** Inane as it sounds, though, Kenny Loggins' "I'm Alright" became the soundtrack's ubiquitous smash hit. You heard it all over the radio. However, Ramis originally wanted Pink Floyd to do it. (They were busy, so didn't.)
** "Caddyshack" (along with "Animal House," "Stripes" and others like it) celebrates the underdog, but the culture of the 1980s that followed those films were enamored with privilege. You can see that happening in the film, which at first is about working class kids with summer jobs but gradually tells the tale of the feckless captains of industry whom they serve.
** The author of this only met Harold Ramis once backstage before an event at Columbia College. A film student told him that "Caddyshack" was his favorite movie of all time. Ramis smiled and told him: "Thank you, but I hope you make better movies than that one."
** Doug Kenney, the co-screenwriter and producer, died a month after "Caddyshack" was released. He was found at the bottom of a ravine in Hawaii. Kinney was a very troubled, drug-addled writer that friends assumed he had killed himself. Ramis liked to say: "He fell looking for a place to jump."
--Cooter
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