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Lady A's Charles Kelly says Christmas shopping online is always easier for him ... “I always really kick myself when I like, go to the store to pick out gifts for my nieces and nephews, and then I gotta ship it and I realize I spent more on the shipping than I did on the gift. And that’s where online is the way to go.” Amazon dot com.. just a couple clicks and you’re done…I get it..

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Another Matrix movie is on the way and last night Keanu Reeves explained the phone call to Stephen Colbert ... “Yeah, it was a little shocking, but it was really a beautiful phone call.  She called and said, I’m thinking about doing another Matrix film…and I stood up and was like what!?...what!?...what!? she was like…yes…and I said, but we’re dead.” Being a dead character has NEVER stopped a sequel or a “Resurrection” 'The Matrix Resurrections' is in theaters on December 22nd

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When Carrie Underwood and her family get a Christmas tree the do the REAL THING... " We go and we pick it out. and we all decorate it together and of course, have Christmas music playing in the house.  I make cookies that were my husband’s grandmother It’s her recipe, her ginger snap cookies, and we make those and it’s super sweet.” One of my favorite parts of the holiday’s…the Christmas snacks…

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If you understand the term “Flexing” then you’ll understand this next story…The NY Post says Tom Cruise had his private jet take cakes from his favorite bakery in Los Angeles to London for the cast and crew of ''Mission Impossible 7''. The 300 Christmas cakes flew more than 5,500 miles. A source tells the newspaper, “Tom wanted to give the team on Mission: Impossible a treat for Christmas and decided that only cakes from his favorite bakery in LA would do. He organized for the shop to make 300 cakes especially and they were then flown back to the UK on his jet.”

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Do you have a favorite Christmas movie?  Bad Santa is pretty good and then you have the classics..’A Christmas Vacation’, ‘The Santa Clause”  Jon Pardi when we asked him?  “I would have to say Elf is pretty much probably one of the funniest Christmas movies to ever be that new and beat out all the old Christmas movies. It is definitely up there.”

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SPOILER ALERT if you haven’t seen the season premiere of the 'Sex And The City' revival, 'And Just Like That', were Mr. Big (Chris Noth) dies of a heart attack shortly after he finishes a Peloton session.  Social media exploded with people saying how DANGEROUS the Peloton exercise bikes are…well, Peloton released an ad starring Chris and Ryan Reynolds showing that Mr. Big is still alive and well. 'And Just Like That' is streaming on HBO Max…keeping in mind it’s a SHOW…not real life….

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It seems Jimmie Allen can NEVER make it on time wherever he goes.  He telling CMT. If they gave out awards for being late, I'd be there an hour late to pick mine up. But, when I do finally show up, I give you everything I got. I feel like people would rather me be a little bit late and give you everything I got than be on time and give you nothing,” Or…or..maybe be on time and give everything you got.  Just an idea…

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Mariah Carey’s Christmas Song, 'All I Want For Christmas Is You', has gone ‘Diamond’ in the record industry going ‘Diamond’ means that an artist has sales of a single or album has reached 10-million copies. Mariah Carey’s song has been streamed one billion times. Mariah says she had planned to do a video to thank her fans for the honor.

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Congrats to West Side Story – the number ONE movie over the weekend, followed by Encanto – Ghostbusters: Afterlife, House of Gucci, and Marvels The Eternals rounding out the top 5.

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Jon Pardi On His Christmas Plans ... "We already called all the family We’re staying in good ole Goodlettsville and we’re gonna relax at our house and enjoy our decorations.’ And so, I think Summer’s parents are coming out. I think my sister is gonna come out, and that’s just kind of our new thing is having people out at the house”

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Spider-Man: No Way Home’ is going to be one of Marvel’s BIGGEST movies…but it’s not keeping Tom Holland from pranking the man in charge… “The Spider-Man suite because the thing is so tight, the zips sometimes get stuck. We have a bottle of lube that we squirt on the zips to like get it open.  Rich Bow is there he’s one of our big Marvel producers in charge of the money, so you know, a COVID shutdown for him is a very serious thing. This bottle of lube DOES suspiciously look like a bottle of hand sanitizer. So, he walks over and he’s chatting to me and he’s like ‘hey man, can I get some of that hand sanitizer?’  I look at my brother Harry and I’m like this is about to be golden” 'Spider-Man: No Way Home' opens in theaters on Friday, December 17th.

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Thursday, Jussie Smollett was found guilty of five counts of disorderly conduct for making false reports to police that he was a victim of a hate crime in January 2019. Prosecutor Dan Webb Responds To the verdict. “Whether we won or lost the trial isn’t the issue.  What WAS the issue is that when Mr. Smollett done in this city should be aired in front of a public trial, were ALL the evidence comes out. But,  the TRUE facts I thought needed to come out and we did it.

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You may have some great Christmas memories…we asked Carrie Underwood about some of her’s.. “One thing that we always did growing up that was one of my favorite memories, we would on Christmas Eve we would go to my grandparents’ house. Us kids were always responsible for putting oranges and apples and bananas in little paper bags and we would go down to the nursing home and sing Christmas carols.” How cool is that….

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Yesterday on “At the Movies” we previewed “West Side Story” Director Steven Spielberg talks about why he decided to remake the 1961 original “It’s such a profound story, it speaks to every generation. It’s timeless in the sense, that we should be reminded of that story as often as possible” "West Side Story." is in theaters today

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