1962’s animated musical version of “A Christmas Carol,” “Mr. Magoo’s Christmas Carol,” is something of an underrated classic. It’s peppered with fine, Broadway-style musical numbers and follows the familiar tale quite closely and seriously. Here’s the old Scrooge/Magoo seeing his lonely younger self:
Joe Gandelman is a former fulltime journalist who freelanced in India, Spain, Bangladesh and Cypress writing for publications such as the Christian Science Monitor and Newsweek. He also did radio reports from Madrid for NPR’s All Things Considered. He has worked on two U.S. newspapers and quit the news biz in 1990 to go into entertainment. He also has written for The Week and several online publications, did a column for Cagle Cartoons Syndicate and has appeared on CNN.