Born on this day!! Actor Walter Koenig (“Star Trek”) is 85. Singer-actor Joey Heatherton is 77. Actor Sam Neill is 74. Singer John “Bowzer” Baumann of Sha Na Na is 74. Actor Robert Wisdom (“Nashville,” ″The Wire”) is 68. Saxophonist Steve Berlin of Los Lobos is 66. Country singer-songwriter Beth Nielsen Chapman is 65. Country singer John Berry is 62. Actor Mary Crosby is 62. Singer Morten Harket of A-ha is 62. Actor Melissa Leo is 61. Actor Faith Ford (“Faith and Hope,” ″Murphy Brown”) is 57. Actor Michelle Stafford (“The Young and the Restless”) is 56. Actor Dan Cortese is 54. Singer Mark Hall of Casting Crowns is 52. Actor Tyler Perry is 52. Actor Ben Garant (“Reno 911!”) is 51. Actor Kimberly Williams-Paisley (“According to Jim”) is 50. Actor Andrew Lincoln (“The Walking Dead”) is 48. Rapper Nas is 48. Actor Austin Basis (“Life Unexpected”) is 45. TV chef Katie Lee (“The Kitchen”) is 40. Actor Adam Lamberg (“Lizzie McGuire”) is 37. Singer Alex Clare is 36. Actor Jessica Brown Findlay (“Downton Abbey”) is 34. Actor-singer Logan Henderson (“Big Time Rush”) is 32. Actor Emma Kenney (“The Connors,” ″Shameless”) is 22.
THIS DAY IN GENIUS HISTORY
1814 – Francis Scott Key composed the lyrics to The Star Spangled Banner.
1867 – Karl Marx published his most famous book, Capital (Das Kapital).
1901 – President McKinley died of gunshot wounds inflicted by an assassin. Vice President Theodore Roosevelt succeeded him.
1927 – Modern dance pioneer Isadora Duncan died in Nice, France.
1940 – Congress passed the Selective Service Act, providing for the first peacetime draft in U.S. history.
1959 – The Soviet space probe Luna 2 became the first man-made object to reach the Moon when it crashed onto the lunar surface.
1982 – Princess Grace of Monaco died from injuries sustained in a car crash the previous day.
1994 – Acting commissioner Bud Selig announced the cancellation of the 1994 baseball season on the 34th day of a strike by players.
Today Is: Ants On A Log Day, Live Creative Day, National Kreme Filled Donut Day, National Sober Day
TODAY ON TV!
Primetime TV (All Times Eastern)
CBS – 8:00 – FBI / 9:00 – FBI / 10:00 – FBI Most Wanted
NBC – 8:00 – America’s Got Talent / 10:00 – Family Game Fight
ABC – 8:00 – Bachelor In Paradise / 10:00 – Ultimate Surfer
FOX – 8:00 – LEGO Masters / 9:00 – Fantasy Island
CW – 8:00 – DC’s Stargirl / 9:00 – Supergirl
TV Talk Shows
Jimmy Kimmel: Magic Johnson, Steve Lemme, Kevin Heffernan, the Marias
Jimmy Fallon: Kendall Jenner, Antoni Porowski, a performance from “Tina – The Tina Turner Musical”
Stephen Colbert: Justice Stephen Breyer, Chris Turner
Seth Meyers: Kate Hudson, Jon Bernthal, Natasha Brown, José Medeles
James Corden: Cobie Smulders, Regina Hall
Watch What Happens Live: Melissa McCarthy, Chelsea Handler
The View: Gabrielle Union, guest co-host Mary Katharine Ham
Live with Kelly and Ryan: Ben Platt, Simone Biles, Chris Valdes
Ellen DeGeneres: Jennifer Aniston
Wendy Williams: Leslie Jones (R 3/2/21)
The Real: Sen. Elizabeth Warren (R 10/13/20)
Kelly Clarkson: Tracy Morgan, Julia Haart
Drew Barrymore: Molly Shannon, Michael Vartan, David Arquette, RuPaul
WHAT ARE YOU TALKIN’ ABOUT? Here are today’s PPM-Friendly Topics!
QUESTION: WHO is Emma Raducanu and why are people calling her “The Queen?” She’s the Brit who won the U.S. Open, and could be a BILLION DOLLAR STAR!!
QUESTION: Is that why they call him “THE DUDE??” The great JEFF BRIDGES says his cancer is now in remission!! Not only that, but he KICKED COVID’S ASS!!!!!
QUESTION: Have you been doing it ALL WRONG?? Many minds are BLOWN as this Tik Tok foodie reveals the CORRECT WAY to microwave leftovers!! It’s so easy!!!!!
QUESTION: Mad at your mate because they can’t find your “G spot??” Guess what… SCIENTISTS CAN’T FIND IT EITHER! New study says the G spot is JUST A MYTH!
QUESTION: Why was this woman suspended at SUBWAY?? Because she defended herself against an ARMED ATTACKER!!! Wait.. and SHE’S being punished?????
Kate Beckinsale Updates Her Health
Kate Beckinsale has given fans a health update on Instagram after she was hospitalized. “Feeling a lot better. Thank you so much for your kind messages and love,” the actress said on Instagram Monday alongside a selfie she took from her hospital bed. Beckinsale is pictured with an IV in her arm. “Get well lioness,” Jamie Foxx commented on her post. “Oh my gosh! Friend!” Sarah Silverman commented. She has not confirmed what caused her to be hospitalized. She has been in Las Vegas filming a new movie titled Prisoner’s Daughter. She recently starred in Amazon action film Jolt. See her post HERE.
*******They thought she had a high fever… but turns out she was just HOT!!!
******A lot of women are hot in Las Vegas.. but it’s a dry heat!!
******They thought she needed mouth-to-mouth, and every doctor ran to her floor!!!
Sharon Osbourne Is Done With TV
Sharon Osbourne isn’t interested in returning to TV after her high-profile exit from “The Talk” earlier this year. She faced allegations of racism at the time that ultimately led to her jumping ship with the show. Speaking in a preview for the upcoming Season 5 premiere of “Daily Mail TV,” Osbourne explained that she doesn’t feel television is a “safe place” anymore given the proliferation of cancel culture. “Right now, it’s not a safe place to be. Because the slightest thing, the slightest word and you’ve pissed off half the nation,” she says in the clip. “I don’t want to put myself up for that grief, I really don’t.” She announced she was leaving the daytime talk show just weeks after she had a heated exchange with co-host Sheryl Underwood in which she expressed her support for Piers Morgan after he left “Good Morning Britain” over differing opinions about Meghan Markle and Prince Harry’s bombshell interview with Oprah Winfrey.
********It’s not a good time for old white men in Hollywood… and it looks like old white WOMEN are in trouble, too!!
*****After she quit, Piers was exonerated from charges of racism, so… he’s OK!!
****If there was any justice, she’d still be working and Foghorn Behar would be fired from “The View!”
Prenup In Demand For Britney Spears
Britney Spears’ new fiancé, Sam Asghari, responded to trolls who begged Britney to get a prenup after the couple’s engagement news. “Thank you to everyone who is concerned about The prenup!” Asghari sarcastically wrote on his Instagram Story Monday. “Of course we’re getting [an] iron clad prenup to protect my jeep and shoe collection incase [sic] she dumps me one day,” he continued, adding two crying-laughing emojis. They announced Sunday that they had taken the next step in their nearly five-year relationship, fans flooded her Instagram with comments urging her to protect her reported $60 million fortune when she marries the personal trainer. Several fans even went so far as to call Asghari “the next K-Fed,” referencing Spears’ ex-husband Kevin Federline, with whom she shares sons Sean Preston and Jayden James, both 15.
*******He’ll also be taking the next step… of actually looking for a job!!
*****He gave her a $70,000 engagement ring… guess who paid for THAT???
*****We just got our “Free Britney” t-shirt… and now she’s not free anymore?? Burn!!!!
Harry and Meghan Lose Emmy To Food Show
Prince Harry and Meghan Markle’s famed interview with Oprah Winfrey couldn’t beat out a show about Italian food and culture for an Emmy. Their interview lost out to Stanley Tucci: Searching For Italy and My Next Guest Needs No Introduction With David Letterman, a six-part series that explores Italian cuisine and culture, in the best hosted nonfiction series category. Winfrey hosted a two-hour interview with the couple on CBS in their first media appearance after their announcement that they were quitting their royal duties and moving to California, with Winfrey and her team being nominated for an Emmy after the event was watched by more than 49 million people in three days.
*****They did get a special Emmy in the “Backstabber” category!!!
*****You can’t beat a show that features food!!!
Rod Stewart’s Assault Trial Cancelled
A Florida judge has canceled the trial for Rod Stewart and his adult son and scheduled a hearing next month to discuss a plea deal to resolve charges stemming from a New Year’s Eve altercation with a hotel security guard nearly two years ago. Court records show the hearing with Judge August Bonavita is set for Oct. 22 regarding a plea agreement to close the case without them needing to appear in court. The trial had been scheduled to begin (Today) Tuesday but was canceled on Thursday. If convicted, the Stewarts were facing a year in jail, or probation and a $1,000 fine. The terms of the agreement are not clear yet, and attorney Guy Fronstin did not respond to an email and phone call seeking comment. The Stewarts’ battery charges have taken long to resolve because of the pandemic and settlement negotiations.
********One thing’s for sure: the lawyers are gettin’ paid!!
****There’s something about a father and son getting arrested together.. it’s quality time!!!
Is Prince Charles Giving Up The Throne?
Prince Charles is next in line for the British throne but apparently some royal insider types aren’t convinced he really wants to take on all the stress that comes with being the monarch, apparently. According to The Sun, Princess Diana’s former voice coach, Stewart Pearce, thinks Charles might abdicate and pass the crown directly to his oldest son, Prince William, when the time comes. “He [Charles] may not take the throne, he may hand it to his young son,” Pearce said. “He doesn’t want to do it, such a difficult task.” Pearce also said Will has been “part of the conversation” about the succession plan since he was 11 or 12 years old. If Charles did want to avoid the “difficult task” of being monarch and abdicate directly to William, however, he would have to get parliament involved, according to experts at University College London’s Constitution Unit. “That would be a matter for Prince Charles, and for parliament,” the group explained in a post on the UCL website. “Under common law, Prince Charles will automatically become King the moment the Queen dies. Prince William could only become King if Prince Charles chose to abdicate. That would require legislation, as happened with the Declaration of Abdication Act 1936. The line of succession is regulated by parliament (as in the Act of Succession 1700, and the Succession to the Crown Act 2013); it can be changed only by parliament and cannot be unilaterally altered by the monarch of the day.”
*******Here’s really busy doing nothing all day right now… and he’d have to do nothing at a much higher level if he becomes king!!
*******There’s another way to skip Charles… it involves Prince William and a large club!!
*****If William needs help coming up with an underhanded scheme, he can always call Meghan!!
Ripping The Tabloids (Throughout the week, we’ll give you the stories from that weeks tabs!)
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Nighy Fits the Bill For Anna Wintour!-(National Enquirer)
It may be “Love Actually” for fashion mag mogul Anna Wintour and Bill Nighy, who’ve long sparked romance rumors. The English actor was recently spied presenting the “Vogue” editor with red roses before a meal in Italy. The longtime pals, both 71, were also caught on camera sharing a warm embrace three days later!
Babies-(Globe)
It’s a girl named Iris for first-time parents Emily Vancamp, the 35 Marvel star, and hubby Josh Bowman, 33.
Kristin & Chase: Hot New Couple-(Us Weekly)
It’s on! Kristin Cavallari is dating country singer Chase Rice, 35, a source confirms. “It’s been roughly two months since they started seeing each other. They haven’t even been spotted publicly on a date yet,” says the source, adding that the Uncommon Beauty founder, 34, is taking things slow. Their romance is “very low-key, and they’re not putting any labels on it,” notes the source. “It’s too new.”
Bodyguard Tell All!-(Star)
Jen: Stood up at the mall! Jennifer Aniston trusts her bodyguard with her life. “They’re very close,” a source says. So close, he’s privy to the ins and outs of her love life. “He takes her to 100 percent of her appointments, and that includes dates,” the source explains, adding that Jen, 52, prefers to keep her hookups (sometimes she dates three guys at a time!) under the radar. “She used to hide under a blanket and switch limos in a parking lot at the Beverly Hills Hotel because she was paranoid about being followed.” Other times she schedules dates at random malls, according to a second source. (A rep denies this.) Such hush-hush efforts can come in handy in a potentially embarrassing situation. According this source, the gorgeous star was thankful she was undercover when she was unceremoniously stood up by a date! “Now,” says the first source, “she’ll have her guy pull up to the back door of wherever she needs to be before paparazzi can get any shots.”
Michelle Jealous of Nicole-(Life & Style)
Nicole Kidman has gone on to become one of the highest-paid women of TV after teaming up with screenwriter David E. Kelley on Big Little Lies, The Undoing and Nine Perfect Strangers-and it’s left his wife, Michelle Pfeiffer, feeling very envious of the Emmy winner, 54. “Michelle isn’t the jealous type, but when it comes to her career, she’s like every other actress. She wants that juicy role just as much as the next person,” says a source close to the 63-year-old. “Michelle’s tired of Nicole getting all the glory and is demanding that she star in David’s next project.”
Chatter-(People)
“Tomatoes, to me, just seem like a juicy, sexy fruit.”-Padma Lakshmi, on writing a picture book about tomatoes.
“As soon as I saw the posters for it, I knew that I’d made a mistake.”-Rachael Leigh Cook, on turning down a role in X-Men.
“If I have a style, it’s no style.”-Brad Pitt, on how he views the way he dresses.
Loser of the Week-(In Touch)
Kim Kardashian-
The reality star posts a shot of her iPhone playing ex Kanye West’s album, Donda-but fans quickly notice she had it on mute!
STUPID NEWS
Stadium Cat Has 8 Lives Left
Fans at a University of Miami football game used a U.S. flag to break the fall of a cat that fell from the upper deck. Craig and Kimberly Cromer said it was the second quarter of the school’s game against the Appalachian State Mountaineers at Hard Rock Stadium in Miami when the crowd’s attention was captured by a cat dangling from the upper deck. The Cromers said fans in the upper deck were attempting to reach the cat, but succeeded only in scaring it into urinating on the fans below. The couple pulled the U.S. flag they had brought to the stadium free from the zip-ties they were using to hang it and held it out for about two or three minutes before the cat finally fell into the waiting banner. The flag broke the feline’s fall and the cat bounced into the crowd, where it was soon escorted out of the stadium by security. See the video HERE.
********The cat was an Appalachian fan, upset about the score!!!
*******This was the most exciting sports moment of the weekend!!
TOPIC: The weirdest thing you’ve seen at a sporting event?? You can’t top us.. we had Raiders season tickets!!
Dog Interrupts Cricket Match
A dog stole the show during the Women’s All-Ireland T20 Cup cricket semi-final match when it ran out onto the pitch and stole the ball. The cameras were rolling during Saturday’s game between Bready and CSNI when the canine darted out onto the pitch and ran off with the ball. “The dog has the ball,” announcer Heatley Tector can be heard saying in the footage, before erupting into laughter. The dog eventually gave up the ball and was led away from the play area by his owner. “I think we’ve retrieved the ball. It may need a clean. I think this has brought COVID regulations to a whole new standard,” Tector says in the video. The International Cricket Council celebrated the incident by dubbing the dog, named Dazzle, its honorary player of the month. See the video HERE.
********We’re not gonna say where he peed, but it was a “sticky wicket!!”
*******Was the dog vaccinated????
Woman Finally Has The Winning Numbers
A Michigan woman won a $1.2 million jackpot from a lottery drawing after reliably playing the same set of numbers every week for a year. She told Michigan Lottery officials she started playing Lotto 47 about a year ago. “I have played Lotto 47 online for about a year,” said the player. “I always play the same numbers and I always play them online.” The woman’s persistence paid off when her numbers, 05-06-11-36-40-47, won the jackpot in the Aug. 18 drawing. “When I checked the results, I saw someone had won but didn’t even think it could have been me. When I looked a little closer, the numbers seemed familiar. When I verified in my account that I was the winner I was shocked. I’m still shocked,” she said.
*********She won $1.2 million… after spending $1.1 million on tickets!!
********Online lotto??? Now, there’s an innovation we can get behind!!
******The best news: she doesn’t have to live in Michigan anymore!!!
African Serval Cat On The Loose In California
Residents of a California county reported numerous sightings of an unusual escaped animal in the area: an African serval. Kristi Clark, of Olivenhain, said she initially did not know the identity of the unusual animal she spotted in her back yard last week. “I mean your first instinct is, is that a leopard? Did the zoo lose an animal or Wild Animal Park or something?” Clark told KFMB-TV. “None of us knew what it was at the time.” Clark’s neighbor snapped a photo of the animal, which later was identified as an African serval, a species of wild cat that resembles a small leopard. Servals are not legal to own in California without a permit. North County reported numerous other sightings of the animal on the NextDoor app. Emily Schultz said the serval, named Pharaoh, was purchased four years ago by her husband and his mother. She said they were told at the time that the feline was a Savannah cat, a hybrid of a serval and a domestic cat. Schultz said she and her husband have been caring for Pharaoh since his mother’s recent death, but the cat escaped Aug. 7. She said her family understands Pharaoh might be seized by the authorities if he is captured and found to be a full-blooded serval, but they still hope the cat is found. “It’s terrifying, but we’re trying to find him regardless. I’d rather him be safe somewhere else than to be out there alone,” she said.
*********Hey, they eat rats!!! So maybe we WANT him out there!!
****By the way, here’s what they look like!!
STUFF THAT’S COOL AND VIRAL
VIDEO: THE MATRIX REMADE FOR $20!
VIDEO: WHEN YODELING MEETS THROAT SINGING!!
A LIST FOR TUESDAY
How To Perk Up If You’re In An Afternoon Slump At Work
Huffington Post
- Drink some water.
When in doubt about why you’re so tired and your head is pounding, try drinking more water. Dehydration makes us tired, and people at work often forget to hydrate while sitting or staring at screens all day.
Even mild dehydration levels ― a body water loss of 1% to 2% ― can impair cognitive performance and cause poor concentration and short-term memory problems, as well as moodiness and anxiety, according to research. So drink up!
- Turn up the lights or get outside.
If you feel sluggish after lunchtime, it may help to get your body exposed to more light. If going outside is not an option, turn up the lights where you’re working. Research has found that more intense light can improve feelings of alertness and vitality.
But go outside if you can. Paul Glovinsky, the clinical director of the St. Peter’s Sleep Center in Albany, New York, and the author of “You Are Getting Sleepy: Lifestyle-Based Solutions for Insomnia,” said outdoor light is much stronger than what you get inside.
“In lux, a unit of illuminance, residential lighting is typically under 500 lux and offices around 1000 lux, while direct sunlight can be 100,000 lux,” he said. “Our circadian rhythms are best entrained by this strong outdoor light, but many of us are hardly outside at all during the day.”
- Take a power nap.
Instead of pushing through fatigue, take a little time to rest so that you can finish your day strong. Just be sure to time it right, and don’t make it longer than an hour unless you’re OK with staying up later.
“Some do well with a 20-minute power nap, others with 30 or 45 minutes,” Glovinsky said. “I would avoid an hour nap or longer unless one is living in a siesta culture where stores reopen, dinner is late, etc., because long naps will cause sleep timing to drift later.”
- Talk with someone.
Angela Karachristos, a career coach who previously worked in human resources, said her afternoon slump hits every day at exactly 2 p.m. She tries to schedule conversations that can perk her up for the afternoon, saving her focused solo work for the morning.
“Sometimes I try to connect with a friend or colleague or I try to schedule meetings during that time so I’m engaged in a conversation,” Karachristos said. “One of my go-to time management strategies is to get all the work that I have to do independently done in the morning. I’m awake and super motivated once my a.m. coffee kicks in. If I have back-to-back meetings in the afternoon, I am still engaged and working, but it doesn’t require that laser focus that I needed in the morning.”
- Eat a fun, motivating snack.
If you need a pick-me-up, eat a snack. What we eat and drink can make a big difference for problem-solving, attention span and memory. Brain foods like broccoli, grains, lentils and eggs, for example, can help boost concentration when you need it most.
And you can think of the break you’ll take to eat your snack as something to look forward to.
“Another way I trick myself is I have go-to treats that I save for slump time. So instead of getting coffee from my favorite spot in the morning, I’ll save it for slump time as a pick-me-up,” Karachristos said. “Or, if I have a special treat like leftover dessert, I save it for the afternoon break.”
- Think about what activity nourishes you, and make time for it.
By the time the afternoon rolls around, you may be mentally and physically drained and think you have to keep working without a break in order to finish. But counterintuitively the promise of a fun activity can keep you motivated to get through each day.
That’s why Adjoa Osei, a licensed clinical psychologist, recommends reflecting on what activities nourish and refresh you, and doing them. The answers can vary depending on your personal needs and personality.
“For some people, it could be movement, such as going for a walk, taking a dance break with music, stretching or looking at enjoyable pictures,” Osei said. “For other people, it might be taking a moment for stillness, such as focusing on your breath or meditation.”
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