Season's Greetings: A Happy Thanksgiving.
I bid you Seasons Greetings of Thanksgiving. Thinking of you at Thanksgiving May the beauty of this season and the warm thoughts of friends give you quiet joys to hold in your heart. Happy Thanksgiving.
For Thanksgiving I am having Roasted Turkey, Han, Mashed Potatoes, Candy Yams, Green Beans, Cranberry sauce, Brown and Serve Rolls, Pumpkin Pie, and Cheese Cake, Spice Cake with Peanut Butter Icing, Lipton Unsweetened Ice Tea.
It going to be me, my sisters, Sissy, Amber, Barbara and husband Rick and my nephew Cole, my brother Lennie, and his daughter and my niece Brittany and Kaylee and Chelsea and. We will be eating Thanksgiving Dinner and watching Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade on NBC and the following Christmas DVDs.
It's A Wonderful Life [DVD] (1946)
Classic comedy/drama that is the quintessential Frank Capra film. James Stewart is a small-town banker who is driven by circumstances one Christmas Eve to consider suicide, only to be shown by neophyte angel Henry Travers what a difference his life has made. Tremendous cast includes Donna Reed, Thomas Mitchell, Lionel Barrymore and Ward Bond. Complete, uncut 130-minute version. Standard; Soundtracks: English, French, Spanish; Subtitles: English, French, Spanish; "making of" documentary; theatrical trailer.
Category: Comedy Director: Frank Capra
Cast: Frank Albertson, Robert Anderson, Stanley Andrews, Lionel Barrymore, Ward Bond, Beulah Bondi, Argentina Brunetti, Lane Chandler, Harry Cheshire, Ellen Corby, Frank Faylen, Gloria Grahame, Todd Karns, Edward Keane, Charles Lane, Sheldon Leonard, J. Farrell MacDonald, Thomas Mitchell, Donna Reed, Almira Sessions, Larry Simms, James Stewart, Henry Travers, Mary Treen, Ray Walker, H.B. Warner
Also Available: VHS
Academy Award®
Nominee: Best Picture, Best Actor (James Stewart), Best Director (Frank Capra), Best Sound, Best Editing
Rated: NR B&W
Miracle On 34th Street [DVD] (1947)
The perennial holiday film classic about a Macy's department store Santa Claus who insists he's the real item. Edmund Gwenn stars in his Academy Award-winning role of "Kris Kringle," Maureen O'Hara plays a doubting store executive, Natalie Wood is her daughter, and John Payne is the lawyer who defends Gwenn in court. 96 min. Standard; Soundtracks: English Dolby Digital mono, French Dolby Digital mono; Subtitles: English, Spanish; theatrical trailer; interactive menus; scene access.
Category: Family / Live-Action Director: George Seaton
Cast: Jack Albertson, Lela Bliss, Jeff Corey, Jerome Cowan, Mary Field, William Forrest, William Frawley, Edmund Gwenn, Porter Hall, Percy Helton, Herbert Heyes, Bobby Hyatt, Gene Lockhart, Maureen O'Hara, John Payne, Bob Reeves, Thelma Ritter, James Seay, Patty Smith, Philip Tonge, Natalie Wood
Also Available: VHS
Academy Award®
Winner: Best Supporting Actor (Edmund Gwenn), Best Screenplay, Best Original Story
Nominee: Best Picture
Rated: NR B&W
A Christmas Carol [DVD] (1984)
A marvelous performance by George C. Scott as repentant pinchpenny Ebenezer Scrooge fuels this acclaimed adaptation of Dickens' beloved holiday fable. The stellar cast also includes David Warner, Susannah York, Frank Finlay, Edward Woodward and Nigel Davenport. 100 min. Standard; Soundtrack: English Dolby Digital Surround; Subtitles: English, Spanish.
Category: Family / Live-Action Director: Clive Donner
Cast: Michael Carter, Nigel Davenport, Frank Finlay, Michael Gough, Lucy Gutteridge, Cathryn Harrison, Brian Pettifer, Angela Pleasence, Roger Rees, George C. Scott, Mark Strickson, David Warner, Edward Woodward, Susannah York
Also Available: VHS
Rated: PG Color
White Christmas [DVD] (1954)
Timeless holiday classic stars Bing Crosby and Danny Kaye as a pair of merry veterans who become famous song-and-dance men after World War II. Soon, the duos join forces with singing sisters Rosemary Clooney and Vera-Ellen to help save their former army general's Vermont inn. Beloved Irving Berlin score includes "Blue Skies," "Sisters," "Count Your Blessings Instead of Sheep," the title track, and more. 120 min. Widescreen (Enhanced); Soundtracks: English Dolby Digital 5.1, Dolby Digital mono, French Dolby Digital mono; Subtitles: English; audio commentary by Clooney; theatrical trailers; interview.
Category: Musicals
Cast: George Chakiris, Barrie Chase, Rosemary Clooney, Bing Crosby, Gavin Gordon, Percy Helton, Dean Jagger, I. Stanford Jolley, Danny Kaye, James Parnell, Sig Rumann, Grady Sutton, Herb Vigran, Anne Whitfield, Mary Wickes
Also Available: VHS
Academy Award®
Nominee: Best Song ("Count Your Blessings Instead Of Sheep")
Rated: NR Color
Prayer of Thanksgiving
We gather today, Lord of abundant life, as grateful children. Delighted and humbled by our bounty, we celebrate gifts of food and shelter, of colors that dance at dawn and dusk; we relish the scent of cooking foods, of burning leaves and summer's wet grass, of snowflake, of animal fur. We marvel at the intricacy of spiders' webs and fish bones, newborn babies and lines etched on faces of grandparents come for a visit today. All gifts from Your hand. When our meal is completed, leftovers stashed, and naps taken, we will leave replete, energized, and eager to go generously into the world and share our good fortune.
Rev. Lynn James
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