THINGS YOU NEED TO KNOW
- Mary-Kate Olsen officially tied the knot with Olivier Sarkozy last Friday night, and since most of the wedding guests were smokers, she had bowls of cigarettes out for her guests.
- The Walking Dead is now on winter hiatus and will return on Valentine's Day, 2016.
- 72-year-old actress Holland Taylor (who played Charlie Sheen's mom on 2-1/2 Men) is dating 40-year-old American Horror Story star Sarah Paulson. She says there's no need to make a big fuss about coming out -- she's always been out.
- Joshua Shintani, who you saw play a Ukulele in the 2001 movie, "Shallow Hal" -- which was the only role of his acting career -- has died of pneumonia at the age of 32.
- What a difference low gas prices makes. Auto sales are on fire, particulary trucks. In fact, there's already a shortage of the hottest-selling SUV's and trucks.
- Yesterday was the 60th anniversary of Rosa Parks refusing to give up her bus seat to a white man in Montgomery, Alabama.
- New York City is now requiring restaurants to show a little salt shaker icon next to food on their menu that has sodium above a certain salt level. Any item with more than 2300 milligrams (one teaspoon) gets the warning label.
- Adele's "25" has already cracked through the 4 million mark in sales.
- The town of Swett, South Dakota, is for sale: an entire ghost town, yours for only $250,000. Swett is home to about 6 acres of land, an empty house reputed to be haunted and a closed bar.
- George Lucas says he's intentionally stayed off the Internet for the past 15 years.
- Bernie Sanders underwent an elective outpatient hernia repair procedure on Monday.
- After 33 years, the "Christmas in Washington" holiday special is done. Last year's was the final one, as TNT said they were done carrying it and no other network stepped forward.
- Emily Deschanel and David Boreanaz, the stars of "Bones" are suing FOX TV, claiming they have been shortchanged "tens of millions of dollars" in profits since the show began.
- There were some who suggested that the University of Nevada/Las Vegas should change its mascot, The Rebels, because it conjured up images of Confederate soldiers. The president of the school said find something else to get upset about -- the name stays.
- Tracy Morgan says he "went to the other side and spoke to God" while he was in his coma.
- A couple walked up to a Salvation Army bell ringer on Saturday in Rosemount, Minnesota, and slipped a $500,000 check into the kettle.
- One more time -- if you get a recorded message from someone claiming they're with the IRS and you owe money, just hang up and ignore it. It's a scam.
- Kim and Kanye are less than a month out from their next baby and they haven't picked out a name yet. Then again, not a lot of work went into the last one. "Which way is the freeway going right now? OK, done!"
- 19-year-old Sarah Furay of College Station, Texas, who was arrested for alleged possession of 31.5 grams of cocaine, 126 grams of high-grade marijuana, 29 tablets of Ecstasy, an undisclosed amount of methamphetamine and 60 hits of LSD... is the daughter of a Drug Enforcement Agency agent.
- Luke Bryan and Demi Lovato are joining the lineup for Dick Clark's New Year's Rockin' Eve alongside Wiz Khalifa and Charlie Puth. Carrie Underwood is hosting.
- On Cyber Monday, Amazon was averaging 500 sales every second.
- By the way, if you're planning to buy all the things in the 12 days of Christmas, it's gone up 0.6% since last year. It'll now cost you $34,000.
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