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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.

Actor Dan Aykroyd says the people criticizing Ghostbusters star Leslie Jones and her movie on Twitter are overweight racists who will be voting for Donald Trump in November. “These people, they’re insignificant gnats, they’re losers, they have no lives of their own, they can probably barely pay for the wifi they’re using,” Aykroyd said during an interview on Tuesday with Entertainment Tonight Canada. “Probably no jobs. I would say you’re looking at obese white men between 50 and 60 who are active Klan members or members of the Aryan Nation and there are millions of them.” “I’m afraid to say...

HARVEY, Ill., Illinois officials announced plans to demolish a suburban Chicago mall that served as a set for a famous scene in the 1980 film "The Blues Brothers." Gov. Pat Quinn said Thursday the state is receiving a $4 million federal grant to demolish Dixie Square Mall in Harvey to make way for redevelopment to revitalize the area, the Chicago Tribune reported Friday. The mall, which has been vacant for more than 30 years, served as a filming location for the mall car chase scene in "The Blues Brothers." "Dixie Square has been a place that we know has to...

Dan Aykroyd: So bipartisan it's funny When it comes to finding a middle way in politics, no one is more bizarrely bipartisan than Dan Aykroyd. How many people do you know who support both President Bush and Sen. Hillary Clinton? "Personally, I know the President, I know his wife and his father," the actor was telling us the other day over lunch at Michael's, where he came to beat the drum (actually, he thumped an ice bucket) for "The Barbarian Invasions," the Oscar-nominated film by his friend Denys Arcand. "The Bushes are a very loving family." Though he calls himself...