Even if they didn’t, in my mind they did, and you’ll never prove that they didn’t.” (Ives did not play Santa but was the snowman narrator of TV’s “Rudolph,” while Jones provided the voice of Santa for episodes of the animated show “Recess” and co-starred in the TV movie “Santa and Pete.”) Like many TV viewers, Giamatti is fond of a particular Santa poseur
The latest incarnation is a thoroughly modern Santa: Overworked, stressed out over his whitening hair, 텍사스 홀덤 족보 battling to maintain inventory, and squaring off against an efficiency expert who wants to downsize St. Nick out of a job. “I just got such a kick out of seeing Santa Claus as a human being with, like, his issues of being a saint and having to take care of everyone, and how he’s carrying that,” said “Fred Claus” director David Dobkin. The movie mold for Santa was established by Gwenn in 1947’s “Miracle on 34th Street.” Richard Attenborough did a sturdy take on Gwenn’s character in a 1994 remake, while Ed Asner played an endearingly way-worn Santa in Will Ferrell’s 2003 comedy “Elf.” “Lions For Lambs” Treads Softly Allen has been the modern standard-bearer, playing a mortal who inherits St. Nick’s job in 1994’s “The Santa Clause.” He reprised the role in two sequels, done up in the classic trappings of the ruddy-faced Santa. “When I’m up there in full regalia, in the full coat and beard, you think, it’s Santa,” said Allen, whose “The Santa Clause 3: The Escape Clause” debuts Nov. 20 on DVD. “The look we went for is like the Santas on the Coca-Cola tins from the early 1900s. That’s the Santa I responded to.” Even Allen acknowledged he had big boots to fill in Gwenn’s...
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