‘Rick on Whatever’-Tuesday 10/9/12

Tidbit Tuesday ! ! Providing you the information you need to sound informed today.

The new owner of Union Station has big plans for an upgrade to the historic site-and that may include the return of trains. Plans could include a transportation museum and excursion trains with trips to places like Chicago and the wineries of Hermann.

Barbara Walters in now in the middle of the Nikki Minaj/Mariah Carey fight. Nikki is claiming Baba Wawa never asked for her side of the story before reporting on it. She hasn’t threatened to kill the 83 year old Walters but she is very angry at her.

“Esquire” magazine is declaring Mila Kunis the “Sexiest Woman Alive.”  The former “That ’70s Show” star isn’t letting her new title go to her head.  Kunis tells the magazine, “What I do and who I am are two different things.”  The 29-year-old actress says “What happens with people is they lose sight of who they are, and they become either who they want to be or who they are perceived to be.” 

People around the world are celebrating John Lennon today, on what would have been the late Beatle’s 72nd birthday.  Fans will gather at Strawberry Fields in New York’s Central Park, and at Lennon’s star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. 

Danny DeVito and Rhea Pearlman have been married for 30 years. But now-reports are-they have separated.

Did you hear about the guy in south Florida that won a roach-eating contest last weekend. He downed dozens of them as well as some worms. And then he became ill and died. They’re awaiting autopsy results to see why exactly he died.

The Mars Curiosity rover’s sampling of the planet’s sandy soil is on hold due to a bright object found near it.  NASA believes it’s nothing more mysterious than a piece of plastic that fell off the rover.  Curiosity is getting additional imaging of the object to aid NASA in identifying what it is and figuring out what impact in could have on sampling activities.

I’m Rick on Whatever–and The Whatever Word of the Day is–SEXIEST.