Two-thirds of the screenwriters of “Animal House” are dead. Harold Ramis recently and the suicide of Doug Kenney (the Harvard-educated co-founder of National Lampoon magazine) back in 1980. Ramis had I think one of the nicest quotes about a person ever uttered: “Doug was such a gracious guy -- he had this incisive, killer humor. You knew he could destroy you if he wanted to. Part of his grace was in not destroying you.”
BILL
PS – Unfortunately, Kenney leaped off a cliff to his death in Hawaii, sparking Ramis – evidently incapable of resisting a zinger no matter the target - to say of his friend: “Doug probably slipped looking for a place to jump.”
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