Humbug!” does Ebenezer Scrooge really have much to say to us? As Jacob Marley's ghost might have said in a slang version of the Charles Dickens classic A Christmas Carol, “You betcha.” ...

In that scene, Belle has that great line when she says to Scrooge, "You fear the world too much." Really, to me, A Christmas Carol isn't really about Christmas; it just happens to take place at ...

For the first part of the question you should examine the language of the extract closely. Look at how Scrooge is presented ... There's the corner where the Ghost of Christmas Present, sat!

“Everyone he loved has died, (including his sister and his fiancee, Belle) so he doesn’t let anyone in.” Scrooge is played by Robert Summers in A Christmas Carol at Dutch Apple Dinner ...

Yes, you may throw your “Michael Caine in a Muppet Christmas Carol”s at me, and I take your point (and please do vote for your own personal Most Seductive Scrooge below), but there’s a clear ...

WASHINGTON — He’s played Scrooge ... a Christmas carol, it actually moves the story forward, and there are appropriate numbers. For instance, in the scene where Ebenezer dances with Belle ...

By Michael Paulson Reporting from Dallas Sally Nystuen Vahle bursts into “A Christmas Carol ... started as Belle, the young woman who was once engaged to a not-yet-miserly Scrooge, and ...

not Belle, as Dickens named her. Overall, seeing Sim as Scrooge should be at the top of A Christmas Carol list. A close second is the adaptation with George C. Scott, in the 1984 A Christmas Carol.

In much of the English-speaking world Christmas ... Carol which, un-coincidentally, involves another less palatable turkey. The Ghost of Christmas Present takes Scrooge to witness the household of ...