Posted on 12/05/2008 11:11:43 AM PST by qam1
Fans of the holiday classic “A Christmas Story” are celebrating the film’s 25th anniversary with a convention and trips to the house where the movie was made.
The 1983 film, an adaptation of Jean Shepard’s memoir of a boy in the 1940s, was set in Indiana but largely filmed in Ohio. The movie starred Peter Billingsley as Ralphie Parker, a young boy determined to get a Red Ryder BB gun for Christmas.
The film was a modest theatrical success, but critics loved it. It eventually joined “It’s a Wonderful Life” and “Miracle on 34th Street” as a Christmas classic.
“It’s a film about being a kid and looking back,” said Brian Jones, who owns the house where the movie was shot and the neighboring museum dedicated to the film.
About 4,000 fans attended the recent convention at Cleveland’s Renaissance Hotel, where they met some of the film’s actors, watched documentaries made about the film, and saw the original 1938 fire truck from a famous scene in the movie involving a child’s tongue stuck to a frozen pole.
“It is unbelievable that a movie has touched the lives of millions of families,” said Phil Gillen, son of the late actor Jeff Gillen who played the movie’s worn-out Santa Claus. He traveled from Miami with his family to attend the convention....
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CHEERS!
I’m Kamna Karamchandani. I’m glad my quote “Irrelevance is the art of the confused” was of some help to you.
Chunga, it amazes me that someone would take 17 hours to find a quote written by a 17 year old. It’s not that great a quote though so that’s why it suprises me. I have not taken the pains as to why it was needed to demonstrate an opinion or whatever. This has sure made my day!
CHEERS!
(even if it only took you 2 minutes! YAY!)
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