Steve Cropper is still going strong at 83 years old. He reports that he enjoyed HBO's recent Stax Records docuseries, and has an unfinished instrumentals album in the can. He hasn't time for regrets, only dreams, but the name of the one person Cropper wishes he had wor...
“And I thought, I’ll devise a system to trap ghosts . . . and marry it to the old ghost [films] of the 1930s,” Aykroyd says. “Virtually every comedy team did a ghost movie—Abbott and Costello, Bob Hope. I was a big fan of [them.]” He began hammering out a screenplay....
Cropper reportedly hated the sound and feel of new guitar strings — something, he says, is no longer the case in old age — and in a lip-smacking good tidbit of studio lore, explained how he managed his unique sound. "I carry a thing o...
Steve Cropper is still going strong at 83 years old. He reports that he enjoyed HBO's recent Stax Records docuseries, and has an unfinished instrumentals album in the can. He hasn't time for regrets, only dreams, but the name of the one person Cropper wishes he had worked...
As cast member Garrett Morris, dressed in drag, cleans up the mess, President Jimmy Carter (played by Dan Aykroyd) comes in to assess the damage. Meanwhile, Richard Benjamin talks to the press and says there's no need to worry, and Rodney Dangerfield tells Rosalynn Carter (Laraine Newman...
The debut episode starred the seven Not Ready for Prime Time Players— Gilda Radner, John Belushi, Dan Aykroyd, Garrett Morris, Chevy Chase, and Laraine Newman — and included memorable moments such as Andy Kaufman lip-synching the Mighty Mouse theme, and Chevy Chase as the first "Weekend Upd...
In the heart of the 1970s, a 12-year-old genius named Felonius Gru is growing up in the suburbs. A fanboy of a super villain group known as the Vicious 6, Gru hatches a plan to become evil enough to join them. After the Vicious 6 fire their leader, Gru interviews to become...
Only a couple of years after "SNL" debuted in 1975, Steve Martin and Dan Aykroyd introduced audiences to the Festrunk brothers from Czechoslovakia. Discussing how American ladies sway and how easy it is for them to pick up chicks, Martin delivers the classic line, "We are two wild and cra...
I didn’t show anything to Jason, Ivan, or anybody else until we had a realistic copy of the ’84 Egon. We took a scene from the movie with Dan Aykroyd and replaced that Egon with our version. We put it in black-and-white and I called Jason and Ivan into the office, and played...
Dan Aykroydfound himself stunned almost into silence. Comedians by trade, he andJohn Belushioriginally developed the Blues Brothers persona as nothing more than a skit onSaturday Night Live. Suddenly, they had created a sunglasses-wearing cottage industry. ...