THINGS YOU NEED TO KNOW

  • If you're thinking about buying a Rolls Royce, they have a sweet new accessory: it's an elegant champagne chest with serving tray, some hand-blown crystal champagne flutes, including two thermal caviar caissons, two blini caissons and Mother-of-Pearl spoons. Yours for just $47,000.
  • A new study finds that chronically sleep-deprived people feel lonelier and are less inclined to be around or engaging with others.
  • Odd moment at the Cannes Film Festival when Elle Fanning, who was attending one of the dinners, fainted and fell from her chair. The excuse being given: "Her dress was too tight."
  • Italy was a place to avoid on Tuesday, at least, flying there. Aviation workers went on strike, causing 300 flights in and out to be canceled.
  • All 650 Dressbarn stores are closing.
  • Celine Dion said the other day that she owns between 3,000 and 4,000 pairs of shoes.
  • Over 19 million watched the "Game of Thrones" finale. The series finale was watched by 19.3 million viewers across HBO's platforms (linear, HBO Go, HBO Now) May 19, setting a record for the network.
  • Seahawks QB Russell Wilson has launched his own fashion line, Good Man Brand, on Amazon.
  • Sales of connected consumer devices will exceed 520 million units by 2022, including networked cameras, security systems, and connected health devices.
  • Al Unser, Jr. was arrested for DUI in Indiana.
  • Prince Charles has agreed to meet with Donald Trump on the president's upcoming visit to the UK.
  • May 21st, 2021, is going to be the release date for John Wick 4.
  • They've had the second floatplane accident up in Alaska in the past couple of weeks. This time, two people were killed.
  • The Johnny Depp and Amber Heard divorce keeps getting uglier, with new accusations this week about Heard from Depp, claiming she painted on bruises, which she claimed was due to abuse.
  • What is going on at the Santa Anita racetrack in California? Another horse died there this week, the second in four days and the 25th death since December.
  • Folks in Colorado woke up to SNOW yesterday morning, just days before Memorial Day weekend.

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