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(NEW YORK) — Here are the scores from Sunday’s sports events:
NATIONAL FOOTBALL LEAGUE
Cleveland 10, Houston 7
Detroit 30, Washington 27
Green Bay 24, Jacksonville 20
NY Giants 27, Philadelphia 17
Tampa Bay 46, Carolina 23
Arizona 32, Buffalo 30
Las Vegas 37, Denver 12
Miami 29, LA Chargers 21
LA Rams 23, Seattle 16
Pittsburgh 36, Cincinnati 10
New Orleans 27, San Francisco 13
New England 23, Baltimore 17
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Courtesy of Netflix(LOS ANGELES) — When David E. Talbert was younger, he — like most Americans — watched Christmas movies with his family. However, one thing was absent from those films celebrating the magic of Christmas… people that looked like him.
That discovery led to him writing and directing Jingle Jangle: A Christmas Journey. The film, available now on Netflix, is led by cast that’s completely made up of people of color.
Talbert told ABC Audio that he brought up his childhood experience when pitching his movie to the streaming giant.
“I said, ‘But the holiday movie you have all white people falling in love or or being whimsy and wonderful. And that’s a beautiful thing,'” he recounted. “‘But you don’t have black people and people of color love the holidays just like everybody else. And what do we have to sit down with and watch every year?'”
The answer, he says, was “nothing.”
Talbert adds that making more holiday films — or movies in general — starring families of color is long overdue. That realization hit the 54-year-old hard when he tried to share his favorite childhood movie, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, with his son.
Instead of having a father-son bonding movement, his son, Elias, lost interest because “there was no representation of himself on screen.” That inspired Talbert to take a closer look at what his son DID like.
Elias loved the animated film Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse because, as Talbert says, the movie’s lead, “Miles [Morales] looks like him, haircut’s like him [and has] swag like him.”
That’s why hopes that by watching Jingle Jangle: A Christmas Journey, people realize a couple of very important things.
“We’re all magical. That the world is an inclusive place,” he expressed. “We all have a seat at the table of Wonder and Magic.”
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ABC“What’s Your Country Song?” That’s the question Thomas Rhett asks in the lead single from his forthcoming fifth album. And the second generation singer/songwriter firmly believes you’ve got one — a song, that is.
“You know, bottom line is that everybody in the world has that certain song that takes them back to an awesome moment in time or to a hard moment in time,” TR tells ABC Audio. “And, you know, I’ve got several of ’em.”
“I listed a bunch of ’em in the song,” he continues, “whether it’s from the eighties or the nineties or two -thousands or now.”
Even more than that, Thomas Rhett sees the song as an expression of country music’s universal appeal.
“Wherever you live, everybody’s got some country inside of ’em and everybody’s got that one country song from their history that they go, ‘That’s my jam, that’s my anthem,'” he explains. “You know, songs they put on, you know, at football games around a bonfire, or a song that when they want to be thinking of the past a little bit, it’s a song they put on.”
“So it’s just a really big ode to country music,” he continues, “and some of the songs and artists that I love from my past and from my childhood.”
One of those artists TR loves from his childhood is his dad, of course, whom he namechecks in the second verse, giving a shoutout to Rhett Akins‘ huge hit from 1995, “That Ain’t My Truck.” Thomas Rhett’s dad also happens to be a co-writer on “What’s Your Country Song.”
Here’s a rundown of the other country classics TR name drops in “What’s Your Country Song,” along with the original singer and the year they were hits:
“Whiskey Bent and Hell Bound” — Hank Williams, Jr. (1979)
“Mama Tried” — Merle Haggard (1968)
“Cruise” — Florida Georgia Line (2012)
“Dixieland Delight” — Alabama (1983)
“Chattahoochee” — Alan Jackson (1993)
“Barefoot Blue Jean Night” — Jake Owen (2011)
“All My Exes Live in Texas” — George Strait (1987)
“I’m So Lonesome I Could Cry” — Hank Williams (1949)
“Heartbroke” — Ricky Skaggs (1982)
“Friends in Low Places” — Garth Brooks (1990)
“Neon Moon” — Brooks & Dunn (1992)
“I Was Country When Country Wasn’t Cool” — Barbara Mandrell (1981)
“Strawberry Wine” — Deana Carter (1996)
“Family Tradition” — Hank Williams, Jr. (1979)
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(NEW YORK) — With parts of Central America still reeling from flooding and landslides caused by Hurricane Eta, Tropical Storm Iota is now forecast to hit the region as a major hurricane early next week, bringing with it up to 30 inches of rain.
Tropical Storm Iota has winds of 40 mph and is about 340 miles south-southeast of Kingston, Jamaica, on Saturday. The storm is moving west-southwest at 5 mph.
Unfortunately, Iota is expected to strengthen over the coming days. By Monday and Tuesday, Iota will likely be a major hurricane as it approaches Nicaragua and Honduras’s coast.
The current track also brings Iota very close to where Eta made landfall in Central America earlier this month. Eta made landfall as a Category 4 in Nicaragua, with winds of 140 mph. Eta is estimated to have brought over 35 inches of rain to the region, causing catastrophic flash flooding and causalities.
Computer guidance indicates that Iota could bring another 30 inches to parts of Central America. This could aggravate recovery efforts underway. More mudslides, landslides and flash flooding will be likely. This could potentially be a major disaster if the forecast holds.
Iota is the 30th named storm of the 2020 Atlantic hurricane season, which is a record for most named storms in a single Atlantic hurricane season. That record was just broken with the formation of Theta earlier this week.
Meanwhile in the U.S., there are two storm systems impacting parts of the country this weekend.
A strong frontal system forming in the central U.S. will bring rain and snow showers to parts of the upper Midwest, while strong to severe thunderstorms are heading toward parts of the southern Plains. Gusty winds will be particularly likely in Denver and Oklahoma City Saturday.
When the colder air rushes in behind the cold front on Sunday, strong gusty winds will be possible from Missouri all the way to New York State, including Chicago, Detroit and Buffalo. Gusty winds, locally over 45 mph, could bring down power lines and down trees.
When the cold front comes to the East Coast, there could be a brief opportunity for strong thunderstorms, torrential and gusty downpours near the major northeast cities, and then another round of strong winds immediately behind the front late Sunday night.
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Chris Haston/NBCU Photo Bank/NBCUniversal via Getty Images/NBCUniversal via Getty Images(LOS ANGELES) — Will Smith took to social media Friday to reveal that The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air reunion special will air on HBO Max on Thursday, November 19. The artist formerly known as The Fresh Prince also gave fans a look at what to expect from when the cast got together again, in the form of a trailer.
“These are the people who made me the man I am today,” Smith, 51, posted.
The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, which ran for six seasons from 1990-1996, featured Smith playing a fictionalized version of himself named Will, a teen from West Philadelphia sent to live in a Bel-Air mansion with his rich Uncle Phil, played by James Avery, and Aunt Viv — first played by Janet Hubert and later by Daphne Maxwell Reid. With them was their butler, Geoffrey, played by Joseph Marcell, and their three children — Hilary, Carlton and Ashley, played by Karyn Parsons, Alfonso Ribeiro and Tatyana Ali, respectively.
“Nobody ever asked me if I could act,” Smith says in the trailer. To laughs, Ribeiro fires back, “And you couldn’t.”
Everyone is accounted for in the trailer except for Avery, who died in 2013 at the age of 68. Joining the main cast is DJ Jazzy Jeff, who played Will’s friend, Jazz, on the show.
The trailer, recorded mostly on the show’s mansion set, ends with Smith revealing that he felt it important for Hubert, who played Aunt Viv from seasons one through three before Reid took over for seasons 4 through 6, be included in the reunion. The two have famously been at odds since Hubert’s departure from the show.
The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air reunion special was filmed on September 10, exactly 30 years after the series originally premiered in 1990.
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