[pillut48]

Photo essay updating the actor who played "Ralphie" and the rest of the gang from the beloved Christmas movie. Triple dog dare ya to check it out! :-)

[Darkwolf377]

became an instant holiday classic

Seeing how it bombed at the box office, I don't think it qualifies as an instant holiday classic.

[cherry]

wowzer....that Ralphie grew up to be quite the hunk!

[mwyounce]

Triple dog dare ya to check it out! :-)

Pillut48 created a slight breach of etiquette by skipping the triple dare, and going right for the throat!

[Jmouse007]

We just watched it the other night in high def. Very nice restoration. It is narated by the man who wrote the book you can tell most if not all of it were his personal recolections growing up. A lot of people can relate to many things in the movie, it always brings a smile to my face and some wonderful memories of my own. It is a national treasure.

[DieHard the Hunter]

Hey that was great! Thanks for posting!

[scripter]

ping

[MadMax, the Grinning Reaper]

Darren McGavin = NIGHTSTALKER

Cool guy, good actor, and funny as hell. RIP

[Drago]

The director of “A Christmas Story” and his son were killed by a drunk illegal last year. Another sad “open border” story.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1910348/posts

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/17954973/

[raccoonradio]

I visited the Christmas Story House while in Cleveland. It was fun!

The “story” continued about 11 years later with “It Runs in
The Family”, later retitled “My Summer Story”. Everyone in the cast is different except for the woman who played the
teacher, Miss Shields. It’s not bad, in that it shows some
of the stories that turned up in Shepherd’s collections
(and he narrates again): the “war” over the hillbillies next door, the Bumpuses; the debacle of “Ronald Coleman Gravy
Boat Night” at the cinema; Ralphie’s fishing trip with
the old man, etc. (The boring Charles Grodin, sadly,
plays _him_, this time around)

Part 1:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ajSbgvn3siY

then take it from there (save them to your desktop and
watch later if need be)

[JoeProBono]

[DollyCali]

BTTT

[Guenevere]

bttt

[egannacht]

If you love Jean Shepherd's A Christmas Story (he is the narrator) you will also love the 1982 PBS short movie The Great American Forth of July and Other Disasters

Most filmgoers will associate humorist Jean Shepherd exclusively with his autobiographical big-screen nostalgia piece A Christmas Story (1983), which has drawn millions of loyal viewers over the years with its charm. Its devotees may be surprised to discover that several PBS-produced Shepherd teleplays preceded it, nearly identical in tone and brand of humor. Made for PBS in 1982, the hour-long The Great American Fourth of July and Other Disasters sends up middle-American Independence Day festivities with manic glee -- thus doing for the Fourth exactly what A Christmas Story does for the Yuletide season. The Great American Fourth carries us to small-town Americana, where several subplots unfold concurrently. In one, Ralph -- here a teenager, played by Matt Dillon -- prepares to go on a date with his buddy's resplendent cousin, and makes a fool of himself by spilling licorice candy all over the aisles; in a second, Mom (Barbara Bolton) makes good to an absurd degree on a "chain letter" by suddenly inheriting more washrags (that's right, washrags) than she ever knew existed; in a third, a local baton twirler tosses his bar a little too high and blacks out the entire town. In yet another substory, the town drunk, Ludlow Kissel (Babe Sargent) sets off a rather destructive firework with a mind of its own, which manically chases a pack of children down the street and refuses to be outwitted. And, in the gut-busting showstopper that concludes the film, the Old Man (James Broderick, of Family) hosts a public fireworks display by shooting off Roman candles from his pants. This marked Broderick's final screen appearance; he died several months after it was produced. To date, neither The Great American Fourth of July nor any of Jean Shepherd's other early PBS specials have received home-video distribution. A witty prologue was added for Disney Channel screenings in the mid-'80s, wherein the late Shepherd himself is seen driving to a fireworks store in the Carolinas. ~ Nathan Southern, All Movie Guide (source:http://www.fandango.com/thegreatamericanfourthofjulyandotherdisasters_v309348/summary)

[getmeouttaPalmBeachCounty_FL]

Boy, “Randy” grew into his role, didn’t he?