Posted on 12/04/2004 11:21:17 AM PST by Cyropaedia
"Mr. Toad's Wild Adventure."
Two Dickens adaptations, directed by Sir Carol Reed, Oliver Twist. and Great Expectations.
What a cool story!
I bet the magician you saw WAs Steve martin.
I remember that he does magic ( and plays the banjo!)
Did you guys take any pictures with him?
Did you ever get to go on it?
For a simply done "Dark" ride it was actually pretty cool, and pretty scary if you were under 10.
My favorite too. Mr. Magoo is a close second.
"With razzleberry dressing..."
1) Alistair Sim version
2) Muppet Chritmas Carol
3) I can't think of one.
Mine, also. Possibly because it's black and white, it portrays the dark, cold atmosphere surrounding Scrooge. It seems so authentic of that time period. And Sims is night-and-day in his characterization;a real transformation. I watch it every year, and it always gets me in the Christmas mood. That and "White Christmas".
Add me to that one too. He was just such a great mean man. And the coal miner singing "Silent Night". What a great tenor!!
Hubbie really likes "Scrooged" , We have to watch both versions for the holidays!
Well my mother is a photo fanatic and I swear she has literally 100`s of thousands of photographs. She`s almost 70 now and she has been taking photos since she was a teenager, BUT she does what a lot of people do which is she never organized them. I could go into her basement and spend years going though all those shoeboxes and I would go nuts looking for it, but I KNOW she has a picture of Steve Martin in there somewhere. My mother is a pack rat, she never throws out anything but on the other hand she never organizes anything. I mean she will take a bunch of photos this Christmas, and will throw them into the first shoebox she comes across which could be a shoebox from 1950, although I think now she uses a digital camera.
I like Mr. Magoos version too but I did enjoy the recent showing of the musical version that had Kelsey Grammer in it last Sunday. They are showing it again on USA tomorrow night at 9 e.s.t. or 8 c.s.t.
It was a very cute ride, though it had begun to look dated.
"Wind in the Willows" is a very nice book, and quite humourous in a sly way.
I read it, too when I was about 9.
"Pirates" STILL rocks, but my personal favorite is The Haunted Mansion.
I know what that's like... a lot of pack-rats also seem to love taking pictures ( I married into a whole family like that)
Good on your Mom that she has a digital camera!
A LOT of seniors are too intimidated to try the new tech.
We tried to get one for my MIL, or get her a Mac so she can e-mail her church-ladies and their HUGE extended family and she is too afraid to try.
I just came across an interesting bit on the guy that does Scrooge's voice - It's Alan Young, the same guy who played Wilbur in the "Mr. Ed" show.
"In a completely unexpected twist, it turns out that Scrooge is the dead one, and the "ghosts" are actually the people that he's haunting."
More here
Pretty sure this is the one I grew up with. No other version seemed to be as good once I saw it.
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