Reply #59: I would say - not true [View All]

[dr.strangelove]

At least based on a logistical stand point. The story was put in place in a comic strip Doug Kenney started writing in the mid 1960s while at Harvard. He was Lampoon's first editor-in-chief. Given that bush was at Yale at the same time and was certainly not famous on Harvard's campus, it would be tough to imagine a geek at Harvard writing about a frat guy at Yale, especially when there were plenty of Harvard frat guys to inspire him. Chris Miller wrote the skeleton of the story in his memoirs of his fraternity days at Dartmouth. He is known to have been the drive for the party style frat in teh film. The brains was filmmaker Ivan Reitman, who wanted to make money off the Lampoon name. He set up the meeting with Miller, Lenny and Harold Ramis. Reitman produced and directed "The National Lampoon Show" in New York with John Belushi. He thought Belushi was perfect for the college party guy role. Harold Ramis was working on his own treatment which was going no where. Eventually the three wrote the story, with Bluto written for Belushi, who agreed ot act during the early part of the week in the film and go back to NYC for Saturday Night Live at the end of each week.