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Ahead 1-0 in the first game. Eli centerfielder Chuck Sizemore raced under and dropped a deep two-run triple to centerfield. In the second game, pitcher Rodger Finney came in to protect a 4-1 lead and promptly delivered 14 pitches- three walks, a double, and a ???crifice fly- for four Harvard runs...
Ebenezer Scrooge, according to Dickens, "carried his own low temperature about with him; he iced his office in the dog-days; and didn't thaw it one degree at Christmas." Albert Finney, as Scrooge, knows how to act cold, and he knows how to sound cold. His performance is really remarkable, though after all he has dialogue that even Mister Magoo can make effective. The problems with his Scrooge are not exactly his fault: in the first place he doesn't look like Scrooge. I've always pictured Scrooge as a shriveled up old man with small beady eyes...
...rate Finney seems to have a wonderful time flying through the air in his nightshirt, being mean to people, being frightened by the ghosts, being nice to people, and generally dominating the movie. Another person who looks like he's enjoying himself is Alec Guinness, who hilariously overplays his role as Jacob Marley. It must be great fun for an actor who is used to understating his comic roles to be able to show anger by shooting up ten feet into the air and rattling huge chains and padlocks draped around his body. And, luckily, he hardly has to sing...
Scrooge boasts Albert Finney in the title role of the flinty miser who learns the true meaning both of Christmas and his own life. In his first screen or stage appearance in a few years, he is drastically disappointing. Finney grumbles and hobbles through his part, employing mannerism instead of nuance. He scores now and again, as when he tipsily accepts another cup of the Milk of Human Kindness (yes, it's that kind of movie) from the Ghost of Christmas Present, but such isolated moments from an actor of his stature are slender fare indeed. Sir Alec Guinness...
...will undoubtedly look back on the '50s, '60s and emerging 70s as a golden age of British acting. The mature actors-Olivier, Scofield, Gielgud, Richardson and Redgrave -ripened from talent to mastery to greatness. Like dynastic sires, they have inspired an exciting group of young successors-Albert Finney, Nicol Williamson, Ian McClellan, Tom Courtenay -actors less attuned to the niceties of craft, but ablaze with Elizabethan intensity. In Home, the U.S. debut of an extremely evocative new British playwright, David Storey, there is an opportunity to view a feat of artistry by Richardson and Gielgud that becomes legendary...