SHORT TAKES : Chevy Chase Favors Male Break

NEW YORK — Actor-comedian Chevy Chase, who is reprising his role as the dedicated family man in “National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation,” says he thinks about going out with the guys as a break from an all-female household.

Chase said living with his wife, Jane, and three daughters has changed his life, but he also feels “out of control of my life now.”

“I think I need to be taken away, dropped in some territory with just a lot of loud guys,” he said in an interview scheduled for broadcast today and Friday on ABC-TV’s “Good Morning America.”

“Like just get Danny Aykroyd and Marty (Martin Short) and (Tom) Hanks and a bunch of us and just put us all together and leave us alone with a ‘fridge full of beer or something.”

Chase, who has played the goofy family patriarch Clark Griswold in two previous “Vacation” movies, said being a real-life father means having responsibilities to his children.

“So, there are many things that I don’t do that I used to do,” he said. “For instance, I sleep in a nightgown now.’