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The Person You'll Become In January

On New Year's: the eve, the day, the concept.

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Lisa Kholostenko
Dec 27, 2025
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New Year’s Eve in Phantom Thread (2017).

A case for New Year’s

I’d be lying if I said I wasn’t a New Year’s Eve evangelist and apologist.

It’s my favorite holiday, second only to Halloween. Anyone who works in film or television loves Halloween in a way they believe is deeply personal and revealing, but is in fact wildly predictable: Costumes! Makeup! An o…

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