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TAYLOR SWIFT'S LUCKY NUMBER IS IN "VALENTINE'S DAY" MOVIE
UNDATED (AP) — Taylor Swift is surrounded by her lucky number in the upcoming movie, "Valentine's Day." In a scene in the second trailer, a TV reporter asks her and Taylor Lautner: "so how do you guys feel about each other?" Swift answers, "oh my gosh, I totally love him." Lautner says, "I'm crazy about her." Then, comes the number part. Swift says "he even wrote his number on my hand." She shows the back of her right hand and there's a big "13." It doesn't stop there. The reporter works for a Channel 13 because his microphone flag says "13."
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Here are an unidentified actor as a reporter, Taylor Swift and Taylor Lautner in a scene from the "Valentine's Day" trailer.
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Here is Taylor Swift in a scene from the "Valentine's Day" trailer.
MILEY CYRUS - FR-FR-FREEZING IN LONDON
LONDON (AP) — Miley Cyrus might consider buying some warm clothes at the after-Christmas sales in London. She's been in the U.K. for nearly two weeks on tour, shivering the whole time. She acknowledges she didn't bring the right clothes. She says she and her crew packed lighter because they didn't realize how cold it was going to be. Cyrus says "it's definitely freezing."
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Miley Cyrus says she has been shivering the whole time she has been on tour in England and Ireland.
ROCK BAND GOES MORE COUNTRY
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. (AP) — "Rock Band" is going more country. It's adding a seven pack of songs to the Rock Band Music Store. Here are the songs: Alan Jackson's "Good Time," Cross Canadian Ragweed's "Cry Lonely," Jason Aldean's hit "She's Country, "I Told You So" from Keith Urban, the Kenny Rogers classic, "The Gambler," ''This Ones For the Girls" by Martina McBride and Shania Twain doing "Any Man of Mine." These songs originally appeared in the Country Track Pack but they'll be available as downloadable content in the Rock Band Music Store. They'll be available tomorrow on Xbox 360 and Wii. They'll be ready for the PlayStation 3 system January 7.
BILLY DEAN AS "HANK SINATRA"
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — Billy Dean is doing his "Hank Sinatra" stylings, as they say, on New Year's Eve. That's a combination of Frank Sinatra and Hank Williams, like a country-crooner. Billy Dean and His Big Band are bringing their new "Love's A Small Cafe" tour to Tallahassee, Florida. Dean tells the Tallahassee Democrat newspaper "there are no crooners in country music anymore like Ray Price or Eddy Arnold" and he says his voice "fits that crooning style."
DANNY GOKEY - NATIONAL ANTHEM
GREEN BAY, Wis. (AP) — Danny Gokey definitely is back in the spotlight, now that his new single is out. He sang the national anthem before yesterday's football game between the Green Bay Packers and the Seattle Seahawks. Gokey is from nearby Milwaukee.
GRACELAND OWNERS ARE CONSIDERING IMPROVEMENTS TO NEARBY PROPERTY
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — The owners of Graceland want to spruce up the area around it. Robert Sillerman of CKX, the company which has owned Graceland since 2004, tells the Memphis Commercial Appeal he plans to hold meetings next month to discuss the area's future. His plans include demolishing the old visitors center and Heartbreak Hotel to replace them with larger, better facilities. There's also talk of widening Elvis Presley Boulevard.
by Rosalie Fox
