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My son stops in his tracks, "Ah! Christmas Story's on - I'm watching that!"

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The thing is, it was given cult status mostly by those who had never heard Shep ( I suspect your son if among those too young) on the radio, or for that matter had never heard of Shep. We Shepard afficianados are the ones who hunkered down under the covers with our transistor radios and an earphone from 11:15 to midnight on weekdays. As I mentioned, "A Christmas Story" is several degrees of separation from pure undiluted Shep. Many stories and versions of those stories were cobbled together to make the chapter in his first book which became the screenplay for the movie.

Some months back in college days I actually bought Playboy because I knew Shep would have one of his stories in it (as opposed to all the other months I bought it for its photographic content. ) I finally bought the 2 disk DVD this year, partly to listen to Shep reading the story - not quite the same as his normally inventive stuff, but good enough to watch every year.

Link to Jean Shepherd: Radio's Noble Savage

Edited by Hill (01/01/08 04:50 PM)

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