Merry Christmas to All, & here's to hoping you have or have had a chance to watch It's a Wonderful Life. Truly, we have much for which to be grateful.
The following is from a 12-24-04 post:
One of the most popular American films of all-time and a perennial holiday favorite, It's a Wonderful Life, was not a huge hit with either critics or audiences when it debuted in December 1946. But it was nominated for five Academy Awards, including Best Picture, Best Actor (Jimmy Stewart), and Best Director (Frank Capra).
After slipping quickly into obscurity, it began appearing on television occasionally in the late 1950s. But when the film's copyright lapsed in 1973, It's a Wonderful Life quickly became a staple of American TV programming between Thanksgiving and Christmas and belatedly earned its rightful place in the lexicon of American popular culture.
And a staple it has been at our family and probably yours over the holidays for years.
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Who wants someone telling them how to raise their kids or suggesting what to do over the holidays? Maybe on the latter, if you're in New York City, sure.
Regardless, I'm am going to do it. Watch this movie if you get a chance, and watch it with family and friends.
God put each of us here for a special reason, and this classic helps put this in perspective. And if you need to be reminded just how much family and friends mean, watch the movie with them. It will bring tears to all eyes.
To all my friends, both old and you new ones whom I met this year, whether on the road or on the Web, and whether liberal, conservative, red, blue, pro-life, pro-choice, purple, urban, exurban, rural, living in Georgia or the Other Georgia, or like me, a little bit of and mixture of all of the foregoing and primarily a Georgian and proud of it, know that I love you and appreciate you.
And to my Republican and Independent friends, here's to suggesting that Richard Cohen was right when he says "[a] little bourbon would do wonders for our dysfunctional government." Anyway, we can at least think about his words of wisdom as we spike our eggnog with a little along with some freshly ground nutmeg.
This will be my only Christmas message, but truly, is this a great country or what!
God Bless America!!
One of the most popular American films of all-time and a perennial holiday favorite, It's a Wonderful Life, was not a huge hit with either critics or audiences when it debuted in December 1946. But it was nominated for five Academy Awards, including Best Picture, Best Actor (Jimmy Stewart), and Best Director (Frank Capra).
After slipping quickly into obscurity, it began appearing on television occasionally in the late 1950s. But when the film's copyright lapsed in 1973, It's a Wonderful Life quickly became a staple of American TV programming between Thanksgiving and Christmas and belatedly earned its rightful place in the lexicon of American popular culture.
And a staple it has been at our family and probably yours over the holidays for years.
_______________
Who wants someone telling them how to raise their kids or suggesting what to do over the holidays? Maybe on the latter, if you're in New York City, sure.
Regardless, I'm am going to do it. Watch this movie if you get a chance, and watch it with family and friends.
God put each of us here for a special reason, and this classic helps put this in perspective. And if you need to be reminded just how much family and friends mean, watch the movie with them. It will bring tears to all eyes.
To all my friends, both old and you new ones whom I met this year, whether on the road or on the Web, and whether liberal, conservative, red, blue, pro-life, pro-choice, purple, urban, exurban, rural, living in Georgia or the Other Georgia, or like me, a little bit of and mixture of all of the foregoing and primarily a Georgian and proud of it, know that I love you and appreciate you.
And to my Republican and Independent friends, here's to suggesting that Richard Cohen was right when he says "[a] little bourbon would do wonders for our dysfunctional government." Anyway, we can at least think about his words of wisdom as we spike our eggnog with a little along with some freshly ground nutmeg.
This will be my only Christmas message, but truly, is this a great country or what!
God Bless America!!
posted by Sid Cottingham | 5:31 PM
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