Jim Carrey as Scrooge in A Christmas Carol
When journalists propose a story, their editors ask them: Why this? and Why now? The same demands might be made of Robert Zemeckis' choice of a new film. Why A Christmas Carol ? It's not that the Charles Dickens' tale, first published in 1843, is unknown to the reading or viewing audience. Event by event, word for word all 28,723 of them, from "Marley was dead" to "God Bless Us, Every One" this might be the most familiar of all stories, including the Gospels. Aside from millions of parent-to-child readings, the Scrooge saga has been done as an opera and...
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