FIRST: Sure, there’s Dr. Seuss’ Grinch and there’s Rankin-Bass’ Rudolph, but they all owe a debt to the underrated “Mister Magoo's Christmas Carol”, scored by Jule Styne and Bob Merrill: It was the first animated Christmas special, which premiered on NBC in 1962. Tonight, join a panel of animators and other special guests at the Paley Center for Revisiting “Mister Magoo's Christmas Carol”, a screening and discussion of this groundbreaking work. 6PM.
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TWOFER: “Julie & Julia” author Julie Powell and “Diet for a Hot Planet” scribe Anna Lappé come to KGB Bar to read from their most recent projects as part of the True Story: Nonfiction series. The highlight will no doubt excerpts of Powell’s memoir “Cleaving: A Story of Marriage, Meat and Obsession”, about her butchering and extra-marital affair. 7-9PM.
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