Word: caddyshack
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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DIED. Douglas Kenney, 33, a founder and onetime editor of the humor magazine National Lampoon and co-author of the screenplays for the 1978 hit Animal House and this summer's Caddyshack, which he also produced; in a fall from a 30-ft. bluff on the Hawaiian island of Kauai, where he was vacationing. A 1968 graduate of Harvard, where he was an editor of the collegiate Lampoon, Kenney and two other former editors in 1970 launched the National Lampoon, which has since spun off movies, stage revues, a radio show, records and books...
...Caddyshack, Rodney shows up as a real estate developer who dresses in color combinations out of a Sherwin-Williams sample book and outrages the gentry at the local country club with such reflections as, "You look at that kid, you know why tigers eat their young." Rodney must compete for attention in the film with alumni of Saturday Night Live and one mechanical gopher. He draws more laughs than the TV kids and chews up at least as much of the screen as the rodent...