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Following up on the song thread:

My all time favorite movie as a kid was always Mr Magoo's Christmas Carol...finally someone in the family found a copy on VHS {recently saw a CD version advertised on the back of Lays potato chip bag!!! Smile

As the 2nd oldest of 9 kids, we never really had any traditions - with my 3 kids, if something happened ONCE, it became a tradition. One of the many we have now adopted is watching Mr Magoo on Christmas Eve.

With that in mind, excepting Miracle on 34th Street, The Grinch, Charie Brown, etc, my list of favorites:

1) Mr Magoo
2) Scrooged [Bill Murray]
3) Jack Frost [Michael Keaton]
4) Frosty the Snowman [always been a sucker for Burl Ives!!]

as with most topics on this wonderful web site, I suspect that NO ONE will have any comments or additions!! Big Grin

Mr Magoo's Christmas Carol
Of all the things I've lost in life, I miss my mind the most!
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Our Christmas Eve tradition is watching our all-time favorite Christmas movie.....A Christmas Story (you'll shoot your eye out! Wink). Also, we always eat take-out Chinese on Christmas eve spread out on the coffee table in front of the tv watching the movie. Why? Because one of our favorite scenes is the last one where they all wind up in the Chinese restaurant with the Chinese staff singing "Deck the Halls with Boughs of Horry....Fa ra ra ra ra, ra ra ra ra" Big Grin
You stole all my thunder windmill. Mr Magoo is a classic. The other one I never miss is Rudolph with Burl Ives as the snowman. In fact, I see one of the songs from there made Bullwinkle's song list. Of course the animated version of the Grinch with Boris Karloff is on my list as well.

As for actual movies, It's a Wonderful Life with James Stewart, Walton's Family Christmas (where John Boy gets his writing paper), and the many film versions of the Christmas Carol come to mind.
"Christmas Vacation" gets the vote of my son and me.....but......"Christmas Story" gets my husband's vote....he can relate to Ralphie and the BB gun......when he was Ralphie's age...he got the longed for BB gun.....thanks to his Grandma....he wiped out the windows in his Uncle's truck.....and a few other panes of glass....here and there...and along the way....
Love that movie, Christmas Story. Remember the tongue stuck to the pole, my youngest did that while we were living in Minnesota, but noooo not outdoors like you would think but indoors at the grand opening of a new gourmet market, he was just kneehigh and while I was standing looking in the freezer with the door open, out came the tongue Razz and the rest is just like the movie...................it still makes me cringe.......... through this I did learn that the tongue is the fastest part on the body to heal, thank goodness..

(sidenote to this story/movie is I have a husband w/1 eye but it wasn't a bbgun but another childhood accident, so that part of the movie also hits home, in a round about way Wink)

Second Favorite: Christmas Vacation and just this past Thanksgiving my family got a laugh about that one when my mom baked the film cover into her cheesecake, it reminded us of the Jello and Cat Food from that movie.... Boy do I need to get a new family......

Third Favorite: White Christmas.........every minute of that movie!!!!!!!!!!!!! Esp. the song "We'll follow the old man" and of course Bing Crosby singing White Christmas......
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lafmom....

I laugh just thinking about the kid being "triple-dog dared" to stick his tongue on the lamp post! Eek BUT.....LOVE the leg lamp even more...especially the box when it arrives and the dad saying "FraGILee" instead of "Fragile"! I saw one of those lamps for sale in a catalogue recently....ALMOST purchased it for my son's college apartment....but the cost was too much to justify it being a "joke". Smile
I agree with Coach Merc --- It's A Wonderful Life and Miracle on 34th ST (ONLY the originals). I can tune in for the last 10 minutes of Wonderful Life and tear up. (And you all know that movie is where Sesame St's Bert & Ernie got their names.)

And one of my first bits of 'decorating' whenever we move house is to put my old cane next to the fireplace in honor of 34th Street.
Cong:

That picture,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,the memories............................................................................I will let you know that when the tongue gets stuck like that use water to pull it off, didn't know that when it happened to my son, he just yanked it off, I heard that same blood curling scream like in the movie and I just won't go into anymore description than that, it was just GROSS...........
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Cong:

That picture,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,the memories............................................................................I will let you know that when the tongue gets stuck like that use water to pull it off, didn't know that when it happened to my son, he just yanked it off, I heard that same blood curling scream like in the movie and I just won't go into anymore description than that, it was just GROSS...........


All this talk... I decided to spend the afternoon with my Brother and we watched "A Christmas Story"

Always a great time!
Christmas Vacation is one I watch every year. This yr my husband and I watched Christmas with the Kranks. My husband had to smile 'cause he could relate to Tim Allen. He's wanted to skip out on Christmas for so many yrs. He's a UPS driver and alot of those guys detest the Christmas season and all the extra hours. Usually get home in time for bed and get up to do it all over again in the morning.
I will never ever watch the Christmas Movie again. If that kid was mine, I'd have to shoot myself! Cannot even stand the commercials for it.
In the past, I remember luvbb talking about "Christmas Story" and didn't know which it was. Saw it last week and am still laughing ... I loved the scene where the dogs run thru the house and destroy the turkey that the dad has tried all day to eat. And of course the BB gun scene when Ralphie thinks he has actually shot his own eye out.

So now Christmas Story is on my top 3 list ... my two favorites ... probably tied for first ... are "The Santa Clause" (I love the North Pole scenes and almost feel like a little kid again with the "wonderment") and "Christmas Vacation" (can Julia Louis-Dreyfus be any funnier in her snobbery or Randy Quaid any more trailer-trashy?)
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1. "It's a Wonderful Life" - Jimmy Stewart was such a great actor. Did he ever do a bad movie?
2. "The Bishop's Wife" - the Cary Grant, Loretta Young & David Niven classic, NOT the Denzel Washington remake. Cary Grant's portrayal of an angel answering a prayer is timeless.
3. "Christmas Story" - Got the BB gun but did not shoot any eyes out.
4. "Mr. Magoo's Christmas Carol" - there are many good versions, and some lousy versions of Christmas Carol, but Magoo got it right.
Wow, I thought I was the only one who even remembered Mr. Magoo's Christmas Carol, let alone watch it. I have it taped on VHS from about 10 yrs ago and just watched it the other night! It aired locally the same day as the Cleveland Browns played their last game in Cleve. before the Grinch shipped them off to Baltimore. I have part of the news on the tape.
That movie is definitely my favorite along with White Christmas (Holiday Inn) with Bing Crosby and Danny Kaye.
Krakatoa;

Ah, yes....the leaner years...so, so many pounds ago.

Remember those 'flocked' trees? Most of them looked like they started with the culls, or threadbare trees with the wimpy limbs, and then worked them over with a vapor locked cotton-candy machine.

They came in all sorts of sugary shades of pastel...and then to 'out do' the neighbors some people spotlighted their 'tree' with a multi-colored wheel. Marshall Field and his Christmas window dressers had nothing on some of these families...

My wife just came home with a ceramic version of the scene depicted in your post...the detail is incredible...Linus' blue blanket in one hand and his other hand has his thumb in his mouth. The orange and magenta trees in the background, Charlie Brown with that anemic, mangy tree losing its needles. You've gotta love him!


My favorite Christmas movie would have to be 'Oh Brother Where Art Thou?'. You've got your three wise men, a few manger scenes (albeit mostly in flames), the sultry sirens, a prophet on a hand car, some young folks singing, gifts of frankincense and myrrh (aka Dapper Dan's Hair Pomade), not quite Moses and the Red Sea but a pretty good flood scene nonetheless...
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