tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7857882.post3092940182664622650..comments2023-11-17T11:08:31.857-06:00Comments on Michael May: Old Sinner: George C Scott (1984)Michael Mayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12514945570212261283noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7857882.post-10775956750229110842015-12-23T10:38:48.369-06:002015-12-23T10:38:48.369-06:00Thanks, Rosie! I've heard of the Sussex Carol,...Thanks, Rosie! I've heard <i>of</i> the Sussex Carol, but didn't realize that I'd actually heard it sung. That's super helpful!Michael Mayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12514945570212261283noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7857882.post-81930665519946850422015-12-15T14:17:16.407-06:002015-12-15T14:17:16.407-06:00I'm coming in four years later - reading throu...I'm coming in four years later - reading through all of these posts for the first time in 2015, and really enjoying them! - so you may well know this now, but the song you quoted that you hadn't heard before is a fairly popular Christmas carol in the UK, called the Sussex Carol (apparently because the first people to write it down first heard it themselves in Sussex). Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10108832715314076815noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7857882.post-35911264354642464522012-02-09T17:27:48.744-06:002012-02-09T17:27:48.744-06:00Edward Woodward is hands down my favorite Ghost of...Edward Woodward is hands down my favorite Ghost of Christmas Present.<br /><br />And I <i>knew</i> I recognized that Young Scrooge!Michael Mayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12514945570212261283noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7857882.post-3222161171029379302011-12-18T15:28:44.784-06:002011-12-18T15:28:44.784-06:00This is my favorite version of A Christmas Carol, ...This is my favorite version of <i>A Christmas Carol</i>, primarily because everyone involved took pains to invoke the feel of a Victorian Era Christmas. There's also some wonderful casting (Edward Woodward as the Ghost of Christmas Present, <i>Doctor Who</i> stalwart Mark Strickson as young Ebenezer), and a script that suggests Dickens himself adapted his own work (allowing for some wibbly-wobbly timey-wimey stuff, seeing that he's been dead for over a century and change).Mitchell Craignoreply@blogger.com