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Overnight Briefing & General Reality Check - Jul 27, 2020
July 27, 2020
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Pushing up daisies: Everybody's been talking over the weekend about talk show host REGIS PHILBIN, who passed away a day before his 89th birthday on Friday and "Gone With the Wind's" OLIVIA DE HAVILLAND --whose career spanned more than 50 years, passed away Sunday at 104. Who's the third? PETER GREEN, a great Blues guitarist and the co-founder of FLEETWOOD MAC. He passed away Saturday of natural causes as well. He was 73.
And there's a fourth as well: JOHN SAXON, who was in nearly 200 movies, but is most famous for playing a cop in three films in the "Nightmare on Elm Street" series as well as “Enter the Dragon” with BRUCE LEE. He was 84.
Interesting factoid: Olivia was born in Tokyo in 1916 --her sister, also a famous actress (JOAN FONTAINE) was born in 1917, but moved to California in 1919 because the kids suffered from bronchial problems California had a better climate. But their father moved back to Tokyo where he'd been having an affair with the Japanese housekeeper --and later married her.
Speaking of movies, they announced at Comic Con Online that "Bill and Ted Face the Music" will be out in theaters and on digital on September 1st. KEVIN SMITH, who moderated the panel, said one of the surprises is that GEORGE CARLIN, who played Rufus in the first two movies, also will show up in the sequel. Of course, Carlin passed away in 2008, but producers likely had unused footage from the first two movies they'll be using in this one.
BILL MURRAY helped open the baseball season for the Chicago Cubs, holding a giant stuffed bear and yelled “Take Me Out to the Ball Game” for the team’s home opener Friday, during the 7th inning stretch (when the team has celebrities and common folks sing it). It's not the first he's done it --being a huge Cubs fan, he also did it at the 2012 home opener and during the Cubs’ first World Series home game since 1945 in October of 2016.
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