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It had 19 For her, it's the same thing " "It catches the truth," said director Bob Clark, who spent 14 years trying to make the film Most scenes required him to look cute and thoughtful while Shepherd provided narration "They didn't want to do the movie But nobody in Hollywood was interested " In fact, a recent unscientific survey of 7,200 people by the Internet Movie Database placed "A Christmas Story" as the most beloved holiday film of all time McGavin, now 81, suffered a debilitating stroke several years ago and was unavailable for an interview His rowdy 1981 sex comedy "Porky's," which cost only $4 million to make, collected a whopping $105 million He still remembers the bitter winter of Cleveland, where they filmed many of the snowy exterior scenes "And yeah The film opened in 1983 the week before Thanksgiving, and collected about $2 million from 600 theaters â€â€? solid business for the time 25 " Billingsley, who was also the Messy Marvin kid from 1980s Hershey's chocolate syrup commercials, was a veteran child star but "A Christmas Story" presented him with new challenges Give him some money so he'll get up and do another "Porky's EST Clark made a series of horror B-films in the 1970s ("Deathdream" and "Black Christmas") and wrote for "The Dukes of Hazzard" TV show before landing on a hit (Imagine that alternate-universe version for a moment " Although he was not the first choice, McGavin proved he was the best choice â€â€? bringing a boyish musicality to the character, crossed with the grumpy scowling of a well-practiced curmudgeon The advent of home video and ubiquitous showings on television earned "A Christmas Story" a place as a holiday tradition alongside "Miracle on 34th Street" and "White Christmas But MGM hadn't counted on much success â€â€? and didn't schedule any more screens for the lead-up to Dec You just try to figure out how you can stay as real as possible without overdoing it," he said "A lot of it's instinctual " Over the years, the modest little movie has grown into a Yuletide perennial and is celebrating its 20th anniversary this year with a new DVD, featuring reminiscences from the now grown-up star Peter Billingsley At 60 when the film was made, he may have seemed a little old to have such young sons â€â€? but don't all adults look much older from a child's perspective? "I can't tell you how many people come up to me and say, `You know, he's just like my dad,'" said his daughter, Graemm Bridget McGavin " Apart from Ralphie, the movie's other major role was the father â€â€? known not as "Dad" but as "The Old Man 'Christmas Story' Marks 20th Anniversary Dec 23, 1:26 PM EST The phrase "You'll shoot your eye out!" has become as synonymous with the Christmas season as Scrooge's "Bah, humbug!" and Santa's "Ho, ho, ho!" For 20 years, this warning has defined the holidays for doe-eyed 9-year-old Ralphie Parker in the movie "A Christmas Story," as his mother, his teacher â€â€? and even Kris Kringle â€â€? reject his plea for one particular Christmas present For the next 14 years, Clark tried to persuade a studio to finance a film based on the stories of Shepherd, who died in 1999 at 78 "I thought, `Well, in the weeks before Christmas we're going to clean up,'" Clark said Nobody did," he said ) Ultimately, the part went to Darren McGavin, a cult-favorite for his TV role as a reporter who investigates the supernatural in "Kolchak: The Night Stalker Suddenly the writer-director had some industry clout "I remember going outside and shooting the gun â€â€? the part where I nearly shoot out my eye â€â€? and I start to tremble and cry a little bit, which was very real because it was so cold and I was in my PJs," he said That would be, in his words, an official Red Ryder carbine-action, 200-shot, range-model air rifle with a compass in the stock "and this thing that tells time In the meantime, with repeated showings on television, does the grown-up Ralphie ever sit down to watch the little-kid Ralphie? "Over Christmas, when the family gets together, it invariably gets turned on," Billingsley said But how did "A Christmas Story" begin? What made it a seasonal phenomenon? And where does it go from here? The truth is: "A Christmas Story" didn't start out as a Christmas story " Among them was the tale about Ralphie wanting a BB gun for Christmas, which became the centerpiece of the movie Meanwhile, this year marks the sixth annual marathon broadcast of the movie on the TNT cable channel Good, but not great That take doubled on Thanksgiving weekend and the movie was getting strong word-of-mouth support " The suddenly popular Clark shopped the part around to a few curious Hollywood big-shots â€â€? including Jack Nicholson I'll sit down and watch "This is the closest to him of any of his roles," she said, adding with a laugh: "He was TOUGH An estimated 38 "But I got a call from the head of distribution, who said: `I've got a surprise for you The then 12-year-old Billingsley had to carry the whole movie, but had very little dialogue (Starting Christmas Eve at 6 p " 4 million tuned in at some point to watch it last year Warner Bros 3 percent, while "It's a Wonderful Life" was second with 15 percent He wants the studio to reissue the movie on the big screen next Christmas season and is trying to rally fans to contact the studio Clark repeatedly drove around the block â€â€? keeping his unknowing date waiting â€â€? while Shepherd finished the story ) TNT started its 12 around-the-clock showings as a stunt in 1988, but popular demand turned it into a tradition Ultimately, it collected about $19 million at the box office "' That's the only reason `A Christmas Story' got made "Probably about 10 years ago, when it started getting mentioned in the same breath as `It's a Wonderful Life' â€â€? and people weren't disagreeing with that â€â€? that's when I realized, `Wow, this thing might be around for a really long while,'" Billingsley, now 32, told The Associated Press '" And the movie disappeared from theaters While driving to a girlfriend's house in 1968, director Clark said he became enthralled with one of Shepherd's fireplace-cozy radio narrations m "But they said, `Let the idiot do the movie now owns the film, and Clark is on a crusade The series of vignettes in the 94-minute film â€â€? war with the yellow-eyed school bully, The Old Man's gloating over a garish "leg lamp" in a fishnet stocking; the triple-dog dare of sticking your tongue to a frozen flagpole â€â€? were short stories from radio storyteller Jean Shepherd's 1966 collection "In God We Trust: All Others Pay Cash "It's about the American sense that there is something great in our destiny, and Ralphie's is to get that BB gun with a compass in the stock Clinton chose Knox to paint his portrait after seeing his painting of Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, who learned about the artist when she saw a portrait of Spottswood Robinson, a former chief judge with the U Inside the converted one-car garage that he's outfitted with large windows, sliding glass doors and a ventilation system to filter out the oil additives he uses to mix his paint, Knox jiggles his leather sandals in time to Cyrus Chestnut's piano, one of hundreds of jazz CDs and records precariously stacked on shelves behind him " Knox met with Clinton and his wife, Sen " In 1961, he drew a self-portrait in pastels good enough to eventually get him into Temple University's Tyler School of Art Knox hopes the Clinton portrait will "force people to see me in a different light "That's a rush you never get tired of When he was 13, playing sandlot baseball in Mobile, Ala "He's able to make the subject feel that you're having a conversation with an old friend who just happens to be painting your portrait But most of all he wants to keep working, continuing to combine his passion and his profession I get up at 2 a On the walls, next to rows of wooden African masks, some of his startlingly lifelike portraits stare down at him com/knox/knox But he's best known for his portraits of celebrities and famous officials He wanted to be a portrait artist, but his instructors turned him into an abstract painter, he says The Clinton portrait, and the surrounding media crush, has changed Knox's life "I'm doing exactly what I would do if I retired, or if this (Clinton painting) never happened "When I left the White House, I told President Bush, 'Give me a shot; I'm available,'" he says This is what I do when I relax S " â€â€?â€â€?â€â€? On the Net: Simmie Knox: http://www An oscillating fan stirs the humid air as the 68-year-old artist ticks off a list of the other places he's used as studios over a 50-year career that's taken him from a childhood spent working the fields in Alabama to one of America's best portrait painters: his bedroom, a small room above an auto-body shop with pigeons roosting in the rafters, his bathroom Open up the door and I'll get it myself "You can see skill, control, an ability to create this illusion on a flat, white canvas " Swygert said Knox asked him all sorts of questions about himself and what was important to him Knox has worked for some of the most powerful and influential people in the country What you're doing is painting your place in history â€â€? you're documenting American history," said Robert Hall, the associate director for education and an art specialist at the Anacostia Museum and Center for African American History and Culture, part of the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D S Eighty percent of my clients have been black, and I don't think it has anything to do with my ability It's a really fine portrait What you toss (at the canvas) is what you get "I saw this portrait and I thought it was just wonderful," Ginsburg said But it took a baseball to the head before he began to take his art seriously "People laughed, but when you're in business, you're in business Hillary Clinton, then painted their portraits using photographs he took of the couple He has a six-month waiting list for portraits, and his paintings fetch between $9,500 and $60,000, depending on the details and the number of people included "My craft keeps me alive htm Of her own painting she said, "I think it's just right Knox, while humble and self-deprecating in conversation, knows he's good at what he does Robert Swygert, president of Howard University, sat for a Knox portrait commissioned by the State University of New York in Albany, where Swygert was once president " He smiles and quotes a lyric from one of his heroes: "There's a James Brown song that says, 'I don't want nobody to give me nothing H The finished portrait included little clues to Swygert's personality throughout, including a pair of cufflinks with the scales of justice on them, reflecting that Swygert was a lawyer But mention any aspect of his work and his eyes begin to shine, the words spilling out as he marvels that, in a stroke of luck he still can't seem to believe, he's able to combine his passion for art with his work When you think of self-taught, you think crude, unlearned He had three sessions with Knox, about two hours each time He points to portraits of former New York Mayor David Dinkins and Camille Cosby, the wife of comedian Bill Cosby, that hang in the garage Teachers encouraged his drawing to help him focus and heal the muscle control in the eye You could call yourself an artist and not be able to draw a straight line portraitartist "If you really want to do something, you'll find a way to do it," Knox says, dressed in a blue smock, khakis and a blue, flowered Hawaiian shirt with a white polo beneath, the collar turned up But tell the whole story: He taught himself how to paint, but he has formal training m Open up that door '" In keeping with the spirit of the times, he worked for years painting large-scale abstracts, showing his work at The Corcoran Gallery of Art and The Kreeger Museum, both in Washington " Throughout his childhood, Knox used his talents to make his friends and family laugh, drawing funny renditions of Batman and Superman "Mine is a story of patience and perseverance He drifted back to portraits partly because he couldn't support his family as an abstract painter and partly because "I didn't have the heart for abstracts I don't drink; I don't smoke; I listen to jazz and I paint I can look at something and render it just the way I see it," he says Politics can't ever get in the way "You'd bring a figure painting into class, they'd laugh at you: 'What are you bringing that junk in here for?' So I said, 'I got to get with the program " When Knox's portrait of President Clinton was unveiled last Monday at the White House, it was the culmination of a lifetime of hard work He's the first black artist to paint an official presidential portrait â€â€? the "Pulitzer Prize of portrait painting," he says Clinton's Portraitist Touts Patience Jun 19, 4:29 PM EST Outside Simmie Knox's studio, the spring day is warm and inviting, a perfect vision of suburban bliss: children sell lemonade at a curbside stand; dying cicadas sing their love songs; butterflies flutter over lush green lawns as a breeze shimmies through the trees , he got knocked in the right eye with a ball "Sitting for him was really a lot of fun, because with Simmie you don't just sit, you sit and talk," Swygert said ' "That's how I feel C " Knox's studio, which is attached to his two-story home in this upscale Washington suburb, is crammed with tools of the trade: dollops of paint squeezed like raw cookie dough on flat panes of glass; dozens of fresh paint brushes and paint cans Knox grew up poor, the son of sharecroppers in the segregated South, but he bristles at some media descriptions of his childhood and artistic development, which he calls too pat: "The way that it's shaped â€â€? Simmie Knox, African American, self-taught artist â€â€? people think, they got him because he's black I think it has to do with this culture and how people see people of color " After years of struggling to find an audience and working a string of jobs teaching art to pay the bills, Knox is suddenly a bit of a celebrity, fielding congratulatory calls from Bill Cosby and interview requests from reporters around the world " He plans to begin painting historical themes, including the civil rights movement Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit "It's very special when you're asked to do a White House painting And he dreams of one day painting Former South Africa President Nelson Mandela Besides Haley and Cosby: defense lawyer Johnnie Cochran (with the scales of justice at his side); late U "Painting portraits is a very special intellectual endeavor, and there are very few people who can do it as well as Simmie Knox," said Hall, who first became aware of Knox's work in the late 1970s, after Knox did a painting of author Alex Haley for the Tennessee state house sometimes just so I can get in here and make my paintings," he says Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall; boxer Muhammad Ali; baseball great Hank Aaron |
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