Word: belushi
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...audience has no one to root for, and the stars have few chances to make a strong impression. Often the frothiest bits, such as the doubleentendre courtship of a secretary (Nancy Allen) and a young soldier (Tim Matheson), are suffocated by John Williams' excessive musical score. Only Belushi upstages the chaos around him, and even his repertoire of eating and belching jokes seems strained when separated from the scruffy, modest context of Animal House...
...volume and speak their lines yourself. In addition to the two romantic leads (Larry Breeding and Stephanie Faracy), the kids include one fat social retard, one bookish wimp and one wealthy, lock-jawed Wasp. For added measure the writers have stirred in a cook who re-enacts John Belushi's samurai routine and a maitre d' who resembles Danny De Vito's dispatcher from Taxi. Everyone yells a lot, usually about food and sex. Adults who sample this show may quickly tune it out to seek some food or sex of their...
...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's missing...
E.D.T.) Laverne herself (Penny Marshall, that is) directed the first episode of this male Laverne & Shirley ripoff. It stars Jim Belushi (John's brother) and Michael Keaton as janitors who go to work for their uncle in a Chicago office building. Both actors appeared in quick flops last season (Who's Watching the Kids?, The Mary Tyler Moore Hour), but Working Stiffs could be their fastest cancellation yet. There are only so many jokes to be made about moving furniture, and none of them is funny...
...with no clear purpose other than to provide something for the town to brag about besides the Mississippi River. Today, it seems that every place is willing to suffer almost anything to get its picture on television or into films. Chicago, merely to smuggle itself into a new John Belushi movie, has just authorized the film company to tie up vital traffic along Lake Michigan for hours and send a car crashing through the enormous windows of the Daley Center Building...