Hawthorne is best known for writing the screenplay for director Bob Balaban's surrealist horror-comedy Parents, starring Randy Quaid, Mary Beth Hurt, Bryan Madorsky and Sandy Dennis.
Vance ultimately chose to leave SNL at the end of the 1986 season (along with many other cast members from that season who were dismissed, including Joan Cusack, Robert Downey, Jr., Randy Quaid, Anthony Michael Hall, and Terry Sweeney—this last, another homosexual cast member, recruited for the 1985-1986 cast, was the show's only gay male to be hired as of 2012.
In 2002, Ventimilia and Sternin created a show for Fox called The Grubbs, starring Randy Quaid.
In 1990, director David Odell adapted the novel into a movie of the same name with Randy Quaid playing the title character renamed to Mark Deveraux.
It premiered December 20, 2003 on NBC and stars Randy Quaid and Miriam Flynn, reprising their roles as Cousin Eddie and Catherine.
He also shared writing credit on Last Rites, an original TV movie for the Starz/Encore! pay cable network starring Randy Quaid.
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Balls Out: Gary the Tennis Coach is an American comedy film directed by Danny Leiner starring Seann William Scott, Randy Quaid and Leonor Varela.
Madorsky's first and best known role is that of Michael Laemle in Bob Balaban's Parents, starring Randy Quaid, Mary Beth Hurt and Sandy Dennis.
The cathouse scene of The Long Riders, starring Dennis and Randy Quaid and Keith and David Carradine, was filmed in the Lee house which was located next to the Fitzgerald Cemetery until it was torn down due to disrepair some years ago.
The Thin Blue Lie (2000) is a made for television film released on August 13, 2000 about Philadelphia Inquirer reporter Jonathan Neumann (Rob Morrow), who, along with his partner Phil Chadway (Randy Quaid), won the Pulitzer Prize in 1978 for a series of articles exposing Philadelphia mayor Frank Rizzo (Paul Sorvino) and the Philadelphia Police Department for corruption.