00 – La Brea / 10:00 – La Brea
ABC – 8:00 – The Rookie / 9:00 – The Rookie Feds / 10:00 – Will Trent
FOX – 8:00 – 911 Lone Star / 9:00 – Accused
CW – 8:00 – The Winchesters / 9:00 – The Winchesters
TV Talk Shows
Jimmy Fallon: Dave Bautista, Sarah Michelle Gellar, Bryan Adams
Seth Meyers: Terry Crews, Rupert Grint, Rian Johnson, Keio Stroud
James Corden: Sally Field, Scott Caan, Måneskin
Watch What Happens Live: Tracy Tutor, Josh Flagg
Daily Show: Guest host D.L. Hughley
The Talk: Rachel Bilson, guest co-host Kristine Johnson
Live with Kelly and Ryan: Kal Penn, Ben Aldridge
Tamron Hall: Jinger Duggar Vuolo, Jeremy Vuolo
Drew Barrymore: Taylor Schilling, Wolfgang Puck
Jennifer Hudson: Tia Mowry, Ledisi
WHAT ARE YOU TALKIN’ ABOUT? Here are today’s PPM-Friendly Topics!
QUESTION: Why did this grown man (?) have a NERVOUS BREAKDOWN in a Turkish airport?? Airline staff wouldn’t let him see his DOGS right away!! (He’s barking mad!!!)
QUESTION: Why should you mark the date November 23, 2023 on your calendar?? That’s the day ALEXA says WWIII will start, with RUSSIA lanching an attack on GERMANY!!
QUESTION: Who could possibly play MICHAEL JACKSON in his upcoming biopic?? It’s gonna be his nephew Jaafar, the son of Michael’s bro Jermaine!! Jermajesty was busy?
QUESTION: Is someone a little PEANUT BUTTER AND JEALOUS? Jane Fonda is “nervous” about the remake of “Barbarella.” Is it because the new star is YOUNG AND HOT???
QUESTION: Which fans were the MOST UPSET after the Chiefs and Eagles won last weekend? The NEW YORK FANS, because the Empire State Building went GREEN!!!!
Wednesday Addams Dies
Lisa Loring, who played the original Wednesday Addams on the TV show The Addams Family, has died. Her daughter, Vanessa Foumberg, confirmed to Variety and The Hollywood Reporter, that she died of a stroke. Though the characters began as a newspaper cartoon created by Charles Addams in 1939, The Addams Family evolved into a popular ’60s TV show that aired in reruns for decades, as well as multiple movies. Last year, the Netflix TV series Wednesday starring Jenna Ortega, was the highest-rated debut on the streamer. Loring was 64. Her friend Laurie Jacobson said Loring was a smoker who suffered from high blood pressure. “She had been on life support for 3 days,” Jacobson posted on Facebook. “Yesterday, her family made the difficult decision to remove it and she passed last night. She is embedded in the tapestry that is pop culture and in our hearts always as Wednesday Addams.” Loring enjoyed a lifetime of fame given her association with the storied fictional family, especially in the age of comedy and sci-fi conventions and websites. Loring appeared on the sitcom The Pruitts of Southampton with Phyllis Diller and on TV series ranging from Fantasy Island, The Girl From U.N.C.L.E. and Barnaby Jones. She also played Cricket Montgomery on the soap opera As the World Turns from 1980 – 1983.
*********And she passed on a Sunday…
*****Were they paying anything for being the inspiration behind the new Netflix show?? Wait.. we know the answer..
Lisa Marie Was Millions In Debt
Lisa Marie Presley was millions of dollars in debt at the end of her life, according to a new report. She allegedly cashed out two life insurance policies and intended to take out a third to pay off her $4 million debt, TMZ reported Monday. Presley took out one for $25 million and another for $10 million, with family sources telling the outlet that a third may have been valued at $10 million. She reportedly filled out paperwork to receive a lump sum of $2 million, but the policy was never cashed in because of a paperwork screwup, TMZ reported. Of the $4 million debt she had accrued, at least half of it was meant for the IRS. She allegedly blew through her $100 million fortune throughout the course of her troubled life. After Lisa Marie’s debts are paid, the remaining fortune will be divided among daughter Riley Keough and twins Finley and Harper Lockwood. However, Priscilla is already contesting her late daughter’s will, which ousted Priscilla as a beneficiary in 2016.
*******How do you blow through $100 million?? It ain’t easy.. but it can be done!!!
*****Makes your car payment look pretty small, doesn’t it???
Martha Stewart Called Out For Skincare Post
Martha Stewart shared some selfies from the salon chair on Instagram yesterday highlighting her “great” complexion, and while she looked amazing, many fans didn’t believe her “no facelift” claims. “Lying in the shampoo area of @FredericFekkai the light was perfect for a new selfie!!!” Stewart wrote, sharing a photo of herself pouting at the camera while leaning against the salon sink. In the snap, she shows off long, luxurious eyelashes and completely smooth, wrinkle-free skin. “Absolutely no re-imaging!!!” she wrote. “Skin looking good after a mostly dry January and pilates @bedfordpilates every other day. By re -imaging I meant no filtering my selfie !” The cookbook author thanked the “great derms” she works with, also claiming her skin was thanks to a “great diet. Great exercise and did I mention amazing facials @mariobadescu for the last forty years!” However, the bulk of the comment section was filled with followers who didn’t quite buy what Stewart was selling. “I’d respect you more if you said this is what good botox and fillers do and where you put them so others could also benefit from those treatments,” one wrote. “No one in their right mind thinks this is a real 80 year old face or you got it from pilates.” Another fan said, “As a life long fan of yours, this is very sad to me … Nothing fake, authenticity is what I loved about you. At this older age you have sold your soul to the fake Instagram life.”
**********Hey.. thanks for taking the time to let us know what you really think!!
*****Jealousy is a terrible thing!!!
********As we get older, our friends’ vision gets weaker. This helps us to look younger!!
*****The picture below demonstrates 1) great-looking skin and 2) Martha’s a swinger!!
Jay Leno Under Fire For Snow Plow Joke
Jay Leno is facing criticism after he made a joke about his recent motorcycle crash and Jeremy Renner’s horrific snowplow accident. “I was riding my motorcycle up in Lake Tahoe and I came around the corner and bam, I crashed into Jeremy Renner’s snowplow,” Leno tweeted on Friday. While still recovering from a terrifying burn accident several months ago, Leno broke multiple bones in a freak motorcycle accident Jan. 17. Leno’s wipeout happened just weeks after Renner was in a nearly deadly snowplow accident that left him with over 30 broken bones. Leno is known for joking about pop culture and current events, but not everyone laughed at his latest tweet. “How is that funny,” Brooke Hammerling asked. “Not funny. Renner broke 30 bones in the process of saving his nephew’s life. Respect to the guy. Pure guts,” John Dawson replied. “Stay retired. That’s a terrible “joke”. Maybe your humor went up in smoke?” Bill Hynes commented.
**********Maybe these people were tragically born without a sense of humor!!
*****Keep your chin up, Jay!!!!
*****Jeremy Renner thought it was funny, but it hurts when he laughs!!!
Marilyn Manson Accused Of Assault On A Minor
Marilyn Manson allegedly groomed and repeatedly sexually assaulted a 16-year-old girl in the ’90s, according to a new lawsuit. He allegedly first attacked the girl — named as Jane Doe in the suit, filed Monday in Nassau County Supreme Court — after inviting her on his tour bus following a Dallas show in September 1995 and then threatened that “if she told anyone, he would kill her and her family.” The filing alleges that Manson, whose real name is Brian Warner, “within weeks” began calling the girl and asking her “to send explicit sexual photos of her and her friends to his fan club, Satan’s Bakesale.” Manson, now 54, then invited her to a December 1995 show in New Orleans, where, the lawsuit claims, he took her back on his tour bus and “became more aggressive and again sexually assaulted [her], including kissing, biting her breast, oral copulation and penetration.” On both occasions, there were allegedly other members of Manson’s entourage on the bus. The victim alleges that she then became addicted to drugs and alcohol and was “lured into [Manson’s] dark world of drugs, alcohol, sexual deviance, harassment, abuse and assault.” The lawsuit also names Manson’s labels, Interscope and Nothing Records, claiming they “knew or should have known that [Manson] had a history of giving drugs to female fans he allowed backstage, onto the bus and in hotel rooms, and sexually assaulting minors and women.”
********Disgusting. He’s the first rock star to ever do such things!!
****Tip: Don’t let your daughter hang out with a deviant!!
*******For context, look up “Led Zeppelin/Shark/Upside down fan/Seattle!!”
Ripping The Tabloids (Throughout the week, we’ll give you the stories from that weeks tabs!)
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Loose talk-(Us Weekly)
“Avril Lavigne. And a poster of dogs. I wasn’t cool.”-When asked what posters she had in her room growing up, Jennifer Lawrence.
“This one was not intentional, but here we go!”-On expecting baby No 3, Claire Danes.
“In my early 20s, I was very into vests, and I would wear them with leggings and boots. I was very confused. Recently, I saw some old photos and I said, ‘Who let me do this?’ I looked like Peter Pan’s psychotic cousin.”-On her worst style moment, Zoe Kravitz.
STUPID NEWS
Get Paid To Assemble IKEA Furniture
A financial advice website is seeking a couple willing to test the strength of their bond by assembling IKEA furniture together for $1,000. FinanceBuzz said it is searching for an “IKEA DIY Duo” who would be given $1,000 in IKEA store credit to purchase a bedroom set. The couple would then be asked to assemble the furniture together and document the experience. “FinanceBuzz is looking for a couple willing to put their relationship to the test this Valentine’s season by building an entire IKEA bedroom set together and documenting the experience,” the site said. “Just you and your significant other, a wordless instruction manual and a hex key.” The winning couple will be awarded $1,000 for completing the task.
********They can put that towards the divorce attorney!!
Aggressive Turkey On The Loose
Residents of a Minnesota neighborhood said they are under constant attack from an increasingly aggressive turkey that took up residence in the area. Rachael Gross said the turkey first showed up at the mobile home park in Coon Rapids as part of a flock in November 2021, but the bird stayed behind when the rest of its cohorts moved on a few weeks later. She said the turkey has since become increasingly aggressive, often attacking people and damaging cars and other property. “This turkey attacks me every single day. Follows me, goes up my stairs, tries to get into my house. When I leave in my car, it follows my car,” Gross told WCCO-TV. Neighbors said children have to carry sticks when they walk to the school bus stop in the morning to keep the turkey from chasing after them.
*********Turkey: 1 Humans: 0!!!
********You look at a turkey and see a monster. We look at a turkey and see a dinner!!
29 Year Old Tries To Enroll In High School
A 29-year-old woman used false documents to enroll as a New Jersey high school student and attended some classes over a four-day period before her scheme was discovered last week, authorities said. It’s not yet known what the woman’s intentions were, officials said. She reportedly got the phone numbers of students who helped her find her way through New Brunswick High School and continued to text some of them days after her ruse was discovered. The woman is banned from entering school grounds in the district, and officials advised students to not have any contact with her. The woman provided district officials with a false birth certificate, officials said. Schools in the state are required to immediately enroll unaccompanied children, even in the absence of records normally required for that purpose. Proof of guardianship is also not needed to immediately enroll an unaccompanied youth. Once enrolled, students have 30 days to provide additional proof of identity. The woman was charged Tuesday with providing a false document. It wasn’t clear what sentence she might face if convicted.
**********If convicted, she’ll be sent back to middle school!!!
*********The teachers were thinking, “Finally!! A student we can sleep with!!!”
STUFF THAT’S COOL AND VIRAL
VIDEO: GIANT BOULDER CRASHES THROUGH HOME IN HAWAII
VIDEO: GIANT SEX TOY SHOPLIFTED.
A LIST FOR TUESDAY
The 5-Minute Habits That Help Sleep Experts Fall Asleep Faster
HUFFINGTON POST
Do a brain dump
Anxiety is one of the main reasons people have trouble falling asleep and that can be a result of racing thoughts. One way to help minimize that is by doing a “brain dump.”
“Write down on a notepad everything that is on your mind. This ‘brain dump’ can help get thoughts out of your mind that might keep you awake,” said Rebecca Robbins, a sleep researcher and sleep expert at Oura, a device that promises to help maximize sleep, activity and recovery.
This will not only help clear your mind from the racing thoughts, but also will keep those thoughts in a tangible form, which is especially helpful for those who fear they’ll forget something important when they go to sleep.
Turn off your electronic devices
Whether it’s a computer, phone or tablet, you’ll want to steer clear of electronic devices before bedtime.
“I typically suggest placing these devices somewhere where you cannot easily grab them from your bed,” like under your pillow, said Dr. Kristin Gill, psychiatrist and chief medical officer at Minded, an online psychiatry company designed for women. “This can be helpful for resisting that temptation to start scrolling through your email or perusing social media.”
With this tip, you’ll want to stay off of your phone for at least 30 minutes before you head to bed for the night. “The blue light from these devices can interfere with the release of the natural hormone melatonin, which helps promote sleep,” Polos added.
Practice a breathing exercise to help you unwind
You may be familiar with breathing exercises as a way to cope with anxiety, but they also can be beneficial for preparing the body for sleep. “Breathing helps reduce physiological arousal, which is when your nervous system is in a heightened or activated state, usually due to stress or excitement,” said Sarah Silverman, a holistic sleep doctor and behavioral sleep medicine specialist. “You don’t have much control over when you actually fall asleep. Sleep is a passive process and happens when you’re not actively trying to sleep. But you do have a lot of control over your breathing and what you do to prepare your body for sleep. One of Silverman’s favorite breathing exercises is called boxed breathing, which involves inhaling for four seconds, holding for four seconds, exhaling for four seconds and pausing for four seconds.
Gill said guided meditations designed for sleep can also be helpful, as the soothing voice can help you to unwind and provide a sense of calm necessary for sleep.
Make sure your bedroom is at a comfortable temperature
When bedtime approaches, you’ll want to make sure that your space is at a comfortable temperature ideal for promoting sleep.
“Sleeping in an environment that is too hot or cold can be disruptive, as it affects your core body temperature and can disturb your sleep in the early stages,” Polos said. “Setting your thermostat to a comfortable temperature can provide a quick fix that can help you get to sleep faster.”
Polos recommends 67 degrees to 69 degrees Fahrenheit. It takes no longer than a few seconds to make sure your thermostat is set properly and the payoff can be extremely beneficial.
Engage in a soothing and enjoyable activity
While television might be enjoyable, you’re better off engaging in an activity that doesn’t require a screen.
“Spend five minutes putting together a jigsaw puzzle, coloring a page in an adult coloring book, or playing a one-player card game like Solitaire,” Silverman said. “This is a way to do something lighthearted and also distracting, and it takes the focus away from trying to fall asleep and instead gives you something relaxing to do.”
Drink a calming beverage
You won’t want to drink a cup of coffee with a few shots of espresso right before you go to sleep. Gill recommends avoiding caffeine past 1 p.m. to help prepare the body for sleep. However, that doesn’t mean you have to stick to water. “There are many natural and commercially produced drinks that are good for promoting sleep,” Polos said. “Natural drinks that have a history of promoting sleep include cherry juice, chamomile tea, valerian tea, peppermint tea and warm milk.”
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