Christmas Tree for Jacob Michael Longley You are my second grandson, Christmas-born.
What we have here is the work of Bob Dylan: prolific poet and songwriter, painter, filmmaker, paterfamilias to a whole generation of creative offspring, gate welder, patron of Christmas, born-again Christian and born-again Jew, seer, genius.
Those in a less sentimental frame of mind might prefer the Robot Chicken "Born Again Virgin Christmas Special" (Adult Swim, Dec. 16) or the "NTSF SD:SUV" holiday edition, "Wreck the Malls" (Adult Swim, Dec. 12).
Burleigh's "Born to Die: A Christmas Cantata"; Rejoicensemble!; Carl MaultsBy, conductor.
But the poet laureate of sad Christmases was the blues crooner Charles Brown (born 1922), who, with a vocal range and style similar to that of Nat King Cole, flourished in the US blues charts in the Fifties.
Sigmund Freud was born 13 years after A Christmas Carol was published, but his template for the power of psychological excavation is mapped out here.
The Monteloene is one of only three hotels in the country designated as a literary landmark, Truman Capote famously claimed to Johnny Carson that he was born in the Hotel Monteleone, and his A Christmas Memory is a southern lit classic.
The fact is that Christmas has one reason only -- that Jesus was indeed born.
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He loves to buy expensive gifts for his new bride: a Patek Philippe watch on their first Christmas together, a silver Mercedes on Mother's Day after their daughter was born, a tennis court at the Chappaqua house.
