The front window of the house has a replica of the leg-shaped lamp from the classic holiday movie "A Christmas Story".
Both "Kinky Boots" and "Matilda" will compete for the best musical prize with the acrobatic "Bring It On: The Musical" and "A Christmas Story, The Musical, " adapted from the beloved holiday movie.
Many Netflix users had to scratch those plans to gather around the laptop for "It's a Wonderful Life, " "A Christmas Story" or "Santa's Slay" (the 2005 classic starring former wrestler Bill Goldberg as a deranged Santa demon).
Prior to Christmas, a story broke of former U.S. Olympian Suzy Favor Hamilton outing herself as having briefly worked as a call girl with a Las Vegas-based company.
Dickens wisely did not include a gambler personality in his Christmas story.
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That online story is a big part of the Christmas trading figures we've had so far this month.
In an often disorienting mixture of rages, flashbacks, speeches to the camera, and nods to other movies, the story rolls and stammers along, drawing the family into a Christmas get-together but denying them more than a glimpse of the harmony that we might, by tradition, expect.
Lincoln had also been a hot ticket for best picture before Christmas, but Argo, which tells the story of how the CIA and Hollywood helped rescue US hostages in Iran in 1980, has gained momentum in recent weeks.
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But perhaps Lego should not strive unduly to keep up with electronic fashion: the big hit this Christmas at Hamleys, London's toy mecca, was a come-back story dating back to ancient Greece: the humble yo-yo.
In the story, whose details vary among productions, young Marie Stahlbaum receives a nutcracker on Christmas Eve from her mysterious godfather with an eye patch, Herr Drosselmeier.
In a sardonic reshuffling of classic sentimental tropes, the story ominously turns on the difficulty of getting a goose-liver dinner in Munich on Christmas Eve.
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