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Overnight Briefing & General Reality Check - Feb 17, 2020
February 17, 2020
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Everybody's talking about that airline passenger who said she reclined her seat and then it was repeatedly punched by the angry man sitting behind her.
The guy complained that she was taking up his space and later asked her to put up her seat while he ate, and she did. However, she reclined her chair again once when he finished, and that's when he began punching it two or three times a minute.
This (of course) brings up the topic: what weird thing happened to you while on board an airplane flight...?
ELTON JOHN had to cut short a New Zealand concert Sunday after he lost his voice halfway through his set thanks to a case of walking pneumonia.
Elton, who's now 72 years old, told the crowd a doctor had seen him earlier but although he was able to sing "Candle in the Wind" and some other classics, while he was singing "Daniel" his voice gave way and he told the crowd "I've just completely lost my voice. I can't sing," Sir Elton told the crowd. "I've got to go. I'm sorry."
The crowd gave him a big hand as he walked gingerly off stage, helped by several assistants.
While we're on the illness track, the CDC said Friday that doctors in Chicago, Los Angeles, New York, San Francisco and Seattle will begin testing patients with flu-like symptoms for that Coronavirus. The coronavirus test will only be given to patients who test negative for the flu.
So many people are now watching movies on their smartphones that one director is working on a movie in a vertical format instead of the typical horizontal film that would be viewed in a theatre. Which brings up the question --do you turn the phone to watch a movie on it, or just hold it vertically and suck it up?
From "The Rich Get Richer" Dep't: Amazon CEO JEFF BEZOS picked up DAVID GEFFEN's house in Beverly Hills last week. The home, known as the Warner Estate, cost him $165 million. It was originally owned by JACK WARNER, who ran Warner Brothers and built the mansion back in 1937. It's got a bunch of gardens, several guest houses, a tennis court and a nine-hole golf course along with the main house.
The deal also broke the record for richest real estate deal in the LA the $150 million which LACHLAN MURDOCH, the guy who's co-chairman of News Corp, and executive chairman and CEO of the Fox Corporation, paid last year for the Chartwell estate in Bel-Air. You might not recognize the name, but you might recognize that house, since it was used as the TV home for the Clampetts in all the episodes of the 60's sitcom, “The Beverly Hillbillies.”
The show must go on: The 2020 Olympic Games will still take place in Tokyo this year, despite the people talking about problems with the Coronavirus. But Olympic officials there say there's no talk of cancellation or postponement of the games, which are scheduled to begin in just over five months. As of this point, Japan has 250 cases of coronavirus --but 218 of them are on a cruise ship which has been quarantined in the port city of Yokohama.
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