Dan Aykroyd blows in at 56
06/30/08 10:19 PM
By ED BARK
Charter Saturday Night Live cast member Dan Aykroyd skids to the 56-year mark on Tuesday, July 1st.
His persona in effect was cut in half when mate John Belushi died of a drug overdose on March 5, 1982, just two years after they released The Blues Brothers movie.
Aykroyd has persevered, opening a string of House of Blues clubs, nabbing an Oscar nomination for 1989's Driving Miss Daisy and starring as Episcopal minister Mike Weber in the sub-dreadful 1997 ABC sitcom Soul Man.
But of course we'd rather remember The Blues Brothers, birthed on SNL and well-served in a big-screen feature that included performances by Aretha Franklin and late greats James Brown, Ray Charles and Cab Calloway.
Here's the very well preserved trailer for the film. It's almost four-and-half-minutes long, but in a sense you get the whole movie. And there's never a dull moment as we build to Aykroyd's Elwood Blues being asked, "Are you the police?"
"No, ma'am. We're musicians."
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