Even my grandfather was cool with it - he said, I went to all my family and friends and I said if it's going to change our relationship or if you're not going to talk to me anymore, I won't do it. He asked me to do a movie, to star in an x-rated film.
The owner of Wicked Pictures and I played racquetball at a gym near my house. I started out doing non-sex roles in movies, like I played a bartender or whatever. I needed to put food on the table and at that point in my twenties I didn't even have an agent so there was nothing to worry about hurting my acting career because I didn't have one at that point. Scott Schwartz: I started meeting people at The Comedy Store and they started inviting me to the set of x-rated movies and I ended up doing all types of jobs on them. Can you talk about what that was like? Did you feel at the time that it would hurt your acting career? Lee Sobel: In the 80's you began to appear in x-rated movies. They said that something like 50-52 million homes tuned in at some point of that marathon. They showed it and it did okay but then the next year it did even better. They didn't spend that much to buy A CHRISTMAS STORY so they didn't have to do that well with it for it to be profitable for them. The first year the ratings did okay but the second year the rating dipped. So she brought in her VHS copy of it to show it to him for the first time and he said, "Oh, what a lovely film." He asked his secretary, what should we do with it and she said, "Why don't we try a marathon." They had tried it with IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE and THE WIZARD OF OZ for two years.
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Scott Schwartz: The story I heard from someone who worked for Ted Turner was that he was buying the MGM library and he needed a family movie to run around Christmas and his secretary asked him if he'd seen A CHRISTMAS STORY and he had never seen it. 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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