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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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  • Shepherd, American football player Jean Shepherd, American radio personality and writer Jenny Shepherd, New Zealand field hockey player Joel Shepherd...
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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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    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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    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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  • 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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  • 1956's Pithecanthropus Erectus and features the improvised narration of Jean Shepherd. A deluxe edition of The Clown was issued in 2000 on Rhino featuring...
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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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  • 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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    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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    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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  • 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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    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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    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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  • 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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    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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    cries out, "I told you not to use Lifebuoy!" In the film, narrator Jean Shepherd noted his disgust toward its taste, comparing it to other brands that...
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    appearance of character Batman).[citation needed] In 1970, humorist Jean Shepherd wrote the introduction for the reprint of The 1929 Johnson Smith & Co...
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    short Jean Shepherd on Route 1... and Other Major Thoroughfares, an orchestral version of Le jardin féerique plays in the background while Shepherd narrates...
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    Sherri Evonne Shepherd (born April 22, 1967) is an American actress, comedian, author, broadcaster, podcaster, and television host. She currently hosts...
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  • I, Libertine (category Jean Shepherd)
    novel that began as a practical joke by late-night radio raconteur Jean Shepherd who aimed to lampoon the process of determining best-selling books....
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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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  • "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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    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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    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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  • 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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  • 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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    of whom also performed, and included Allen Ginsberg, Joe Lee Wilson, Jean Shepherd, Charlie Haden, and The Fugs; Paul Krassner officiated. On December...
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