Christmas time always invites the inclusion of Hollywood movies, doesn't it? It's a wonderful life, The Christmas Story, The Nativity, etc...all warm and tender.
(Cue the LP record being scratched...)
Here's my Hollywood-holiday posting for Christmas, brought back by popular demand...
Merry Christmas, Richard Kimble, whatever your hair color may be....
And may Christmas bring you the joy of Big-Dude-Jesus, no matter what's "broken" in your life.
Den
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So...many years ago our oldest child, Nate, had this fascination with the Christmas Stable scene that was placed on the coffee table or near the fireplace each early-December.
Probably too much of a fascination...
At one point, during typical post-Christmas re-packing duties , I noticed that Baby Jesus seemed to not be "together"...his arm was missing.
No one fessed up.No one. Not Dr. Richard Kimble, not The One-Armed Man, not my younger child...especially not Nate, the older one. (Though years later I was able to get a smirk out of Nater on this subject...)
So, as the years flew by, we kept Baby Jesus that way...and year after year the One-Armed Babe came out to be with us. So this year, as we placed him in his straw-filled basket, my bride tried to cover up his "ghost arm". Not cool. So I placed him here in the blog to remind us all (especially my kids) that some traditions at Christmas time are just not right....tee hee...and they tend to annually reappear, nonetheless.
~ Dennis the Christmas Menace
PS: So that I don't mess-up your Christmas theology, I am including pictures of the One Armed Man from TV and the from the movie version of The Fugitive. I hope it helps....
Not baby Jesus.
Do not place this guy in the manger scene on your coffee table or over your fireplace. He will not like it and he may let you know that. In the TV show he was a drifter who had this sort-of psycho-thing about "beatin' up dames"....and he deserved what he got when Dr. Richard Kimble (ok, Lt. Gerard) killed him at the end of the "Special Last Show" of The Fugitive.
Not baby Jesus, either.
In the film version this guy was a former bad-cop turned PI who worked for a Doctor (booo, hiss). They had to shift the negative emphasis away from psycho handicapped dame-killer dudes - onto rich doctors who they can force us ALL to "hate'...they even gave him a fake arm, so we wouldn't see his Baby-Jesus-stump...
Merry Christmas, Dr. Richard Kimble....wherever you are washing dishes in some podunk town, off of Route 66 in the America of yesteryear.
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