Jim Beam, the country’s largest maker of bourbon, has announced a one-year pause in production at its flagship facility in Clermont, Ky., a stunning move that underlines the immense challenges facing the American whiskey industry after more than two decades of rapid growth.

With the Christmas season on our heads now, watching Jim Carrey’s A Christmas Carol feels inevitable. Among Jim Carrey’s extensive holiday-film catalogue, A Christmas Carol (2009) remains beloved for his committed Scrooge-and-Ghosts performance and Robert Zemeckis’ immersive motion-capture realism,