24. Doug Kenney Was Drunk When He Wrote Caddyshack
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Writer and producer Doug Kenney (pictured, above) began writing at Harvard, where he co-founded the National Lampoon magazine. That’s an auspicious start in of itself, but he wasn’t happy. While working on Caddyshack, he was working through severe depression. He drank heavily, abused cocaine, misbehaved at press conferences, got into a drunken car-crash, and died after falling off a cliff in Hawaii.