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Great American Family’s annual Christmas event includes a well-known mother-daughter actress duo on a pair of movies that recently debuted. Candace Cameron Bure played a U.S. Army reservist and orthopedic physician in “My Christmas Hero,” while her daughter Natasha Bure starred as a young woman in “A Christmas For the Ages” who helps her family…

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Hollywood actress Natalie Portman, who rose to fame as a child actor, recently said she doesn’t believe kids should be exposed to the world of fame. The “May December” actress told Variety she “would not encourage young people” to try to make it in Hollywood as children because of the myriad dangers that surround the…

Television legend Bob Newhart had nothing but enthusiasm for and fond memories of playing Papa Elf to Will Ferrell’s starry-eyed Buddy in “Elf.”  Just before he passed away in 2024, Newhart shared in an email interview with CNN, “Without question, the part of Papa Elf outranks, by far, any role I may have ever played.”…

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A studio executive overseeing “Journey to Bethlehem,” a new musical about the nativity story, believes audiences will genuinely love the powerful way the Gospel story is told. Rich Peluso, executive vice president and head of AFFIRM Films, told CBN Digital, “It’s a full-on narrative, live-action musical with choreography, and dance, and joy, and fun, and…

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