Many classic Christmas movies feature nothing but white people. What about the ones that don't?
A few weeks ago a heavy, midsize hardcover book arrived in the mail from Turner Classic Movies titled "Christmas in the Movies: 30 Classics to Celebrate the Season."
The table of contents reveals selections from the 1940s you'd expect to see on the TCM schedule this time of year - "Holiday Inn," "Meet Me in St. Louis" and more. But the list also includes movies of a more recent vintage - "A Christmas Story," "Gremlins," "National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation" and "Love Actually" among them.
"This book presents thirty of the best and most-intriguing English-language holiday movies - beloved classics, under-the-radar gems and a few familiar titles you may not have considered for their yuletide slants," author Jeremy Arnold writes in the intro, adding that "for all their differences, they share some interesting patterns and
