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Topics => Faith & Family => Topic started by: AlanS on December 25, 2012, 04:08:11 PM

Title: I can't help it
Post by: AlanS on December 25, 2012, 04:08:11 PM
This is THE CHRISTmas story as far as I'm concerned. I've watched it since I was a kid and it's still just as powerful as it was then.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3dj9mpBdUAU&feature=player_detailpage

Merry CHRISTmas to all of you. May your blessings be plentiful.
Title: Re: I can't help it
Post by: IronDioPriest on December 26, 2012, 04:01:56 AM
Indeed. Such nostalgia, hearing Linus recite scripture. It reminds us not only of the true meaning of Christmas, but also of the foundation of Americana that the Left is ripping away.

Until we are dead, the spirit evoked by this slice of God and America cannot die.
Title: Re: I can't help it
Post by: ToddF on December 26, 2012, 07:43:26 AM
And the powers that be didn't like it then.  Only the full force of Schultz's incredible celebrity got that final scene to stay.
Title: Re: I can't help it
Post by: AlanS on December 26, 2012, 08:52:21 AM
Quote from: MNHawk on December 26, 2012, 07:43:26 AM
And the powers that be didn't like it then.  Only the full force of Schultz's incredible celebrity got that final scene to stay.

I wasn't aware of that little tidbit.
Title: Re: I can't help it
Post by: ToddF on December 26, 2012, 10:01:09 AM
I just read about it somewhere...where...

http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2012/12/a-merry-power-line-christmas.php (http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2012/12/a-merry-power-line-christmas.php)

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Schulz wanted A Charlie Brown Christmas to have the religious meaning that was central to his own experience of Christmas. . .   Even Schulz admitted that he was probably the only person who could have gotten A Charlie Brown Christmas made. Television executives hated it from the start.
Title: Re: I can't help it
Post by: Alphabet Soup on December 26, 2012, 10:33:29 AM
Quote from: MNHawk on December 26, 2012, 10:01:09 AM
I just read about it somewhere...where...

http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2012/12/a-merry-power-line-christmas.php (http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2012/12/a-merry-power-line-christmas.php)

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Schulz wanted A Charlie Brown Christmas to have the religious meaning that was central to his own experience of Christmas. . .   Even Schulz admitted that he was probably the only person who could have gotten A Charlie Brown Christmas made. Television executives hated it from the start.

Thanks MNHawk - I recalled the resistence he faced and the hurtles he had to overcome to present the production intact but I wasn't having any luck recalling where I had read that chapter of the story.

Title: Re: I can't help it
Post by: Libertas on December 26, 2012, 11:46:56 AM
And that was 50 years ago, good luck trying to get it done today.  I don't even think network TV shows that anymore, does it?  I don't recall seeing it listed.  And if not for that closing scene quoting scripture the show wouldn't be what it is.  Charles did good. 

 ::thumbsup::
Title: Re: I can't help it
Post by: John Florida on December 26, 2012, 08:26:18 PM
  And now there is a permanent record of it in every home that owns that tape/disc.