Mayor could boycott

Nashville Mayor David Briley leaning toward skipping Christmas parade if Kid Rock is still Grand Marshal

Buy Photo Autoplay Show Thumbnails Show Captions Last SlideNext Slide More: Kid Rock named Grand Marshal of Nashville's 2018 Christmas Parade Kid Rock’s publicist declined to comment midday Friday on the mayor's position.

Kid Rock was announced as the Grand Marshal back in September, back then Mayor Briley tweeted about the announcement, inviting Nashvillians to join Kid Rock to kick off the holiday season.

Also Read: Watch Joy Behar Take the High Road After Kid Rock Calls Her a 'Bitch' (Video) “When you have the grand marshal of what’s labeled Nashville’s Christmas parade saying hateful things on national television, the mayor obviously does not want to be included in an event with someone like that,” spokesman Thomas Mulgrew told the AP.

After you've packed the little ones off to bed, enjoy these movies, from the hilarious to the horrifying, that are aimed at adult Christmas" (1974)  A decade before making the classic "A Christmas Story," director Bob Clark invented the holiday slasher with this still-chilling cult fave about sorority sisters fending off an obscene phone Silent Partner" (1978)  Bank teller Elliott Gould and robber Christopher Plummer play a deadly game of cat-and-mouse; this twisty thriller was an early success for the late Curtis Hanson, who Evil" (1980)  John Waters' favorite Christmas movie involves a man obsessed with Santa (Brandon Maggart) who takes his naughty list to homicidal Girls" (1988)  Long before he was McDreamy, Patrick Dempsey played a horny college student bewitched by three sisters (played by Jennifer Connelly, Sheila Kelley and Ashley Greenfield) in an early Sundance hit that's still underappreciated (and still (1990)  Writer-director Whit Stillman scored a dynamite debut -- and made a low-budget indie look great by shooting in holiday-decorated Manhattan -- with this smart and sprightly tale of young debutantes in (1999)  Writer John August and director Doug Liman keep the twists and the wisecracks coming in this ensemble piece about young L.A. types chasing down ecstasy.

PLAZAS: Kid Rock should step aside as Christmas Parade grand marshal ​​​​​​​OPINION: Kid Rock is a complicated human Joey Garrison at 615-259-8236, jgarrison@tennessean.com and on Twitter @joeygarrison.

Kid Rock is no longer leading Nashville’s Christmas parade after calling “The View” host Joy Behar a “bitch” in a recent FOX interview.

(Photo: Alan Poizner) Nashville Mayor David Briley says he's likely to skip Saturday's Nashville Christmas Parade if Kid Rock remains the grand marshal.

And did we mention this is also a Slide Next and the Apocalypse” isn’t the only film that brings an R-rated sensibility to the holiday season Sure, Christmas is a time of joy for children of all ages, but that doesn't mean that grown-ups can't have the cinematic equivalent of a spiked egg nog.