It takes a Dickensian villain to ask a court to cut off food aid before Thanksgiving, and Trump was up to the task.
Maybe young Donald saw “Oliver!” at an impressionable age and rooted for the bad guys, so he thinks the show’s opening number is an uplifting number showing cheerful orphans glad to get their gruel – they even ask for more! Perhaps all the American children enjoying their holiday Cup O’ Noodles around the trash fire can sing along!
“Oliver!” opened in 1960 and ran for years in both London and New York before Carol Reed filmed it in 1968. Mark Lester, who played the title role, left acting at 19 and became an osteopath.
Young Millennials and Gen Z’ers probably know the tune not from its source but its use in a scene from the 2006 animated film “Ice Age 2,” where it’s sung by a flock of expectant vultures.
