Ben-Nadav Hafri
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first heard Dec 2024
last heard May 2025
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What happens is they just drench the baby in shampoo, and then they barely wash any of it out. On the bath scale, it's two rubber duckies out of ten. But the premise of the scene is that Jefferson Jones is crushing it.
It's like on SNL when the actors break and laugh. When Elizabeth's like, I'm not sure if we got all the soap out. And Jefferson's like, well, we didn't. That's the true reaction. And it must be improvised. But then they go back to the scripted version where Jones is doing a great job. Most of the people on set have some kind of moment like this.
So it was kind of hectic on set. And yet, I think you can hear in people's voices how much they love telling this story. Pretty much across the board, this was a happy memory for the people I spoke to. Not least of all because they never lost sight of just how improbable it all was.
The forehead thing. You're not the first person to bring that up. Several people mentioned to me that Arnold Schwarzenegger's favorite put-down was to call someone a forehead. This actually made it into the movie, when Elizabeth Blaine and Jefferson Jones get pulled over by the cops mid-slay ride. The one where you can see the wheels? This happens.
This is actually a big part of why I love this movie. It has a kind of free jazz improvisatory quality to it. It's oddly self-referential and also very sweet. It's like how you can hear in someone's voice when they're smiling. That's how this movie feels.
Because even at the risk of himself being labeled a forehead who couldn't direct the movie, Arnold Schwarzenegger was showing up every day and putting in his all. For the film buffs in the crew, it was a dream come true just to work with him, or with a legend like Tony Curtis.
After 20 days of shooting, the film wrapped. They had a party at Arnold Schwarzenegger's restaurant. It was around Christmas time, and they all got sweatshirts with the name of the film on the front.
Later, Jim was kind enough to send me a photo of the sweatshirt. It said on the back, More snow, you forehead. There's my Schwarzenegger impression. With the film in the can, post-production and premiere is loomed. That's after the break.
Before we get to the premiere of Arnold Schwarzenegger's 1992 Christmas in Connecticut remake, I want to tell you about something that happened earlier this year.
Thank you, Mitch, for coming down from Detroit.
Malcolm interviewed Mitch Albom live on stage at the 92nd Street Y. Albom is the best-selling author of some ungodly number of books, but he's probably most famous for Tuesdays with Maury. He and Malcolm were there to talk about his new novel about the Holocaust, The Little Liar. They were warming up with some Mitch backstory about his time as a musician in New York.
I was backstage at this event, peering out. I hadn't read Mitch's book. I was up to something else.
At this point, the audience of people who had come that night to hear the author of Tuesdays with Maury discuss the Holocaust noticed the electric piano behind him.
Yes, it was my keyboard. And yes, I had planted it there.
That would be Stanley M. Brooks, executive producer of Christmas in Connecticut. Stan and Mitch were roommates at Brandeis.
They planned to play it over the credits. With a Mitch album closing track in hand, Christmas in Connecticut was almost ready to debut. Most made-for-TV movies you just put out on television, but not this one.
Janet Brownell, the screenwriter, was not having such a good night.
Why were you crying?
But there was no putting the genie back in the bottle. TNT was running promos nonstop.
I don't know if you caught that, but the film came out in April, one week before Easter. As one reviewer put it, quote, don't ask me why a Christmas movie is premiering in April. As his then-wife Maria Shriver reflected, he just does. He's a big one on don't think about it or talk about it. Do it.
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