Lee Sobel: Ted Turner certainly had something to do with continuing to build the popularity of A CHRISTMAS STORY by having 24-hour marathons on Christmas of the movie, right? I've done appearances and people have actually brought flag poles and they want to me to take pictures with it. Zack and I have done a lot of appearances together. Yano lives in Atlanta so I don't get to see him that much but Zack lives about twenty minutes away from me. The two bullies, Scut Farkus and Grover Dill, otherwise known as Zack Ward and Yano Anaya, are like my brothers now. That was how we communicated.īob Clark wanted the two boys who played the bullies separate from us because he wanted us to be scared of them. So I made up the stuff that I did and after the first take he told me to do it again and give him more but then he said it was too much and he liked the way I originally did it. So I asked Bob what he wanted me to do and he said to just do whatever I wanted. When we did the scene where I stuck my tongue to the flagpole that's all it said in the script: Flick sticks his tongue to the flagpole. Bob Clark trusted me, even though I had only made one movie up to that point. I had one scene with Melinda Dillon when Ralphie beats up Scut Farkus the bully. I didn't have any scenes with Darren McGavin. I saw THE TOY." I walked about seven or eight blocks to my agent's office and my agent said, "What did you do? You got the job." Bob was looking for particular things - he wanted normalcy in the children. I asked him if he wanted me to read and he said, "No, no, there's no dialogue you can't handle. Then we went back to his office, chit-chatted some more and then he just said "It was great to meet you - have a wonderful day," shook my hand and that was it.
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