Steve Miller, founder of the Steve Miller Band, was presented the Les Paul Spirit Award June 9 at Nashville's Gibson Garage.

The film almost starred Jack Nicholson as Ralphie's dad, aka the Old Man. "A Christmas Story" is one of the most beloved holiday films of all time, but it wasn't immediately a huge phenomenon on ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio (WJW) – It’s been 40 years since the iconic holiday movie “A Christmas Story” was filmed in Cleveland — and now ‘Ralphie’ is back! Peter Billingsley, who played ...

GREENFIELD — When 9-year-old Ralphie utters the classic line “fuuuuuudge” to his father onstage at this weekend’s production of “A Christmas Story,” the actor’s real-life dad will be ...

On the shortlist for all-time holiday classics is A Christmas Story, the 1983 film based on the work of author Jean Shepherd and starring Peter Billingsley as Ralphie Parker, a precocious child in ...

the sequel has Ralphie, now an adult, returning to his childhood home with his own children for Christmas. Melinda Dillon is shown as Mother Parker in the 1983 movie "A Christmas Story." ...

Pasek and Paul, still then mostly ... And although the trajectory of “A Christmas Story” mostly is emotional, the piece simply cannot function if young Ralphie is not at its heart.

But while there is a strained effort to pay tribute to a recognized classic — the story follows the aging Ralphie’s attempts to recreate his idyllic childhood Christmas for his own family ...

By Frank Scheck It’s hard to imagine now, but A Christmas ... Story Easter, although that doesn’t have the same ring.) One of the characters again falls victim to a “triple dog dare ...

"A Christmas Story Christmas" follows Ralphie as he returns to his childhood home on Cleveland Street as an adult in the mid-1970s. "It’s an interesting movie," Billingsley reminisced of the ...

With Ralphie grown up, it's like a gentler answer to the first film, and in some ways the better for it. In “A Christmas Story Christmas,” Billingsley, as the grown-up version of Ralphie ...

These are all the same actors." A Christmas Story, released in 1983, was set in the 1940s, with Ralphie on a mission to get his hands on a Red Ryder BB rifle. The sequel will follow Billingsley's ...