Overnight Briefing & General Reality Check - Nov 28, 2017

On, off and way-off-Broadway:

BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN is loving it on the New York stage. His one-man musical presentation,"Springsteen On Broadway,"has just been extended through June 30th of 2018. Tickets for February 28th through June 30th will go on sale December 19th. All of the shows up through then are sold out.The Hollywood Reportersays the production has been grossing close to $2.4 million a week with the total box office take currently at $18.6 million. (Marino)

Good luck:

A Los Angeles man credits his hunger for burgers for a big lottery win.
KEVIN SMITH says he "didn't feel like cooking" and got a sudden craving for Burger King. On his way to the fast food restaurant, he made an impulsive pit stop at the Food-4-Less store and grabbed a California Lottery scratch-off ticket. While sitting in the parking lot. Smith scratched off ten words on the Crossword Deluxe Scratchers ticket --earning him the $2-million-dollar top prize! He says, "I went to Burger King and I got crowned the King!"
Editor's note: With his earnings, Smith could buy nearly 700-thousand Whopper sandwiches.(Still)

London tabloids:

Christmas came early for NICOLE KIDMAN. Sources tell the UK's Daily Mail that her hubby KEITH URBAN splurged on a $52-million-dollar home in the Big Apple so his blushing bride can pursue her dream of becoming a Broadway star. Word is the couple could make the move from Nashville to New York, where there are some great schools for their two daughters, SUNDAY and FAITH.(Lee)

Skywatching:

The first and only visible supermoon of 2017 will occur this coming weekend. Newsweeksays overnight Sunday night into Monday (December 3rd) the moon will shine up to 16 percent brighter and seven percent larger than normal. Because the moon's orbit of the Earth is not perfectly circular, its distance from us varies. A supermoon occurs when the closest point to Earth in the moon's orbit coincides with a full moon. This makes the moon appear larger and brighter in the sky than usual. Budding astronomers on the East Coast can see the Supermoon at 4 a.m. Eastern on Monday to see the moon at its nearest distance to Earth --222,443 miles. (Usually, the moon averages about 252-thousand miles. To see the supermoon at its most vivid, try to catch a glimpse just after sunrise. A phenomenon called the "moon illusion" makes the moon look much larger than at its peak height. (Bartha)