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Overnight Briefing & General Reality Check - Aug 28, 2020
August 28, 2020
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See ya: Sad to hear ARNOLD SPIELBERG, probably better known as STEVEN SPIELBERG's dad, passed away on Tuesday of natural causes. He was 103! Steven paid tribute to his father, who was an engineer at General Electric, saying “When I see a PlayStation, when I look at a cell phone — from the smallest calculator to an iPad — I look at my dad and I say, ‘My dad and a team of geniuses started that.’”
The folks at Julien’s Auctions are doing a charity auction for MusiCares’ Covid-19 relief fund. Some of the items up for grabs include:
- an animal print caftan worn by BARBRA STREISAND in her role as Roz Focker in “Meet the Fockers”
- a Gucci metallic blue tracksuit with red, white and blue stripes, owned and worn by ELTON JOHN
- a Fender California Coast black ukulele with yellow abstract pattern signed by BILLIE EILISH
- a Gibson American Eagle LG-2 acoustic guitar signed by TAYLOR SWIFT, and much more.
Head to juliensauctions.com for a look at all the items in the auction, which is set for this coming Tuesday, September 1st from 10:00 am to 3:00 pm (Pacific).
The MTV Video Music Awards are set for this Sunday, August 30th, but it's still unknown who'll be performing live --and where, since the folks at MTV decided to not use Brooklyn’s Barclays Center after consulting with local health officials. So far, MTV has said we can expect LADY GAGA, ARIANA GRANDE, THE WEEKND, MILEY CYRUS, BTS, and MALUMA to perform, it's just they may not be in New York City at all. Other rumored performers (who may or may not perform --it is just rumors-- include MEGAN THEE STALLION, CARDI B, HARRY STYLES, and TAYLOR SWIFT.
BACKSTREET BOYS member AJ McLEAN is the latest star to announce he'll be joining Season 29 of "Dancing with the Stars," which is premiering Monday, September 14th on ABC. The only other star announced so far is "The Bachelorette" star KAITLYN BRISTOWE.
Trivia: AJ is the second member of the Backstreet Boys to appear on "DWTS." The other one is NICK CARTER, who came in second place on the series five years ago.
The folks at WALMART are reportedly teaming up with Microsoft to make a bid for the US operations of TikTok. It may not happen, of course, since other companies including Oracle are also in the bidding war.
It's not over: Add Tim Hortons to the fast food restaurants bringing back various pumpkin spice goodies beginning Wednesday, September 9th. They include a new Pumpkin Spice Dream Donut, along with old favorites Pumpkin Spice Muffins, Pumpkin Spice Timbits, a Pumpkin Spice Glaze Donut, Pumpkin Spice Latte and their Pumpkin Spice Iced Cap for people that want a cold beverage.
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