No one I knew…: Ramis, Harold. Interview by Chris Nashawaty. By telephone. New York, NY. May 20, 2010.
We switched off…: Ramis, Harold. Interview by Chris Nashawaty. By telephone. New York, NY. May 20, 2010.
I thought…: Albert, Trevor. Interview by Chris Nashawaty. By telephone. New York, NY. August 31, 2016.
I wasn’t sure…: Albert, Trevor. Interview by Chris Nashawaty. By telephone. New York, NY. August 31, 2016.
I always suspected…: Ramis, Harold. Interview by Chris Nashawaty. By telephone. New York, NY. May 20, 2010.
It’s its own…: “Caddyshack Production Information,” accessed October 13, 2016, from the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences, Margaret Herrick Library Archives.
“I didn’t know…: Canton, Mark. Interview by Chris Nashawaty. By telephone. New York, NY. August 24, 2016.
Seventeen million people…: Hill and Weingrad, Saturday Night, 307.
“So he ran…: Ptak, John. Interview by Chris Nashawaty. By telephone. New York, NY. August 23, 2016.
In the end…: Ptak, John. Interview by Chris Nashawaty. By telephone. New York, NY. August 23, 2016.
We would do…: Miller, Chris. Interview by Chris Nashawaty. By telephone. New York, NY. August 31, 2016.
Still, it’s not…: “Frat Brats Stand Pat,” New York, February 26, 1979. Accessed online.
“We just thought…: Fisher, Lucy. Interview by Chris Nashawaty. By telephone. New York, NY. August 29, 2016.
She thought…: Fisher, Lucy. Interview by Chris Nashawaty. By telephone. New York, NY. August 29, 2016.
The marriage wasn’t…: Ptak, John. Interview by Chris Nashawaty. By telephone. New York, NY. August 23, 2016.
“Mel said…: Fisher, Lucy. Interview by Chris Nashawaty. By telephone. New York, NY. August 29, 2016.
And he was…: Shamberg, Michael. Interview by Chris Nashawaty. By telephone. New York, NY. August 17, 2016.
And there was…: Shamberg, Michael. Interview by Chris Nashawaty. By telephone. New York, NY. August 17, 2016.
7. Finally, Some Respect
That’s the day…: Variety, June 25, 1979. Accessed online.
(it would grow…: Ned Zeman, “Soul Men: The Making of The Blues Brothers,” Vanity Fair, December 2012. Accessed online.
budget at $6 million…: Ramis, Harold. Interview by Chris Nashawaty. By telephone. New York, NY. May 20, 2010.
We all socialized…: Nicita, Wallis. Interview by Chris Nashawaty. By telephone. New York, NY. August 10, 2016.
“It wasn’t Paddy Chayefsky…: Nicita, Wallis. Interview by Chris Nashawaty. By telephone. New York, NY. August 10, 2016.
We had all…: Nicita, Wallis. Interview by Chris Nashawaty. By telephone. New York, NY. August 10, 2016.
“With any big…: Ramis, Harold. Interview by Chris Nashawaty. By telephone. New York, NY. May 20, 2010.
The soft-boiled…: Boxofficemojo.com.
Walking around like…: Chase, Chevy. Interview by Chris Nashawaty. By telephone. New York, NY. May 27, 2010.
“He had the…: Ramis, Harold. Interview by Chris Nashawaty. By telephone. New York, NY. May 20, 2010.
“He was just…: Ramis, Harold. Interview by Chris Nashawaty. By telephone. New York, NY. May 20, 2010.
The ideas of…: Nicita, Wallis. Interview by Chris Nashawaty. By telephone. New York, NY. August 10, 2016.
He finally became…: Rodney Dangerfield, It’s Not Easy Bein’ Me (New York: Perennial Currents, 2004), 137.
“No one knew…: Albert, Trevor. Interview by Chris Nashawaty. By telephone. New York, NY. August 31, 2016.
He sniffs…: Peters, Jon. Interview by Chris Nashawaty. By telephone. New York, NY. May 24, 2010.
And though he…: Dangerfield, It’s Not Easy Bein’ Me, 193.
Then the guerrillas…: “Caddyshack Production Information,” accessed October 13, 2016, from the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences, Margaret Herrick Library Archives.
He came back…: Jennifer Keishin Armstrong, Mary and Lou and Rhoda and Ted (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2013), 61.
“That would have…: Nicita, Wallis. Interview by Chris Nashawaty. By telephone. New York, NY. August 10, 2016.
“It gives you…: Nicita, Wallis. Interview by Chris Nashawaty. By telephone. New York, NY. August 10, 2016.
“Mickey made sense…: Nicita, Wallis. Interview by Chris Nashawaty. By telephone. New York, NY. August 10, 2016.
Mickey Rourke was…: Ramis, Harold. Interview by Chris Nashawaty. By telephone. New York, NY. May 20, 2010.
Doug wanted…: O’Keefe, Michael. Interview by Chris Nashawaty. By telephone. New York, NY. August 15, 2016.
Clearly, it would…: O’Keefe, Michael. Interview by Chris Nashawaty. By telephone. New York, NY. August 15, 2016.
Bill Murray, who…: Bill Murray with George Peper, Cinderella Story: My Life in Golf (New York: Broadway Books, 1999), 33.
“We were trying…: Ramis, Harold. Interview by Chris Nashawaty. By telephone. New York, NY. May 20, 2010.
Murray almost drowned…: Schnakenberg, The Big Bad Book of Bill Murray, 252.
I think they just…: Murray, Bill. Interview by Chris Nashawaty. By telephone. New York, NY. June 7, 2010.
If true, Murray…: The Hollywood Reporter, September 21, 1979. Accessed online.
“It was like…: Lemorande, Rusty. Interview by Chris Nashawaty. By telephone. New York, NY. October 7, 2016.
I mean…: Nicita, Wallis. Interview by Chris Nashawaty. By telephone. New York, NY. August 10, 2016.
They’d said…: Morgan, Cindy. Interview by Chris Nashawaty. By telephone. New York, NY. September 9, 2016.
But I thought…: Morgan, Cindy. Interview by Chris Nashawaty. By telephone. New York, NY. September 9, 2016.
“But something special…: Albert, Trevor. Interview by Chris Nashawaty. By telephone. New York, NY. August 31, 2016.
She’d been in…: Morgan, Cindy. Interview by Chris Nashawaty. By telephone. New York, NY. September 9, 2016.
“I remember saying…: Berkrot, Peter. Interview by Chris Nashawaty. By telephone. New York, NY. August 30, 2016.
He was the one…: Murray, Bill. Interview by Chris Nashawaty. By telephone. New York, NY. June 7, 2010.
Not bad…: McConnachie, Brian. Interview by Chris Nashawaty. By telephone. New York, NY. August 29, 2016.
8. Rolling Hills … and Action!
Instead, he planted…: “Caddyshack Production Information,” accessed October 13, 2016, from the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences, Margaret Herrick Library Archives.
But this place…: Ramis, Harold. Interview by Chris Nashawaty. By telephone. New York, NY. May 20, 2010.
Lewis’s financiers had…: Variety, October 31, 1979. Accessed online.
In the end…: Variety, October 31, 1979. Accessed online.
In the ’60s…: Scott Martin, The Book of Caddyshack (Lanham, MD: Taylor Trade Publishing, 2007), 37.
Michael O’Keefe…: O’Keefe, Michael. Interview by Chris Nashawaty. By telephone. New York, NY. August 15, 2016.
“Everyone else was…: Albert, Trevor. Interview by Chris Nashawaty. By telephone. New York, NY. August 31, 2016.
I mean, if…: Lemorande, Rusty. Interview by Chris Nashawaty. By telephone. New York, NY. October 7, 2016.
Rodney Dangerfield was…: Caddyshack: The Inside Story, A&E TV documentary, 2009.
He took one lesson…: Ramis, Harold. Interview with Chris Nashawaty. By telephone. New York, NY. May 20, 2010.
After a few minutes…: Berkrot, Peter. Interview by Chris Nashawaty. By telephone. New York, NY. August 30, 2016.
Our table was…: Berkrot, Peter. Interview by Chris Nashawaty. By telephone. New York, NY. August 30, 2016.
“You couldn’t find…: Ryerson, Ann. Interview by Chris Nashawaty. By telephone. New York, NY. August 18, 2016.
I never jud
ged…: Ramis, Harold. Interview by Chris Nashawaty. By telephone. New York, NY. May 20, 2010.
I didn’t know…: Ramis, Harold. Interview by Chris Nashawaty. By telephone. New York, NY. May 20, 2010.
And that was…: Albert, Trevor. Interview by Chris Nashawaty. By telephone. New York, NY. August 31, 2016.
They’re going to see…: Ramis, Harold. Interview by Chris Nashawaty. By telephone. New York, NY. May 20, 2010.
Says Michael O’Keefe…: O’Keefe, Michael. Interview by Chris Nashawaty. By telephone. New York, NY. August 15, 2016.
“Anything beyond that…: Ramis, Harold. Interview by Chris Nashawaty. By telephone. New York, NY. May 20, 2010.
He’d later say…: Caddyshack: The Inside Story, A&E TV documentary, 2009.
9. Rappin’ Rodney
Years later he…: “Caddyshack Production Information,” accessed October 13, 2016, from the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences, Margaret Herrick Library Archives.
Ramis had finally…: Ramis, Harold. Interview by Chris Nashawaty. By telephone. New York, NY. May 20, 2010.
People who are funny…: Morgan, Cindy. Interview by Chris Nashawaty. By telephone. New York, NY. September 9, 2016.
“Rodney needed…: Ramis, Harold. Interview by Chris Nashawaty. By telephone. New York, NY. May 20, 2010.
He was not familiar…: Chase, Chevy. Interview by Chris Nashawaty. By telephone. New York, NY. May 27, 2010.
Nothing was hidden…: Lemorande, Rusty. Interview by Chris Nashawaty. By telephone. New York, NY. October 7, 2016.
Without that process…: Lemorande, Rusty. Interview by Chris Nashawaty. By telephone. New York, NY. February 28, 2017.
Lemorande went back…: Lemorande, Rusty. Interview by Chris Nashawaty. By telephone. New York, NY. February 28, 2017.
You have to follow…: Ryerson, Ann. Interview by Chris Nashawaty. By telephone. New York, NY. August 18, 2016.
Well, Scott Colomby…: Barmon, John. Interview by Chris Nashawaty. By telephone. New York, NY. August 19, 2016.
He loved to…: Barmon, John. Interview by Chris Nashawaty. By telephone. New York, NY. August 19, 2016.
The only person…: Berkrot, Peter. Interview by Chris Nashawaty. By telephone. New York, NY. August 30, 2016.
After about a week…: Barmon, John. Interview by Chris Nashawaty. By telephone. New York, NY. August 19, 2016.
“Well, they practiced…: Albert, Trevor. Interview by Chris Nashawaty. By telephone. New York, NY. August 31, 2016.
It’s the one thing…: Berkrot, Peter. Interview by Chris Nashawaty. By telephone. New York, NY. August 30, 2016.
Later, he would say…: “Caddyshack Production Information,” accessed October 13, 2016, from the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences, Margaret Herrick Library Archives.
“People like Doug…: Albert, Trevor. Interview by Chris Nashawaty. By telephone. New York, NY. August 31, 2016.
His training was…: Lemorande, Rusty. Interview by Chris Nashawaty. By telephone. New York, NY. October 7, 2016.
Ted was really angry…: Morgan, Cindy. Interview by Chris Nashawaty. By telephone. New York, NY. September 9, 2016.
Harold liked to…: Barmon, John. Interview by Chris Nashawaty. By telephone. New York, NY. August 19, 2016.
I tried to give…: Ramis, Harold. Interview by Chris Nashawaty. By telephone. New York, NY. May 20, 2010.
10. The Pizza Man
“The whole time…: Chase, Chevy. Interview by Chris Nashawaty. By telephone. New York, NY. May 27, 2010.
But then Chase…: Ptak, John. Interview by Chris Nashawaty. By telephone. New York, NY. August 23, 2016.
And smoking pot…: Chase, Chevy. Interview by Chris Nashawaty. By telephone. New York, NY. May 27, 2010.
“Being with Doug…: Chase, Chevy. Interview by Chris Nashawaty. By telephone. New York, NY. May 27, 2010.
“Doug had an idea…: Murray with Peper, Cinderella Story: My Life in Golf, 190.
You could give Chevy…: Ramis, Harold. Interview by Chris Nashawaty. By telephone. New York, NY. May 20, 2010.
So with Chevy…: O’Keefe, Michael. Interview by Chris Nashawaty. By telephone. New York, NY. August 15, 2016.
Years later…: Ptak, John. Interview by Chris Nashawaty. By telephone. New York, NY. August 18, 2016.
I’m not Lacey…: Morgan, Cindy. Interview by Chris Nashawaty. By telephone. New York, NY. September 9, 2016.
“So I went…: Morgan, Cindy. Interview by Chris Nashawaty. By telephone. New York, NY. September 9, 2016.
And that’s how…: Morgan, Cindy. Interview by Chris Nashawaty. By telephone. New York, NY. September 9, 2016.
11. Total Consciousness
Problem was, Bill Murray didn’t…: Lynn Hirschberg, “Bill Murray, In All Seriousness,” The New York Times, January 31, 1999. Accessed online.
Or a week later…: Hirschberg, “Bill Murray, In All Seriousness.” Accessed online.
“He’s just a moody guy…: Ramis, Harold. Interview by Chris Nashawaty. By telephone. New York, NY. May 20, 2010.
Either way…: Hill and Weingrad, Saturday Night, 256–7.
I was like…: Landis, John. Interview by Chris Nashawaty. By telephone. New York, NY. August 9, 2016.
Because we all…: Nick De Semlyen, “Bill Murray on Fighting Chevy Chase,” Empire, May 18, 2012. Accessed online.
Everyone seemed to…: Canton, Mark. Interview by Chris Nashawaty. By telephone. New York, NY. August 24, 2016.
“I felt like…: McConnachie, Brian. Interview by Chris Nashawaty. By telephone. New York, NY. August 29, 2016.
As soon as Bill…: Ramis, Harold. Interview by Chris Nashawaty. By telephone. New York, NY. May 20, 2010.
And that’s what…: Berkrot, Peter. Interview by Chris Nashawaty. By telephone. New York, NY. August 30, 2016.
He was totally…: Berkrot, Peter. Interview by Chris Nashawaty. By telephone. New York, NY. August 30, 2016.
That’s part of…: Albert, Trevor. Interview by Chris Nashawaty. By telephone. New York, NY. August 31, 2016.
I guess they…: Murray, Bill. Interview by Chris Nashawaty. By telephone. New York, NY. June 7, 2010.
It’s not grabbed…: Ramis, Harold. Interview by Chris Nashawaty. By telephone. New York, NY. May 20, 2010.
“All it said…: Ramis, Harold. Interview by Chris Nashawaty. By telephone. New York, NY. May 20, 2010.
And he said…: Ramis, Harold. Interview by Chris Nashawaty. By telephone. New York, NY. May 20, 2010.
You made your bones…: Murray, Bill. Interview by Chris Nashawaty. By telephone. New York, NY. June 7, 2010.
Those are the guys…: Murray, Bill. Interview by Chris Nashawaty. By telephone. New York, NY. June 7, 2010.
That’s how he worked…: Ramis, Harold. Interview by Chris Nashawaty. By telephone. New York, NY. May 20, 2010.
There was no sign…: Lemorande, Rusty. Interview by Chris Nashawaty. By telephone. New York, NY. October 7, 2016.
And if I’m…: Murray, Bill. Interview by Chris Nashawaty. By telephone. New York, NY. June 7, 2010.
Recalls Cindy Morgan…: Morgan, Cindy. Interview by Chris Nashawaty. By telephone. New York, NY. September 9, 2016.
Peters thought…: Peters, Jon. Interview by Chris Nashawaty. By telephone. New York, NY. May 24, 2010.
And he goes…: Morgan, Cindy. Interview by Chris Nashawaty. By telephone. New York, NY. September 9, 2016.
Jon’s Old Hollywood…: Ramis, Harold. Interview by Chris Nashawaty. By telephone. New York, NY. May 20, 2010.
“I don’t have a problem…: Morgan, Cindy. Interview by Chris Nashawaty. By telephone. New York, NY. September 9, 2016.
I wanted her to…: Peters, Jon. Interview by Chris Nashawaty. By telephone. New York, NY. May 24, 2010.
“He said, ‘Honey…: Morgan, Cindy. Interview by Chris Nashawaty. By telephone. New York, NY. September 9, 2016.
They did…: O’Keefe, Michael. Interview by Chris Nashawaty. By telephone. New York, NY. August 15, 2016.
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p; “I felt like…: Morgan, Cindy. Interview by Chris Nashawaty. By telephone. New York, NY. September 9, 2016.
“He’s difficult…: Ramis, Harold. Interview by Chris Nashawaty. By telephone. New York, NY. May 20, 2010.
So after a forty-five minute…: Morgan, Cindy. Interview by Chris Nashawaty. By telephone. New York, NY. September 9, 2016.
And that was…: Morgan, Cindy. Interview by Chris Nashawaty. By telephone. New York, NY. September 9, 2016.
I went a little…: Chase, Chevy. Interview by Chris Nashawaty. By telephone. New York, NY. May 27, 2010.
But during the…: Morgan, Cindy. Interview by Chris Nashawaty. By telephone. New York, NY. September 9, 2016.
And those are qualities…: Robert Osborne, “On Location,” The Hollywood Reporter, October 19, 1979. Accessed online.
It also alludes…: Variety, October 31, 1979. Accessed online.
12. Pool or the Pond
“I had never seen cocaine…: Berkrot, Peter. Interview by Chris Nashawaty. By telephone. New York, NY. August 30, 2016.
Hamilton Mitchell, who…: Mitchell, Hamilton. Interview by Chris Nashawaty. By telephone. New York, NY. March 13, 2017.
Pure, like they…: Mitchell, Hamilton. Interview by Chris Nashawaty. By telephone. New York, NY. March 13, 2017.
Those of us…: O’Keefe, Michael. Interview by Chris Nashawaty. By telephone. New York, NY. August 15, 2017.
By the time…: John Blumenthal, “Playboy Interview: Chevy Chase,” Playboy, June 1988, 65.
Get your per diems…: Morgan, Cindy. Interview by Chris Nashawaty. By telephone. New York, NY. September 9, 2016.
And he would just…: O’Keefe, Michael. Interview by Chris Nashawaty. By telephone. New York, NY. August 15, 2016.
By the late ’70s…: Biskind, Easy Riders, Raging Bulls, 382.
Coke use…: Hill and Weingrad, Saturday Night, 322.
“One would say…: McConnachie, Brian. Interview by Chris Nashawaty. By telephone. New York, NY. August 29, 2016.
The delays caused…: Zeman, “Soul Men: The Making of The Blues Brothers.” Accessed online.
“And I think anybody…: Medavoy, Mike. Interview by Chris Nashawaty. By telephone. New York, NY. August 15, 2016.
It was a huge…: Peters, Jon. Interview by Chris Nashawaty. By telephone. New York, NY. May 24, 2010.