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April 7, 2020
Overnight Briefing & General Reality Check - Apr 7, 2020Sorry to hear HONOR BLACKMAN has passed away at 94. She was the British actress who played Pussy Galore in the JAMES BOND film, "Goldfinger." She also played Cathy Gale in the 1960s TV series, "The Avengers," with PATRICK MACNEE. She reportedly passed away from natural causes.
Meanwhile, the character Pussy Galore is coming back to the James Bond series in the latest novel in the series, "Trigger Mortis." Written by ANTHONY HOROWITZ, the new novel begins in 1957, two weeks after the end of IAN FLEMING's "Goldfinger." Look for it in bookstores in early September.
Horowitz is also the author of two other official James Bond novels, "The House of Silk" and "Moriarty."
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April 6, 2020
Overnight Briefing & General Reality Check - Apr 6, 2020More Covid-19 news... gotta love ELTON JOHN, who's put together a $1 million Covid-19 Emergency Fund through his AIDS Foundation to help those with HIV maintain their care in the face of the coronavirus pandemic. Tesla is retooling its factories to build ventilators ...
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April 3, 2020
Overnight Briefing & General Reality Check - Apr 3, 2020And the Coronavirus stories continue... Some good news-- a couple of Holland America cruise ships with sick passengers were allowed to dock in Florida; the Rotterdam and the Zaandam. Four people have died on the Zaandam, and multiple others have either had flu-like ...
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April 2, 2020
Overnight Briefing & General Reality Check - Apr 2, 2020Deadline reports CHRISTOPHER MELONI from "Law & Order: SVU" will be bringing his character back for a new series from producer DICK WOLF, who's been the guy behind a bunch of crime series, including all the "Law & Order" series as well as the "Chicago" series --PD, Med, ...
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April 1, 2020
Overnight Briefing & General Reality Check - Apr 1, 2020Arnold Schwarzenegger's daughter, Katherine, has put out a plea on her Twitter page asking farmer's markets to close in California: "The farmers markets in Brentwood still being open seems like a huge issue when it comes to social gatherings," she said. LA Mayor Eric ...
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March 31, 2020
Overnight Briefing & General Reality Check - Mar 31, 2020Distraction is the key: Over in the Netherlands, an 1884 Van Gogh painting was stolen from a museum in the town of Laren. Thieves apparently decided that since the museum was closed due to the coronavirus, they'd use the time to steal the painting which was on loan from ...
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March 30, 2020
Overnight Briefing & General Reality Check - Mar 30, 2020See ya: This year's Detroit Auto Show has been canceled as authorities will be turning the TCF Center into hospital a hospital to treat coronavirus cases. Ordering from Instacart so you don't have to mix and mingle in the supermarket? It may get more difficult --or cost ...
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March 27, 2020
Overnight Briefing & General Reality Check - Mar 27, 2020You've probably heard about passengers on cruise ships up against it when there've been people who contracted coronovirus aboard. And you usually don't think of U.S. Navy aircraft carriers as cruise ships, but the same thing's happened aboard the USS Theodore Roosevelt, ...
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March 26, 2020
Overnight Briefing & General Reality Check - Mar 26, 2020Congratulations to the guys from The Village People, whose song, "YMCA," has been added to the Library of Congress' National Recording Registry this year, along with WHITNEY HOUSTON's "I Will Always Love You," TINA TURNER's "Private Dancer," DR DRE's "The Chronic," and ...
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March 25, 2020
Overnight Briefing & General Reality Check - Mar 25, 2020Here's s shocker --the CDC says traces of coronavirus have been found on a cruise ship where passengers were taken off because of contamination --17 days after the passengers left! Rooms in the Diamond Princess, which had been housing the 700 infected passengers, were ...
