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Until his illness Ramis was out around town a fair amount, whether cheering on the Cubs and leading the occasional "Take Me Out to the Ball Game" or attending theater or appearing at fundraisers or collecting honors. Short kept in touch as well, saying he was pleased that his friend was able to attend his Just for Laughs performance in But the past year, Short and other friends and family said, was tough, and now they are dealing with the loss of such an outsized personality.
In addition to his wife and daughter, Ramis is survived by two sons, Julian and Daniel; a brother, Steve; and two grandchildren.
A private service is planned for this week. A public memorial in Chicago is being planned, probably for May. Twitter MarkCaro. Skip to content. Ramis also left behind a reputation as a mensch and mentor. Latest Entertainment. Most Read. Horoscopes Daily horoscope for November 11, Danny Rubin's original screenplay had started some way into the time loop, but it was Ramis who wrote the early scenes showing the main character's shock at his sudden and supernatural change in circumstances.
And it was Ramis, too, who protected Rubin's highly original concept from compromises demanded by studio executives nervous that audiences would be flummoxed. Rubin said in that Ramis possessed an "understanding of what the studio needed to feel comfortable … he seemed to know how much you could give up without throwing out the baby with the bathwater".
Though Rubin was pressured to write a scene explaining the time loop as the result of a curse, Ramis "very smartly never shot the scene … [he] is a very good politician in the Hollywood system". Ramis's generous, unshowy direction, far from being "nothing special", gave the demented ideas and set-pieces the necessary room to breathe.
He attended Washington University, St Louis, where he began writing comedy scripts, then worked variously as a teacher and journalist. After avoiding military service in Vietnam by lying on the admission form — an experience that would later provide comic grist in his script for the military comedy Stripes , in which he also starred — he joined the Second City improvisational company in From there, it was a natural step for clowns such as Belushi and Murray to move into the furnace of the high-pressure, late-night TV sketch show Saturday Night Live.
The film was a box-office hit, helped no end by a kamikaze performance from Belushi as the ultimate party animal. Later imitations such as the Porky's series took the bawdiness of Animal House to a new level of explicitness, but overlooked the genuinely innovative aspect of the movie: its sophisticated frankness about rebellion. The characters are not countercultural icons so much as self-serving thrill-seekers whose escapades happen to antagonise the establishment.
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