Neil Steinberg says today:
I never knew the name of the actor who played Dean Wormer in “Animal House” — John Vernon — until he died this week, at age 72. While the obituaries didn’t mention it, he uttered one of the great lines in movie history — “Fat, drunk and stupid is no way to go through life, son.” At least to those of us who struggle with all three.
Obviously, he does not read blogs every day; that line was mentioned in almost all of the blog memorials I read last week.
Steinberg, like many of other commentators, does Vernon disservice by not remembering Vernon’s role in Terminal Exposure and Sledge Hammer!.
A good fellow who looked a little too much like John Lithgow for true immortality.
