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Articles about Shep in newspapers and periodicals

December 2003

Christmas Ham

Jean Shepherd�s uncomfortable radio legacy.

Matthew Callan

Jean Shepherd's A Christmas Story has dethroned It's a Wonderful Life as Hollywood's official holiday movie. It's a bright movie, a colorful, twinkling, sparkling movie, and it deserves its status as classic. But those familiar with Shepherd's old radio monologues wonder how he could have become so closely associated with such a resolutely nostalgic film - a word and tone that Shepherd despised...

"Can you imagine 4,000 years passing, and you're not even a memory?
Think about it, friends. It's not just a possibility. It is a certainty." - Jean Shepherd - 1975