Word: aykroyd
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Pearl Harbor, the film shows what might have happened if panicky Californians had convinced themselves that they were under Japanese at tack. The frantic characters come in all ages and types. There are jitterbugging kids at a USO dance (Treat Williams, Bobby DiCicco), trigger-happy soldiers and pilots (Dan Aykroyd, Warren Gates, John Be lushi), middle-aged suburbanites (Ned Beatty, Lorraine Gary, Murray Hamilton), and stray German, American and Japanese commanding officers (Christopher Lee, Robert Stack, Toshiro Mifune). Such oldtime Hollywood character actors as Lionel Stander, Elisha Cook and Slim Pickens also fly by along the film's manic...
...downtown Chicago: squealing tires, wailing police sirens, a battered sedan careening through crowds to wham, bang, crash its way through a shattering plate-glass window of the city's Richard J. Daley civic center. Then cried a voice: "That's a take!" Saturday Night Live Stars Dan Aykroyd and John Belushi, for whom the car was crashed by stuntmen, are filming The Blues Brothers, a story about two off-key crooners out to save the mortgage on the orphanage in which they grew up. The movie calls for SWAT teams, National Guardsmen, police cars, helicopters, tanks. All that...
...pretzel is bent in Los Angeles on the night of Dec. 13, 1941, six days after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. The city is engulfed by the fear of invasion, and it is hard to separate the real paranoids from the merely cautious. A sergeant (Dan Aykroyd) steals a tank and starts a blackout by zapping the brightly lit Santa Claus decorations on Hollywood Boulevard. A crazy pilot (John Belushi) flies a P-40 fighter-bomber to search for enemy aircraft but succeeds only in creating panic below. A riot breaks out between native whites and Chicano zoot suiters...
Other choices the group considered were Isaac Asimov, Dan Aykroyd, John Belushi, Bill Bradley, George Carlin, Chevy Chase, Walter Cronkite, John Finley '25, Jane Fonda, Diane Keaton, Sen. Edward M. Kennedy (D-Mass.) '54, Steve Martin, Gilda Radner, Bonnie Raitt, Christopher Reeve and John Updike, McLoughlin said...
This is, presumably, only the beginning for the Brothers. A movie is rumored to be in the works, scripted by Aykroyd. If we are lucky, there will be more Blues Brothers albums to follow, perhaps (is this too much to hope for?) with the same superb band. Meanwhile, heed the words of John Belushi, a.k.a. Joliet Jake: "I suggest you buy as many blues albums...