"SNL" alum Terry Sweeney calls out 'so rotten' Chevy Chase as CNN doc revisits AIDS controversy Lauren HuffJanuary 1, 2026 at 2:05 AM 0 NBC/Jamie McCarthy/NBC via Getty; Noam Galai/Getty Terry Sweeney; Chevy Chase Terry Sweeney is not mincing words about the "so rotten" Chevy Chase. In CNN Films' upcoming documentary, I'm Chevy Chase and You're Not, Sweeney and Chase's decadeslong feud is revisited, among other controversies.

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Terry Sweeney is not mincing words about the "so rotten" Chevy Chase.

In CNN Films' upcoming documentary, I'm Chevy Chase and You're Not, Sweeney and Chase's decades-long feud is revisited, among other controversies. In it, director Marina Zenovich point-blank brings up to Chase the claims that he had allegedly suggested that Sweeney — who was the first out gay cast member during Saturday Night Live's 1985-86 season — appear in a sketch on the show mocking the AIDS epidemic.

"You said something to Sweeney like, 'Oh, you're the gay guy. Why don't we ask if you have AIDS. And every week, we weigh you,'" Zenovich tells Chase.

She also reads to him from Tom Shales and James Andrew Miller's SNL oral history, Live From New York: The Complete, Uncensored History of Saturday Night Live as Told by Its Stars, Writers, and Guests. In it, Sweeney claims Chase later came to his dressing room to apologize for the AIDS joke, but was "furious that he had to apologize to me."

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In response, Chase says in the doc, "My memory is that [Sweeney] is lying, is my memory. He's not telling the truth. That isn't me. That's not who I am. And if I am that way, my life has changed, because I have to live with that now for the rest of my f---ing life."

Chase adds in the documentary, "Terry Sweeney, he was very funny, this guy. I don't think he's alive anymore."

Speaking to The Hollywood Reporter via instant message, Sweeney reportedly responded, "Don't you think he is saying this and making himself look more like the ass he is!!!"

Sweeney added of Chase's comments in the doc, "It all reflects rightly horribly on him!"

In the film, SNL creator Lorne Michaels also speaks to the alleged incident, saying, "I think Chevy was just being Chevy. He would say things that were funny, and he would assume you were comedy people, and he could speak that way. You know, we would say terrible things, because that's what would make us laugh."

According to THR, when asked about a different part of the film which claims that Chase was abused by his parents as a child and this is a possible explanation for his reported demeanor over the years, Sweeney responded: "Boohoo … poor screwed up kid … so THAT's why he's so rotten!!!!!!!"

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Jim Beam shuts down iconic Kentucky distillery for at least a year amid market downturn Chad PergramJanuary 1, 2026 at 2:05 AM 0 A whiskey sour for the distilled spirits industry. Consumers are souring on drinking alcohol. And that's one of a host of complex reasons why Jim Beam is placing its main distillery in Clermont, Kentucky, on ice for at least a year. Claudia Coffey knows Kentucky bourbon country as well as anyone. She's a podcaster and bourbon insider.

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Consumers are souring on drinking alcohol.

And that's one of a host of complex reasons why Jim Beam is placing its main distillery in Clermont, Kentucky, on ice for at least a year.

Claudia Coffey knows Kentucky bourbon country as well as anyone. She's a podcaster and bourbon insider.

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"Bourbon is Kentucky, right? We love horse racing in Kentucky. We love bourbon in Kentucky. It's the reason that 2.7 million people come to visit the Commonwealth every single year," said Coffey. "It's some of the biggest news to come out of Kentucky in quite some time, and this is one of the most iconic brands in bourbon."

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Not everyone has heard of Willett or Four Roses when it comes to bourbon. But Jim Beam is Americana. Ubiquitous. Kind of like McDonald's or Coke.

Americans are imbibing less — down 6% from just two years ago. And more than 16 million barrels of Kentucky spirits — including bourbon and rye — are aging in warehouses across the state. Distillers are paying taxes on those barrels while they age.

It's an issue of supply and demand. But the problem is not exclusive to Jim Beam.

"It's not a question of who's shutting down production," said Charlie Prince, who runs the Drammers Whiskey Club. "It's a question of who is admitting it."

Barrels of bourbon are stacked in a barrel house at the Jim Beam Distillery Feb. 17, 2020 in Clermont, Ky. U.S. whiskey exports have fallen by 27% to the European Union, the product's largest export market, caused by retaliatory tariffs imposed by the 27-nation alliance, a trade group said last week.

Overseas distillers like Midleton in Ireland, which makes Jameson, and Highland Park in Scotland all reduced production recently because of a glut of bourbon, whiskey and Scotch on the market.

However, observers say tariffs and the trade war with Canada hit Jim Beam especially hard.

"Ten percent of Kentucky bourbon sales were going to Canada, and that has dropped to almost zero," said Prince. "In Canada, that has been taken on as a kind of a national mission for Canadians, saying, 'Let's buy Canadian' and push back against the politics they don't like coming from the U.S. And, so, you see stores just pulling all American products and banning them in some provinces. So, that's definitely a political response."

Democrats quickly latched onto the tariff argument.

"Thousands of Kentuckians power the bourbon industry. We will all feel the impact of this," declared Rep. Morgan McGarvey, D-Ky. "It's hard to overstate just how devastating Trump's tariffs are for America's signature spirit."

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But one industry observer believes that tariffs are a single ingredient in a complex economic cocktail. Jessica Spector is a professor at Yale who studies the history and culture of liquor and spirits.

"Anybody that tells you that they have an explanation, 'Oh, it's tariffs,' or 'Oh, it's post-pandemic retraction,' is giving you a too simplistic explanation," said Spector. "It's unclear what impact the tariffs are having and will have in the future. People have argued over tariffs for a long time. As long as there has been trade, there have been arguments over tariffs. It's unclear whether the tariffs are sort of the coup de gras to an industry that was already suffering."

Spector says yes, Generation Z drinks less and uses cannabis more. There are also health concerns. But the spirits industry has witnessed shifts before. She says people moved from brown liquor to vodka in the 1970s because it was seen as healthier.

"They also jogged more and did a lot more cocaine because that was seen as more health conscious. So, it gets really complicated when you break things down generationally," said Spector.

But the tariffs remain extraordinarily controversial. The Trump administration says tariffs are here to stay.

Bottles of alcohol sit on shelves at a bar in Houston June 23, 2020. Moderate drinking was once thought to have benefits for the heart, but better research methods starting in the 2010s have thrown cold water on that.

"Tariffs are going to be part of the policy landscape," United States Trade Representative Jamieson Greer said Fox. "We know they're successful."

But the tariffs may also evaporate.

The Constitution grants Congress the authority to tax and impose tariffs. President Trump used emergency powers to levy global tariffs earlier this year. That's why this issue wound up at the Supreme Court. Attorneys argued the case in October.

"Canada is one of our closest allies. I think it would be hard to find Canada engaging in unfair trade practices because we have what used to be called the NAFTA agreement, between Canada, the United States and Mexico to bring down all the trade barriers between the countries," said University of California law professor John Yoo.

Based on the oral arguments, Yoo believes the high court will halt the Trump-imposed tariffs under the premise that the U.S. faces a national emergency.

"Canada will immediately benefit, and you'll be able to find your choice of American bourbons on Canadian store shelves," said Yoo.

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In fact, Yoo believes the Supreme Court could issue its ruling sooner rather than later — especially if it nixes the tariffs. That's because of all the duties and fees that might be levied on products for months — and then reversed.

It's important to note that Jim Beam will continue operating two other distilleries for the time being. And Spector says Generation Z prefers cocktails. So, that could force the industry to shift what it produces.

Now here's a little tidbit you probably won't learn any place else.

Roam any distillery in Scotland, be it Dalwhinnie in the Highlands, Glen Scotia in Campbeltown, GlenGrant in Speyside or Bowmore on Islay, and you will find distillers aging Scotch in Jim Beam barrels.

It's not just Jim Beam barrels that you will find in Scotland. It's also Buffalo Trace. Heaven Hill. Woodford Reserve. Wild Turkey. Congress only allows American distillers to use American oak barrels once for producing bourbon. So, Scotch distillers overseas love to get their hands on a good bourbon barrel to age their spirit.

The barrels may partially impart a vanilla flavor into the expression, stemming from "vanillans" in the wood.

The trend of using American bourbon barrels for Scotch began in the 1940s after the U.S. market came back online following the end of Prohibition. Distillers in Scotland began using sherry barrels to age their spirits prior to that (hence, the rich meaty flavors you get from Macallan). Sherry is still prevalent despite a decline in people consuming sherry these days. But fewer bourbon barrels from a big producer like Jim Beam now could alter the taste of Scotch in about 15 to 20 years.

That said, demand for Scotch is down like bourbon. So, some of these may even out.

It's worth noting that Suntory Global Spirits owns Jim Beam. It was known as Beam Suntory until recently. Suntory also owns major Scotch labels like Bowmore, Admore, Laphroaig, Auchentoshan and Glen Garioch. The pipeline of barrels from Jim Beam was a good proposition for Suntory to age Scotch.

So, it's possible that, down the road, Scotch distillers may age some of their expressions in barrels that once contained something else — other than Kentucky bourbon. And that's where the flavor profile will evolve.

It's also impossible to know the market trends and what people will be interested in drinking in 15 to 20 years. And, so, whatever distillers put into a barrel now might not match market trends in the future.

In fact, perhaps people will revert to drinking bourbon and Scotch. And the market glut now may switch into a spirits famine where products consumers want are hard to find.

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Is This "Stranger Things" Character Actually Alive? What Show Creators Meant by That Ambiguous Ending Colleen KratofilJanuary 1, 2026 at 6:30 AM 0 Courtesy of Netflix Linnea Berthelsen as Kali, Millie Bobby Brown as Eleven, and David Harbour as Jim Hopper in 'Stranger Things' season 5 Warning: This story contains spoilers for Stranger Things season 5, Volume 3. Stranger Things finale premiered on Dec.

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Stranger Things has come to an end, and its final moments left one major possibility up in the air.

In the Dec. 31 two-hour finale of the hit Netflix show, the final scene brought on some additional questions about the fate of its main character.

As the crew, including Will (Noah Schnapp), Dustin (Gaten Matarazzo), Mike (Finn Wolfhard), Lucas (Caleb McLaughlin) and Max (Sadie Sink), gathered in Mike's basement for a game of Dungeons & Dragons, Mike opened up the possibility that Eleven (Millie Bobby Brown), who was presumed dead, may actually, be alive.

David Harbour as Jim Hopper and Millie Bobby Brown as Eleven in 'Stranger Things' season 5

Just as the Hawkins crew was triumphant in their quest to defeat Vecna (Jamie Campbell Bower), their celebration was cut short when they were apprehended by the military as they exited the Upside Down. Eleven followed through on the plan devised by her sister, Eight a.k.a Kali (Linnea Berthelsen), and stayed in the Upside Down to kill herself as it explodes. According to Eight, it was the only way to stop the military from creating more people with their abilities or create new worlds.

After a tearful goodbye to Mike, Eleven disappeared as the crew's explosives destroyed the Upside Down. Viewers were left to assume she died, and as the episode jumped ahead 18 months later, a grieving Mike wanted to skip his high school graduation because he was "not ok with moving on."

Hopper (David Harbour) helped him realize he needed to stop "blaming himself" and "find a way to accept what happened" and "live the best goddamn life you can."

Following graduation, the crew met in Mike's basement, like old times, for a game of D&D. At the end, Mike told a tale where Eight actually saved Eleven, and she escaped to live a tranquil life.

He explained that Eleven and Eight devised a plan to make everyone believe Eleven was dead, to trick the military. Eight "cast a spell from far away, a spell of invisibility" and the person they saw die was an "illusion." Mike said he wants to imagine Eleven disappeared to a "land somewhere far away."

The show cut to Eleven walking up a mountain overlooking three waterfalls, where she found "peace and happiness" in a small village where no one knows she's alive, Mike said. When Max and Lucas asked if it's true, Mike said we don't know, but "I chose to believe that it is." They all agreed with him that they believed too.

According to Netflix's Tudum, the creators, brothers Matt and Ross Duffer, "have left it up to viewers to decide what they think happens to Eleven."

As the Tudum recap states, "she lives on in their hearts, whether that's real or not," Ross said, referring to the Hawkins crew.

In an interview with Variety earlier this season, Matt explained that the ending wouldn't be a "bloodbath."

"I've said this before: The show is not Game of Thrones," Matt said. "I'm hoping it surprises people. But there's no Red Wedding, if that's what you're asking," he said, referring to a massacre on GoT. "That would be depressing."

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Speaking to PEOPLE at the Los Angeles premiere, executive producer Shawn Levy said the finale is "as good as any TV series finale I've seen in my life."

He teased the ending again speaking with PEOPLE before Volume 2 dropped. "You will get outcomes that are deeply satisfying, but many of which are completely surprising."

"I just want to assure all of the people around the world who have walked the long road with us for nearly a decade, this finale is what you've been waiting for."

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'80s Rock Legend Says Canceling Kennedy Center Gig Was 'a Very Easy Decision to Make' Craig RosenJanuary 1, 2026 at 1:20 AM 0 (Photo by Scott Legato/Getty Images) Peter Wolf canceled an event to promote his memoir at the Kennedy Center back in March, but the former J. Geils Band frontman is talking about it now, as other musicians have pulled out of engagements in the wake of President Donald Trump's staff changes and name change at the hallowed Washington, D.C. venue.

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Peter Wolf canceled an event to promote his memoir at the Kennedy Center back in March, but the former J. Geils Band frontman is talking about it now, as other musicians have pulled out of engagements in the wake of President Donald Trump's staff changes and name change at the hallowed Washington, D.C. venue.

Wolf was booked for an event on March 21 at the Kennedy Center to promote Waiting on the Moon: Artists, Poets, Drifters, Grifters and Goddesses, but opted to move it to Politics and Prose, a Washington, D.C. independent bookstore instead.

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"When they changed the administration and fired a lot of good people, I just felt uncomfortable," Wolf told The Boston Globe. "It became a political issue. Appearing at the Kennedy Center became political, and I felt that was wrong.

"It was a very easy decision to make," he added.

Since Wolf canceled, others have made similar moves, including Isa Rae and Lin-Manuel Miranda, who scrapped an engagement of his acclaimed musical Hamilton at the venue that was to coincide with the 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence.

With the Trump appointed board reportedly voting to rename the venue the Trump-Kennedy Center, other acts have decided to cancel, including the New Year's Eve headliners jazz group The Cookers.

Yet the cancellation was still a bit of a disappointment for Wolf. Although the J. Geils Band never played the venue, he did perform at the Kennedy Center in 1997 as part of an all-star tribute to blues legend Muddy Waters. "I was hoping to get back there," he told the outlet.

While Wolf won't be playing the Kennedy Center any time soon, he is hitting the road for the first time in years fronting a full band.

"I did an acoustic tour of stories and songs right before the release of the book, but I feel now it's time to get out there with the A team," Wolf told The Globe, referring to the lineup of his band called the Midnight Travelers, which features guitarists Duke Levine and Kevin Barry. "I have an album that's about 89 percent finished great. I might draw from that, but I tend to focus on material from the solo recordings and I always toss in some of my favorite songs from the Geils era."

Aside from the initial slate of dates Wolf announced, he recently added five more shows, including stops in New York City and Detroit.

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*Justice League* director Zack Snyder has shared two early test photos of Cavill in the iconic cape and spandex that solidified the actor's run as the Man of the Steel.

"Henry Cavill. The original Superman suit," Snyder captioned an Instagram photo Thursday. "This photo. It was undeniable."

While sharing another, more close-up shot, Snyder added, "With the last image I shared, and this one we showed WB, everyone agreed: Henry Cavill was Superman. That's where the journey began."

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This isn't the first time Snyder has offered a glimpse of Cavill in Reeve's original suit. In 2017, the filmmaker posted a behind-the-scenes shot of Cavill in the costume sitting in a makeup chair on set. However, these new photos are more in character and out in the world, showing Cavill in all his Superman glory.

"First test with Henry," Snyder wrote in the caption of the first photo posted to his Vero account in 2017, of which a blurry version emerged online three years prior. "I knew right away he was my Superman."

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As Snyder explained during a 2016 interview, "We didn't have the suit made when Henry was auditioning, so he wore the original Christopher Reeve suit. He put it on and when he came out of the trailer, everyone was like, 'Dang, you're Superman!'"

Cavill recalled feeling imposter syndrome in that moment when speaking to * *in 2011. "All I could think was, 'Oh, God, they're going to look at me and go, 'He's not Superman. Not a chance,''" Cavill said. "The actor inside me was going, 'You're not ready! You're not ready!'"

But Snyder revealed that "no one laughed" when Cavill first walked out wearing that suit.

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"Other actors put that suit on and it's a joke, even if they're great actors," Snyder added. "Henry put it on, and he exuded this kind of crazy-calm confidence that just made me go, 'Wow. Okay, this is Superman.'"

Reeve played Superman across four films between 1978 and 1987, paving the way for Cavill to debut as the beloved superhero (with his own modernized suit) in 2013's *Man of Steel*. Cavill continued wearing the cape in Snyder's follow-ups *Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice *(2016) and * Justice League *(2017), and also made a cameo in 2022's *Black Adam*.

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