We spent most of the evening with family, then went home about 11 (wife worked and was tired), then watched only the few minutes up to and including the Times Square ball drop.
My days of spending NYE puking into a toilet with 3 other people are long over…
Wow, was she ever annoying. When she wouldn’t quit with the “I’m gonna go down on you” I was hoping Anderson would give her a swift knee to the bridge of her nose.
Watched the first season of The I.T. Crowd. Never saw it before, enjoyed it quite a bit.
Hubby switched between Twilight Zone and the re-animation of Dick Clark while I watched Belta Song reach her lifetime goal of becoming singing superstar and, simutaneously, watching paint dry as I was waiting to start the trim in the bathroom.
P.S. Damn, I’m old and decrepit. I couldn’t finish painting my little bathroom even with the 4 day weekend. I blame the ceiling. Boy was that a bitch!
I switched between the Twilight Zone marathon and the CNN Sexual Harassment Extravaganza.
Jeeze, you guys are making me wish I’d watched that. 
We watched “Love, Actually,” then “Dawn of the Dead,” then something else that I can’t remember.
Two consecutive episodes of Downton Abbey season 3. I cried my eyes out.
We have a tradition where every New Year’s Eve we rent (or otherwise acquire) two movies we haven’t seen and watch them one after the other. This year they were “Moonrise Kingdom” (cute) and “Casino Royale” (good, but too long and too many false endings). We turned on Zombie Dick Clark for about 15 minutes, turned it off after the ball dropped, and went to sleep to Dr. Who.
I bought a copy of Skyrim the day before, so I was playing that. I probably would have switched over to a local New Year’s Eve broadcast at around midnight, but my wife went to bed way early and so she wasn’t there to remind me and I missed it!
I was watching my PC screen, Planetside 2.
Polanski’s Oliver Twist, Fagin was awesomely played by B en Kingsley.
Then Paris The luminous years on PBS up until the lame-O Ryan Seacrest countdown. Pitbull then got the house rocking…Then it was back to TCm for Oceans 11 and the rest of the champagne. Midnight meal of elk sausage, swiss, flatbreads and pickles.
memorable all in all, I was awake!
We watched the Ball Drop, but we only turned it on with less than five minutes to go–and in fact were lucky–we completed the evening’s jigsaw puzzle less than five minute to midnight. We were not clock watching.
Billy Wilder’s The Apartment.
Sheesh! You can watch that every year.
I watched several episodes of Thriller, hosted by the immortal Boris Karloff. They’re all on YouTube. I watched a bunch of good ones: Pigeons From Hell, Guillotine, A Wig For Miss Devore, and Yours Truly, Jack The Ripper.
The storytelling is a bit slow by modern standards – you could probably edit every one of them to a half-hour without any trouble – but very well done for 1961. Karloff was truly one of the greats, and his voice was absolutely marvelous. If your only exposure to it is listening to How The Grinch Stole Christmas every year, you really should treat yourself.
(When I was a kid we had a couple of records of Karloff read Kipling’s Just So Stories - wonderful!)
Hey! We just watched that last night, and yes Fagin was fantastically rewritten and awesomely acted. A quick thread hijack question, though:
What word was Fagin shouting over and over at the end, as Oliver left the prison?
As for NYE, we played duplicate bridge and ate gloriously all day, then came home and goofed around until 11:55, when we tuned in to CNN for a couple of minutes. Apparently we missed something we’re glad we missed…
Yup.
They put fireworks on the Space Needle, and set them off at Midnight. I watched them do that on TV.
I am rewatching Chuck. On that day I had just begun Season 2.
I wish I’d known about the Twilight Zone marathon.
You should have used checkboxes, because here in Atlanta was a simulcast of watching the peach drop and watching the NYC Ball drop.
Which is what I watched.