What got in the way…: Ramis, Harold. Interview by Chris Nashawaty. By telephone. New York, NY. May 20, 2010.
What I think is…: Karp, A Futile and Stupid Gesture, 344.
“We had two…: Peters, Jon. Interview by Chris Nashawaty. By telephone. New York, NY. May 24, 2010.
“They just kept…: Murray, Bill. Interview by Chris Nashawaty. By telephone. New York, NY. June 7, 2010.
Once again…: Murray, Bill. Interview by Chris Nashawaty. By telephone. New York, NY. June 7, 2010.
“It has nothing…: Ramis, Harold. Interview by Chris Nashawaty. By telephone. New York, NY. May 20, 2010.
They didn’t really…: Murray, Bill. Interview by Chris Nashawaty. By telephone. New York, NY. June 7, 2010.
I remember he…: Chase, Chevy. Interview by Chris Nashawaty. By telephone. New York, NY. May 27, 2010.
They were given…: Ramis, Harold. Interview by Chris Nashawaty. By telephone. New York, NY. May 20, 2010.
So he sees me…: Chase, Chevy. Interview by Chris Nashawaty. By telephone. New York, NY. May 27, 2010.
It’s a really fun…: Murray, Bill. Interview by Chris Nashawaty. By telephone. New York, NY. June 7, 2010.
Harold had to…: Chase, Chevy. Interview by Chris Nashawaty. By telephone. New York, NY. May 27, 2010.
Even though…: Chase, Chevy. Interview by Chris Nashawaty. By telephone. New York, NY. May 27, 2010.
13. The Dynamite Caper
By some accounts…: Variety, October 31, 1979. Accessed online.
Others say…: Lemorande, Rusty. Interview by Chris Nashawaty. By telephone. New York, NY. February 28, 2017.
“I’ve got pictures…: Morgan, Cindy. Interview by Chris Nashawaty. By telephone. New York, NY. September 9, 2016.
He asked them…: Caddyshack: The Inside Story, A&E TV documentary, 2009.
“Jon was going to…: O’Keefe, Michael. Interview by Chris Nashawaty. By telephone. New York, NY. August 15, 2016.
There’s no improvisation…: Albert, Trevor. Interview by Chris Nashawaty. By telephone. New York, NY. August 31, 2016.
Ramis said that…: Ramis, Harold. Interview by Chris Nashawaty. By telephone. New York, NY. May 20, 2010.
You couldn’t fake…: Berkrot, Peter. Interview by Chris Nashawaty. By telephone. New York, NY. August 30, 2016.
Still, no one…: Caddyshack: The Inside Story, A&E TV documentary, 2009.
It makes absolutely no sense…: Ramis, Harold. Interview by Chris Nashawaty. By telephone. New York, NY. May 20, 2010.
Ramis would shoot…: Lemorande, Rusty. Interview by Chris Nashawaty. By telephone. New York, NY. February 28, 2017.
So at the wrap party…: Caddyshack: The Inside Story, A&E TV documentary, 2009.
I couldn’t wait…: Morgan, Cindy. Interview by Chris Nashawaty. By telephone. New York, NY. September 9, 2016.
“I told Doug…: Albert, Trevor. Interview by Chris Nashawaty. By telephone. New York, NY. August 31, 2016.
14. The Unkindest Cut
The cutting room becomes…: Ralph Rosenblum and Robert Karen, When the Shooting Stops … The Cutting Begins (New York: Da Capo Press, 1979), 1.
There’s no way…: Albert, Trevor. Interview by Chris Nashawaty. By telephone. New York, NY. August 31, 2016.
You go from…: Igel, Rachel. Interview by Chris Nashawaty. By telephone. New York, NY. September 21, 2016.
They weren’t lectures…: Igel, Rachel. Interview by Chris Nashawaty. By telephone. New York, NY. September 21, 2016.
In Hollywood, when…: Igel, Rachel. Interview by Chris Nashawaty. By telephone. New York, NY. September 21, 2016.
“We had a bunch…: Peters, Jon. Interview by Chris Nashawaty. By telephone. New York, NY. May 24, 2010.
That first cut…: Lemorande, Rusty. Interview by Chris Nashawaty. By telephone. New York, NY. October 7, 2016.
“He listened to…: Ramis, Harold. Interview by Chris Nashawaty. By telephone. New York, NY. May 20, 2010.
“Hey, at least…: Simmons, If You Don’t Buy This Book We’ll Kill This Dog, 198–9.
Rodney had funny things…: Ramis, Harold. Interview by Chris Nashawaty. By telephone. New York, NY. May 20, 2010.
And nobody has…: Igel, Rachel. Interview by Chris Nashawaty. By telephone. New York, NY. September 21, 2016.
They were really…: Kelly, Sean. Interview by Chris Nashawaty. By telephone. New York, NY. August 25, 2016.
When he left…: Lemorande, Rusty. Interview by Chris Nashawaty. By telephone. New York, NY. October 7, 2016.
He was our savior…: Lemorande, Rusty. Interview by Chris Nashawaty. By telephone. New York, NY. October 7, 2016.
That’s the toughest…: Canton, Mark. Interview by Chris Nashawaty. By telephone. New York, NY. August 24, 2016.
Adds Trevor Albert…: Albert, Trevor. Interview by Chris Nashawaty. By telephone. New York, NY. August 31, 2016.
We thought, OK…: Greisman, Alan. Interview by Chris Nashawaty. By telephone. New York, NY. August 9, 2016.
15. Enter the Gopher
According to Ramis…: Ramis, Harold. Interview by Chris Nashawaty. By telephone. New York, NY. May 20, 2010.
Peters was going to need…: Lemorande, Rusty. Interview by Chris Nashawaty. By telephone. New York, NY. October 7, 2016.
And in Hollywood…: Medavoy, Mike. Interview by Chris Nashawaty. By telephone. New York, NY. August 15, 2016.
“But the characters…: Albert, Trevor. Interview by Chris Nashawaty. By telephone. New York, NY. August 31, 2016.
Dykstra agreed…: Dykstra, John. Interview by Chris Nashawaty. By telephone. September 6, 2016.
For us, it was…: Dykstra, John. Interview by Chris Nashawaty. By telephone. September 6, 2016.
According to Lemorande…: Lemorande, Rusty. Interview by Chris Nashawaty. By telephone. New York, NY. October 7, 2016.
The dolphin-like sounds…: Dykstra, John. Interview by Chris Nashawaty. By telephone. September 6, 2016.
We were just…: Dykstra, John. Interview by Chris Nashawaty. By telephone. September 6, 2016.
Finally, Ramis offered…: Caddyshack: The Inside Story, A&E TV documentary, 2009.
Instead, Peters reached out…: Loggins, Kenny. Interview by Chris Nashawaty. By telephone. New York, NY. August 24, 2016.
“He was a Hollywood…: Loggins, Kenny. Interview by Chris Nashawaty. By telephone. New York, NY. August 24, 2016.
Stupid or not…: Loggins, Kenny. Interview by Chris Nashawaty. By telephone. New York, NY. August 24, 2016.
I felt like the song…: Loggins, Kenny. Interview by Chris Nashawaty. By telephone. New York, NY. August 24, 2016.
I just listened…: Loggins, Kenny. Interview by Chris Nashawaty. By telephone. New York, NY. August 24, 2016.
He felt that…: Lemorande, Rusty. Interview by Chris Nashawaty. By telephone. New York, NY. October 7, 2016.
On April 25…: Boxofficemojo.com.
In what was…: Roger Ebert, “Review: Where the Buffalo Roam,” The Chicago Sun-Times, April 29, 1980. Accessed online.
Universal quickly yanked…: Boxofficemojo.com.
Thompson himself would…: Schnakenberg, The Big Bad Book of Bill Murray, 252.
He would not stop…: Hill and Weingrad, Saturday Night, 379.
Ramis and…: The Hollywood Reporter, June 5, 1980. Accessed online.
“He’d been up…: Ramis, Harold. Interview by Chris Nashawaty. By telephone. New York, NY. May 20, 2010.
And they started…: Ramis, Harold. Interview by Chris Nashawaty. By telephone. New York, NY. May 20, 2010.
I thought the whole…: Medavoy, Mike. Interview by Chris Nashawaty. By telephone. New York, NY. August 15, 2016.
I was shocked…: Miller, Chris. Interview by Chris Nashawaty. By telephone. New York, NY. August 31, 2016.
That’s a death wish…: Kelly, Sean. Interview by Chris Nashawaty. By telephone. New York, NY. August 25, 2016.
16. Judgment Day
“I think we felt…: Lemorande, Rusty. Interview by Chris
Nashawaty. By telephone. New York, NY. October 7, 2016.
It was my $6 million scholarship…: Ramis, Harold. Interview by Chris Nashawaty. By telephone. New York, NY. May 20, 2010.
For his part…: Peters, Jon. Interview by Chris Nashawaty. By telephone. New York, NY. May 24, 2010.
The critics were unkind…: Boxofficemojo.com.
He just didn’t think…: Fisher, Lucy. Interview by Chris Nashawaty. By telephone. New York, NY. August 29, 2016.
Airplane! would end up…: Boxofficemojo.com.
It’s advertising…: Flaherty, Joe. Interview by Chris Nashawaty. By telephone. New York, NY. August 18, 2016.
The invitees included…: “Caddyshack Marketing and Promotion Brochure,” accessed October 13, 2016, from the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences, Margaret Herrick Library Archives.
A Friday-night screening…: “Caddyshack Marketing and Promotion Brochure,” accessed October 13, 2016, from the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences, Margaret Herrick Library Archives.
We do not want…: “Caddyshack Marketing and Promotion Brochure,” accessed October 13, 2016, from the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences, Margaret Herrick Library Archives.
The green print…: Lemorande, Rusty. Interview by Chris Nashawaty. By telephone. New York, NY. October 7, 2016.
“It was clear…: Lemorande, Rusty. Interview by Chris Nashawaty. By telephone. New York, NY. October 7, 2016.
“He was dead drunk…: Chase, Chevy. Interview by Chris Nashawaty. By telephone. New York. May 27, 2010.
It was a pretty bad scene…: Ramis, Harold. Interview by Chris Nashawaty. By telephone. New York, NY. May 20, 2010.
The six-minute interview…: “Rodney Dangerfield, Chevy Chase, Bill Murray, Ted Knight (Caddyshack Interview 1980),” Youtube.com, accessed on April 10, 2017.
“The next day…: Judd Apatow, Sick in the Head: Conversations About Life and Comedy (New York, Random House, 2015), 121.
She says he…: Morgan, Cindy. Interview by Chris Nashawaty. By telephone. New York, NY. September 9, 2016.
But then I saw…: Berkrot, Peter. Interview by Chris Nashawaty. By telephone. New York, NY. August 30, 2016.
“I was one…: Caddyshack: The Inside Story, A&E TV documentary, 2009.
Rodney Dangerfield staggered…: Canton, Mark. Interview by Chris Nashawaty. By telephone. New York, NY. August 24, 2016.
“But I guess…: McConnachie, Brian. Interview by Chris Nashawaty. By telephone. New York, NY. August 29, 2016.
“She walked up…: Morgan, Cindy. Interview by Chris Nashawaty. By telephone. New York, NY. September 9, 2016.
The industry paper’s…: Variety, July 23, 1980. Accessed online.
In The Washington Post…: Gary Arnold, “Caddy Capers,” The Washington Post, July 26, 1980. Accessed online.
The Hollywood Reporter’s Arthur Knight…: Arthur Knight, “Movie Review: Caddyshack,” The Hollywood Reporter, July 25, 1980. Accessed online.
It is an unoriginal…: Schnakenberg, The Big Bad Book of Bill Murray, 37.
Only Roger Ebert…: Roger Ebert, “Caddyshack,” The Chicago Sun-Times, 1980. Accessed online.
During its opening weekend…: Boxofficemojo.com.
Look at us…: Chase, Chevy. Interview by Chris Nashawaty. By telephone. New York, NY. May 27, 2010.
That’s when Doug…: Ramis, Harold. Interview by Chris Nashawaty. By telephone. New York, NY. May 20, 2010.
Chase was hiding…: Chase, Chevy. Interview by Chris Nashawaty. By telephone. New York, NY. May 27, 2010.
Getting drugs would…: Greisman, Alan. Interview by Chris Nashawaty. By telephone. New York, NY. August 9, 2016.
“I was shocked…: Greisman, Alan. Interview by Chris Nashawaty. By telephone. New York, NY. August 9, 2016.
“The postcard said…: Igel, Rachel. Interview by Chris Nashawaty. By telephone. New York, NY. September 21, 2016.
“So everyone went…: Greisman, Alan. Interview by Chris Nashawaty. By telephone. New York, NY. August 9, 2016.
“The longer it…: Fisher, Lucy. Interview by Chris Nashawaty. By telephone. New York, NY. August 29, 2016.
The coroner would…: “Obituary: Douglas Kenney,” The Los Angeles Herald Examiner, September 4, 1980. Accessed online.
Alan Greisman…: Greisman, Alan. Interview by Chris Nashawaty. By telephone. New York, NY. August 9, 2016.
There were even people…: Ramis, Harold. Interview by Chris Nashawaty. By telephone. New York, NY. May 20, 2010.
“These are some…: Greisman, Alan. Interview by Chris Nashawaty. By telephone. New York, NY. August 9, 2016.
“I thought it…: Greisman, Alan. Interview by Chris Nashawaty. By telephone. New York, NY. August 9, 2016.
That’s the kind…: Landis, John. Interview by Chris Nashawaty. By telephone. New York, NY. August 9, 2016.
The hearse with…: Greisman, Alan. Interview by Chris Nashawaty. By telephone. New York, NY. August 9, 2016.
We were like…: Greisman, Alan. Interview by Chris Nashawaty. By telephone. New York, NY. August 9, 2016.
17. Welcome, Kenney Mourners!
He was like…: McConnachie, Brian. Interview by Chris Nashawaty. By telephone. New York, NY. August 29, 2016.
“The best thing…: Kelly, Sean. Interview by Chris Nashawaty. By telephone. New York, NY. August 25, 2016.
“Everybody was devastated…: O’Keefe, Michael. Interview by Chris Nashawaty. By telephone. New York, NY. August 15, 2016.
Kenney would just flash…: Ramis, Harold. Interview by Chris Nashawaty. By telephone. New York, NY. May 20, 2010.
“I’ve had that…: Greisman, Alan. Interview by Chris Nashawaty. By telephone. New York, NY. August 9, 2016.
It would go on…: Boxofficemojo.com.
That conversation…: Chase, Chevy. Interview by Chris Nashawaty. By telephone. New York, NY. May 27, 2010.
I miss him…: Chase, Chevy. Interview by Chris Nashawaty. By telephone. New York, NY. May 27, 2010.
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About the Author
Chris Nashawaty is the film critic at Entertainment Weekly, who over his twenty years at the magazine has become one of America’s foremost movie writers and pop-culture authorities. He hosts a weekly hour-long movies show on Sirius’s EW Radio channel and has appeared on CNN, NPR, Today, and Good Morning America. He has also written for Wired, Sports Illustrated, Esquire, Fortune, and Grantland. He is the author of a book about B-movie producer Roger Corman called Crab Monsters, Teenage Cavemen, and Candy Stripe Nurses. You can sign up for email updates here.
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