Caddyshack
The Making of a Hollywood Cinderella Story
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4.5 • 116 Ratings
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- $11.99
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Publisher Description
“More fun to read than the movie was to watch… a scene-stealing book.”
— The Washington Post
An Entertainment Weekly "Must List" selection
Caddyshack is one of the most beloved comedies of all time, a classic snobs vs. slobs story of working class kids and the white collar buffoons that make them haul their golf bags in the hot summer sun. It has sex, drugs and one very memorable candy bar, but the movie we all know and love didn’t start out that way, and everyone who made it certainly didn’t have the word “classic” in mind as the cameras were rolling.
In Caddyshack:The Making of a Hollywood Cinderella Story film critic for Entertainment Weekly Chris Nashawaty goes behind the scenes of the iconic film, chronicling the rise of comedy’s greatest deranged minds as they form The National Lampoon, turn the entertainment industry on its head, and ultimately blow up both a golf course and popular culture as we know it. Caddyshack is at once an eye-opening narrative about one of the most interesting, surreal, and dramatic film productions there’s ever been, and a rich portrait of the biggest, and most revolutionary names in Hollywood. So, it’s got that going for it…which is nice.
Customer Reviews
Good book
It was a interesting read
Great stuff
Great to hear the tales of how movies used to get made in the 70s. Having worked on them in later years I find myself jealous!
Fantastic read!
The story of Second City actors Bill Murray and John Belushi, SNL, it gives a history of national lampoon and comedy going back to Harvard, MAD magazine, Animal House leading up to the making of Caddyshack.