The Good Shepherd

The Box Office Belletrist

[20 December 2007]

by Jennifer Makowsky

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His comic look at life in the '50s formed the foundation for a seminal Christmas 'Story'. But there is more to Jean Sheperd than little boys and BB guns.

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