In the 1990s, Thomas Kinkade was the most successful artist ... houses owned Kinkade artwork via a painting, a calendar, a Christmas ornament, a postcard, a commemorative plate or a La-Z-boy ...

It’s good that the Thomas Kinkade phenomenon — his empire ... the tsunami of tchotchkes, Christmas ornaments and decorative plates; the tens of millions of dollars he earned — is at least ...

So when I was assigned Thomas Kinkade’s Christmas Cottage, a straight-to-DVD film releasing today, some of my friends and co-workers reacted as if I was reviewing the bottom of the film barrel.

"There were actually other people who were painting cottages and Christmas ... ornaments, and selling them on the QVC shopping network. They also set up hundreds of faux olde worlde Thomas Kinkade ...

In the 1990s, Thomas Kinkade was the most successful artist of his time ... it was estimated that one in 20 American houses owned Kinkade artwork via a painting, a calendar, a Christmas ornament, a ...