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Looking back on it now, it is hard to believe that anyone thought having Will Ferrell play the world’s biggest, sweetest elf was anything but a stroke of candy-coated genius. Or that anyone but Danny Elfman could provide the singular singing voice for Jack Skellington in “The Nightmare Before Christmas.” Or that “Elf” and “The Nightmare Before Christmas” were not destined to become modern holiday movie classics.
But Scrooge has always lived large and loud in Hollywood, and one of the joys of Netflix’s “The Holiday Movies That Made Us” documentary series is watching the grumps, doubters and penny-pinchers lose battle after battle to the kinds of misfits, newbies and outsiders who make movie magic happen.
Letters pouring in to Santa’s mailbox in Mount Dora
Cindy Peterson
MOUNT DORA With just a couple weeks left until Christmas, letters to Santa are pouring into Linda and Jeanette Bokland’s mailbox.
Their second annual Letters to Santa project is well underway. To date, the couple has received more than 300 letters, putting them on track to surpass their total of 500 from last year.
“With everything going on this year, we expected to get more, Linda said. And we were right.
The ladies hosted their first Team Elf event at the Mount Dora Chamber of Commerce building, where their team of elves could properly socially distance.