Tim Allen played Santa Claus about 4 years ago. As I recall, he suddenly put on weight; it was a magical transformation from regular guy to jolly leader of elves. Is that weird enough? Sorry, I don't remember the film title... Kalynn Huffman Brower (812) 855-9935 Radio-TV Center, Room 309 Department of Telecommunications Indiana University Bloomington, IN 47405 http://www.indiana.edu/~telecom > ---------- > From: kelly abbott > Reply To: Film and TV Studies Discussion List > Sent: Tuesday, November 17, 1998 3:25 AM > To: [log in to unmask] > Subject: Christmas query > > On a lighter note... > I've been writing a column on films for a comedic magazine. Soon we'll be > producing a December marathon that includes a new article ever day of > December. An advent calendar, actually. Anyway, I plan on making my > regular Christmas reviews but also had an idea to write about Santa Claus > in film throughout the years. > What I'm asking screen-l, h-film all my friends and readers to help me > with, is to compile a record of all the weirdest Santa Clause imagery they > can remember form films past. Myself, I can only think of a few. The > "Dream Santas" in The City of the Lost Children, the "Rude Santa" in A > Christmas Story. But I'm drawing blanks after that. I seem to remember, a > Terrorist Santa from Christmas past, and didn't Chevy Chase do Santa once. > Was it SNL or the Vacation movie? Oh, and Gremlins featured Gremlin > Santas. That's a prime example. See where I'm going? > If you could forward your suggestions, so that I can fortify my article, > I'd be grateful indeed. Also, feel free to write me personally about any > memorable Chistmas film experiences. My editor mentioned that he kept his > ticket stub from the Muppet Christmas Story from way back. When he looked > through his albums recently he noticed that the stub had been torn just > so, leaving "Muppet Christ" legible. "Now that's a movie I want to see!" > he joked. > Get the picture? > Thanks > Kelly > ---- ---- ---- > kelly abbott > great jones street design > 1075 east nineteenth avenue > eugene, or 97403-1326 > tel. 541.683.7207 > http://www.great-jones-street.com/almanac/ > > ---- Screen-L is sponsored by the Telecommunication & Film Dept., the University of Alabama.