“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....
However, the woman who broke barriers and created boundary-pushing music believes the most controversial thing she has done is stick around when the music industry would otherwise consider her too old. Madonna hopes to help empower other women to ...
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...
The ninth installment in the "Fast and Furious" franchise arrives on May 28. In this film, Dominic Toretto (Vin Diesel) and his family must face Dominic's younger brother Jakob (John Cena), who is working with their old enemy Cipher (Charlize Theron). Michelle Rodriguez, Tyrese Gibs...
The '80s belonged to Bill Murray, as the formerSNLcast member starred in some of the biggest comedies of the era. None was bigger thanGhostbusters, which premiered on June 8, 1984. Alongside such fellow legends as Dan Aykroyd, Rick Moranis, Harold Ramis and Sigourney Weaver, Murray brought...
The '80s belonged to Bill Murray, as the formerSNLcast member starred in some of the biggest comedies of the era. None was bigger thanGhostbusters, which premiered on June 8, 1984. Alongside such fellow legends as Dan Aykroyd, Rick Moranis, Harold Ramis and Sigourney Weaver, Murray brought...
"Only Yesterday," an animated Japanese film, focuses on a 27-year-old woman as she reminisces about her childhood. The film was based ona series of comicsabout the woman in the film as a young girl.Writing for The Guardian, Peter Bradshaw noted, "The frankness with which Takahata evokes ...
When Dan Aykroyd chucked fish in a blender for his famous Bass-o-Matic sketch on SNL, it was straight out of Python's spoof commercials. When John Oliver sets up an oblivious interviewee on "The Daily Show," it's the same straight-faced political absurdism that makes up so many famous...
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...
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...