"White Christmas"

[sergebroom]

Yesterday evening, my wife and I began the Season's movie-watching. The opening salvo was 1954's White Christmas.

"Many men have tried to split us up, but no one can
Lord help the mister who comes between me and my sister
And Lord help the sister, who comes between me and my man."

Next on our list? Alastair Sim's Christmas Carol... Frederic Back's animated short Crac... Rudolph the Red-nosed Reindeer even though Santa is show to be a jerk... Mark Morris's The Hard Nut... Don Siegel's short film A Star in the Night... The grand finale will of course be Charlie Brown's Christmas Special...

Somewhere in there, while my wife isn't around, I'll sneak in Blackadder's Christmas Carol and Matt Groening's Olive the Other Reindeer. Maybe It's A wonderful Life, in which a man bitter at Life's opportunities having passed him by is contemplating suicide on Christmas Eve.

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[readinggeek451]

It's one of my three must-see Christmas shows, along with Charlie Brown Christmas and Rudolph--although that last is dropping off the list because I get increasingly upset about what a bigot Santa is.

(If the Grinch were really all that mean, his dog wouldn't be so cheerful and happy-go-lucky.)

[serge-lj.livejournal.com]

Maybe his dog is an incurable optimist, or he is an angel on a mission to save the Grinch's soul.