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GREAT AMERICAN CHRISTMAS 2024NEW YORK, NY – July 24, 2024 – Great American Family announced the talent added to the cast of the Original Movie, Love At The Kettle (wt), starring Alexa PenaVega and Carlos PenaVega, which will have its World Premiere this holiday season as part of Great American Christmas 2024.
Added to the cast are Shazia Pascal (“Descendants: The Rise of Red”), Abbey Romeo (“Love on the Spectrum”), Victoria Pratt (“Late Night”), Victoria Jackson (“Saturday Night Live,” “Matchbreaker”), Kevin Valdez (“Little Voice”), Alan Powell (“The Reason”), Dean Robin Shortland (“Surprised by Oxford”), Joshua Childs (“Dolly Parton’s Heartstrings”), with appearances by Marcus Johns (“Rock of Ages”), Natasha Bure (A Christmas for the Ages), and pop icon, Mario Lopez (“Access Hollywood Live,” Once Upon A Christmas Wish).
In Love At the Kettle (wt), up-and-coming singer songwriter Bella Harlan (Alexa PenaVega) comes home for Christmas and enlists her high-school songwriting partner Jack Grayton (Carlos PenaVega) to craft a song to win back her rockstar boyfriend by Christmas. As the two reunite for the first time in a decade, they embark on a Christmas journey down memory lane, and soon realize true love may be closer than they thought. The heart of the movie centers on Jack’s role with The Salvation Army, and Bella soon finds herself inspired by his devotion and passion to a life of doing the most good. Filled with charming original music and its share of twists and turns, Love At the Kettle (wt) demonstrates the importance of never losing sight of the ones who matter the most.
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On social media, Alexa and Carlos are referring to this movie with the title, Get Him Back for Christmas, so there may or may not be a title change - stay tuned!
It's great to see so many wonderful names added to this cast, including Natasha Bure, Mario Lopez, and Victoria Jackson!
Question! I haven't seen Dolly Parton's Heartstrings despite all my efforts but for a thing I'm writing, what happened to JJ's knees?
Well, it's kinda definitely a bit of a spoiler... I mean, the "JJ ain't got knees" joke itself won't spoil much, but the context would.
But if you don't mind the spoiler, click the Keep Reading...
At the end of the JJ Sneed episode (which is the only one you need to worry about seeing ;)), JJ gets his comeuppance when the female lead confronts him. In the JJ Sneed song, she shoots him dead - so the viewer's expecting that outcome all along. But instead of killing him, she kneecaps him (shoots out both his knees) and leaves him writhing on the ground. The wounds won't kill him - but given the state of health care in the wild west, and the likelihood of him ever seeing any... he'll never walk again, 'cos
As a huge Dolly Parton fan it makes me so happy to see my favorite actor Colin O'donoghue in her show Dolly Parton's Heartstrings and no I haven't seen this show but I know he's in it and he has a bowler hat!!
Julianne Hough in Dolly Parton's Heartstrings (2019) Jolene
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Emily (Kimberly Williams-Paisley) befriends attractive young bartender/singer-songwriter Jolene (Julianne Hough) at a local honky-tonk bar and hires Jolene as her son’s guitar teacher. But with her own marriage to Aaron (Dallas Roberts) stuck in a rut and Jolene’s revelation that she doesn't shy away from dating married men, Emily becomes increasingly insecure.
There’s a lot to be said about turning your trauma into art, and I did say some of it while thinking about Lana Del Rey’s “A&W.” Megan Thee Stallion is about a decade younger (than both Lana and me) and her work is still fiery with recrimination and transformation. If she must suffer, then the suffering can be empowering, she can pry open the eyeballs of the world and force them to look, to see how she was wronged. And not to sound too much like I majored in English here, though I certainly did – it’s, you know, intriguing that she paired all this with killer snake imagery! Generally (but far from exclusively) this is a woman’s artistic domain. It’s Beyoncé’s Lemonade, it’s Fiona Apple’s Tidal, it’s Dolly Parton’s Coat of Many Colors – these albums speak directly to women about their pain and humbling and about how fragile the life we construct really is. Whether you’re born in poverty or you’re the world’s foremost superstar, to exist is to hurt. Megan Thee Stallion is hurting, all her open wounds are documented on “Cobra,” but she’s also very in touch with her anger and that’s what makes this song epic. Beyond what she’s doing, the legacies she’s tapping into, “Cobra” is fantastic and compulsively listenable, winning over popheads, metalheads, and everyone in between. Megan Thee Stallion’s winking self-acceptance of her demons and Van Halen style guitar solo fade out sound like driving off a cliff and taking flight; may she fly free forever.
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Megan making a claim for control of her narrative and "shedding her past" by airing it out in song is a bold move on its own, as MG notes above. Structurally it's even bolder: Megan Thee Stallion would have every reason to turn these experiences into a "serious" track, Grammy bait, something confessional and ballad-esque. It would almost certainly work in that format! This is a dark story, bits of which I've run into on social media and bits of which were new, at least to me. It would require very little to make it into the kind of song that tugs at your heartstrings, and there would be absolutely nothing wrong with taking that path. But instead, stunningly, Megan chose to turn this harrowing story into an unconventional banger, a bop where the chorus hinges on a lyric that's unmistakably "This pussy depressed." There's no escaping either side of this song, no way to embrace the beat and ignore the lyrics or the other way around. "Cobra" has its cake and devours it too: it's unavoidably both things at once, capped off by my personal pick for most unexpected, and best, guitar solo of the year.