DUNCAN, Okla. — Oscar-winning movie director Ron Howard says he still feels connected to the Oklahoma town where he was born but never lived, after visiting the now-shuttered hospital of his birth.

Howard this week posted a photo of himself on Instagram posing outside the boarded-up building in Duncan, 75 miles southwest of Oklahoma City.

Howard says his family lived in Biloxi, Miss., but that his mother wanted to give birth in Duncan, her hometown. Howard says he never lived there but feels “a connection to the town & people.”

The family later moved to California where Howard’s father, Rance Howard, was an actor. His mother, Jean Speegle Howard, also acted. Both appeared in their son’s movies “Cocoon” and “Apollo 13.”

Jean Howard died in 2000. Rance Howard died in 2017.

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LOS ANGELES — Christina Aguilera will perform live minutes before the ball drops to usher in 2019 in New York’s Times Square.

Dick Clark Productions announced Thursday that Aguilera will be joined by Bastille, Dan and Shay and New Kids On The Block leading up to the countdown on “Dick Clark’s New Year’s Rockin’ Eve with Ryan Seacrest.”

Aguilera last performed on the show in 2007. It’s the second time for New Kids and Bastille. It’s Dan and Shay’s first appearance.

Seacrest will be joined in the countdown to midnight by Jenny McCarthy Wahlberg.

Post Malone will make his first New Year’s performance.

Ciara will host the Hollywood party with such artists as Camila Cabello, The Chainsmokers, Halsey, Shawn Mendes, Charlie Puth and Weezer.

The show begins at 8 p.m. on Dec. 31 on ABC.

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Cybill Shepherd claims Les Moonves ended her hit show early after she rejected him.

The 68-year-old actress spoke out Monday about her interactions with the disgraced former CBS CEO, who stepped down after more than a dozen allegations of sexual harassment and assault.

“He was, well, he was telling me his wife didn’t turn him on, some mistress didn’t turn him on,” Shepherd said on Sirius XM’s “The Michelle Collins Show.”

“He says, ‘Well, you know, why don’t you let me take you home?’ I said, ‘No, I’ve got a ride.’ And I had my car outside with a good friend of mine who is an off-duty LAPD officer.”

Shortly after, Shepherd claimed, “Cybill” was canceled.

The show ran from 1995 to 1998 before ending on a cliffhanger and the ominous words “to be continued.”

“My show could have run another five years, but I didn’t fall on the right side of Les,” Shepherd claimed on the radio show. “I wasn’t gonna fall at all for Les.”

Moonves was forced out in September amid multiple allegations of misconduct dating back to the late ‘80s, but has denied all allegations of nonconsensual sex.

Investigators said that Moonves was “evasive and untruthful at times and to have deliberately lied about and minimized the extent of his sexual misconduct” during interviews with lawyers and allegedly destroyed evidence, according to an internal CBS report acquired by the New York Times.

His $120 million exit package with CBS is contingent on the results of the internal investigation.

From our wire services