Tuesday, December 23, 2014

BB 12.23.14


Brock Breed‎MB Phoenix Fan Page

Good morning Phoenix - it's December 23rd - and Christmas is just around the corner!
Wishing you all a wonderful time with family, friends, or whomever you choose to celebrate with, even if it is just quality time with yourself. You are your own best friend!
As we get closer to Christmas, today's WTF is a Christmas classic: Miracle on 34th Street.
Trivia: Received a 'B' rating (morally objectionable in part) from the highly influential Legion of Decency because Maureen O'Hara played a divorcée.
In the untranslated dialogue with the Dutch girl, Santa Claus asks the child what she wants for Christmas the girl says she wants nothing, telling Santa she got her gift by being adopted by her new mother.
According to Natalie Wood's biographer, during the shoot, the young actress was convinced that Edmund Gwenn was actually Santa Claus (by all accounts, Gwenn was a very good-natured man on the set). It wasn't until Wood saw him out of costume at the wrap party that she realized he wasn't Santa.
According to Hedda Hopper's "Looking at Hollywood" newspaper column of May 3, 1947 "when the picture opens at the Roxy, Macy's will close for half a day so it's 12,000 employees can see the first showing."
One of the first films to be colorized.
The Macys Christmas window displays were sold on to FAO Schwartz who in turn sold them on to Marshall & Ilsley Bank of Milwaukee, Wisconsin. They are displayed in the bank's lobby every December in its main branch in North Water Street.
The house that Susan sees at the end of the movie that all three characters enter is, according to the Nassau County Tax Records, located at 24 Derby Road in Port Washington, New York.
Goofs: During the trial Gailey says that the US Post Office was founded on July 26, 1776. The correct date is July 26, 1775.
Several shots of the judge show a lamp on his desk. When the mail is dumped in front of him, the lamp has disappeared.
Outside the courtroom, the shadow of a camera can be seen on the pillar as Kris walks down the hall.
One of the letters to Santa Claus delivered by the New York Post Office is postmarked Indianapolis, Ind.
Git yer shopping done! Have a fangtastic day my friends.  Brock

  • Marijke Wygerse Good morning Brock!
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  • Lucan Thorne Good morning Phoenix friends and family, I hope everyone squeezes in all of their last minute errands today.
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  • Chris Smith Ugh - have to take hubby's car to the dealership to have the radio repaired. Ho... Ho...Ho.... Not. LOL
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  • Marijke Wygerse I have to do too much. Still need done gifts... And do all the wrapping. Need some Grosseries still and we're going shopping for an Christmas outfit.
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  • Chris Smith I still have 3 deco mesh wreaths to make for gifts. EEK!
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  • Peggy Foye Good morning Brock, Lucan and everyone!!! It's Christmas Eve Eve. I know lol. 
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  • Aric Chase What is your opinion? I prefer the black & white version of the movie over the color version. I found the perfect gift for Mum last night, thank you Tegan for your expert help. I have to check my list twice and make sure I bought for all the naughty and nice.*winks*
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  • Gabrielle M. Thorne I'm with you Aric, I prefer the b/w as well...
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  • Marijke Wygerse I believe I only know the color version.
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  • Peggy Foye I like black and white movies. My favorite is The Bells of St. Mary's
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  • Tavia Chase Black and white all the way
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Monday, December 22, 2014

BB 12.22.14


Brock Breed‎MB Phoenix Fan Page
12/22/14
Good morning and welcome to Monday, Phoenix family and friends! Not much time left to finish your shopping or wrapping, or baking, etc. What's one dish your family has to have at Christmas??
Today's WTF Holiday movie is : Joyeux Noel (Merry Christmas). For those that may not have heard about this one, here's the plot summary:
In 1914, World War I, the bloodiest war ever at that time in human history, was well under way. However on Christmas Eve, numerous sections of the Western Front called an informal, and unauthorized, truce where the various front-line soldiers of the conflict peacefully met each other in No Man's Land to share a precious pause in the carnage with a fleeting brotherhood.
Trivia: This film is dedicated to the soldiers who fraternized on Christmas 1914 in several places on the front.
The film was originally supposed to be rated R. However, after film critic Roger Ebert criticized the rating, the MPAA officially changed the rating to PG-13.
Towards the end of the film Major General Audebert says "i've been ordered to arrest a cat for treason", A cat portrayed in the film as Felix/Nestor, was actually arrested and shot for espionage after it arrived in French lines wearing a new collar and bearing a note (in French) which read "which regiment are you from?". The general in charge decided just to follow the letter of the law, the cat was shot for spying.
The character of the Male opera singer is based on that of German tenor Walter Kirchhoff (1879-1951), who travelled to the front in order to perform for the troops. His performance was met by cheers from the French lines, where upon he decided to climb on to no-mans-land to see who was cheering.
Goofs: When Anna and Nikolaus talks about the time they met for the first time, they say "Oslo". Oslo, capitol of Norway, was called Kristiania until 1924.
In the film the musical exchange is prompted by the Scottish troops: in reality, most incidents began with the German troops singing carols from their trenches (but not exposing themselves to the enemy - both sides remained in their trenches) with the opposing troops countering with carols of their own. The film was advertised as "based on a true story", but neither the marketing nor anything in the film claims it to be a historically accurate account of the events. At the end of the closing credits it states, the story is based on a compilation of various documented events which took place along the front during WW1. Director Christian Carion said in the DVD commentary that he included Scots, rather than English, in the story because he wanted bagpipe music.
Have a fangtastic day, my friends!  Brock

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