First, congratulations to the South Carolina women for winning the NCAA basketball Championship. This year’s Woman’s Tourney every bit as good as the men’s Tourney. Tonight, Kansas and North Carolina, I like Kansas. And scoop, several transgender women want to play for women’s college basketball teams.
Comment: No female comedian made me laugh as much as Estelle Harris, especially as George Costanza’s mom. Estelle died in Palm Desert over the weekend, she was 93.
Television News: Despite better than average ratings for Alec Baldwin’s Match Game, producers are worried about the Alec shooting and have pulled out along with sponsors. … Despite horrible ratings, Drew Barrymore’s Show was renewed.
Odds and Ends: Good news and bad news for Will Smith. Good news, his next movie, Emancipation, Will plays a 1863 slave who escapes and becomes the face of freedom. Will open as schedule July 4th. Now the bad news, his future films, Bounty, Fast and Loose, Uptown, Bright 2, Saturday Night, Bad Boys 4, Planes Trains and Automobiles have all been shelved. Producers are worried about a huge blowback from the slap. … Disney has gone nuts. On one hand new over the top policies for LGBTQ, however, they plan to open parks in Saudi Arabia, Omon, Qater, Yeman, Libya and Egypt where being gay can get you imprisoned or executed. Guess that’s okay with Disney. For the record I have a gay son and a transgender sister I love dearly, I don’t have a dog in this fight. … Not surprised, former woman’s soccer team goalie Hope Solo was arrested for DUI with children in the car and child abuse. She was always a jerk.
Are you looking for a one of a kind Christmas present for that special someone? Stay with me on this one, way back on April 14th, 1865 actress Laura Keen was starring in Our American Cousin play at Ford’s Theater, when Abraham Lincoln was shot and a splatter of his blood landed on her dress. That dress with Lincoln’s blood is going up for auction on the 21st of this month. Opening bid, $100,000 dollars. Hey, I said one of a kind.
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