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A Christmas Story

Yes, that "You'll shoot your eye out" classic is on tonight, and I'm recording it. It's been a few years since I've seen it, and there are wonderful details I had forgotten. Aside from the great dialogue, I just love the 1940s sets and costumes

The story is based on the short stories and semi-fictional anecdotes of author and raconteur Jean Shepherd, including material from his books In God We Trust, All Others Pay Cash, and Wanda Hickey's Night of Golden Memories.

"Aha. The Bumpus hounds. Our hillbilly neighbors, the Bumpuses, had at least 785 smelly hound dogs, and they ignored every other human being on earth but my old man."

I remember a Jean Shepherd story in Playboy in the late 1960s about Easter dinner at Ralphie's house and how the Bumpus's hounds came in and stole the precious Easter ham.

I probably won't have time to watch the whole movie tonight, but will catch up with it in days to come.

posted on Dec 24, 2011 5:20 PM ()

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That was my youngest son's favorite movie. I watched it this year.

comment by dragonflyby on Dec 27, 2011 6:52 PM ()

There are so many things I like in this movie.

reply by troutbend on Dec 31, 2011 3:10 PM ()

Trout, he didn't make an effort to be charming to me, so I don't know. I admit that affected my opinion of him. I think he thought (Oh, Jay married an empty-headed piece of arm candy.) I got a reasonable amount of that in those days.

comment by tealstar on Dec 26, 2011 5:26 PM ()

reply by troutbend on Dec 26, 2011 9:34 PM ()

A Christmas Story-the Musical opened in Chicago last week. It is being produced by Peter Billingsley who played Ralphie in the movie. It may go to Broadway next year.

comment by boots586 on Dec 25, 2011 11:06 AM ()

I'm thinking of what show tunes I would expect there to be in the musical version.

reply by troutbend on Dec 25, 2011 10:24 PM ()

Jay knew Jean Shepherd. Shep co-wrote a book with Jay's former roomie and good friend, Theodore Sturgeon, the scifi writer. It was I, Libertine(1956, and the nom de plume they used was "Frederick R. Ewing". It was a spoof. I was not a fan through omission -- I was just not interested then. Jay did take me to a thing where Shepherd was speaking and introduced me.

comment by tealstar on Dec 25, 2011 7:07 AM ()

I wonder if he was a funny in person as in his writing.

reply by troutbend on Dec 25, 2011 10:22 PM ()

"A Christmas Story" was based on a book (forgot title), location in NW Indiana. I watched part of the movie, too, last night. It's a little "over the top" for me, but entertaining. (PS: Am I on your "s**t list"?)

comment by solitaire on Dec 25, 2011 5:49 AM ()

I'm enjoying "The Sound of Music." Love that 1965 classic!

comment by marta on Dec 24, 2011 6:31 PM ()

Now, that's another good movie I look forward to seeing again. I was just watching Monty Python's "Christmas in Heaven" video clip from The Meaning of Life and they referred to The Sound of Music being one of the movies playing every hour on Christmas Day.

The other(s) was Jaws 1, 2 and 3.

reply by troutbend on Dec 25, 2011 10:27 PM ()

And then there is MY Natalie Wood in "Miracle of 34th Street" at 8 PM tonight!

comment by greatmartin on Dec 24, 2011 5:28 PM ()

I always liked that original version over the re-make.

reply by troutbend on Dec 25, 2011 10:28 PM ()

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