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- Subject: ActorWatch - "A Christmas Carol"
- Message-ID: <1992Dec24.221615.518@rivers>
- Date: 24 Dec 92 22:16:15 -0600
- Organization: University of Wisconsin - River Falls
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- A Merry Christmas to all, and a Happy New Year no matter what year you
- are travelling to. :)
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- And in the spirit of the holidays, my ActorWatch turned up two "Who" actors
- in a Christmas "special" being shown tonight, Christmas Eve on CBS.
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- The special is "A Christmas Carol" starring George C. Scott and I recognized
- two people from "Who" in it.
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- One was a very small part played by Michael Gough (the Toymaker, Councillor
- Hedin in "Arc of Infinity", Alfred in the "Batman" movies), the part being
- that of some older gentleman Scrooge runs into in the street and wishes a
- Merry Christmas after he's been sorted out by the spirits the previous night.
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- The other was much more significant. Mark Strickson (Turlough) as the
- young Scrooge that the Spirit of Christmas Past shows the present Scrooge
- to prove to him that he once knew how to have fun. Very good job he does
- too. The copyright date of this film is 1984 so it's right around the
- time Mark was leaving "Who," and it almost shows in a way as he seems to
- play his Scrooge a little like Turlough. The part calls for it too as
- Scrooge needs to be "shifty" in these scenes with the girlfriend he lets
- get away.
- This solves one mystery. Now we know why Scrooge was the way he was; he made
- a deal with the Black Guardian, and those spirits he saw were really him
- tormenting Turlough. :)
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- Once again, Merry Christmas!
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- Steven.K.Manfred
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