Episode Transcript
Ninety three point nine Night Eessa The Lighter Side of
News with Melissa Foreman. Welcome to Wednesday. It's March fifth.
I hope you're doing awesome and let's get you caught
up today on what's going on. First of all, happy
birthday to the huluh Hoop. It was patented on this
day back in nineteen sixty three. What we do without
the Halloop? All right? I also want to let you
know it today's the fortieth anniversary of the movie Purple Rain,
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and an honor. It's going to be playing at many
AMC theaters tonight only, so go out and see that. Also,
Billy Joel found a buyer for a part of his
sprawling waterfront Long Island estate. It was listed on the
market for fifty million dollars. But you would live in
Billy Joel's house. That would be so cool, all right.
The late Joe Cocker is probably one of the biggest
endorsements for entering the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
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Beatles icon Paul McCartney really wants Joe Cocker to be
in the Hall's Class of twenty five. Rock and Roll
Hall Class, so we'll see what happens there. The Academy
Awards were viewed by eighteen point one million people on
Sunday night. The broadcast viewership was down by about seven
percent from last year. Conan O'Brien received most positive marks
on the show's or as the show's host. Now Adrian
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Brody broke a record for the longest acceptance speech in
Oscar history, lasting five minutes and forty seconds. I think
he's still going and I'm wrapping up. Please, please, please,
I'm wrapping up. I will wrap up. Please turn the
music off before I know, but we have to, okay,
but the news has to go on there, Okay, anyway,
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I wonder if you get a little trophy for that too.
I'm not sure, all right. And finally, Alanis Moore sets
gear it up for her first Vegas residency. Her eight
performances from the Coliseum at Caesar pal Caesar's Palace will
begin October fifteenth. Pretty cool for that, all right, there
you go, myfron notes. So look at your lighter side
of the news. You're fully up to day for this Wednesdays,
March the fifth,
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