ok, so the c-w's have done a very bad thing- they have opened grandma crown's present dvd of white christmas and watched it...it wasn't on purpose- scw tuned in a louisville station playing it but it would only show in b&w- mean mamma not paying for cable- you understand..........so mean mamma does one better- she opens grandma crown's christmas dvd of white christmas and we watch it.........so technicolor, so harmonious...so rosemary clooney and bing crosbey and danny kaye........NPR did a story on 'present at the creation' recently.....about the creation of cultural icons....and white christmas was one of the first stories......irving berlin knew when he wrote it it would become a big hit...but the radio bigwigs didn;'t quite see it his way...until pearl harbor....and all those g-i's who really wanted to be home for christmas.....it was huge hit in 1945......this movie wasn't made til 1954, and the song was used in another movie first (holiday inn) but this movie is a marvelous piece of americana...i cried at the end.......but then mean people tend to cry at the end-.......we think that the woman who played the housekeeper went on to play the wicked witch of the west.........