Here’s the Friday open comments post.
Today’s suggested topic — favorite Christmas film, show, or book. Here are my picks:
Film — A Christmas Carol, 1999, with Patrick Stewart as Scrooge.
Book — How the Grinch Stole Christmas.
Show — A Charlie Brown Christmas.
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I’ll keep the post open through Christmas day.
Scrooged! It was on AMC about a million times this year. Great each and every time!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scrooged
“Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer” is the b est TV show about Christmas and a Christmas Story is my favorite movie
I like the earlier version of a Christmas Carol from the 1950’s. Worst Christmas show ever — Frosty the Snowman. it’s completely and entirely terrible.
Elf with Wil Ferrell for best film. Grinch for best book and best TV show.
My favorite book is Snowmen at Christmas by Caralyn Buehner.
1964’s greatest film tops ’em all — Santa Claus Conquers the Martians. Makes up for what they did to Earth in War of the Worlds!
Green Acres, Season 2, “An Old Fashioned Christmas,” 12/21/66: While Lisa dreams of a Winter Wonderland on Park Avenue, all Oliver Wendell Douglas wants is to chop down his own Christmas tree. But when he learns too late that it’s illegal to lop a pine without a permit, it looks like the Douglases may be forced to spend their first Hooterville holidays behind bars!
Green Acres, Season 3, “The Rutabaga Story,” Soil tests indicate Hooterville has the perfect soil to nurture rutabagas, and Oliver suggests that they need to create a market demand. As usual, Hooterville goes overboard: Roy Trendle calls USC to play against the Hooterville Rockets in a “Rutabaga Bowl.” Fred Ziffel calls CBS TV to telecast The Rutabaga Bowl Parade. Sam Drucker attempts to book 10 minutes on The Ed Sullivan Show. Newt Kiley even gets Sophia Loren to agree to be the Rutabaga Queen. The last straw for Oliver is when Mr. Haney sends Lisa up in a hot air balloon, to cross the country dropping tagged Hooterville rutabagas. Lisa is barely returned to safety after nearly being shot down by fighter command for “bombing” Denver with, as she calls them, “Hootersville Rutabagas.”
Christmas Vacation with Chevy Chase is the best!