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Thursday, December 20, 2007

TV: The Ghost of Christmas What?

Rod Serling adapting Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol for the United Nations? Sterling Hayden as a Cold War Ebenezer Scrooge? Steve Lawrence – yes, that Steve Lawrence – as a WWI doughboy who speaks for all those slain in war? Peter Sellers as a crackpot Texan doomsday survivor? All of it scored by Henry Mancini and directed by Oscar-winner Joseph L. Mankiewicz?

The only thing odder than the fact that the above happened is that the resulting TV special only aired once. Thomas Vinciguerra on a bizarre chapter in Christmas and showbiz history.

Labels: TV

posted by Vince  # 4:27 PM

1 Comments:

At 4:49 PM #  Romy said:

Those of us who admired Steve Lawrence's work on The Nanny would not be surprised at his earlier dramatic triumph. Comedy, drama, music. The man can do it all.

(I am being so sincere right now.)

 

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