Posted on 11/17/2023 7:58:15 AM PST by Rummyfan
Dan Aykroyd will forever be known as a “Ghostbuster.”
The “Saturday Night Live” alum created plenty of memorable characters during his sketch TV days, but the 1984 sci-fi comedy remains his calling card for many.
Some insist his 1980 film “The Blues Brothers” remains his finest hour as a comic actor.
The musical comedy featured bravura performances from Aretha Franklin, James Brown, Ray Charles and more.
The film cemented Aykroyd’s on-screen bromance with fellow “SNL” standout John Belushi and became a cult classic.
Aykroyd told podcaster Adam Carolla some behind-the-scenes footnotes from the film.
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Minnie the Moocher is Fantastic!
The entire Band is flashed
Into White Tuxedos !
It’s sad to see us reminisce, about some great movies that, Due to political correctness and wokeness, and Hollywood becoming increasingly liberal , just could not be made today.
The director of that classic and his son, were both killed in Malibu by a drunk illegal alien a few years back.
Heartily concur.
“Bob’s Country Bunker!”
We play both sorts, country and western.
Aykroyd and Murray, yes ... and John Belushi was pretty good/sometimes great before he joined the Dead Celebrity Junkie Club. And we shouldn’t leave out Harold Ramis, who was a terrific writer with a few great turns as an actor in parts that played to his deadpan persona.
If SAG-AFTRA wanted to do something really useful, it could fight for an industry code that provided for mandatory and serious intervention for actors caught in the death spiral. That should probably include some way of ensuring that an actor who doesn’t get into recovery could not work in the industry, at least not in anything made by the major unionized studios.
There is no way — short of universal drug testing — to police substance abuse entirely. Up to a point, addicts and alcoholics can manage and conceal their addictions. But once someone goes spectacularly and publicly off the rails, employers should step in. Today, in the private sector, the government and academia, most employers would, if only to protect their own operations. But the film industry continues to tolerate it, look the other way, excuse it, and enable it. And there are some flagrant cases now, some as bad as Belushi, that just go right on making movies because some corrupt studio exec doesn’t care.
Then go to work on the sexual predators. That’s another story, but the union should be doing a lot more than it has done.
Gotta love the clean spot around his eyes from the shades...
His masterpiece was Trading Places.
Yep, it’s so sad. There’s so much content that couldn’t even be made today without some poor soul getting offended.
Yup. That was the only scene in the film where he took off his sun glasses
"Fergia Fergia Nipola Nipola Nipola Nipola ...."
In other words, one of the greatest movies ever.
This movie has everything. It's on a Mission from God, so it all makes perfect sense.
A... great country key.
🤠
Bob, aka "Cowboy" in Kelly's Heroes.
Ignore those "poor souls" and press on. The market will decide if you're right or wrong.
There’s a lot of room in this mall.
Sadly.
That whole street scene is fantastic and points to another virtue of the movie, which is that it documents the feel of a great city and its people at a particular moment in time. Especially that particular scene which is mostly candid shots of regular people.
Gross Pointe Blank
“I’m getting weepy down here. I can’t aim through all the tears.”
Driving Miss Daisy
SNL poached a lot of National Lampoon Magazine’s talent.
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