Our eyes cut the distance as loving eyes must

[sovay]

spatch just came into my office to warn me that he had some news I would not like and when I asked who had died he said David Collings.

He was correct. I do not like that at all.

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[sovay]

I've never watched Sapphire and Steel, but I had seen him in a number of things, notably Ken Russell's Mahler.

He did very little film as opposed to TV, stage, and radio. The really weird thing is that I must have seen him first in the 1970 musical film of Scrooge, which I disliked intently at the time because it wasn't the 1951 non-musical film with Alastair Sim, and now I kind of want to try it again.

[gwynnega]

I think my parents took me to see Scrooge when it first came out, which would have made it one of the first movies I ever saw in a theater. I don't think it measures up to the earlier Christmas Carol films, but it does have Albert Finney.

[sovay]

I don't think it measures up to the earlier Christmas Carol films, but it does have Albert Finney.

I did retain the passive-aggressive total earworm of "Thank You Very Much" to the point that I was sorry when Anton Rodgers died. I really objected to the future scene where Scrooge is shown his office in Hell since, although I don't know that I could articulate it as such at age elementary school, it seemed superfluous to me beside the emotional horror of Scrooge realizing that no one will mourn him, miss him, or feel anything but perhaps financial relief when he dies. That was much worse to me than the weight and breadth of the chains he forged in life, about which Marley's already warned him. It probably still is.