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Doug Kenney was a driving force behind National Lampoon magazine and its cocaine-fueled movies. His short life was less than hilarious. Apr 28, 2021
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The sign guarding the approach to Hanapepe lookout, on the Hawaiian island of Kauai, is explicit. Stay back, it warns, the drop beyond is sheer.
It was here, on the twenty-eighth of August last year, that Douglas C. Kenney, thirty-three, a founder of the