THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 16, 2023

A list of the best Christmas movies for kids includes “Elf”, “A Charlie Brown Christmas”, and “Home Alone”.

Dolly Parton’s soon-to-be classic “Rockstar” album is out tomorrow.  Ann Wilson helped her on a cover of the Heart classic “Magic Man” and she talked about what Dolly brought to the project.  “She had written a little poem for the end of ‘Magic Man’. Dolly does this spoken word poem on the end.  Dolly was dressed to the nines, wearing all these bedazzled jeans and just like everything you could possibly wear, she was wearing, and looking good.”You also won’t go hungry when you’re in Dolly’s world.  “She brought her nutritionist, and they had this big spread of Mediterranean food and laid it out for everybody.” Dolly’s version of Queen’s “We Are the Champions / We Will Rock You” will be a major part of NBC’s coverage of the Paris 2024 Summer Olympics.

Anyone heading to Vegas for the Super Bowl in February might want to get there a few days early.  Zach Bryan just announced a show. He’s signed on to be the headlining artist for next year’s Bud Light Backyard Tour.  And the show in Vegas will be a little more intimate than the arenas he’s used to playing these days. It’s set for February 9th . . . two days before the Super Bowl . . . at The Chelsea theater in the Cosmopolitan Hotel.  It only holds around 3,000 people. Tickets go on sale TODAY at 3:00 PM Eastern, and they’ll sell out fast.  It’s Zach Bryan, so he’s only charging $20 a head. You have to register now at BudLightBackyard.com to get a code.  Then you use that code to buy tickets as soon as they go on sale. Bud Light is partnering with the charity Folds of Honor for it.  They give scholarships to families of fallen service members and first responders.  Zach says it’s one of the main reasons he signed on to be a part of it.

Charles Kelley from Lady A said country music might be soaring in popularity nowHe said, “We grew up in the playlist era, where you’d make a mixtape, and so I grew up loving everything.  “I feel like when we started our band, it was like a little bit of the Eagles, meets Fleetwood Mac, meets The Chicks, meets Rascal Flatts.  It was everything coming together into this sound.”  Megan Moroney joined Lady A onstage for their song “American Honey”. 

Country Thunder Wisconsin’s 2024 performers include Lainey Wilson, Eric Church, Nickelback, Koe Wetzel, and Bailey Zimmerman.  It’ll go down July 18th through the 21st. 

Old Crow Medicine Show, Turnpike Troubadours, and Nickel Creek are some of the artists performing at 2024 MerleFest.  It takes place April 25th through 28th in North Carolina. 

Luke Combs performed a cover of Morgan Wallen’s “Thought You Should Know” at last week’s BMI Country Awards.  They both won the Songwriter of the Year award.

Video from the set of the movie “Rust” has been released, showing Alec Baldwin shooting prop guns.  In one clip, he asks a crew member to move, because he doesn’t want to shoot toward him.  These clips were filmed BEFORE the fatal accident on the set. 

Pete Davidson is 30. 

Oksana Baiul is 46.  Retired Olympic skater.

Lisa Bonet is 56.  Denise Huxtable on “The Cosby Show”.

Dwight Gooden is 59.  Retired baseball pitcher.

Marg Helgenberger is 65.  Catherine Willows on “CSI”.

Terry Labonte is 67.  NASCAR commentator.

David Leisure is 73.  The amazing super-liar “Joe Isuzu” and Richard Mulligan’s neighbor Charley Dietz on “Empty Nest”.

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