As Thanksgiving approaches, so do those warm, fuzzy holiday TV-movies. This year, NBC gives us former Frasier star Kelsey Grammer as Ebenezer Scrooge in A Christmas Carol (Nov. 28 at 9 pm/ET, in case you're TiVoing whilst out gift shopping). This musical version of Charles Dickens' classic tale costars Seinfeld's Jason Alexander, Ally McBeal's Jane Krakowksi and ex-Neutrogena hawker Jennifer Love Hewitt. Now there's a helluva cast!
Grammer, who's a hammy delight in Carol, says it was heartening to play ol' Scrooge, "a man redeemed by love." Here's how he sums up his miser-makes-good gig: "In playing Scrooge," the 49-year-old actor says, "I discovered something extraordinary. That Tiny Tim character represents all the hopes of childhood. It was Scrooge's childhood that was robbed from him. I think it is our childhoods for which we mourn as we grow older — the dreams that didn't pay off or c
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