This Week in Questionable Decisions…
1. MGM Resorts International, owner of Mandalay Bay, filed suit against more than 1,000 victims from the Las Vegas mass shooting to avoid liability.
2. Rugrats is getting the reboot treatment with a 26-episode series and a live-action movie with CGI characters — the stuff of nightmares.
3. In a new Vogue interview, Katy Perry claimed she suffered “bouts of situational depression” after her fake-woke 2017 album Witness was met with a lukewarm response.
4. A shirtless Jeff Goldblum statue was erected (lol) in London to commemorate the 25th anniversary of Jurassic Park… and the film’s scenes featuring a shirtless Jeff Goldblum.
5. Ashrita Furman, a New Yorker who holds the Guinness World Record for the most Guinness World Records, broke an unusual one: number of watermelons sliced on his stomach.
6. Burberry destroyed nearly $38 million worth of merchandise, including clothing, accessories and perfume, to prevent it from being sold at a discount.
7. Netflix announced a new movie it’s dropping next month about an overweight teen — “Fatty Patty” — who is tormented in school, gets punched in the face, has her mouth wired shut and, as a result, loses a bunch of weight and seeks revenge on her classmates and others. Oops, spoiler alert!
8. Sarah Palin’s daughter Bristol is set to appear in the next season of MTV’s Teen Mom. Isn’t that about nine years too late?
9. Wiz Khalifa advised Charlamagne tha God on The Breakfast Club that guys have to break up a banana into pieces before eating it because eating it the normal way is gay.
10. A Forbes article suggested replacing libraries with Amazon stores in order to save taxpayer money.
11. There is reportedly a “secret” Roe v. Wade movie in the works featuring Stacey Dash, Jon Voight, Steve Guttenberg, Joey Lawrence, Milo Yiannopoulos and Tomi Lahren. Wonder what the angle will be!
This article appears in Jul 18-25, 2018.