Once again, my thanks to all my readers for giving me another year; and welcome to the new friends who only started reading in the last 12 months; whatever your own personal traditions and beliefs dictate for 25 December, I hope it finds you healthy and happy, and surrounded by those you love. Since I am not exactly a religious man, I shall have to crib from another Tim in saying, "God bless us, every one".
Happy Holidays.
25 December 2009
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Mr. Tim, it has been an absolute pleasure to read your reviews. Thank you for your insight & for putting my little site on yours. I wish for you all the blessings and joy this season represents. I like to think of myself as a believer in Christ but I respect the private dictates & faiths of all my fellow man. With that in mind, I wish for all my brothers & sisters (and yourself & your loved ones) Peace on Earth and Good-Will to All Mankind.
ReplyDeleteMerry Sir Isaac Newton's Birthday! Your criticism gets fancier and better every year and occasionally you still out-blog me and make me feel like absolute garbage. You are slowly phasing out all other blogs I read. I look forward to another year of Antagony & Ecstasy.
ReplyDeleteShane MacGowan's birthday also! Whoo! Hope it's been a great one.
ReplyDeleteIn the spirit of cinephilia that I like to think permeates this blog at all times, even this most sentimental of moments, I'd like to offer the gift of film history.
ReplyDeleteThe song "Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas," now a classic carol and the title of this blog post, was written for The 1944 MGM musical Meet Me in St. Louis, directed by Vincente Minnelli. Songwriters Hugh Martin and Ralph Blane originally conceived of the song with different lyrics, something far more appropriate for the film's story of children depressed about their family's impending move to New York just as their lives are taking shape and the World's Fair is coming to St. Louis. Story-appropriate though Martin and Blane's lyrics were, they were rejected out of hand by director Minnelli, who found them far too depressing. Which, indeed, they were. It is safe to assume that, had the original lyrics remained, the song would never have become the enduring classic it is, and Tim would never named his holiday-cheer-laden post after it. Nonetheless, the original lyrics remain my favorite trivia in all musical cinema, and I offer them as my gift to the blog. Happy Holidays, Tim, and all of my fellow readers. May 2010 be half as good for the blog as 2009 was!
The lyrics:
Have yourself a merry little Christmas, it may be your last,
Next year we may all be living in the past
Have yourself a merry little Christmas, pop that champagne cork,
Next year we will all be living in New York.
No good times like the olden days, happy golden days of yore,
Faithful friends who were dear to us, will be near to us no more.
But at least we all will be together, if the Fates allow,
From now on we'll have to muddle through somehow.
So have yourself a merry little Christmas now.
Different Will here, just thought I'd stop by to say how thoroughly I enjoy your reviews, been reading since this summer when I followed a link to your excellent "Night at the Museum" 2 review, which my family was dragging me to. Now I have your page bookmarked and everything. Thanks for writing!
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