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Overnight Briefing & General Reality Check - Feb 1, 2021
February 1, 2021
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Remake time: NBC is reportedly doing a remake of their classic 1980s series, "Kate & Allie," which originally starred SUSAN SAINT JAMES and JANE CURTIN. No word on stars yet. ABC also announced they would be doing a remake of "The Wonder Years" as well, but this time the series will be about a black, middle-class family living in Montgomery, Alabama in the 1960s.
Sequel time for the 2008 movie "Cloverfield," about a group of 20-something New Yorkers attempting to get around the city during an attack by a giant monster. No word on the new plot or actors yet.
Third time's a charm: Not so much for the Coachella music festival, since health officials have ordered the April festival cancelled due to the coronavirus pandemic. It’s the third time the festival has been cancelled due to the pandemic, but just the second year, since the 2020 festival was moved to October and then to April of this year.
Congratulations to singer KELLY ROWLAND, who just had a baby boy back on the 21st. "On the 21st day, of the 21st year, of the 21st Century, Noah Jon Weatherspoon Greeted us!," Kelly posted on Instagram. She and her husband TIM, also have another son, Titan, who'll turn 7 later this year.
Sports: ya gotta wonder why somebody would sue a tabloid just for revealing how much money they're making. That's what happened when the Barcelona soccer club filed a suit against the Spanish newspaper El Mundo, because it published details of forward LIONEL MESSI's contract, worth 492-million pounds (a mere $675,267,122 dollars). They say they're going to take "appropriate legal action" against the paper because they attempted to "discredit his image, and to damage his relationship with the entity where he has worked to become the best player in the world and in football history." Nobody knows whether Messi will remain with the club when his contract runs out this summer.
Gotta love this one --LOUISE LINTON, the wife of former Treasury Secretary STEVE MNUCHIN, has been cast as a psychotic hedge fund manager and serial killer in the new film, “Me You Madness.” And she's probably going to do a great job, since Louise also wrote and will direct the film. In the film, she plays a woman living “a life of luxury, having an architectural dream house in Malibu, exclusive designer fashions, fast cars, and exquisite jewelry. She has no need for a man except to satisfy her natural serial killer instinct, literally.”
There are some people that never want to forget their parents, who brought them up and taught them everything. But keeping your mom's body in a freezer is going a bit too far, dontcha think? That's what happened over the weekend in Japan, where 48-year-old YUMI YOSHINO told cops she hid the body 10 years ago after coming home and finding her 60-year-old mother dead because she “didn’t want to move out” of their apartment in Tokyo. A cleaner found her mom’s body in the freezer of her apartment after Yoshino reportedly had been evicted because she missed her rent payments. Police, who were called after the body was discovered, said there were no visible wounds on the frozen body.
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