Christmas in Connecticut
12/25/202545 min
Today, we bring you our holiday epic from last year.
When Arnold Schwarzenegger decided he wanted to direct a feature film, the choice of material was obvious: He would remake a 1945 holiday classic. Easier said than done.
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First 90 secondsMalcolm Gladwell· Host0:00
[instrumental music] Pushkin. Hello, hello. Malcolm Gladwell here. Last week, my colleague Ben Nadav-Hafri brought you the story of the contested authorship of A Visit from Saint Nicholas, otherwise known as the 'Twas the Night Before Christmas poem. Christmas episodes have become a bit of a tradition around here, so I thought I'd bring you an additional piece of good cheer this morning, our epic episode from last year about Arnold Schwarzenegger directing a made-for-TV Christmas movie that goes wildly off the rails. And if you're thinking to yourself, "What? This is what you brought me for Christmas, a rerun?" Yes, I did, and if you keep listening, you'll find that my antipathy to Christmas runs very deep. What am I doing right now? Probably sunning myself in Boca and informing my children that 12 Days of Christmas is 11 days too many. What's Ben doing right now? Ask Norman Rockwell. But first, listen to this. [upbeat Christmas music] Christmas is one week away, and how am I celebrating? With restraint and circumspection. In the Gladwell family, we do a mid-century modern Christmas, spare, elegant, minimalist. Lots of the baby Jesus in a tasteful Scandinavian leather and rosewood manger. No