 
Orchard612
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Username: Orchard612
Post Number: 4
Registered: 12-2007
| | Posted on Friday, December 05, 2008 - 6:22 pm: |    |
Does anyone remember a locally produced movie made sometime in the early 1990s with Isiah Thomas, Jeff Daniels, Ron Coden and Carmen Harlan? I remember it being really awful, and now it's really hard for me to find it's name or any info about it. Under Jeff Daniels and Isiah Thomas (!) filmographies, mysteriously, nothing is listed. Can anyone help, and then can anyone help in redistributing this gem so that the world can know the true meaning of Christmas once again. |
Detourdetroit
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Username: Detourdetroit
Post Number: 439
Registered: 10-2003
| | Posted on Friday, December 05, 2008 - 8:01 pm: | |
i think it was called
the bad boy of christmas and his magic purple rose |
Bigb23
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Username: Bigb23
Post Number: 3111
Registered: 11-2007
| | Posted on Friday, December 05, 2008 - 8:06 pm: | |
Wasn't the Ghoul and Shirly Muldowney in it with Al Ackerman ?
What a Detroit classic. |
Dannyv
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Username: Dannyv
Post Number: 497
Registered: 08-2007
| | Posted on Friday, December 05, 2008 - 8:20 pm: | |
Didn't Carmen Harlan play a character named Common Harlot who was a street walker? |
Sludgedaddy
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Username: Sludgedaddy
Post Number: 240
Registered: 01-2008
| | Posted on Friday, December 05, 2008 - 9:41 pm: | |
...yes, quite the heart warming yuletide production. Coleman A. Young played the M.F.I.C. ( Mother Fucker In Church ), a loveable character,indeed. |
Detourdetroit
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Username: Detourdetroit
Post Number: 442
Registered: 10-2003
| | Posted on Friday, December 05, 2008 - 10:13 pm: | |
the ending was priceless...remember when
count scary agreed to play santa claus at the last minute for the kids, because the real santa clause was in nyc with reps from macys and marshall fields trying figure out a way to save hudsons.
how could you forget??? |
Dannyv
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Username: Dannyv
Post Number: 498
Registered: 08-2007
| | Posted on Saturday, December 06, 2008 - 3:43 pm: | |
How could anyone forget the scene of Count Scary, dressed as Santa, frightening the children because he forgot to take his white/death face makeup off and Tyree Guyton trying to guide Santa to the homes of the good boys and girls by painting polka dots on the roofs of their houses but was shot by someone who thought he was a scrapper trying to steal their TV antenna for pocket money. |
Ruxy17
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Username: Ruxy17
Post Number: 28
Registered: 08-2007
| | Posted on Saturday, December 06, 2008 - 4:05 pm: | |
woah woah woah.
wait a second.
this is an actual movie? i want to see it right now. it sounds AMAZING. |
Sludgedaddy
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Username: Sludgedaddy
Post Number: 241
Registered: 01-2008
| | Posted on Saturday, December 06, 2008 - 5:39 pm: | |
....the prologue leading up to the Christmas scenes was also a scene to remember. During the Thanksgiving Day Parade the DFD used one of their pumpers to squirt Cheese Whiz at the floating Froggie Balloon over Woodward just before The Ghoul blew it up to create a Detroit Hindenburg effect. |
Dannyv
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Username: Dannyv
Post Number: 499
Registered: 08-2007
| | Posted on Saturday, December 06, 2008 - 7:25 pm: | |
Now that's what I call A Hard Rain Gonna Fall, Sd. |
Hubbardfarmer
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Username: Hubbardfarmer
Post Number: 17
Registered: 10-2008
| | Posted on Saturday, December 06, 2008 - 7:40 pm: | |
What a hilarious thread! Thanks for making my day. |
Haikoont
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Username: Haikoont
Post Number: 43
Registered: 09-2008
| | Posted on Saturday, December 06, 2008 - 7:53 pm: | |
I remember Don Shane's dramatic turn as Tiny Tim and Bob Bennett and Al Allen playing talking snowmen who lived on freeway overpasses. |
Sludgedaddy
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Username: Sludgedaddy
Post Number: 242
Registered: 01-2008
| | Posted on Saturday, December 06, 2008 - 7:58 pm: | |
...of the three spirits to appear before Isiah Thomas' character, the first to arrive was the Ghost of Christmas Past portrayed by George Pierrot who was already dead in 1980. He spoke of the wonderful cuisine of Bogata, Columbia and recited a host of ribald holiday limericks.
The Second Spirit, the Ghost of Christmas Present was handled by John Sinclair, who rolled up a bunch of mistletoe bombers and passed them around.
Alice Cooper then completed the ghostly trio by appearing as the Ghost of Christmas Future as he showed Isiah how Detroit would appear in the early 21st Century.....very frightening indeed! |
Dannyv
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Username: Dannyv
Post Number: 500
Registered: 08-2007
| | Posted on Saturday, December 06, 2008 - 8:52 pm: | |
How about when the Mayor declared all the trash, blowing around on the streets, to be considered legal tender and to be used solely for the purchase of toys for the children of the City. Now that was real Christmasy. |
Sludgedaddy
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Username: Sludgedaddy
Post Number: 243
Registered: 01-2008
| | Posted on Saturday, December 06, 2008 - 9:02 pm: | |
...plagerizing "Santa Claus Conquers the Martians" for a few scenes, just to give the children of Detroit a good holiday scare, Le Nain Rouge held the real Santa captive in his lair down in the grit tunnels of Detroit's Wastewater Treatment Plant.... |
Dannyv
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Username: Dannyv
Post Number: 502
Registered: 08-2007
| | Posted on Saturday, December 06, 2008 - 9:07 pm: | |
when I heard that a fetus had washed up on your shores, I was sure the media was confused. That was no fetus, that was the new director doing an unscheduled inspection. |
Downtown_lady
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Username: Downtown_lady
Post Number: 451
Registered: 08-2008
| | Posted on Saturday, December 06, 2008 - 9:08 pm: | |
...And remember the part where the evil mayor stole all of the city's money, and they threw him in jail? Oh wait, that really happened. |
Dannyv
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Username: Dannyv
Post Number: 503
Registered: 08-2007
| | Posted on Saturday, December 06, 2008 - 9:53 pm: | |
that's a different movie called Kwame Kwaanza |
Ruxy17
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Username: Ruxy17
Post Number: 33
Registered: 08-2007
| | Posted on Monday, December 08, 2008 - 1:36 pm: | |
i've looked everywhere for this movie and can't find it. was it aired on tv? or was it on video? |
Kryptonite
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Username: Kryptonite
Post Number: 29
Registered: 11-2008
| | Posted on Monday, December 08, 2008 - 2:44 pm: | |
OK, some of these posts make me wonder if I should have voted AGAINST Proposal 1 instead of for it.  |
Detroitplanner
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Username: Detroitplanner
Post Number: 2053
Registered: 04-2006
| | Posted on Monday, December 08, 2008 - 2:51 pm: | |
Wasn't it shown as part of the local series Hamtramck? |
Sludgedaddy
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Username: Sludgedaddy
Post Number: 245
Registered: 01-2008
| | Posted on Monday, December 08, 2008 - 5:49 pm: | |
...pre-dating his appearance on South Park, Mr. Hanky, in an animation/live action ala "Who Famed Roger Rabbit" scene saves the real Santa Claus from the clutches of Le Nain Rouge in the grit tunnels of the Detroit Wastewater Plant. Being again free to distribute toys to the good little boys and girls, Santa was given the Key to the City of Detroit--a bejeweled pry-bar. |
Fredgarvin
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Username: Fredgarvin
Post Number: 82
Registered: 02-2007
| | Posted on Monday, December 08, 2008 - 9:08 pm: | |
What, Oopsy the Clown wasn't in it? |