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The world said goodbye to another one of the Hollywood greats Tuesday night Ace Showbiz says actress Cloris Leachman has died. She passed away from natural causes at her California home. Cloris won two Emmys and a Golden Globe for playing Phyllis on “The Mary Tyler Moore Show”. She received 22 Emmy nominations throughout the course of her career and is tied with Julia Louis-Dreyfus for most wins with eight. Cloris Leachman a Des Moines native was 94.
Rami Malek has a new movie coming out called ‘The Little Things’. Here he describes what you can expect. “It’s this 1990’s phycological thriller, that feels like a throwback movie that we’ve kinda been yearning for, for so many years. You don’t see these movies often and it is gripping to the very last second.‘ The Little Things’ starring Denzel Washington, Rami Malek, and Jered Leto comes to theaters and HBO Max on Friday
Rascal Flatts on who they’ve been listening to during the pandemic …Jay DeMarcus says along with some Joe Diffie and Kenny Rogers, that’s what you would find.” You’d find Rascal Flatts on my playlist too, because when all this went down and we weren’t gonna tour, I started going back through the catalog and revisiting some things that I’d forgotten about.” Joe Don Rooney has a lot of the 90’s country on his playlist. He says he loves all the chicken pickin’ guitar…
Luke Bryan has a plea for anyone listening…He’s trying to find a boyfriend for his mother. “Somebody go on Instagram and date my mother please! She needs her a man…bad!” Wow! Well, that should get the job done… Luke’s mother appeared in his video for ‘One Margarita.‘
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Tom Cruise is allegedly still stunned and furious that Ana de Armas dumped him. A source says he “didn’t see it coming” and can’t wrap his head around the idea that she didn’t want him as a long-term partner. Now Ana’s out here laughing it up with Lewis Hamilton in the Ferrari garage — which stings even more because Lewis is friends with Tom.
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Maddie & Tae are officially calling it quits after 15 years together. Tae says she’s stepping away to raise her kids, and Maddie is heading into her solo chapter. Country duos break up worse than boy bands. . From “Girl in a Country Song” to “Die from a Broken Heart,” they gave us the harmonies AND the therapy.
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Jason Aldean’s six-year-old daughter Navy lost her first tooth and not to the Tooth Fairy, but to a knee in the face during some vacation roughhousing. That’ll teach ya! One moment you’re having family fun, the next you’re spitting teeth like a tiny MMA fighter. At least the Tooth Fairy pays better than UFC.
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Golden Globe nominations dropped yesterday, and One Battle After Another and The White Lotus are leading the pack in movies and TV. The show airs January 11th on CBS. Soooo….get ready for another three-hour Hollywood party where everyone pretends to be surprised and the host makes at least one joke that gets them in trouble on Twitter.
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