Celebrating Jimmy Stewart’s 100th Birthday
Posted by Christmas Movie Critic on May 18, 2008 | 0 comments
It seems like only yesterday that we lost Jimmy Stewart. For those of us who love Christmas, Mr. Stewart is frozen in time as George Bailey, in It’s a Wonderful Life. (Click here to read how he remembers It’s a Wonderful Life). Though he left us in 1997 his hometown is remembering him this week...
Microsoft Killed Santa Claus
Posted by elf on May 16, 2008 | 0 comments
Microsoft killed Santa Claus.
Okay, they didn’t kill the real Santa, but an automated Santa chat-bot they had set up last week. The Santa-bot was an agent on their Live Space website and MSN Messenger program. Children could ask Santa some questions and tell him what they wanted for Christmas, and an...
Christmas Film Wraps Up Shooting
Posted by Christmas Movie Critic on May 13, 2008 | 0 comments
After five weeks of principal photography and another devoted to picking up other footage, the cast and crew of the independent drama “Last Ounce of Courage” have headed their separate ways.
But not before giving Paola and Kansas City a thumbs-up for the hospitality and range of locations.
“It’s the...
Mr. T’s Presidential Christmas Memory
Posted by elf on May 10, 2008 | 0 comments
Action hero Mr. T once dressed up as Santa for a meeting with late former U.S.
President Ronald Reagan.
The A-Team star – real name Laurence Tureaud – was invited to meet the late leader and his First Lady Nancy Reagan at Christmas in 1983.
And, despite pleas from his mother to behave himself,...
Christmas Eve 1944
Posted by elf on May 10, 2008 | 0 comments
Two months after March 7, 1945, when American, British and other Allied forces had crossed the Rhine River into Germany, World War II in Europe came to an end. On May 7, 1945, Germany signed an unconditional surrender, which was ratified the next day. May 8, 2008, marks the 63rd anniversary of that victory....
