Month: October 2023

Fifty-one years ago today, on Oct. 16, 1972, Loretta Lynn became the first woman to win Entertainer of the Year at the CMA Awards. Lynn had just released her 18th studio album, Here I Am Again, when she won Entertainer of the Year. She had already notched 25 Top 10 singles, including the No. 1 hits
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Whenever the discussion of the best sports movies of all time, it doesn’t take long for that conversation to start focusing on great boxing titles like Raging Bull or the Rocky franchise. There’s something about the sport, as well as the men and women who dedicate their lives to it, that translates well in action,
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Seventeen years ago today, on Oct. 17, 2006, Hollywood confirmed what Nashville already knew: Tim McGraw was a major celebrity. It was on that date that the singer received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. Both McGraw’s wife, Faith Hill, and actor Billy Bob Thornton, who starred in Friday Night Lights with McGraw, attended his Hollywood Walk of
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Earlier this summer, Hollywood managed to pull off a major counterprogramming win. Greta Gerwig‘s hot pink and funny Barbie opened in theaters alongside Christopher Nolan’s heavy and serious Oppenheimer, and their powers combined created the record-breaking box office force known as Barbenheimer. It was a rather magical thing to see in the movie world, and
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Happy birthday, Alan Jackson! The singer was born 65 years ago today, on Oct. 17, 1958, in Newnan, Ga. Jackson was born to Joseph Eugene and Ruth Musick and was the youngest of five children — and the only boy. He and his family lived in a tiny home, built around his grandfather’s tool shed, on
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Primary Wave Music and the Luther Vandross Estate have announced a new project, Luther Vandross Classic Christmas. It will release Nov. 3. The three-track EP will feature the soulful numbers “At Christmas Time” and “May Christmas Bring You Happiness.” It will also include a special bonus a cappella mix of “At Christmas Time.” The two songs,
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