NOVEMBER 14, 2019

The “53rd Annual CMA Awards” – GARTH BROOKS won Entertainer of the Year. The favorite this year seemed to be CARRIE UNDERWOOD. She launched an all-female tour, worked hard promoting her album, but didn’t win a thing.  She was up for three awards. The show opened with an all-female medley that started with Carrie and her co-hosts, DOLLY PARTON, and REBA MCENTIRE. And then came Jennifer Nettles, Kimberly Schlapman, Karen Fairchild, The Highwomen, Tanya Tucker, Gretchen Wilson, Crystal Gayle, Terri Clark, Sara Evans, and Martina McBride.  As for the performances:  MIRANDA LAMBERT sang “It All Comes Out in the Wash”.  PINK and CHRIS STAPLETON did “Love Me Anyway”.  It got a standing ovation. OLD DOMINION performed “One Man Band”  – later on in the show they won their second Vocal Group of the Year award. LUKE COMBS accepted Song of the Year for “Beautiful Crazy”, he returned later to sing “Beer Never Broke My Heart”. And then he won Male Vocalist of the Year. KELSEA BALLERINI went solo with her guitar while performing “Homecoming Queen?”.  And then she launched into “Girl Crush”, which kicked off another succession of female performers including Lindsay Ell, Runaway June, Maddie & Tae, Ashley McBryde, Carly Pearce and Little Big Town. The LADY ANTEBELLUM and HALSEY collaborated on “What If I Never Get Over You”, and Halsey’s “Graveyard”.  The BROTHERS OSBORNE joined BROOKS & DUNN for “Hard Workin’ Man”. A pregnant MAREN MORRIS performed her song “Girl”.  She won Album of the Year for “Girl”. Blake Shelton did a nice thing while performing “God’s Country”.  He showcased his fiddle player, Jenee Fleenor. She won CMA Musician of the Year, and was the first woman to ever win that award. The sweetest moment of the night – KACEY MUSGRAVES and WILLIE NELSON performed “The Muppet Movie” song “Rainbow Connection”.  Unfortunately, Willie’s voice was wavering, but that’s okay.

 

Disney+ experienced some glitches just after its release on Tuesday, but apparently that hasn’t hurt the bottom line. Yesterday, Disney said that over 10 million people signed up on Day One. Analysts previously projected that Disney+ would get 8 million subscribers by the end of 2019 – even after considering Verizon’s free one-year giveaway to their unlimited wireless customers. Disney+ offered a 7-day free trial, so those 10 million customers aren’t necessarily PAYING customers. Disney was offering pre-orders for several weeks, and they began signing up users at Disney’s D23 Expo fan convention back in August. Disney has projected that Disney+ will have 60 million to 90 million subscribers worldwide by 2024, with 1/3 of those in the U.S.  It’s only available in the U.S., Canada, and the Netherlands.

 

TOM HANKS can’t play bad guys because he’s NOT A BAD GUY. In an interview with the “New York Times”, he says, “It’s because I never get them, because bad guys, by and large, require some degree of malevolence that I don’t think I can fake. I recognized in myself a long time ago that I don’t instill fear in anybody.” He also gives advice on how to be a good parent, “The only thing really, I think, eventually a parent can do is say, ‘I love you, there’s nothing you can do wrong, you cannot hurt my feelings, I hope you will forgive me on occasion, and what do you need me to do?’ “You offer up that to them. ‘I will do anything I can possibly do in order to keep you safe.’  That’s it.  Offer that up and then just love them.”

 

PRINCE HARRY and MEGHAN MARKLE will NOT be partaking in the royal family’s traditional Christmas festivities. They’re spending the holiday with Meghan’s mother. Buckingham Palace says Harry and Meghan have spent the last 2 Christmases with the royals, so this year it’s HER family’s turn.

Matthew Perry and Courteney Cox fell for each other hard and fast on Friends, but the 50-year-old actor has always hoped for a real-life relationship with his former costar. Courtney, 55, has been dating Johnny McDavid since 2013. A source said, “Matthew has never fully been able to get over her”. They played Chandler Bing and Monica Geller, respectively, and reunited on November 7 for a lunch date. “Could I BE any happier? #realfriends,” she later wrote on Instagram alongside a selfie with Perry.

 

Kelly Ripa is proud to be married to one sexy man. Hours after PEOPLE revealed that John Legend had been named its Sexiest Man Alive 2019, Ripa gave a shout-out to husband Mark Consuelos, who was named one of the issue’s Men of the Year.

 

 

 

“Thursday Night Football” at 8:00 p.m. on Fox. The Cleveland Browns host the Pittsburgh Steelers.

The 350th episode of “Grey’s Anatomy” at 8:00 p.m. on ABC.

 

 

 

Josh Duhamel is 47

Condoleezza Rice is 65.

Prince Charles is 71.

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