It's a Major Award!

Darren McGavin, a fixture of television and film since the late 1940s, also died yesterday. I know that he's mostly known for portraying Mike Hammer in the 1950s and Carl Kolchak in the original incarnation of the t.v. series The Night Stalker, but for me he will always be "The Old Man" in the film A Christmas Story. His fishnet-clad lamp makes me laugh every time that I see it.