Truly a sad day, for the loss of a great and funny man, and a Morgan owner
to boot.We'll miss you, Jean.
-Jeff Smith
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From: Jhalfdime@aol.com <Jhalfdime@aol.com>
To: Morgans@autox.team.net <Morgans@autox.team.net>; EngEd@aol.com
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Date: Sunday, October 17, 1999 2:01 PM
Subject: Jean Shepherd
>OBIT/Jean Shepherd, Beloved Raconteur has Died
>
>
>NEW YORK--(ENTERTAINMENT WIRE)--Oct. 16, 1999--Jean Shepherd, the prolific
>author and radio and television personality whose storytelling has been
>compared with that of Mark Twain, died of natural causes on Saturday,
October
>16, 1999 at 3:20 AM, in Lee Memorial Hospital near his Sanobel Island,
>Florida home, his long time friend and business advisor Irwin Zwilling
said.
>Marshall McLuan once called Shepherd "the first radio novelist."
>
>Zwilling said "Jean was an avid Chicago White Sox fan, and hated the
Yankees,
>but nonetheless was probably glued to the television this week. He had been
>working on a new film in recent years even as his health was failing.
>Shepherd had remained completely out of the public eye in recent years
except
>for isolated live appearances on a WFAN radio show including one on
September
>1996 hosted by Zwilling and Ann Ligouri.
>
>A memorial celebration of his works is being planned in New York.
>
>His favorite activity was story telling. "Shep" created such memorable
works
>as the movie Christmas Story (in 1983) which TV Guide called "one of the
>great Christmas classics of all time." It airs each year on TBS. He wrote a
>sequel, Summer Story. He authored books including The America of George
Ade,
>The Ferrari in the Bedroom , In God We Trust, All Others Pay Cash, a
Fistful
>of Fig Newtons, and Wanda Hickey's Night of Golden Memories, and created a
>vast number of characters and stories. In addition, his television programs
>included the widely syndicated Jean Shepherd's America" PBS programs in the
>1970's and were later continued on the PBS New Jersey Network as
"Shepherd's
>Pie." He hosted nightly a 45-minute radio show on WOR in New York, from in
>the 1950's and 1960's, and a series of live Saturday night broadcasts from
>The Limelight, a Greenwich Village, New York nightclub.
>
>He carried his talent for story telling to Carnegie Hall, which he sold
out,
>and numerous one-man shows at corporate conventions, meetings, and college
>campuses. Among his favorites was a series of appearances each year at
>Princeton University in the 1970's and 1980's as well as on numerous other
>campuses.
>
>Shepherd wrote for the most diverse selection of publications imaginable,
>including Mad Magazine and Lampoon, The New York Times, Playboy,
>Mademoiselle, Car and Driver, and Omni. In addition he was an early
columnist
>for Village Voice in New York.
>
>Born Jean Parker Shepherd on July 21, 1921, in Hammond, Indiana, he
attended
>public schools, graduating from Hammond High School in 1939. During World
War
>11, he served in the Signal Corps. Shepherd attended Indiana University
>before launching his radio career as host of a show named "Rear Bumper." He
>began his career on stage in Chicago as a performer at the Goodman Theatre,
>and performed night club acts on Rush Street.
>
>Shepherd's wife Leigh Brown died in June 1998 and the couple had no
children.
>There are no survivors. Zwilling said.
>
>Notes. A partial list of his works include:
>
>Movies
>
>"The Light Fantastic" ; Embassy (1963) Directed by: Robert McCarty,
Produced
>by: Bob Gaffney Starring: Dolores McDougal, Barry Bartle and Jean Shepherd
>"Lenny Bruce Without Tears" ; Fred Baker Productions (1975) "A Christmas
>Story" ; Christmas Tree Films / MGM (1983) Directed by: Bob Clark Written
by:
>Jean Shepherd, Bob Clark, Leigh Brown Starring: Melinda Dillon, Darren
>McGavin, Peter Billingsley, Ian Petrella "My Summer Story" ; MGM (1994)
AKA:
>"It Runs in the Family" Directed by: Bob Clark Written by: Jean Shepherd,
Bob
>Clark, Leigh Brown. Starring: Charles Grodin, Kieran Culkin, Mary
>Steenburgen, Christian Culkin.
>
>Voiceovers, Radio & TV Commercials, etc.
>
>Alfa-Romeo Cars
>
>Alka-Seltzer
>
>Amercian Cancer Society
>
>American Gas Foundation
>
>Carvel Ice Cream
>
>Drakes Cakes
>
>Greyhound Bus
>
>Illinois Tool Works
>
>Land Rover
>
>Millbrook Bread
>
>Rheingold Beer
>
>Sealtest Ice Cream
>
>Sylvania TV
>
>Vlasic Pickles
>
>"The Face Of FuManchu" 1964 Movie
>
>"A Fine Madness" 1966 Movie
>
>"Carousel of Progress", G.E. Exhibit/Disneyworld, Florida
>
>Theatre
>
>"Asylum" (1959) Closed in previews.
>
>"A Banquet For The Moon" (1961)
>
>"Voice of the Turtle" (1961)
>
>"New Faces Of 1962" Co-writer and performer
>
>For PBS/WGBH's American Playhouse
>
>"The Phantom of the Open Hearth"
>
>"The Great American Fourth of July and Other Disasters"
>
>"Oldie Hopnoodle's Haven of Bliss"
>
>"The Star-Crossed Romance of Josephine Cosnowski"
>
>Books include:
>
>The America of George Ade
>
>In God We Trust, All Others Pay Cash
>
>The Ferrari in the Bedroom
>
>A Fistful of Fig Newtons
>
>CONTACT:
>
>Contact for Irwin Zwilling:
>
>Agins Communications
>
>Steve Agins, 212/666-8578
>
>KEYWORD: NEW YORK
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>BW1017 OCT 16,1999
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>10:41 PACIFIC
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