Review: Jean Shepherd’s tales of his Indiana boyhood inspired “A Christmas Story” movie, which smoothed out some of the rougher edges.
by the end of 2021. The film has spun off a Broadway musical with a national tour and a live TV performance, as well as two movie sequels, including this fall’s “A Christmas Story Christmas.” Since 1997, Turner Broadcasting has aired aYet the phenomenon of “A Christmas Story” leaves those of us familiar with Shepherd as a writer wondering just how many of the multitude of viewers ever read, or even know of, the original short stories, which both inform and interestingly differ from the film.
Sometimes, he would free-associate about philosophy and literature; at other times, though, he would embroider his childhood experiences during the Depression into works of audio fiction.Shepherd’s on-air style anticipated the spoken-word narratives of Garrison Keillor and Spalding Gray and inspired Jack Nicholson’s portrayal of an overnight disc jockey in the film “.
Although Shepherd’s father held an office job for a bread company, young Jean grew up in a blue-collar town ravaged by the Depression, came to adulthood serving in World War II and never lost sight of such grim realities. Setting the scene early in his story “Duel in the Snow,” he wrote: “Off on the far horizon, beyond the railroad yards and the great refinery tanks, lay our own private mountain range.
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