Pudding singing in the copper

Scrooge

(1951)

Someone at the company holiday party who asked me what my favorite Christmas movies are pointed out, when I told her my Xmas Eve viewing tradition, that now Jim Carrey has starred in versions of both stories. True. Small world.

Sign that the apocalypse is nigh: click here if you dare.

But look, if it weren't for that damned "Barbara Allen," I wouldn't get so weepy.

What I realized this time that I'd never noticed before: the guy who doesn't mind attending Scrooge's funeral as long as there's food ("I must be fed, or I stay at home!") is Peter Bull--the Russian ambassador in Dr. Strangelove. Moreover, IMDb tells me he's also the narrator: "Jacob Marley was as dead as a doornail . . . "