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...turn as Marley’s Ghost, for instance, is wildly over the top, so much so that his wailings and moans are at times incomprehensible. But Oldman’s other roles in the film—Scrooge’s soft-spoken financial partner Bob Cratchit and his son, Tiny Tim—are surprisingly subtle, providing much of the heart of “A Christmas Carol...
...world Bob Cratchit makes out like a bandit,” Cramer says, referencing Charles’ Dickens’ The Christmas Carol. “He pays for Tim’s operation, and he’s not beholden to me. And he buys his own Goddamn fucking turkey. He gets rich. In ‘A Christmas Carol’…he’s just a beneficiary of Scrooge’s munificence. In my world, he’s Scrooge’s equal partner...
There are signs that Americans, in general, are looking to pare back the excesses of Decembers past. When Gallup polled 1,000 adults last year about their projected holiday spending, the average estimate was $776. Although that's not exactly a Bob Cratchit budget, it's down from an average of $857 in 1999. One in 5 people planned to spend less than they did the year before...
...juggling their jobs as well as all the shopping, decorating and entertaining required to produce the perfect Christmas. Others find the holidays a melancholy reminder of loved ones who are gone. By Christmas Eve, it's not unusual for overworked adults to feel more like Ebenezer Scrooge than Bob Cratchit...
...lead singer of The Who, you sign up to play that lovable old misanthrope Scrooge in the community-theater stalwart A Christmas Carol. When he takes the stage at Madison Square Garden later this month, Daltrey, 54, will perform not with his longtime bandmates but with the quaintly impoverished Cratchit family. Why would a rock star who once typified disaffected youth take on such a role? "It interested me because it involved children," says the newly avuncular Daltrey. The man who once defiantly sang, "I hope I die before I get old," can now be caught warmly warbling, "God bless...