IT'S STARTING, WATCHING CHRISTMAS MOVIES

I just watched my first Christmas movie of the season, One Special Night (1999) with James Garner and Julie Andrews. I found it on YouTube, and this was the third time I've seen it.

A few days later, my wife Holly and I watched one of our favorite Christmas movies, Christmas in Connecticut.

It's the day after Thanksgiving, and we watched Miracle on 34th Street and Christmas Mountain (one of our new favorites). And I watched The Christmas Gift (with John Denver).

 

Oh, and Holly and I just watched another favorite, The Bishop's Wife. Cary Grant made a great angel.

I just watched one of my favorite Christmas movies, The Santa Clause 2, and I'm beginning another favorite, It Happened on 5th Avenue. The latter isn't famous, but I love it. Interestingly, Michael O'Connor lives in New York, but he spends Christmas in Bubbling Springs, Va. Their in-movie map shows that town, and it happens to be in the same area where I was born, Hot Springs, Va.

With any luck, we'll watch many more movies by Christmas.

UPDATE: I'm watching The Blessed Midnight (1956), featuring Francis Bavier (Aunt Bee on The Andy Griffith Show).

I'm also watching Star in the Night (1945), featuring J. Carrol Naish.

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A FLOOD OF CHRISTMAS MOVIES

Normally, I haven't watched all of my usual Christmas movies by this time. This year, I've been tearing through Christmas movies.

With my wife Holly or alone, I've already watched White Christmas, Christmas in Connecticut, Miracle on 34th Street, Small-Town Santa, Santa Clause 2, It's a Wonderful Life, The Bishop's Wife (one I hadn't seen in years) and an unknown called Christmas Mountain (it's actually pretty good). Oh, we also watched It Happened on Fifth Avenue.

Holly also watched Elliot, the Littlest Reindeer.

For some reason, I have no desire to watch Holiday Inn or A Christmas Story. I haven't seen either movie in years.

(My wife's watching Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer as I write this.)

P.S.: We watched Christmas Mountain a second time. The first time, I wondered why the cowboy was heading back to Texas at the end of the movie. The second time, I realized he wanted to return the money he'd taken from Old Man Wills. It fit the storyline perfectly.

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• Resume for a writer and editor

• An editor's views on powerful writing

• Advice for be and would-be novelists

• Links to TG's stories online

• Favorite quotes

• What I do when I'm editing

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• Wipeout at Death Valley

• Days with rainbows

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• Yer OUTTA there!

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• You really DO need an editor

• Reminders for would-be novelists

• What I do when I'm editing

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• Slogging through the Internet

• J-school: More eyes on your stories

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• ... said the spider to ...

• The Dog Diary (2014)

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• What Lady and Michael Jackson had in common

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• Then Junior Said to Jeff...

(the book of great NASCAR stories)

• My best day as a sports writer

• Jeff Gordon's milk toast to Dale Earnhardt

• Wayne Auton: A life in racing