Lost a good one: Harold Ramis, RIP

[eccienewbie]

Fuck. Another mortality check as one of my childhood and teen age cinematic heroes bites the dust http://www.nydailynews.com/entertain...icle-1.1700115

He was a good to very good comedic actor (Ghostbusters and Stripes, in particular), but he was a genuinely brilliant screenwriter (in my very humble opinion). Writing credits include Caddyshack, Vacation, Analyze This, Groundhog Day, and Animal House, to name just a few in addition to the previously mentioned Ghostbusters and Stripes. Any two of those would make a great career for most screenwriters. He directed several films, too, including Groundhog Day.

Yeah, I know: just a celebrity and our time would be better spent lamenting and dissecting other, more far reaching concerns. Sounds like a great thread. Go start it.

As Mr. Ramis so eloquently put it upon his character's return from behind the Iron Curtain in Stripes, "We just want to get back to our hotel rooms and have some really serious sex." Get to it boys and girls. It would be a fitting tribute to my favorite comedy writer ever.

[TheWanderer]

He was very talented and I really appreciate good comedy writers.
He was from the National Lampoon and Second City TV crowd and those guys and gals are responsible for a lot of laughs in my life.

[hawkweed]

Well damn.

[fletch]

Classic line:

So we finish the eighteenth and he's gonna stiff me. And I say, "Hey, Lama!, hey, how about a little something, you know, for the effort, you know." And he says, "Oh, uh, there won't be any money, but when you die, on your deathbed, you will receive total consciousness." So I got that goin' for me, which is nice....

[Guest092216]

[Prolongus]

They didn't have much of a script when they started Caddyshack. And they left in a lot of the adlibed lines. Chevy Chase and Bill Murray weren't exactly "friends" either. But the guy whole stole the show in that movie was Rodney Dangerfield and I'm thinking he HAD to make up those lines...

It also got lukewarm to terrible reviews. But...whatever Ramis' contribution was, it is now a classic. Can't help but flip over if I see it on the TV menu...

"That's a peach, hon!"
Did you write that, Harold? I hope so!