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Dan Aykroyd: John Belushi
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Dan Aykroyd is a dedicated Blues fan. For some time he hosted a radio program. He used the alias Elwood Blues. This alias he would later use in the motion pictures The Blues Brothers and Blues Brothers 2000. The first of these movies was co-starred by John Belushi, the second one by John Goodman.
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Daniel Edward "Dan" Aykroyd, CM (born July 1, 1952) is an Academy Award-nominated and Emmy Award-winning Canadian-American comedian, actor, screenwriter, musician, and ufologist. He was an original cast member of Saturday Night Live, an originator of the Blues Brothers (with John Belushi), and has had a long career as a film actor and screenwriter.
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Dan Aykroyd and John Belushi perform the song in the film The Blues Brothers. Introduced by Cab Calloway in this clip, the song was ... included on their Definitive Collection album. via MilkandCookies
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Jim Belushi and Dan Aykroyd can be seen performing their HAVE LOVE WILL TRAVEL REVUE at select famous venues this summer. Mr. Belushi will be adopting the persona of Full Daddy Diamond and Mr. Aykroyd, Bad Daddy Sweet or The World Famous Dancing Refrigerators: Amana Avocado and Amana Plum respectively.
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Aykroyd left Carleton a few years later, moving to Toronto, where he formed a comedy duo with Valerie Bromfield. He landed local TV jobs; first as an actor, writer, and producer for a series of comedy shorts called “Change for a Quarter;†and as co-writer and co-star of the kids show “Coming Up Rosie,†whose fellow castmates included John Candy. In 1972, Aykroyd auditioned and was accepted into the famed Second City comedy troupe, a newly formed Toronto offshoot of the successful Chicago theater. He performed with Second City for two years while working as a TV announcer and managing a nightclub, where he first met future co-star and soulmate, John Belushi. The two clicked instantly, and while hanging out one night, Aykroyd put on a blues record that began Belushi’s eventual transformation from a metalhead to a diehard Delta fan. In 1974, Aykroyd joined the Second City company in Chicago, where he earned a reputation for his dead-on impressions – most memorably, one of Richard Nixon as a car salesman.
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RUDY Giuliani was upstaged by Dan Aykroyd at Saturday night's celebration of Jay McInerney's marriage to Anne Hearst. The former mayor, who performed the wedding 10 days earlier, spoke eloquently about love, with a nod to his wife, Judith. But Aykroyd had a four-piece blues band backing him up, and got the 100 guests dancing in a tent behind the Hearst heiress' magnificent mansion. The shingled house includes marble mantlepieces and other fixtures originally bought in Europe for Hearst castle San Simeon and stored in a Bronx warehouse for nearly 100 years. Architect Peter Cook built the house, but wasn't at the party; his estranged wife, Christie Brinkley, was, looking slinky in black satin pants. Well-wishers included Jay's three brothers, Anne's two sisters, the couple's four kids, Jay's ex-wife Helen Bransford, Rick and Kathy Hilton, Mary and Robert Kennedy Jr., Kerry Kennedy, Candace Bushnell, Nicole Miller, Hamptons magazine founder Randy Schindler, Karen Duffy and John Lambros, Earle and Carol Mack, and Stephen and Kimberley Rockefeller.
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