Sentences with phrase «scrooge of»

Even Peter Capaldi — the self - appointed security scrooge of Windsor Gardens — chews through dialogue about delinquent bear danger levels reaching sky - high.
It can also lead kids to draw negative conclusions about your money attitudes, she said — if mom wants to keep it secret that we went to the mall, dad must be the scrooge of the family.
I've never been able to understand the Scrooges of the world.

Not exact matches

It is clear that the current government is made up of Scrooges.
The Scrooges on the opposite side of the House seemed untransformed.
Perhaps there is nothing scrooge - like in my penitential view of Advent, which holds me back from buying the tree.
In the real world, the Scrooges are heroes, the Bob Cratchits are dispensable and the Tiny Tims are unproductive spongers draining the precious resources of the state, while the likes of Robin Hood are just naive idealists.
I'm pretty «meh» about Valentine's day (and actually about all Holidays, I'm a bit of a scrooge if you can't tell — ha ha ha).
But considering I've been a little bit of a, uhh, coconut sugar scrooge, I suppose I've got some explaining to do.
That's how our scrooge looks at things, because he's won tons of trophies early on in his career he's not as hungry or motivated as Brendan Rodgers so don't expect a mentality of buying / developing and winning mentality at this club until a new manager is brought in 3 years from now.
«30 Mill», we'll give you 10, «ok 25» we'll give 12, «ok 20» we'll give you 15 and so on, untill the selling club get fed up with Arsenal's scrooge policy and pull out of the deal.
he is looking mor and more like the ghost of christmas past and scrooge in one as each day passes.
its a world of different opinions and the above is mine ppl may disagree, but im pretty sure its unanimous on Wenger Stubborn arrogant personified, lets not go into his scrooge bah humbug looks and penny pinching lol
This year's tree is a swirl of tartan plaid ribbon, candles, and hand blown ornaments all topped by Ebenezer Scrooges hat.
Featuring prancing reindeer in a wintry, snow - filled landscape, this garish holiday sweater is sure to amuse the Hum - buggiest of Scrooges.
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After more than thirty years of sporadic screenwriting on films as varied as Scrooged and The Recruit, Mitch Glazer got a chance to create television.
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Besides that Sim film, some of the better - known versions include a 1938 film starring Reginald Owen, the 1970 Albert Finney musical Scrooge, the 1983 animated featurette Mickey's Christmas Carol (starring Scrooge McDuck), the 1988 Bill Murray comedy Scrooged, and 1992's The Muppet Christmas Carol.
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On this viewing, my first in a long time, I found The Game reminiscent of Charles Dickens» A Christmas Carol, specifically the dark, modern, and comedic retelling Scrooged.
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We squeezed into the Christmas sock every genre including horror, animation plus the madness of CHRISTMAS VACATION and SCROOGED right up to the emotive humanity of IT»S A WONDERFUL LIFE.
Making his directorial debut is veteran screenwriter Mitch Glazer, whose work includes Scrooged (1988), Three of Hearts (1993), Great Expectations (1998), and The Recruit (2003).
Before Mr. Murray could make his big screen return with Scrooged (for the purposes of this analogy, we'll ignore the Little Shop of Horrors cameo), Benji was already back in top form for a fourth feature - length outing.
Loyalty is undoubtedly something to strive for, and as such, it's sweet that Bill Murray seems to be so dedicated to Mitch Glazer, the co-writer of «Scrooged,» who roped him into the utterly dreadful magical - realism drama «Passion Play,» also starring Mickey Rourke and Megan Fox, a few years back.
Co-written by the actor alongside his Lost In Translation director Sofia Coppola and Scrooged scribe Mitch Glazer, with Coppola calling the shots, the special is an homage to variety shows, with Murray playing himself and worrying that none of his guests will show up due to a terrible snow storm in New York.
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The many Scrooges: Each version of «A Christmas Carol» has a a great actor to headline the film as Ebenezer Scrooge.
«Stylistically, the movie attempts to ape the screeching nocturnal momentum of Scrooged, but the screenplay feels like a rough draft.
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Writer / director Glazer wrote the scripts for Scrooged, The Recruit, and the 1998 adaptation of Great Expectations.
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Just saw a wonderful version of «A Christmas Carol» at our local theater.Today, a person who is very tight with money, is often called a «scrooge», after, the main character in «A Christmas Carol».
For example, leading up to Halloween, you'll see lots of spooky, scary, funny, or somewhere in between movies in rotation (such as Aliens, Halloween, or Ghostbusters), and during the Christmas season, expect to see classics like Home Alone and Scrooged to put you right into the Christmas spirit.
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