Video: DOCTOR WHO Christmas Special Trailer!

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Win a Copy of “Little Spirit” on DVD!

Leopoldo Gout’s TV special “Little Spirit: Christmas in New York”  is on DVD, and now the blog “Plus Size Mom” offers you a chance to win a copy.  Click here to find out how!

And if you’re not aware of this movie, we have a number of stories about it right here on this blog.  Just click here to read them.

Danny Devito’s Christmas Gift

Danny Devito gets into the Christmas “Spirit”

By Rick Bentley, McClatchy Newspapers, December 8, 2008

Apparently, celebrities are just like everyone else when it comes to holiday shopping. They have the same trouble coming up with the right gifts.

At least that’s what Danny DeVito says.

The star of television and film figured out a way to get around the holiday gift-buying problem this year. He agreed to be part of the NBC animated special “Little Spirit: Christmas in New York.”

DeVito joins Lucy Liu, Freddy Rodriguez, Brian Williams and Brenda Song as the voice talents for the holiday show.

DeVito says during a telephone interview that his shopping habit has always been to get the gifts last for the person who means the most to him. So when co-director and story creator Leopoldo Gout contacted him about being part of a holiday television special, he knew he had found the right present.

“I immediately responded. My children are grown. They’re in their 20s now. But I do have an extended family of young kids. This is a Christmas present to them,” DeVito says.

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South Bend Tribune Impressed by “Little Spirit” and Leopoldo Gout!

They call it:

one of the best original animated Christmas programs to be released in years.

More of the article:

“Little Spirit” Shows Big Potential!

By Jeremy D. Bonfiglio

Leopoldo Gout is a name that may be more familiar with fans of graphic novels and suspense fiction, but that is about to change.

Gout, who co-wrote “Daniel X, Alien Hunter” with novelist James Patterson and the supernatural thriller “Ghost Radio,” which hit bookstores in October, also is the man behind “Little Spirit: Christmas in New York.”

The hour-long holiday special, which airs Dec. 10 on NBC (a Spanish-language version also will be broadcast Dec. 13 on Telemundo), is without a doubt, one of the best original animated Christmas programs to be released in years.

Gout, who was born and raised in Mexico and now lives in New York, has not only attracted an all-star voice cast that includes Danny DeVito, Lucy Liu and Brian Williams, but he also has managed to stylistically blend the look of traditional painting with contemporary 3-D technology to create an aesthetic that is both classic and innovative.

“What we wanted is to imagine a Marc Chagall or a Frieda Kahlo painting and then make it move,” Gout says by telephone on a conference call with reporters. “You want it to express something that had the feeling of a moving painting.”

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Another Sneak Peak at “Little Spirit”

Make sure to check out other info on “Little Spirit” here.

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“Little Spirit” Trailer!

Trailer for Leopoldo Gout’s “Little Spirit: Christmas in New York” airing December 10, 2008 on NBC at 8pm.

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Sneak Peak at GHOST RADIO Author’s Christmas Special!

Leopoldo Gout, author of Ghost Radio, directed an animated Christmas Special entitled “Little Spirit: Christmas in New York” which will be airing on NBC on December 10, 2008 at 8pm. Here’s a sneak peak:

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