But even without a celebrity participant, A Christmas Carol has proved to be a major draw for the Goodman.
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Is Charles Dickens alive and well and retelling his cautionary tale, A Christmas Carol, with a modern twist?
And when the author of "A Christmas Carol" was writing, the great clanking machinery of a Ramadan-length Christmas had not got into gear, and English people reserved Dec. 26 ("Boxing Day") for the exchange of tokens.
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Studios are already seeing a glimpse of that with Jim Carrey's A Christmas Carol.
Fifth place will go to Disney's A Christmas Carol, Exhibitor Relations predicts.
What was Dickens really doing when he wrote A Christmas Carol?
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In Anchorage, Alaska, a group was planning to converge on city hall to hold a carol-singing protest in defence of Christmas customs they believe to be under threat, such as the habit of wishing someone "Merry Christmas" instead of "Happy Holidays".
Dickens dealt successfully with Christmas twice in a well-known chapter of The Pickwick Papers and in The Christmas Carol.
Christmas in Easterhouse starts on the Sunday before with a carol service.
Late in the afternoon, a child said she didn't know what her favorite Christmas carol was.
Christmas also seems to bring with it a tidal wave of sentimentality with old films on television, soft carol music and pictures of old-fashioned celebrations.
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