![]() Megan is the museum director, and is the great-great-granddaughter of the real Maid Rosie. WHY DOES EVERYONE IN HALLMARK MOVIES MICROWAVE TEA? Heroine’s name is Megan, and she’s trying to tell him he’s an actor, but Charles just stormed outside and is freaking out about cars and airplanes.Īctor playing Eliza microwaved tea. Whitley showed up during the tour and is freaking out about all the people in house, and the actors also do not understand who this guy is. The weird tour also encompasses fake Eliza and fake butler Fredericks. The history is that Charles Whitley disappeared on Dec 18 1903, but huzzah, he wakes up in the future on his study’s floor, which is surrounded by “Do Not Touch” placards and his desk encased in lucite. And he’s such a good actor that this only creates bemused wonder on his face before he crashes to the floor and we cut to future time, where dark haired heroine is giving tours in Charles Whitley’s house. The clock says to wind it at the Christmas moon in order for true love to find you soon, and we just cut to a full moon in the sky – so Charles is going to wind that clock at 9:00 pm in 1903, and then the clock goes freaking haywire and it transports him into the future. And since the title of this has time in the title, I guess it will. ![]() Maid Rosie tells him that Eliza and Charles are not suited, but he’s like, nope, we’re fine. Charles has some very nice relationships with his maid, it’s like she’s an aunt or something. Why does rich Charles Whitley have a secret compartment in his study floor? He hides some blueprints and his journal in the floor, and we find out that the Christmas clock doesn’t work. And because she’s not in a hot cocoa mood (don’t ask) she storms out and does not even put on a coat. He’s focused on the future, and Eliza is all like, be focused on me, in the present. Charles is a workaholic, who won’t go to his fiancee’s Eliza’s parents Christmas party in Manhattan. His name is Charles Whitley, and there’s some kind of snake guy who’s got the hots for the fiancee, and seems to be a jerk. Why is it a Christmas clock? Because it’s red and green and has some kind of engraving on it? Oh who knows. We start in 1903 at an auction in upstate New York, where our hero just bought a Christmas Clock for his beautiful fiancee. Let’s dive in to A Timeless Christmas, starring that guy from the dog Pride and Prejudice and some other girl. There’s just so much going on, sometimes it’s just better to dive into a place where no one has to buy food or meal plan, or figure out how to lose the quaran-fourteen pounds they gained by learning how to bake in the Spring. ![]() It all makes for a wonderful, timeless companion to the maddening daze of Christmas, as well as a sobering reminder of the occasion's real gift.My, my, my, Hallmark is really packing in the good movies this year, didn’t they? So many to choose from! Maybe because everything went down the toilet this year, all these movies seem especially sweet? I don’t know. This reason - Emmanuel himself - lies enthroned in the album's centerpiece, the sprawling "Christmas Worship Medley," a ten-minute choral Magnificat that there are very few of in today's seasonal selections. Even the guests on this Christmas spectacular - CeCe Winans, Matthew Ward, Lalah Hathaway, Gerald Albright, among others - are almost invisible, keenly aware of the reason of Houghton's season. Elsewhere, he wastes no time in asserting the tone of the album, one where sacred carols are turned into funk-laden praise romps ("O Come," "Hark") or jazzy, bohemian reinterpretations ("Silent Nocturne"), all of which are performed with a dizzying sense of arrangement and cool, but not to the point of distraction. Houghton leaves some room for levity, as in the cinematic "Nutcracker" instrumentals, but these are mood pieces for the rest of the album. The disc does justice to its title, as this is yuletide fare that transcends the sounds of the season not only in sound, but also in spirit: Houghton isn't concerned with the commodification of the holidays, but with Christ's birth - not as a feeble, defenseless babe, but as a King incarnate that's worthy of utmost celebration and glory. In 2002, he took a departure towards '70s R&B with the impossibly soulful Real, and A Timeless Christmas picks up where that album left off. One of the most remarkable Christmas albums of 2006 was Israel & New Breed's A Timeless Christmas, a disc that, once again, proves that bandleader Israel Houghton is as much a soul singer as he is a champion of cross-generational, multi-ethnic praise & worship music.
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