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Brandi Glanville’s New Memoir Brings Up the Past

Brandi Glanville’s second book Drinking and Dating: P.S. Social Media is Ruining Romance will be on the shelves next Tuesday, February 11th. The memoir is a follow up to the Real Housewives of Beverly Hills first memoir, a New York Times bestseller, called Drinking and Tweeting: And Other Brandi Blunders.

New (and Still Untitled) Netflix Series Casts Sissy Spacek

Netflix is quickly adding big names to its upcoming dark family drama from Damages creators Todd A. Kessler, Daniel Zelman, and Glenn Kessler – even if they’ve yet to come up with a name for it.
According to Deadline, Carrie and Coal Miner’s Daughter star Sissy Spacek is set to join the cast in the role of the matriarch of the family.

Soldier Jailed For Fuel Theft in Afghanistan

The U.S. Department of Justice this week announced that former U.S. Army Specialist Stephanie Charboneau has been sentenced to seven years and three months in prison for her role in a plot to steal fuel from the U.S. Army.
Last September Charboneau pleaded guilty to the charges, which include bribery and conspiracy to commit bribery. Her thefts are estimated to have cost the U.S. over $1.2 million.

Netflix Will Reportedly Spend $3 Billion On TV/Film Content This Year

Netflix announced a new $400 million senior note offering this week, which it intends to use to fuel original content purchases and European expansion.
Apparently the company expects to spend about $3 billion on TV and film content this year. The Guardian reports:

Marvin Gaye’s Passport Discovered in Album Record, Worth At Least $20,000

On one of the latest segmentsof PBS’ “Antiques Roadshow,” a Motown memorabilia collector shares the story behind discovering Marvin Gaye’s 1964 passport in one of the records he purchased from an estate sale.
The man, who has worked for Detroit’s Motown Museum since age 18, said he went to retrieve items from the house of a musician who had died. Apparently, the deceased man had worked with Gaye in the past.
Later that weekend, the remaining items were sold in an estate sale.

Sochi Olympics: Will Security Be Tight Enough?

The Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia are preparing to get underway as teams across the world begin competing for the gold. silver, and bronze on Thursday evening.
Both snowboarding and team figure skating will be broadcast on Thursday, even though the Opening Ceremonies will not take place until Friday, February 7 at 7:30 p.m. EST. The Ceremonies will be held at Sochi’s Fisht Olympic Stadium.

George Zimmerman, DMX Will Reportedly Box Each Other

George Zimmerman, who was acquitted of the murder of 17-year old Trayvon Martin last year, has been in the headlines quite a bit in recent months–most notably for his arrest following a domestic dispute with his girlfriend–but the latest news is going viral.
Zimmerman will reportedly fight rapper DMX in a celebrity boxing match later this year, and DMX is ecstatic about the opportunity.

CVS Stores Will Stop Selling Tobacco

You better not get used to picking up a pack of cigarettes during your speedy jaunt to CVS. As of October 1st of this year, CVS/pharmacy store will stop selling tobacco products all together.
This marks the very first pharmacy chain to remove tobacco from their product line.
7,600 CVS/pharmacy stores will be missing tobacco products lining their shelves before the end of the year. Why does the largest pharmacy chain in the world wish to take such a profitable item away for good?