Jean Shepherd
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A Christmas Story (1983)
Telewatcher —
Authority: 114
A Christmas Story mini lobby card set image courtesy Heritage Auction Galleries Director Bob Clark and MGM/United Artists delivered the humorous A Christmas Story to movie theaters in 1983. Darren McGavin plays the Old Man, with Peter Billingsley as the wide-eyed youngster who covets a Daisy Red Ryder BB gun for ...3 days ago -
Thomas Pynchon and Inherent Vice
ARTS AMERICA —
Authority: 103
A fascination with the hot cars of their day. Writer Thomas Pynchon is fascinating, and not just because we grew up on opposite shores of Long Island. He was a North Shore beat guy, me a South Shore clamdigger a few years younger, but with aspirations. His writing tends towards offbeat themes: oddball names, ...1 week ago -
I Double-Dog-Dare Ya!
Spirited Woman Blogger Team —
Authority: 135
Theres an unforgettable episode in the classic movie A Christmas Story , by the author and humorist Jean Shepherd, about his Indiana boyhood in the 1930s. In the scene, one friend (Schwartz) dares another (Flick) to stick his tongue onto the school flagpole on a freezing winter day. Flick is hesitant to take the dare ...3 weeks ago -
Dont Waste Your Dreams -- Recycle Them
A Change in the Wind —
Authority: 125
Rebecca Solnit, one of todays great thinkers, wrote recently in her book A Field Guide to Getting Lost : It is in the nature of things to be lost and not otherwise. Think of how little has been salvaged from the compost of time of the hundreds of billions of dreams dreamt since the language to describe them ...8 weeks ago
