It's based on the semi-autobiographical short stories of radio personality Jean Shepherd. Many of the characters featured in A Christmas Story were inspired by real-life people and events from ...

We triple-dog-dare you to find a better depiction of the holidays. When "A Christmas Story" premiered in 1983, screenwriter Jean Shepherd pulled antidotes from his own life to create the Christmas ...

Late on a weekday afternoon in November 1983, I sat amid the scattered handful of moviegoers in a multiplex on Manhattan’s Upper West Side, awaiting the opening frames of the new film “A Christmas ...

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Sixty years ago, Jean Shepherd — a popular commentator on WOR radio — hopped on a busload of everyday citizens bound for the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. When he disembarked at the ...

The movie "A Christmas Story" delights millions of American families each December with its holiday humor, childhood antics and idyllic images of Midwestern winters. Ralphie Parker’s dogged quest for ...

I envision the day, and it isn’t too far off, when all a person will have to do to take care of his Christmas-card list is to send along his IBM Special Xmas Address Tape to a department store, and ...

A Christmas Story hit theaters on Nov. 18, 1983, and has since become a holiday classic. It's based on the semi-autobiographical short stories of radio personality Jean Shepherd. Many of the ...