Monday: A Charlie Brown Christmas
Oh, what can we say? It’s perfect. Perfect! The Peanuts gang shows us every possible way to screw up the holiday: Snoopy decorates his dog house like it’s Atlantic City; Sally asks Santa to send cash money; Charlie Brown, that blockhead, mopes, sulks, overanalyzes, expects too much, and then settles Read More
Most eighties comedies don’t snare us like they used to. We can flip past Ferris Bueller’s Day Off or Stand by Me and not lose our whole afternoon. But there are certain movies that still grab hold, every time, like Tootsie (HDNetM, Saturday, 2:15 p.m.).
Tootsie is one of the great actors’ showcases. Everybody in Read More
Because of the asinine way holiday movies are programmed, tomorrow night’s probably your only chance to watch White Christmas (Lifetime, 9 p.m.). For anyone keeping count: that’s forty-eight hours after Thanksgiving dinner, about sixteen days until a weather report predicts white snow or unseasonal warmth on Christmas morning, and twenty-six days before meteorologists are proven Read More
Jimmy Stewart never struck us as all that nice. There were, sure, the poems he’d read about pints of milk or his dog named Beau on Johnny Carson. (Sample verse: "He bit lots of folks from day to day,/ The delivery boy was his favorite prey.") But that was when he was so old Read More
Save your pennies, skip Film Forum and watch our classic pick on TV!
The Miracle of Morgan’s Creek (TCM, Sunday, 10:15 am) was the Juno of 1944. The full plot summary would require thousands of confusing words so let’s try long story short: Small town Trudy loves soldiers, which is why, the morning after Read More
Everybody learns to write by ripping off their heroes. I learned to write reviews by ripping off John Leonard, who died last night. I still carry his books around and study them on long subway rides, like Orthodox Jews with their miniature copies of the Torah. I got pretty good at aping his funny, involuted Read More
Ohio goes for Obama. People lose their minds:
Mark Halperin on The Page: THE NETWORKS WON’T TELL YOU BUT THE PAGE WILL: BARACK OBAMA WILL BE THE 44TH PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES.
Nate Silver, on Fivethirtyeight.com: “!”
Andrew Sullivan: This is Obama’s achievement; but it is also Karl Rove’s.
Josh Marshall, Read More
We’re having trouble locating a site on our RSS feed that hasn’t been overtaken by election live-blogging. Jezebel is. Time too. The Daily Cartoonist is, we kid you not, trying to live blog presidential election cartoons. You’re probably too busy live-blogging to even read this post.
But should you have a spare Read More
If Obama pulls it out tonight, progressive bloggers will get as shriek-y as teen girls at a Beatles concert. We predict posts that devolve into exhilarated, random hitting of keys: “He’s Black Reagan! Bi-Racial Roosevelt! SAHFGOhasjnaaw**%!!!!E#R$!”
But The Most Breathless Post In the History of the Liberal Blogosphere may already been written. That would be Boyd Read More
Every holiday movie we want to watch always arrives annoyingly early, like a punctual party guest. We’re still picking at Thanksgiving leftovers during the annual broadcast of A Charlie Brown Christmas. Halloween is on AMC this morning at 9:30, when no one’s actually home alone to be scared. And cable channels like TNT and USA, once host to gloriously Read More
