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Decked out with a scowling Grinch tie and a pin with Santa hanging upside down from a chimney, author Tom Flynn enumerated the evils of Christmas for members of the Secular Society last night in the Owen Room in Winthrop House...
...people what they prized above all else and helped instill in them the boundless cheer and goodwill that come from being fully invested and watching CNBC all day. That goodwill inspired bountiful acts, such as Ted Turner's pledging $1 billion to charity and Al Dunlap's--the Grinch, to some--granting stock options to every last employee at Sunbeam Corp. Of course, we still have work to do. Managers of Oxford Health Plans padded their wallets by selling sleighfuls of stock this year, just before the price collapsed. That seems at odds with the giving spirit. O Ghost...
...find my Grinch-like stance softening year by year. You can accuse the Christmas costumers of turning Christ's Mass into kitsch. Or you can see them, from a loftier perspective, as the only true celebrants of the original Christmas spirit, which we have tended to lose sight of in recent centuries. Check out the holiday's history: Dec. 25 wasn't chosen because it was the date on Jesus' birth certificate but because that was the time of the ancient Saturnalia, when all of Rome poured into the streets for days of public revelry. Even Christianity couldn't take...
...with resolutions on subjects ranging from Nigerian oil, to Burmese students, to grape and strawberry pickers. But the council clothing drives or gift drives for the needy have invariably fizzled out with only a few people to staff them. Have you ever even heard of the "Pinch the Grinch Drive?" There is a reason...
Time out! In a garish era for movies, does Brooks even have a shot with this Candygram? Its sentimental story has more cripples and victims than A Christmas Carol. And the first half an hour, a bit slow and unsure of its tone, plays like The Grinch from Greenwich Village. The film also echoes Jerry Maguire, the Tom Cruise hit that Brooks produced last year. That one had a self-obsessed hero, a sweet mother-child tandem and a media figure in trouble. All you can say about Brooks' new film, which he wrote with Mark Andrus, is that...