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Overnight Briefing & General Reality Check - Oct 21, 2021
October 21, 2021
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Movies: Look for EMILY BLUNT to star with her “A Quiet Place Part II” co-star CILLIAN MURPHY, in “Oppenheimer.” As you might guess, the film is a biography of one of the guys who developed the atomic bomb during WWII --J. ROBERT OPPENHEIMER. Cillian would play Oppenheimer while Emily would play his wife in the film, directed by CHRISTOPHER NOLAN. You may have seen Emily in "A Quiet Place Part II" and Disney’s "Jungle Cruise."
Look out below: It looks like Walgreens will be using Alphabet’s company, Wing, for a drone delivery service in Dallas-Fort Worth. Insiders say the drones will start off small, delivering to the city of Frisco and town of Little Elm. And it'll be Walgreens employees who will be trained to attach the packages of pills and things like Band-Aids to the drones.
If you were getting a divorce, where would you have the papers served to your soon-to-be ex? There was a little controversy when DR. DRE was allegedly served with divorce papers from his wife, NICOLE YOUNG, at his grandmother's funeral Monday in Los Angeles. Finding out he was going to be served, Dre allegedly refused to accept the papers in hand, which then prompted the process server to let them fall to the ground. TMZ reports sources close to Dre say he was served at his grandmother's gravesite, while Young's sources claim he was served in the parking lot.
The SXSW Music Festival is reportedly coming back to Austin on March 14-20 in 2022. Yesterday, over 200 artists were announced for the festival, including MAXO KREAM, AEON STATION, DUMA, EZRA FURMAN, CLAIRE ROUSAY, HORSEGIRL, A GIANT DOG, KRISTIN HERSH, BRIGID MAE POWER, MARIA BC, SILVER SYNTHETIC, DELTA SPIRIT, and HRISHIKESH HIRWAY.
See ya: Fox News host NEIL CAVUTO said he tested positive for coronavirus and is taking a break from anchoring at the Fox News Channel and Fox Business Network. Neil, who's had open-heart surgery and has multiple sclerosis, was treated for cancer back in the 1980s, and said “While I’m somewhat stunned by this news, doctors tell me I’m lucky as well. Had I not been vaccinated, and with all my medical issues, this would be a far more dire situation.”
Also on the COVID front: ANGELINA JOLIE and five of her six children whom she dragged to the Marvel "Eternals" premiere on October 18th in Los Angeles. She and the kids are now reportedly in “super isolation” according to Variety. The exposures of Angie along with her kids and co-stars including Salma Hayek, Gemma Chan and Lauren Ridloff, has caused the rest of the cast which includes Kit Harington, Richard Madden and Kumail Nanjiani to do “virtual appearances rather than in-person events” to plug the film, which starts showing in theaters on November 5th.
He's dead, Jim: British songwriter LESLIE BRICUSSE, who wrote over one-thousand songs for the movies. He was 90 years old and during his 60-year career, wrote
--"Candyman" and "Pure Imagination" from "Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory."
--"Talk to the Animals" from "Doctor Dolittle."
--"You and I" from "Goodbye Mr Chips."
--the lyrics to "You Only Live Twice," sung by Nancy Sinatra.
--the lyrics to Shirley Bassey's classic "Goldfinger," with Antony Newley.
--the musicals "Scrooge" and "Hook," as well as the 1961 musical, "Stop the World I Want to Get Off"
Fast food: How about a Bison sandwich? Yep, the folks at Quiznos will be doing a Bison Reuben sandwich for a limited-time, made from High Plains Bison, sauerkraut, Swiss cheese and Thousand Island dressing, toasted rye bread. FYI: 790 calories, 1450 mg of sodium. You're welcome.
*FYI: I will be taking a week off for a trip to Las Vegas for a wedding from Wednesday the 27th through Halloween (Oct 31). No columns.
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