Saturday, December 24, 2005

This week's column: Oh, 'Carol'!

Each holiday season brings certain things that are unavoidable. For instance, at some point in December you're going to turn on the radio and hear "Dominic, the Italian Christmas Donkey." And some of those times, if you're distracted enough, you may listen to almost the whole thing before remembering to change the station. That's three minutes of your life you'll never get back.

Another thing you can count on is to be bombarded with umpteen productions of "A Christmas Carol" - this year there are no fewer than four on the North Shore alone, not to mention the film versions with the likes of Mr. Magoo, Mickey Mouse and the Muppets. (Granted, Charles Dickens is believed to have commented to William Makepeace Thackeray, "My 'Christmas Carol' is pretty good on paper, but with a fake felt frog ... well, that would be something.")

If we do have to have so many versions, though, wouldn't it be nice if they did something different for a change? For instance, does it always have to be ghosts? Why not ever the Wolf Man? And that ending where Scrooge gets all nice -- just once I'd like to see him wake up, down a snifter of schnapps and foreclose on Cratchit's house.

For the rest of this week's AT LARGE by Peter Chianca, click here.

4 comments:

Marti said...

11.) Ghost of Christmas Future takes Scrooge to Starship Enterprise. Scrooge takes notes, comes home, makes a killing “inventing” advanced technologies.

LOL

Hope you had a lovely Christmas! We got quite a surprise!

Jenn said...

Oh, the Dominic the Donkey song drives me absolutely nuts!

Now, I Want a Hippopotamus for Christmas - there's a good Christmas song.

hm...so, would a hippo make a better ghost of Christmas past, present or future?? Or, perhaps, not. :D

Marti said...

Making a list to thank everyone who commented on my blog in 2005 - you did - thank you! List to post later today. Best wishes for 2006!

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