THE NEW ‘MUPPETS’ PREMIERES THIS TUESDAY ON ABC

imageNEW YORK, New York (The Adobo Chronicles® ) –  The muppets are back — bigger, better, smarter and funnier, with a dozen of new cast members!

The new season of the popular  television series premieres this fall starting Tuesday on ABC.

The show will also be available to subscribers of Netflix, Hulu and Direct TV, as well as the newly-unveiled  Apple TV.

Are you going to watch it?

DONALD TRUMP: “I’M BETTER LOOKING THAN CARLY FIORINA!”

CaptureNEW YORK, New York (The Adobo Chronicles® ) – Donald Trump is done trashing Mexicans and the Chinese.  He’s turning now to his opponents for the Republican presidential nomination.

First, Trump criticized former Florida Governor Jeb Bush for speaking Spanish during one of the latter’s campaign appearances. He has also questioned Ben Carson’s Christian faith.

Now, the real estate mogul is turning up the heat on the lone woman Republican candidate Carly Fiorina.

It wasn’t about Fiorina’s record as CEO, or her failed 2010 senatorial candidacy in California.  It was about her looks.

In an interview with Rolling Stone  magazine, Trump offered a free-wheeling critique of the former Hewlett-Packard CEO.

“Look at that face!” he said at a conference table with his staff as Ms. Fiorina took a question about him on television. “Would anyone vote for that? Can you imagine that, the face of our next president?!”

In a follow up off-the-record comment, Trump told Rolling Stone : “I am far better looking than that  woman, my hair notwithstanding.”

Speaking of hair, many will recall that in 2010, while waiting for her interview with CNN affiliate KXTV (and unaware that the camera was rolling),  Fiorina delivered the following iconic sentence while typing away on her Blackberry mobile device: “‘God what is that hair?’ So yesterday!” She was, of course, talking about Barbara Boxer.

So, could it be that Trump’s comment about Fiorina is simply karma?

 

STEPHEN SONDHEIM ALLOWS REPUBLICAN CANDIDATES TO USE HIS MOST FAMOUS SONG COMPOSITION

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First, it was Mike Huckabee who used a rock band’s hit song “Eye of the Tiger” during a press conference following the release of the Rowan County clerk Kim Davis who was jailed for defying a Supreme Court decision for her to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples.  The band, Survivor, is suing Huckabee and Davis for unauthorized public performance of a copyrighted material.

Then, the rock band R.E.M. lashed out  at Donald Trump and Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) on Wednesday after Trump took the stage at a rally in Washington D.C. to the tune of one of their best-known songs.

“Go f*ck yourselves, the lot of you — you sad, attention-grabbing, power-hungry little men,” lead singer Michael Stipe said in a statement to The Daily Beast. “Do not use our music or my voice for your moronic charade of a campaign.”

Trump and Cruz both spoke at an event protesting the White House’s proposed nuclear arms agreement with Iran. Trump appeared with the band’s hit, “It’s The End Of The World As We Know It (And I Feel Fine)” playing in the background.

But in  contrast, famous composer Stephen Sondheim surprised both the political and music circles by offering all Republican presidential candidates free and unconditional use of one of his most famous compositions, a song written for the 1973 musical, “A Little Night Music.”

The song is “Send in the Clowns.” It won the Grammy’s Song of the Year in 1975.