Caddyshack

the making of a Hollywood Cinderella story

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Chris Nashawaty: Caddyshack (2018)

294 pages

English language

Published Aug. 6, 2018

ISBN:
978-1-250-10595-0
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OCLC Number:
986969506

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"In the summer of 1980, a group of authority-defying comedy geniuses from Saturday Night Live, the Second City improv troupe, and the National Lampoon magazine created the funniest sports movie ever made. Maybe the funniest movie ever made, period. This timeless snobs-versus-slobs story of working-class kids and the white-collar buffoons who make them carry their golf bags in the hot summer sun has sex, drugs, and one very memorable candy bar. But the movie we all know and love as a benchmark of comedic film didn't start that way, and everyone who made it certainly didn't have the word "classic" in mind as the cameras were rolling. The story of Caddyshack began, improbably, at Harvard University, when three editors of The Harvard Lampoon (Doug Kenney, Rob Hoffman, and Henry Beard) decided to unleash their revolutionary humor on the world at large and publish the National Lampoon. The magazine quickly became …

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Subjects

  • Production and direction
  • Comedy films
  • Caddyshack (Motion picture)

Places

  • United States