Harold Allen Ramis (born November 21, 1944) is an American actor, director, and writer, specializing in comedy. His best known film acting roles are as "Egon Spengler" in Ghostbusters (1984) and "Russell Ziskey" in Stripes (1981); Ramis also co-wrote both films. As a writer/director, his films include the highly popular comedies Caddyshack (1980), Groundhog Day (1993), and Analyze This (1999). Ramis was the original head writer of the TV series SCTV (in which he played Moe Green), and as one of three writers to pen the screenplay for the film National Lampoon's Animal House (1978). More recently, he had small roles in the films Orange County (2002), The Last Kiss (2006), Knocked Up (2007) and Walk Hard (2007), and has directed episodes of the US version of the TV series The Office.
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The Pulitzer Prize winning novel A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole is a book that from its very origin has always been shrouded in unusual events, starting with the fact that it wasn't published until 1980, 11 years after Toole c ...
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It seems inconceivable now, but when Lethal Weapon 4 opened in 1998, it had only been 11 years since the first installment. And back then, it really did seem like both Danny Glover and Mel Gibson were getting too old for that ish. Well ...
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For a sheer body of memorable movies, nobody has more quality films in her cache then actress Andie MacDowell. From playing a repressed southern housewife in Steven Soderbergh’s debut "sex, lies and videotape ...
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Actor Zach Galifianakis attends the premiere of 'Puss In Boots' at Regency Village Theatre. (Jason LaVeris/FilmMagic / May 23, 2012) It's a great piece of casting: Zach Galifianakis as Ignatius J. Reilly in a film adaptat ...
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Local listings from all over 80,000 websites. (NewsCore) - Zach Galifianakis is set to star in an upcoming film adaptation of "A Confederacy of Dunces," New York magazine's Vulture blog reported. Galifianak ...
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John Kennedy Toole's masterpiece, "A Confederacy of Dunces," did not have an easy time being published. Distraught over his prospects as a writer, Toole killed himself in 1969, at the age of 31. It was published through the ef ...
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Hot on the heels of his nostalgic return of The Muppets, director James Bobin is already working on a sequel. However, it sounds like he might be putting his talents to use getting a long gestating adaptation ...
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The film version of Dunces has failed to launch for almost 30 years. Harold Ramis originally planned to adapt the novel to film in 1982 before his intended star, John Belushi, passed away. The project has been bogged in difficulty sin ...
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Posted on Wednesday, May 23rd, 2012 by Angie Han There are long-simmering projects, and then there’s A Confederacy of Dunces . A cinematic adaptation of John Kennedy Toole ‘s canonical novel has been in development since the early ’80s, and has ...
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