Harold Ramis (1944 - 2014)

"It's hard for winners to do comedy. Comedy is inherently subversive. We represent the underdog as comedy usually speaks for the lower classes. We attack the winners."

It's with great sadness that this week sees the closure in the chapter of one of the greatest comedic writers of the last 35 years. Harold Ramis passed away due to 'complications of autoimmune inflammatory vasculitis', and just like that, the world of comedy feels that much smaller for it.

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Who's Harry Crumb? (1989)

"Not so fast. I've had my eye on you for a while, lady. I knew you were up to something, and here's my proof: it was you who was having an affair with your husband all along!"

After his daughter has been kidnapped from an exclusive health spa, millionaire P.J Downing (Barry Corbin; Critters 2, The People Across the Lake, Ghost Dad)  turns to his close family friend, Eliot Draisen ( Jeffrey Jones; Beetlejuice, Ferris Bueller's Day Off, Easy Money) who happens to be the president of esteemed detective agency, Crumb and Crumb. Unfortunately for Downing, there is nothing esteemed about Harry Crumb (John Candy; Uncle Buck, Armed and Dangerous, Summer Rental), the oafish detective assigned to the case. Harry apparently comes from a long line of great detectives; sadly the genius gene seems to have skipped a generation. You see, Draisen himself is actually the one behind the kidnapping, and putting Harry on the case is only to cover his own ass, figuring he will never solve it anyway.

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One Crazy Summer (1986)

"Hey, Hoops, you ever notice how people die in alphabetical order?"

The Summer before I went to college was probably one of my favorites from my teenage years. The exams were done (who cared if you did well or not, you were finished school, fuck it!) and I had a well paying/low maintenace job which meant plenty of disposable income to facilitate my music, film and boozing habits. Three fun-filled months to party away with your friends before many of you went your separate ways with university; some you kept in touch with, others just drifted away over the years. What made it much more memorable was the fact that I finally had the break away from feeling like a kid; I could go to bars, go away on trips with friends, have house parties... hey, I could do whatever the hell I wanted! All of these were the great things that made the end of your teenage years so special. They were fun times, and I had good cause to be happy.

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