And so, the post-holiday, during-holidays (Chanukah), pre-holiday period.

THE WHO: "I'm A Boy."

NEW RELEASES: Pitchfork will point you to Julie Dorion, Richard Dawson & Circle, and more.

RYLEY WALKER dropped a surprise album, Post Wook.  I could have put Course in Fable on my faves list.

SILK SONIC played "Fly As Me" on Soul Train.

THE BEATLES were like aliens from the future in 1969 – and they are still as radical today.

YOKO ONO shares an article suggesting she didn't break up the Beatles.

BRIAN WILSON talked to BrooklynVegan.

THE NUMBER ONES looked at Amy Grant's "Baby Baby," Roxette's "Joyride," and Hi-Five's "I Like The Way (The Kissing Game)" during my week off.

 

WEEKEND BOX OFFICE: Over a light Thanksgiving frame, Disney's Encanto topped the chart with 40.3MMGhostbusters: Afterlife placed with 35.3MM (with a 24.5MM 3-day total that dropped 44 percent from its debut).  House of Gucci showed with21.8MM.  Below the fold, Paul Thomas Anderson’s 1970s teen comedy Licorice Pizza posted a huge 83.8K opening screen average from four theaters, which MGM is calling an-all-time record.

STEPHEN SONDHEIM,  one of Broadway history’s songwriting titans, whose music and lyrics raised and reset the artistic standard for the American stage musical, died early Friday at his home in Roxbury, Conn. He was 91. And he gave an interview just the Sunday befoe he passed.

MATTHEW McCONAUGHEY Decides to Not Run for Texas Governor.

MICHAEL STRAHAN and Laura Shepard Churchley, the daughter of Alan Shepard, signed up to follow the billionaire Jeff Bezos and the actor William Shatner to the edge of space on the next Blue Origin spaceflight.

KEVIN SPACEY has been ordered to pay the producer of House of Cards 31MM to cover the loss in revenue caused by his termination from the show.

KEIRA KNIGHTLEY is doing her thing. And caught COVID, unrelatedly.

BENNIFER enjoyed Thanksgiving.

LINDSAY LOHAN got engaged to Bader Shammas.

 

A DOBERMAN, watching and imitating Michael Jackson.

CATS, running on solar power.

A BEAGLE who loves soccer.

SPIDER-CAT, doing whatever a spider-cat can.

KRATU: A rescue steals the dog show.

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