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Former child actor remembers cinema fun of ‘A Christmas Story’
Valley City Times Record ^ | Wednesday, December 14, 2005 | Carla Kelly

Posted on 12/15/2005 6:04:54 PM PST by presidio9

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To: presidio9

He also had an E! True Hollywood Story made about him.


21 posted on 12/15/2005 6:19:29 PM PST by RightWingAtheist ("Why thank you Mr.Obama, I'm proud to be a Darwinist!")
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To: presidio9

We still talk about the Bumpus' hounds next door.


23 posted on 12/15/2005 6:20:16 PM PST by I still care
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To: Wolfie

"Hopefully he's not still sticking his tongue to a pole."

eeeeewwwwwww!!!!!!


"Young man, do you know where that pole has been???"


24 posted on 12/15/2005 6:21:11 PM PST by rlmorel ("Innocence seldom utters outraged shrieks. Guilt does." Whittaker Chambers)
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To: presidio9

I just absolutely love 'A Christmas Story', and I always have one of our TVs set constantly on 'A Christmas Story ', so that no matter what I am doing on Christmas Eve, or Christmas Day, I can peek in and watch for a while...I always manage to set 2 hours aside, somewhere in all the business of the Christmas season, to watch the film in its entirety...its just such a great movie...

I guess I just love it so much, as it takes place during the time frame, just a little before my time....everything looks so familiar in that movie...kids wearing galoshes, wearing long johns and sweaters in the house to keep warm, the old car, the haggling at the Christmas tree lot...

And the old man(Darren McGavin), just slays me with his facial expressions...when he offers Ralphie a glass of wine on Christmas morning, I am reminded of my own dad and my uncle who lived downstairs, who always offered me and my brother and my cousins a drink of wine of Christmas morning...(it wasnt bad, but it wasnt good either...we must have been drinking the same wine as they were, it was Mogen David wine)...

That movie just takes me completely back to my childhood years, and good years they were...


25 posted on 12/15/2005 6:22:01 PM PST by andysandmikesmom
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To: presidio9; hole_n_one; RedBloodedAmerican

I see Boobies......


26 posted on 12/15/2005 6:22:36 PM PST by cmsgop ( Bill Clinton's License Plate..... "Herpes 1")
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To: Michael.SF.

It's a major award!


27 posted on 12/15/2005 6:22:43 PM PST by Teacher317
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To: martin_fierro

Did Phil ever grow up, though? I think not. He's still a liberal.


28 posted on 12/15/2005 6:23:28 PM PST by DennisR (Look around - God is giving you countless observable clues of His existence!)
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To: presidio9

Is it true Chuck Connors also did Porn ????


29 posted on 12/15/2005 6:24:11 PM PST by cmsgop ( Bill Clinton's License Plate..... "Herpes 1")
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To: cmsgop

Where?

30 posted on 12/15/2005 6:24:28 PM PST by presidio9 (Islam Is As Islam Does)
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31 posted on 12/15/2005 6:26:04 PM PST by presidio9 (Islam Is As Islam Does)
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To: presidio9

Wasn't it Flick who got in trouble because Ralphie told his mom that Flick had told him the dreaded "F" word when it was REALLY Ralphie's old man?


32 posted on 12/15/2005 6:28:01 PM PST by t2buckeye
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To: martin_fierro

Ha Ha Ha But that's an insult to Peter!


33 posted on 12/15/2005 6:28:47 PM PST by t2buckeye
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To: RTINSC

I found it to be an incredibly vulgar movie. The language was unreal for kids of that time.


34 posted on 12/15/2005 6:29:09 PM PST by Chickensoup (Merry Christmas! Merry Christmas! Merry Christmas! Merry Christmas! Merry Christmas! Merry Chri)
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To: Michael.SF.

Fragile`! It must be Italian!

Mark


35 posted on 12/15/2005 6:29:56 PM PST by MarkL (I swear by my pretty floral bonnet that I will end you!)
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To: t2buckeye

I thought it was Schwartz, that Ralphie got into trouble over the 'F' word...but Ralphie did not really care, he figured the kid deserved punishing for something...


36 posted on 12/15/2005 6:30:24 PM PST by andysandmikesmom
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To: presidio9

I just went to the Post Office and told the postal clerk that the item I was sending was "fra- gee-lay" and everyone started laughing!!!


37 posted on 12/15/2005 6:30:29 PM PST by t2buckeye
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist
Liberals would scream bloody murder at Billingsley's character requesting a BB gun.

I just about passed out when I was watching Leave It to Beaver a few months ago. The Beav was the only guy at an all-girl birthday party and went into the den to get away from them. There are rifles up on the wall and Beaver is looking at them intently. The father, also hiding out in the den to escape the girls, asks Beaver, "Do you like guns, son?" "Oh yes, I sure do!" You'd never see that today. I'm surprised they even let it play on re-runs.

38 posted on 12/15/2005 6:30:40 PM PST by radiohead (Hey Kerry, I'm still here; still hating your lying, stinking guts, you coward.)
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To: presidio9

Thirty one posts and no one has said it yet?

You'll shoot your eye out!


39 posted on 12/15/2005 6:31:00 PM PST by Blood of Tyrants (G-d is not a Republican. But Satan is definitely a Democrat.)
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To: Blood of Tyrants

See taglines.


40 posted on 12/15/2005 6:31:55 PM PST by presidio9 (Islam Is As Islam Does)
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