HO-HO-HO! Christmas Eve is just 3 weeks away. It’s time to pull out the Holiday videos!

Throughout the rest of the year, I rarely go to any movies or watch much TV. I’m usually too busy being a participant in Life to be a spectator of Life. However, as Christmas nears, one of my Holiday traditions that helps get me in a Holiday mood is to allocate some time to watch some of my favorite Holiday videos. Just as I can never tire of watching the Wizard of Oz (remember when CBS would show it annually in December?), so I never get tired of my annual viewing of How The Grinch Stole Christmas, It’s A Wonderful Life or A Christmas Carol.

Anyone else enjoy watching Holiday videos? If so, what are your favorites?

My library of Holiday videos has grown fairly large, but these are my Top 5, in order.
Let me get my cuppa tea (or hot cider w/ a cinnamon stick) & shortbread biscuits.

5. A Charlie Brown Christmas [That scene where Linus, alone & spotlighted on the empty stage, recites Luke 2:8-14, gets me everytime.]
4. A Christmas Story [Somehow I totally missed this when it first came out, but what a warm, funny film. You’ll shoot yer eye out!]
3. Miracle On 34th Street [A perfectly portrayed tale of the redemption of a cynic. Love the scene where they drag in all the sacks of letters & dump them on the judges desk. And of course the ending is a great little zinger.]
2. It’s A Wonderful Life [It’s a wonderful movie! Hard to believe it was a “flop” when first released. Jimmy Stewart does such an amazing job of acting in this movie, as does the whole cast. Atta boy, Clarence!]
1. A Christmas Carol [The 1951 version with Alastair Sims – and never, never, ever colorized! Noel Langley did a masterful job of translating this literary classic to a screenplay. And Alastair Sims is, to me, the quintessential Scrooge. He gives such a great, nuanced, believable & so very marvelously human performance. In a Holiday season where the destructive effects of greed are so evident, this story has particular relevance!]

As Tiny Tim said, “God bless us, every one!”

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