Brenda Lee was just 13 years old when she recorded "Rockin' Around The Christmas Tree" in 1958.
It's a true Christmas classic, a bouncy earworm - and pretty much everyone knows the lyrics.
But it's never made it to number one on Billboard's Hot 100 — until now.
NPR's Scott Detrow spoke with the 78-year-old about her long career and how she feels now that her iconic holiday tune is finally at the top of the charts.
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Amy Heckerling has brought her 1995 comedy classic to New York with lively choreography but a disappointing lack of charm
The best thing about Clueless: The Musical is that it sometimes reminds you what a fresh, flip delight Clueless the movie was and is. Amy Heckerling’s 1995 comedy, a clever update of Jane Austen’s Emma, buzzes around a high school queen bee. This adaptation, also superintended by Heckerling, is all drone.
Over the past few months, Jameela Jamil has had to go on the defensive in a major way.
Being publicly candid on social media about her injuries, health issues, and sexuality, she was met with skepticism from the Twitterverse, where people called her a liar and said she has Munchausen syndrome.
Eleven-year-old Annie proved how precocious she was when she asked Meredith, her dad's new fiancée, about their relationship, saying, "You're young, and beautiful, and sexy, and hey, the guy's only human, but if you ask me, marriage is supposed to be based on something more than just sex, right?" "The Parent Trap." Buena Vista Pictures Distribution If Annie (acting as Hallie) didn't make it clear enough to her dad that she was dissatisfied with his choice of girlfriend, she made it abundantly clear to Meredith personally.
Wack 100 and Boosie Badazz don't get along, a relationship status that formed after the latter spoke out against Kodak Black and the former's artist 6ix9ine collaborating on a song. The snitching conversation around the rainbow-haired rapper will seemingly never end, and it's caused Wack to get caught up in the backlash from it. However, it seems like now the music executive is taking other, more petty avenues to keep going at the Baton Rouge MC.
Japanese filmmaker Hayao Miyazaki is renowned for creating enchanting worlds in his animated films.
For the first time outside of Japan, his work is being featured in a major retrospective at the brand-new Academy Museum of Motion Pictures in Los Angeles. This week, the organization that hosts the Oscars unveiled the museum devoted to cinema.
"He's a cinematic master," says the Academy Museum's chief artistic and programming officer Jacqueline Stewart, who just this week became a MacArthur Fellow and received their "
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ObituaryBoscoe HolderTrinidadian artist whose many-faceted career exported Caribbean culture across the globeWhen Boscoe Holder, who has died aged 85, arrived in London from Trinidad early in 1950, he had already built a considerable reputation for himself as a painter, musician, dancer and producer of Caribbean dance revues. He spent 20 years in England realising his career, in both music and art, before returning to Trinidad to concentrate on painting. His knowledge of the history of many unrecognised black dancers and musicians in the English-speaking West Indies was considerable, as was his understanding of the role of black performance in Britain during the 1950s.
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Brandon Jones and Serene Russell were a fan-favorite couple on 'Bachelor in Paradise' and since they left engaged, the two have moved into their 1st apartment together. Published on December 13, 2022 2 min read Brandon Jones and Serene Russell are starting their new chapter together after getting engaged on Bachelor in Paradise. The couple recently revealed that they’re still going strong and that they just got their first apartment together.