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    Jean Parker "Shep" Shepherd Jr. (July 26, 1921 – October 16, 1999) was an American storyteller, humorist, radio and TV personality, writer, and actor...
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    Hipsters. 2016: "The Man Who Told A Christmas Story. What I learned from Jean Shepherd", Slate. 2016: "Neutron Sunday. In 1956, Ed Sullivan showed America...
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  • The Parker Family Saga (also known as the Jean Shepherd's Parker Family Saga franchise, the Ralph Parker franchise, or colloquially the A Christmas Story...
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  • In God We Trust: All Others Pay Cash (category Works by Jean Shepherd)
    American humorist Jean Shepherd first published in October 1966. A best-seller at the time of its publication, it is considered Shepherd's most important...
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    humorist Jean Shepherd on November 17, 1969, wherein he credits Gervais Raoul Lufbery as the inventor. The mixture, as related by Shepherd, is champagne...
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  • A Christmas Story (category Films based on works by Jean Shepherd)
    is a 1983 Christmas comedy film directed by Bob Clark and based on Jean Shepherd's semi-fictional anecdotes in his 1966 book In God We Trust: All Others...
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    an episode of the PBS series Jean Shepherd's America, the Chicago-born Jean Shepherd told of how his father (Jean Shepherd, Sr.) and he would watch Chicago...
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    of Look Charlie, which was written by her future husband, humorist Jean Shepherd. It opened for three performances in late December 1958 and closed after...
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  • Ollie Hopnoodle's Haven of Bliss (category Works by Jean Shepherd)
    made-for-television comedy film written by Jean Shepherd and directed by Dick Bartlett, based on the 1968 short story by Shepherd. A satire of childhood recollections...
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  • My Summer Story (category Films based on works by Jean Shepherd)
    the previous film, it is based on semi-autobiographical stories by Jean Shepherd, primarily from his book In God We Trust, All Others Pay Cash. The opening...
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    Jean Pellissier was a shepherd in the Comté de Foix in the early fourteenth century, made notable by appearing in Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie's Montaillou...
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  • March 12, 1957. The title track features the improvised narration of Jean Shepherd. According to Nat Hentoff's liner notes, Mingus explained why he chose...
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  • written by Jean Shepherd. Produced by Olvia Tappan, the film is the second installment in the Ralph Parker franchise. Based on Shepherd's book In God...
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  • with a script written by Jean Shepherd. Produced by Loxton, the film is the first screen adaptation to feature Shepherd's character Ralphie Parker, and...
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    profile among teen audiences. Another of Dillon's early roles was in the Jean Shepherd PBS special The Great American Fourth of July and Other Disasters. The...
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    2022 Jared Isaacman (born 1983), businessman and Commercial astronaut Jean Shepherd (1921–1999), writer and narrator of the popular holiday film A Christmas...
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  • Shepherd, American football player Jean Shepherd, American radio personality and writer Jenny Shepherd, New Zealand field hockey player Joel Shepherd...
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    1939 (first appearance of Batman).[citation needed] In 1970, humorist Jean Shepherd wrote the introduction for the reprint of The 1929 Johnson Smith & Co...
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    In 1982, Shepherd returned to New York and to the stage when she played alongside James MacArthur in a theatre tour of Lunch Hour by Jean Kerr. The following...
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  • lacked those revenue streams, and the films are seldom rerun. Raconteur Jean Shepherd produced several television films in the 1970s and 1980s before realizing...
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  • "official sequel" in the trailer, the film is not directly based on any of Jean Shepherd's writings nor is he involved due to his death in 1999. Instead, it has...
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    would be often held online, with contestants submitting videos. The Jean Shepherd story "Scut Farkas and the Murderous Mariah" revolves around top-spinning...
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    May 26, 2019. "A Salute to Jean Shepherd". Flick Lives. Retrieved July 10, 2023. ebbergmann (January 21, 2014). "Jean Shepherd—chart—and all that jazz"...
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  • high school rowdy escapades to a close. He instead collaborated with Jean Shepherd on A Christmas Story, which critic Leonard Maltin described as "one...
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  • A Christmas Story: The Musical (category Adaptations of works by Jean Shepherd)
    with choreography by Warren Carlyle. The cast featured Dan Lauria as Jean Shepherd, John Bolton as The Old Man, Caroline O'Connor as Miss Shields, Erin...
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    The film was based on a series of short stories and novels written by Jean Shepherd about young Ralphie Parker (played by Peter Billingsley) and his quest...
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    Sue. The core story of the song may have been inspired by humorist Jean Shepherd, a close friend of Silverstein, who was often taunted as a child because...
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    Pittsburgh Steelers in that game. In 2012, Lauria played the part of Jean Shepherd in the Broadway production of A Christmas Story: The Musical, a role...
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    the Pratfall was a chaotic off-Broadway comedy staged by Silverstein, Jean Shepherd and Herb Gardner at New York's Orpheum Theatre on Second Avenue in the...
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  • rights to much of original author Jean Shepherd's bibliography for use in the film, working several quotes from Shepherd's books into the finished script...
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