The List for Wednesday, April 26th 2023

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Ryan Gosling didn’t really see himself as Ken before he was cast in the “Barbie” movie.  He says “If I’m being really honest, I doubted my Ken-ergy.  I didn’t see it.”  He added that one day he was just living his life, and the next day, “I was bleaching my hair and shaving my legs and wearing bespoke neon outfits and rollerblading down Venice Beach.  Well, we’ll see if movie goers doubt your Ken-ergy when the Barbie movie hits theaters July 21^st.

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Dolly Parton’s first ROCK album is coming this fall.  It’s called “Rock Star”, and now we know when we’ll hear the first single. She told “Good Morning America” it’ll debut May 11th at the end of the “ACM Awards”, which she’s co-hosting with Garth Brooks.  The song is called “World on Fire”.  She says it’s sort of a “rock anthem.

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Luke Combs and his wife Nicole are having a “really difficult time” coming up with boy names for their second son, who’s due in September.  They have a hundred girl names on the list, but that’s no help.  He kind of expects it’ll come down to the last minute just like it did with their son, Tex Lawrence.

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Flash back to 1983 and country songstress Crystal Gayle had back-to-back songs go No. 1 in just eight weeks apart. At that time it was unheard of. Now flash forward to this week and everyone’s favorite bell bottom queen just shattered that record.  Lainey Wilson’s two chart-topping hits came within three weeks of each other Of course, the two songs we are speaking of are Heart Like A Truck, and this week’s No. 1 song with friend HARDY wait in the truck.

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Keith Urban tells Billboard magazine that his daughters don’t know what a boom box is. He says, “I was trying to recreate that scene from “Say Anything” where the guy was standing underneath his girl’s window with a boom box playing “In Your Eyes”. I was telling the family about my idea when my daughter looked at me and asked what a boom box was. I swear I aged 20 years right there. “I bet she knows what a record is though…

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And finally, World of Reel says a sequel to ‘Beetlejuice’ is in development in the UK. Tim Burton plans to direct the film. Michael Keaton and Winona Ryder are returning to reprise their roles from the original movie.

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