[US Navy Vet]

Interesting

[citizen]

Blocked at work...the url contains the word ‘entertainment.’

[Lockbar]

I was a Jean Shepard fan for many years. Unfortunately, about a year before he died, Shepard did an interview with he Chicago Tribune where he revealed that he really disliked his childhood in NW Indiana, and never really cared about the childhood characters (Flick, Swartz, Bruner) he developed and used in his stories. It was a kick in the teeth for me and I can never look at his work the same again.

[RedMDer]

Scut Farkus still looks the same :)

[djf]

Maybe it’s just me, but I always thought Melinda Dillon was sorta major league HOT!!

[raccoonradio]

>>Clark was killed in a car accident in 2007.

The director and his son, who hoped to also get into
the movie business, were killed by an illegal
alien driving drunk

99 cent podcast (scroll down) of “Stu’s Show” with guests
>>A look back at the now cult classic 1983 feature, “A CHRISTMAS STORY” with guests SCOTT SCHWARTZ (Flick), ZACK WARD (Scut Farcus), and YANO ANAYA (Grover Dill).

http://www.stusshow.com/archives.php?y=2010

[2nd Bn, 11th Mar]

...the 1983 movie that became an instant holiday classic...

If memory serves, the movie was not all that popular when it first came out. It wasn't until a cable network began running it that it became so popular.

[tob2]

I love this movie! I personally think the seeds for National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation blossomed in A Christmas Story.

[MrB]

Of course I watched it again this year, and with my kids.
We were a bit surprised, for some reason, when the occasional profanity slipped out, even though one of the major memorable scenes revolved around the ‘f’ word.

I asked my daughter, after one of those profanities was uttered, if she heard the “bad word” that was said.
She said she couldn’t understand what the characters were saying.

It then occurred to me that throughout the show they use nonsense “profanity” out of the father & Ralphie, and mix in the occasional real profanity, and to a kid that doesn’t hear those words, it ALL sounds like nonsense words.

[SES1066]

There is another movie of an even greater vintage (1955) that I missed seeing this season. Anyone else remember “We’re No Angels”? It is a Humphrey Bogart movie for goodness sakes and a star cast on top of that with Peter Ustinov, Aldo Ray, Joan Bennett, Basil Rathbone, Leo G. Carroll AND directed by Michael Curtiz! With 500 channels, they can’t give us this good stuff?

[Huntress]

Peter Billingsley grew up to be a handsome fellow.

[Tanniker Smith]

TV Guide channel just aired a retrospective within the past couple weeks (probably repeated ad nauseam, and I don’t even know if it was original to this year).

[InvisibleChurch]

“You filty sicken hook-aid! Oh, smelly wok buster! Grout shell fratten house stickle fifer! You bladder puss nut grafter! Dorton hoper…smick melly whop walker. You wart mundane noodle! You shotten shifter paskabah! You snort tonguer! Lame monger snaffa shell cocker!”

[bicyclerepair]

For real:

I got a leg lamp Christmas-tree ornament and a Daisy pellet rifle for Christmas this year.

[clearcarbon]

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