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Ok so are there any Hanukkah t.v.movies out there? I want to be inclusive in my garbage films. I know about 8 Crazy Nights, The Hebrew Hammer, and that one episode of the Rugrats but I can't think of a single made for tv Hanukkah film. Hollywood get on this! Let me have wacky romcoms that involve ust while Person A helps Person B light the menorah. Show me how A is an uptight/ clumsy whatever who finally starts to learn to value family with a scene of them making Latkes with their grandparents recipe. Have them receive a present every night from a secret admirer! Give me something, anything I'm not picky!

THAT WIG THO. This movie MUST be done. If not by the gang than we must do it ourselves. Maybe we can figure out a holiday movie day each week after Thanksgiving or something. Because we also need to talk about my favorite version of A Christmas Carol the ICONIC A Diva's Christmas Carol starring the one and only Vanessa Williams. It is EVERYTHING. Kathy Griffin is the ghost of Christmas Past! I cannot stress enough how bonkers this thing is.

I mean... could she be read as a Gatsby like figure constantly striving for love and in the end being brought down by a vindictive asshole but ultimately being the one who orchestrated her own demise ? Is there a scene where she throws her million scarf ensembles around a room to impress Hudson? Does this make her army bodyguard Nick though? It's been a while since I re-read The Great Gatsby. I just know in my soul that Jordan Baker is a lesbian and that's all that matters.

Huzzah!!! I'm so happy you're feeling better!

To be honest I fully thought she was going to die in that phone booth or wander out and collapse on the football field. I did NOT expect her to make it as long as she did so when she started to sing the second song I just assumed she would burst into a sobbing meltdown or something not drop dead. I was shocked by that. Not ending of A Night In Heaven shocked (I literally screamed at that ending) but still shocked.

I mean I'm all for Jacksonville being burnt to the ground. I assume it happens because of a Molotov cocktailing of someone's boat by a rival dance crew gone horrifically wrong.

Oh assumed it was an overdose of some kind but I was just surprised it took so long and she was able to do... anything on stage in her condition.

Ok so when she talks about the football team thing am I wrong in thinking she was gang raped? Clearly that is what happened right? My god this poor woman. This movie just constantly shits on her. I'm honestly surprised we don't see her beloved childhood pet run over.

Ahhh that makes so much more sense. I was confused by the other photos and thought maybe people were comparing her to them? Idk I watched it on my phone. I definitely also was saddened by how clearly her parents still loved and cared for her. They wanted to go to her show! I'm kind of fascinated by this though. You would think that Rose would be the way she is because she came from a neglectful home situation and she was forever trying to compensate for the lack of love and affection. She seemed absolutely desperate for love and affection. I'm sure people from good home situations also can feel that way but as someone with similar, if much less severe issues of craving love, acceptance, and validation, I know that I'm partly this way because of a slightly messed up home life. So it would make sense to me if her parents were maybe not the greatest but it feels very much like her parents love and support her. I feel like they might not understand her, but they clearly support her. Also why didn't she want to see them at all? Was she ashamed of herself and didn't want them to see her falling apart? Which is a whole other level of sad. I'm also now remembering how much I love The Blue Album .

Also I couldn't understand if that was a memorial her parents had always had up or just threw together after she died and why it was in a garage of all places. If you want to have a memorial you would think it would be in a public place? If it's her family's special memorial why put it up out in the garage? Why not instead have it in their house? Also it would have actually had an effect if it had been Huston leaving a photo he maybe shot of her during the movie at the peak of their (week long? Month long? Who knows with this movie I was so confused by time) romance. Also THERE SHOULD HAVE BEEN A ROSE LEFT AT THAT MEMORIAL

I was thinking Veronica Lake for some odd reason

So we can all agree she just died from sadness /a broken heart right? Or does a heroin od take that long to go in effect? Like can you wait for a helicopter, talk to your parents on the phone, ride in said helicopter, perform a number THEN die?

So I am still BAFFLED by ... honestly so many things. But let's focus on my confusion about how her manager treats The Rose at the start. She's begging for time off and he being such a greedy soul sucker even a Dementor would be like "Take it down a notch bud" insists she can't take any time off at all. I get that they have a tour to do. But when a fucking REPORTER tells your star TO HER FACE she looks tired maybe you should get her some R & R. Even if you don't care she's a human being, you should care about your profits. She's your asset, and is essentially your main product. You don't want to have people coming to see her and being pissed she's barely able to perform and looks like a corpse from burn out. That's how you get people demanding their money back, fans not buying tickets for the next show because word gets out she sucks,and venues canceling you. You also don't want her so fucking miserable she stars using heroin again (which they touched on lightly as being a former problem) or even more drugs from misery/ a need to stay amped for the show. If you absolutely must be a cold hearted opportunist, at least think of and treat Rose as a prized racehorse (though the way some horses are treated this is probably a bad analogy) or something else that must be given a lot of care to perform perfectly for you. Yes she's clearly a handful (and in desperate need of some kind of mental health care for her intense mood swings and temper.) But if you treat her with some decency I bet you she wouldn't be so much to deal with. So maybe you don't give her a year off, maybe you say a month or two. Maybe you make sure she has as much calm as you and your team can manage on tour so she's not randomly SOBBING and wandering the streets all the time. Maybe you hire someone else to care for her as she clearly needs so you don't have to witness human emotions. I don't know. Maybe, just maybe it's a bad idea to be a soulless bastard.

I'm still trying to figure out who the Blonde drag queen was meant to be. I clocked the Barbara Streisand and Baby Jane. I was surprised there was no Judy Garland

I think we talked about it and this feels a LOT like it was her version of Streisand's A Star Is Born. However she somehow is both Barbra Streisand and Kris Kristofferson's characters all at once. She and Bab's definitely have similar afro perms.

I love how Bette dresses exclusively in pinks, purples, and other rosy hues

This is a movie about deranged mentally ill people who overreact at the drop of a hat and for some reason no one is weirded out by that

Thank you so much @Cinco DeNio for a truly bonkers film! Sorry I disappeared at the very end my phone started going haywire and was freezing like mad. I CANNOT wait to talk about this movie. Truly everyone in it was in need of serious mental health help. Not one person acted remotely sane.

Is the movie still going on? I can't seem to get in. Never mind I fixed it! I forgot to add you like an idiot

I just squealed so loudly with joy I woke my cat up in the next room. This is EVERYTHING ! I honestly would use this as my Christmas card.

All movies are a ten cat gif minimum if you're inner Cat Lady is strong enough! But seriously is this going to require baby animal videos after?

I'm so sorry!!! I hope you feel better soon

I'm pretty sure Lacey Chabert is the TRUE Christmas Tv Movie Queen

If they make a Christmas movie about sharks I. Will. DIE !

I know I enjoyed Pieces of April and I think it's possibly the only time I've found Katie Holmes bearable