If ever there were a fable for our times, Charles Dickens’s A Christmas Carol is it. Except that nowadays it would probably take more than a few supernatural visions to alter the behavior of the super-rich. To change the gluttonous ways of today’s Wall Street barons you’d need to lock them in…
11.28.08: A Christmas Carol @ The Guthrie
We don’t need Scrooge anymore, right?
So why is he still around? Is it because of Hollywood’s lack of creativity–their seeming need to remake anything? A Christmas Carol has begotten Jimmy Stewart’s It’s a Wonderful Life, Disney’s Scrooge McDuck, National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation, Bill Murray’s Scrooged, etc., etc. Is the Scrooge meme just mindless proliferation in the name of tradition, in the same way…
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