>Well, I've probably watched "Christmas Story" a couple hundred times as well - and it was only the other night that I became aware (my wife noticed it) that Ralphie's mother played a "different" type of character in the movie "Slapshot". ;)

Now you're proving that you really are a movie expert. It's not everybody that will get all the nuances of movies like that. Like the interpretation of the Hanson brothers. Perhaps something you did'nt know but there are some actors from Montreal in that movie.