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She then called Davis a “big stupid fathead.”

“Well, first off, my dad put a Laker Fathead in my room of Kobe, so I always saw that,” Lewis said.

Frank was obsessed with the game from an early age — he had Fathead posters of Alex Ovechkin and Sidney Crosby on his bedroom walls — but he largely learned to skate by playing roller hockey on asphalt.

Though a serious man, he has accepted that he is best loved and best remembered for portraying a pervy fathead.

As Eugene B. Bergmann put it in his 2005 biography, “Excelsior, You Fathead!: The Art and Enigma of Jean Shepherd”: “Ask ten people who Jean Shepherd was and maybe two will know. Ask them all if they know of A Christmas Story and nine of them will know … but probably only a few will realize that the movie is a Shepherd creation … based on written stories; the written stories based on tales spun live on the air.”