TOGAS ON PARADE.Byline: Jim Feehan The Register-Guard COTTAGE GROVE Cottage Grove, village (1990 pop. 22,935), Washington co., SE Minn., near the St. Croix River; inc. 1965. There is farming (cattle, sheep, corn, and soybeans) and manufacturing (chemicals and machinery). - Resembling John Belushi John Adam Belushi (January 24, 1949 – March 5, 1982) was an Emmy Award-winning American comedian, actor and musician, notable for his work on Saturday Night Live, National Lampoon's Animal House and The Blues Brothers. has its rewards. For Greg Hamilton of Portland, it meant serving as the grand marshal Grand Marshal is a ceremonial, military, or political office of very high rank. The term has its origins with the word "Marshal" with the first usage of the term "Grand Marshal" as a ceremonial title for certain religious orders. at the second annual "Animal House" celebration parade Saturday. "I'm looking forward to blowing the weekend off," Hamilton said while sipping a Pabst and offering to smash the aluminum can on his forehead in trademark Bluto fashion. At last year's event, which coincided with the 25th anniversary of the filming of "Animal House," Hamilton beat out 70 other entrants to win the movie look-alike contest. For his uncanny resemblance to Belushi's Bluto character, Hamilton was asked by organizers to lead the 2004 parade's toga-clad revelers. Hamilton said he became fascinated by "Animal House" while a student at the University of Oregon The University of Oregon is a public university located in Eugene, Oregon. The university was founded in 1876, graduating its first class two years later. The University of Oregon is one of 60 members of the Association of American Universities. in the early 1990s, which coincidentally is the same time he started getting comments on his similarity to the late comic actor. "It's a great comedy, wonderfully subversive with an excellent ensemble cast An ensemble cast is a cast in which the principal performers are assigned roughly equal amounts of importance in a dramatic production. This kind of casting became more popular in television series because it allows for flexibility for writers to focus on different ; that's why it endures," he said of the movie, which was filmed in Eugene and Cottage Grove. About a thousand people lined Main Street for a re-enactment of the parade in the movie's final scene. Other events included a walking tour of Cottage Grove locations used in the movie and a giant toga party A popular fad on college and university campuses, a toga party is a particular kind of costume party in which everyone wears a toga, or a semblance thereof, normally made from a bed sheet, and sandals. headlined by The Kingsmen, famous for the hit song "Louie, Louie." In a sea of white bedsheets, Anthony Allen's toga truly stood out. A private in the U.S. Marine Corps on leave from Camp Lejeune Camp LeJeune (ləzh  n`), U.S. marine corps base, 82,969 acres (33,576 hectares), SE N.C., SE of Jacksonville; est. 1941. ,
N.C., Allen sported a camouflage toga.
"Everybody likes the hilarious fun and irreverence of the movie," said Allen, 21, who flew in from North Carolina North Carolina, state in the SE United States. It is bordered by the Atlantic Ocean (E), South Carolina and Georgia (S), Tennessee (W), and Virginia (N). Facts and Figures Area, 52,586 sq mi (136,198 sq km). Pop. . Also making a long trek were Anthony's father, Perry Allen, 47, and sister, Amanda Perry, 17, who drove seven hours from the Tri-Cities, Wash., area to participate in the parade. The Allens won best toga honors and were awarded a 25th anniversary DVD DVD: see digital versatile disc. DVD in full digital video disc or digital versatile disc Type of optical disc. The DVD represents the second generation of compact-disc (CD) technology. of "Animal House" and backstage passes for the toga party. Most of the movie, depicting the fictitious Faber College in 1962, was filmed on the UO campus. The final scenes were shot in Cottage Grove in 1977. Released by Universal Studios in 1978, the movie developed a cult following and box office success despite having an unknown cast and small budget. The movie launched Belushi's movie career. Tom Hulce (`Amadeus'), Donald Sutherland, Karen Allen (`Raiders of the Lost Ark') and Kevin Bacon were among the co-stars. John Landis directed. The film is about a group of relentless partiers who sacrifice their dignity, grade-point-averages and countess brain cells on an altar dedicated to loose women, booze and bad taste. Saturday's parade featured the obligatory marching bands, floats and dignitaries in convertibles. Unlike last year's soiree soi·ree also soi·rée n. An evening party or reception. [French soirée, from Old French seree, from seir, evening, from Latin , this year's parade included not one, but two Deathmobiles - the car driven by the Deltas that terrorized parade participants in the movie. Lee Phillips, 52, of Portland, adorned his Deathmobile (a 1964 Plymouth Valiant) with a skeleton mask as a hood ornament and pirate flags. Phillips, who was a UO student in the early 1970s, said the movie accurately depicted campus life a generation ago. "That was back in the day of all-campus keggers, when being politically correct politically correct Politically sensitive adjective Referring to language reflecting awareness and sensitivity to another person's physical, mental, cultural, or other disadvantages or deviations from a norm; a person is not mentally retarded, but wasn't in style," he said. Also on the parade route was the movie's original bunny float, with "bunnies" Amy Callahan, 32, and Chloe Mounce, 27, both of Cottage Grove. A few weeks before the event, organizers were looking for Looking for In the context of general equities, this describing a buy interest in which a dealer is asked to offer stock, often involving a capital commitment. Antithesis of in touch with. volunteers to ride on the bunny float in costume, Callahan said. Not familiar with the movie, she agreed to ride on the float thinking she'd wear an Easter Bunny costume, she said. Wrong bunny. Asked if she had any qualms about wearing a Playboy bunny costume, Callahan said, "No, not at all. We go to the lake in smaller outfits." CAPTION(S): Greg Hamilton of Portland won the John Belushi look-alike contest last year and earned a spot as grand marshal of this year's parade. Amy Callahan (left) and Chloe Mounce, both of Cottage Grove, don Playboy bunny costumes while riding on the movie's original bunny float, included in the celebration parade Saturday. |
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