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  • The Real Animal House - Ashland [Oregon] Daily Tidings The Real Animal House review, December 9, 2006

  • Book uncovers story behind Bluto, Otter and Flounder - The Register-Guard The Real Animal House review, November 19, 2006

  • Toga! - New York Times Sunday Book Review The Real Animal House review, November 5, 2006

  • "DVD Review Animal House: Double Secret Probation Edition - Cinescape, September 9, 2003

  • "Toga-Wearers Take Over Animal House Town" - LA Times, August 31, 2003

  • "TOGA! TOGA! TOGA!: Thousands join the party for the 25th anniversary of Animal House" - Eugene Register-Guard, August 31, 2003

  • "Old School" - LA Weekly, August 29, 2003

  • "Animal House/Vacation The Hollywood Reporter, August 28, 2003

  • "Cottage Grove reflected 1962 small-town for film" - Cottage Grove Sentinel, August 27, 2003

  • "Revisiting Delta House" - LA Times, August 23, 2003

  • "Animal House Frat Boys Rule Again" - The Ledger, August 22, 2003

  • "Unseen and Untold: Animal House" - Newsday, August 20, 2003

  • "Animal Zeitgeist embodies goodness" - Oregon Daily Emerald, August 20, 2003

  • "Animal House dishes timeless comedy" - Oregon Daily Emerald, August 20, 2003

  • "It's not gonna be an orgy; it's a toga party" - Oregon Daily Emerald, August 20, 2003

  • " WAS IT OVER WHEN THE GERMANS BOMBED PEARL HARBOR?" - Chud.com, June 26, 2003

  • "Animal House actor is still thanking God" - The Register-Guard, June 20, 2003

  • "The first party animals" - LA Times, June 19, 2003

  • "Memories linger in Eugene and Cottage Grove" - Eugene Register-Guardian, November 7, 2002

  • "Present at the Creation" - Morning Edition NPR, July 29, 2002

  • "Animal House – Still Fresh After All These Years" - Dr Progresso Reviews, June 1999

  • "The 100 Greatest Moments in Rock Music: The '60s" - EW Magazine, May 20, 1999
    THE KINGSMEN Record 'Louie Louie' 4/13/63
    Slurred, sloppy, and supposedly salacious (at least the FBI thought so), the Kingsmen's rendition of Richard Berry's keg-tappin' stomp is the ultimate "anthem for raucous behavior," says director John Landis, who used "Louie Louie" to ignite John Belushi's unleash-the-beast scene in National Lampoon's Animal House. The Kingsmen cut it for $50 one morning in Portland, Ore.--after playing it over and over at a Friday-night marathon. The result? So stupid it's sublime. Rank 30 out of 100.

  • "Building Animal House" - EntertainmentWeekly Magazine, Oct 2, 1998
    "For the first time, the filmmakers and stars who brought Delta House to life 20 years ago tell the behind-the-scenes story of the greatest, grossest campus comedy ever"

  • "Party Hardy" - EW Online Weekly Poll, Sep 12, 1998
    The Frat Flick of Choice. AH is leading with over 76% of the votes!

  • "House Rules" - EW Daily News, Sep 4, 1998
    Animal House celebrates its 20th anniversary with new behind-the-scenes footage

  • "History of Gross-Out Movies" - EW Online Feature,
    "Bad as that is, Elliott's an OXY poster child compared with the biggest movie zit of all: the one John Belushi made of himself by spraying his costars with cafeteria food 20 years ago in National Lampoon's Animal House. Gross? Certainly. But also lovable. Belushi's 'sweetness saved him,' says Jim Abrahams, a gross-out specialist who cowrote The Kentucky Fried Movie, and Airplane!, and directed this summer's Mafia! 'His smile lures you in, then he spits up all over you.'"

  • "National Lampoon's Animal House" - EW Online Video, Jun 30, 1998
    (John Landis, John Belushi, Tom Hulce, Stephen Furst) [Rated R]
    The halls of academe were forever defaced by this lewd and crude frat-house farce, which captures John Belushi (as bloated future senator Bluto Blutarsky) in all his disgusto glory. Irony alert: Despite siring countless pretenders to the throne, this royal treatment of truly gross jokers never begat a sequel.

  • "Mail" - EW Magazine, Aug 15, 1997
    ANIMAL RIGHTS
    I don't read ew, but a friend told me there was a recent piece on Animal House that mentioned everybody connected with it but me. I'm hurt. As you may know, since writing Animal House with Doug Kenney and Chris Miller, I've cowritten numerous comedies, directed several, and acted in a few as well. You don't need to publicize my career, but if you happen to mention films that I've worked on, please credit me accordingly. HAROLD RAMIS Ocean Pictures Los Angeles
    EDITOR'S NOTE: Harold, we're hurt that you don't read EW, but we are sorry we forgot to mention that you cowrote Animal House. You should consider EW a must-read, and now you see why.

  • Legend of Animal House lives on at UO, Feb, 1997

  • "Animal House Opens" - EW Magazine, Jul 25, 1997
    Nineteen years ago, John Landis, John Belushi, and the National Lampoon fraternity made a college comedy that was big, gross--and a big grosser

  • "All-Time Top Grossers" - EW Magazine, Jun 16, 1995
    "Animal House, based on the college reminiscences of rowdy Lampoon writers, took full advantage of that standard. Public urination, belching, heavy drinking, and more unsavory topics were all played for laughs, but the outrageous high jinks were tempered by the movie's affection for the misfits of Delta House."

  • "Gag Disorder" - EW Magazine, Apr 15, 1994
    [National Lampoon] magazine's first stab at the screen was its most notorious, and most successful. National Lampoon's Animal House (1978) critically lambasted on release, went on to make a fortune and created a new movie star in John Belushi, who played Bluto Blutarsky, frat house id on the rampage. As obvious, grotesque, and sexist as much of its humor was, Animal House was stupidly funny. The movie also had a lot to answer for: the rebirth of the party-mindlessly attitude that lives on almost two decades later (ever see MTV's Spring Break?). But rent it again and see if you don't laugh.

  • "You Must Remember These 1970-1991" - EW Magazine, Jan 10, 1992
    "TOGA!TOGA!TOGA!
    Now that's smooth: By imitating a zit, John Belushi ignited food fights both in National Lampoon's Animal House and in campus dining halls across the country. The low-rent, high-spirited Animal House was an immense success and made fraternities, puke jokes, and political apathy cool again. The response indicated how deeply disaffected late-'70s college kids were from their peace-n-sprouts older siblings. Animal House wasn't just the high-water mark (or, more accurately, high-beer mark) for Belushi and the Lampoon - it was The Graduate for a generation that grew up to be yuppies."

  • "The 100 Best Movies On Video: 51-100" - EW Magazine, Aug 10, 1990
    "75. NATIONAL LAMPOON'S ANIMAL HOUSE (1978, MCA, $19.95, R)
    Out of the millions of dumb teen comedies Hollywood has given us, why is this the only thoroughly funny one? Because it starred John Belushi. And because, in retrospect, it seems that Animal House caught the irresponsible, party-hearty side of the country's swing to the right when it was still fresh."

  • Summer Stars - Mary Louise Weller, Aug 10, 1986
    I Told Myself: "No more junk"

  • The 25 Most Intriging People of 1978 - John Belushi, Dec 25, 1978

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