At 02:51 PM 12/06/1999 -0500, you wrote:
>Melanie Johnson wrote:
>> > Did anyone else see TNT's "A Christmas Carol" with Patrick Stewart
>> > as Scrooge?
and Bet replied:
>I did. I guess I'm just overly partial to the '51 version with Alastair
>Sim. I own, though, that Stewart's had it's really good moments. ;->>
Oh, that 1951 version of "A Christmas Carol" with Alastair Simm is, to me,
THE definitive version, no question. Of course, I have yet to see this new
Patrick Stewart version. But when we were young, the five nights preceding
Christmas, my mother would pull her old copy of "A Christmas Carol" down off
of the living room bookshelf and read us a Stave per night, concluding with
Scrooge's magical transformation on Christmas Eve night, after we had taken
our baths and put on our new Christmas pajamas and were warm and clean. I
remember sitting there, with the scent of the freshly cut Blue Spruce
Christmas tree we got every year filling up the living room, imagining in my
mind's eye the scenes from that book as she would read to us each night.
When I saw the 1951 version on television the first time, it was as if
everything I saw in my mind's eye was there on the TV, down to the last
detail of it all.
By the by, if anyone would like to read a charming book that would make a
fine companion volume to that, there is a new book out called "A Midnight
Carol, or how Charles Dickens saved Christmas" by Patricia K. Davis, ISBN
0312245238, published by St. Martins, $16.95 (or $11.87 on Amazon.com). It
is a novel of how Charles Dickens came to write "A Christmas Carol" in the
first place. It perfectly captures the seediness and bleakness of Dickensian
England. I read it in one evening, and is a really fine little book to
precede a reading of "A Christmas Carol". Curl up over some hot mulled wine
or cider, pull out these two books and enjoy an evening in mid-19th c. England!
Enjoy, all!
YIS,
Lady Saradwen Ariandalen
Marche of Gwyntarian
(Akron/Kent, OH)
From: Sally Burnell <sburnell@raex.com>
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