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If he wrote “A Christmas Carol” today, Charles Dickens might take flak for insidiously promoting a welfare state that could lead to higher taxes and SCHIP programs for the likes of Tiny Tim.But after more than a century and a half, Scrooge and his ghosts will be all over
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1 year ago
More here.
Or just watch some of it
here.
1 year ago
We just watched the 80s George C. Scott version and it's very faithful to the text, perhaps the most so.
1 year ago
1 year ago
Alistair Sim as Scrooge with the Cratchitts from the Albert Finney version and Edward Woodward as the Ghost of Christmas Present from the George C. Scott version and the Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come from that one too---I like the way his bones creak and Alec Guinness as Marley's Ghost.
And from the Magoo version, the razzleberry dressing.
I hope you all have the Lord's bright blessing, and knowing we're together, knowing we're together heart and hand, and you have the whitest Christmas, the lightest, brightest Christmas, a Christmas far more glorious than grand!
1 year ago
But I saw the Patrick Stewart one-man show on Broadway back in the mid-'90s. What a tour-de-force! And it addressed exactly the point you make in your first paragraph. He was doing it right around the time of Gingrich's Contract with America, and when he got to the line, "Are there no workhouses?" he got just a huge reaction from the audience. It really IS a subversive text for a modern consumer corporate Christmas.