Overnight Briefing & General Reality Check - Mar 29, 2021

One Powerball winner Saturday night, getting the $235.4 million jackpot by hitting all six numbers for the first time in two months. The ticket was bought in Lutz, Florida, which is just north of Tampa.

WILLIAM SHATNER talked to People magazine and has told them he never watched an episode of "Star Trek." Shatner, who's now 90-years-old, said it's "too painful" to watch himself "because I don't like the way I look and what I do."

Stock market update: If you're holding shares of Victoria’s Secret’s owner, L Brands, you'll be interested to find out that they surged more than six percent last Friday after the company said they were looking at “improved sales trends” at Vickie's as well as Bath & Body Works, which made them pump up the first quarter earnings. However, company insiders tell the NY Post they're ready to either sell Victoria’s Secret or spin it off later this summer.

It's ba-a-a-a-ack! The folks at the San Diego Comic-Con have announced that it'll be back later this year --as a “special edition” gathering. Initially they'd decided that because of the COVID problems, they'd have a "virtual convention" in July, but now they've decided to hold a three-day event called, “Comic-Con Special Edition” over Thanksgiving weekend at the San Diego Convention Center. The regular, huge Comic-Con Convention has been officially moved to 2022.

Looks like the rest of the world liked “Godzilla vs. Kong.” The Warner Brothers movie opened Friday in 38 countries but won't be opening here in the U.S. until this coming Friday. The movie is the largest overseas opening weekend for a Hollywood blockbuster since the Covid-19 pandemic began. But with many U.S. theatres social distancing and some still not open, don't look for overwhelming numbers next weekend.

Pushing up daisies: “Little One” --the second oldest male polar bear in the United States. The bear died at the Cincinnati Zoo after being humanely euthanized because he was suffering from renal failure. At 31-years-old, the polar bear outlived the median life expectancy for the species by more than 10 years. He was born at the Cleveland Zoo back in 1989, but was moved to the Cincinnati Zoo in 2007. Unfortunately, although he was introduced to several female polar bears at the Zoo, he never sired any offspring with them.