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Overnight Briefing & General Reality Check - Sep 9, 2021
September 9, 2021
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Interesting brother and sister in Australia. SARAH SARGENT and her brother, WILL, were born nearly two years apart, but they're twins. How could that happen? It turns out their parents used in-vitro fertilization, and they were both conceived in the same batch of embryos on the same day. But their mother only had one child at a time from the batch. Will was born first, in January of 2001, and Sarah was born 21 months later. Their parents didn't tell them about having IVF for 16 years, until one day Sarah made a joke about being adopted to her father because she thought she looked and acted differently than the rest of her family. At that point, her dad said “Well, I know for a fact you aren’t adopted because Will is your twin brother.” Their folks told them they didn't want to tell them about being twins because it was too complicated to explain to them when they were younger.
Movies: ERNIE HUDSON --who'll be in the latest Ghostbusters movie, "Ghostbusters: Afterlife," this fall, has been cast along with KATE BECKINSALE and BRIAN COX in a new movie called "Prisoner’s Daughter." The Hollywood Reporter says the film is about a tough ex-con, played by Cox, who's trying to reconnect with his only daughter (played by Beckinsale). Ernie Hudson plays a boxing trainer who owes his life to Cox's character and would do anything for him.
It seems like this year's football season has just begun, but already NBC says the ads for the upcoming 2022 Super Bowl are almost sold out. No word on what advertiser forked over the most money for an ad, but NBC Sports ad sales chief DAN LOVINGER says some advertisers shelled out as much as $6.5 million bucks.
CBS will be airing a tribute concert special later this month to honor country music icon KENNY ROGERS. The special, called “Kenny Rogers: All In for the Gambler,” was filmed before Kenny's death at Nashville’s Bridgestone Arena in 2017, and includes guest stars DOLLY PARTON, CHRIS STAPLETON, LIONEL RICHIE, REBA MCENTIRE, LITTLE BIG TOWN, LADY A and IDINA MENZEL. The show is set to air at 9 pm (Eastern) on September 23rd.
Macy’s will be going ahead with its annual Thanksgiving Day Parade again this year --for the 95th time. The company said yesterday that the parade will feature live music and bands once again instead of the socially distanced and shortened one like last year, and said that all the participants and staff must be vaccinated against COVID. -
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