THINGS YOU NEED TO KNOW- Fri 3/14/14

Today is “Pi Day”, if you care about that kind of thing.  Not the kind you eat, the NUMBER “pi” . . . because today is 3/14.

Down at the South by Southwest festival, a man drove a car through a crowd just after midnight yesterday, killing two and injuring 23.

Watch for Celine Dion and Miss Piggy to perform together next year at the Oscars.

George Zimmerman’s parents are suing Roseanne Barr for tweeting out their address and letting everyone know where they live. They say that forced them to go into hiding.

Rihanna says she’s the one that got Drake hooked on “Breaking Bad.”

Alan Thicke is going to return to TV in a reality series next month, titled “Unusually Thicke.”

One of the rumored endings going around out there for the finale of “How I Met Your Mother” is that the reason Ted is telling this nine-year-long story about how he met his wife and mother of his kids is because she’s actually dead.

That New Jersey teen that was suing her parents to force them to pay for college — she’s moved back home.

Taylor Swift has stopped being friends with Selena Gomez after she apparently went back to Justin Bieber.

The ratings on “Glee” slipped again this week. Can a move to Friday nights be far behind?

Prince William and Kate Middleton are being criticized for taking a week long vacation in the Indian Ocean… and leaving 8-month-old Prince George behind with a nanny.

When MSNBC host Ronan Farrow visited the Stephen Colbert show, he was introduced with Frank Sinatra’s “Fly Me to the Moon”… a very subtle jab, since it was rumored that Frank Sinatra was his real father, not Woody Allen.

Proving again that South by Southwest IS the place to be, Kanye West and Jay-Z performed together in a late night concert Wednesday night.

Amazon bumped the price of their Prime membership to $99.

They’ll announce the March Madness Tournament Teams this Sunday. Games start on Tuesday.

A toddler was found with heroin at a New Jersey daycare center. (I don’t know what’s more frightening — that a toddler was found with heroin, or that there are daycare centers in New Jersey.)

A new study of more than 1 billion Facebook status updates suggests that if you’re smiling, it’s because your friends were smiling first. And if you’re unhappy, it’s likely to be because one of your friends is unhappy. Researchers at the University of California, San Diego, have found that good moods can spread like wildfire over the Internet.

A STOLEN CAR — WITHOUT GAS – In Flint, Michigan, a vehicle was reported stolen at a hospital. A security guard got a description of the vehicle to police. The vehicle was spotted just down the street at a gas station where a man was apparently putting gas into the vehicle. The suspect got enough gas to lead police on chase, which lasted just 5 miles.

PIERS MORGAN IS IN THE ENTOURAGE MOVIE – Because an Entourage movie wouldn’t be complete without a bunch of celebrity cameos, outgoing CNN host Piers Morgan will take part in the film adaptation of the HBO series. Morgan tweeted photos from his visit to the Entourage film set on Thursday.

According to the website Nameberry.com, these are the, quote, “next wave of cool” baby names . . . and a lot of them seem to have an ancient Greek and Roman feel.  For girls, some of the names are Delphi, Glory, Leontine, and Persephone . . . for boys, some names are Apollo, Cyprian, Falconer, and Romulus.

According to a new survey, 42% of people say they ALWAYS Google their symptoms before they see a doctor.  27% take it further, and rely on Google for a diagnosis.  And 20% take it even further than THAT . . . and believe their search results OVER what a doctor tells them.

IN THEATERS THIS WEEKEND – Need for Speed (PG-13); The Single Moms Club (PG-13); Veronica Mars (PG-13, limited release + video on demand)