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Posted by Jamie on 11/14/06 00:40
Greg Bryant wrote:
> On 11/13/06 3:49 PM, "Michael Black" wrote:
>
> > "Fred Goodwin, CMA" (fgoodwin@yahoo.com) writes:
> >> William George Ferguson wrote:
> >>>
> >>> Considering it starts with the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade, shouldn't
> >>> Miracle be on there somewhere?
> >>
> >> I've always thought of "Miracle on 34th Street" as a Christmas movie --
> >> but if you want to call it a Thanksgiving movie, feel free.
> >>
> > But he has a point, the movie covers US Thanksgiving through Christmas.
> >
> > Since US Thanksgiving is such a key point in the start of the holiday
> > season, it works as either. Because there will be Christmas specials
> > starting on US Thanksgiving or shortly after. It hasn't happened in
> > recent years, but there was a time when FOX would air that "traditional"
> > Christmas classic, "Home Alone" on US Thanksgiving.
> >
> > Michael
> >
>
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> Much in the same way that ABC usually runs The Ten Commandments (not a movie
> about Easter) on or near Easter?
What about "The Sound of Music," which has nothing to do with either
Easter or Christmas, but is always aired just before either of those
holidays? I also seem to recall NBC airing it before Memorial Day one
year in the 1980s. NBC no longer airs it, however.
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