He did this as a showoff exercise. "Having fun now!" Maybe Doug Kenney didn't jump. It didn't seem to matter. Kenney edited, wrote features, produced a regular column called "Mrs. Agnew's Diary." To him they came with their problems and petty jealousies. With Daniels worsening illness, the jokes turned bitter. Douglas Kenney The word most used to describe it, including by Kathryn, was stormy. They fought, seemingly, about everything, from Doug's frenetic life-style to the fact that Kathryn, a Wells College graduate, hadn't gone to Radcliffe. The Hanapepe Lookout is a breathtaking spot on the Hawaiian island of Kauai. Things deteriorated. We hadn't had such a good time. They were writing for their generation, they were writing about sex and drugs, and they didn't care if their parents didn't get it. Its in a futile and stupid gesture but Id like to see the full original interview. Kenney had a substance addiction issue, as he put it. Douglas Kenney Cast:Robert Young, Robert Mitchum, Robert Ryan. He had smoked grass and used acid and cocaine in Manhattan but in L.A. his drug use spiralled out of control. He is sitting in a rented Cadillac near the "Caddyshack" theme restaurant that he and his brothers opened three years ago in St. Augustine, Fla. He was 33. He was his father's pride, his mother's hope, the favored child destined to do great things. He was a millionaire several times over, and he boasted that "Caddyshack" would be an even bigger hit than "Animal House." Kenney recruited his friend Chevy Chase to play Ty Webb. Unannounced, he simply turned up in New York one day, a half-finished manuscript under his arm, tanner and skinnier than the day he left. You knew he could destroy you if he wanted to. It was there that he met an old-money upperclassman named Henry Beard. Kenney and Beard worked seven-day, 90-hour weeks. The explosion was reported at the nearby Fort Lauderdale airport by an incoming pilot, who suspected a plane had crashed. By day, they snorkeled for conch and paddled in the pool in inner tubes. - IMDb Mini Biography By: Three years later, the movie he would co-write, "National Lampoon's Animal House," would become the biggest grossing comedy in history and spawn a whole new cinematic genre. Official Sites, View agent, publicist, legal and company contact details on IMDbPro. still coming to us live from New York on Saturday night.). The movie Animal House, which he co-wrote, made more money than any comedy in history. In all, the Kefauver High Kaleidoscope sold more than a million copies. There were Harvard people there; too, and Lampoon people and people no one had ever heard of. WebMini Bio (1) Philadelphia-born Kathryn Walker's classy career began on the off-Broadway New York stage with her performance in "Slag" in 1971. He began carrying around a putter. Kenneys abandoned car was found near Hanapepe Valley Lookout on the island of Kauai, where travel brochures advise, Kenney was born in West Palm Beach, Florida, and went to Harvard.