Jean Shepherd
For many years a cult radio and cabaret personality in New York City, Jean Shepherd was the creator of the popular film A Christmas Story, which is based in part on this book and has become a holiday tradition on the Turner Network. He died in ... [... more]
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Jean Shepherd & Other Foibles
 Not Representative of Shep's Greatness: Maybe I'm in a minority, but this disc really left me flat. While it had its clever moments, I found the presentation to be rather stagey, almost hoakey, like Shep wrote out his bits verbatim and gave them to [... more]
CDN$15.99
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Dick Cavett
The holiday film A Christmas Story, first released in 1983, has become a bona fide Christmas perennial, gaining in stature and fame with each succeeding year. Its affectionate, wacky, and wryly realistic portrayal of an... Jean Shepherd Dick ... [... more]
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A Christmas Story [HD DVD]
From Amazon.com: A Christmas Story is on its way to becoming an annual holiday classic, one to keep on the shelf with It's a Wonderful Life, the puppet-animated Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer, and A Charlie Brown Christmas. It may have been directed by [... more]
CDN$31.99
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Don't Be a Leaf
Author: Jean Shepherd Binding: Audio CD Dewey Decimal Number: 814 EAN: 9780977081943 Edition: Unabridged ISBN: 097708194X Number Of Pages: 4 Publication Date: 2006-02-28 [... more]
CDN$17.01
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In God We Trust: All Others Pay Cash
The real Ralphie: The Fourth of July and Other Disasters. That was the title when I first saw a PBS(?) run version of Ralphie's life back in the mid 1970's. My family still jokes about the characters they used in that production, and we were delighted [... more]
CDN$21.00
Amazon CA |
Wanda Hickey's Night of Golden Memories: And Other Disasters
From Amazon.com: For that small but populous slice of the world reachable by radio station WOR (New York City and environs), Jean Shepherd was once a nightly fixture, back in the days when radio talk didn't shock. On the air, he would tell tales of his [... more]
CDN$16.95
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A Fistful of Fig Newtons
Not his best, but still better than anybody else.: Four stars out of five? By what standard? Well, anything by Shepherd is a five star read, but when judged against "In God We Trust" and "Wanda Hickey", "A Fistful of Fig Newtons& [... more]
CDN$16.95
Amazon CA |
The X Random Factor
Author: Jean Shepherd Binding: Audio CD Dewey Decimal Number: 791.4475 EAN: 9780977081936 Edition: Unabridged ISBN: 0977081931 Number Of Pages: 8 Publication Date: 2006-02-28 [... more]
CDN$28.04
Amazon CA |
Excelsior, You Fathead!: The Art and Enigma of Jean Shepherd
Author: Eugene B. Bergmann Binding: Hardcover Dewey Decimal Number: 791.44028092 EAN: 9781557836007 Edition: 1 ISBN: 1557836000 Number Of Pages: 496 Publication Date: 2004-10-31 UPC: 073999146660 [... more]
CDN$41.95
Amazon CA |
Will Failure Spoil Jean Sheper
Mixed Bag from a Master Raconteur: "The King of the Night People" spins his yarns and shares his insights in this, a wonderful collection of some of Shep's better bits. I, for one, never really "got" the enthusiasm over Shep's [... more]
CDN$15.99
Amazon CA |
The Ferrari in the Bedroom
Essays and Musings and Fiction from an American Master: Well, this isn't Shep's best, but it's still a hell of a good read. Not really a work of fiction, it's largely a collection of essays and musings on American culture. The stories are always funny [... more]
CDN$21.00
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