Christmas tv classics.



I found this fantastic piece in the Chicago Tribune yesterday. (There will probably be quite a bit from the Trib these next two weeks as that is the daily newspaper we receive here at home. Sorry--so it may help to go ahead and register with them if you haven't yet.) You know that tv special about Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer? Well, there's some guy who's absolutely obsessed with it:

"The reason the specials resonate is that they have heart. They have warmth," he said. "You can't put out a `South Park' Christmas special or a `Ren and Stimpy' Christmas and expect it to be on for 35 years."

I love that show. Yukon Cornelius and silver and gold? Timeless. The Trib ran this companion piece on the Rudolph special.

In a plot twist that even "Rudolph" script writer Romeo Muller couldn't have imagined, the Canadian actors who portrayed fellow misfits Rudolph and Hermey in "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer" are now neighbors in the Performing Arts Lodge, a Toronto housing development for actors and artists.



"It's a great place to be, the only place for misfits anyway," joked Billie Mae Richards, 82, the actress whose singular performance is the distinctive Rudolph. "You can't go through life as an actor or a musician and be, quote, normal. People think you're a little strange."



"It's a great community," said Paul Soles, 72, whose deep voice and striking intellect are nothing like the dentist wannabe Hermey. "We take care of each other. It's what people do in small towns and neighborhoods, where the best of what we are is supposed to come to the fore."

Rudolph was played by a woman?

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