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metsurf t1_j4vammf wrote

Reply to comment by bolanrox in TIL "A Christmas Story" was initially overlooked and only became a classic after Ted Turner purchased the rights and began airing it yearly on cable TV. by habalushy

Was the summer story based around Ludlow Kissel and the Dago Bomb that Struck Back?

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bolanrox t1_j4vd0vs wrote

i never watched it. I know than Daniel Stern was the old man? and ralphie had a crush on one of the Bumpis daughters? or something like that?

I think it was another story that they tried to shoehorn into A Christmas Story Sequel.

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metsurf t1_j4vkf3v wrote

Sounds like something out of Wanda Hickey's Night of Golden Memories Collection. They made a PBS film out of the title story and called it Phantom of The Open Hearth Furnace.
Jean Shepard wrote in parenthetical statements often where a character speaks and then their thoughts are expressed. One of my favorite of his lines is relative to a post-prom gathering at a local watering hole. I ordered a bourbon I said "Make it a triple" I had heard the old man order this I thought it was a brand name.

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