Comments on: Bah, Humbug and All That http://newcritics.com/blog1/2007/12/23/bah-humbug-and-all-that/ culture blogging for the good of the planet Mon, 22 Mar 2010 09:15:41 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: Karen http://newcritics.com/blog1/2007/12/23/bah-humbug-and-all-that/#comment-71512 Karen Wed, 26 Dec 2007 01:57:08 +0000 http://newcritics.com/blog1/2007/12/23/bah-humbug-and-all-that/#comment-71512 I really am partial to the Mr Magoo version. 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. I really am partial to the Mr Magoo version.

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.

]]> By: Lance Mannion http://newcritics.com/blog1/2007/12/23/bah-humbug-and-all-that/#comment-71229 Lance Mannion Tue, 25 Dec 2007 01:47:38 +0000 http://newcritics.com/blog1/2007/12/23/bah-humbug-and-all-that/#comment-71229 Someday, when the technology can make it seamless, I'd like to see a version made up of the best of all of them... 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! Someday, when the technology can make it seamless, I’d like to see a version made up of the best of all of them…

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!

]]> By: Viscount LaCarte http://newcritics.com/blog1/2007/12/23/bah-humbug-and-all-that/#comment-71091 Viscount LaCarte Mon, 24 Dec 2007 12:52:28 +0000 http://newcritics.com/blog1/2007/12/23/bah-humbug-and-all-that/#comment-71091 We'll be watching that one tonight. I love it. We’ll be watching that one tonight. I love it.

]]> By: Tom Watson http://newcritics.com/blog1/2007/12/23/bah-humbug-and-all-that/#comment-70945 Tom Watson Mon, 24 Dec 2007 02:41:46 +0000 http://newcritics.com/blog1/2007/12/23/bah-humbug-and-all-that/#comment-70945 I am partial to the Mr. Magoo version, starring Jim Backus. We just watched the 80s George C. Scott version and it's very faithful to the text, perhaps the most so. I am partial to the Mr. Magoo version, starring Jim Backus.

We just watched the 80s George C. Scott version and it’s very faithful to the text, perhaps the most so.

]]> By: Viscount LaCarte http://newcritics.com/blog1/2007/12/23/bah-humbug-and-all-that/#comment-70838 Viscount LaCarte Sun, 23 Dec 2007 18:53:53 +0000 http://newcritics.com/blog1/2007/12/23/bah-humbug-and-all-that/#comment-70838 My vote for the best portrayal of Scrooge (though perhaps not the finest production) goes to George C. Scott. More <a href="http://viscountlacarte.blogspot.com/2007/12/best-scrooge-was-george-c-scott.html" rel="nofollow">here.</a> Or just watch some of it <a href="http://youtube.com/watch?v=4FYVrSpda9U" rel="nofollow">here.</a> My vote for the best portrayal of Scrooge (though perhaps not the finest production) goes to George C. Scott.

More here.

Or just watch some of it
here.

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