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[dosey]

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@just bee wrote:

Update!  We got the TV and TV stand out of their boxes last night.

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[dosey]

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@just bee wrote:

I was thinking a little more about favorite Christmas movies and one popped into my head.  I checked TCM's schedule and it will be on Wednesday the 23rd.

Robin and the 7 Hoods

Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Sammy Davis Jr., Bing Crosby, Peter Falk, and some of the best songs ever.  If you haven't seen it, set your DVR!

Another favorite, and it's not really a Christmas movie but it feels like one, is The Trouble with Angels.  I found the DVD online, bought it and still haven't watched it.  It's the season -- I better dust it off.

Thanksgiving just isn't Thanksgiving without Brussels sprouts.  What movie makes Christmas feel more like Christmas for you?

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Die Hard.

[geezerette]

I'm not much for Christmas movies anymore, but I used to like "Holiday Inn" I think it was called--the movie with Bing Crosby, Danny Kaye, Rosemary Clooney and Vera Somebody.  I watched it every year even though it's a musical and I don't usually like musicals.  It had the song "White Christmas" in it, so you'd figure that's what the movie would be called, but nope.

I'm sure there were others I liked, but I can't think of any off the top of my head, or the bottom either, for that matter. 

Nowadays I often will watch the really schmaltzy Hallmark Channel Christmas movies before bed.  I think I've seen most all of them by now, and the acting is terrible in many, but by the end of the day I can't concentrate on much of a storyline anymore anyway. 

[geezerette]

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@dosey wrote:

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@just bee wrote:

I was thinking a little more about favorite Christmas movies and one popped into my head.  I checked TCM's schedule and it will be on Wednesday the 23rd.

Robin and the 7 Hoods

Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Sammy Davis Jr., Bing Crosby, Peter Falk, and some of the best songs ever.  If you haven't seen it, set your DVR!

Another favorite, and it's not really a Christmas movie but it feels like one, is The Trouble with Angels.  I found the DVD online, bought it and still haven't watched it.  It's the season -- I better dust it off.

Thanksgiving just isn't Thanksgiving without Brussels sprouts.  What movie makes Christmas feel more like Christmas for you?

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Die Hard.

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You're the sentimental kind, eh dosey?  

[dosey]

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@geezerette wrote:

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@dosey wrote:

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@just bee wrote:

I was thinking a little more about favorite Christmas movies and one popped into my head.  I checked TCM's schedule and it will be on Wednesday the 23rd.

Robin and the 7 Hoods

Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Sammy Davis Jr., Bing Crosby, Peter Falk, and some of the best songs ever.  If you haven't seen it, set your DVR!

Another favorite, and it's not really a Christmas movie but it feels like one, is The Trouble with Angels.  I found the DVD online, bought it and still haven't watched it.  It's the season -- I better dust it off.

Thanksgiving just isn't Thanksgiving without Brussels sprouts.  What movie makes Christmas feel more like Christmas for you?

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Die Hard.

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You're the sentimental kind, eh dosey?  

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"Ho. Ho. Ho."   Hans Gruber

[dosey]

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@geezerette wrote:

I'm not much for Christmas movies anymore, but I used to like "Holiday Inn" I think it was called--the movie with Bing Crosby, Danny Kaye, Rosemary Clooney and Vera Somebody.  I watched it every year even though it's a musical and I don't usually like musicals.  It had the song "White Christmas" in it, so you'd figure that's what the movie would be called, but nope.

I'm sure there were others I liked, but I can't think of any off the top of my head, or the bottom either, for that matter. 

Nowadays I often will watch the really schmaltzy Hallmark Channel Christmas movies before bed.  I think I've seen most all of them by now, and the acting is terrible in many, but by the end of the day I can't concentrate on much of a storyline anymore anyway. 

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You made me think of a Christmas movie that I am not tired of.  It isn't on very often.  That is probably why I am not tired of it.  It is "The Christmas List" with Mimi Rogers.  Lifetime used to play it.

I might be tired of some of the classics (but still great movies), but I never tire of the animated Christmas specials.  Frosty, Rudolph, Little Drummer Boy, ...  

[just bee]

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@dosey wrote:

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@just bee wrote:

Update!  We got the TV and TV stand out of their boxes last night.

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The TV stand looks kinda cool and the picture on the VIZIO is great.  The downside is that I can see those ASPCA commercials now.

[just bee]

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@dosey wrote:

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@just bee wrote:

I was thinking a little more about favorite Christmas movies and one popped into my head.  I checked TCM's schedule and it will be on Wednesday the 23rd.

Robin and the 7 Hoods

Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Sammy Davis Jr., Bing Crosby, Peter Falk, and some of the best songs ever.  If you haven't seen it, set your DVR!

Another favorite, and it's not really a Christmas movie but it feels like one, is The Trouble with Angels.  I found the DVD online, bought it and still haven't watched it.  It's the season -- I better dust it off.

Thanksgiving just isn't Thanksgiving without Brussels sprouts.  What movie makes Christmas feel more like Christmas for you?

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Die Hard.

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That one always makes the favorite Christmas movie list!  No, seriously!

[Suebdoo]

@just bee I apologize in advance ....but maybe check philosophy site today.  I know you like PG.  I'm sorry for enabling, but didn't know where else to page you.  Btw I'm in ABQ too and looks like more snow might fall.  My yard is still full!!

[just bee]

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@geezerette wrote:

I'm not much for Christmas movies anymore, but I used to like "Holiday Inn" I think it was called--the movie with Bing Crosby, Danny Kaye, Rosemary Clooney and Vera Somebody.  I watched it every year even though it's a musical and I don't usually like musicals.  It had the song "White Christmas" in it, so you'd figure that's what the movie would be called, but nope.

I'm sure there were others I liked, but I can't think of any off the top of my head, or the bottom either, for that matter. 

Nowadays I often will watch the really schmaltzy Hallmark Channel Christmas movies before bed.  I think I've seen most all of them by now, and the acting is terrible in many, but by the end of the day I can't concentrate on much of a storyline anymore anyway. 

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Holiday Inn was actually Bing, Fred Astaire, Marjorie Reynolds and Virginia Dale.  White Christmas was Bing, Danny Kaye, Rosemary Clooney and Vera-Ellen.  These two films have been the root of much Christmas confusion for decades.  But I know White Christmas because I adored Danny Kaye when I was younger.  Memory fails, but I vaguely remember my mother telling a story about meeting Danny Kaye in Chicago.  Somehow my sister was involved.  Ironic that my sister met him because she never liked him much.  Anyway, when I was a kid, they'd run Danny Kaye movies back-to-back on TV.  Not so much anymore.  I guess all the movies I grew up with have been relegated to TCM.

If you like Bing, do watch Robin and the 7 Hoods if you haven't already seen it.  Great songs in that movie.  Totally underrated film.

The Lion in Winter will be on TCM this month, too.  Sunday the 27th after Dr. Zhivago, Wait Until Dark and The Day the Earth Stood Still.  That's a lot of popcorn.  One of the best double features was in the 1970s when I was in high school.  I dragged a guy to the Varsity Theatre in Palo Alto to see Lawrence of Arabia and The Lion in Winter.  Two long films back-to-back.  It was glorious.  My companion almost died.  Alas, the Varsity did die; one of the many theaters of my youth that closed and disappeared.  Like the Granada in Chicago.  I must go weep now.