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Are you saying people should only take jobs if they 'need' the money? Who gets to decide when you don't need any more? Maybe Alex liked to work. Maybe his friend was the company president and asked him to do it. Maybe he donated 100% of the proceeds to his favourite charity. Maybe he wanted to make sure his wife and children would always be looked after, even after he was gone. I don't think it's appropriate to call it 'greed' because someone who has more money than you decided they wanted to make money, especially when you know nothing of their motivations.

Don't disagree on Taylor Cole. I don't know who Ryan McPartlin is and his IMDB doesn't list anything I've ever heard of. Do you mean Ryan Paevey? And you're right, that Corey Sevier guy is pretty hot.

The important thing the powers that be need to take away from this race is that only the racers think the most important thing is winning. The fans at home, the viewers who watch the show and allow it to make the money that pays for the race, want to see exciting locations, interesting racers (not characters trying to get an acting gig) and tasks that challenge the racers, either physically or mentally. Having fully half of the cast form an alliance that lasts through almost the whole race takes most of that away, as there are racers who would probably still be rappelling down the side of a building trying to unscramble 'sauerkraut' if one member of the alliance didn't think it was her job to sacrifice her own position in order to make sure all 5 teams had the answer. Incredibly bad season. Imagine how it could have been, watching racers travel the world and marvel at the sites and sounds, something we have been unable to do ourselves for so long.

Tried Christmas Ever After again. Gave it a full half hour this time and still couldn't sit through it. Warning to mothers and young children: if your Christmas celebration is ridiculously over the top, featuring multiple events that all have to happen and always in the same order, the mother will die while the children are still young and the children will either obsessively have to re-create the exact same Christmas every year forever, or will swear off Christmas altogether.

Nope. Just tried Christmas Ever After again. Made it half an hour this time. The lead is too squeaky and spunky but is in every scene so I can't even enjoy the cute lead actor.

Interesting. Thanks for linking. As I read, I am reminded of so many actresses (Lacey Chabert, Nikki DeLoach, Jill Wagner, Ashley Williams, Alicia Witt) that I can barely watch, if at all. As for the men, there are a few who hold no appeal to me (Wes Brown, Michael Rady, Niall Matter) but some I really like (Paul Campbell, Andrew Walker.) Plus where is the totally hot Christopher Russell from Forever Christmas?

Or, perhaps you could offer to take a shower with him and you could hold the loofah. Yeow!

Not sure if it's the same one, but many years ago there was a commercial with two old couples sitting around the table when the phone rings. Man picks it up, then announces, 'It's Patrick. He's bought life insurance' all excited like he'd won the lottery.

Yes, memememe76, W channel in Canada seems to premier the movies a week or two behind the American channels. I watched about 5 minutes of that movie and tuned out. The lead was annoying (not because of the wheelchair.) I am currently watching Nine Lives of Christmas. An oldie from 2014, but a goody. All the necessary requirements - a non-annoying lead actress with a handsome lead actor.

You wonder if $50,000 doesn't just cover the cost of the decorations and the electricity to run them. I too am a sucker for a giant light display.

In the time it takes to drink one cup of cocoa, it is apparently possible for two people to not only decorate a tree with lights, garland and what appears to be 500 decorations, but they can also drape garland over every door and window frame plus the piano and fireplace.

Christmas In Evergreen, Bells are Ringing. For some reason, the characters are obsessed with It's a Wonderful Life, watching it multiple times. They appear to have legitimate questions, like why are there animals like squirrels and crows, inside? Honestly, I never noticed. But for one character to say, 'I don't understand why Jimmy Stewart didn't just leave town?' and another characters says, 'yeah, right' I have to wonder: if you are obsessed with this movie and have watched it multiple times, how can you even ask that question??? Did you pay any attention to his staying home after his father died, or using his honeymoon money to bail out the housing and loan? Did they not watch the sequence with Clarence where he was shown what the world would be like if he had never been born (or for that matter, if he had left town at the beginning when he wanted to?) It's the whole point of the movie!! I don't know if this was supposed to be funny, or they think it's one of those questions that everyone has but nobody ever asks, the only purpose it served to me was to get me to yell at the tv and immediately head to Primetimer to complain about how stupid they look.

Interesting comments on the Jewish takes. As a Christian who celebrates Christmas as the birth of Christ, I understand why they keep the movies secular but would it kill one of them to comment on 'going to the Christmas service' even if we don't follow them there? I also don't think of snowmen or cocoa as Christmas activities, but winter. The thing I find so ridiculous about all this is their acting as if certain traditions not only signal Christmas, but all must be done in the same order without deviation, or it's not Christmas. On the movie last night (A Godwink Christmas) Grandma says, 'well if we're decorating the tree tomorrow we have to bake the cookies tonight.' When the long-lost girlfriend comes over to help with the tree, she says to the kids, 'if you're doing the tree today, you must have baked cookies last night.' Or the daughter who needs to do things exactly the same as her late mother did them. Firstly, for someone whose mother died 'a long time ago' they seem to have an encyclopedic memory of how things happened. Secondly, are we to believe that if your mother was still alive, everything would be exactly the same for 20 years?

Kaoteek, I really enjoyed Christmas Chronicles 2. I will forgive Kurt Russell a multitude of sins and he and Goldie really are wonderful together.

I love when they bend over and pick up a giant boulder of snow and carry it 10'. Snow might be fluffy coming down but it's pretty heavy to pick up.

The Folgers ad I've seen is the guy who has the camera angled down and the 'whole team sees your upper thigh. Pour that smooth roast and aim that camera up high.' I get that it's embarrassing but relatively harmless, but the look on his female co-workers face is pretty funny.

Honestly, I dislike everything about her (Jill Wagner.) I know it's the script and not her, but I just want to shake my head at every movie as I don't see her as someone that would be worth the trouble. She's brittle. Even when she's having fun, which doesn't seem to be very often, she doesn't make me smile. YMMV of course. (I hope she's not your sister.)

I don't disagree with this. I also think people should not be banished for one stupid thought. Having said that, I have been reading things about rude comments Ken Jennings has been making for years. Probably not as offensive as the current outrage, but he is smug and flippant and from my point of view acts like every kid who was stuffed in a locker in high school (and you know that he was) who is suddenly allowed to sit at the cool kids' table. He's finally cool and he's going to be just as rude and mean to the losers as everyone else sitting there.

The chemistry between Kurt Russell and Goldie Hawn is off the charts. Just the little looks, winks, you know they've been there, done that, and would do it all again.

Perhaps it's Canadian. Woman gets up from her dinner party, apparently to make drinks. 'Hmmm, no clean glasses.' On the counter is a box of chocolate reindeer. Next scene, she has cut off the heads, poured Baileys into the bodies, topped with whipped cream and sprinkles and added a funky striped straw. Ta da! Seems to me it would have been easier to wash a few glasses but hey, I would have done that before the party, so what do I know? Another peeve. Maybe doesn't belong here as it is a promo for a TV show, but it's shown in the form of a commercial, so here goes. The show is called 5 Bedrooms or 5 Apartments or something, some British show about 5 adults deciding to buy a house together (I think.) A woman makes a comment about if 5 people decided to get together and buy a house, they would have lots of money. The guy says, 'Actually, that's not as stupid as it sounds' but I swear every time I see the commercial, the guy sounds like he's say, 'Sexually, that's not as stupid as it sounds.'

I'm having a dinner party but it apparently never occurred to me to make sure I have any clean glasses. Thank goodness I have a bunch of chocolate reindeer so I can cut off the heads and pour Baileys into them.

Ugh. I can't believe I want to know this..... How do you clean it, or is it a disposable cleaning head?

Totally forgot the episode was on. Like many of you, I have been a fan since Season 1. I even went to 2 TARcons in NYC over the years, but this year for the first time, I just didn't care about the show or any of the racers. This was because the boyfriends were jerks and the alliance was formed right at the beginning. While it sounds like D'Angelo was upset about the alliance and teams not sharing info with him, one of the things I disliked most about this season was the whipped cream pie episode, where D'Angelo specifically told everyone there except the nerd team about what would happen when they entered the tent with the pie. He even made a comment about one of the teams in the alliance not being there yet so he couldn't share the info with them. So, alliances are fine as long as you are an integral part I guess.

Like the Jason Momoa commercial for (chips?) without the beauty of Jason Momoa?

I just saw it again myself. I have recently developed a ridiculous crush on Paul Campbell and have been watching some of his movies on demand (don't judge - Wedding Every Weekend and Window Wonderland are actually pretty good.) One thing I did notice last night that I hadn't before, was the whole kissing the plexiglass thing (at least I assume that's what it is.) When Will goes in for the big kiss at the end, his hand comes up as if to caress the side of her face but it just looks awkward. Then when he is actually kissing her, his nose is kind've squished but he is clearly not touching her face. I'm no actor so don't know what it's like to fake kiss someone, but how ridiculous must it be for the director to call 'Cut' then someone stick a piece of plastic between your two faces and then 'Action.'