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Sometimes the “behind the scenes” can be more interesting than the movies themselves…take “Fast and the Furious” for example…FIRST Dwayne ‘The Rock’ Johnson was feuding with Vin Diesel…NOW…Vin Diesel blames Jason Momoa of tanking “Fast X” which I thought they won the box office when it opened…NOW…The Rock and Diesel have made up and is returning for Pt. 2 of “Fast X” as Luke Hobbs…See…THIS is why I was “Rick and Morty” a lot less confusing.

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Dierks Bentley is crazy about hockey, so this is a perfect match.  He's hosting the 2023 NHL Awards.  They're being held June 26th in Nashville, and will air on TNT, Sportsnet, and TVA Sports in the U.S. and Canada. He says, I've been to rinks all over the country with my travel hockey son.  [And] I am a proud member of a beer league team in Nashville.  To get to add NHL Awards host to this list is truly an honor."

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Billy Joel's record-breaking residency at Madison Square Garden will end in July of 2024, after 10 years and 150 shows. He's already played 60 more shows at MSG than any other artist.  He’s not LEAVING New York…he’s just going to be playing some shows elsewhere.

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Lauren Alaina has announced details of her new EP.  It's called "Unlocked", and it'll be out one week from today.  She says the album "comes from my heart and my hometown".  It also has a little bit of humor. There's a song with Lainey Wilson called "Thicc As Thieves" . . . and the message is in the spelling.  There's no "K" in thick.  It has two "C's" . . . which is a reference to them being, well, not skinny.

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Radar Online says Jamie Foxx allegedly suffered a blood clot in his brain that has left him partially paralyzed and blind. Hollywood journalist AJ Benza is quoted by the website as saying, that they blame the covid vaccine. Adding that Jamie did not want the shot, but the movie he was on, pressured him to get it. Jamie Foxx’s daughter has said that her father has been rehabbing and playing Pickle-ball, so…what’s the truth here?

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Keith Urban is really loving his Vegas residency…he tells Fox News that It’s allowing him to try out a lot of new show elements things that you couldn't possibly put in trucks and carry around on a tour, so we get to do stuff that we could never do if it wasn't for that residency."

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And lastly, I know it's hard to believe, but Tom Brady STILL says he's done playing football. He says he is looking forward to his Fox broadcasting job…We…shall..see Mr..Bond….

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Spider-man’s Tom Holland may have found his next movie gig….Media Entertainment Arts, citing a French movie site claims Martin Scorsese may cast ''Spider-Man'' star Tom Holland in his new movie about Jesus. The French movie site Tweeted; ''BREAKING: Tom Holland is in talks to play Jesus in Martin Scorsese’s upcoming movie ‘JESUS’'' The internet reacted in a slightly goofy way…with one poster claiming the movie will be “Jesus and the Multi-verse of glory”

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What’s next for Blake Shelton after The Voice?  Well he tells People magazine he has no plans to retire from music that’s for sure.  Saying “You might as well just poison me, That’s not something I can go without. He'll put out a song once in a while and decide what kind of record he wants to put out... I got a lot to figure out.”

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Channing Tatum says he is done starring in Magic Mike movies. He tells People magazine, “I am done. We did it all. We chewed all the meat off the bone on that one. There's nothing left to do.

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Radar Online claims Vin Diesel allegedly believes Jason Momoa's performance in ''Fast X'' may have tanked the film at the box office. A source tells the website, “Vin is embarrassed Jason is being branded the only bright spot in the film and stealing his thunder in the franchise he built himself. Jason’s “overacting” and “scene-stealing” undermined his movie. This is probably the reason Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson won’t work with Diesel anymore.

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Kimberly Perry's "If I Die Young Part Two" was partially inspired by a miscarriage she had a few months before writing the new version.  And then on-cue she got pregnant a couple of months after recording it.

And lastly, Dolly Parton earned three new Guinness World Records.  They include:  The most albums released by a female country singer . . . and the most Top 10 entries on the Top Country Albums chart for a female artist.

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Somebody stole more of Pee Wee Herman's stuff . . . and this time he's not hitchhiking to the Alamo to get it back.  He's SUING. Paul Reubens says he LOANED items from the TV show "Pee Wee's Playhouse" to a man who runs a memorabilia company Supposedly, it was only for DISPLAY, but the company started auctioning the items off. Pee-Wee ain’t havin it.

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Morgan Wallen has reportedly talked with his buddies Hardy and Ernest about forming a super group . . . but there's nothing in the works yet. By the way, Morgan will return from six weeks of vocal rest in late June.  He just announced that his first shows back will be June 22nd and 23rd at Wrigley Field in Chicago.

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Congratulations to 79-year-old Robert De Niro he just welcomed a new baby, and now we find out that 83-year-old Al Pacino is expecting one in about a month.  The mom is 29-year-old Noor Alfallah, who once dated Mick Jagger.

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Jon Pardi tells Music Mayhem magazine that he loves going on tour with his wife. Saying, “Things can still be romantic on the road. I could be, ‘Oh, the romantic candlelight dinners that we can have.’ Then we get on tour and it's more like, ‘What do you want? Pizza? Let’s order pizza.’ We're the perfect match for each other.”

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Rascal Flatts star Jay DeMarcus is working on a solo album. He’s been in the studio for about six months, doing songs he loves and some that the Flatts didn’t cut for whatever reason and just wanted to get it out of his system.

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There is a growing number of people, who want Chris Pratt to replace Harrison Ford as Indiana Jones or maybe even Bradley Cooper….The fifth installment of the franchise “Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny” is slated to be in theaters June 30^th.

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Jewel delivered the National Anthem at the Indy 500 yesterday, and it was . . . different. She slowed it down a little and added some soul . . . maybe even a little country flavor, with only her acoustic guitar to accompany her. Not surprisingly, there are people complaining that it was the absolute worst thing they've ever heard . . . and others calling it brilliant.  Whatever the case, this isn't the first time she's performed the anthem like this.  She did a similar version at the NBA All-Star Game back in February.

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Benedict Cumberbatch and his family were at their home in London when a crazy guy with a knife kicked his way through the security gate and started screaming about wanting the place to burn down.  He was hit with a fine and a restraining order. Surprisingly not a “Dr. Strange Dismemberment spell”.

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The NY Post says Dolly Parton's theme park, Dollywood, is going to undergo a $500 million renovation that will take 10 years. A new roller coaster and new hotel will be part of the renovation. Sounds fun!

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Lee Greenwood was in France over the weekend, but he wasn't there to drink over-priced wine and eat smelly cheese.  Although that could've happened.  He visited graves in Normandy where some 10,000 American soldiers are buried. The cemetery overlooks Omaha Beach where soldiers came ashore during World War 2.  Lee planted American flags on some graves, and also honored them by singing "God Bless the USA".

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The Little Mermaid" owned the box office this weekend, with a $117.5 million Memorial Day take.  There’s big news coming out of Hollywood for John Wick fans…Lionsgate’s motion picture group chair Joe Drake teased development of a fifth movie in the studio’s John Wick’s franchise Thursday.  With all the spinoffs on the board he said. “We’re building out the world and when that 5 movie comes, it will be organic,  But you can rely on a regular cadence of John Wick.”

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Jay Leno tells the NY Post that only one thing would make him retire from stand-up comedy. ''A stroke. Then you slow down. That’s when you retire — when you have your stroke.” Not burning yourself up apparently, And finally, Jennifer Nettles still has her TV job.  Fox has renewed "Farmer Wants a Wife" for a second season.  Jennifer is the host.

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Arnold Schwarzenegger's new series, FUBAR, started streaming yesterday on Netflix. The reviews were hilariously terrible ..The Daily Beast: "called it an Embarrassing Stain on His Action-Hero Legacy" The Chicago Sun-Times: Says, the premise is tired and the comedy stinks." Oh, now I HAVE to see it…sound like with reviews like this it’ll only get one season.

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67-year-old Hulk Hogan is trying to be relevant again!! He tells The MMA Hour podcast that he wants to wrestle 'Stone Cold' Steve Austin at WrestleMania because he feels like he's 25 again.  Admitting You'd have to be crazy to get back in there at my age anyway, and I haven't talked to him about anything like that ever. So if he would get in the ring, he would be the guy.” Stone Cold Steve Austin is 58.

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Something you may not know about Megan Moroney, she was recently doing an interview with Popsugar when they asked, "What's something that fans might not know about you?" She replied, 'I can recite the alphabet backwards, and I know it in sign language.'

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Halle Bailey plays “Arial” in the live action ‘Little Mermaid’.  And says she had to do some 'mermaid training' for her role. Saying part of it was being in a harness against blue screen but, what she ever in water? “Yes, I was in the water for about half of the filming.  So, it was a mixture of both”.' Disney’s Live action ‘The Little Mermaid' opens in theatres today. You can see a preview on kixweb.com under At The Movies.

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Movie Web is reporting James Cameron is writing a new "Terminator" movie, but he's waiting to see the effects of AI on the real world before he finishes it. It could go the way of the original Terminator…really bad for US…or the way of Terminator: “Dark Fate” which means your little sister could beat that thing…

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Jake Owen has a news song called “Solo, Solo” and came up with a brilliant way to introduce it.  He shared a video of himself performing it WITH his four-year-old daughter Paris . . and she stole the show..of course she did…

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