The comedy Roger Ebert hated with a passion was 'Mr Magoo', a one-joke movie without the joke. He lambasted star Leslie ...

TV viewers know Jim Backus as the voice of cartoon character Mr. Magoo but he also affected the highbrow accent of a to-the-manor born financier stranded on “Gilligan’s Island.” Shirley Booth played ...

As a ghost, Jacob Marley helps save Scrooge in the classic Dickens tale. Now, other authors are writing books that tell Marley's story.

ABC Chairman Kim Williams bears a remarkable similarity to Mr Magoo, the elderly cartoon character who gets into endless scrapes because he refuses to put on his Coke-bottle-sized spectacles and look ...

the wreckage.” The 1960s also saw the rise of holiday-themed cartoons, starting with Mr. Magoo’s Christmas Carol in 1962, and Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer—based on the song, itself based on a ...

Every holiday, we embrace 'A Christmas Carol.' But some of Charles Dickens' other Christmas books were even more popular in ...

Each December, the Dickens characters come to us in movies, plays, advertisements, and cartoons starring Mr. Magoo and Mickey Mouse. So it's worth remembering that Charles Dickens wrote the ...

Our guide will help you plan for your New Year's Eve, whether you're looking for family fun, art, indoor entertainment or ...

During the 1980 holiday season, viewers got a holiday treat on TV—just not necessarily in the usual places. Starting that November, a new special called Yogi’s First Christmas aired.

Gerald McBoing Boing is probably the second most recognizable continuing character created by UPA, after Quincy Magoo. There were only four theatrical ... to anyone who saw the first cartoon, at any ...