Controlling scripts, radioactive raves and baby it’s cold outside + this day in history w/the Winecoff Hotel fire and our song of the day by Arctic Monkeys on your Morning Monarchy for December 7, 2018.
Notes/Links:
Grammy Nominations: Kendrick Lamar Leads With ‘Black Panther’ Soundtrack; Lady Gaga & Bradley Cooper For “Shallow”
https://deadline.com/2018/12/grammy-nominations-list-kendrick-lamar-black-panther-lady-gaga-bradley-cooper-shallow-1202515575/
Buzzcocks singer Pete Shelley dies at 63
https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-46476369
Black Lightning: Akil Under Investigation by WB Following Domestic Abuse Claims
https://twitter.com/CBR/status/1068606862361313282
Pedophile Kevin Spacey Tracked & Spotted By National Enquirer Around The Globe While Hiding Out
https://twitter.com/AnOpenSecret/status/1070540368976994304
She Accused the Backstreet Boys’ Nick Carter of Rape. They Made Her Life Hell.
https://twitter.com/CourageSower/status/1069627533434347521
Backstreet’s back alright with new album ‘#DNA,’ single and world tour // DNA evidence?
https://twitter.com/mediamonarchy/status/1070457103305723904
Netflix’s ‘Baby’ accused of trivializing teen sex trafficking
https://twitter.com/XEyezWideOpenX/status/1068277415292620803
How China Controls Hollywood Scripts
https://twitter.com/mad_writer357/status/1064526614158020616
Marvel reportedly wants to follow Black Panther’s success with Shang-Chi film
https://twitter.com/shartstorm8d8/status/1069728285108592642
Who is Marvel’s #ShangChi? (Audio)
https://twitter.com/mediamonarchy/status/1070931875554721797
Fu Manchu fury in China over Marvel’s Asian superhero origin
https://twitter.com/shartstorm8d8/status/1070611182858338304
Superman comics showing victim of ‘Russian puppet Assad’ honors long tradition of propaganda
https://twitter.com/shartstorm8d8/status/1070773759995346944
Netflix tops other streamers with most Golden Globes nods, but Amazon beats it on TV
https://twitter.com/shartstorm8d8/status/1070777287283359744
US Teens’ Trust In Traditional Media Deteriorating
https://twitter.com/shartstorm8d8/status/1070795240452186113
Book review: ‘The Art of Point-and-Click Adventure Games’
https://twitter.com/Under_Radar_Mag/status/1069980760550064128
Ghostly meets Super Nintendo 🎮
https://twitter.com/Mixmag/status/1070490573826596864
AT&T Plans to End Their Satellite DIRECTV & Focus on Streaming
https://twitter.com/ShawnCathcart/status/1069831994647961600
Canadian media firm Thomson Reuters said that it was slashing 3,200 jobs in the next two years
https://twitter.com/shartstorm8d8/status/1070014158446325760
Ken Berry, star of sitcom ‘F Troop,’ has died at age 85
https://twitter.com/ShawnCathcart/status/1069399331273404417
.@MeTV remembers #KenBerry (Audio)
https://twitter.com/mediamonarchy/status/1070936190453350400
In late December 1977, #CharlieChaplin died in his home in Switzerland. A few months later, his body was stolen from its cemetery plot, kicking off an international corpse hunt that briefly – if dubiously – included the #FBI
https://twitter.com/shartstorm8d8/status/1068963906570223616
Porn star Jesse Jane arrested after being found soaked in urine, drunk on sidewalk
https://twitter.com/CourageSower/status/1069306960426627072
New study crowns ‘Wizard of Oz’ the most influential movie of all time, beating out ‘Star Wars’ and ‘Psycho’
https://twitter.com/g3rd3r/status/1068695312766722048
Fugees’ Pras Implicated in Multimillion-Dollar Malaysian Financial Conspiracy
https://twitter.com/XEyezWideOpenX/status/1070604624846041088
Radioactive rave: Ukrainian artist mutates Chernobyl into trendy dance venue
https://twitter.com/shartstorm8d8/status/1070321354723868672
Radio Industry Group Wants FCC to Eliminate Competition Rules Limiting Ownership
https://twitter.com/billboardbiz/status/1069692267353518081
Stereolab Tease Reunion Shows
https://twitter.com/PumpUpThaVolume/status/1070143577882312704
Doves speak out on the chances of them making new music
https://twitter.com/NME/status/1069979075421319169
Watch Lana Del Rey perform brand new songs with Jack Antonoff
https://twitter.com/NME/status/1070770164189290497
Morrissey announces new covers album ‘California Son’
https://twitter.com/NME/status/1070772879174918146
“Baby It’s Cold Outside” pulled by US radio station after listeners complain lyrics at odds with #MeToo
https://twitter.com/IndyWorld/status/1068984658594054145
Baby it’s, controversial? Radio stations ban a holiday classic (Audio)
https://twitter.com/mediamonarchy/status/1070932804605628416
#ThisDayInHistory: #December7 w/The #WinecoffHotel fire in #Atlanta, Georgia kills 119 people in 1946, the deadliest hotel fire in U.S. history (Audio)
https://twitter.com/mediamonarchy/status/1071113927243718657
+ #JesseJames first robbery, “surprise” #PearlHarbor attack, #Apollo17 launches/takes #TheBlueMarble pic, #LIRR shooting, Galileo reaches Jupiter, A&M v. Napster, #RigobertoAlpizar killed
https://twitter.com/mediamonarchy/status/1071113928233562112
Flashback: Former Drug Officer Launches ‘Kopbusters’ TV Show (Dec. 7, 2008)
https://mediamonarchy.com/former-drug-officer-launches-kopbusters/
Flashback: Heiress Von Bulow Dies After 28Yrs In Coma (Dec. 7, 2008)
https://mediamonarchy.com/heiress-von-bulow-dies-after-28yrs-in/
Flashback: NYTimes ‘Debunks’ Pearl Harbor prior knowledge // In honor of 67th anniversary of the attack on Pearl Harbor, the Old Grey Lady offers up more debunking of another ‘catalyzing event’ (Dec. 7, 2008)
https://mediamonarchy.com/nytimes-debunks-pearl-harbor-prior/
+ #LouisPrima, #EliWallach, #TedKnight, #EllenBurstyn, #HarryChapin, #JohnnyBench, #TomWaits, #LarryBird, #TimButler, #JeffreyWright, #CThomasHowell, #LouisePost, @DamienRice, @SaraBareilles birthdays
https://twitter.com/mediamonarchy/status/1071113929240141824
#NewMusicFriday: @VanMorrison’s 2nd LP of 2018 – 4th in the last 2yrs – while Scotland’s @AMOR drop debut w/@Franz_Ferdinand’s drummer + junk like posthumous #XXXTentacion & live #Coldplay, cuz holidays 🎼🎶💿
https://twitter.com/mediamonarchy/status/1070907199830913024
#PumpUpThaVolume: Arctic Monkeys – “Anyways” (Audio)
https://twitter.com/mediamonarchy/status/1070904306025418752