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Article: `Animal House': The Deathmobile lives.(Festivals)
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- The Register Guard (Eugene, OR)
- Article date:
- August 28, 2005
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Byline: Mark Baker The Register-Guard
COTTAGE GROVE - It's long and it's black and it's a 1964 Lincoln Continental, just like the one in the movie.
"People who have come in to see the construction have just giggled," says Tom Weaks, who is doing his part to rev up the masses for this city's third annual Animal House Celebration next Saturday by re-creating perhaps the greatest symbol - the ``Deathmobile'' - of the final scenes of National Lampoon's infamous comedy.
"It's a symbol in the movie of revolt, revenge, rebellion and the rage against the machine," says Weaks, a production supervisor at an industrial finishing company. In the film, the ...