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I wonder if Uncle Hank, Aunt Peggy and Bobby attended.

I’m sure Lucky was there.

Hello,

Slumdog Millionaire is an awesome movie!

I love Freida Pinto, she is very talented and cute!

Off Topic! Sorry!

i was searching for news,online about her, came up with this :
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If you know more, pm me! thanks a lot!

keep up the good work with the pics!

She also performed for our troops with the uso

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Along with White Christmas,

the best Christmas movies:

IT’S A WONDERFUL LIFE

1946 movie starring James Stewart and Donna Reed.

Can you believe America’s favorite Christmas movie was actually a box-office flop at the time of its release? (It was James Stewart’s favorite, too)
It only became the Christmas movie classic in the 1970s due to repeated television showings at Christmas-time when its copyright protection slipped and it fell into the public domain in 1974 and TV stations could air it for free.

This film has become a Christmas tradition in my family. We watch it every year and never tire of it. Frank Capra is a master of creating films with a message that reinforce strong values. This is probably his greatest film in that regard. Both he and Stewart have publicly stated that this is their favorite film.

The message in this film is one of courage and sacrifice for the greater good as George Bailey, a man with big ideas about seeing the world, continually forsakes his own desires to do what is right for the town. The second message is that each life important. No matter how insignificant we feel we are, we are all inextricably linked to each other and play an important part in the fabric of one another’s lives.

Capra’s direction is brilliant. His genius is bringing human stories to life in a ways that not only make a point, but that totally involve the audience in the lives of the characters. He is always extremely optimistic about the human condition. He is known for testing his characters with overwhelming adversity to make them struggle to triumph in a way that causes the world to change and the character to grow. For this reason his films were always crowd pleasers and this film was the best of all in that regard.

Led by Capra’s understanding hand, the actors all did a magnificent job. Stewart’s wide-eyed enthusiasm and boyish charm, coupled with an unbending strength of character made him the perfect folk hero. Donna Reed was lovely and charming and attained the right balance between being supportive and inspirational. The romantic chemistry between her and Stewart was subtle and charming. Lionel Barrymore was towering as the greedy old skinflint who was trying to take over the town. Thomas Mitchell plays one of my favorite characters, as the bumbling Uncle Billy in probably his most memorable role.

It’s a Wonderful Life was nominated for five academy awards and won none.
History has corrected that minor injustice by rendering `It’s a Wonderful Life’ an enduring classic that is viewed and loved by generation after generation.

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THE BISHOP’S WIFE

1948 Starring Cary Grant, Loretta Young and David Niven.

This little known Christmas film is a gem that I discovered quite by accident some years ago.

Here is the magnificent Cary Grant in all of his charm, wit, and charisma. Endowed by heavenly powers, he bestows his angelic persona upon a small town bishop who is overwhelmed by his mis-guided quest to build a magnificent “earthly” cathedral to glorify God. (Dudley is an angel sent to the bishop in answer to his prayers)
In frustration at the difficulty in building this false edification to God, he prays to God for guidance. The bishop’s prayers are answered in the form of “Dudley”, as Cary’s angelic character in called. Things began to heat up as the Bishop is jealous of Dudley as he thinks his wife is falling in love with him.

Dudley proceeds to weave a spell over a whole cast of wonderful characters to remind them of the true meaning of Christmas. This charming Christmas fantasy truly warms the heart and kindles the soul.

David Niven plays the perfect foil for Cary’s assignment of “answering the bishop’s prayers”. Loretta Young’s charming demeanor as the bishops devoted, but neglected wife, distracts Cary (”Dudley”)from his primary mission, and leads the audience on a heart warming journey through small town America at mid 20th century, during a memorable Christmas season.

It’s a charming movie that has lots of holiday atmosphere. Boys choirs singing, park skaters skating, city shoppers shopping... Only a scrooge wouldn’t like this movie!

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CHRISTMAS IN CONNECTICUT

1945 Starring Barbara Stanwyck, Dennis Morgan
and a wonderful cast of characters

Barbara Stanwyck is a sheer delight in this wartime comedy, about a sailor invited to spend Christmas with a popular magazine writer’s family, at her farm in Connecticut.
The problem is she has no husband, baby, or farm, as she writes about in her column, and she can’t even cook. Her wonderful recipes being provided for her by her good friend “ Uncle” Felix, owner of a Hungarian restaurant in New York City.

Things get even more complicated when her strict publisher boss invites himself along for Christmas. A scheme is hastily planned, with her stuffy fiancé providing an actual Connecticut farm, neighbors providing a borrowed baby, and a quick wedding planned when the publisher isn’t looking. But when the handsome young sailor arrives on Christmas Eve, romantic complications ensue, as the supposedly married author falls like a ton of bricks for the nice guy Navy man and vice versa.

This is a charming, warm film that deftly balances humor with sentiment and is a wonderful showcase for Barbara Stanwyck to display her considerable comedic talent, aided by such marvelous character actors as Sydney Greenstreet, Una O’Connor, S.Z.Sakall, and many others.
This is all set in a snow covered farm in Conneticut with sleigh rides, Christmas dances and the whole bit.
Wonderful film!!

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LITTLE WOMEN

1949 Technicolor Starring June Allyson, Elizabeth Taylor, Janet Leigh, Margaret O’Brien, Peter Lawford, Rossano Brazzi, Mary Astor and a cast of wonderful characters.

The opening scenes of Little Women are so beautifully captured on film that it looks almost like a Currier and Ives post card. It is so magically evocative of a New England in the early 1860’s that the viewer is transported to that time visually and emotionally.
The characters are so well crafted, warm and human that you truly wish you knew them. The way the movie glides through the season’s, from the deep snows of winter, to the bright flowers of spring, through the summer into the golden hues of autumn each season is so wonderfully captured that viewers one hundred years from now will feel that they time tripped to that age so long ago.

With the brutal civil war as the backdrop to the play, the movie tells the sensitive and gentle story of four young sister’s on the homefront. Each sister is defined and likeable. Brought to life brilliently by June Allyson, Janet Leigh, Elizabeth Taylor and Margaret O’Brien. Each actress captured fully the innocents, decency and depth of their roles, imprinting forever the definitive characterizations that would have made Louisa May Alcott proud.
I love this most beautiful work of cinematic art so much that I never tire of watching it. It is a treat for the eyes, the heart and the soul and at the end when the camera pans back to view the sky festooned with a glorious rainbow your emotions leap for joy that a movie can so utterly express the simple elegance of human decency and goodness.

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(Sigh) They just don’t make movies like those any more.

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So sad. While I don’t wish ill on anyone, I don’t get too emotional about most celebrity deaths (i.e. Michael Jackson). But I always liked Brittany. She wasn’t another vapid pretty-girl actress - she seemed to have a kind of sweetness about her, and a certain spark. I’m sad that we’ve lost her and will pray for her family.

George Gimball (real name). I rememeber him at WFIL in Phaildelphia during the Sixties.

Though Michael was made obsolete with the increasing success of ESPN's SportsCenter program, many of the things pioneered on the George Michael Sports Machine show became de rigueur on SportsCenter.

He will be missed.

It’s just awful for a family to be holding a funeral on Christmas Eve. May God bless them through this time.

A small funeral for the family is probably the best anyone could do for them in their time of grief. I just hope the news people stay away.

May God rest Ms. Murphy’s soul and give comfort and support to her family and friends.

it breaks my heart regardless of situation.

Bye Ramen Girl.

What a shame, such a beautiful woman.

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