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Article: `Animal House' revisited.(City/Region)
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- The Register Guard (Eugene, OR)
- Article date:
- August 13, 2008
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Byline: Mark Baker The Register-Guard
Katherine Wilson sums it up this way: "It's like `Brigadoon' - this movie won't die."
Die?
"Animal House"?
Not around here. Thirty years after the release of the classic National Lampoon comedy filmed in Eugene and Cottage Grove, it's still local legend and most likely always will be.
But the film, which is profiled tonight in the two-hour documentary "Animal House: The Inside Story" on A&E's Biography Channel, was a tough sell for many university towns around the country. Universal Studios wanted to film it on an Ivy League campus, be it Dartmouth or Princeton or even Harvard. They even ...