So cute... and jolie, too. Scene 5, Take 5, and 5 to grow on !

TOS is just called "Deck The Halls." You did a fine job here.

a delight throughout

Not timely, but funny for fives. Don't for get: in a while. . . .

Loved the first verse, had me chuckling at work.

Marvellous, Stuart...

I like Christmas in March...very good job, here

thanks Paree!

Song Title Cop:......................................yup

thanks alvin and JAB - don't forget: "overtaking"...... ;-)

thanks Jeff, Phil, and AFW

LOL... You could do "Jolean on Me" next....

What's next Stuart? Stalkin' Angelina to the tune Phantom of the Opera...

thanks MrMacphisto and Matthias - no, can't do either of those - my therapist's got me thinking 24/7 about calm rainforests

Good switch... from home page, was expecting movie to be "hard-core porn" - guess it was, in your dreams. 555
btw, you might like TT stab at OS two weeks ago.

"I'll make dozens of mistakes (yup!)" - great line. Your therapist may have you thinking of rainforests, but he doesn't realise "tulips" of the variety Angelina Joleii are in full bloom year-round there. This gives new meaning to the term "lip service". 5s.

TMGLTM, 555s

TT: yeah, well titles that imply hard-core porn definitely get the most visits, from my experience - just a trick I've picked up ;-) and thanks - oh, and I had a look at your massive effort as well!

I wonder if that's WHY they were named after her, Red

thanks Larry

Stuart, if it is of any interest, which it probably isn't, I had a walk-on role in a movie that starred Angelina Jolie's father, Jon Voight. She was maybe two at the time. I didn't get to meet her, but I did meet Jon. He was not at all stuck up. He ate lunch with us peons and chatted with us as though we'd known each other for years. I watched him do many scenes with Faye Dunaway, and with the very young Rick Schroder (known then as Ricky Schroder), but I did not get to meet Faye or Rick personally. I did meet the director, Franco Zeffirelli, probably better known for directing Mel Gibson in a 1990 remake of "Hamlet", as well as for earlier remakes of "Romeo and Juliet", "Taming of the Shrew", etc. Some years later, I had a speaking part - couple of lines - in a movie that also featured a then-not-very-well-known young actor named Brad Pitt. The movie wins an Academy Award and is nominated for five more; I don't get any of them; Pitt goes on to become a big star, while bouncing between, and around with, Jennifer Aniston and Angelina Herself - small world, huh? - and here I am, writing song parodies. Maybe if I were a Grecian god like Pitt, instead of a little green guy with stumpy arms and legs..... oh, well. Anyway, you know the old thing about "six degrees of separation"? ("There are not more than six common-acquaintance links between you and anyone else in the world", so they say.) You are, in fact, only three degrees of separation from your heartthrob: Angelina Jolie - Jon Voight - Tommy Turtle - Stuart McArthur. Feel better?

and you're only 2 away - and therefore IN the way! >:(

that is a fascinating story, TT, and I envy you - I certainly do know the film in question where you had the small speaking role. Narrowing it down, that makes your initials either RZ, JC, NLW, JL, RRF, SP, KS, SCD, MS-J or JB? Which one are you so I can re-watch it?

I also have a theory about hand-shakes - everyone is only 3 (not 6) handshakes away from everyone else (4 tops)

They didn't want the Turtle's face in there (would you?). Outside of Dr. Seuss, looking like a Turtle wasn't cool in movies in the UK until 1985's "Turtle Diary", and in the US until "Finding Nemo" in '03 (this Turtle wasn't in either of them - darn!). They liked the voice, though, and used it for many background/crowd scenes, e.g. in the bar -- saying, "Murmur, murmur", and "Watermelon, watermelon". The two lines of TT's own are both in the chase scenes, both of cops, both off-camera, i.e. dubbed over -- a 100mph chase has too much wind/engine noise to record dialogue live during the action. I haven't seen it in a long time, but one line is something like, "This is Unit 12. I have the suspects in sight and am continuing pursuit" or words to that effect. The other is when two police cars collide. One cop yells, "Sh*t!" Yes, that was TT's big break in the movies: saying, "Sh*t", - not "Pitt" lol.

Since there was no on-camera time, there is no screen credit (the guy who drives the lunch truck gets screen credit, but not the voice-over people - go figure), but the checks from MGM/United Artists still roll in like clockwork every three months, and they still cash at the bank. I appreciate if you would rent it; I get another $US 0.000013462, or something, each time someone does. BTW, same thing goes for Ann-Margaret's "A Tiger's Tale" (1988, for background voices only), but that bomb disappeared very quickly.

Sorry to be in the way 'twixt Romeo and his "Jolie-t" :) :). I'll look up John, see if he still remembers me (lol), ask him to fix you up with his daughter, and then I'll get out of your way, but... I wouldn't hold your breath...

doesn't take much to impress me, TT, and I'm impressed - I will rent it again and keep an ear out! - I'm amazed you're still getting royalties - wow! - as for holding my breath, I can't hold them both at the same time

Well, then, hold whatever is most important to you... :) SAG (Screen Actors' Guild) has very good contract rules on that. It's been 15+ years, but every time it shows on TV, whether pay-for-view or free, a tiny bit goes in the till also. The royalties were pretty good when it was in the theatres; they're not much now for just TV and video rental, but if you're ever in the States, drop by and I'll buy us each 1.5 beers with the next check, fair dinkum.

BTW, if I do get an in with AJ, you wouldn't mind "sloppy seconds", would you? I should get some "royalty" for hooking you up, shouldn't I?

hmm, I'll have to think about my response to that proposal VERY carefully TT, because there's an exceptionally strong chance that that might happen one day - and I wouldn't want to sully the ecstatic moment with any hint of regret (like knowing that when I finish I've agreed to fork out for 1.5 free beers)

Tommy! Long time, no see! Of course I remember you... Little green guy with flippers instead of hands, who could forget??? Your friend Stuart sounds like a great guy. My little angel Angelina has been reading some of his songs, and she is very impressed! She told me, "Stuart McArthur sounds like Brad Pitt with a brain." She is very eager to meet him, and so am I. Call my agent and tell him what day and time work for you and Stuart, also where. Australia? U.S.? Halfway in between, maybe Hawaii? My daughter and I will be there! Good to see you again!

Listen, Mr Voight, one of your two-bit thugs wearing fake boobs and a bad wig is not my idea of a dream date....................er, wait a sec.......how close a likeness can he get? 20%? Okay, you're on. I know a nice cosy romantic orphanage in Cambodia - tell him to dress lightly

Stuart, pea-brain confuses very easily... Which is likely: The date with AJ or the beers? And which of those would be the "ecstatic moment"? lol. BTW, does "sloppy seconds" mean the same in the Antipodeees as it does in the States? Maybe that comment was unclear... The royalty I wanted for hooking you up was first "crack", so to speak...
And weren't you being ungracious to Jon after I went to all that trouble to get ahold of him, and he responded so kindly?

LOL TT...I suppose any causal connection between 1.sloppy seconds with AJ (btw same meaning no matter which side of the equator) and 2. having a beer, could conceivably have gone in either direction, I guess, but the ecstatic moment couldn't have - unless it was a very very cold beer on a very very hot day - and anyway "first crack" would have been its own reward - and as for Jon, I've seen Mission Impossible 1 - he's done with foolin this little black duck...