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Article: NAUGHTY AND NICE/ THE RICHNESS OF SCROOGE'S NASTINESS MAKES TNT'S 'CHRISTMAS CAROL' SING.(Television)(Review)
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- Seattle Post-Intelligencer
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- December 4, 1999
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As a holiday story, any adaptation of Charles Dickens' ``A Christmas Carol'' rises or falls on the nastiness of its Scrooge. For the sake of the kiddies, many productions turn the spotlight on the warm-and-fuzzy Cratchit family, especially Tiny Tim, which leaves old Ebenezer out in the snow, a brittle caricature as flimsy as his reputation.
Not so the ``Christmas Carol'' airing Sunday night on TNT, the latest offering from Robert Halmi Sr.'s classics-for-the-masses factory. Patrick Stewart, who has spent much of the past decade performing a one-man stage version of ``A Christmas Carol,'' plays Scrooge with a snarl and a growl so convincing that one wonders how ...