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Posted August 17, 2009 • Comments Off on Vacation

In 1979 John Hughes wrote this story for National Lampoon. It’s called “Vacation ’58.” Most of it will be extremely familiar.

http://www.bizbag.com/Vacation/Vacation%2058.htm

Warner Brothers bought the story from the Lampoon and hired him to turn it into a screenplay, and if I read right, that was his first job in Hollywood.

All these years, I didn’t even know he wrote it.

One small warning to the reader: the story, unlike the movie, actually describes what happens to the dog.