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Choose Your Favorite Scrooge Maybe you can't stand sugarplums, and pine trees make you sneeze. If so, you're in good company. A defense of Mr. Humbug himself, Ebeneezer Scrooge, of A Christmas Carol fame.

Choose Your Favorite Scrooge

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Choose Your Favorite Scrooge

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Maybe you can't stand sugarplums, and pine trees make you sneeze. If so, you're in good company. A defense of Mr. Humbug himself, Ebeneezer Scrooge, of A Christmas Carol fame.

Guests:

Murray Horwitz, Director and COO of American Film Institute Silver Theater and Cultural Center

Michael Levin, professor of philosophy at City University of New York

Jonathan Weir playing Scrooge at the Goodman Theatre in Chicago