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[1] It is featured in the 1980s original Blues Brothers musical comedy film directed by John Landis and starring John Belushi and Dan Aykroyd. It is mentioned in 1997 Chicago Tribune column "Advice, like youth, probably just wasted on the young" [2] by Mary Schmich, and in 1999 was made into a well-known song by Baz Luhrmann titled "Wear ...
A Dan Aykroyd and Steve Martin sketch. The Festrunks, Yortuk (Aykroyd) and Georg (Martin), were two brothers who had emigrated from Czechoslovakia to the United States. . Culturally inept, they went to various social hangouts (bars, art exhibits, dance clubs) in an attempt to connect with attractive American women ("
The Blues Brothers is a 1980 American musical action comedy film directed by John Landis. [4] It stars John Belushi as "Joliet" Jake Blues and Dan Aykroyd as his brother Elwood, characters developed from the recurring musical sketch "The Blues Brothers" on NBC's variety series Saturday Night Live.
The documentary traces their appearances on “SNL” and their breakthrough album “Briefcase Full of Blues” to the 1980 movie and its hit soundtrack, the death of Belushi and Aykroyd’s ...
The Festrunk Brothers (Wild and Crazy Guys) (Dan Aykroyd, Steve Martin) – September 24, 1977; The Franken and Davis Show (Al Franken, Tom Davis) – September 24, 1977; The Ex-Police (Dan Aykroyd, Bill Murray) – October 15, 1977; Judy Miller (Gilda Radner) – October 29, 1977; Roseanne Roseannadanna (Gilda Radner) – January 21, 1978
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The show's producers were Select Productions, Radio City, and House of Blues. [1] [2]The show's sponsor was Oscar Mayer. [2]While practicing for the show, stuntwoman Laura "Dinky" Patterson, one of a 16-member professional bungee jumping team, jumped from the 152-foot high temporary show truss hung from the roof.
Aykroyd writes and narrates the Audible Original “Blues Brothers: The Arc of Gratitude,” which starts with him meeting Belushi one freezing night in Toronto in 1973 and takes us to today, with gigs still lining up. The documentary drops Thursday. “It’s cool to keep doing it after 40-some years,” Aykroyd says from his summer home in ...