'A Christmas Story' director killed in crash (oh no!)

[charlie and algernon]

http://www.cnn.com/2007/SHOWBIZ/Movies/04/04/obit.clark.ap/index.html

LOS ANGELES, California (AP) -- Film director Robert Clark, best known for the holiday classic "A Christmas Story," was killed with his son Wednesday in a head-on crash with a vehicle steered into the wrong lane by a drunken driver, police and the filmmaker's assistant said.

Clark, 67, and son Ariel Hanrath-Clark, 22, were killed in the accident in Pacific Palisades, said Lyne Leavy, Clark's personal assistant.

The two men were in an Infiniti that collided head-on with a GMC Yukon around 2:30 a.m. PDT, said Lt. Paul Vernon, a police spokesman. The driver of the other car was under the influence of alcohol and was driving without a license, Vernon said.


In 1983, "A Christmas Story" marked a career high for Clark. Darrin McGavin, Melinda Dillon and Peter Billingsley starred in the adaptation of Jean Shepard's childhood memoir of a boy in the 1940s.

The film was a modest theatrical success, but critics loved it.

[BelleCarolinaPeridot]

1. That movie is a christmas tradition for my family.

I am very sad for his family right now.

[Redstone]

2. Bummer, bummer. Jean Shepherd was one of my all-time favorite writers. And that movie

will ALWAYS be one of my favorites.

Redstone