Colin McEnroe Show: Actually, Scrooge Is A Really Nice Guy
Just kidding. He's still a jerk. But actor Bill Raymond certainly is not.
Here is Charles Dickens describing Scrooge:
"Oh! But he was a tight-fisted hand at the grind- stone, Scrooge! a squeezing, wrenching, grasping, scraping, clutching, covetous, old sinner! Hard and sharp as flint, from which no steel had ever struck out generous fire; secret, and self-contained, and solitary as an oyster. The cold within him froze his old features, nipped his pointed nose, shriveled his cheek, stiffened his gait; made his eyes red, his thin lips blue and spoke out shrewdly in his grating voice. A frosty rime was on his head, and on his eyebrows, and his wiry chin. He carried his own low temperature always about with him; he iced his office in the dogdays; and didn't thaw it one degree at Christmas."
The man who has played that role for years at Hartford Stage, to the point where he himself is kind of a Christmas tradition, is Bill Raymond.
And in real life, he's not like Scrooge at all.
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***This episode was produced with help from Sarah Miner***
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E-mail from Wayne (On Martha Dean)
I was busy helping Marilyn unclog the vacuum cleaner and got back down by the radio just in time to hear "nutcase" so I'm guessing you had read my e-mail. I'm sorry if you two are too intellectual to hear the thinly-stretched skin over a very tightly-wound person, but that's her and it came across very clearly without you having to prod her or get to her. I had never heard her before nor seen how she was treated in the press, so I don't think I was all that biased.
I found her, based on that interview, to be a very scary person, human, perhaps, but scary.
E-mail from Bob
A version that gets lost in this video world is Lionel Barrymore's radio version of the '30's -40's and a Caedmon record version, both of which allow the listener to see his own versions. Such radio programs were great imagination developers.
A politically incorrect Merry Christmas to you and yours.
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