printSet in the 1940s, the film ‘A Christmas Story’ depicts a series of family vignettes through the eyes of 9-year-old Ralphie, who yearns for that gift of all gifts: the Daisy Red Ryder BB gun. This was boyhood before ‘bang-bang you’re dead’ was banned; family life prior to ‘One Dad Two Dads Brown Dad Blue Dads’ and Christmas without the ACLU.
‘A Christmas Story’ is also film before Dakota Fanning (that prototypical, barf-making, American child actor). All the more reason to savor it.
Merry Christmas to all,
ILANA
It’s a classic. I’m going to pick up one of these some day:
http://www.redriderleglamps.com/
LOL!
Merry Xmas!
Ilana, I recently boiled down into one pithy phrase why I had to get the hell out of Moscowchusetts: “Yes to gay marriage; no to kids playing tag.”