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...themselves, and he describes in generally chronological order Belushi's rise from a Wheaton, III high-school wimderkind to ace comic of Chicago's comedy troupe Second City, to blubbering star of NBC's Saturday Night Live, to the mega-star of Animal House and half (with partner Dan Ackroyd) of the Blues Brothers, and finally to his death...
...author stops writing, an actor dies a radio or a T.V. show goes off the air, a fan's daily schedule is significantly altered. There's no longer a regular afternoon set aside for the new Agatha Christie, no longer a weekly hour and a half for the Belushi Ackroyd Saturday Night Live. These are giant gaps in the landscape and to compensate for them, you shift your perspective and learn to work around them...
...what really burned Her Honor was a picture taken last summer by her official photographer, Martha Leonard. It shows the mayor and her daughter Kathy, 22, mugging as gangsters' molls with Comedians John Belushi and Dan Ackroyd, who were in Chicago to film the movie The Blues Brothers. Kathy thought the photo was "cute" and permitted Leonard to give a print to Us magazine. Byrne reacted like a gangbuster, demoting Leonard to the photo pool, with a pay reduction from $21,000 to $15,000. Leonard quit. Said she: "The photo was shot when the city had fewer problems...
...Jock and mother to such an unwholesome brood? By his own admission, Jock (Jim Davis) made his fortune in oil by dirty dealings, and J.R. (Larry Hagman) is carrying on the tradition by cheating everyone within howdyin' distance. After much conniving, he finally ran Brother Gary (David Ackroyd) off the spread, but then Gary is a no-account drunk and gambler who probably got what he deserved anyway. Young Bobby (Patrick Duffy) is the good brother, comparatively speaking, but even he has a few black marks against...
...often heard people say that Dorothy Sayers wrote well," remarked Edmund Wilson in "Who Cares Who Killed Roger Ackroyd?" "But, really, she does not write very well: it is simply that she is more consciously literary than most of the other detective story writers . . ." Despite Wilson's judgment, Sayers and Lord Peter Wimsey, her witty sleuth, have become two of the most beloved figures in detective fiction. An engaging mix of upper-class sang-froid and Sherlockian intellect, Wimsey set new standards in highbrow snooping. As viewers of the PBS series can testify, only Wimsey would drive a Daimler...