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Jean Shepherd. Jean Parker " Shep " Shepherd Jr. (July 26, [1] 1921 – October 16, 1999) [2] was an American storyteller, humorist, radio and TV personality, writer, and actor. With a career that spanned decades, Shepherd is known for the film A Christmas Story (1983), which he narrated and co- scripted, based on his own semi-autobiographical ...
Jean Shepard (born Ollie Imogene Shepard: November 21, 1933 – September 25, 2016 [2]) was an American country singer who was considered by many writers and authors to be one of the genre's first significant female artists. Her early successes during the 1950s decade were said to influence the future careers of Loretta Lynn, Dolly Parton and ...
Dec 24, 2015 · Including me: I was a spy for Jean Shepherd. In the late ‘50s, while Lenny Bruce was beginning his climb to holy infamy in jazz clubs on the West Coast, Shepherd’s all-night monologues on WOR ...
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Jun 11, 2001 · Jean Shepherd. Follow @TIME. It's nighttime in the 1960s in any major East Coast American town. The AM station WOR is being listened to by a young person who's supposed to be asleep, a portable radio tucked under the pillow, as the chuckling, conspiratorial voice of a magical monologist begins to speak, after having completed raucously off-key ...
Dec 24, 2013 · The effect is clear: Without Jean Shepherd, there would by no Christmas Story—and the movie resonates so strongly because he had a unique talent for making his audience feel like his stories ...
Jean Shepherd. Actor: A Christmas Story. Raised in Hammond, Indiana, Jean Shepherd went on to work in the steel mills and was a veteran of the Army Signal Corps before entering the arts. In the 1950s, he began a long career as a radio personality telling stories of his youth, commenting on current topics and performing silly songs. While at WOR-AM in New York, he also broadcast live night club...
Oct 4, 2012 · Shepherd lost his steady radio gig in 1977, though he appeared intermittently on NPR and PBS. In the 1980s, he and Porky’s director Bob Clark collaborated on A Christmas Story, which stands as ...
