![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Including me: I was a spy for Jean Shepherd.Īs grateful as I am that Shep was there for me during those crucial years, my idealization of Shepherd the Man was not to survive much longer. ![]() But long before A Christmas Story was made, Shepherd did a nightly radio broadcast on WOR out of Manhattan that enthralled a generation of alienated young people within range of the station’s powerful transmitter. There are annual fan conventions devoted to the film - released 25 years ago this Thanksgiving - and the original location in Cleveland has been turned into a museum. On Christmas, TBS will continue its tradition of presenting a 24-hour Christmas Story marathon. He also does the compelling voice-over narration. If you know Jean Shepherd’s name, it’s probably in connection with the now-classic film A Christmas Story, which is based on a couple of stories in his book In God We Trust: All Others Pay Cash. In 2008, Steely Dan co-founder Donald Fagen recounted growing up in suburban New Jersey enthralled by Shepherd’s radio show. Yet the author and narrator of A Christmas Story, Jean Shepherd, had a deeper legacy of enchanting, subtly barbed storytelling as a longtime voice on nightly radio. Wrapping presents while watching Ralphie pine for a Red Riding BB gun has become a holiday tradition as beloved and durable as candy canes and eggnog. ![]()
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