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Estelle Endler. Producer: Back to School. Estelle Endler began her association with Rodney Dangerfield while she was working as a press agent in the office of Richard O'Brien, author of "Publicity: How to Get It" (Harper Collins, 1986).
- Producer, Music Department
- July 1, 1943
- Estelle Endler
- September 24, 1985
Estelle Endler. Jump to Edit. Overview. Born. July 1, 1943. Died. September 24, 1985 · Los Angeles, California, USA. Mini Bio. Estelle Endler began her association with Rodney Dangerfield while she was working as a press agent in the office of Richard O'Brien, author of "Publicity: How to Get It" (Harper Collins, 1986).
- July 1, 1943
- September 24, 1985
- Harold Ramis Made A Key Rewrite.
- Jim Carrey Was Considered For Sam Kinison's role.
- Robert Downey Jr. Was Shooting Saturday Night Live at The Same time.
- Sally Kellerman only Knew Rodney Dangerfield from His Beer commercials.
- Grand Lakes University Was Really Three Different Colleges.
- The Movie's Locations Probably Look familiar.
- Zabka Tried to Make Chas Funnier and Less of A Bully.
- Zabka and Downey Jr. Made Music Together.
- Rodney Was in His Robe A lot.
- Danny Elfman Was The Composer.
In the original draft of the script, Thornton still tries to motivate Jason by attending his college, but he was a "poor schmo."It was Harold Ramis who suggested it would be a funnier movie if Thornton were rich. Dangerfield convinced Orion Pictures to delay production and hire Ramis to rewrite the script.
Jim Carrey was eventually deemed too young to play Professor Terguson. Years later, producer Chuck Russell remembered Carrey when he was tasked with directing The Mask(1994). 3. IT WAS THE FIRST TIME WILLIAM ZABKA REALIZED HE MIGHT BE GETTING TYPECAST AS A VILLAIN. YouTube When William Zabka—who played Johnny Lawrence in The Karate Kid and Greg Tol...
The then 20-year-old actor burned the candle at both ends then. He told Rolling Stone, "I'd fly back to Los Angeles for a couple of days during the week to shoot the movie and then fly back and, 'Live, From New York, It's a Tired Young Man!'"
Sally Kellerman admittedto OrangeCoast Magazine in November 1986 that she "didn't really know who Rodney Dangerfield was," only having seen him in his Miller Lite commercials. Therefore she "wasn't just flipped out of my mind at being the woman who lifts him up. I thought, 'Oh, whoopee! You're going to get to play his love interest.' Ye gods, I kne...
The University of Wisconsin-Madison, University of Southern California, and California State University, Los Angeles teamed up to portray the fictional Grand Lakes University. The one college Dangerfield applied to for his higher education was the University of Wisconsin. He said, “It took 40 years, but I finally got here.”
The big oral exam was in the Nimitz Room of Bob Hope Patriotic Hall, where Jennifer Beals (well, her body double) danced in the final scene of Flashdance (1983). Dr. Diane Turner's residence is the same home where Jamie Lee Curtis gets terrorized by Michael Myers in Halloween(1978).
"I actually tried to have more fun with Chas, because I thought, 'I’m going to be funny now. I really don’t want to just play a jerk,'" Zabka explained to The A.V. Club. "So I actually put on a funny walk and I had a scarf a bunch of times. I made him way more funny than he actually turned out in the film. They cut out most of my funny. In fact, th...
Chas and Derek Lutz hung out in Downey's hotel room, where Downey would play his keyboard and Zabka would play his guitar. The two also watched movies and tried to figure why Christopher Walken was "so genius."
Zabka and Dangerfield first met early one morning in a Madison, Wisconsin hotel elevator. Dangerfield wore a blue robe with his hair sticking up. After Zabka introduced himself he asked Dangerfield why he was in a robe. “I gotta get in the sauna," Dangerfield replied. "I gotta get the pot out of my lungs.” [Laughs.] “You, you’re young. You can hand...
Danny Elfman and his band, Oingo Boingo, were in the movie playing "Dead Man's Party." "It was just a quick thing. I can’t even remember if it was one or two days," Elfman tried to recall. "It was funny because Robert Downey Jr. was sitting there at a mock mixing board to mix the band and we were essentially lip synching the tune."
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Before the end credits, the message "For ESTELLE Thanks For So Much" is shown in dedication to Estelle Endler, one of the executive producers of the film, who died during production. She was Dangerfield's long-time manager, who helped him get into films such as Caddyshack .
His longtime agent and personal manger, Estelie Endler, a dark-haired woman with a great smile, ushered him off the set and into a dressing room. I crowded in after him, and we were joined by his nephew's wife and children, who sat somewhat solemnly through our interview and seemed just a little unsure of exactly what the public role of a ...
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May 18, 1984 · ''In fact, he was a health food fanatic,'' his publicist, Estelle Endler, said. Mr. Kaufman was best known for his portrayal of the character Latka Gravas, an immigrant auto mechanic, on the ...
