With Chevy and Murray maybe. Those guys were gold.Ramis was a writer for Meatballs, and I expect that will be enough to get him in for Caddyshack.
With Chevy and Murray maybe. Those guys were gold.Ramis was a writer for Meatballs, and I expect that will be enough to get him in for Caddyshack.
With Chevy and Murray maybe. Those guys were gold.
Thing is, though, without Animal House, are Kenney and Ramis(the director of Caddyshack) as sought-after by Hollywood?
EDIT: Sorry, just re-read. I see you're posting a scenario where Kenney ISN'T wanted for Caddyshack. I guess that raises the question as to how much of Caddyshack's existence is owed to the creative team, and how much to the studio.
TBH I never got Caddyshack or the Jerk.
The National Lampoon name doesn't become a label for bad movies? Pretty sure no Animal House leads to the same conclusion. One other movie not mentioned: Caddyshack. God, I wouldn't want to live in this universe!
They aren't. Raimis even admitted in a doc on National Lampoon they never would have received backing for Caddyshack. In fact the perceived failure of Caddyshack is believed to have driven Kenney to suicide. With no Animal House and the millions it gave him coupled with the falling profits of the magazine, will Kenney even still be alive by 1980? He was an incredibly volatile personality.
When did Kenney's cocaine habit get really bad? (It's tempting to say that even if he hadn't fallen/jumped off the cliff in Kauai, drugs would have killed him before too long, anyway. But remember that even Jerry Garcia made it to the age of 53...)
Somewhere between 1975-1978. With the millions he made selling the magazine people noticed he was using his new fortune to over indulge himself. He started withdrawing more and more from his work.When did Kenney's cocaine habit get really bad? (It's tempting to say that even if he hadn't fallen/jumped off the cliff in Kauai, drugs would have killed him before too long, anyway. But remember that even Jerry Garcia made it to the age of 53...)
Somewhere between 1975-1978. With the millions he made selling the magazine people noticed he was using his new fortune to over indulge himself. He started withdrawing more and more from his work.
Kenney was an addictive personality who simply came unhinged once the final boundaries (millions of dollars granting him independence, no longer having a controlling voice in National Lampoon) were removed.I didn't know Kenney was into cocaine, though I suppose it makes sense. I did read an interview with Sean Kelly once, in an anti-drug magazine aimed at teenagers, and the interviewer was prompting Kelly to say negative stuff about drugs. Kelly stated that Kenney had tried to write a novel while on daily doses of LSD for a few months, and that the novel was a failure. I also read the anecdote in a Lampoon edition dedicated to Kenney's work, but that didn't mention the drugs.
Kelly also trashed Caddyshack in that same interview, saying something like "If you're a goal-oriented person, you won't be satisfied with a talking gopher." I agree Caddyshack wasn't the height of brilliance, but I found that criticism somewhat odd coming from the man who founded Heavy Metal magazine.
(It's tempting to say that even if he hadn't fallen/jumped off the cliff in Kauai, drugs would have killed him before too long, anyway. But remember that even Jerry Garcia made it to the age of 53...)
I might have added that Chet Baker somehow made it to 58...
I would be sad if ANIMAL HOUSE, CADDYSHACK and STRIPS had never been made. Three of the funniest films IMHO...
If you can read the original AH stories in National Lampoon, they are hilarious!