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Need to find some cool items to get yourself into the holiday
spirit???? We here at HollywoodFYI.com have found some new
Holiday favorites to help you get that spring in your step during this
yuletide season!
 Johnny
Mathis
The
Christmas Album
Johnny Mathis has just released "The Christmas Album", his sixth Holiday cd. The cd once again showcases his incomparable vocal stylings to a rich selection of Christmas standards and future yuletide classics. Among the album's highlights are swinging renditions of "Frosty The Snowman" ; Irving Berlin's "I've Got My Love To Keep Me Warm"; "Have A Holly Jolly Christmas" (from Burl Ives' much loved TV special "Rudolph The Red Nosed Reindeer"); "Christmas Time Is Here" (from the perennial "A Charlie Brown Christmas" TV special); "Merry Christmas" (originally recorded by Judy Garland) and a heart stirring arrangement of "Joy To The World."
 Chris
Botti
December
Chris Botti brings contemporary jazz to the holiday season with his release of December, on Columbia Records. Botti blends beautiful harmonies and sounds of the holiday spirit to create music that is joyful, romantic, and sexy. "December" is a 13-song collection that showcases standard seasonal fare like "Little Drummer Boy" and "Hark! The Herald Angels Sing." Combined with songs that are both seasonal and uplifting, Botti brings an artistic vibe to the album with melodies that are well suited to his trumpet, such as a hushed rendition of Leonard Cohen's "Hallelujah." Chris Botti also lends his voice to December, offering romantic renditions of Richard Marx's song "Perfect Day" (with the season-appropriate line, "With you, it's Christmas every day") and "Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas." December wonderfully captures the true meaning of Christmas and warmth of the season.
Barry Manilow
A Christmas Gift of Love
Barry Manilow joined with over fifty musicians to recorded his holiday release A Christmas Gift of Love. The album was recorded in the legendary Studio A at Capitol Recording Studios, Hollywood, California. "I wanted to make a family Christmas album that would make you feel good. And the way I thought I'd get there was to swing." ….and swing he does on such up lifting tempo tracks as "My Favorite Things", "I've Got My Love to Keep Me Warm", "Happy Holiday/Winter Wonderland".
The cd also holds an original Holiday song penned by Manilow and Bruce Sussman titled, "A Gift of Love." Manilow also keeps his listeners warm and tender with an acoustic "Winter Wonderland", "What Are You Doing New Year's Eve?" and "The Christmas Waltz".
Sha Na Na: Rockin'
Christmas
Sha Na Na is back with their first ever Holiday cd titled, Rockin'!
Sha Na Na has mixed on the cd a variety of up beat songs with
their very own 50s style! You will be rocking around the Christmas
tree with such songs as: "Run Run Rudolph," "I want
to Rock'n'Roll for Christmas," "The Rockin' Dreidel Song" and "Christmas (Baby Please Come Home)."
This CD is available online at www.patsgold.com.
The Beauty and the
Beast:
The Enchanted Christmas
The story of Beauty and the Beast continues in this soon to be
Holiday classic Beauty and the Beast: The Enchanted Christmas. The story
Bell does her best to transform the castle into the holiday sprit, she
recruits the help of the castles' enchanted objects including the new
character Angelique, the castles decorator. But it's the bah-humbug Pipe organ
whom might spoil the holidays for the beast and Bell.
First time onto DVD, Beauty and the Beast: The Enchanted Christmas
reunites the voice talent from the hit film. The DVD release also
includes a all-new music video, behind the scenes footage and
a "forte's Challenge" game.
The Santa Clause
The Santa Clause: Special Edition has come to DVD! The wonderful classic
film starring Tim Allen is a story, which has become a holiday classic.
The story is about a man (Tim Allen) who is a divorced business man who
does not believe in Santa Claus. On Christmas eve, his son hears something
on the roof and Santa Claus falls off the roof. Which in returns is that the
father becomes "Santa Claus" for that Christmas. Not realizing that
now he has the job for life, due to the Santa Clause, he is now Santa. But
no one believes his son as he tells the story, even his father who is Santa.
Santa Claus has become an instant classic from
Disney which in theaters now is the sequel, Santa Clause 2.
This film is a must to see to jump start your holiday spirit this year!
Disney's Winnie
the Pooh:
A Very Merry Pooh Year
Winnie the Pooh, is back for a brand new full length holiday
film for the entire family. The film has the whole "Pooh" gang
remembering fond memories of Christmas past, but when Rabbit
begins to plan a "News Year Eve" party, everyone begins to bother
him, he threatens to move out of the forest. The Hundred-Acre Wood
gang decides to change their ways as their New Year's resolution.
Winnie the Pooh: A Very Merry Pooh Year is a
a fill filled to the honey bowl of love and fun for the whole
family. The fun does not end when the film does, the extras
contain a "Covered in Snow" game, a "New Year's Eve Party" Countdown and
and everyone is able to "Sing Along with the Movie."
A Veggie Tale:
The Star of
Christmas
Extra, Extra...the paper reads: "The Princess and the Plumber" maybe a the hottest musical of 1880s in London if only Cavis Appythart
and Milward Phelps are able to finish their musical in time to "teach London to Love".
But their plans for a "spectacular" musical hit a bump as a small
church pageant is opening the same night and will show the priceless
artifact "Star of Christmas" which as not been seen for 80 years.
Milward and Cavis decided they need to steal the "Star" for their
play, which turns out to be a very bad idea...but in the end
the Holiday spirit is shown to all! The dvd also shines bright
with many extras as a "Behind the Scenes," "Very Veggie Christmas Tunes,"
plus much more.
Heart of a Stranger
 Jane
Seymour stars is this heart warming story of a woman almost at deaths
door as she waits for a heart trasplant. A donor for a heart
is found and safes her life. But the journey after the
transplant brings a strain on her relationship with her daughter and
the drives her to uncover the man who's heart she cares.
As all seems to fall
apart, the spirit of the holidays brings the world back to normal
and a joyce christmas
Playing on Lifetime:
December 9 @ 8pm & 11pm (premieres)
December 15 @ 6pm
December 18 @ 9pm
Miss Lettie and Me
Mary Tyler Moore stars with Burt Reyonlds, Charlie Robinson in TNT Original film MISS LETTIE AND ME. In the film, Lettie Anderson (Moore) early life was one of sacrifice - she set aside her dreams to care for those she loved, only to be devastated when they left her. As a result, she has closed her life and her heart to new people and experiences. When her smart and feisty 9-year-old grandniece arrives for an extended stay while her mother, who Lettie has been estranged from for years, goes to California to pursue a singing career. Not only is Travis' visit a surprise to Lettie, but Travis is as well. Lettie didn't even know she existed. Ultimately, Lettie's hard heart is no match for Travis, who, with the help of Lettie's long lost love Samuel Madison (Reynolds), teaches Miss Lettie to open her heart and love again.
Playing on TNT:
December 8 @ 8pm (premeires)
December 8 @ 10pm & 12 am
December 11 @ 9pm
December 14 @ 10pm
December 15 @ 4pm & 12am
December 21 @ 12:30pm
Chistmas in Washington
Christmas in Washington, will premiere on TNT on Sunday, December 15, at 8 p.m. ET/PT and will feature performances by Alison Krauss + Union Station, The Brian Setzer Orchestra, Brooks & Dunn, Lee Ann Womack, with special guest star Dr. John, and Yolanda Adams. The concert will be taped for live, same-day broadcast from the historic National Building Museum in Washington, D.C. The President and Mrs. Bush will be among the honored guests for the hour-long holiday concert.
Christmas Rush
On the busiest shopping day of the year, one of the largest malls in America teems with festive shoppers is taken hostage in a robbery. It's up to suspended police officer Cornelius Morgan (Dean Cain) to save the day. But the
plot thickens when the robbers discover that Morgan's wife is one of the hostage to uses her as bait.
Christmas Rush is a high action holiday film in the spirit
of such films as Die Hard and brings action into the Holidays! The film stars Dean Cain, Eric Roberts
and Erika Eleniak.
Playing on TBS:
December 1 @ 8pm (premieres)
December 7 @ 9pm
December 8 @ 6pm
December 10 @ 10:15pm
December 13 @ 8pm
25 Days of Christmas
Starting on December 1 starting at 4pm e/p ABC Family Channel will bring 225 hours of Holiday magic with an assortment of specials, films and original programming. The network will show animated classics as Rudolph, Frosty, and films as Three Days & The Preacher's Wife.
Plus the new holiday special The Christmas Orange, (airs Mon Dec. 9th 8:30pm) about a Six-year-old Anton Stingley awakes to find that Santa Claus has brought him a single orange instead of the 600 toys on his Christmas list. Anton decides to take St. Nick to court for breach of contract...tired of all the hassle, Santa decides to retire. Now Anton has to find a way to save Christmas, and quick!
For the full schedule check out abcFamily.com
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