For those of you that don't know, the 1981 film Stripes, which starred Bill Murray, Harold Ramos and John Candy, was originally written for Cheech and Chong. This is why the film has a Cheech and Chong vibe to it.
During Tuesday's interview with Howard Stern, Howard asked Murray if he knew it was written for Cheech and Chong.
“Turns out that Cheech and Chong's agent didn't want them to do it,” Murray revealed. “Cheech and Chong never even saw the script. I think if they'd seen the script, they could have fun with it. There were plenty of crazy, stoner scenes in it. There was a whole scene where we go to South America and we eat some potion and everyone has a psychedelic experience and totally gibberish, you know, yeah, but so that stuff was there in the original script."
Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Road Trip! took the cast on a much better adventure this week. Eva Longoria, Paulina Chavez, Cheech Marin and director Marvin Lemus made the trek down to Miami. At AMC’s Sunset Palace, the stars sat down for a special screening with distinguished guests like Jessica Alba, Ana Navarro and Diana-Maria Riva.
In 1994-1995, George Carlin had a sitcom called The George Carlin Show. Tommy Chong was in Season 2, Episode 2.
George intercepts a package meant for his neighbor (guest star Tommy Chong) which turns out to contain marijuana (of course), and attempts to get rid of it.
The series itself wasn't great. Excessive laugh track. But for some reason, IMDB rates most episodes very positively...except this one. This episode only received 6.6/10.
While sifting through our archives, we came across the original photos from the 2004 premiere of Christmas with the Kranks.
I didn't even know the event was taking place until the last minute so I left work, bought a disposable camera and waited outside Radio City Music Hall for the premiere to finish.
Back then, there was zero security and zero barricades so you could just walk up to people as they left. I had never met Cheech Marin before so I was nervous.
The doors opened and attendees started flooding out. I scooted over to Cheech, who attended the event with William H Macy. I asked if he was Cheech's date. They laughed.
Everything was happening so fast, I was only able to get photos of some of the celebs.
People began arriving shortly after 6PM. On hand were William H. Macy, Tim Allen, Eddie Murphy, Jake Busey, Caroline Rhea, Jamie Lee Curtis, WWF's Mankind and Dan Aykroyd, many of whom star in the film.
The Weedmaster had a chance to speak with Cheech during the long wait for his car. When asked about the reunion movie, he said that New Line is still in the process of writing the script and that the pot hair tonic concept is still the basis.
The Weedmaster also asked him about where the Basketball Jones cartoon originated (the one featured in Being There). He said it was created by a friend of Lou Adler's to promote the Basketball Jones single and that the Being There producers just decided to use it. He didn't know where to get the full version, but we assume that Warner Bros owns the rights.
BTW, the full version of Basketball Jones
It's been 21 years so we rescanned them at a higher resolution and fixed the color as best as possible.
