Robert (A Christmas Story) Clark killed

Post by **MovieStuff** » Thu Apr 05, 2007 1:56 am

Bummer. That is one of my favorite movies of all time.....

http://www.netscape.com/viewstory/2006/ ... frame=true

Roger

Post by **reflex** » Thu Apr 05, 2007 5:15 am

"You'll shoot your eye out, kid."

Which is precisely what they should do to the idiot who killed him and his son.

Post by **johnnhud** » Thu Apr 05, 2007 5:52 am

Tragic. It happens all the time though. I wish that every case was emblazened on the front page of the newspaper and the drunken drivers (unlicensed as well in this case) were punished to the fullest extent of the law. The remainder of their lives should be used to benefit and help humanity.

and of course the culprits name, location and licenses status (none) brings to mind a question that most of us in the south will wonder...

Post by **reflex** » Thu Apr 05, 2007 6:27 am

johnnhud wrote:and of course the culprits name, location and licenses status (none) brings to mind a question that most of us in the south will wonder...

And the question is?

Post by **Angus** » Thu Apr 05, 2007 1:08 pm

Tragic.

And I have never worked out why American freeways and other divided highways don't often have barriers on the medians (as you call them).

Post by **ccortez** » Thu Apr 05, 2007 2:31 pm

Saw that last night. Tragic. It's one of my wife's favorite movies and easily her favorite holiday movie. We watch it every Christmas, though we own the DVD and try to skip the 24-hr version on TNT or whoever does that every year... though we usually catch it at least once there too.

Post by **ccortez** » Thu Apr 05, 2007 2:32 pm

Angus wrote:Tragic.

And I have never worked out why American freeways and other divided highways don't often have barriers on the medians (as you call them).

You would never believe the "highway" I drive to work every day. Once a week there's a car flipped over somewhere, and it's almost impossible to have an accident without involving both lanes of traffic in each direction.

Post by **Jean Poirier** » Thu Apr 05, 2007 4:21 pm

Sad news. I remember Murder by Decree as a very well made Sherlock Holmes story. He was born in Canada by the way. Jean

Post by aj » Thu Apr 05, 2007 4:51 pm

Angus wrote:Tragic.

And I have never worked out why American freeways and other divided highways don't often have barriers on the medians (as you call them).

Too many miles? Too costly for the budget/income of the road-owner?

Post by **CHAS** » Thu Apr 05, 2007 5:28 pm

Angus wrote:Tragic.

And I have never worked out why American freeways and other divided highways don't often have barriers on the medians (as you call them).

Many of them do have these. I live close to the area where he got killed though. PCH (Pacific Coast Highway) is one of the most accident-prone stretches -- it is extremely NARROW, twisting and subject to horrible rock slides whenever it rains in Malibu. If they tried putting up a meridan/barrier it would probably be destroyed in the first week by the first semi that drove one inch too wide on a curve.

It is sad that he died. Very talented filmmaker.

Post by **David M. Leugers** » Thu Apr 05, 2007 6:53 pm

and of course the culprits name, location and licenses status (none) brings to mind a question that most of us in the south will wonder...

No wonder. I personally witnessed in local court last year two illegal aliens who were charged with drunken driving, operating a vehicle without a license, operating a vehicle without tags, running a stop sign, and having open containers of beer (they were drinking while driving) let go by the judge with their promise to get a license.... yet citizens face very stiff penalties and rightly so. I used to drive drunk because that was just the norm when I was young and stupid. Then a friend of mine who was an only child and his wife was expecting their first child was killed after being run over by a drunk driver while he was out in his front yard cutting the grass... I got smart and never drive after drinking and I almost never drink anymore. Being drunk is no excuse for anything.

David M. Leugers

Post by **johnnhud** » Thu Apr 05, 2007 7:24 pm

David M. Leugers wrote:...two illegal aliens who were charged with drunken driving, operating a vehicle without a license, operating a vehicle without tags, running a stop sign, and having open containers of beer (they were drinking while driving) let go by the judge with their promise to get a license....
David M. Leugers

Sad... and irritating as hell.

Post by **thebigidea** » Thu Apr 05, 2007 7:58 pm

That's a shame, Christmas Story is great - a total classic and a great rendition of Shepherd's world.

Somebody should make a few more films based on Jean Shepherd routines - without Charles friggin' Grodin! A film stitched together from all his army stories and using narration from the radio broadcasts, in black and white, would be glorious.

Or Ralphie in High School. Didn't Matt Dillon play him in the 70s for PBS?

There's hundreds of hours of Shep online! If you have trouble sleeping, I suggest slipping on headphones and ending each night with one of his hypnotizing broadcasts:

http://www.flicklives.com/

The trouble tho is getting all the period stuff right on a low budget... otherwise i'd buy 50 boxes of tri-x and be on my way!

Post by **low grade moron** » Thu Apr 05, 2007 8:29 pm

Re: A CHRISTMAS STORY. I remember Peter Billingsley from when he was a kid. He was friends with my cousin in Chestermere Lake, AB. It was pretty surreal showing up the year A CHRISTMAS STORY came out and visiting my brother, babysitting my cousin, and the kid from A CHRISTMAS STORY shows up and we all go Suzuki 4-tracking around the frozen lake.

Re: Bob Clark. He was nice the few times I met him. I still don't regret turning down the BLACK CHRISTMAS remake screenplay assignment a couple years ago. Two of my friends did, too. Original was a classic. One of the best of the original "slasher" movies.

Post by **super8man** » Sun Apr 08, 2007 5:07 am

When I was in SoCal, I saw the story on local TV - FRomr the reports I saw, it was yet another case of an undocumented alien (presumably since he had no driver's license) driving a ginormous SUV (black GM-type pickup truck) on the wrong side of the road (PCH), drunk, at 2:30AM. Los Angeles is a very different place from what I see when I go down...not that up here is any better. Its a sad state of affairs to say the least.