EVENING NIGHTCAP: Prayer Circle For Barry. Apple Martin Gets Mocked. Um...Who's Dis?

► One of my favorite entertainers/singers, Barry Manilow (82) has been diagnosed with lung cancer.  During a routine physical exam, his doctor ordered an MRI as a precaution. It came back showing a cancerous spot on his lung. Barry said, “The doctors do not believe it was spread and I’m taking tests to confirm their diagnosis. So, that’s it. No chemo. No radiation. Just chicken soup and I Love Lucy reruns.” Barry is canceling tour dates in January to allow himself time to recuperate. Read More

Barry Manilow in concert, July 2025. Photo: Mat Hayward via Getty Images/Huffington Post

Comment: Barry is so talented. A good piano player, singer, songwriter, and entertainer. He started his career writing commercial jingles. He hit his career stride in the 1970s - 1980's with one hit song and album after another. He has so many songs that I love. I never get tired of hearing them.  One of my favorites is "Weekend in New England". Wishing Barry a speedy recovery and good health. 

► If you heard a warbling, raspy shriek that emanated from the bowels of the planet, it was Apple Sauce Martin making her singing debut. The wannabe model / actress/ influencer/ singer fluttered onto a stage at Nashville, Tennessee to prove that talent can skip a generation. A Tic Tac video (see below) is making the rounds showing the mean girl debutante singing off-key like a drunk sorority brat at $2 shots karaoke night at Dave & Busters. The internet comments were hilarious. Read More

"Her parents still trying to make this kid happen."

 "Horrendous."

 "I'm sorry, but she needs to let her dad be the singer in the family," 

"Nepotism is wild. People with ordinary talent get the spotlight...I've seen better singers in my town's middle school plays." 

Comment: Holy crap! She sounds like a cat giving birth to a kazoo. If singing off-key was an Olympic sport, she would win a gold medal.  I hope the bar comped the audience with free drinks for being forced to listen to a mosquito caught in a blender. 

Apple Martin, December 2025. Photo: MSN.com

►In yesterday's Open Post, a few of you discussed a photo of Jennifer Lopez-Noa-Judd-Almost Affleck-Anthony-Almost Rodriguez-Affleck-TBD  doing her pap stroll amongst the plebs. Some of you mentioned she looked like Nicole Kidman in prosthetics makeup for the movie, The Hours. Someone else said she stole the dress from Julia Roberts in Pretty Woman. I say "yes" to both...with a splash of slutty Emily Dickinson in Real Housewives of 19th Century Boston.  Bottom line: JLo looks nothing like herself. When did her skin turn into dandruff white?