It's been 22 years since "Elf" starring Will Ferrell came out in theaters. Since its release in 2003, it's joined the pantheon of Christmas comedy classics like "National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation, ...

Starring ’80s Saturday Night Live icons Eddie Murphy and Dan Aykroyd, Trading Places is a Christmas-set comedy about two men from radically different worlds — Aykroyd as a smug, well-heeled ...

Twin sisters Chanda Bell and Christa Pitts grew up with a family tradition that is now a booming business. They, along with their mother Carol Aebersold, are the creators of The Elf on the Shelf, a ...

In defense of the sad holiday song. By Melissa Kirsch Perusing painkillers at CVS the morning after Thanksgiving, I should not have been surprised by the telltale clattering of horse hooves thundering ...

Zooey Deschanel recalls originally losing her 'Elf' role to Katie Holmes. Kristina Bumphrey/PMC/New Line/Courtesy Everett Collection Although Zooey Deschanel broke through with her romantic leading ...

Buddy almost had a different Jovie. Zooey Deschanel revealed that she originally was not cast as Will Ferrell’s love interest in the beloved holiday hit “Elf.” Instead, Katie Holmes was offered the ...

Zooey Deschanel revealed during an interview on the “Call Her Daddy” podcast that she was offered the female lead in Jon Favreau’s 2003 Christmas movie classic “Elf” only after Katie Holmes dropped ...

Matt Davis of the University of Alabama guest-directs an adaptation of "A Christmas Carol" for Theatre Tuscaloosa.

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