Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Class of 2020 was announced yesterday. The artists that will be inducted this year are: Depeche Mode, The Doobie Brothers, Whitney Houston, Nine Inch Nails, The Notorious B.I.G. and T.Rex and Ahmet Ertegun Awards to Jon Landau and Irving Azoff.
Finalists Pat Benatar, Soundgarden, Rufus featuring Chaka Khan, and fan favorite Dave Matthews Band didn’t make the cut. People are not happy about it. Are they ever happy about it? The Induction Ceremony will take place on Saturday, May 2, 2020 in Cleveland, Ohio. The Ceremony will be broadcast live for the first time on HBO.
Speaking of Hall of Famers, WWE Hall of Famer Rocky Johnson passed away yesterday. He was 75. There’s no word yet on the cause of death. Rocky was a member of the first black duo to win the WWE tag team championships. He was also the father of Dwayne ‘The Rock’ Johnson.
The best airline in the U.S. is…Delta. For the third year in a row, the Wall Street Journal found Delta had a higher on-time arrival rate and lower cancellation rate than its competitors.
Colgate is going green and getting ready to launch the first recyclable toothpaste tube. Most toothpaste tubes are made from a mix of plastic and aluminum, which are very difficult to separate for recycling. This new ‘Smile for Good’ toothpaste tube is made from high density polyethylene (HDPE) — the same plastic used for making milk jugs. It took them five years to develop the new tube. Why so long? They had to figure out how to make this type of plastic strong enough to squeeze the toothpaste out.
Taylor Swift’s documentary Miss Americana is dropping earlier than expected! Swifties can enjoy this behind the scenes look at Taylor’s life starting January 31st on Netflix.
Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker has officially passed the $1 billion mark at the global box office. Very pleased, Disney is. Fans though are still pretty divided on their feelings about the movie. The ones that didn’t enjoy it do seem to be loving the supposedly leaked script from the movie’s previous director Colin Trevorrow. Before Colin parted ways with the project he had completed a screenplay draft about a week before Carrie Fischer passed away. According to the leak, his movie would’ve been titled Star Wars Ep 9: Duel of the Fates. There are lots of differences, most notably Palpatine was not brought back from the dead. Instead, Kylo Ren comes in contact with the ancient Sith who taught Palpatine and there could’ve been a cool hallucination battle between Kylo and Vader. As for the mystery of Rey’s parents…yea that would’ve been a different answer in this version of the movie. Ultimately, Colin and Lucasfilm parted ways due to creative differences and J.J. Abrams was brought on to close out the trilogy.
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