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...Video). Not the New Dan Aykroyd (the charismaless costar of such films as Ghostbusters and Spies Like Us), but the Old Dan Aykroyd, creator of Papa Conehead, E. Buzz Miller and dozens of other satirical gems on Saturday Night Live. A fitting tribute to the most inventive of the SNL originals...
...denied; an entire generation of college students has received much of its pop-cultural indoctrination from Animal House and such Saturday Night Live gang spinoffs as Trading Places. Landis' most successful work has come from his association with the late John Belushi, Dan Aykroyd, Eddie Murphy and other SNL types. The Landis picture screened before the seminar, An American Werewolf in London, is a comedy-horror riot, simply plotted and masterfully executed, and laced with the kind of suburb-smart dialogue that engenders instant identification, from Great Neck, N.Y., to Encino, Calif...
...more ambiguous ending. Still, Landis' Twilight Zone prologue, with Aykroyd and Albert Brooks driving along a deserted road, is a wonderfully effective piece of American Werewolf-like comedy-horror. Likewise, his other pictures have often been flawed but given a sense of anarchistic earnestness that, like the many misfiring SNL sketches, earns an audience's indulgence. If only there were a point to the continuous car crashes in The Blues Brothers or the kilotons of carrion in American Werewolf...
...pace or a change of face, but Eddie Murphy, 23, is one of the few to try a change of race. Appearing as host on his old show, Saturday Night Live, last week, the chameleonic comedian went Caucasian in a four-minute film. For viewers who missed it, SNL Executive Producer Dick Ebersol explains, "He gets on a city bus, and there's one black man on it. The instant the black man gets off and it's just white people, they pull out music and cards and have parties." Murphy also performed in a sketch called "Milestones...
...week. When some in the black community thought the comedy show a demeaning forum, Jackson acknowledged that he had "wrestled with appearing," but decided that the chance to reach a young, activist audience was too good to pass up. During rehearsals, Regular Billy Crystal told Jackson he could replace SNL Departee Eddie Murphy if he did well. "I'd rather debate Reagan," said the Democrat, who nonetheless pointed out that the now lily-white cast "is hardly a rainbow coalition...