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With Lost Kids, Dysfunctional Families and Too Much Food, the Holidays Have Always Been a Perfect Backdrop for Comedy, Drama and Even Action Season’s Greetings With lost kids, dysfunctional families and too much food, the holidays have always been a perfect backdrop for comedy, drama and even action. Here’s how some directors have celebrated the occasion. CITY LIGHTS: (opposite) The Gotham Plaza set for Tim Burton’s Batman Returns (1992) was based on the Rockefeller Center Christmas tree. It was built on Stage 16 on the Warner Bros. lot, one of Hollywood’s biggest stages. (above) Bob Clark directs Peter Billingsley (who would later become a director himself) in the perennial A Christmas Story (1983). 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Browning was notoriously hard on his crew and got angry with his effects men for not working the mechanical bats properly. CHRISTmaS SHOPPING: Brian Levant, with Arnold Schwarzenegger, staged parts of Jingle All the Way (1996) at the Mall of America in St. Paul, Minnesota. At times, Levant found filming “impossible” due to the scale and noise of the crowds watching production. It was then the largest production to film in the state. REUNION: Malcolm D. Lee, directing Melissa De Sousa in The Best Man Holiday (2013), returned to characters he had created in The Best Man 14 years earlier. When the main characters sing “Can You Stand the Rain” to their female counter- parts, their surprise is genuine as Lee didn’t tell them what the song would be. HAPPY HOLIdaYS: Mark Sandrich (on crane) directs Fred Astaire and Virginia Dale in one of the production numbers from Holiday Inn (1942). The film was based on an idea by Irving Berlin, developed by Sandrich, celebrating American holidays. It was the first film in which Berlin’s “White Christmas” was used, sung by Bing Crosby. HOME ALONE: Nancy Meyers (right) directs Kate Winslet in The Holiday (2006). She created a lived-in environment for two women who swap houses over Christmas. Principal photography began in Brentwood, where the Santa Ana winds luckily gave Meyers a winter day as warm as what the script called for. 54 dga quarterly PHOTOS: (Above) AMPAS; (opposite, TOP TO BOTTOM) 20TH CENTURY FOX, UNIVERSAL PICTURES, COURTESY NANCY MEYERS dga quarterly 55 CALIFORNIA DREamING: Nora Ephron’s screwball comedy Mixed Nuts (1994), with Steve Martin and Adam Sandler takes place on Christmas Eve in Venice Beach. “Somehow, Christmas in Los Angeles immediately sets the movie [appropriately] off kilter. It has very low ambitions, as in low comedy. 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