This #MovieStarMonday we visit with Carl Lumbly appeared in such notable TV and film projects as “Cagney & Lacey,” “Justice League,” “Supergirl,” “Doctor Sleep,” “This Is Us,” “Alias” and “The Fall of the House of Usher.” He was also the first black superhero on prime-time TV, as the titular character in the short-lived 90s Fox series “M.A.N.T.I.S.”
We'll chat about his role in “Captain America: Brave New World.” Carl is reprising his role of ‘Isaiah Bradley’ from “The Falcon and the Winter Soldier.”
Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1pHDWnXmK7Y
TODAY'S REASON TO PARTY! (special thanks to ListOfNationalDays.com)
St Patrick's Day
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SURVEYS, STUDIES & SUCH
A new survey attempted to get an idea of modern relationship boundaries among couples – specifically, what constitutes cheating. According to the poll of 2,000 sexually active adults, 51% said that so-called “harmless flirting” could spell the end of a relationship. Even worse, chatting with an ex is a dealbreaker to 60% of people, and watching porn could end things for 23% of people. What IS acceptable? The survey, conducted by Talker Research, found that 79% agree that reading erotica is fair game. 76% feel that using toys is OK, and dancing with someone else got the thumbs-up with 66% of respondents. Half of respondents said it’s a no-no for their partner to have pictures with an ex on their phone or on social media – and 62% said there should be no texting with an ex. On the other hand, a third of respondents said it’s OK to be friends with an ex.
BIG SCREEN-LITTLE SCREEN
Time is ticking and no one is getting any younger — and Robert Pattinson is well aware of that. He’s set to reprise his role of the ‘Dark Knight’ in “The Batman II”, which has been in development for quite some time, and is due to hit theaters in 2027. And Pattinson is seemingly anxious to start filming the DC Studios movie. He told “Mickey 17” co-star Naomi Ackie in a conversation for Hero Magazine that he “(freaking)” hopes they begin production soon, because: “I started out as young Batman and I’m going to be (freaking) old Batman by the sequel… I’m 38, I’m old.” Shooting of the Batman sequel is expected to begin by the end of the year.
The waffle party almost had an unexpected guest. Ben Stiller, who executive-produces and directs many episodes of the Emmy-winning Apple TV+ drama “Severance,” has revealed that he invited former President Barack Obama to come on the show. On “Jimmy Kimmel Live!”, Stiller said he sent the offer to the former POTUS through a friend who knows his lawyer, and, quote: “Two days later, I get an email back from President Barack Obama.” The reply said, “Hey Ben, big fan of the show, love Season 1, can’t wait for Season 2. Don’t think I have time in my schedule to make this happen.” Stiller joked: “What’s more important than doing the voice-over for the animated building in ‘Severance’?”
Kristin Cavallari is back on reality TV. Cavallari, who started her career on MTV’s “Laguna Beach: The Real Orange County” and its spinoff “The Hills”, will star in “Honestly Cavallari: The Headline Tour” for E!. It marks her return to the NBCU cable network, where she starred in “Very Cavallari” between 2018 and 2020. The new series will follow her as she takes her “Let’s Be Honest” podcast on tour. It will premiere on June 5 with episodes streaming on Peacock.
DID YA KNOW!?
Did you know there's a basketball court in the US Supreme Court building?
Located on the top floor of the US Supreme Court building, the former storage room was turned into an exercise area for courthouse employees in the 1940s before nets were eventually installed. It is now known as the “highest court in the land.”
JOKE OF THE DAY
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SCOOP
OF THE DAY
In China, an experimental self-driving Tesla committed 7 traffic violations during a test drive.
PRE-PANDEMIC WORLD:
The COVID-19 crisis was declared a pandemic by the World Health Organization exactly 5 years ago. (last week) It seems like just yesterday – and yet, it seems like another world. Here’s what it was like back then . . .
⇒ Shakira and Jennifer Lopez were the joint headliners at the Super Bowl (Chiefs won the game).
⇒ “Tiger King” had just premiered on Netflix.
⇒ “Ellen” and “Modern Family” were still on TV.
⇒ The biggest movies in theaters were “The Invisible Man”, “Sonic the Hedgehog”, and “Bad Boys for Life”.
⇒ The biggest songs around that time were ‘Dance Monkey’ by Tones and I, ‘Someone You Loved’ by Lewis Capaldi, and ‘Good as Hell’ from Lizzo.
⇒ Lil Nas X won big at the Grammys for ‘Old Town Road’.
⇒ Megan Fox and Brian Austin Green were still together. And L-Lo was still with A-Rod!
⇒ Brexit happened – and ‘Megxit’ too, around the same time.
⇒ The terms “social distancing,” “superspreader,” “flattening the curve,” “N95s,” “PPE,” “variants,” and “quarantines” weren’t in our vocabularies.
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Not
only was Elon Musk still with Grimes, he only had 6 kids. (14 now, we
think!) Nick Cannon? Just 3 kids. (Now? 12!)
QUOTE OF THE DAY
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“I am serious — and don’t call me Shirley.” Dr. Rumack, “Airplane!”
NEWS TO ME
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✓ A Virginia park ranger was hit by lightning 7 times – and lived!
✓ Before finally being accepted, J.K. Rowling’s original ‘Harry Potter’ pitch was rejected by 12 publishers.
✓ A man named Ronald MacDonald robbed Wendy’s in 2005.
✓ Roses cut in the afternoon will last longer than ones cut in the morning.
✓ Sign language has tongue twisters. They are referred to as “finger fumblers”.
WEIRD NEWS
If you’ve been using dating apps, but not having much success, then Tinder might have just the thing for you – an ‘AI wingman’. A new chatbot will soon be available on platforms owned by the Match Group, including Tinder and Hinge. It was designed to help singles select which profile pictures will be popular, and will give “effective coaching for struggling users” to help guide them through conversations. One example of this would be for it to flag messages that are “off- color” and encourage the user to reconsider sending it. The company said that it came up with the feature because “there’s a real need…to help people understand the norms and behaviors that go along with respectful and consensual dating.”
QUESTION OF THE DAY
17% of restaurant servers say they hate it when you do THIS. What is it?
Answer: Claim a table before it’s cleaned off.
HEIDI HAS SOMETHING SPECIAL
(FROM HEIDI)
THE LIST
THE 100 GREATEST TV PERFORMANCES OF THE 21ST CENTURY:
1. Julia Louis-Dreyfus as Selina Meyer, “Veep” 2012-19: Who else could it be? Over 7 seasons, Louis-Dreyfus delivered the signature comedy performance of the century so far, and did so with such focused intensity that it was easy to forget that “Veep” was a comedy at all.
2. Jeremy Strong as Kendall Roy, “Succession” 2018-23: His work on “Succession” converted it from a chamber drama into something grander, more bizarre and more elementally human.
3. Elisabeth Moss as Peggy Olson, “Mad Men” 2007-15: Where she began, naive and disempowered, seemed entirely disconnected from where she ended up — and yet Moss, showing flashes of steel underpinning her pleasant, soft-spoken exterior, made it all make sense.
4. Lisa Kudrow as Valerie Cherish, “The Comeback” 2005, 2014: Valerie was a Hollywood monster, but her dream was to be truly seen and understood. Kudrow made that desire evident in every wince, every false smile and — yes — every petty humiliation.
5. Bryan Cranston as Walter White, “Breaking Bad” 2008-13: Cranston’s larger-than-life portrayal of the chemistry teacher turned meth kingpin kept fans with him long after he’d gone evil.
6. Michael Kenneth Williams as Omar Little, “The Wire” 2002-08: Almost always dressed in black with a shotgun swinging from his side, he was both mystifying and disquieting, an amalgam of violence and poverty who always appeared just a bit untouchable.
7. Carrie Coon as Nora Durst, “The Leftovers” 2014-17: Coon found pathos and, crucially, texture within her character’s unremitting grief.
8. Andre Braugher as Capt. Raymond Holt, “Brooklyn Nine-Nine” 2013-21: He brought his Juilliard-trained gravitas to the part, but he also infused it with an unexpected playfulness and an acerbic delivery that elicited some of the show’s biggest laughs.
9. Rhea Seehorn as Kim Wexler, “Better Call Saul” 2015-22: In a show full of dramatic deaths and marches toward sealed fates, it was Wexler’s slow moral decay that was the most devastating.
10. Sandra Oh as Dr. Cristina Yang, “Grey’s Anatomy” 2005-2014: Brilliant, deeply loyal and viciously competitive: There had never been someone like Cristina Yang on television before.
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GOOD NEWS
Swiss
Man Reunited With Kidnapped Dogs After International Police Operation
https://www.sunnyskyz.com/good-news/
