Here’s The Things You’ll Want To See Hear and Know Today.
The Big Picture
Attorney General Eric Holder spoke yesterday about the Trayvon Martin case, and said the Justice Department will be investigating it.
Charles Ramsey is coming back for more. Remember, the guy who said he rescued Amanda Berry and the other Cleveland kidnap victims while he was eating a Big Mac? Now he just did a new interview and he says he’s broke and homeless, and can’t get anyone to give him a job because he’s too famous. (But he says he would never go back to NOT being famous, because you only get once chance to live your life.)
On Friday, San Francisco’s Fox affiliate, KTVU, accidentally went on air with fake names of the Asiana Airlines pilots who crashed earlier this month. The names were racist jokes, like Sum Ting Wong. They blamed it on the NTSB, who confirmed the names to them. Well now, the NTSB has fired the intern who confirmed the names. And Asiana is SUING KTVU for damaging their image.
Twinkies were BACK in stores nationwide yesterday . . . but they’re a little different than they used to be. The new Twinkies are listed at 38.5 grams per Twinkie . . . photos of old boxes show they used to be 42.5 grams each. That’s a 9% reduction. The price has not been reduced.
Showbizzy Newz
E! News says that “numerous amounts of alcohol” were found in the Vancouver hotel room where CORY MONTEITH died over the weekend. There were also other “substances”, but there’s no word yet what they were.
CORY MONTEITH and LEA MICHELE had their ups and downs . . . but “Us Weekly” says they were definitely together when he died over the weekend. A source says, quote, “Lea and Cory were planning on moving in together after he got back from Vancouver . . . They were 100% happy and together and in love at the time of his death. They never broke up.”
Jenny McCarthy is joining “The View” as a permanent co-host this fall. Barbara Walters announced it yesterday. (Jenny has been a guest co-host eight times, and she’s been a regular guest another nine times. She’ll start at the beginning of Season 17 on September 9th.)
Jenny will replace JOY BEHAR, who announced that she’d be leaving the show back in March. Joy’s last day will come sometime next month.
ELISABETH HASSELBECK left the show last week. There’s still no word who’s replacing her . . . but there’s been talk it could be BROOKE SHIELDS.
During a show Sunday night, STEVIE WONDER announced that he’s not playing in Florida until the Stand Your Ground law is abolished. And he won’t play anywhere else that the law exists. He said, quote, “You can’t just talk about it, you have to be about it. We can make change by coming together for the spirit of unity. Not in destruction, but in the perpetuation of life itself.”
Q Country Closeup
RANDY TRAVIS is still on a ventilator but doctors say he’s making progress in his recovery from last week’s stroke. He’s responding to voices and appears to understand his surroundings. He has about three more weeks in the hospital before they transfer him to a facility to start physical therapy.
Kenny Chesney did a show last Friday in Minneapolis. And Diane Grinde from Elk River, Minnesota went to see the show, because she’s one of his biggest fans. The thing is, she has terminal lung cancer . . . and she’s so dedicated that she SKIPPED CHEMOTHERAPY to make it to the show. Here’s a local news report.
The Backside of the News
On Friday morning, a news team in Corpus Christi, Texas literally started their show with a BANG. A few seconds in, there was an EXPLOSION nearby that was so powerful, it actually shook the studio. All three anchors jumped when it happened, then they joked about how it felt like it came from INSIDE the studio. In reality, it was a natural gas explosion that destroyed a nearby home and seriously injured two men who were inside. But obviously the anchors had no way of knowing that.
Last month, a guy was booking a hotel room online, and in the “special requests” section, he jokingly asked for three red M&Ms on the counter and a picture of bacon on the bed. And when he got to his room, he found out the hotel had actually FULFILLED his request. There were three red M&Ms on the counter, and a framed picture of bacon was sitting on the bed.
Randoms
The “Wall Street Journal” just did a study to figure out how much actual ACTION happens during a Major League Baseball game. And they found the average three-hour game has about 18 MINUTES of action. Believe it or not, that’s WAY better than the average NFL game, which has about 11 minutes of action.
