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Overnight Briefing & General Reality Check - Jan 11, 2019
January 11, 2019
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Oscar and Emmy winner AL PACINO is in talks to star in the upcoming Amazon streaming series called "The Hunt."
The Hollywood Reporter says he'd play a veteran Nazi hunter in the series, which follows a band of Nazi hunters in New York City looking to capture hundreds of high-ranking Nazi officials have made a home in the US and are looking to create a Fourth Reich in the 1970s.While we're talking streaming series, Netflix sez KEN JEONG's new stand-up comedy special will be out beginning Valentine's Day.
"Ken Jeong: You Complete Me, Ho," was filmed in September at the Ice House Comedy Club in Pasadena, CA.Have a good thought for CARLOS SANCHEZ, who played Juan Valdez in a series of Colombian coffee TV commercials from 1969 to 2006. He passed away in late December in the city of Medellin, Colombia, according to the NY Times. He was 83. He also played the character in the JIM CARREY movie, "Bruce Almighty," in 2003.
USA Today reports Starbucks plans to install needle-disposal boxes in some of its more than 28-thousand locations because workers have reported finding blood and discarded needles and syringes in their bathrooms.
The company says they received a petition signed by more than 3,700 employees asking them to place the needle-disposal boxes in the franchise's public bathrooms in high-risk locations. (Note: See the petition at Coworkers.org.New York State plans to blow up the old Tappan Zee Bridge Saturday morning --weather permitting. The old bridge has been replaced by the new Mario Cuomo Bridge and the contractors are reportedly going to use a controlled explosion to dump the superstructure into steel nets below it in order to keep it out of the Hudson River.
As you might expect, some of the nearby restaurants with views of the take-down are offering breakfast deals --especially places on the pier sticking out into the Hudson at Piermont, NY, on the west bank of the Hudson River. -
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