'Christmas Story' fans to convene in Cleveland

Pittsburgh Post-Gaz ^ | November 04, 2007 | Marylynne Pitz

[Ladysmith]

An extra prayer of thanks and a toast to Bob Clark this year for the movie. (He and his son were killed in an auto accident by a drunk illegal immigrant this past April.)

[mware]

Here is todays secret message.

25-16-4-21,

4-23-9-7.

22-23-14,

17-16-11-19-6-13-6-25-16-19-12,

20-16-8-12-16-4-3

[OSHA]

We expect a full report. :^)

[Clintons Are White Trash]

I will promptly come home and write a “Theme” on the experience :)

[Albion Wilde]

Soap poisoning!

My mom once did that to me and my brother for saying "Shut up!" Today's parents should only be so lucky. And it was Lifebuoy soap -- ewwww!

[Albion Wilde]

Ping!

[prairie dog]

Shep — IMO the best American humorist of our era. He is greatly missed.

[Beowulf]

I love this movie.

[mware]

I will promptly come home and write a “Theme” on the experience :)

Margins, margins, margins.

[SpinnerWebb]

25-16-4-21

first line should be 24-16-4-21

[puroresu]

Excellent film! I watch it during Christmas time every year as a holiday tradition!

[murron]

I wonder if he is related to Barbara Billingsley, Beaver’s mother on Leave It to Beaver?

[mware]

Shepherd also has a cameo appearance in the department store scene, as the man who directs Ralphie and Randy to the end of the line. Director Clark has a cameo as Swede, the neighbor who questions the Old Man about the Leg Lamp.

[mware]

one scene in the movie, Ralphie’s father wears a Royal Air Force issue flight cap, indicating that the movie takes place in late 1940s and that Mr. Parker was probably a volunteer American pilot for the RAF.

[wtc911]

I stopped listening in the late sixties when he started flying his own plane and the stories lost out to truly boring hours of in flight detail.

Have you read his books?

[Albion Wilde]

I wonder if he is related to Barbara Billingsley, Beaver’s mother on Leave It to Beaver?

According to NNDB, he is her grandnephew.

[VOA]

bump

[puroresu]

Neat! And Darren McGavin was just perfect as the father!

[Dog]

You are font of all things Christmas Story....:-)

[mware]

According to reports Jack Nicholson was considered for The Old Man. Glad he stayed with McGavin.

I also heard that McGavin reached into his own wallet to help fund the movie. He liked it so much.