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CHRIS MILLER, THE WRITER OF ANIMAL HOUSE, RECALLS THE FIRST TIME HE VIEWED 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY Mark Leffler corresponded with noted humorist Chris Miller, co-author of National Lampoon's Animal House, to glean his impressions of Kubrick's classic film: "The movie opened at the Cinerama Theatre in New York in, I can't remember, spring or summer of '68. In those days, the really long hair and drug use and crazy hippie stuff was actually just getting started. We tend to think it started earlier because of that generic term "The Sixties," but, no, people mainly still had short hair in '68. Anyway, 2001 had an incredible buzz and everyone wanted to see it. I went with a gang of friends right after it opened and it was awesome. We started going again and again, leaving the theater during the intermission to toke up for "the trip" part of the movie, where Keir Dullea goes through the stargate, and running down to the front of the theater to fling ourselves on the red carpeted area before the front row and watch the trip from a horizontal position. The longer the movie ran -- and it ran a long time -- the more people would do this. And what I remember is that the ushers who worked at the theater, all clean-cut young-Republican looking people at the start of the run who used to be grossed out by audience smoking "of any kind" gradually transformed as the months passed - into long-haired, dope-smoking, disreputable people in their own right. A very funny transformation to watch." |
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