Summers did his thing, all the while nibbling and drinking on the festive meal before him. Then they booked a hotel suite in Hollywood and catered the room with turkey, stuffing and all the trimmings. First, they talked about the movies and what commentary made the most sense. The filming took Summers and the HDNet Movies team approximately four hours to complete. The entire special - spoiler alert! - was pre-taped. I’m actually fans of these things, and it just sort of made sense to tie me into them.” Chocolat is also one of my favorites as well, and Moonstruck you can’t forget about because of Cher and all the things that went on there. “I found that restaurant where they shot, and my wife and I drove up there and had dinner. “Thought he was fantastic and obviously followed his career since then,” Summers said of Giamatti. Sideways, in particular, is a movie that had the TV host laughing at the antics of Paul Giamatti’s character. The so-called Thanksgiving Movie Feast not only centers on films that involve food these flicks, such as Eat Drink Man Woman and Wheels on Meals, are also personal favorites of Summers. So it’s 48 hours of Marc Summers and food movies.” ![]() We’re just tying it all in to the various movies that we’re showing on Thanksgiving Day, and then there’s a re-run-ish kind of thing going on the following day. I had a ball doing it, and it was pretty clever thinking. “And they said, ‘No, we want you.’ It was clever because they took elements of what I used to do on Unwrapped, which is still the longest running show on Food Network, and combined them with what’s going on with all these movies. “When they first called me about it, it sounded rather chef-y, and I thought, well, gee, of all the people in the world, you can call Bobby Flay or Guy Fieri or Rachael Ray or people who are super-connected with food,” he said. However, he had some reservations on whether his particular brand of TV personality was the right fit. Summers was attracted to the movie marathon because he thought the format was a cool idea. “I’m busy juggling five balls as usual, but I have no complaints,” Summers said in a recent phone interview. In between screenings of modern classics like Moonstruck, Chocolat and Sideways, Summers will offer interesting tidbits of trivia for viewers as they chomp down on some cranberry sauce in their own homes. He’ll be in living rooms across the nation thanks to a turkey day movie marathon on HDNet Movies. This Thanksgiving, the host with the most is not going anywhere. Summers has lasted many summers on television, expanding his 15 minutes of fame to a decades-long career of engaging programming. Heck, even longtime fans might have caught a magic performance or standup routine from the man on the 1970s comedy scene in Los Angeles. Children know him from the revived Double Dare series, while their parents know him from Food Network’s Unwrapped, the original Double Dare and so many other projects over years. The number of generations that have been touched by the affable personality and family-friendly humor of TV host Marc Summers is something to behold. Photo courtesy of HDNet Movies press site / Provided by press site. ![]() Photo: Marc Summers will host Thanksgiving Movie Feast on HDNet Movies.
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