Thoughts About Movie 'Caddyshack'-- Part 2: What About Lou Loomis and Carl Spackler?

**  Even though the movie was inspired by Illinois, it was set in Nebraska and shot in Florida.

**  The concept was sold as "Animal House" on a golf course.

**  "Caddyshack" may be signature Bill Murray, but older brother Brian Doyle-Murray was more involved.  Bill spent just a short time on set; but Brian provided the idea, co-wrote the screenplay (with Rami and Kenney), then played the manager of the caddyshack.

**  Brian based Lou Loomis, his character, on Lou Janis, an Indian Hill caddy master.  According to Bill Murray's golf memoir, Janis "would bet on anything."  In the movie, Loomis wagered that a member would pick his nose and eat it.

**  As early as the mid-1970s, Bill Murray was performing variations of his character, Carl Spackler --  his side talking, imbalanced, philosophical groundskeeper -- as a cast member at Second City.

--RoadDog

TEENAGERS AND CATS:  Cats and teenagers yawn in exactly the same manner, communicating that ultimate human ecstasy--  a sense of complete and utter boredom.