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Tuesday, December 23, 2008
Christmas downers
The ink-on-paper version of Culture Vulture asks the age-old holiday question: Why are Christmas stories - from "A Christmas Carol" to "It's a Wonderful Life!," from "How the Grinch Stole Christmas" to "Die Hard" - usually based on such sad, depressing premises?

Any thoughts? Please share them.

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posted by Sean P. Means @ 9:56 AM |

1 Comments:

At December 24, 2008 7:02 AM , Blogger Steve said...

I guess one of the ways to show that Christmas is "the most wonderful time of the year" is to take a character, cast him/her down to the bottom, and then show how the holidays have a lifting effect.

 

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