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Once a year, though, like a princess who has been sleeping in rags, the town stirs itself to recall its grand traditions.The grimace crinkles into a smile, the Grinch is transformed into Santa Claus -- and the rest of the country pays homage. For New York is Christmas Central. Manhattan owns this glitziest and most sentimental of seasons, beginning with Macy's Thanksgiving Day parade and culminating in Times Square on New Year...
...three kids to the mix and helped turn Home Improvement into TV's biggest family-show hit of the '90s. Allen's first movie went through a similar Disneyfication. The original script, by Steve Rudnick and Leo Benvenuti, was a dark fantasy about a man who accidentally shoots Santa Claus. Eight drafts later, with a more benign death scene and the addition of the father-son relationship, it became a cuddly holiday family film...
Some attractions know no cultural bounds. They are taken up by different people and made into tales of their own, like the story of the Messiah or of Santa Claus. Or, now, even the infamous John Wayne and Lorena Bobbitt...
...SANTA CLAUS? OF COURSE WE BELieve in him. If we can believe in Newt Gingrich we can believe in anything. The real question is, Do we believe in Santa Claus movies? There are two on screens at the moment, and the best that can be said for them is that they offer a clear-cut choice: you can take your seasonal dose of sappy sentiment either in stuffy traditional or tacky modernist form. Miracle on 34th Street, as befits a remake we probably don't need, offers us a Santa Claus cut along classic lines -- round, twinkly and played with...
Certainly Attenborough has the more agreeable role, since his Kriss Kringle is utterly secure in his identity. He knows he really is Santa Claus and hasn't the slightest desire to be anyone else. How it is that he ends up defending himself in court when mean people question his sanity is a tale too familiar to relate once again: it has been available on television -- in a less overbearing version -- every Christmas season for almost a half-century. Given these circumstances, it betrays no secrets to say that aided by smart lawyering, shrewd media manipulation and a child...