A tad cynical, aren’t we, Doctor J?
I confess to being stunned when I saw the ad for that show. First of all, it looked like something I’d never watch, even if I were paid to. But I did a double take to see Rob Lowe was in it.
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I thought St. Elmos Fire is when a muppet gets the runs!
Yeah, and Yellow Submarine is really about when John had diarrhea on a bus. (257 points for the reference.)
Actually, there is indeed a link between St. Elmo’s and Sesame Street. Back in around '85 I was a manager of a movie theatre. We had three screens, thus three places on the marquee to put movie titles. Yet we had four movies, because the afternoon and evening schedules were different. This sucked, because there wasn’t enough room for all of them, yet when I asked my supervisor what to do, he just told me to make it happen.
Obviously there wasn’t enough room for “Sesame Street Presents: Follow That Bird”, so I knew I would have to abbreviate it somehow. My solution? One line of the marquee read
SESAME ST ELMO
My supervisor was not amused.
With any luck, Aaron Sorkin saw that show, and called Rob, saying, “I’ll take you back at half pay, if you promise to be VERY nice to me from now on, and never to whine to the press about how we’re mistreating you, ever again.”
And with any luck, Rob will say, “Sigh… okay.”
In all seriousness, Rob Lowe is a guy I used to think had NO acting talent at all. I was astonished at how good he’s been on “West Wing” (just goes to show what good writing can do for some actors). He MAY have some legitimate beefs with Sorkin, but he CAN’T possibly believe that crud like this Christmas shoes movie will help his career! Better to be a second banana on “West WIng” than a star in slop of this calibre.
No, I think you have it confused with St. Elmo’s Revenge.
Out of respect for the memory of the guy who helped write the absolutely wonnnderful Xmas song, “Do You Hear What I Hear” (and who just died), I would like to propose that we have a moratorium on the playing of this song over the radio and in any public setting.
For the next decade.
I think 11811 has it right. A holiday movie that strikes a chord will Never Die[sup]TM[/sup], and will be a gravy train for years to come. If the Robster is anticipating another dry spell for his career, the regular checks will be a Godsend. I mean, hey, that old lady in the Folger’s commercials from the 70’s never had to work again; she was getting thousands a month years later when the ads were still in heavy rotation.
Just FTR: Lowe wasn’t entirely at fault in that video incident. The young women were the ones with the camera. They were underage, but that didn’t stop them from going to a club for the purpose of meeting celebrities (Lowe was part of a celebrity drive to register voters…whatever!). They willingly went to his hotel room (although the way I understand it, they would rather have gone to Elizabeth McGovern’s room), wielded the camera, then waved the video all over greater Atlanta, bragging how they’d made it with Rob Lowe, boo-yah. They were not innocent.
Lisa: Jesus wore sandals.
Homer: Well, maybe if he had better arch support they wouldn’t have caught him.
Every time I saw an ad for this movie and the boy said (with his hand over his heart) “every time I feel my heart beat I’ll think of you” I want to grab him, pick him up to eye level, and say,
"really? EVERY TIME? Every single time you feel your heart beat? FOR EVER? That’s a lot of heart beating, Jack!"
On the upside, abc family is showing all those old puppet style animated Christmas shows, Rudolph, and Frosty, and Jack Frost, and all the rest. Now those are classics. Love me some crazy puppet animation, or however they do it.
LOL! One Christmas years ago, I was enjoying some kind of rum drink (not eggnog) with my family. Whatever it was, it was the kind of wassail punch that sneaks up on you. Well, a commercial came on for a TV movie called Where Pigeons Go To Die (I kid you not). Michael Landon was in it, so that should give you the idea. This little kid says, tearfully, “Is Grandpa gonna die?”
From deep within the couch, I screeched out, “Everybody dies, kid!!” LOL all around.
Well, the Nielsens are in… and much as I hated that stupid movie, it was #3 for the week- pretty dang good, I’m afraid.
So, we elite SDMB posters may be above such maudlin crud, but America as a whole clearly isn’t. And Rob Lowe clearly has some drawing power.
Just listened to it. Two things:
When the line “And I want her to look beautiful…” comes up, I couldn’t help shouting “When she’s DEAD!”.
And finally, this line gets me the most:
“I knew that God had sent that little boy
To remind me just what Christmas is all about”
Let me get this straight. You believe that God, in all his wisdom and mercy, is killing this poor kid’s mother, just to remid you what Christmas is all about, Mr. Narcissism?? The life of a loving woman who “made Christmas good at our house, though most years she just did without” is nothing but an expendable pawn so that your buddy God can toss a little “life lession” your way the way most of us toss off Bon Mots??? You think that all of this tragedy is just to remind you how special the season is, a warm thought to carry you home in your leased BMW to Ms. Perfect, the 3-valium-a-day wifey who observes the nanny raise your precious kids who are just so much more perfect than anyone else’s and you can’t understand why the school has it in for them like that???
Sadly, this is how all too many people “think”.
Pardon me while I go barf.
Weirddave, that was beautiful!
::sniff::
Every time I barf, I’ll think of you, Weirddave.