DECEMBER 3, 2018

Former President GEORGE H.W. BUSH died Friday at his home in Houston. He was 94.  His last words were, “I love you, too,” in a phone call to his son GEORGE W.  His wife BARBARA died this past April.

 

Researchers “analyzed the impact” of more than 47,000 movies to determine which ones have changed movies the

  1. “The Wizard of Oz”, 1939
  2. “Star Wars”, 1977
  3. “Psycho”, 1960
  4. “King Kong”, the 1933 original
  5. “2001: A Space Odyssey”, 1968
  6. “Frankenstein”, 1931
  7. “Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs”, 1937
  8. “Casablanca”, 1942
  9. “Dracula”, 1931
  10. “The Godfather”, 1972
  11. “Jaws”, 1975
  12. “Gone with the Wind”, 1939

 

NICK JONAS and PRIYANKA CHOPRA got married in India this weekend. They had two ceremonies:  One Christian and one Hindu.  They also had a “Sangeet”, a Hindu tradition that’s basically a dance-off between the families.

 

TAYLOR SWIFT’s Reputation Tour is the highest-grossing tour in U.S. history – $266.1 million. The Rolling Stones held the previous record of $245 million, but it took them almost twice as many shows.

 

MAREN MORRIS hit up Instagram on Saturday with a photo of herself and her husband RYAN HURD in Paris. She captioned it, “Gonna have your babies.” Obviously, people wondered if it was an announcement . . . but it wasn’t. She came on later and wrote, “Definitely not. My pregnancy announcement will be way more fun than this caption.”

 

DOLLY PARTON was on Friday’s “Tonight Show” talking about the JENNIFER ANISTON Netflix movie “Dumplin'” and how Jennifer asked her to do the soundtrack. Dolly said, “I love her to death.  My husband is crazy about her.  He was more excited that I was gonna do a movie with her than he was that I got the chance to write all this music. “I think he kinda fantasizes like a threesome with us.” Dolly and Carl Dean have been married 52 years.  He’s 76, she’s 72.

 

LUKE COMBS announced last week that he and his girlfriend Nicole Hocking are engaged. He hit up Instagram with a pic of them in Hawaii and wrote, “She said yes a while ago but this is a way better place to take pictures than the kitchen. Can’t wait to spend forever with you.  I love you.”   She posted a photo of the ring to her Instagram Story, and captioned it, “So in love.”

 

ELLEN DEGENERES tried to surprise PORTIA DE ROSSI for their anniversary by hiring a plane to fly by with a banner . . . but it was too small to read.

 

JAKE OWEN revealed last week that he and his girlfriend Erica Hartlein will be having a baby girl.

 

BILL ANDERSON has released the video to his song, “Waffle House Christmas”. It stars Tanya Tucker, Gretchen Wilson and Kid Rock pretending to be a short order cook who eats right off the customers’ plates.

 

 

“Monday Night Football” at 8:15 p.m. Eastern on ESPN. The Philadelphia Eagles host the Washington Redskins.

“The Voice” at 8:00 p.m. on NBC. The Top 10 live performances.

“The Great Christmas Light Fight” at 8:00 p.m. on ABC.

A holiday special of “Deal or No Deal” at 10:00 p.m. on NBC.

 

 

Daryl Hannah is 58. She’s married to Neil Young.

Ozzy Osbourne is 70.

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