if it has been awhile since going to christmas show at radio city – I think worth it to try again (probably close to 20 since I last went).
TDF 1/2 price ticket booth is offering tonight.
There is some over-top crass commercialism (CapitalOne bank-ads everywhere) – but I did enjoy it.
Exciting to take my niece (college student) for her 1st time there. Especially since she is very much into dance/choreog).
“Name a Christmas movie that doesn’t glorify the little guy and vilify accomplishment.”
Uh oh, gospels themselves are in a bit of trouble on the OT, too.
benson — I think I largely agree with you [skies part, angels sing, etc.] It’s a Wonderful Life got overexposed when it fell into public domain for a while and aired on local tv 30 times on five stations each december. But I’m with you. It’s really part meditation on karma, and part about moral leadership as you say. Left/right thing is complex — Stewart’s B&L was a private enterprise that leveraged collective action and sought to provide a measure of collective security that was sometiems at odds with its own profit incentive. In the end, Stewart is saved by repayment of the moral capital he invested in the community. You get a glimpse of the town’s debasement that would result from Potter’s rapacious approach to capitalism, so that’s a lefty piece, as well as Potter’s attempt to overreach by the bad faith use of the windfall Stewart left in his lap. But it really is about good deeds, first and foremost.
By more4less on December 22, 2010 2:51 PM
Gov Paterson wants some help paying for his 62k fine for those Yank Tix – ie his campaign fds is running out of dinero
Typical.
if it has been awhile since going to christmas show at radio city – I think worth it to try again (probably close to 20 since I last went).
TDF 1/2 price ticket booth is offering tonight.
There is some over-top crass commercialism (CapitalOne bank-ads everywhere) – but I did enjoy it.
Exciting to take my niece (college student) for her 1st time there. Especially since she is very much into dance/choreog).
Gov Paterson wants some help paying for his 62k fine for those Yank Tix – ie his campaign fds is running out of dinero
I’m not The Marrying Kind.
LMAO, dave!
Says the man who has more action in his Rear Window than Jimmy Stewart.
“Name a Christmas movie that doesn’t glorify the little guy and vilify accomplishment.”
Uh oh, gospels themselves are in a bit of trouble on the OT, too.
benson — I think I largely agree with you [skies part, angels sing, etc.] It’s a Wonderful Life got overexposed when it fell into public domain for a while and aired on local tv 30 times on five stations each december. But I’m with you. It’s really part meditation on karma, and part about moral leadership as you say. Left/right thing is complex — Stewart’s B&L was a private enterprise that leveraged collective action and sought to provide a measure of collective security that was sometiems at odds with its own profit incentive. In the end, Stewart is saved by repayment of the moral capital he invested in the community. You get a glimpse of the town’s debasement that would result from Potter’s rapacious approach to capitalism, so that’s a lefty piece, as well as Potter’s attempt to overreach by the bad faith use of the windfall Stewart left in his lap. But it really is about good deeds, first and foremost.
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I think Jodie Foster has done quite well and very level-headed.
yeah, level headed when she’s muffy diving!!!
*rob*
I think Gran Torino said a lot about modern society. He sure as hell was a Republican, as he is in most all of his films.
haha zing, JB, zing.
Come on, the only reason Jodie Foster hasn’t tried to get with me is that she likes women. Don’t burst my bubble.