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Ryan Gosling didn't really see himself as Ken before he was cast in the "Barbie" movie.  He says "If I'm being really honest, I doubted my Ken-ergy.  I didn't see it."  He added that one day he was just living his life, and the next day, "I was bleaching my hair and shaving my legs and wearing bespoke neon outfits and rollerblading down Venice Beach.  Well, we’ll see if movie goers doubt your Ken-ergy when the Barbie movie hits theaters July 21^st.

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Dolly Parton's first ROCK album is coming this fall.  It's called "Rock Star", and now we know when we'll hear the first single. She told "Good Morning America" it'll debut May 11th at the end of the "ACM Awards", which she's co-hosting with Garth Brooks.  The song is called "World on Fire".  She says it's sort of a "rock anthem.

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Luke Combs and his wife Nicole are having a "really difficult time" coming up with boy names for their second son, who's due in September.  They have a hundred girl names on the list, but that's no help.  He kind of expects it'll come down to the last minute just like it did with their son, Tex Lawrence.

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Flash back to 1983 and country songstress Crystal Gayle had back-to-back songs go No. 1 in just eight weeks apart. At that time it was unheard of. Now flash forward to this week and everyone's favorite bell bottom queen just shattered that record.  Lainey Wilson’s two chart-topping hits came within three weeks of each other Of course, the two songs we are speaking of are Heart Like A Truck, and this week's No. 1 song with friend HARDY wait in the truck.

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Keith Urban tells Billboard magazine that his daughters don't know what a boom box is. He says, "I was trying to recreate that scene from "Say Anything" where the guy was standing underneath his girl's window with a boom box playing "In Your Eyes". I was telling the family about my idea when my daughter looked at me and asked what a boom box was. I swear I aged 20 years right there. “I bet she knows what a record is though…

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And finally, World of Reel says a sequel to ‘Beetlejuice’ is in development in the UK. Tim Burton plans to direct the film. Michael Keaton and Winona Ryder are returning to reprise their roles from the original movie.

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Harrison Ford is officially retiring as Indiana Jones after the upcoming movie, "Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny".  He told "Total Film" magazine, quote, "This is the final film in the series, and this is the last time I'll play the character . . . I anticipate that it will be the last time that he appears in a film." In case you missed it, there's a TV series in early development at Disney+.  Harrison said he won't be involved with it even if it does happen. "Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny" hits theaters June 30th.

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Morgan Wallen lost his voice and cancelled Sunday's show in Oxford, Mississippi at the last minute.  Fans had seen Hardy, Nate Smith, and Ernest perform, and THEN got an announcement and message on the screens. Around the same time Morgan also apologized on his Instagram stories,  Upset fans lit up the Internet. "What about the dog sitter, hotel, paid time off, and gas money we took for this."

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It’s official, The Packers are trading Aaron Rodgers to the Jets for several draft picks.  Aaron is expected to wear #8, like he did in college.  And the Packers will most likely replace him with their 2020 first round draft pick Jordan Love.

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She's won three GRAMMYs, named to the TIME 100 list of world's most influential people, founded MuttNation topped charts, has a Las Vegas residency, and much much more…NOW, a cook book…called Y’ll Eat Yet?  “It was a journey, we’ve been working on it since 2020.  My co-writer Holly Gleason made sense of my stories and redneck way of telling them.  She made it all make sense.” Adding she’s a song writer so she didn’t think it was going to be hard until she started it… Y'all Eat Yet: is out today.

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Megan Moroney tells NewBeauty.com that she does most of her own styling. Saying I style everything…when I’ve got all the hair in and I look very glam.  The “Tennessee Orange” singer adds like Dolly says “It costs a lot of money to look as cheap as I do.”

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Sports Illustrated says cat owners are upset with Charles Barkley because he said cats are not real pets. During an episode of "Inside the NBA", Barkley remarked, ''A cat is not a real pet. Because it’s not a dog. I don’t dislike cats. I just don’t think they’re real pets. Just something old women have.'' And Taylor Swift….

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How does she do it!!??  You probably think 53-year-old Jennifer Lopez follows a strict diet to look so good.  But it turns out, it's just her superhuman genetics. On "The Drew Barrymore Show" Friday, Ben Affleck said J-Lo eats whatever she wants.  Quote, "She eats pizza, cookies, ice cream . . . everything . . ."She works out, but I work out too . . . but I don't magically appear to be 20 years old, you know what I mean?  With perfect skin and the whole thing.”

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Morgan Wallen took a tumble during a show in Louisville, Kentucky Thursday night.  But don't worry . . . he will NOT die. He was in the middle of the song "Heartless", and the stage was covered in fog.  It looks like he tripped on something, but he's a pro.  He only missed one line before he popped back up and kept going. Someone up front posted a video of it, and he was fine.  He immediately laughed it off and high-fived a fan. Here's the video.

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Well, it looks like the film “Rust” has started filming again…the question everyone is asking is  why is there a picture of Alec Baldwin holding a rifle BACKWARDS on the set? We don’t know exactly…but he has everyone behind him running for cover…

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Carrie Underwood is…kind of a ‘homebody’ she tells Apple Music Country that her husband encourages her to get out of the house.  She loves her home and would literally never leave it.  Group settings and crowds make her nervous.  Her husband has got a million friends and we're always hanging out with them. So yeah, I feel like we balance each other out."

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Luke Bryan's miniature pony, Carl, recently died. Luke's wife, Caroline, posted; We had to lay our sweetest little man, Carl, to rest. Carl was blind in his right eye for several years, but recently he was kicked in the left eye by another animal, leaving him completely blind and in a lot of pain. Carl was not doing well adapting to the blindness, so we decided it was best to lay our precious little old man to rest.”

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Been seeing video of people that are planning to run for President in 2024. Including the guy that says he’s going to ‘cut the price of eggs in half’ and don’t think it’s not appreciated.  The latest is Afroman he’s completed filing the necessary paperwork to run in 2024…. . And if he loses, he's got a built-in excuse.

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Involuntary manslaughter charges against Alec Baldwin for fatally shooting "Rust" cinematographer Halyna Hutchins have been dropped. For now, They said they found "new facts that . . . demand further investigation and forensic analysis."  But once it's done, they CAN refile charges against him. There's been no change in the charges against the movie's armorer, Meanwhile, production on "Rust" resumed yesterday . . . but they moved it from New Mexico to Montana.

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Brett Young Jokes that may have gotten into the wrong career… “People were using both ‘In Case You Didn’t Know’ and ‘Lady’ as their first dance and father/daughter dance. And I’m going, ‘Am I in the wrong business? Should I just try to write like a full soundtrack for people’s weddings? Is that what we’re moving towards (laugh).’”

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Prince William says he has one big regret in life. The Daily Mail quotes him as saying, ''I still wish I'd learned to breakdance. It's one of my greatest regrets, not learning to breakdance when I was young.”

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Stop me if you've heard this one:  "Stranger Things" meets . . . "Cocoon"???

The Duffer Brothers . . . the guys behind "Stranger Things" . . . are developing a new show for Netflix called "The Boroughs".  It's about residents at a retirement community in New Mexico who have to band together to stop some kind of otherworldly menace that wants to steal the one thing they don't have much of:  time.

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Luke Combs is embarking on a weight loss journey. Music Mayhem magazine quotes him as saying, “I wanna be runnin’ around the yard with my children [and] I wanna take my son on an elk hunt when he’s 16 years old and hike up a mountain when I’m in my late 40s. [I] wanna do that with him. And I know right now I can’t and that bugs me.''

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Megan Moroney gives up the secret behind 'Tennessee Orange' she says it’s her version of a love song… "So Tennessee Orange is about me being a Georgia girl. I was born and raised in Georgia and I graduated from the University of Georgia. And I moved to Nashville for music and I met and fell for a Tennessee boy so this is kind of my version of a love song." Now…we know…

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