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...This year, the Harvard Foundation honors celebrity guest comedian Dan Aykroyd, original cast member of “Saturday Night Live” and the co-creator of the Blues Brothers. “We admire Dan Aykroyd for his development of the House of Blues and his contribution to making sure that African American music and blues are things that people are made aware of,” says Jacqueline C. Hairston ’10, co-director of the afternoon show...
Emmy Award winner and original “Saturday Night Live” cast member Dan Aykroyd will be honored as the Artist of the Year next Saturday at the 2009 Cultural Rhythms Show. The event, organized by the Harvard Foundation for Intercultural and Race Relations, will kick off in the afternoon with a roast of Aykroyd, followed by a luncheon held in Kirkland dining hall. The day’s events in Sanders Theatre will feature an award presentation and performances by a number of Harvard dance and singing groups, including Harvard Bhangra, the Harvard-Radcliffe Kuumba Singers...
...House of Blues, a former Harvard Square institution, broke in its new digs in Boston last night to the tune of a reunited J. Geils Band. Dan Aykroyd and Isaac Tigrett—who also founded the Hard Rock Café chain together—opened up the first House of Blues in Harvard Square on 96 Winthrop St. in 1992. It closed in 2003 after outgrowing its original space, which held only 180 people. After the House of Blues closed, Brother Jimmy’s, a southern-themed bar and restaurant, moved in for about two years. Tommy Doyle?...
...play to the extreme, bizarre realm of a comedic horror show. “Suddenly Last Summer” is not one of Williams’s most popular pieces. It is a short one-act play centered around monologues from its two main characters, Mrs. Venable (Danielle A. Aykroyd ’12) and Catherine Holly (Lauren N. Medina ’12). Mrs. Venable has gone mad over the death of her son, Sebastian. She refuses to accept that he was a homosexual and is willing to take dramatic measures to ensure that this is not revealed...
...with the program, they said, or get out of the way. When first released, the songs were No. 1 R&B winners (Soul Man hit No. 2 on the pop charts), and they never did lose their power. In 1980 the sham-soul duo the Blues Brothers, a.k.a. Dan Aykroyd and John Belushi, took Soul Man to No. 14. Those Hayes-and-Porter/Sam-&-Dave collaborations remain anthems for any guy who's had too many beers or is surrendering to the priapic imperative...