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Overnight Briefing & General Reality Check - Aug 4, 2020
August 4, 2020
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Forget social distancing --there'll be around 250-thousand people in Sturgis, South Dakota this weekend for the 80th annual Sturgis Motorcycle Rally. That's half the usual number of people expected, thanks to the coronavirus. The week-long event begins Friday and ought to bring a bunch of money into the town, but of course, many of the residents are worried that the rally might cause an unmanageable outbreak of COVID-19. We'll see.
Mixed reviews for SETH ROGEN's upcoming comedy, “An American Pickle.” In the film, Seth plays an Orthodox Jewish ditch digger from 1919 (beard and all) who leaves Europe and moves to New York City, where he finds work in a pickle factory and ends up tumbling into a vat of briny cucumbers. But wait, there's more --he wakes up from the pickle vat, 100 years later, and must cope with the changes to society --and everything else. Variety calls it "too contrived to be convincing and too formulaic to be funny... It’s pungent but flavorless: an unkosher dill."
USA Today says (in it's punny way: "'American Pickle' is no big dill."
If you watch the Hallmark Movies and Mysteries Channel on TV, you know that they run a tremendous number of Christmas movies. In fact, they just did a week-long run of movies in the middle of July to make you feel a bit cooler. It must have been an eye-opener for Lifetime, which announced yesterday at the Television Critics Association summer press tour that they've just OKed their first movie with a LGBTQ romance as the lead story. "The Christmas Set-Up" is about a NYC lawyer who heads to Milwaukee, when his mom sets up a date with his high school friend and secret crush, who has recently returned after a successful stint in Silicon Valley.
But wait! There's more: Lifetime has also commissioned its first holiday movie centered on a Chinese-American family, called: "A Sugar & Spice Holiday." The family runs the local Lobster Bar, and the daughter --who's come home for the holidays-- gets guilted into following in her grandmother’s footsteps by entering the local gingerbread house competition. 'Nuff said!
Author STEPHEN KING has a brand-new crime novel coming out --but you'll haveta wait until next March to buy it in stores. "Later" is about a kid who can see what no one else can see and learn what no one else can learn. But --it comes with a price as he discovers when an NYPD detective gets him to search for a killer who has threatened to strike ...from beyond the grave.
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