[Blindtlk] Christmas Movies

[Chris Danielsen]

Actually, I could be wrong, but I think it was his toady Grover Dill that 
had green teeth.

Chris

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Mike Freeman" <k7uij at panix.com>
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Sent: Sunday, November 26, 2006 11:55 PM
Subject: Re: [Blindtlk] Christmas Movies


> You forgot that Scott Farcas had green teeth! <g>
>
> Mike
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Chris Danielsen" <cdanielsen1 at comcast.net>
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> Sent: Saturday, November 25, 2006 10:30 PM
> Subject: Re: [Blindtlk] Christmas Movies
>
>
> When I was a kid, my favorite Christmas special was the Jim Henson 
> creation
> Emmet Otter's Jugband Christmas. I just looked online and it's now 
> available
> on DVD, so I may have to pick it up. I've read that it's not the best Jim
> Henson production from a technical standpoint, but I always thought the
> story was nice and the songs were great. I watch gene Shepherd's A 
> Christmas
> Story every year at least once, and it never fails to make me laugh, 
> never.
> I don't even mind the reference to blindness, because it's so obviously
> intended to be melodramatic. 'so many great lines: Randy in the snow suit
> screaming "I can't put my arms down!"; Ralphie's dad (Darren McGavin 
> should
> have won an Oscar) reading the label on the crate containing his "major
> award": "Fra-gee-lay! Must be Italian!" and on seeing Ralphie's horrid 
> bunny
> suit from his Aunt Clara: "He looks like a deranged Easter bunny."; and of
> course Gene Shepherd's hilarious narration throughout: "Schwartz committed 
> a
> slight breach of etiquette by skipping the triple dare and going directly
> for the throat!" and regarding the bully Scott Farcas: "He had yellow 
> eyes!
> So help me God, yellow eyes!" I also love It's a Wonderful Life, and not
> just because of its Christmassy ending but because it's terrifically acted
> throughout and confronts hardship and fear and George Bailey's resentment 
> at
> being stuck in his hometown  in a realistic way but still ends on a
> life-affirming note. In fact, the ending is all the more special when you
> realize how dark the rest of the movie is. Okay, enough from me.
>
> Chris
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Sherry Gomes" <sherriola at earthlink.net>
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> Sent: Sunday, November 26, 2006 12:56 AM
> Subject: Re: [Blindtlk] Christmas Movies
>
>
>>I have the original 1951 version on DVD. the one I want to find is the one
>> called American Christmas carol, set during the depression, with Henry
>> Winkler playing Benedict slade, the scrooge character.  I like that one
>> very
>> much.  Last year I asked all my friends who were curious about Christmas
>> wishes to give me Christmas movies, and I got a slew of them.  All the
>> Bing
>> Crosby ones, the Gene Shepherd Christmas story, the classic cartoons,
>> Rudolph, Santa and Frosty, the original Christmas carol, and something
>> else.
>> It's about time to dig them out and have a marathon.  They are all on 
>> DVD,
>> and none have DVS, but I don't really care much for DVS, unless I can 
>> turn
>> it off, and I know most of those movies far too well.
>>
>> Sherry
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: blindtlk-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:blindtlk-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
>> Behalf Of Brian Miller
>> Sent: Saturday, November 25, 2006 8:40 PM
>> To: NFBnet Blind Talk Mailing List
>> Subject: Re: [Blindtlk] Christmas Movies
>>
>> I remember the George C. Scott version from when I was in London in 1985.
>> I
>> was there over Christmas, waiting for a ski trip to Austria to begin, and
>> I
>> was sick as a dog.
>>
>> The hotel I was staying in had only a few TV channels, and as I was too
>> sick
>> to go anywhere for a solid 24 hours, I watched the channel with the 
>> George
>> C. Scott version of A Christmas Carole about a hundred times.  I was
>> fevered
>> and kind of out of it -- a very surreal experience.
>>
>> I also really like the Muppett Christmas Carole with Michael Cain -- very
>> funny, and not too far from the original, actually.
>>
>> Brian  M
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Peter Donahue" <pdonahue1 at sbcglobal.net>
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>> Sent: Saturday, November 25, 2006 4:58 PM
>> Subject: [Blindtlk] Christmas Movies
>>
>>
>>> Hello Ray and  listers,
>>>
>>> We have that version in our video collection too. It's considered to be
>> the
>>> classic version of A Christmas Carol for the reasons you gave. We were
>> drawn
>>> to the 1984 version starring George C. Scott from having seen it on
>>> television, and by being able to purchase it with DVS. If it's not the
>> most
>>> faithful to the book it's a close second.
>>>
>>> Peter Donahue----- Original Message ----- 
>>> From: "Ray Foret Jr." <rforetjr at bellsouth.net>
>>> To: "NFBnet Blind Talk Mailing List" <blindtlk at nfbnet.org>
>>> Sent: Saturday, November 25, 2006 5:59 PM
>>> Subject: Re: [Blindtlk] Christmas questions
>>>
>>>
>>> Got news for y'all.  There is no more accurate interpretation of the
>>> story
>>> "A Christmas Carol" than the 1951 movie version which stars Allister 
>>> Sims
>> as
>>> Scrooge.  That version is the most faithful to the book which there ever
>>> was.  There has never been a better version before or since.
>>>
>>> Sincerely yours,
>>> The Constantly Barefooted,
>>> Ray
>>> Home phone and fax:
>>> (985)853-0139
>>> E-mail:
>>> rforetjr at bellsouth.net
>>> Skype Name:
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>>>
>>> God bless President George W. Bush!
>>> God bless our troops!
>>> and God bless America
>>> ----- Original Message ----- 
>>> From: "Peter Donahue" <pdonahue1 at sbcglobal.net>
>>> To: "NFBnet Blind Talk Mailing List" <blindtlk at nfbnet.org>
>>> Sent: Saturday, November 25, 2006 5:32 PM
>>> Subject: Re: [Blindtlk] Christmas questions
>>>
>>>
>>> Hello Judy  and listers,
>>>
>>>     And don't forget to gather the family around the radio, or the home
>>> theater to listen to the Campbell Playhouse's Production of A Christmas
>>> Carol starring Orson Wells, and Lionel Barrymore. As for the film side 
>>> of
>>> Christmas there's Miracle On 34th Street, A Christmas Carol starring
>> George
>>> C. Scott as Scrooge, and It's a Wonderful Life with none other than 
>>> Jimmy
>>> Stewart as George Bailey, and Lionel Barrymore as the villainous Mr.
>>> Henry
>>> S. Potter. We'll be watching It's A Wonderful Life later tonight as I
>>> just
>>> bought it on DVD this afternoon. In the animation department How the
>> Grinch
>>> Stold Christmas stands head and shoulders above them all with Rudolph 
>>> the
>>> Red Nosed Reindeer, (The 1964 version) by it's side.  Concerning recent
>>> Christmas movies The Polar Express will be chugging in to an I-Max
>>> theater
>>> near you soon if it's not there all ready. We're anticipating the launch
>> of
>>> The Nativity Story and plan to see it once it begins playing. It's
>> supposed
>>> to begin playing in theaters on December First. A wonderful topic for a
>>> future Christmas film would be one about a little known event that
>> occurred
>>> during World War I; the Christmas Truce of 1914. The History Channel
>>> produced a documentary about it, but it would be a great topic for a
>>> full-length holiday movie.
>>>
>>> Peter Donahue
>>>
>>>
>>> ----- Original Message ----- 
>>> From: "Judy Jones" <nfbwatac at earthlink.net>
>>> To: "NFBnet Blind Talk Mailing List" <blindtlk at nfbnet.org>
>>> Sent: Saturday, November 25, 2006 4:55 PM
>>> Subject: Re: [Blindtlk] Christmas questions
>>>
>>>
>>> Hi, Kasondra and list,
>>>
>>> Another thing we do is--Chris and I are Oldtime radio fanatics, and each
>>> year we listen to The Cinnamon Bear.  You can download at www.rusc.com.
>>> There may be other places, too, am not sure.  However, it's a kids 
>>> serial
>>> that was first aired in 1937, and you listen to an episode a day, which
>>> finishes on Christmas Eve.
>>>
>>> I'll admit it, it's easy to be a kid at heart around Christmas.
>>>
>>> Judy
>>>
>>> ----- Original Message ----- 
>>> From: "Kasondra Payne" <Kassyp36 at msn.com>
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>>> Sent: Saturday, November 25, 2006 1:22 PM
>>> Subject: Re: [Blindtlk] Christmas questions
>>>
>>>
>>> >I love Christmas!  We play Christmas music and do all the usual things.
>> We
>>> > can't use real trees because my husband, Shawn, is allergic to pine
>>> > needles.
>>> > We have a tree that we usually put up.  We put the ornaments up, and
>> tell
>>> > the stories of how we got each one.  Two of my children are blind, and
>>> > I
>>> > want both of them to fully experience the holiday season.  I always
>> have,
>>> > and there is no reason  why blindness should limit a persons joy in
>>> > this
>>> > season.
>>> >
>>> > Kasondra Payne
>>> >
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