So, if you ask people for their favorite Christmas movies, almost all of them would say White Christmas, Elf, Christmas Vacation, or A Christmas Story [previously].
Here’s a list of movies from IMDB which mention Christmas in the film’s descriptions, ranked by the number of votes the movie received from the IMDB community.
Films you might not have considered include the Godfather, 1941, Gremlins, Lethal Weapon, and both the first Rocky and Rambo!
I’m not quite sure how I missed this being as it was everywhere circa early-March on plenty of sites I frequent like BoingBoing, AVClub, and WaPo.
It appears that Topher Grace [IMDB] took the three Star Wars prequels, a smattering of content from other sources like the Clone Wars animated series, an audio book, and the original trilogy, and ruthlessly excised superfluous content, distilling the 7-hour opus into a concise 85-minutes.
SlashFilm’s Peter Sciretta details the edits. The explanation leads one to believe that Grace trimmed the fat while leaving the meat on the bone, whereas Lucas continually packed both trilogies with increasing amounts of ‘pink slime’, to the extent that the original theater releases of the original trilogy cannot be purchased.
This year, the answer is YES. Also, read what I wrote in 2005 on the origins of mummering.
There’s a lot of ammo in this NY Mag piece to take down the fragile Fox Family from Roger Ailes to Rupert Murdoch to the rivalries and animosities of the on-air talent.
FOX and Friends recently indicated that a USATODAY poll found that 61% of Americans supported stripping collective bargaining rights from public employees.
During the discussion, Fox host Brian Kilmeade asked pro-labor guest Robert Zimmerman if President Obama was taking a “big risk” by opposing Walker’s law. Zimmerman responded by saying that Obama was speaking “for the mainstream of our country, and the mainstream of Republican governors who are not siding with Governor Walker.” Kilmeade responded by saying, “I think Gallup, a relatively mainstream poll, has a differing view. And here’s the question that was posed. Do you favor or disfavor of taking away collective bargaining when it comes to salaries for government workers. 66 percent in favor, 33 percent opposed, 9 percent up in the air.
Imagine my surprise when I found that the polls said not such thing:
Americans strongly oppose laws taking away the collective bargaining power of public employee unions, according to a new USA TODAY/Gallup Poll. The poll found 61% would oppose a law in their state similar to such a proposal in Wisconsin, compared with 33% who would favor such a law.
Wisconsin teachers were right (and Bill O’Reilly wrong) when they chanted “FOX LIES!”
It appears that FOXNEWS CEO Roger Ailes will have his own problems with the truth:
“It was an incendiary allegation — and a mystery of great intrigue in the media world: After the publishing powerhouse Judith Regan was fired by HarperCollins in 2006, she claimed that a senior executive at its parent company, News Corporation, had encouraged her to lie two years earlier to federal investigators who were vetting Bernard B. Kerik for the job of homeland security secretary . . .
Now, court documents filed in a lawsuit make clear whom Ms. Regan was accusing of urging her to lie: Roger E. Ailes, the powerful chairman of Fox News and a longtime friend of Mr. Giuliani. What is more, the documents say that Ms. Regan taped the telephone call from Mr. Ailes in which Mr. Ailes discussed her relationship with Mr. Kerik.”
Barry Rhitoltz believes Ailes may be indicted as early as this week.
Glenn Beck is gonna need a bigger blackboard.