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Holiday entertainment
Nov. 28th, 2005 03:02 pmI haven't had time to watch the shows in years, but for those with children, or who need some nostalgia, here's the news.
Holiday Specials
Good grief, network executives said when they first saw Charles Schulz's "A Charlie Brown Christmas."
"They thought it was too slow," executive producer Lee Mendelson recalls being told by the powers-that-were at CBS in 1965.
But the special was an instant hit with critics and audiences. Forty years later, its ruminations on the spirit of Christmas, backed by a lilting jazz score by Vince Guaraldi, remain fresh and affecting.
"A Charlie Brown Christmas," directed by animator Bill Melendez, airs 8 p.m. Tuesday, Dec. 6, on ABC.
[snip!]
"Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer," 8 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 30, CBS.
So where is the Claymation Christmas and the animated Grinch? I also loved some of the music in Mr. Magoo's Christmas Carole Lite. I mention these because I realized once that I could watch the growth of my emotional maturity by gauging how I responded to how Rudolph was mistreated by the others and Santa. I went from the awe of a small child soaking it up like a fairy tale, to a teen who had no use for it because Santa was prejudiced, to a young adult who was willing to cut Santa some slack for a bad call, to now, where I return to Story....
Do you have anything that you've used as a marker like that? Book, movie, animation? Even a play or a song might do it--
Holiday Specials
Good grief, network executives said when they first saw Charles Schulz's "A Charlie Brown Christmas."
"They thought it was too slow," executive producer Lee Mendelson recalls being told by the powers-that-were at CBS in 1965.
But the special was an instant hit with critics and audiences. Forty years later, its ruminations on the spirit of Christmas, backed by a lilting jazz score by Vince Guaraldi, remain fresh and affecting.
"A Charlie Brown Christmas," directed by animator Bill Melendez, airs 8 p.m. Tuesday, Dec. 6, on ABC.
[snip!]
"Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer," 8 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 30, CBS.
So where is the Claymation Christmas and the animated Grinch? I also loved some of the music in Mr. Magoo's Christmas Carole Lite. I mention these because I realized once that I could watch the growth of my emotional maturity by gauging how I responded to how Rudolph was mistreated by the others and Santa. I went from the awe of a small child soaking it up like a fairy tale, to a teen who had no use for it because Santa was prejudiced, to a young adult who was willing to cut Santa some slack for a bad call, to now, where I return to Story....
Do you have anything that you've used as a marker like that? Book, movie, animation? Even a play or a song might do it--
