- Is anyone surprised that Lindsay Lohan is pushing the idea
of a Mean Girls sequel? To put it nicely, Lohan doesn’t exactly have an overflowing
plate of options when it comes to potential movie roles, what with not being that
far removed from years of over-the-top partying and excess that included piles
of drugs, gallons of booze and a Playboy photo shoot, so her revelation that
she has written a treatment for a sequel to the popular 2004 teen dramedy in
which she started alongside Amy Poehler, Lizzy Caplan and Amanda Seyfried is
extremely predictable. “I have been trying so hard to do a ‘Mean Girls 2.’ It
is not in my hands,” Lohan said. “I know that [writer] Tina Fey and [producer]
Lorne Michaels and all of Paramount are very busy… I will keep forcing it and
pushing it on them until we do it. I just need a response.” Yes, those people
are busy because they have successful careers and better things to do with
their time, but since every movie of the past 50 years that’s been even
remotely profitable or popular has received at least one sequel or remake, this
one will probably happen eventually. In the meantime, fans of the movie can
enjoy the Mean Girls musical, which was announced back in October. The project was
confirmed via the film’s official Twitter account and Facebook page, which
announced that the musical would be coming to Washington, D.C. in the fall of
2017. Fey confirmed that she, her husband and lyricist Nell Benjamin have been
working on the musical, which has its own social media accounts to keep fans
updated……..
- There’s nothing automatic about ATMs in India these days,
other than perhaps the frustration experienced by people trying to withdraw a
significant amounts of money from them. Nearly two months after Prime Minister
Narendra Modi said India was withdrawing 500- and 100-rupee bills as legal
tender in order to crack down on tax evasion and corruption, his government is
keeping a tight rein on how much money people can withdraw from ATMs and banks.
Although the end of the year coincided with a deadline to exchange or deposit
its devalued high-value currency bills, India will continue to control what amount
of money citizens can take out of their bank. According to a statement from the
central bank, the daily limit on ATM withdrawals will go up to 4,500 rupees
($66) from 2,500 ($37) rupees, but that won't affect the weekly cap on
withdrawals from bank accounts, which will remain at 24,000 rupees. As has been
its custom throughout this entire saga, the government refuses to say how long
the limits would be in place. Really, the only part of the situation on which
the government has been firm, consistent and transparent is that the deadline
for exchanging or depositing the old currency in bank accounts passed Friday. The
government is still grasping at every fiscal straw in its immediate vicinity
and trying to prop itself up as much as possible economically in trying times………
- Someone’s feeling mighty full of itself, eh NHL? For a
league that’s at best the fourth most popular in America, hockey is throwing
its weight around like an aging enforcer looking to protect his star teammate. Specifically,
the NHL is flexing its muscles on the topic of its players being a part of the
next Winter Olympics with deputy commissioner Bill Daly saying the league needs
a compelling reason to send its players and hasn't found one yet. Furthermore,
Badass Bill made it clear that he's not going speculate on what it might take
to convince a majority of the NHL's board of governors that the world's best
players should take the ice in South Korea in little more than a year. "From
our board's perspective, there has to be a compelling reason for us to go the
Olympics," Daly said. "And at this point, as I stand here now, we're
searching for that reason." He didn’t dismiss the idea that there could be
a valid reason that would win the league over, but he doesn’t sound all that
optimistic. "The question is, does anything change?" he said.
"At this point, nothing has happened that would change where we were three
weeks ago." Three weeks ago, the league held the NHL's board of governors
meetings in Florida, when commissioner Gary Bettman said there was significant
opposition among team owners to participate in the 2018 Games. All of this
falls under the heading of the NHL's bid to apply pressure on the International
Ice Hockey Federation to meet league demands involving travel and insurance
costs, so ultimately it’s all about leverage and money……..
- There aren't many factors or discoveries that can actually
lower property values in Detroit at this point. This is one of the few, but it
remains to be seen how it impacts a prospective home buyer who made a gruesome
discovery this week when checking out what appeared to be a bonus find in the
garage of a house they were evaluating. The home on Detroit's east side was up
for sale and the prospective buyer was walking through the structure when they
happened upon a dust-covered car in the garage. The car itself wasn’t so out of
place, as the early 1990s Plymouth Acclaim had been parked there for at least a
year, a reminder of a bygone era when Detroit both produced cars and had a
decent amount of people who could afford to own and drive them. What made this
car stand out was its contents; when the potential buyer opened the car door,
they were horrified to find a mummified and badly decomposed body inside. What
made the tale remarkable was that the home’s current owners, who probably
should have given the property a more thorough review before putting it on the
market, said they had no idea a dead body was in the garage. Their story is
that they never went inside the garage and neighbors told police they had no
idea the body was in the garage or how it got there. Detroit police were called
to the scene and are waiting to see what medical examiners are able to figure
out about the body before deciding how
to proceed, with identifying the body and trying to determine a possible cause
of death at the top of the priority list at this point. The good news is that
the dead person in that car is probably wealthy enough to also buy the house,
so the clueless homeowner at least has more options when it comes to possible
buyers. But keep hanging your hat on that new downtown arena for your NBA and
NHL teams, Detroit, while the rest of us continue to look at you as the post-apocalyptic,
fiscally downtrodden hell hole you’ve been for quite a while now……..
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