Brandon Lewis
December 11, 2025
Thursday 11th December 2025
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It might surprise you to find out where Parmalee got their start. Matt Thomas explains about their rehearsal spot…”We were fortunate to have a rehearsal facility…in the town of Parmalee North Carolina. It was a barn, a brick barn that’s all it was. So, we decided to drive out there every night and rehearse. We just spent years out there just trying to do what we do wright songs and start a tour regionally and here we are.”
Thomas Rhett Dishes On his hit ‘What’s Your Country Song’, The Song Titles and what he hopes the listener takes away from it … So, we picked a lot of songs that I feel like really shaped me as an artist, hopefully, when the listener’s listening, the more they listen to the song, I hope they can kind of go through and be like, ‘Oh my gosh, I love that song. I love that song.’ what were my songs that kind of defined my life? What songs did I hear on the radio, that when I hear them today as a 30-year-old or a 40 year old, it makes me feel 17 again?”
Is Gremlins coming back? Zachary Galligan best known for starring as Billy Peltzer in the comedy-horror films Gremlins and Gremlins 2: The New Batch. talks about the possibilities of there being a ‘Gremlins 3’. “Well, the answer to that question is we are probably closer to a Gremlin’s 3 now than we have been in decades.” Warner brothers has decided to do a 10-part animated series later this year for HBO max called “Gremlins Secrets of the Mogwai” and hopes that will springboard into another live action movie.
Entertainment Tonight says an animated Game of Thrones series is in the works. It will be based on some of George RR Martin’s works. YAY something for the kids on a Saturday morning….
Entertainment Tonight, citing The Hollywood Reporter, says George Clooney has signed on to star in a reboot of the Buck Rogers TV series. He will wake up in the 25th century after being suspended in animation for 500 years. I never thought George Clooney would sign up for another TV series…
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I did not know this, but Tom Cruise was almost cast as Jack Dawson in Titanic. Yes… imagine Jack sprinting across the bow yelling, “I’M THE KING OF THE WORLD!” Tom was 35 at the time, Jack was supposed to be 20, and apparently the salary demands, scheduling conflicts, and the lack of running scenes threw everything off. River Phoenix, Matthew McConaughey, and Jared Leto were also considered. But producers said Leo was the perfect fit. Cruise could have brought star power… but DiCaprio brought teenage hysteria and record-breaking box office. The more you know.
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File this under “early-2000s fever dream”: Paris Hilton hosted a private birthday dinner for Britney Spears in Mexico. Candles, balloons, colorful banners the whole Y2K nostalgia starter pack. Britney’s gifts came in hot pink boxes, obviously. But RadarOnline says Brit injured herself on the trip after “doing a flip off a boat.” Now a family member is worried, saying her behavior is “disturbing,” but there’s only so much anyone can do since she’s, quote, “a grown woman.” The 90s are back… and they’re still chaotic.
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Zac Brown apparently scared the cowboy boots off fans at his Las Vegas Sphere show. Some concert-goers were floored by the visuals giant skeletons, fiery imagery, the whole metal-album-cover experience. Responses ranged from “incredible!” to “Sir… WRONG audience.” One fan said, “Do you even know who your audience is?” Not sure Zac was trying to summon demons…
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Kenny Chesney found out he’s the seventh most popular touring act of the entire millennium over 18 million tickets sold since 2001. His reaction? “I was shocked.” Shocked? Kenny, you sell more stadium seats than the NFL. The kid from East Tennessee is basically the mayor of summer now. Sunburns everywhere are celebrating.
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