Overnight Briefing & General Reality Check - Jan 29, 2018

Fashion Emergency:

RIHANNA's Fenty Beauty line is on track to beat out all the KARDASHIANS. Fashionista.com says even though Ri's inclusive make-up line launched with 40 different shades of foundation for almost every skin tone. (That's like, unheard of... until now) It's only been out only since September. But Fenty Beauty sales are on track to outsell both KYLIE JENNER's Kylie Cosmetics and KIM KARDASHIAN's KKW Beauty for the entire year. (Bartha)

Casting call:

JENNIFER HUDSON will be playing ARETHA FRANKLIN in an upcoming biopic about the life of the Queen of Soul.
CLIVE DAVIS made the announcement at his pre-Grammy party on Saturday night, introducing Jennifer and having her sing a couple of songs, appropriately choosing Aretha's classics "Think" and "Respect" as part of her performance. Insiders say Aretha hand-picked Jennifer for the role

Music News:

JAY-Z is not a fan of President TRUMP. The rapper and music mogul was on CNN's "Van Jones Show" Saturday night and said that the president's claim that unemployment is down is just wrong, and not the point. Jay-Z said (quote), "It's not about money at the end of the day. Money doesn't equate to happiness. It doesn't. That's missing the whole point. You treat people like human beings then --that's the main point."
Jay-Z was also unhappy about the comments Trump made about African countries. He said (quote), "It's looking down at a whole population of people, and it's so misinformed because these places have beautiful people and beautiful everything. This is the leader of the free world speaking like this." Trump responded with a Tweet: "Somebody please inform Jay-Z that because of my policies, Black Unemployment has just been reported to be at the LOWEST RATE EVER RECORDED!" (Marino)

Taking everything much too seriously:

There's a bar in New York City that will literally kick you out if you use the word "literally."
It's called Continental and they have a sign up warning: "If you say the word 'literally' inside Continental you havefive minutes to finish your drink and then you must leave." And anyone who starts a sentence with "I literally" will be asked to get out immediately so they can "STOP KARDASHIANISM NOW." According to the sign, "literally" is the most overused, annoying word in the English language and they "will not tolerate it." After the sign went viral, people took to Twitter to complain about the bar's policy. Some users even suggested banning the word "literally" unfairly targets women.
For the record, the owner says the sign was meant as a joke. (Still)