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Overnight Briefing & General Reality Check - Dec 9, 2019
December 9, 2019
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Not 3... but 4 significant deaths over the weekend:
--"Friends" actor RON LEIBMAN, at 82: His agent said the cause was pneumonia. He played Dr. Leonard Green on the series, but was also in the films "Norma Rae" and "Slaughterhouse Five" among a slew of others. He was married to actress Jessica Walter.
--"Sesame Street" puppeteer CAROLL SPINNEY, who was at the controls for Big Bird and Oscar the Grouch since the show began. He for medical reasons last year, and had been living with dystonia for some time, according to doctors. He was 84.
--Rapper JUICE WRLD, who passed away after suffering a seizure at Chicago's Midway Airport Sunday morning. He was just 21 years old, and was a huge hit on streaming platforms, probably best known for "Lucid Dreams," his 2018 hit. The Chicago Sun Times says police told them there was no sign that drugs had played a role in his death.
--RENE AUBERJONOIS, who starred in "Benson" as Clayton Runnymede Endicott III, and Odo in "Star Trek: Deep Space Nine," and played Father Mulcahy in the 1970 film, "M*A*S*H," died Sunday at his home in Los Angeles of metastatic lung cancer. He was 79.After the movie spent the past three weekends at the top of the box office, it's probably no wonder that the soundtrack for "Frozen 2" is #1 on the Billboard Album charts this week. It's the first soundtrack of an animated film to hit #1 since the first "Frozen" film soundtrack, which spent 13 weeks at #1 back in 2014.
Fast food news: How 'bout a Bacon Pot Roast Melt Burger? Probably not the sort of thing you'd expect to find at a fast-food restaurant, but there's a Checkers in SE Georgia which is selling 'em for $3.99.
--Cauliflower pizza was the No. 1 Grubhub order in America in 2019. Yes, the company keeps track of things like that. You can find the entire list and what won in your state on CNBC here: https://www.cnbc.com/2019/12/07/top-grubhub-order-in-every-state-in-2019.htmlDon't look for Russians at the next year's Olympics or the 2022 World Cup. They've been banned from all major sporting events for four years by the World Anti-Doping Agency. Russian athletes can still participate under a "neutral flag" as 168 of them did at the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang.
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