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Bronx Babe

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  1. Unfortunately I found the actress playing the terminally ill mother in A Scottish Love Scheme very annoying. In true Hallmark OCD fashion she produces a detailed list of places and activities to share with her daughter but ironically the script gives the two very short shrift as all this sad bonding occurs roughly five minutes before the movie ends.
  2. That hallway seemed familiar to me as well in two other productions, but the titles escape me. One was I think where the title character moves to New York City and gets involved with the gay couple who run a bakery, and she seems to spend more time with them than with the lead actor. The other one had a Hanukkah theme. Also, all those hallways and even the apartments had an odd "look" to them, lol. Hard to describe. As though my beloved Hallmark space aliens had been the designers. Probably the explanation is more Earth-like: they are all Canadian abodes. (said with respect) They could be Autumn in the City and Hanukkah on Rye, but not sure. Also another one set in "New York" where two (deceased) mothers play matchmaker for their children. I seem to recall the same weird hallway and apartments.
  3. Hearts of Winter: "Does it always get this cold in January?" Does one need any more evidence to figure out that their screenwriters are not of this Earth?
  4. Thanks, guys, for your tolerant feedback! Much appreciated. I enjoyed the two lead actresses in Friends and Family Christmas. I wish everyone a blessed holiday season with much tidings of comfort and joy.
  5. I will quietly slink away now, lol. It seems everyone loved Round and Round, also Mystic Christmas. What's wrong with me?
  6. It's official as far as I'm concerned -- MYSTIC CHRISTMAS is the worst Hallmark Christmas movie I have yet seen and ROUND AND ROUND is the worst Chanukkah one.
  7. IfinallysawRoundandRoundanditwas the worstHallmarkHanukkahmovieIeversawjust horriblethemileaminutespeedtalkingtheonlything trulyfriedforthisholidaywastheleadactress'svoiceterriblescripttheyletthescriptwritersunleashtheirnerdysciencefictionobsessionsandnobodytalkedslowwhocouldundertandanythingandtherewastheusualwhatisyourfavoritethisandthat. Okay I am taking a breath now, lol.....whew!
  8. Sorry about your own mom, Wendy. Hey, you're still a baby! 51 is the new 31! (but at my age -- I'm too shallow and vain to tell you the number, lol) Thank you for those kind words. I've decided to spend this Sunday evening with the Marx Bros. and then Woody Allen (Bananas) I'll catch Round and Round another time. The real thing that disturbs me about these Hallmark movies is the very fact you describe -- your brain gets turned off. But it gets turned off forever when we all shuffle off this mortal coil, and that's what terrifies me -- I want to experience THIS life, even with its miseries, as long as I can. What does Faulkner say. "Between grief and nothing I'll take grief". If I want escapism I'll watch a Godzilla movie. Oh, I landed on Christmas on Cherry Lane earlier today -- It wasn't even two minutes in before someone mentions hot chocolate. Who wants to spend the remaining time of their life watching and listening to this dribble? LOL Give me grit! Give me passion! Give me grief! In other words, give me Life!!
  9. I used to feel that way but discovered that making New Year's resolutions to shed a few pounds never worked, so I decided that life was just too short not to enjoy one's favorite foods. These days I deny myself nothing but I (slightly) reduce portion size -- I have now gone back to normal weight! (i.e. I eat two slices of my favorite pizza instead of four, for example -- it works.) Since turning an unbelievable age this past October, I have been filled with anxiety and dread (started when my mother died in 2017) about facing one's mortality. Just think -- when you die you'll never be able to eat again! That is just unacceptable to me, lol, so I eat normally but eat everything I love -- pizza, ice cream, French Fries, etc. only not as much. I never count calories and always take time to enjoy every bite.
  10. Listen, if little old cranky, critical, judgemental me enjoyed A HEIDELBERG HOLIDAY, well, that's saying something I guess, lol. Sorry to say I am not a fan of HANUKKAH ON RYE. Too synthetic and "off" as most if not all the Hallmark stuff is. I do realize many here like it and I apologize. Same thing with A HOLIDAY SPECTACULAR (the Rockettes) -- that's the one where all men in the 1950's wear 1920's "newsboy" caps. (A BILTMORE CHRISTMAS does this too, lol)
  11. Yeah, I guess so..... I really am hoping Round and Round surprises me in a good way, like A HEIDELBERG HOLIDAY. Give me credit for at least enjoying that one as there are so many I unfortunately don't, lol.
  12. I saw that preview for "Round and Round" -- a time-travelling Hanukkah tale, oh how wonderful. LOL. I do not have high hopes considering what I remember about "Hanukkah on Rye" where some deli relatives suddenly burst out singing the dreidel song on a sidewalk in the middle of the night. Yeah, our family back in the Bronx did that all the time.
  13. I tried getting into The Royal Nanny as I had never seen it but switched off after 10 minutes. It was just too over-the-top "British" in that synthetic Hallmark way, meaning that even if the entire cast had authentic accents, they still sounded phony, lol. Plus, I found the lead actress very unpleasant, even grim.
  14. Is Luke MacFarland the guy with that piggy nose? If so, I actually thought he was rather endearing as "Chris" in Catch Me If You Claus.
  15. Christmas in Notting Hill: "Oh, you're Graham! Like the cracker" "I'm terrified of marshmallows. They look like the Michelin man" I would like to meet the scriptwriters of these things. I just know they are from a distant planet, lol and have three eyes.
  16. In My Norwegian Holiday, was the family just trying to fool the lead actress into staying with them by telling her The Viking Hotel was a mess? Now, I'm not of that ethnic background and hope I'm not generalizing but somehow I cannot imagine any Scandinavian accommodation, tourist or otherwise, being anything other than very clean, friendly, and efficient. Why was the bride doing some sort of crazy "chicken" dance at her wedding? That was insane, lol. If it is some part of Norwegian tradition, then I apologize! Landed on what I think was Holiday Road and saw an Asian girl give out to her neighbors what she called "Traditional Chinese Christmas cookies" but they didn't show the toppings. When I think of all the dubious and frankly bizarre Hallmark food concoctions (the most infamous of which must surely be A Cozy Christmas Inn's "cocoa cornbread stuffing -- as an entree -- God only knows what THAT was or looked like) I am not surprised.... And which was the one where a very proper British woman, upon meeting the lead actress for the first time, immediately drops her reserve to inquire in Hallmark fashion "So, my dear, what are your favorite things?" They are really ramping up every script it seems, to expand on "what is your favorite holiday tradition" to include favorite foods and movies as well. This obsession with lists, contests, competition is just so......corporate is the only word I can ever come up with.
  17. I'm a sucker for time-travel plots but only in movies, not Hallmark productions, where unfortunately I find them very, well....silly. For instance, in A BILTMORE CHRISTMAS they showed the 1947 director and some of their crew wearing 1920's style "newsboy" caps (like in A CHRISTMAS SPECTACULAR, but even more inauthentic and glaring in that one because men had them on in the 1950 flashbacks) which was supposed to immediately telegraph (wrongly) the 1940's. The lead actress thrown back in 1947 tells someone "I can deal with this because I've seen His Girl Friday 100 times" and then proceeds to talk like some hard-boiled noir dame. Just ridiculous! I was laughing so hard, lol.
  18. Well, no stollen in A HEIDELBERG HOLIDAY but -- and I can't believe I'm saying this -- I actually enjoyed it. Yes, you heard correctly. I fell in love with the German leading man, who gave a very natural and charming performance. Didn't even seem like he was acting! For a Hallmark movie the entire production actually felt organic, not silly or forced. The actor playing that dismissive postal clerk was genuinely funny, not straining for laughs. I would, however, have left out that rather jarring (but mercifully brief) moment in the senior center where Heidi suddenly belts out that song in English with Lukas accompanying her on guitar. It was so refreshing seeing European Christmas decor -- everything very low-key and elegant, nothing tacky or childish, so that I really got an authentic and contemplative feel for the season.
  19. Thanks so much for this, Ethel -- I really did think I was alone here, lol. So John Waters sealed the deal! Great bonding experience! I'd love to see the Divine doc! I also need to check out MULTIPLE MANIACS. From the sublime to the, well, never mind: The Santa Summit -- "Favorite food" -- "Tacos!" -- "Favorite movie" -- "Casablanca" CLICK
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