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Inside the club, preppie Louis Winthorpe III (Dan Aykroyd), the sharpest commodity trader going, is reporting to his employers, the brothers Duke. This pair are Dickensian in their meanness and cupidity, but right up to date in their desire to manipulate people for the sheer nasty fun of it. Winthorpe III, it should be noted, is Billy Ray's soul brother in just one way: he is not as bright as he thinks he is either...
Trading Places also makes Eddie Murphy a force to be reckoned with. It takes nothing away from Aykroyd's perfect prissiness as Winthorpe, or from Bellamy and Ameche, having the time of their sunset years playing the Dukes, to say this. But Murphy, using his Tyrone Green character from Saturday Night Live as a sketch for a full-scale portrait, demonstrates the powers of invention that signal the arrival of a major comic actor, and possibly a great star. He makes Trading Places something more than a good-hearted comedy. He turns it into an event...
MARRIAGE REVEALED. Dan Aykroyd, 30, wild and crazy Canadian comic actor and writer (The Blues Brothers, Trading Places); and Donna Dixon, 25, actress (TV's Bosom Buddies series), who met him last year while the two were making Doctor Detroit; both for the first time; in Chilmark, Martha's Vineyard, Mass.; on April 29. They decided to keep the wedding quiet so it would not be used as publicity for their movie...
Michaelis' account of the book's final pair of friends, John Belushi and Dan Aykroyd, comes as something of a shock. The relationship between the two antic entertainers is like a half nelson after a series of handshakes. Aykroyd's attachment to his friend, dead of a drug over dose in 1982, sometimes edges close to hysteria: "Whenever Danny Aykroyd drives by [Belushi's] graveyard, he always honks his car horn - long and loud - on the good chance that somewhere, somehow, in some form, John can hear...
...screen to their designated mark. Context is all. To use only snippets from these movies, as It Came from Hollywood does, is to deprive them of their paper-thin texture. In an attempt at the That's Entertainment of bad films, five comic actors-Gilda Radner, Dan Aykroyd, John Candy, and Cheech and Chong-introduce segments about gorillas, musicals, reefers, mixed-up teens and the mesmerizing oeuvre of the Poverty Row Stroheim, Edward D. Wood...