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EURYTHMICS' Dave Stewart declares "Christmas is For Lovers".
CHUCK PROPHET plays KEXP.
BILL'S INDIE BASEMENT's Best reissues, box sets and compilations of 2024.
BEN KWELLER shares "Optimystic."
SAM AMIDON covers Ornette Coleman’s “Friends and Neighbors.”
SABRINA CARPENTER, on meeting Paul McCartney.
THE CURE: Robert Smith may have written a Christmas song.
VARIETY's Best Albums of 2024.
WEEKEND BOX OFFICE: Moana 2 remains atop the chart with 26.6MM on a 48 percent drop. Wicked placed with 22.5MM, down 38 percent. Kraven The Hunter showed with 11MM, lower than Morbiusand Madame Web. Oof! Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim also kinda bombed with 4.6MM, tho this was product pushed dout so that New Line would keep the film rights to the franchise.
MORBIUS made money?
MALCOLM IN THE MIDDLE is returning with the original cast.
CONAN O'BRIEN's parents, Dr. Thomas O’Brien and Ruth Reardon O’Brien, died three days apart from one another. Thomas was 95 and Ruth was 92.
JAY-Z's accuser admits some inconsistencies in her story.
SESAME STREET is back on the market after the WB declined to renew their deal.
ZOE SALDANA & KATE WINSLET: Variety's Actors on Actors series.
CHITTY CHITTY BANG BANG is getting reimagined.
LOVE, ACTUALLY was a catastrophe to make.
A GOLDEN RETRIEVER is Queen of Tigers.
A SATISFIED WOLF, tweaked by a raven.
A GOOSE greets Grandma every day.
A RESCUE DOG, reunited with its rescuer.
