ALEC BALDWIN’s ABC interview aired last night, and Alec explained how the gun supposedly went off and killed HALYNA HUTCHINS, even though he supposedly didn’t pull the trigger. He said, quote, “This is a marking rehearsal . . . She’s guiding me through how she wants me to hold the angle. I draw the gun out . . . the gun wasn’t meant to be fired in that angle . . .”I’m holding the gun where she told me to hold it. She said, just ‘cheat it down’. I let go of the hammer of the gun, the gun goes off . . . I pulled the hammer as far back as I could without cocking the gun.” He said everyone was shocked when Halyna collapsed and thought she had only fainted. Quote, “The notion that there was a live round in that gun did not dawn on me until 45 minutes or an hour later.” Alec’s statement is already being met with skepticism. A movie armorer who’s done more than 30 years in the business was asked the chance of Alec’s statement being true . . . to which he said, quote, “On a scale of one to 10? Zero.” He added, quote, “You know, guns don’t go up by themselves, right? It’s an inanimate object. It has no batteries. It’s a very reliable device that shoots when you press the trigger, and it doesn’t shoot when you don’t press the trigger.”
“The Polar Express” is the most popular Christmas movie in nine states. “Home Alone”, “Elf”, and “The Christmas Chronicles” are the top choices in seven states. And “Last Christmas” is popular in six states. As crazy as it is, “A Christmas Story” only had ONE state: West Virginia. And “It’s A Wonderful Life” was only the favorite in Vermont.
This week’s New Music Releases include new music from BLAKE SHELTON
Billboard released their list of the Top Hot Country Songs of 2021 . . . and Luke Combs is at Number One with “Forever After All”. He’s followed by Walker Hayes with “Fancy Like” . . . and Gabby Barrett’s “I Hope”. The list is based on chart performance that takes into account radio airplay and streaming. Here’s the Top 10:
1. “Forever After All”, Luke Combs
2. “Fancy Like”, Walker Hayes
3. “I Hope”, Gabby Barrett
4. “Better Together”, Luke Combs
5. “Famous Friends”, Chris Young and Kane Brown
6. “The Good Ones”, Gabby Barrett
7. “Chasing After You”, Ryan Hurd with Maren Morris
8. “Starting Over”, Chris Stapleton
9. “Lil Bit”, Nelly and Florida Georgia Line
10. “Glad You Exist”, Dan + Shay
Still trying to decide which new Christmas album to buy this year? CMT has a list of 11 for you to consider. They even included links to songs from the set. Some of these are new, and some are re-issues with new songs. These are the artists: Brett Young, Kelly Clarkson, Brett Eldredge, Pistol Annies, Josh Turner, Cody Johnson, Steve Wariner, Carrie Underwood, Mitchell Tenpenny, Steve Holy, and Tenille Townes. Speaking of the Pistol Annies Christmas album. They released a performance video of the track “Snow Globe”. It’s from their “Hell of a Holiday Special”, which will be streaming December 15th on their Facebook page.
Here’s a gift idea for the CARRIE UNDERWOOD fan in your life. Carrie has added six more shows to her Vegas residency. They’re all in the month of May and they go on sale on Monday. Check out the dates and how to buy tickets by hitting up CarrieUnderwoodOfficial.com.
DAN + SHAY wear fancy tuxedos while performing on some kind of Christmas TV special in the video to their song, “Officially Christmas”.
If there’s a football game on TV, TIM MCGRAW is watching it. Quote, “I’ll watch every game I can. And the great thing now about football season is you can find a game just about every night. It’s almost a depression when football season is over because I miss it so much.”
Little Big Town, Sam Hunt, and Wade Bowen have been added to the list of performers at the San Antonio Stock Show & Rodeo. The massive list of performers includes Toby Keith, Tim McGraw, Brad Paisley, Mickey Guyton, and Ludacris. Shows start on February 10th and will wrap later that month, on the 26th.
I’m sure MAREN MORRIS and RYAN HURD’s son Hayes will have a nice selection of gifts under the tree this year. But I know this, there WON’T be a violin. They told CMT that’s the one instrument he will not be getting. Hayes will be turning two in March, so it’s not like he’s ready to get that fiddle career going anyway.
LEBRON JAMES is COVID-free and cleared to play.
SYLVESTER STALLONE is selling off a bunch of “Rocky” memorabilia.
Amazon’s new Jack Reacher series . . . which is just called “Reacher”
JON STEWART has joined the cast of “Live in Front of a Studio Audience: The Facts of Life”, in a “surprise role”.
JENNIFER LOPEZ released a music video for “On My Way” from her upcoming movie “Marry Me”.
EDDIE MEKKA from “Laverne & Shirley” passed away. He was 69. He played Shirley’s boyfriend Carmine Ragusa . . . a.k.a. The Big Ragu.
The “Gorilla Glue lady” tried to dye her hair . . . and it started coming out in clumps.
Ozzy Osbourne is 73
