Celebrity
Attention Tourists: Dollywood CLOSED Today, Was Only Open 9 to 5 Yesterday Because of Brutal Cold and Ice in Pigeon Forge
TODAY TUES DEC 27: Dollywood is closed today, and hopes to reopen tomorrow.
YESTERDAY: It's 26 degrees and snowing in Pigeon Forge, Tennessee right now.
So...
Business
Weather or Not: “Avatar 2” Box Office Numbers Updated Overnight, Sunday Surge of $8 Mil, “Babylon” Was Ambitious Bomb
MONDAY MORNING: Disney now says the weekend came to $64 mil after a late Sunday surge.
SUNDAY NIGHT: I know $56 million sounds like a...
Television
Slap in the Face? Chris Rock Will Host First Ever Live Global Comedy Show A Week Before Oscars
Get ready. Chris Rock is not playing around.
Netflix will air its first ever global LIVE streaming event -- a Chris Rock comedy special --...
Theater
Broadway: Tony Winner “Strange Loop” and “1776” Revival Cancel Shows for Illness, Other Shows Use Standbys
It's 2:28pm. A half hour ago, two Broadway shows didn't start their matinees. According to Twitter account BroadwayCovers, both "A Strange Loop" and "1776"...
Movies
Box Office Blues: “Avatar 2” and “Black Panther Wakanda Forever” Suck Up All the Air, Whitney Houston Beats Brad Pitt
It was two nights before Christmas and not many people went to the movies.
Of course, really, the weather is terrible. A lot of people...
Movies
Barack Obama Picks Best Movies, Music of 2023, Skips “Nope,” “Emancipation,” “Wakanda,” Drake, Lizzo, Cardi B
Barack Obama's favorite movie of the year was Steven Spielberg's "The Fabelmans." On his annual list of films, Obama did not include "Nope," or...
Business
“Whitney Houston: I Wanna Dance with Somebody” Scores a 95% With Audience on Rotten Tomatoes, Hollywood “Trades” Give Thumbs Up
When I saw the Whitney Houston biopic last week, I really liked it and said so.
Since then, both of the Hollywood trades -- Variety...
Music
The Writer Behind Mariah Carey’s “Christmas” Says Her Story About Writing it Herself as a Teen is “A Tall Tale”
Mariah Carey's long ago co-writer of her many hits says on a podcast today: "She doesn't play anything, she doesn't play keyboard or piano....