Word: cheech
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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They arrived dressed in the casual splendor they can now afford: Cheech in a T-shirt, bright green pants and flip-flops; Chong all in white, with high-top wrestling sneakers, a green translucent belt and tinted glasses. "Hey," says Cheech, gesturing at his clothes, the microphones, and the cameras and smiling knowingly, "We're not as dumb as we look...
...Canada," adds Cheech, "the police use our films as training: how burned out you can get. When it comes to making films about drugs, if it wasn't us, it'd be somebody else. I believe there's good and bad dope," he continues, "If I believed dope was bad for you, well, you know..." and his voice trails off in a degenerate sigh...
Their secret, they divulge in sober tones, is that they do what they do to the best of their ability. "It's like punk rock music," Cheech pipes in. "The best musicians in the world can't play that crap. The best art in the world comes from the soul...
They try to work at a regular pace. "We'll come into the office late and then we'll go to lunch," laughs Cheech. "We write like writers," says Chong. "We start writing eight hours before our deadline and then tell our editor that it could've been better if we'd had more time...
...resulting script for Cheech and Chong's Next Movie was not a script at all. They simply gave Universal a list of the sets they wanted built, then cast the type of actors and comedians they thought could improvise well in front of the camera. Then they set to work, with only a vague notion of plot or dialogue...