Tag: Christmas
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John Wayne’s Rare Western Christmas Tale in ‘Three Godfathers’
It’s either the fact that he played a gruff, straight-talking sheriff in almost every film or the fact that each of his western outings seems to take place in the baking hot sun, but John Wayne really doesn’t seem a fan of Christmas. It’s just very difficult to see Ethan Edwards of The Searchers or…
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Christmas Delight: Clint Eastwood’s ‘Richard Jewell’ Takes Center Stage at Warner Bros.”
In the realm of “news that had the gall to break while I was at a press screening,” Warner Bros. has slotted Clint Eastwood’s Richard Jewell for December 13. The picture is another one of Eastwood’s lightning-fast projects, as it essentially didn’t exist (years of development notwithstanding) until April of this year. The drama, starring…
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New York’s Christmas Symphony: Captivated by the 1994 Remake of “Miracle on 34th Street” – A Tale of Holiday Splendor
While in her prime as the Queen of Technicolor, Irish actress Maureen O’Hara was in one of the greatest Christmas movies ever made. It was when watching the 1994 remake of Miracle on 34th Street that I truly fell in love with the enormity that is the holiday season and Christmas in America and in…
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Andy Griffith’s Costly Christmas: Calculating the Price of Love in ‘The Twelve Days of Christmas’ Gifts
“The Twelve Days of Christmas” is, at its heart, a song about someone showing their love through gifts. After all, what’s more romantic than… waterfowl? We’ll take the five golden rings happily, but the lords a-leaping… well, people have given worse gifts. In a 1969 Christmas episode of The Glen Campbell Goodtime Hour, that was…