From the AP wire:Film director Robert Clark, 67, best known for the beloved holiday classic A Christmas Story, was killed, as was his 22-year-old son, in a Wednesday car accident in Pacific Palisades. The two men were in an Infiniti that collided head-on with a GMC Yukon around 2:30 am/PT. The driver of the other car, Hector Velazquez-Nava, 24 — who was under the influence of alcohol and was driving without a license — was hospitalized and will be booked for investigation of gross vehicular manslaughter. A female passenger of Velazquez-Nava's was treated for minor injuries and released.
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Send your movie questions to FlickChickQuestion I saw a preview of the Steven Soderbergh movie The Good German and noticed that the black-and-white photography was by his regular cinematographer Peter Andrews What Im wondering is why Andrews never works with anyone else JoanieFlickChick Peter Andrews never works with anyone other than Steven Soderbergh because Peter Andrews is Steven Soderbergh Although there are a number of cinematographers who later became directors including Jan de Bont Barry Sonnenfeld Mario Bava Ernest Dickerson Dean Semler Nicolas Roeg Andrew Davis and Ronald Neame very few mainstream directors shoot their own films in large part because directing a big complicated and expensive feature is more than enough work without adding in another full-time job The only other one I can think of who is working in Hollywood today is Peter Hyams and given how awful his recent films have been you could make a very persuasive argument t
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Kristen Bell, Rob Lowe, Josh Radnor and several stars of The O.C. and The Office are among those offering personal phone calls to the highest bidders in a holiday auction supporting the Young Storytellers Foundation. Go to eBay.com/skypeaceleb for details.... Rene Syler, one fourth of The Early Show's anchor team, will exit the CBS morning-news show before Christmas, to pursue other media opportunities. Syler is publishing a book in 2007.... Grey's Anatomy, House, Lost, The Sopranos and 24 are the drama nominees at this year's Producers Guild of America Awards. Arrested Development, Curb Your Enthusiasm, My Name Is Earl, The Office and Weeds nabbed comedy bids.... TBS will unspool a 24-hour marathon of A Christmas Story starting Dec. 24 at 8 pm/ET. (Shhhh, I find that film overrated.)
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Darren McGavin, a prolific actor who starred in five TV series, including Mike Hammer and the cult fave Kolchak: The Night Stalker, died Saturday of natural causes. He was 83. McGavin's many other memorable turns include the feature films A Christmas Story, The Man with the Golden Arm and The Natural, plus the TV bio Ike, in which he portrayed George Patton.
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Question: Can you tell me the name of this movie? We saw it sometime in the '90s, but think it is set in the '50s. It's about about a boy and a spinning top, and his loud, obnoxious neighbors have an outhouse or a toilet in their yard.
Answer: You're looking for It Runs in the Family (1994), based on radio personality Jean Shepherd's novels In God We Trust, All Others Pay Cash and Wanda Hickey's Night of Golden Memories and Other Disasters. Family is a less successful sequel to A Christmas Story (1993), which is also based on In God We Trust, All Others Pay Cash, one of Shepherd's bittersweet (and often very funny) evocations of growing up in the Midwest in the '50s.
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