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Yesterday I came down with a rare, albeit bad cold, so I stayed home in bed all day...I still feel really rotten and we have a fine holiday weekend coming up with nice weather.
So last night I am in my bed crusing through all of my channels, trying desperately to find something entertaining. The Golf Channel is somewhere in the 600 range on DirecTV and as I got up there, I was thinking, "better go get a book because I can't find anything fun to watch"...
As I flip over to the Golf Channel, the opening credits to Caddyshack are rolling on the screen and I can hear Kenny Loggins singing the title song.
Even though I have Caddyshack on a DVD, I don't have room for a DVD player in the bedroom, so I think, 'In spite of the commercials, I'll watch this for awhile".
About five minutes into the film, suddenly the bottom of the screen "scootches up" and a blue banner appears with text. It is supplying the viewer with Caddyshack trivia!! This blue banner appeared spontaneously about ten times during the film and would disappear after about 45 seconds...
Among the trivia facts I can remember:
1) In the scene where Carl Spackler is hitting the flowers with his club as he does play by play announcing of "a player out of nowhere here at Augusta", was totally improvised. There was no script and director Harold Ramis told Bill Murray to "think of a golf fantasy like you are a kid and play it from there"...a classic scene that Murray came up with on the fly.
2) Michael O'Keefe (Danny) was in a scene with Chevy Chase (Ty) in which Ty starts talking about Zen and "being the ball".
Michael O'Keefe is presently a practicing Zen Buddist.
3) Ted Knight (Judge Smails) was decorated for Bravery five times in combat during WWII.
4) Sarah Holcomb (Maggie O'Hooligan) is the only actor to appear in both Caddyshack and Animal House. She appeared in only two more films and made no more in her career.
Sometimes when commercial breaks were coming on, instead of a product or service, they had 2 minute interviews with Brian Doyle-Murray and Cindy Williams (Lacey Underall).
Brian Doyle-Murray played the Caddymaster (Lou Loomis) in the film. He based the character on a real caddymaster in Chicago at a course where all the Murray brothers worked as kids. The caddymaster's name in Chicago: Lou Loomis. Doyle-Murray indicated that in addition to caddying the Murray brothers worked shining shoes, flipping burgers and parking cars.
Cindy Williams balked repeatedly when asked to do the brief nude scene. She said, "The producer" repeatedly threatened her and said she would never work another picture if she didn't take her shirt off. She finally relented. She grew up Catholic and went to Catholic schools for 14 years.
Blurb: Cindy Williams is legally blind without contact lenses. When she climbed the 2 metre diving board and dove into the water, she took out her contacts and did the scene 'largely by feel'.
Cindy Williams said that at night, when filming was over, they would drive golf carts all over the course, partying.
The scene in Carl's garage with Ty was not in the original script. When Harold Ramis realized there was no scene with the two of them together, he hastily wrote one and had them do it.
Many of the lines performed by Rodney Dangerfiled were spontaneous and came from his comedy routines. Again, not scripted. Dangerfield was very nervous about acting in the film and repeatedly asked Cindy Williams how he was doing. She said, "You are stealing the film"...
Cindy Williams and Ted Knight are both Polish.
The six Murray brothers have a Caddyshack theme restaurant at the World of Golf Villiage in St. Augustine Florida.
Both Jack Nicklaus and Tiger Woods list Caddyshack as their favorite golf movie. Tiger Woods eagerly parodied Caddyshack in his TV commercials several years ago and worked enthusiastically to emulate Carl Spackler...doing several takes to make sure he got it right.
Henry Wilcoxsen (The Bishop in the thunderstorm scene who is struck by lightning) played in the classic film The Ten Commandments. The musical score playing during the thunderstorm scene is from the same film and is a parody on Moses coming down from the Mount.
According to the Bravo channel (yes Euros, there is a Bravo Channel over here and I have nothing to do with it), Caddyshack is rated the second funniest film ever made, after Animal House.
So last night I am in my bed crusing through all of my channels, trying desperately to find something entertaining. The Golf Channel is somewhere in the 600 range on DirecTV and as I got up there, I was thinking, "better go get a book because I can't find anything fun to watch"...
As I flip over to the Golf Channel, the opening credits to Caddyshack are rolling on the screen and I can hear Kenny Loggins singing the title song.
Even though I have Caddyshack on a DVD, I don't have room for a DVD player in the bedroom, so I think, 'In spite of the commercials, I'll watch this for awhile".
About five minutes into the film, suddenly the bottom of the screen "scootches up" and a blue banner appears with text. It is supplying the viewer with Caddyshack trivia!! This blue banner appeared spontaneously about ten times during the film and would disappear after about 45 seconds...
Among the trivia facts I can remember:
1) In the scene where Carl Spackler is hitting the flowers with his club as he does play by play announcing of "a player out of nowhere here at Augusta", was totally improvised. There was no script and director Harold Ramis told Bill Murray to "think of a golf fantasy like you are a kid and play it from there"...a classic scene that Murray came up with on the fly.
2) Michael O'Keefe (Danny) was in a scene with Chevy Chase (Ty) in which Ty starts talking about Zen and "being the ball".
Michael O'Keefe is presently a practicing Zen Buddist.
3) Ted Knight (Judge Smails) was decorated for Bravery five times in combat during WWII.
4) Sarah Holcomb (Maggie O'Hooligan) is the only actor to appear in both Caddyshack and Animal House. She appeared in only two more films and made no more in her career.
Sometimes when commercial breaks were coming on, instead of a product or service, they had 2 minute interviews with Brian Doyle-Murray and Cindy Williams (Lacey Underall).
Brian Doyle-Murray played the Caddymaster (Lou Loomis) in the film. He based the character on a real caddymaster in Chicago at a course where all the Murray brothers worked as kids. The caddymaster's name in Chicago: Lou Loomis. Doyle-Murray indicated that in addition to caddying the Murray brothers worked shining shoes, flipping burgers and parking cars.
Cindy Williams balked repeatedly when asked to do the brief nude scene. She said, "The producer" repeatedly threatened her and said she would never work another picture if she didn't take her shirt off. She finally relented. She grew up Catholic and went to Catholic schools for 14 years.
Blurb: Cindy Williams is legally blind without contact lenses. When she climbed the 2 metre diving board and dove into the water, she took out her contacts and did the scene 'largely by feel'.
Cindy Williams said that at night, when filming was over, they would drive golf carts all over the course, partying.
The scene in Carl's garage with Ty was not in the original script. When Harold Ramis realized there was no scene with the two of them together, he hastily wrote one and had them do it.
Many of the lines performed by Rodney Dangerfiled were spontaneous and came from his comedy routines. Again, not scripted. Dangerfield was very nervous about acting in the film and repeatedly asked Cindy Williams how he was doing. She said, "You are stealing the film"...
Cindy Williams and Ted Knight are both Polish.
The six Murray brothers have a Caddyshack theme restaurant at the World of Golf Villiage in St. Augustine Florida.
Both Jack Nicklaus and Tiger Woods list Caddyshack as their favorite golf movie. Tiger Woods eagerly parodied Caddyshack in his TV commercials several years ago and worked enthusiastically to emulate Carl Spackler...doing several takes to make sure he got it right.
Henry Wilcoxsen (The Bishop in the thunderstorm scene who is struck by lightning) played in the classic film The Ten Commandments. The musical score playing during the thunderstorm scene is from the same film and is a parody on Moses coming down from the Mount.
According to the Bravo channel (yes Euros, there is a Bravo Channel over here and I have nothing to do with it), Caddyshack is rated the second funniest film ever made, after Animal House.
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