Links to the past, with relevance today:
WGN: For the first time since introducing the li'l devils in 1983, McDonald's is launching a new Chicken McNuggets flavor — Spicy!
BILLBOARD: Top 100 music-video artists of all time!
TWITTER: Amazingly funny (and pretty) comic actor Julia Duffy, 69, of Newhart (1983-1990) fame, spoke out on Twitter about scripts' tendency to overly sexualize female characters — and she admitted a character she was playing had her description "downgraded." Imagine the world we are in when Julia Duffy isn't the pretty one!
NYP: Actor Frank Whaley, 57, has accused co-star Jon Voight, 81, of smacking him across the face during a Ray Donovan scene — then denying he had done it. Thing is, the slap was caught by a still photographer! "F--k Jon Voight," Whaley posted. "Bottom line: Jon Voight is a major dick."
EXTRATV: Country singer Dwight Yoakam is a first-time dad — at 63!
INSTAGRAM: Goldie Hawn, 74, is mourning the loss of close pal Sir Ken Robinson, who died at 70. Robinson had been a prominent advocate for fostering creativity in schools as much as literacy and math proficiency. He died of cancer.
BOY CULTURE: Once-famous model Tony Ward, 50, used to be Madonna's lover and was a favorite of many fashion photogs. Now, he is a full-on QAnon cultist. Shame.
DAILY BEAST: A Confederate statue in Lake Charles, Louisiana, that locals have been trying to have removed for months — but that an all-white police jury recently voted 10-4 to keep — was toppled overnight by Hurricane Laura. Images on social media show the South's Defenders Monument in ruins.
