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Overnight Briefing & General Reality Check - {date: M d, yy}
October 2, 2009
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Broadcast, cable and video news:
More details may emerge about DAVID LETTERMAN today.
- Last night during a taping of "The Late Show," Dave announced to his audience that he'd gone to the cops because somebody was trying to extort $2 million bucks from him or they'd break the news that he'd had sexual relations with female members of staff.
- The NY Daily News has identified the suspect as ROBERT HALDERMAN, a 51-year-old Emmy Award-winning producer from CBS News. Dave said he planned to write both a movie screenplay and a book based on what he knew --that Dave had engaged in sex with staffers.
- That seems a bit contradictory, since Dave and his girlfriend of 20-plus years, REGINA LASKO, were just married this past March. They have one child, a son named HARRY, who was born in 2003.
- Dave said he'd done (quote) "something I've never done in my life --I had to go downtown and testify before a grand jury." During that testimony, Dave apparently admitted that he did, indeed, engage in sexual relationships with members of his staff. Then, he set up a sting with the cops, writing a fake $2 million check which led cops to the extortionist.
- Dave said he came clean because he had a responsibility to protect the members of his staff --and his family-- from the adverse publicity which will inevitably follow.
Fast food:
Potato chip sales have jumped by 22% since the economy started to tank, according to market research firm Mintel, which compared 2007 market data against its own market estimate for the category for full-year 2009. (Kaye)
What's the Buzz:
Where will your kids move? Ask the Wall Street Journal.
- The paper says recent college grads who aren't forced to live with their parents are no longer moving to smaller cities as they have in the past. Instead, young adults are flocking to larger cities with better-quality, higher-paying jobs. Or at least they will when the recession ends.
- The Journal predicts that in the near future, Washington, D-C; Seattle; New York; Portland, OR, and Austin, TX, will emerge as the "hottest, hippest destinations for highly mobile, educated workers in their 20s."
- Washington and Seattle tied for first because of the growth of government and tech jobs, respectively.
- The article notes that although 18- to 29-year-olds are the country's most mobile group, over the past year, fewer people have moved than at any point since the 1950s. (Maiman)
This week's hot singles (Billboard's Hot-100):
THE BLACK EYED PEAS now have the longest run at number one in this decade. "I Gotta Feeling" logs its 14th week at the top of the Billboard Hot 100. That beats MARIAH CAREY's 13 week stay with "We Belong Together" back in 2005. The Peas have now been at number one for 26 consecutive weeks, following a 12-week run with "Boom Boom Pow." That half a year, folks. The biggest chart jump this week was CARRIE UNDERWOOD's "Cowboy Casanova." It jumped 85 places to number 11. (Marino)
Lowering expectations:
A group of elite Swedish commandos demonstrated their skills by successfully blowing up a house.
Ananova.com says it's unfortunate they hit the wrong house. The S-A-S style military unit was performing a late night training exercise. They were supposed to target a home purchased by the military specifically for training. Instead, they allegedly blew out the doors and windows of a house belonging to a man and his wife. One neighbor said, "They were extremely lucky that the couple who own the property were out or they could have been killed." (Still)
Eight Dumb Things Women Do To Please Men:
Warning: note sexual content.
Ladies -- are you sick of compromising your mind, body and wardrobe for the opposite sex? Cosmopolitan magazine put a list of eight really dumb things women do to please men --here goes:
- The Brazilian Wax. Guys, if you didn't know it this procedure may look sexy in the sack but is extremely painful.
- Killing Ourselves in Spin Class. Hands down, whoever claims to truly enjoy this gut-wrenching gym experience is a pathological liar --perhaps a masochist.
- Running the Water When We Pee. Yes, it may be a natural part of life but gentlemen don't need to hear everything we do.
- Wearing Five-Inch Heels. They look fantastic but come with the stiff price of painful tootsies.
- Wearing the Jersey of a Sports Team We Don't Care About. Advertising men's obsessions is a classic female move, but has any man in history grown his scruff out to look like MATTHEW McCONAUGHEY? Didn't think so.
- Staying Overnight at His Place... in the middle of nowhere... on a weekday. Definitely inconvenient, no two ways about it.
- Buying Presents for His Relatives. Women love to shop, yes, but is the opposite sex truly incapable of purchasing a little something for Great-Aunt Myrtle?
- Faking It. Chances are the female does this simply not to hurt her man's feelings, despite the fact that it's just plain wrong. (Lee)
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