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Some of the actors we spoke designer handbag to did have more traditional, or traditional-ish, choices. "Country Strong's" Gwyneth Paltrow listed the original "How the Grinch Stole Christmas," and "Black Swan's" Barbara Hershey cited her favorite movie, "The Wizard of Oz," while Amy Adams (nominated everywhere for "The Fighter") said, " 'Chitty Chitty Bang Bang.' That used to come on at Thanksgiving when I was a kid, so I'll probably start playing that for my daughter."Jacki Weaver, receiving a holiday bounty of awards and nominations as the murderous matriarch in "Animal Kingdom," said, "We do watch 'It's a Wonderful Life' - it's been a tradition in my family for years. Louis vuitton replica But you know what else I've seen about 25 times is 'Love Actually.' That's a Christmas movie. It's sort of 'It's a Wonderful Life' for the naughty generation. And I'll always give 'Tootsie' another look, too. When you think about it, Dustin Hoffman is playing three roles: He's playing a man and a woman and a woman playing a character in a soap."But for those to whom the season is less about presents and more about the origin of love, Melissa Leo (likewise honored everywhere for her work in "The Fighter") said, "The movie that leaps into my mind, me who doesn't know very many movies at all - there's something about 'Hedwig and the Angry Inch.' I just think it's one of the most special movies that's ever been made, and if we all rolex watch could watch it annually, at, say, Christmastime, the world would be a better place. If I could name one, probably my favorite movie of all time."You've already marked off Advent calendars with Black Friday, Cyber Monday and, for some whose Christmas Days are like being cornered by ravenous, man-size space worms, Psychotic Episode Saturday.For those who could use a bit of steam release during the time health professionals say is one of the most severely depressing whether you celebrate Christmas, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa or the return of our eternal benevolent masters from the cosmic oceans of the rainbow eels, movies can provide some succor. After all, doesn't everyone like to settle onto the couch with loved ones for the miracle of watching "It's a Wonderful Life" for the 34th time?"No," said Robert replica rolex watches Duvall, an awards contender this year as a legendary hermit in "Get Low." "I watch the football games. Some of those old movies are good, but I think the actors and some of the directors now are better than ever. So if I turn on a traditional movie, some of them are OK, yeah. But I much prefer athletic things."Well then, not just the usual fodder, perhaps. How about some alternative holiday movies, off-the-beaten-path choices to make the season bright ... or weird，Michael Apted, storied director of the "Up!" documentaries and the current "The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader," has his own idea of a holiday classic: " 'Spinal Tap,' for some reason, is always a holiday treat for me. It always makes gucci sale me laugh. It's not a Christmas movie, but it feels like an old favorite, and it's something you just lie around and have a good laugh at to digest your Christmas dinner."Christian Bale, racking up the nominations this season for his turn as a crack-addled former boxer in "The Fighter," said, "I watch whatever my daughter wants to watch. But when I was growing up in England, Christmas always meant 'Ben-Hur' for me. Maybe they did a Charlton Heston thing, because they showed 'The Ten Commandments' too, but it was 'Ben-Hur' I was wanting to watch.""Black Swan" director Darren Aronofsky, agreeing that there weren't a lot of good Hanukkah movies, said, " 'Die Hard's' great because it starts out with 'It's Christmas time in Hollis, Queens,' the Run-D.M.C. track. I remember when I was in the theater in lv bags Brooklyn, it went crazy."It’s a rare opportunity to see a holiday classic on the big screen.A special Cinematique screening of ”It’s a Wonderful Life” will be shown at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Dec. 23, at Thalian Hall. Admission is $10, and proceeds will benefit the Hall.The screening – which is of a 35mm film print, not a DVD projection – is a continuation of the Wilmington tradition started by late EUE/Screen Gems Studios President Frank Capra Jr. at UNCW in 1998. Capra, and, after he died, family members, would introduce the film each year at Kenan Auditorium. (Of course, Capra’s father, Frank Capra Sr., directed the film starring Jimmy Stewart, Donna Reed and Lionel Barrymore.)There will be less hoopla around this year’s screening, but gucci bags it’s a great chance for those who’ve only seen “It’s a Wonderful Life” on the small screen, or for folks like me who’ve only seen the most famous bits and pieces and have somehow avoided seeing the movie in its entirety.Given Thalian’s historic setting, you could even pretend that you’re seeing the film back in 1946, the year “It’s a Wonderful Life” was originally released.NBC’s Christmas Eve broadcast of “It’s a Wonderful Life” will be enhanced by former President George H.W. Bush narrating a simultaneous audio description of this perennial holiday classic for the visually impaired.The ex-prez (and Ronald Reagan’s vice president), 86, has already recorded the narration, according to Variety. President Bush’s narration will be available on SAP (second audio program) channels gucci bags during the telecast starting this Friday night at 8/7c on NBC.As in past years, this year’s telecast will be three hours – ending at 11 p.m./10c. Jimmy Stewart starred in the 1946 black-and-white movie as a small-town banker who contemplates suicide on Christmas Eve when confronted with a potentially ruinous financial crisis.Set A DVR Recording For “It’s A Wonderful Life” Here.It’s become a TV staple at this time of year, though it was not nearly as popular when it was released in ’46. It lost money and reviews were mixed. Though it was nominated for five Oscars, it won none of them, and Hollywood wondered if director Frank Capra – who had a gift for making popular movies (“It Happened One Night,” “Mr. Smith Goes to Washington,” “Meet John Doe” and others) – had lost his touch.A couple of things you might not have known about “It’s a Wonderful Life”:Before there was Twitter: In much the same way that ideas for TV shows sometimes spring today from unusual sources such as some ordinary person’s Tweets (William Shatner’s gucci purses CBS comedy “$#*! My Dad Says” was developed from a Twitter feed maintained by Justin Halpern, a guy Tweeting about his father), “It’s a Wonderful Life” also came from an unexpected source. Author Philip Van Doren Stern couldn’t find a publisher for a short story he’d written called “The Greatest Gift,” so he made it into an elaborate Christmas card in 1943 that he mailed to 200 friends and acquaintances. An RKO producer heard about the Christmas card and optioned the story.The bartender who became one of the kings of television: Look for tough-guy actor Sheldon Leonard in the role of Nick the bartender. He’s the same guy who would later produce so many legendary TV shows of the 1950s and ’60s, including “Make Room for Daddy,” “The Dick Van Dyke Show,” “The Andy Griffith Show,” apartments hangzhou “Gomer Pyle USMC,” “I Spy” and others.The little rascal who was no longer little: Also look for “Alfalfa” Switzer – then 19 years old and long past his heyday as one of the stars of the “Our Gang” comedies – as one of the teens in the high school dance scene. He’s the one who Mary (Donna Reed) hands her drink to when she gets a chance to dance with George Bailey (Stewart). “Hey, this is my dance!” complains Switzer, in the role of “Freddie.” “Why don’t you stop annoying people!” replies George.The equipment crash they kept in the picture: That crash you hear in the scene where George helps guide his drunken Uncle Billy (Thomas Mitchell) toward home was not planned as some sort of distant automobile accident. It was some equipment toppling over, which might have ruined the scene if Mitchell had not cleverly ad-libbed: “I’m all right, I’m all right!” As a result, golf clubs for sale the scene stayed in the movie.For many families, watching “It’s a Wonderful Life” together has become an annual holiday tradition. How about you?zf