the good, the bad, the what-the-hey?
Nov. 30th, 2008 10:53 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
acroyearThe 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 bad: Sydney Opera House mourns architect's death - Yahoo! News:
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.
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
