Thursday, January 29, 2026

DOUBTFUL AUTHENTICITY

By Bob Walsh

 

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I recently got some rumbles about a new Hallmark Movie Channel Christmas Movie.  The working title is CHRISTMAS IN ARKANSAS.

The plucky heroine is from down there.  Her name is Tanya and as the first member of her family to ever graduate from high school she moved out, made her way to New Hampshire and works for a PR firm specializing in political damage control.  She goes back home to convince her parents to sell the family hog farm and move to Westchester or Memphis or some other civilized place.  While down there she falls deeply in love with Leroy.  Trouble is Leroy is already married, to his cousin.  They have 1.5 children and he doesn't feel right about the prospect of dumping her before she graduates from high school.  So Tanya hooks up with Leroy's brother, Billy Ray.  He is a shift supervisor at the slaughter house and lives in a very nice double-wide on company property.  They get married, she gets a job at the slaughter house and they both wrench on ATVs on the side.  

They live happily ever after.  

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