the good, the bad, the what-the-hey?

The good: 'Christmas Story' fans celebrate film's 25th year - Yahoo! News:

CLEVELAND – Fans of the holiday classic "A Christmas Story" are celebrating the film's 25th anniversary with a convention and trips to the house where the movie was made.

The 1983 film, an adaptation of Jean Shepard's memoir of a boy in the 1940s, was set in Indiana but largely filmed in Ohio. The movie starred Peter Billingsley as Ralphie Parker, a young boy determined to get a Red Ryder BB gun for Christmas.

The film was a modest theatrical success, but critics loved it. It eventually joined "It's a Wonderful Life" and "Miracle on 34th Street" as a Christmas cult classic.

The bad: Sydney Opera House mourns architect's death - Yahoo! News:

SYDNEY, Australia – The distinctive white sails of the Sydney Opera House darkened Sunday night to mourn the death of Joern Utzon, the creative mind behind the globally known landmark.

The what-the-hey?: Cliff Richard's Shadows to reunite for tour - Yahoo! News:

Cliff Richard and The Shadows will reunite next year for the last time with a stadium tour of Britain

sigh...lousy AT40 today...

November, 1980.  i'm really not in the mood to make fun of late-era disco, cross-over country, and cheezy ballads for the sake of the one or two early new wave hits that might be tucked in there.  so i won't.  this post covers a month later, December '80, and gives you a hint of the kind of thing playing at the time like last week's #1, "Woman in Love" by Barbara Streisand.  My prediction is  that this week would be the one where Kenny Rogers' Lady would hit number 1.

Update (3:13pm) : I was right.