"I had to explain to my (then teen-age) children" about Lewinsky's relationship with the president "because of the incessant phone calls" from Lewinsky during the Christmas holiday in 1996, Tripp said.

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Unlike most Christmas movies, Guardians takes place during Easter, and features holiday characters from the whole year.

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Before the bladder infection, which he initially contracted during events marking the queen's diamond jubilee, he spent four nights in a hospital over the Christmas holiday last year for treatment of a blocked coronary artery.

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