Handshakes all around. Actually, make that elbow bumps.
Well, what
else are you going to do this Christmas?
You can t go Christmas shopping. You can t go to parties. You can t see the Rockettes, go caroling or take your ballet-crazy 7-year-old to see the Sugar Plum Fairy. All canceled by COVID. This Christmas, it s just you and the DVR. So line up those Christmas movies and old TV specials, and binge away!
But wait – you don t become curator just like that. It s a serious responsibility.
Ben Mankiewicz, the late Robert Osborne, all those personalities on Turner Classic Movies know a thing or two. They can tell you the backstories, the inside baseball, on each of the films they present. You don t want to be tongue-tied when your little girl asks you, Mommy, why was Lionel Barrymore cast in It s a Wonderful Life ? Because she will. You know she will.
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The Discourse, 2020
A few weeks ago, I wrote about a sign that’s been cropping up around my neighborhood of late. A few days ago, I spotted a rejoinder. On the one hand, I tend to agree that slogans have a way of blunting the conversation. On the other hand, the beauty of a good slogan is its graceful unity; it’s constructed such that you can’t take issue with it without looking awkward.
Ackchually, America was already great. Ackchually, all lives matter. Best to come up with your own pithy bit.
You could even skip the sloganeering and proffer a pamphlet: another neighbor placed a pile of pages offering Perspective in their produce basket.
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First, I should admit that I’m a sucker for a lot of holiday standards, from The Grinch and Peanuts to Rudolph and Frosty the Snowman. I adore both
White Christmas and
National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation, but there’s also a lot of schmaltzy, badly-written nonsense floating around out there like so much stale, crusty fruitcake this time of year…and when the usual holiday fare starts wearing thin, it’s time to mix things up a bit.
The following movies and TV specials are amazing because they find new ways of celebrating the holiday spirit, with all its weird traditions and potentially awkward moments and unmeetable expectations. It’s not about irony or snark or subversion it’s about making your own odd, goofy, wonderful kind of holiday cheer, wherever you can find it…
38 Christmas movies and specials to watch on TV this week [Los Angeles Times]
Because you’re a socially responsible person, you’re not going anywhere this Christmas, and you’re not seeing anyone other than the people you saw yesterday and the day before that, so you’re probably going to be watching even more television this holiday week than in years past. There’s a lot to cover, so let’s get to it.
It seems only right to begin with Dolly Parton, who donated $1 million to vaccine research, has gifted more than 150 million book to children and with similar if marginally less significant largess brings the world a double dose of cheer this year. “A Holly Dolly Christmas” (CBS All Access), which is also a big, long ad for her new album of the same name, is mostly just Parton sitting on a pew in a church-themed set, talking and singing and being her awesome casual self. “It’s not a big Hollywood production show, as I’m sure you noticed,” says the singer, adding,
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