Romeo Muller wrote some of the most popular holiday (mostly Christmas) specials of all time for
Rankin/Bass, including
Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer,
The Little Drummer Boy,
Santa Claus is Comin' to Town (bonus
Justin Bieber version with Animagic!),
Jack Frost, and
Nestor the Long-Eared Christmas Donkey. The very last special he wrote was
Noel, based on a story he told on the radio every year at Christmas. It aired just days before his death on December 30th, 1992. Another special, called
The Twelve Days of Christmas, aired in 1993, and was based on a story by him, but was written by someone else.
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posted by Huck500
on Dec 25, 2011 -
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So where would you go looking if you wanted to find the deepest and sickest cold wave synth-beats of all? Then I think we would have to look all the way back to
John Bender, avant-garde
synth pioneer, who released three seminal
albums in the early
'80s and then just disappeared, forever. What else sounds this fantastic, and has that addictive, computerized, lo-fi ice beat? Maybe Ultravox, and the frosty, hollow majesty of
Hiroshima Mon Amour. Or
Soviet with Candy Girl, or Lori and the Chameleons and
Touch
posted by puny human
on Sep 2, 2010 -
12 comments
In 1992, CBS released a Christmas special directed by
Bill Meléndez and produced by
Lorne Michaels (a more current
link), the cast included
John Goodman in the title role,
Jonathan Winters,
Jan Hooks,
Andrea Martin,
Brian Doyle-Murray, and a young
Elisabeth Moss as Holly. Music by
Mark Mothersbaugh. How could this go wrong?
Frosty Returns, in an abbreviated version, but really more than you need to see.
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posted by Toekneesan
on Dec 19, 2009 -
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Park your carcass in front of the TV for the next six weeks.
Here is the upcoming broadcast schedule for every show that has even the tiniest connection to The Most Wonderful Time of the Year.
posted by Kibbutz
on Nov 21, 2007 -
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