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[Matty Simmons] ✓ Fat, Drunk, & Stupid: The Inside Story Behind the Making of Animal House ✓ Download Online eBook or Kindle ePUB. Fat, Drunk, & Stupid: The Inside Story Behind the Making of Animal House Chevy Chase was considered for the role of Otter, but it wound up going to the lesser-known Tim Matheson. For four weeks in the fall of 1977, the actors and crew invaded the college town of Eugene, Oregon, forming their own sort of fraternity in the process. It launched countless careers and paved the way for today's comedies from directors such as Judd Apatow and Todd Phillips.Bestselling author Matty Simmons was the founder of National Lampoon and the producer of Animal House. In
| Title | : | Fat, Drunk, & Stupid: The Inside Story Behind the Making of Animal House |
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.60 (895 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0312552262 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 240 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-03-21 |
| Language | : | English |
But its most successful spin-off was just on the horizon, the classic 1978 film National Lampoon’s Animal House. The publication’s success spawned an entire industry, including live theatrical shows, radio programs, books, and comedy albums. Animal House is the granddaddy of the gross-out genre that includes American Pie, but Simmons argues it was the daringly subversive political commentary and gut-busting jokes that set it far above all followers. From Booklist In the mid-1970s, Simmons was riding high as publisher of the wildly popular humor
Chevy Chase was considered for the role of Otter, but it wound up going to the lesser-known Tim Matheson. For four weeks in the fall of 1977, the actors and crew invaded the college town of Eugene, Oregon, forming their own sort of fraternity in the process. It launched countless careers and paved the way for today's comedies from directors such as Judd Apatow and Todd Phillips.Bestselling author Matty Simmons was the founder of National Lampoon and the producer of Animal House. In Fat, Drunk, and Stupid, he draws from exclusive interviews with actors including Karen Allen, Kevin Bacon, Peter Riegert, and Mark Metcalf, director John Landis, fellow producer Ivan Reitman, and other key playersas well as behind-the-scenes photosto tell the movie's outrageous story, from its birth in the New York offices of the National Lampoon to writing a script, assembling the perfect cast, the wild weeks of filming, and, ultimately, to the film's release and megasuccess. They named it Animal House, in honor of Miller's fraternity at Dartmouth, where the members had been nicknamed after animals. In 1976 the creators of National Lampoon, America's most popular humor magazine, decided to make a movie. It would be set on a college campus in the 1960s, loosely based on the experiences of Lampoon writers Chris Miller and Harold Ramis and Lampoon editor Doug Kenney. Miller, Ramis, and Kenney wrote a film treatme
He lives in Los Angeles.. Matty Simmons was the producer of Animal House and founder and CEO of National Lampoon. He has produced nine other films, including the Vacation series, collaborated with such well-known writers as John Hughes and Judd Apatow, been a newspaper reporter and press agent, and written eight books, including several bestsellers. He currently writes for Reader's Digest and other publications
T. McKinney said Great behind the scenes book about a classic comedy. Great behind the scenes book about a classic comedy. If you have seen "Animal House" you need to read this. If you haven't, then go see it and read this book.. "ANIMAL HOUSE FILM IS A CLASSIC" according to Amazon Customer. Having seen Animal House numerous times I bought this book to get the inside story behnd the movie. I'm glad I did.. "We Can Do Anything We Want! We're College Students!" Syd Dithers Actually, the subtitle to this book should be "An Inside Story," not "THE Inside Story." Matty Simmons was definitely inside the comedy phenom that was NATIONAL LAMPOON'S ANIMAL HOUSE, but the book reads a little choppy and it ultimately becomes one person's experience with the film.I'm not saying that li
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