While we previously mentioned entitlement coming with hyphenated names, the same rule is in effect for second or third generation names. Enter Louis Winthorpe III (Dan Aykroyd), the snooty privileged stock trader who gets framed by his bosses on a bet to see if he’ll change his ways when ...
In the heartwarming drama My Girl, precocious 11-year-old Vada Sultenfuss (Anna Chlumsky) navigates the trials of adolescence in 1972 Pennsylvania. Living with her widowed mortician father, Harry (Dan Aykroyd), Vada's world is colored by death and grief. Her best friend, the sweetly allergic...
he says today. “i got to work with the people who’d eventually become the new comedic voices of english language comedy.” aykroyd presented the script to reitman; the two had worked together in a toronto-based live-television variety show years earlier. “it was a screenplay that was ...
many of whom made successful screen debuts during the decade and are still active today. The old guard was still around, too, creating characters with more depth and nuance
A 24-year-old Tom Cruise starred in "Top Gun" as hotheaded fighter pilot Maverick, who quickly butts heads with the more experienced Iceman (Val Kilmer). Remembered for its impressive stunt work, the movie also has an iconic soundtrack featuring "Take My Breath Away," which won the Academy...
A 24-year-old Tom Cruise starred in "Top Gun" as hotheaded fighter pilot Maverick, who quickly butts heads with the more experienced Iceman (Val Kilmer). Remembered for its impressive stunt work, the movie also has an iconic soundtrack featuring "Take My Breath Away," which won the Academy...
As 1982 ended, Louis Winthorpe (Dan Aykroyd) and Billy Ray Valentine (Eddie Murphy) had already discovered that they’d been pawns in a complicated life-swapping bet made by wealthy commodities brokerage firm owners Randolph and Mortimer Duke. In an effort to get back at the greedy Dukes, Wi...
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...
As 1982 ended, Louis Winthorpe (Dan Aykroyd) and Billy Ray Valentine (Eddie Murphy) had already discovered that they’d been pawns in a complicated life-swapping bet made by wealthy commodities brokerage firm owners Randolph and Mortimer Duke. In an effort to get back at the greedy Dukes, Wi...
Dan Aykroyd Lisa Maree Williams/Getty Images Dan Aykroyd When you think longtime Patriots fans you've got to think of Dan Aykroyd. Even before Brady was on the team, Aykroyd was rubbing elbows with QB Drew Bledsoe and even performed with the Blues Brothers during the halftime show on...