The christmas story?

[slick]

I remember a couple of months ago,my friend was outside talking to my mom and me and he said something that reminded my mom of the christmas story.

Once she told him what it reminded her of he asked if the title was a book.

She said no its a movie not a book.

And then she stared at him and then said to him"you have never heard of the christmas story?"

He said no and then I was just thinking of how someone hasn't seen the christmas story.

It is a classic and is very funny.

[dominick]

Are you talking about A Christmas Story with Peter Billingsley?

[Jeff Westover]

That would be the one. Gets a lot of play in my house.

[dominick]

All time, hands down, no doubt favorite Christmas movie of all time. I can actually sit there and watch the 24 hour marathon back to back at least five times. Anyone who doesn't know of it's greatness is deprived!

[e_xander]

I'll back you 200% on that, dominick! :sparkle:

Sean

[JayIsh]

One of my favorites as well!!! I watch it once or twice during the year and always catch one or two of showings on Christmas Eve.

jay

[Jeff Westover]

I love it for a different reason: it is one of the only movies EVER in which I have I watched my father -- a child of the 40s -- totally engaged and actually LAUGHING at. What a memory.

[JayIsh]

Keep your eyes open for a surprise where this movie is concerned, right here on this very site!!!

jay

[Merry Sage]

The Christmas Story is, to me, the biblical one of Christ's birth. A Christmas Story is one of my favourite Seasonal movies. Both greats! cheesy

[slick]

Are you talking about A Christmas Story with Peter Billingsley?

Well if its the one with the kid and the glasses and the you'll shoot your eye out saying then yes I am talking about that one.

[RadioJonD]

Keep your eyes open for a surprise where this movie is concerned, right here on this very site!!!

jay

This ain't the surprise but check this Christmas Radio column archive from the Newsletter:

-November 18, 2006 Newsletter Radio Archive column-

Jean Shepherd wrote a collection of short stories for various magazines that were eventually collected and published in a book. Doubleday books released “In God We Trust, All Others Pay Cash” in 1966. At least one of these stories would become entrenched in our modern day Christmas traditions.

Shepherd also hosted a radio show on New York City’s WOR from 1956 to 1977. Reading his Christmas short stories on the air became a Christmas Eve became a tradition for listeners of WOR.

Offered for your enjoyment this week is a couple of those readings as heard on WOR in the 1970’s. You may recognize parts of these stories that would become the nucleus of one of our holiday movie favorites. From radio tradition to television tradition, listen to the author read what would in 1983 come to the big screen. We know it as “The Christmas Story” and watch it every year during the twenty-four hour marathon on one of the Turner channels!

http://www.maskmusic.com/other_music.html Scroll down to about the fourteenth and fifteenth offerings entitled-

December 24, 1971 - Earliest Christmas WOR Jean Shepherd (mp3) - (10.65 MB)

December 24, 1974 - edit - Red Ryder WOR Jean Shepherd (mp3) - (9.34 MB)

These would be good to burn and take on the road for the work or holiday vacation drive! See if you can detect any differences between the short stories and the movie. “You’ll shoot your eye out kid!”

For more about Jean Shepherd visit http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_Shepherd