Overnight Briefing & General Reality Check - Apr 14, 2022

The folks at the Library of Congress released their 2022 list of additions to the National Recording Registry yesterday. The impressive list included Queen’s “Bohemian Rhapsody” along with Journey’s “Don’t Stop Believin',” Ricky Martin’s “La Vida Loca,” the Four Tops’ “Reach Out, I’ll Be There” and older classics including “The Christmas Song,” “Moon River” and Disneyland's “It’s a Small World.”

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The management at iPhone maker Pegatron in China have stopped making the phones after the Chinese cities of Shanghai and Kunshan have had to shut down because of the strict anti-Covid measures. They are the latest Apple suppliers who've had to shut down because of outbreaks in various other Chinese cities as well

Cuba Gooding, Jr., pled guilty yesterday to touching three women in various Manhattan nightclubs in 2018 and 2019 as part of a plea deal.
--One woman said Gooding squeezed her breast, another said he pinched her butt, and more than 20 others have said he inappropriately touched them as well.
--He's said in the past he didn't touch them, but did admit yesterday to one count of forcible touching --a misdemeanor-- when he kissed a woman at the Lavo New York nightclub in 2018. Now he'll have to get six more months in alcohol and behavior modification treatment that he has been undergoing since 2019, and he must have no new arrests.

Jennifer Lopez’s upcoming Netflix documentary film, “Halftime,” will be the opening night film at the Tribeca Film Festival on June 8th. The film opens nationwide on Netflix on June 14th. The movie is a documentary that shows Jennifer’s activism through her Super Bowl halftime show.

The next season of “RuPaul’s Drag Race All Stars” will be a "Best of" show, with all seven of the drag queens who've won previous seasons competing against each other in season 8. Up for grabs, a $200,000 cash prize and the title of “Queen of All Queens.” The show begins on Paramount+ on May 20th.

Neil Patrick Harris will play the lead role in the upcoming production of Stephen Sondheim’s “Into the Woods” opening for two weeks beginning May 4th at New York City Center. Harris won the 2014 Tony award for Best Actor in “Hedwig and the Angry Inch” and has previously starred in the revival of Sondheim’s “Assassins.”

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The latest admission from Mark Wahlberg is that he kept his prosthetic penis from when he filmed “Boogie Nights” 25 years ago. Mark made the confession Tuesday when he appeared on “The Ellen DeGeneres Show.” “Yes, yes. It’s in a safe locked away,” he told Ellen. Mark was plugging his new movie, "Father Stu," which opened in theatres yesterday (Wednesday).

A huge comet 85 miles wide is barrelling towards the earth with a mass of about 500 trillion tons. It's due to arrive in the solar system in 2031. The comet is larger than any one ever seen by astronomers before, and scientists say the closest it will get is one billion miles away from the Sun. You can breathe again.