Headlines this morning were equally divided between last nights Democratic Party Leaders Debate, and some NBA basketball player who was found unconscious in a Nevada whorehouse!
Makes ya wonder where people's priorities are, eh?
BUT, if ya are curious about the debate, THIS pretty well sums it up!
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Speaking about POLITICS, with a dash of HOLLYWOOD thrown in: Will Harvey Weinstein Back 'Where to Invade Next'?
Mystery shrouds Michael Moore's new movie, Where to Invade Next. After a splashy opening-night premiere Sept. 10 at the Toronto Film Festival, Moore was forced to wait nearly a month to announce a buyer. And now the distributor, a new label headed by former Radius-TWC chiefs Tom Quinn and Jason Janego and Alamo Drafthouse founder Tim League, has yet to announce a release date for the hot-button documentary, raising questions about the unnamed company's financial backing.Sources say Moore's film — which makes a satirical argument that the American dream is alive and well everywhere but America — will get an Oscar-qualifying run in December in New York and Los Angeles, followed by a wide release in January.
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/michael-moore-mystery-will-harvey-831752
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If you lived here, you'd drink too: Folks, looking at this picture it's not hard to understand why people in Antarctica start to drink too much after being stuck inside this thing for eight months of the year!
by Tia Ghose, Senior Writer
What is it about the coldest continent that drives people to drink
like sailors? It turns out that the beer-guzzling behavior isn't surprising to experts, given the workplace of Antarctica. Life on the ice combines isolation, boredom, cold weather and a hypermasculine environment, all of which contribute to excess drinking and related shenanigans, experts say. Many people living in frigid climates may want to warm up with a hot toddy or a nip of whiskey. It's a long-held assumption that people in colder locales tend to consume more alcohol.
Some studies do suggest that cold, gloomy weather tends to nudge people toward indulging in more "hedonic" pleasures, said Nitika Garg, a marketing professor at the University of New South Wales in Australia, who has studied climate and alcohol consumption.
"If it's extremely cold, you feel worse emotionally, affectively, and that pushes you toward consumption that you find rewarding and hedonic," Garg told Live Science. "For alcohol, it's a double whammy."
That's because alcohol also widens the blood vessels and causes blood to rush to the skin, making people feel physically warmer. (But although alcohol makes people feel warmer, it actually makes them more prone to lose heat, so it's important to stay out of the cold after consuming alcohol.)
Garg and her colleagues have found that in the United States, people in states with colder and rainier weather tend to drink more alcohol than people in sunnier, warmer climates.
However, other factors — such as culture, economics and religion — are sometimes more important than climate in driving drinking habits, Garg said. For instance, people from Russia do tend to drink more than people from Greece, but people in equatorial Uganda drink more than people in chilly Afghanistan, where Islamic law prevents most people from imbibing, according to the World Health Organization
http://www.livescience.com/52467-why-antarctica-fuels-excess-drinking.html
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Well kids, I saw my first winter snow tires TV commercial this week so I don't feel too bad telling you about this Christmas special coming up:
Bill Murray and his friends are getting in the Christmas spirit a little early this year. The Golden Globe winner is the star of the upcoming Netflix original holiday special A Very Murray Christmas, directed and co-written by Sofia Coppola.
"It just started from wanting to see Bill sing and our fondness for those old Christmas specials that were on TV in the '70s and '80s," Coppola says exclusively in the current issue of PEOPLE.
"Bill is friends with George, so that's how he came on. Then, we wanted a pop starlet," says Coppola. "I had met Miley through Marc Jacobs and she seemed really game and nice, so I asked through a friend."
And Coppola says she was pleasantly surprised with how much fun – and talented – Cyrus was.
"She was a good sport. On the day we were shooting with her, we realized we were short on a song and we asked her if she could learn a second song," she says of how Cyrus' performance of "Silent Night" came about. "They just whipped that together over lunch! To hear her singing live on set with just the piano was really fantastic. I was impressed that she can really sing."
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