IMDB lists 135 separate instances of someone playing Scrooge in one work or another — and that's to say nothing of characters who are clearly riffs on Scrooge, or cartoon characters taking a whirl at being Scrooge, or any of pop culture's other many Scrooge permutations.
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Instead of Marley generously aiding Scrooge in his personal transformation so Scrooge can "escape his fate," Marley's own redemption is directly tied to that of Scrooge in the new movie.
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When Scrooge refuses, Marley's ghost enlists the Ghosts of Christmas Past, Present, and Future to haunt Scrooge in the wee hours of Christmas morning.
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Everyone in Duckburg has seen Scrooge diving into his mountain of gold in his skivvies, and so everyone knows that Scrooge is good for it.
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Scrooge then tricks Mary into thinking he will pay her for sex, but once Mary undresses, Scrooge tells her he has no desire for her.
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I tried to keep to the most famous of Scrooges and characters actually playing Scrooge, not a Scrooge-like character — with a couple of notable exceptions.
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On Christmas Eve, Scrooge is visited by his late business partner, Jacob Marley (Basil Rathbone), who warns Scrooge that he is wasting his life being so consumed by money.
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But just like Scrooge — they soon saw the light.
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And no, this doesn't have to Scrooge your holiday season.
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Valentine scrooge that I am, they have even me seduced.
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Or how Ebenezer Scrooge could really travel into the future?
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Have you heard that there's a new Scrooge in town?
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They are not allies of the Grinch or Mr. Scrooge.
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They just need to scare Scrooge straight, and they do.
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" Scrooge, who thinks Christmas is an enormous deception, retorts, "Bah!
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Scrooge awakens on Christmas Day, determined to change his life.
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But supermarkets, he said, were playing the role of Scrooge.
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However, Mr. Thackray was such a gentleman in his choices that you'd have to be a real Scrooge to take offense at the twists revealed (although, you know, Scrooge actually became a nice guy).
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Well, I'm the first fall Scrooge, so I set the boundaries.
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You best be picking things from Scrooge McDuck's shopping list, i.e.
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How did she become the Scrooge in her own fairytale narrative?
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He also played (cosplayed?) Scrooge for Macy's 2001 Thanksgiving Day parade.
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Do they want to swim in their cash like Scrooge McDuck?
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Don't get us wrong — Ms. Scrooge still misses the mark often.
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The announcement left Trump in a Scrooge-like mood this morning.
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Uncle Scrooge and Donald Duck "Return to Plain Awful" and Uncle Scrooge and Donald Duck "The Son of the Sun"By Don Rosa (Fantagraphics) These books are hard for me to look at, like op art.
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Is it really Christmas if Scrooge doesn't have his change of heart?
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I started playing around in my head with Scrooge versus the Grinch.
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Are my in-laws excessively attentive or am I just a Scrooge?
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Poor old Ebenezer Scrooge, saddled with that sharp and ungainly first name.
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The most tame aspect of Pearce's Scrooge is his ever-present grumpiness.
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Opinion Columnist By Trump-era standards, Ebenezer Scrooge was a nice guy.
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But if you think about it, this is deeply unfair to Scrooge.
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Scrooge then mocks Mary's naiveté and gives her the money she needs ... on the condition that if Bob were to ever quit his job, Scrooge would tell Bob that Mary had set out to be unfaithful to him.
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My role as fall Scrooge actually involves a lot of walks in parks.
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Also though, it made me realize why there's never been a fall Scrooge.
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So, did the book break through and thaw out my cold Scrooge heart?
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You still play as Scrooge McDuck and you're still after all the treasure.
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Scrooge uses his cane as both a golf club and a pogo stick.
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Mitt was a numbers guy, so he was caricatured as a cruel Scrooge.
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This appears to be one of the most tightfisted billionaires since Scrooge McDuck.
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Scott offers something very different in a Scrooge: a kind of quiet menace.
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This Scrooge is world-weary, beaten down by a life of constant disappointment.
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Knight's Marley (Stephen Graham) only interacts with Scrooge for his own personal gain.
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For while Dickens portrays Scrooge as a miser, he's notably lacking in malice.
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But this isn't about depriving yourself or going all Scrooge on your loved ones.
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Or, channel your inner Scrooge McDuck by taking a dip into our bitcoin ballpit.
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The left of the Democratic Party views him as a latter-day Ebenezer Scrooge.
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Kim is kind of like a fabulous Scrooge who cares a little too much.
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Carl Barks was the once-anonymous cartoonist of Uncle Scrooge and Donald Duck comics.
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Add a nightcap and a kerosene lamp and it doubles as Ebenezer Scrooge cosplay.
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His Scrooge doesn't seem all that mean, but he never seems fully formed either.
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Does Warren know her Zuckerberg from her Scrooge McDuck, her Bezos from her Bloomberg?
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That night, Marley's ghost visits Scrooge and urges him to change his selfish ways.
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Now, the conventional wisdom about today's Republicans is indeed that they are Scrooge-like.
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Mark your calendars for $1 socks and the spirit of giving (unless you're a Scrooge).
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Sorry to get all Scrooge on here, but sometimes Yuletide ignorance leaves us no choice.
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It's enough to turn even the biggest Mariah Carey-loving heart into an Ebenezer Scrooge.
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Sometimes it pays to cast an actor better known for "good guy" parts as Scrooge.
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This is also cheating, since Barrymore never brought his work as Scrooge to the screen.
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Also appropriately, Frank plays Scrooge and, if anything, changes for the worse by the end.
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These are old arguments, dating to Dickens's heartless Ebenezer Scrooge and the noble Cratchit family.
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But this insistence is smug and unnecessary; its energy is half Scrooge, half reply guy.
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Well not to worry, I took one for the team and became the Scrooge of fall.
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One of my responsibilities as the fall Scrooge is to be visited by the Marley brothers.
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LONDON — For the Scrooge that can afford it, Christmas-tree decorating is now an optional affair.
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The now-deleted tweet was posted Sunday afternoon and read like something Scrooge McDuck would dictate.
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So the money would be worthless, unless you swam in it like Scrooge McDuck or something.
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Even big global central banks are starting to hoard gold as if they were Scrooge McDuck.
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In particular, Marley is barred from exiting purgatory unless he gets Scrooge to change his ways.
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Be assured, though, that their "Carol," which stars Campbell Scott as Ebenezer Scrooge, never sings shrilly.
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The unredeemed Ebenezer Scrooge would probably think that Gilbert and Sullivan tunes were pretty much humbug.
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Meanwhile, David Tennant (Doctor Who and Jessica Jones) will play the richest duck on earth, Scrooge McDuck.
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So, you know, he has Scrooge bona fides in addition to being an excellent butler and singer.
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I don't think of him as this Scrooge kind of personality, but he's not Willy Wonka, either.
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Nighy played Billy Mack, the Scrooge-like rock star recording the cheesiest Christmas song of all time.
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He is to Groundhog Day what Scrooge is to Christmas but with a greater appetite for partying.
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This Scrooge won't lapse into his old ways, because his new ones have been so hard-won.
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But their interest in the principal character's psychology keeps the focus tightly on Scrooge throughout the series.
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It's more fun to fancy oneself doing the Scrooge McDuck in a vault full of gold coins.
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Once I became the Ebenezer Scrooge of fall, the Ghost of Fall Past visited me while I slept.
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Ebenezer Scrooge, the infamously miserly protagonist, embodies an especially nasty version of the scarcity economics of Thomas Malthus.
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Scrooge is a loner by both choice and circumstance, and the film is about his suppressed, silenced desires.
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Scrooge peers through the window, declares it a meager feast, and realizes he is partly responsible for it.
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But the latest round of his trade war with China could make him out to be a Scrooge.
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For as long as humans celebrate Christmas and worry about unchecked greed, we'll need people to play Scrooge.
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But when her great-uncle, Scrooge, passes by and she tells him she's busking, he begs to differ.
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But Scrooge does beat down an animated skeleton with his cane, which is my definition of holiday fun.
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Apple has always been a bit of a Scrooge when it comes to sales, even on Black Friday.
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" Some Twitter users compared UPS to popular Christmas antagonists like the Grinch and the Scrooge, calling the tweet "dark.
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I assume it's the same feeling Scrooge McDuck gets when he swims in that room full of gold coins.
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Ebenezer Scrooge isn't the only person to receive a visit from ghosts of Christmas past during the festive period.
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Watch "Mickey's Christmas Carol" on Disney PlusIt's hard to be a Scrooge while watching anything that Mickey's involved in.
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Points are scored, but this being a holiday entertainment, she ends up more like Scrooge than like Miss Julie.
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Scrooge chains himself ever more firmly to his desk in his quest to cleanse the firm of its taint.
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As the story goes, he is visited by a trio of Christmas ghosts (whom Scrooge accuses of being humbugs).
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"This Scrooge is younger, is more a functioning businessman, he is of the world," Pearce explained to BuzzFeed News.
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On Christmas Eve, while sleeping fitfully, Scrooge is visited by the ghost of his late business partner, Jacob Marley.
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And unless you've got a Scrooge McDuck vault of gold coins, most women only own one or two substantial ones.
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As for Scrooge McDuck, he tops Forbes' list of fictional characters with a total net worth of over $65 billion.
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TV's latest animated hero has the wealth of Scrooge McDuck, the pigment of Garfield, and the demeanor of Peter Griffin.
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They probably want to Scrooge McDuck for a while and not manage a transcontinental production involving every living British actor.
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This doesn't mean you have to hunch over your desk like Ebenezer Scrooge, frowning disapprovingly at your cheerful slacker colleagues.
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When the Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come arrives to show Scrooge the future, we learn the answer is no.
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There was a gold-painted room with a gold bathtub filled with plastic Bitcoins for a Scrooge McDuck-style submersion.
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Yeah, he's really making an impact at Disney: Today he deported Aladdin and he gave Scrooge McDuck a tax break.
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I thought rich people just dove headfirst into the piles of gold coins in their money rooms like Scrooge McDuck.
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Marley takes Scrooge on a tour of Christmas past, present, and finally, far into the future into 21st century America.
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"Miners don't need to act like Scrooge anymore, but we need to respect the shareholders whose money we're spending," he said.
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The dwarf Alberich, intoxicated by the gold, soon wallows in it, swimming over the top of the hoard like Scrooge McDuck.
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For a company that wants to be on the forefront of autonomy, GM is certainly being Scrooge-ish with its tech.
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If you've ever dreamed of diving into a seemingly endless mountain of cash like Scrooge McDuck, now might be your chance.
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The degree to which the film's existence and (especially) its release date owe themselves to finance would make Ebenezer Scrooge proud.
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The fantastical ghost story follows Ebenezer Scrooge (Fredric March), a cranky old loan shark who lives in London and hates Christmas.
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People tend to adopt the kind of Scrooge-like demeanor that would see them at the top of the naughty list.
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Instead, there is a relatively young, embittered Ebenezer Scrooge (Guy Pearce) with obsessive-compulsive tendencies and a history of family trauma.
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The latest victim is Ducktales: Remastered, the charming remake of the old NES game starring Scrooge McDuck and his surprisingly bouncy cane.
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Savings account interest rates are 0.06% on average, meaning you wouldn't collect a Scrooge McDuck stash even if those rates increased 100%.
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As we meet Sabrina's newest demons, we hear Ambrose in voiceover talk about an imminent otherworldly "visitation" for A Christmas Carol's Scrooge.
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LIKE the ghosts that haunted Ebenezer Scrooge, the scandals of years past—summoned up by angry shareholders—will not let companies rest.
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Let me drop some festive wisdom: when everyone else is throwing money around like Santa, it is best to behave like Scrooge.
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In Charles Dickens's story, Scrooge was visited by three spirits, who showed him things he could never have known on his own.
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The scene is driven by a subtle sense of memento mori; facing this paltry feast, Scrooge wonders aloud: Will Tiny Tim live?
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Few fictional characters have been portrayed onscreen as often as Ebenezer Scrooge, the hero and villain of Charles Dickens's A Christmas Carol.
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His Scrooge is a man used to getting what he wants, not afraid to push back when the universe insists he change.
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The solution I've found isn't to become the Grinch or Mr. Scrooge — their shared distaste for Christmas certainly didn't bring them happiness.
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He could never work another day in his life and still dive like Scrooge McDuck into a swimming pool full of money.
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Imagine that Scrooge McDuck wanted to stick it to the US government and issued his own banknotes like it was the 1800s.
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Apple didn't have a huge, Scrooge McDuck-style pile of gold sitting in Ireland, which it loaded onto a homeward-bound ship.
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But given how they're selling like hot cakes, you'd think its creator would be diving into mounds of gold coins like Scrooge McDuck.
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Maybe I sound like a bonafide Scrooge; maybe you're thinking, Jeez, it's not the actual gift that counts, but the act of giving!
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His GameOver Zeus malware scheme, which was shut down in 2014, netted him a Scrooge McDuck-sized vault of money to swim in.
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Homemade signs admonished those seeking "profits," and images of the U.S. dollar bill and Scrooge McDuck were stand-ins for greed and inequality.
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Scrooge is a great villain because he's wicked, and because the true meaning of Christmas makes him reconsider his entire way of life.
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The ringer here is Sim himself, reprising the role of Scrooge and doing almost as fine a job as he did in 1951.
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We're guessing Khloé doesn't have a swear jar in her house, because it'd probably be more like a swear vault, Scrooge McDuck style.
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And many Americans unknowingly lump together Scrooge McDuck swimming in a pile of gold and the small business owner who lives next door.
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But Lionel Barrymore's banker is almost a caricature of Scrooge, and Henry Travers' "heavenly messenger" is a little too sticky for our taste.
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This race and gender-flipped version of A Christmas Carol stars Oscar-nominated Cicely Tyson as a successful but cruel moneylender Ebeneta Scrooge.
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On one 1974 document, the C.I.A. redacted news that terrorists in the ''Group of the Martyr Ebenezer Scrooge'' planned to sabotage the Dec.
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And, if she's in a Scrooge mood now, it probably won't help when Josh doesn't take the tree down until the Super Bowl.
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Surrounded by period furnishings and flickering candles, the actor John Kevin Jones plays Dickens, who narrates his story of Tiny Tim and Scrooge.
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You probably know the original: Dickens' A Christmas Carol tells the story of Ebenezer Scrooge, a grumpy, miserly loan shark who despises Christmas.
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He appeared in the musical films "Scrooge" in 1970 and "Annie" in 1982, for which he shaved his head to play Daddy Warbucks.
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You know the story of Ebenezer Scrooge, the bah-humbug-shouting miser who despises Christmas, charity, the poor, and everything besides his own money.
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Without Axe in his life, now Chuck doesn't even have his Scrooge McDuck millions to roll around in at the end of the tunnel.
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The show has the lone audience member taking over the Ebenezer Scrooge role in a story roughly following the structure of A Christmas Carol.
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They do not like to be Scrooge for Christmas but they also don't want to do something the days before the election in November.
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In case you don't catch the reference, Marleying gets it's name from Marley, the stingy late business partner of Scrooge in A Christmas Carol.
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He's too cartoonish to carry the dramatic beats he's given, but at least his exaggerated character adds flavor to a largely generic Scrooge story.
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Fans will recognize the cast of characters, which includes Scrooge McDuck, his three nephews, and the dreamiest duck pilot that ever was, Launchpad McQuack.
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Jeff Bezo$ made out like Scrooge McDuck on Black Friday after rising Amazon share prices lifted his personal fortune to more than $100 billion.
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Caine is an excellent Scrooge guided through the Christmases of time by his unlikely animatronic companions to discover the true meaning of the holiday.
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And VICE Money won't pretend there's some magic basket of mutual funds or one weird trick that will guarantee a Scrooge McDuck-style existence.
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The Passions of Carol, for instance, is A Christmas Carole with a female Scrooge-type banging her way through Christmas Past, Present, and Future.
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Michael Caine plays Ebenezer Scrooge as a prickly, wearied old man parachuting through eras past, present, and future under the guidance of various ghosts.
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Now, after more than six decades, the European adventures of Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck and Uncle Scrooge will be released in the United States.
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But Tony's redemptive arc builds to a Scrooge-on-Christmas-morn' epiphany that's too telegraphed to be spoilable and too sudden to feel genuine.
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But he's a bit of a letdown when playing reformed Scrooge — even though jovial, chuckling Patrick Stewart is one of this planet's greatest treasures.
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" More fitting for a festive gathering of friends and family is a concoction invoked by Scrooge himself, near the end of "A Christmas Carol.
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Scrooge McDuck may be interested in the four-cylinder turbo diesel paired to a six-speed that's expected to return 40 miles per gallon.
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" In a similar vein, Stephen Colbert described Impeachment Eve as a magical time when "Scrooge McTrump" can be heard "screaming 'Humbug!' from his rooftop.
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"Disney delivered so many hits in 2019 that even Scrooge McDuck would have blushed, and even still the industry slumped," Bock told CNN Business.
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Then after Scrooge McDonald's was done hosting his burger orgy, he went on television today and made a new proposal to end the shutdown.
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And, after all of that, you'll still have plenty of money left over to dive into a swimming pool full of cash, Scrooge McDuck-style.
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Treasury Secretary - Scrooge McDuck If you can trust anyone with economic policy, it's a duck with a swimming pool/bank vault combo in his mansion.
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This version is narrated by Tim Curry, who as Engadget notes was once the voice of Ebeneezer Scrooge in an animated version of the tale.
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None of them stood the test of time quite like DuckTales, where Scrooge McDuck travels the planet looking to increase his absurd amount of wealth.
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Uncle Scrooge: The Seven Cities of GoldBy Carl Barks (Fantagraphics) It's hard to find a better, more perfect comic than one that Carl Barks made.
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Dickens had Scrooge (and dozens of others), Martin Amis had Mary Lamb, and for her first novel, "The Earthquake Bird," Susanna Jones had Lucy Fly.
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Of course the modern-day (or 1988-vintage) Scrooge is a jaded TV executive, because who better to embody the shallow soullessness of our times?
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As for Scrooge, Mr. Merchant — a comic standout last summer in the Classical Theater of Harlem's visually stunning "Antigone" — goes for laughs this time, too.
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But aside from this one there's also 1995's Ebbie, with another gender-flipped Scrooge that's a high-powered business lady played by Susan Lucci.
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From Santa to Scrooge and angels to elves, these bakers find new ways to destroy the kitchen and ruin more taste buds in Nailed It!
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In "A Christmas Carol," the Charles Dickens tale as reimagined by Jack Thorne, Scrooge never attends a séance, but spirits visit him all the same.
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People have, however, made the very astute observation that Pearce is a slightly younger, hotter version of the crotchety old Scrooge they're used to seeing.
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Don't get me wrong, I am not a Scrooge, and I've often loved the celebrations that take place leading up to and throughout the holiday season.
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But if you're a Scrooge and don't want to give in to holiday cheer just yet, stick to the new launches and brand introductions (hello, NARS).
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Here, as in the first run, Huey, Dewey, and Louie are left in the care of their obscenely rich great-uncle Scrooge McDuck by Donald Duck.
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If we at Noisey had a dollar for every music video we're sent that involves low-budget stunts and general tomfoolery, we'd be Scrooge McDuck rich.
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Most people think a billionaire is someone with a lot of money, a sort of Scrooge McDuck who goes swimming in a pool of gold coins.
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When he meets the Ghost of Christmas Present, a colossal and very pleasant puppet, Scrooge faces basketfuls of produce and bread spread across a living room.
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Lo and behold, though, the ghost behind the triple haunting of Scrooge that turns him, er, a bit more lovable is Scrooge's business partner Jacob Marley.
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Hicks, well known for his stage work as Scrooge, played the character onscreen in 1913, one of the very first film adaptations of A Christmas Carol.
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A Christmas Carol usually requires some degree of simplicity, but everything about Scrooge is overwrought, befitting its title as one of the last Hollywood mega-musicals.
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Here's the one non-Scrooge on the list, since Murray technically plays a TV executive named "Frank Cross," who nonetheless is visited by three ghosts, etc.
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Ebenezer Scrooge would endorse the House and Senate tax plans, which call for billions of dollars in tax cuts that will mostly benefit the richest Americans.
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In Dickens's telling, the Ghost of Christmas Past calls the mission to redeem Scrooge a "reclamation," because once upon a time, he was warm and decent.
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Thus, everyone trades DuckBucks safe in the knowledge that one DuckBuck will equal one gold coin for as long as Scrooge has a pile of gold.
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Unlike many other gender and/or race flipped retellings, Ms. Scrooge at least attempts to tackle race and class politics (though with varying degrees of success).
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The organization also said William the Conqueror was a "notorious Scrooge" when it came to making gifts English abbeys -- but that Battle Abbey was an exception.
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And you know about Scrooge's virtuous employee, Bob Cratchit, who asks nothing of Scrooge but to take Christmas Day off, and about his virtuous son, Tiny Tim.
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Before you fancy yourself Scrooge McDuck swimming in a pond of money, know this: There are usually rules on how long you can rent out your house.
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Aside from the writers in my copywriting agency, I was the greedy Scrooge McDuck locked up in my apartment in Shoreditch keeping all my money to myself.
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Also, it has Lauren Graham, whose quirky comic timing, when combined with Billy Bob Thornton's gravelly Scrooge-meets-Grinch-meets-Satan act, can be kind of magical.
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What did Ebenezer Scrooge do when he was turned from a miser to a benefactor through a visit from the horrifying ghost of Christmas yet to come?
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The novella has been adapted so often that we often refer to individual versions of it by the person playing miser Ebenezer Scrooge, rather than the director.
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Put another way, the Bloomberg billionaire index isn't a list of the most important Scrooge McDuck's, it's a list of the biggest tollbooth operators in the world.
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The big ol' bearded ghost takes Scrooge on a tour of the house of Scrooge's most loyal and mistreated employee, Bob Cratchit (Kermit, voiced by Steve Whitmire).
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It's impossible to see every portrayal of Scrooge ever — especially since so many are lost to the mists of time — but I've seen a lot of them.
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This is the same Scrooge McDisney company that in 2015 imported lower-paid foreign workers on special visas to replace the local technical staff in Orlando, Fla.
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Mariah Carey went full Scrooge on a bunch of Christmas choir singers -- allegedly skipping out on nearly $70k in payments to the group -- and now they're suing.
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During his senior year, Mr. Charleston was cast in a school production of "A Christmas Carol," as the nephew of Ebenezer Scrooge, played by a white student.
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Rod Serling's script recasts Dickens's "A Christmas Carol" to teach its own Scrooge (here named "Grudge" and played by Hayden) to stop worrying and love international cooperation.
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To add insult to injury, they became a loan-shark nation furnishing funds to an insatiable U.S. Congress that makes the prodigal son look like Ebenezer Scrooge.
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It's too bad there wasn't a real-life Ebenezer Scrooge to yell out onto passersby on the street and pay someone to fetch Dickens a new bird.
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Two dozen male models with silver hair and beards marched between tables in variations on green jackets, many the color of money in a Scrooge McDuck cartoon.
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David Tennant's casting as patriarch Scrooge McDuck won't ruffle any Doctor Who feathers and Saturday Night Live cast member Beck Bennett will voice Scrooge's hapless pilot, Launchpad McQuack.
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If we revamped Dante's vision of hell, this circle would be one in which the damned would have to swim in a sea of money, Scrooge McDuck style.
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There's also the archival content, particularly on Disney Plus, which will have the company's Scrooge McDuck vault of movies, the Marvel and Star Wars libraries and much more.
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Waldfogel is quick to detach himself from any claims that he has become synonymous with Charles Dickens' central character, Ebenezer Scrooge, in the 1843 novella 'A Christmas Carol'.
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I recently spoke with Archer about why this time period is so interesting, what Christmas always says about America, and the key difference between Scrooge and the Grinch.
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Stewart offers his best effort in this made-for-TNT TV movie, and he really sinks his teeth into the scenes where Scrooge is a mean old bastard.
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I would be Scrooge-like indeed if I were so blinded by what's been lost that I could not see what is right in front of my face.
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So, first of all, there isn't really a Scrooge McDuck-type pile of cash hidden overseas, ready to be put to work if the taxman will let it.
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This linguistic use is usually referred to as an eponym; calling someone a "Scrooge" is perhaps the most recognizable example, in reference to a wealth-hoarding, greedy personality.
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A Christmas Carol Ebenezer Scrooge is an angry, miserly money lender who feels that his employees should never have a day off and that workhouses are wasteful entitlements.
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Mr Gekoski gives this modern-day Scrooge three visitations that pry him open bit by bit, but Darke's redemption is nothing like what the "slobberer" Dickens would have conjured.
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Young also was a well-received voice actor, with appearances as Scrooge McDuck in many Disney productions and as Farmer Smurf and other characters in the 1980s-era cartoon.
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Upon hearing that some people would rather die than face the unspeakable conditions of a workhouse, Scrooge retorts that they "had better do it, and decrease the surplus population".
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The Doctor encounters Scrooge-y Kazran Sardick (played by Michael Gambon) and, using Dickens's tale as an outline, travels through Sardick's childhood to alter events and make him kinder.
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The original animated classic aired from 1987-1990 and tracked the adventures of the incredibly wealthy Scrooge McDuck and his copilot Launchpad McQuack (the star of Disney's Darkwing Duck).
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During his long career, he earned an Emmy for his talk show The Alan Young Show in 1950 and voiced Scrooge McDuck on the cartoon series DuckTales (1987–90).
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Again, I'm not the first person to argue this—besides Waldfogel, various columnists or what some traditionalists might call Scrooge-like figures have made this case over the years.
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Murray's signature deadpan makes you wonder if Scrooge is weirdly charming or if all of Murray's other characters are assholes...a debate that will rage for Christmases to come.
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As she gazes at the giant bin of bananas, I'm certain she'd like to swim in them, like the way Scrooge McDuck wades in his pool of gold coins.
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Disney XD's reboot of the beloved '80s cartoon features Doctor Who's David Tennant as the world-weary Scrooge McDuck, off to continue making his fortune with his many nephews.
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It's why some choose to live as though it's not true, or create a version of life, like Scrooge before his awakening, where that fact can be conveniently ignored.
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It's like if Scrooge woke up on Christmas morning, discovered he had a second chance at life, then found Tiny Tim and took a crowbar to his good leg.
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Perhaps at this point I should take off my Scrooge glasses and see the show as a family might — albeit a family paying as much as $199 per ticket.
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Carol, the chief executive, is all business — the Scrooge of this Christmas story — while Clay, who runs the Chicago branch, has heart and a concern for his employees' happiness.
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Yes, it's a pivotal excerpt from Charles Dickens's "A Christmas Carol," when Ebenezer Scrooge finally gets a decent night of sleep and looks at the world with fresh eyes.
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In fact the last appearance he made — playing an orphan boy opposite an underwear-less Ebeneezer Scrooge/Stephen Colbert for the Midterm Election special — was clearly quite a memorable one.
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And you wouldn&apost like it if it was said of you to say that you would welcome seeing screaming, crying kids, because, all of a sudden, you&aposre Scrooge.
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Apparently, Netflix is getting into the spirit early by being the ultimate scrooge and removing the 2003 Christmas classic just as the whole world was gearing up to watch it.
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Getting professional advice on what to do with our cash shouldn't be reserved for people already sitting on Scrooge-McDuck-style piles of money, and it turns out, it's not.
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Now, if Scrooge McDuck waddled in, the shop owner could assume his wealth, deduce that he could afford to pay more, and try to raise the prices on the fly.
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He was a prolific writer but not a particularly distinguished one (his cornball dialogue paled in comparison the urbane snappiness of Carl Barks's Uncle Scrooge or John Stanley's Little Lulu).
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After briefly going back to his old ways when he gets out of prison, Gekko has a Scrooge-like epiphany, realizing that family is more important than blah, blah, blah.
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" Marc Fisher has a good yarn on what happened next (and talked to his parents): "McMillan instantly became Scrooge, a 'ghoul,' an advocate for the death of 8.2 million Americans.
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And his long pursuit of Fan turns into something both terrible and ultimately deeply moving, while Scrooge, as we have never seen him before, becomes a vengeful and implacable nemesis.
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Initially inspired by the 1951 film Scrooge, this two-parter was an attempted then ultimately abandoned Christmas premise where Scully would take on the role of Alastair Sim's iconic character.
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" Speaking of social ills, Mr. Galazin, while greeting members at the Fellowship party, displayed his button bearing an image of Scrooge with his famous nasty comment — "Are there no prisons?
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But for now, they are probably just dreaming about a time when they are swimming in piles of their holiday winnings like Scrooge McDuck in "Mickey's Once Upon a Christmas."
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And those of you who have already had your fill of premature Christmas music may find yourself rooting for Scrooge as he dismisses the carolers who gather outside his house.
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Hot Toddy Kit, available at Uncommon Goods, $38If he's being a Grinch or a Scrooge, nothing will put him in the holiday spirit faster (just don't forget to add the booze).
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Really, the list comes down to Scrooge, Dracula, and Sherlock Holmes, all British literary characters who've been warped and twisted in all directions to fit whatever context a given narrative demands.
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As Frank Cross, the ratings-mad program chief of the IBC television network, Mr. Murray's contemporary Scrooge is a joy as long as he's making life miserable for everyone around him.
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"This Scrooge is actually someone with a puffed-out chest, who has swagger and arrogance and a cynicism that is in some ways very healthy," Pearce said in a telephone interview.
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If you have adolescents in your household who roll their eyes at the dancing of the Sugar Plum Fairy and the struggles of Scrooge, they may be interested in this play.
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A 12-course dinner in 1842 for Charles Dickens — who characterized old Ebenezer Scrooge as being as "secret, and self-contained, and solitary as an oyster" — began with oysters, glorious oysters.
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If no one comes forward to claim this Scrooge-spirited dog, he will be put up for adoption sans outfit, which will probably let his sweet side shine through a little easier.
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Although it would be refreshing if Republicans stood up to Trump's attempt to silence a comedy show, they seem more afraid of Trump than Scrooge was of the ghost of Christmas future.
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This is willed amnesia, of course; Scrooge (Anthony Vaughn Merchant), who makes his money in real estate, has forgotten how vulnerable he once was, and how much kindness meant to him then.
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Instead, this fragrant wine mulled with roasted oranges, sugar and spice is a liquid reflection of the new, improved Scrooge: warm and sweet, and — as it's meant for sharing — generous of spirit.
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At the close of "A Christmas Carol," after Scrooge (Campbell Scott) renounces his miserly ways and serves dinner, the company takes a bow and takes up a collection for a local charity.
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The administration later retreated a quarter-step from this rather Scrooge-like view of the Supreme Court's compromise order, inviting fiancés into the class of relations who are exempt from the travel restrictions.
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Bitter old Ebenezer Scrooge hates Christmas, but with the help of some ghosts, eventually comes around to being kinder and gentler — spreading holiday cheer that'll leave you hopeful for humanity and what not.
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He may have a vault full of swan dive-ready gold coins, but due to the fact that he's an animated bird, Scrooge McDuck isn't actually the highest-paid actor in show business.
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It may come as a surprise if you're a Scrooge, but the singer cemented her spot among the holiday divas a long time ago with her glorious 2013 Christmas album Wrapped in Red.
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Whether the villain is a literal person (Grinch, Scrooge, robbers), or a concept (time running out, fleeting Christmas spirit, lack of money), there needs to be an ominous presence to lift the stakes.
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Miranda will be voicing to the role of Gizmoduck, a robo-hero whose real identity is that of Fenton Crackshell-Cabrera, a young intern working for Scrooge McDuck-employed mad scientist Gyro Gearloose.
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You nasty, V. The Horcrux hunt continues with a visit to Evil Helena Bonham Carter's vault, whose contents multiply to the touch until the kids are swimming in gold cups, Scrooge McDuck-style.
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Just as Scrooge was visited by three ghosts, so you will be visited by seven hair-gelled real estate brokers twirling keys and asking you for $500 cash to do some simple photocopying.
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Wisely, the Jim Henson Company chose to fill the role of Scrooge with a human being and not a puppet when embarking on its first project in the wake of Henson's tragic death.
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Other economists, however, have resisted this Scrooge-like view of gift giving and point to evidence that a present can actually have more value to the recipient than the price the giver paid.
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Like Scrooge meeting the Ghost of Christmas Future, transit riders were given a glimpse of the hair-pulling transit apocalypse to come if we do not make major investments in our infrastructure now.
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But Disney XD's new take on the adventures of Scrooge McDuck and his exhaustive list of friends, family members, and rivals (including, yes, Donald Duck himself) is also just whole lot of fun.
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The cartoon series that ran from 1987 to 1990 is getting an all-star reboot that might tempt you to watch, whether or not you grew up watching Scrooge swim in his money vault.
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He then dons a top hat and coat, making him look like a plus-size Scrooge, and treks out into the town square, where everyone is gathered to sing carols around the Christmas tree.
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It's hard to imagine Ebenezer Scrooge, Miss Havisham and the Artful Dodger all occupying the same stage, but that's the effect of "Young Charles Dickens," a new musical from New York City Children's Theater.
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NBD. Whether you have piles of cash to burn through or want something to strive for, we've compiled a list of the coolest things money can buy when you Scrooge McDuck levels of wealth.
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A classmate of Gizzard Lizard's, ZenoMachine, a gamer for longer than seems plausible (he began playing Team Fortress 2 in kindergarten and now develops his own games), is the eighth grade's resident Fortnite Scrooge.
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However, a number of Twitter users had already compared the UPS Store to Scrooge from "A Christmas Carol" or the Grinch, or suggested they would look to other services for sending future holiday mail.
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"FUCK CHRISTMAS" picks up on the same teen-Scrooge idea that Blink were selling, but does away with their giggly homophobia and replaces it with tired fury—it's more anguished than it is cruel.
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Drink He's no seasonal superstar like Scrooge, but let's spare a thought for Krook, the unfortunate rag-and-bottle man in "Bleak House," Charles Dickens's great novel of the law and its tortuous machinations.
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Did the president experience a Scrooge-like conversion at the World Economic Forum in Davos last month, with the brilliant Jane Goodall, who supports the One Trillion Trees initiative, playing the role of Marley?
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Adding ammunition to rivals seeking to portray her as a Scrooge, the conservatives proposed a less advantageous system for automatic raises in pensions and contentious plans to scrap universal free school lunches for children.
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Scrooge is astonished to see men of wealth strutting before their employees in open robes, demanding that employees join them in the bath, and once consorting with a potted plant — in short, having fun.
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Even if you just end up filling a bank vault to the brim with this stuff and getting your Scrooge McDuck on, we guarantee Ox's miso-lemon dressing will change your life for the better.
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Trading him for Minnesota's pick in this year's draft would allow them to keep Zizic and Yabusele, while also adding yet another valuable asset into Danny Anige's Scrooge McDuck Treasure Room of future draft picks.
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While all metal is cheesy and theatrical, Nightwish take their melodrama to another level with choirs, live orchestras, elves, fairies, odes to magic and nature…Holopainen even once wrote a whole album about Scrooge McDuck.
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The fates are treating them with a Scrooge-like stinginess and, should things go on this way, much like little Timothy Cratchit, they are facing the very real possibility of a cold, impoverished and Christmassy death.
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Lifetime pulled a major Scrooge move in one of its heartwarming holiday flicks by taking a real-life family that had nothing to do with the movie and calling 'em ugly ... according to the fam, anyway.
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But to Bezos, who has a net worth of tens of billions of dollars according to Bloomberg, and is adding money to his vault faster than Scrooge McDuck can swim in it, it's merely pocket change.
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Leading the voice cast is Doctor Who and Jessica Jones star David Tennant as Scrooge McDuck, with Danny Pudi, Ben Schwartz and Bobby Moynihan lending their voices to the mischief-making Huey, Dewey and Louie, respectively.
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Charles Dickens introduced young Tim Cratchit to the world 176 years ago, and ever since the character has been a symbol of "A Christmas Carol" — the sickly but sanguine child whose plight helps transform Ebenezer Scrooge.
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Bran Stark came back for the first time since Season 4, appearing mostly in a vision that, thanks to his developing power, took him and the Three-Eyed Raven, Scrooge-like, to a cheerful Winterfell past.
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Yet the opportunity to have the writer experience his own Scrooge-like epiphany -- including flashbacks to his youth, and examining the complicated relationship with his freeloading father (Jonathan Pryce) -- feel a little too on the nose.
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Like Dickens's Scrooge, Mr. Beiderman is mean because he's sad, and once the compassionate Vanderbeekers uncover his tragic secret, they are finally able to melt his frozen heart and usher in their own happy Christmas ending.
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Portrayed by members of the troupe the Grand Falloons, they will mingle with the public, along with Scrooge, Bob Cratchit and other characters from Dickens's "A Christmas Carol," whose original manuscript the Morgan exhibits every year.
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The show stars David Tennant as Scrooge McDuck, Danny Pudi as Huey, Ben Schwartz as Dewey, Bobby Moynihan as Louie, Kate Micucci as Webby Vanderquack, Beck Bennett as Launchpad McQuack and Toks Olagundoye as Mrs. Beakley.
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Alan Yonge, who voiced Scrooge and passed away earlier this year, was 93 at the time, so he sounds a little older than was probably intended, and you'll feel a little older than you intended by proxy.
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Unless you're a Scrooge, you probably love the holiday season: all of the lights, the time spent with family and friends, the cozy sweaters and, of course, the opportunity to splurge on your loved ones (and yourself).
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Raiding police found numerous bags filled with coins that which at least one of the defendants had used for bathing in money, much like cartoon billionaire character Uncle Scrooge, according to prosecutors at the 110-day trial.
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Children between the ages of three and fourteen can make crafts, listen to a dramatic reading from Dickens's holiday classic, and chat with Ebenezer Scrooge, not to mention the ghosts who taught him the meaning of Christmas.
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Instead, he dropped out because he likely felt it would help consolidate support around Joe Biden, a candidate who doesn't have the same Scrooge McDuck or Mr. Burns vibes as Bloomberg but still shares a common interest.
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But when the ghost of Jacob Marley pays an evening visit to Scrooge in Blessed Unrest's "A Christmas Carol," a Dickens adaptation by Matt Opatrny, this unusually benevolent Marley calls him Eb, as a good pal might.
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But could be mitigated somewhat if Biden had previously stocked away a Scrooge McDuck-like set of gold coins (or just plain dollar bills) that he could draw from to fund his efforts in the third fundraising quarter.
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In What Men Want, Scrooge — er, Ali (Henson) — is visited instead by the temporary ability to hear men's thoughts, after ingesting what she's assured is "tea" served up by a psychic (Erykah Badu) at her friend's bachelorette party.
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It's not hard to imagine that the visions Scrooge had were the result of a desperately needed psychedelic experience, and that the ghosts shepherding him on his journey were actually his own guardian angels, emanating from within himself.
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Marley then sends a series of ghosts to visit Scrooge on the night of Christmas Eve in order to remind him of the meaning of Christmas and that there is still time for him to change his ways.
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Adapted with considerable liberties by Steven Knight ("Peaky Blinders"), and starring a spry-looking Guy Pearce as Ebenezer Scrooge, this latest version runs more than three hours with commercials, and just a bit less than that without them.
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The original animated series was a highlight of many childhoods, and it spawned an equally memorable Game Boy title that introduced some wonderful new ideas to side-scrolling adventures, including Uncle Scrooge pogo-sticking over enemies using his cane.
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In return for Apple being allowed to move its Scrooge McDuck-style pool of gold coins back here for a pittance, the company has promised to make a token investment and Trump gets to play up its sound bites.
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Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer called President Trump "Scrooge to the poor" on Sunday in response to Trump reportedly telling friends at Mar-a-Lago they "just got a lot richer" with the passage of the GOP tax plan.
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In The Ghost: A Cultural History, recently released by Tate Publishing, author Susan Owens begins not with the specters of Halloween or some drafty Victorian haunted house, but with this scene where Scrooge is visited by his former partner.
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Laugh all you want, but Mr. McDuck was many kids' introduction to the Scrooge character, and Mickey's Christmas Carol is the gold standard for the "characters popular from another context get together to act out A Christmas Carol" subgenre.
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A humanizing warmth flickers through this stripped-down, six-actor "A Christmas Carol," at the New Ohio Theater, where J. Stephen Brantley is a delightfully sour, unreformed Scrooge, a man who bares his teeth in place of a smile.
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Finney tackled Charles Dickens in "Scrooge" in 1970, then played Agatha Christie's super-sleuth Hercule Poirot in "Murder on the Orient Express" — earning his second Best Actor nomination— and even played a werewolf hunter in the cult film "Wolfen" in 1981.
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The series stars David Tennant as Scrooge McDuck; Danny Pudi, Ben Schwartz and Bobby Moynihan as the voices of Huey, Dewey and Louie, respectively; Kate Micucci as Webby Vanderquack; Beck Bennett as Launchpad McQuack and Toks Olagundoye as Mrs. Beakley.
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As a small child sitting at the dinner table, I'd often bow my head, clasp my hands together, and silently give thanks for the meal, pray for world peace, and ask to one day have a money vault like Scrooge McDuck.
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Trump: Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer called President Trump "Scrooge to the poor" on Sunday in response to Trump reportedly telling friends at Mar-a-Lago they "just got a lot richer" with the passage of the GOP tax plan.
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At one point, a man wearing a giant papier-mâché Trump head and clutching oversize Scrooge McDuck bags of money bobbled about behind a Trump supporter, who alternated between blasting Christian music from a megaphone and puffing into a large shofar.
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We're taught to perceive wealth as something physical that you can touch — think of Scrooge McDuck swimming around the gold doubloons in his money bin and you have an idea of what every child believes a rich person's fortune is like.
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There's a wonderful sense of flow to the entire game—you're never doing the same thing for too long, Scrooge feels responsive, and it's a pleasure to move and work your way through these (very pretty, and pretty-sounding) environments.
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True, the movie doesn't ascribe everything in "A Christmas Carol" to autobiography: Dickens also has conversations with his characters, who, led by Christopher Plummer as Scrooge, appear to him like the Christmas ghosts and help him through his writer's block.
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How many of the people now demanding your firing read your unforgettable description of Steve Mnuchin's "Scrooge McDuck-style sphincter-clenching," or of Anthony Scaramucci's "batty and profane interview in which he reimagined Steve Bannon as a kind of autoerotic yogi"?
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There's one neat idea at the center of this big-screen, computer-animated adaptation of the book: Carrey plays not only Scrooge but also the three spirits who visit him, which underlines how Scrooge's true transformation always came from within.
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As a teenager growing up in Lynbrook on Long Island, where his father was a hospital administrator and his mother worked in a brokerage firm, Mr. Hoffman landed the role of Young Scrooge in "A Christmas Carol" at Madison Square Garden.
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Beginning in 1901 with the silent film "Scrooge, or, Marley's Ghost," Charles Dickens' tale of a man visited by the ghosts of Christmas Past, Present, and Yet To Come has been reimagined with the Muppets, animation, and in musical form.
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Once again, the Christmas-hating Scrooge is visited by a procession of admonitory ghosts, who in this version push increasingly large carriages, starting with a pram and ending with a funeral coach, perhaps to invoke the baggage we bear through life.
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Avarice has always been with us, and the creative arts have been fascinated by it down the years (Charles Dickens's Scrooge, for instance), but there are several practical examples of what governments can do to rein in the greed impulse.
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With so much infectious cheer in the air, it's basically a faux pas to be a Scrooge this time of the year — so why not give into temptation and embrace all the cheesy, seasonal excitement (and style) the holidays have to offer?
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The restaurant is run by Scrooge McDuck and staffed by Remy the cooking rat from Ratatouille, who is never named and is instead referred to as "Little Chef" despite him being a complex character in his own movie that… you know what?
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So perhaps it'd be more of an autobiography, if you follow me, but the answer here, vis a vis Scrooge, is MARLEY AND ME, the 2005 best-seller by John Grogan about a dog (who was named after Bob and not Jacob, unsurprisingly).
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Mr. Trump has proved Scrooge-like when it comes to doling out formal interviews (the major broadcast networks and CNN have not sat down with him in nearly a year), and his last White House news conference was in February — of 2017.
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Here, you don't need to wait for any post-midnight bell tolling to see the Ghosts of Christmas Past and Christmas Present: They make afternoon visitations at this yearly event, which will also include appearances by Scrooge, Bob Cratchit and Dickens himself.
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Not to be outdone are the various versions of "A Christmas Carol," in rough top-to-bottom order, starring Alistair Sim (1951), Reginald Owen (1938), the musical version "Scrooge" with Albert Finney (1970), and a fine TV production with George C. Scott (1984).
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Even Scrooge would have a hard time to keep from shedding a tear at this Amazon Prime commercial, which shows a Christian and Muslim man getting each other the exact same gift — and reminding us all what's important this holiday season (and all year 'round!).
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The invaluable Jim Broadbent showed up at year's end after a decade away from the London stage in a West End production of "A Christmas Carol," his Scrooge moving from asperity to humility in a way that mined genuine feeling from a possibly shopworn title.
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Stylist and image consultant LaTonya Staubs has made a career out of giving women advice about how to revamp their wardrobes or create a new look without operating under the assumption that her clients also have access to a Scrooge McDuck-sized money pit.
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According to a survey of NCAA Division I Football Bowl Subdivision athletic director compensation by the website AthleticDirectorU and the law firm Spencer Fane, the only thing separating the people running major college sports and Scrooge McDuck is that the former generally wear pants.
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Adapted by the actor and his wife, the actress Susan Lyons, along with Michael Arden, who is also directing, the classic story of Scrooge and the ghosts of Christmas past, present and future takes on a darker turn than in many theatrical "Christmas Carol" productions.
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"Three flops in a row, up to your eyeballs in debt," the character Ebenezer Scrooge taunts Charles Dickens, mired in writer's block, as he stares at a sign promising his next story — a tale about Christmas — above an empty stand in a London bookstore window.
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Unlike the near-total redemption Scrooge enjoys in most adaptations of "A Christmas Carol," in this version he clearly understands that the sufferings of his childhood don't excuse the behavior of his adult self, and that the consequences of his past behavior can't be changed.
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