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One of my favorite things to do during the holiday season is to sit on the couch, grab a big bowl of popcorn, and watch a holiday movie. Sure, I might even start a fire in the fireplace (provided, of course, that I’m not having a weather temp in the 70s). And when I do turn to these holiday films, there are certain ones that I just have to watch:
National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation
Here are a few of my favorite lines:
Bethany: “Is your house on fire, Clark?”
Clark: “No, Aunt Bethany, those are the Christmas lights.”
Oh, Aunt Bethany, I do love you.
Clark: “Can I refill your eggnog for you? Get you something to eat? Drive you out to the middle of nowhere and leave you for dead?”
Come on—haven’t we all wanted to take that drive to nowhere with a family member at one point?
Another flick I love…
Scrooged (Bill Murray makes me laugh every year.)
Favorite lines from Frank Cross: “I get it. You’re here to show me my past, and I’m supposed to get all dully-eyed and mushy. Well, forget it, pal, you got the wrong guy!”
And, of course, how could I make a list without It’s a Wonderful Life? And the bit from that movie that always stayed with me?
Clarence: “Strange, isn’t it? Each man’s life touches so many other lives. When he isn’t around, he leaves an awful hole, doesn’t he?”
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What are you favorite holiday movies? Or lines? I’ve got a lot of prizes to give on this one—a promised ARC of my next Fallen book (AVENGING ANGEL—due out in May of 2013), and five digital/or print copies of my first Harlequin Intrigue, ALPHA ONE. (ALPHA ONE will introduce readers to my dangerous Shadow Agents.) ALPHA ONE will release the first week of January, but I will order your copies now. That’s six winners—so be sure to comment!
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I know it isn’t techically christmas but I love Serendipity at this time of year.
A CHRISTMAS STORY (“you’ll put your eye out…” lol!, SCROOGED, and A CHRISTMAS CAROL are three of my favorite holiday movies.
An ARC?! OMG. I’m positively drooling. Thanks for the newsletter today, Cynthia. I had no idea this was going on. Glad I could join the fun. HAPPY HOLIDAYS!
Love A Christmas Story (You look like a pink nightmare!) and Miracle on 34th Street (The Maureen O’Hara version)
My favorite holiday movie is Elf. I LAUGH every time
Die Hard… lol.. Dont really watch movies.. But i love some JOhn Mclean…
also, Nightmare before chrismas
My favorite Christmas movie is A Christmas Story, any rendition from the traditional to the Mickey Mouse version 🙂
I love to watch WHILE YOU WERE SLEEPING with Sandra Bullock and Bill Pullman. And naturally I have to watch HOW THE GRINCH STOLE CHRISTMAS…LOL
I love A Christmas Story. I was a fan of Jean Shepherd (sp?) before the movie.
I know a lot of people love A Christmas Story but it is one that i just can’t watch.
I love Christmas movies and will even watch them when lifetime or one of the channels runs xmas in July. One of my favorite movies is The Christmas shoes with Kimberly Williams Paisley (Brad Paisley’s wife and the daughter from Father of the Bride).
My daughter and I love the ABC Family 25 days of xmas and their original movies they air – they are usually light adn fluffy and cute. My absolute favorite christmas cartoon is The Year without a Santa Claus and hubby loves Emmet Otter’s Jug Band Christmas.
Happy Holidays everyone.
I’m a big fan of “A Charlie Brown Christmas” in that it shares the message of Christ’s birth in a very kid friendly and non-threatening way.
OMG, those are two of my fav. Christmas movies and ones I make sure to watch every year!!! I also love A Christmas Story and Elf!!
I love Love Actually.
I love Holiday Movies especially the ones shown on The Hallmark Channel. My two favorites are 12 Men of Christmas starring Kristen Chenoweth and Debbie Macomber’s Trading Christmans. *sigh* True romance during the holidays. : )
THE CHRISTMAS STORY:
Ralphie: Only one thing could have dragged me away from the soft glow of electric sex gleaming in the window.. 😉
Ralphie: Only I didn’t say FUDGE. I said THE word, the big one, the queen-mother of dirty words, the F-dash-dash-dash word!!
Enjoy my memories. 😛
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