Come read the story that was the inspiration for the Chevy Chase movie, National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation, written by famous movie director (before he was famous) John Hughes. Before the Breakfast Club and Uncle Buck, Hughes was a writer for the Lampoon. Enjoy! All in all it was a pretty exciting Christmas, what with the…
Read John Hughes’ Original National Lampoon Vacation Story That Started the Movie Franchise In 1979, National Lampoon magazine published the future director’s fictitious tale of a family trip gone horribly awry. THR reprints the tale that launched an iconic movie series … “If Dad hadn’t shot Walt Disney in the leg, it would have been…
Come with us back to 1964… Edited by P. J. O’Rourke and Doug Kenney, National Lampoon 1964 High School Yearbook Parody was first published in 1973. Although it was a parody, the original publication actually appeared to be a real yearbook from C. Estes Kefauver High School in Dacron, Ohio. Of course, there is no…
You may have seen the new movie on Netflix. Now, read the book… In the 1950s, Chagrin Falls, Ohio, was the kind of place where Americans believed that Father Knows Best patriarch Jim Anderson could raise Kitten, Bud, and Princess in a big fine home with total comfort and domestic bliss on an insurance…
