- Open the cage door and let the bird fly away. That’s all
it would have taken for an unidentified Kuwaiti man to avoid a whole lot of
unnecessary marital drama - assuming that keeping it in his pants and keeping
his hands off the hired help wasn’t an option. Unfortunately for this (alleged)
philanderer, his parrot spilled some covert news with his wife, revealing its
owner’s affair with the housekeeper. The trouble began - well, aside from a
married dude getting some with the housekeeper - when the bird began repeating
flirty conversations between the man and his lover. The wife apparently didn’t
recognize those words as any her husband had said to her and since she was
already suspicious about her husband’s relationship with their maid, so the pet
gave her the evidence she needed - or so she thought. Much like in other
countries, adultery is illegal in Kuwait, the irate wife grabbed the blabbing
bird and made a beeline for the police station to report her man’s illicit
activity. Unfortunately for her and in a lucky break for her wandering husband,
police didn’t feel like the bird was sufficient evidence for extramarital sex.
Had the bird’s word been believed, the man could have faced a jail sentence for
his indiscretion. Instead, police totally took the man’s side by claiming that
the bird could have simply overheard the flirty banter on the TV or radio.
Parrots have narced out cheating spouses before, including a 2006 incident in
which Chris Taylor discovered his girlfriend’s infidelity when his talkative
pet squawked “I love you Gary.” The lesson, as always, is that a bird is a
lame-ass pet……..
- All things that are old will become new (cash grabs) again
in Hollywood and so it is that “Knight Rider” will be revived next year. The
action/adventure series, which was originally broadcast from 1982 to 1986,
starred iconic German pop music sensation David Hasselhoff as Michael Knight,
who fought crime with his talking car, KITT. Bringing back this particular show
is dicey because replacing The Hoff is a herculean undertaking, but “The Fast
and the Furious” franchise and “Star Trek Beyond,” has partnered with digital
network Machinima to produce the reboot and that consortium is seeking a
digital stream service as the preferred broadcast destination for the show. The
target date is some time next year, so Lin and his crew had best get busy, as
no casting decisions have yet been made and there are no distribution
agreements in place. Still, Machinima CEO Chad Gutstein called the show an
“iconic franchise” and sounds thoroughly excited about the chance to try to
squeeze some more profits out of yet another unoriginal concept. “Knight
Rider‘s concepts of AI and autonomous vehicles were science-fiction in the
1980s and are now science fact,” Gutstein said. “Justin is one of the leading
storytellers of his generation and we couldn’t be more excited to work with him
on reinvigorating Knight Rider for a new generation of fans.” In other words,
we hope to make a hell of a lot of money out of this and better still, we don’t
even have to have a single original thought or come up with any new concepts in
order to make that happen……..
- Normally, the tale of a mother going full-on stage parent
and berating a talent agent for not giving her child a chance to shine would be
a reason to groan, lament what Honey Boo-Boo hath wrought in our society and
keep prepping that doomsday bunker. But on this rare occasion, it’s not such a
bad thing. Megan Nash is going to battle because a talent agency turned down
her 15-month-old son for a very specific reason: he has Down syndrome. Her son,
Asher, was among those whose parents expressed interest over the summer when a
local talent agency put out an open casting call for a children's clothing
store. A local photographer took some great pictures of Asher and Megan Nash
sent the photos to the agency, which told her it wouldn’t be submitting them to
the store because they didn't fit the casting criteria. The Georgia mother
wondered why and asked the agent if the casting call specifically said no
children with special needs. The agent said no, but added that he assumed the
company wouldn't want a child with special needs. In response, Megan Nash
posted Asher's pictures on the Changing the Face of Beauty
Facebook page with a message: "We aren't giving up! This handsome boy is
ready to show the world what #changingthefaceofbeauty is!" she wrote. The
post was shared by popular page called "Kids With Down Syndrome" and
from there, the story spread quickly, quite possibly making Nash the first-ever
show business parent to become irate about her child being passed over for a
gig and have a legitimate beef………
- Stay in your lane, Buffalo Bills. You may have muscled up
on the Tom Brady-less New England Patriots four weeks ago, shutting out of a
shell of the AFC’s best team when it had the lowly Jacoby Brissett at
quarterback, but now that Brady is back from his four-game NFL suspension, the
Bills are about to get got and they need to stop running their mouths and
making it worse. Yet there were several Bills defensive backs, saying that they
will retaliate if a Patriots player runs through their pregame drills again
Sunday at New Era Field. Bills safeties
Robert Blanton and Aaron Williams and cornerback Nickell Robey-Coleman already
netted themselves fines for a pregame scuffle Oct. 2 that erupted when Bills
players felt "disrespected" by Patriots quarterback Jacoby Brissett
jogging through their warm-up drills at Gillette Stadium, but they chased that
with a 16-0 win, so maybe it felt worth the expense. The outcome is going to be
drastically different this time around with Brady and his team on their 2016
Scorched Earth/F*ck You Goodell Tour, look for these words to come back to
haunt the Bills. "It's gonna be the same reaction that they got last
time," Robey-Coleman said. "There ain't no other way around that
situation, you know? Just respect each other's sideline and move on."
Actually, there is another way. Become the AFC East first team in more than a
decade to sweep its regular-season series with the Patriots, move to within one
game of them in the standings with the tiebreaker in hand and prove that your
late-game collapse in Miami last week was an aberration and not a harbinger of
yet another season-ending meltdown by a tragically overhyped Rex Ryan-coached
team……….
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