Overnight Briefing & General Reality Check - Jan 15, 2019

Casting call news:
--GAL GADOT will be doing the voice of Wonder Woman in the upcoming "The Lego Movie 2: The Second Part"... she's taking over the part from COBIE SMULDERS, who did it in the first movie. MARGOT ROBBIE and JASON MOMOA, will be back as Harley Quinn and Aquaman.
--A 17-year-old high school student --RACHEL ZEGLER-- will be playing Maria in STEVEN SPIELBERG's upcoming "West Side Story" reboot. RITA MORENO, who did the role in the original movie, will also be back, but as the character, Doc, whose role has been expanded in this film.
--ANTHONY SCARAMUCCI and KATO KAELIN will be joining the celebrity cast of the upcoming "Big Brother" series, joining a few Olympians including swimmer RYAN LOCHTE, hurdler LOLO JONES, other sports personalities like former WWE wrestler NATALIE EVA MARIE and former NFL star RICKY WILLIAMS; "Blossom" star JOEY LAWRENCE, JONATHAN BENNETT (Aaron Samuels in "Mean Girls"), comedian TOM GREEN, TAMAR BRAXTON and KANDI BURRUSS, and Lindsay Lohan's mother DINA LOHAN.
--"Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" and "Star Trek: Discovery" star MICHELLE YEOH will be heading up another "Star Trek" series on CBS All Access, once again playing Captain Philippa Georgiou.

See ya: Gymboree said yesterday they're planning to close all 900 of their remaining stores. Back in 2017 they filed for bankruptcy and closed nearly 400 of their nearly 1300 stores.

A new study seems to indicate that even smoking cannabis just once when you're a teenager is enough to alter your brain structure.
The study was done by University of Vermont professor HUGH GARAVAN, who says it resulted in slightly worse IQ performance on tests. The study also indicated the test subjects developed more brain areas linked to emotion and memory, which sounds good, but at this point in a teen's development, they should be pruning cells as the brain gets ready for adulthood, removing unwanted neural connections and allowing important links to be strengthened.