And I would rewrite them as current unknown soldier stories. Like Uncle Scrooge, we dove into the money vault, swam through the pages, grabbed everything we could.
But we worked together a lot over the remaining 30 years. You guys had "Scrooged" and "Passion Play," which was your first film you directed Bill in. Bill was in, and then what you call it, "Charlie's Angels", I was a writer on for nine weeks in the first "Charlie's
And so we met in '77. But we became close as collaborators on Scrooged in '87, which I wrote my late writing partner, Michael O'Donoghue. And Billy was in.
And what I didn't yet understand about money is that money is, in and of itself, inert. Nobody, save for maybe Scrooge McDuck and possibly Warren Buffett, would actually get off on swimming in their own money. So it's not the money.
spelling stars are wonderful but this attempt at diplomacy fell on deaf ears carrying signs with half cheeky half argumentative slogans we looked like scrooges reigning on a beloved American parade and poo pooing the achievements of talented children
But just dealing with this guy and making a movie about Christmas. And really, the Dickens story of Scrooge, how you could miss that one? How you could, how you had to be re-educated on that one every four hours, it was mind-boggling.
And it chronicles, with each verse, the way the beds change in the relationship. having had the Kickstarter, you were now Uncle Scrooge-ing.
But, going on a little too much about it because it's like a 5 o'clock in the afternoon coffee, I'm going to get emotional. So we had some of these monstrous things happen, like in "Scrooged" we had a character, who was the director, who was-- it was jaw dropping. I mean if you had a few hours, and half of a bar, we could get to some of these stories.
Now, we're using all of our metal for shrapnel -- for bullets and stuff -- after the war is over, it's going to be for a dishwashers.” And advertisers used that kind of language too. In fact, I think it's not a coincidence that Scrooge McDuck -- who is Donald Duck's miserly uncle -- appears in 1947. And I sort of date that as around the time that frugality went from being a virtue and something that we looked up to and championed to being sort of a punch line.