AMC has been doing multiple broadcasts of A Christmas Carol, the 1984 television movie adaptation with George C. Scott as Ebenezer Scrooge, for the past few nights. It's easily my favorite version of Charles Dickens' timeless potboiler (no really, he only wrote it to sell and pay some bills) although Patrick Stewart's one-man performance runs a very close second.But have you ever wondered what happened after Scrooge changed his ways at the end of...
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James Whitmore has passed away
Veteran actor James Whitmore, probably one of the most well-recognized and beloved faces to have ever graced the American stage and screen, passed away today after a struggle with lung cancer. He was 87.The folks of my generation probably best remember Whitmore from The Shawshank Redemption. He played Brooks in that film: the "institutionalized" prison librarian who is released...
