His connection to “Christmas Vacation” goes beyond ... There’s even a life-sized Clark Griswold hanging from the roof tangled in Christmas lights. But the crown jewel, Orsini says, is ...

Dave Ceasar’s Christmas lights obsessions started slowly, with a larger-than-life inflatable snowman and a few strings of lights in the trees outside his Litchfield home. “We had that ...

While set in a snowy suburb of Chicago, Christmas Vacation was lensed primarily ... unrecognizable from the time that Clark W. Griswold (Chevy Chase) hung lights there in 1989.