Posted on 12/22/2017 10:40:49 AM PST by DUMBGRUNT
By the early 1980s, Shep’s radio show was over. This movie idea was his last chance to avoid the poorhouse. Shep, Leigh and Clark collaborated on the screenplay, and she helped keep Shep off Clark’s set. Shep, who considered himself a co-director, was constantly “helping the actors” and haranguing visitors, most of whom had never heard of him. Shep was no longer a has-been. Like “the Old Man” he had finally won his own “major award.” And no one could steal this idea. Shep’s late-in-life success had been created out of the magical world of his own childhood, one he had explored and shared with enthralled audiences all his career. For the few years they had left, Shep and Leigh had enough money to retire on Florida’s Sanibel Island. “A Christmas Story” is now the most beloved Christmas film in America, just as Leigh had hoped and Shep had never dreamed.
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LOL, Yup... take yer pick! :-D
Oh, the bigger and gaudier the better! I just need a picture window ;-)
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