![]() The CHRISTMAS STORY screenplay is by Bob Clark, Jean Shepherd, and Leigh Brown based on Shepherd's book and short stories. I might blame it on too much maple syrup and Labatt's beer. Where I got the idea that this great American holiday film was really Canadian, I'll never know. Both Bob Clark and Jean Shepherd are as American as can be and A CHRISTMAS STORY although set in the northeast was actually filmed in Cleveland, Ohio (with a few parts shot in Toronto, Canada). One misconception I had about A CHRISTMAS STORY is that both the author and the director were Canadian and the story took place in Canada. The marathon is where I became bewitched by the little film that is A CHRISTMAS STORY. It was going to be on over and over again. ![]() How could I resist? I didn't have to try and figure out what time it would be on. But then TBS decided to show a twenty four hour marathon of A CHRISTMAS STORY one December. If it wasn't IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE (1946), I wasn't going to watch it. I kept hearing about A CHRISTMAS STORY from friends during college and beyond but never found the urge to find it on television. Yet Clark made the jump from raunchy comedy to family Christmas comedy with considerable ease. His previous film PORKY'S (1981) was one of the early gross out comedies following in the footsteps of ANIMAL HOUSE (1978). Clark would not seem like the obvious choice to make A CHRISTMAS STORY. Director Bob Clark would turn Shepherd's book into a holiday movie that has now become a yuletide classic called A CHRISTMAS STORY (1983). We all see bits of ourselves and our parents and siblings in Shepherd's tales. His recollections are funny but not farfetched. Almost Norman Rockwell like, Shepherd's stories are slices of Christmas Americana. Author Jean Shepherd turned his memories of his family and town during Christmas into a book called In God We Trust, All Others Pay Cash. But for the most part, all my Christmas's have been normal and pleasant.īut one man did remember his Christmas youth. Or the Christmas my parents and sisters and I moved into a new house. There was one year I received some new pajamas that made me itch all night. But I don't really have a story or two that stands out. ![]() I have fond memories of my past Christmas's. Stories about the gifts we loved and the gifts we hated and the gifts we wanted but never received (like that PLANET OF THE APES board game I craved). ![]() Funny stories about family and relatives at Christmas time. We all have stories from our Christmas past. ![]()
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