Sure, Anne!

Since it's the last new ep until January, and I can only tune into one show at a time (stupid digital cable box!), I guess I'll be watching Lost. The Snowman always gave the creeps, anyway.

My favorite Christmas movie is, without a doubt, The Muppets Christmas Carol.

Next is likely Scrooged.

Popping in to rub my hands gleefully and cackle about the main accomplishment of the evening: successfully wooing Emmett away from his five hundredth viewing of "Teen Titans" and pimping the Marx Brothers to him. We watched A Day At The Races and he loves them. Even sat through the Chico and Harpo musical interludes! Insisted on rewinding and rewatching two different scenes! Had to be pried away from the penultimate scene with a crowbar! Is this vintage toaster-worthy?

The Marx Brothers are timelessly hilarious. I'm so proud of Emmett

Proud of Emmett? Pah! What about MY achievement? A black-and-white movie starring a bunch of dead people is one hell of a hard sell to a Yu-Gi-Oh card collecting, Teen Titans obsessed eight-year-old.

Emmett started out saying that not only had he never seen a Marx Brothers movie, he highly doubted he ever would. It took some serious pimping (Anarchy, Anarchy, and possibly Anarachy; Groucho insults everyone to their faces; Chico is a crook; Harpo's pockets are full of weird-ass shit) to get him to even consider it.

Of course, it was easy once Groucho tried to put his coat on and found a puppy in his sleeve, and once Emmett saw Harpo pick the same five dollars out of the same man's pocket three times and then steal his sock, he was good and hooked, but getting him there willingly was no small task.

Do I at least get a toasting-fork?

Your achievement is quite impressive too, JZ. I'm just proud of Emmett's good taste.

Yay for Marx Brothers pimpage!!! I say it calls for at least a decent bagel toaster. Try A Night at the Opera on Emmett next--the state room sequence (where they fit everyone and their mothers into the one room) is the best.

Re: good non-Princess Brider performances by Cary Elwes: Shadow of the Vampire. Brilliant freaking film. Malkovich and Dafoe are, of course, great in it, but Elwes really nailed his part, I thought.

I'd forgotten he was in that. Yeah, that was a good performance.

Cary Elwes was also good in Ella Enchanted. But that was kind of farcical.

I adore The Grinch. It's the best Christmas half hour ever spent.

Surprisingly, like P-C, I simply adored Moulin Rouge, including Nicole. I love it. Yet, when I rewatch, I tend to skip over a lot of the scenes on speed at the begining. And I really love playing with the extras, where you can edit the Roxanne scene yourself. So fun.

Thank you, Matt, for articulating so well the problems I too had with Bridget 2. And I'd add that I hated having to feel embarrassed for Bridget, and I hated feeling like I should watch from the hall, and I really hated that they made her look really plain. There was NO reason for her to be splotchy and basically makeup-less throughout the movie, or for her hair to look as though it never gets brushed, ever. Also, it looked as though Renee had been on some sort of crazy salt diet. She looked puffy, not like she just had a few extra pounds. She looked unhealthy. It was disappointing.

And I'm done being superficial, for now.