Aykroyd's musical career was initially developed in Ottawa, particularly through his regular attendances at Le Hibou, a club that featured many blues artists.

( Director Steven Spielberg received the brunt of the criticism, but Aykroyd's performance as an Army Sergeant was either played straight or completely manic.

Aykroyd's directorial debut was 1991's Nothing but Trouble.

He was briefly a minor partner in a restaurant called Aykroyd's Ghetto House Café on upper Princess Street during the 1990s which prominently featured a Blues Brothers ' car projecting out from the second story wall.

The concept was inspired by Aykroyd's own fascination with the paranormal and it was conceived as a vehicle for himself and friend John Belushi, fellow Saturday Night Live alumnus.

When not grilling guests, Snyder would often joke around with offstage crewmen, often breaking out in the distinctively hearty laugh that was the basis of Dan Aykroyd's impersonation of Snyder on Saturday Night Live ( 12 occasions, 1976 – 1979 and 1995 ).

While Aykroyd's impersonations marked successful efforts to bring well-known political figures to life on the show, the only other well-remembered political impersonation from SNL's 1970s period ( or any other period before the 1986-1987 season ) was Chevy Chase's slapstick parody of President Gerald Ford.

Musselwhite was reportedly the inspiration for Dan Aykroyd's character in the Blues Brothers.

Aykroyd pitched his story to director / producer Ivan Reitman, who liked the basic idea but immediately saw the budgetary impossibilities demanded by Aykroyd's first draft.

The chaos of the events following Pearl Harbor attack in 1941 is summarized by Dan Aykroyd's character, Sgt.

Eric Idle, of Monty Python, once said that Aykroyd's ability to write and act out characters flawlessly made him the only member of the SNL cast capable of being a Python.

Peter appears dressed as Beldar from the Coneheads, another of Aykroyd's SNL characters from that era.

In 1979, Sam & Dave enjoyed a significant resurgence of interest as a result of Dan Aykroyd's and John Belushi's sketch characters The Blues Brothers, and the comic actors ' 1979 top 40 cover of " Soul Man.

In a well-known sketch on Saturday Night Live, he provided the voice calling into an interview with Dan Aykroyd's Jimmy Carter as the youngster that Jimmy Carter talked down from a bum trip.

Aykroyd's great-grandfather, Samuel Augustus Aykroyd ( 1855 – 1933 ), a dentist, had been a mystic and had been involved in Spiritualism.

Aykroyd's recollection is also asserted to be faulty as to who actually played at Le Hibou.

During this time, Cropper along with producing partner and Cherokee owner Bruce Robb worked on a number of music projects with the two comedian / musicians, including Belushi's favourite band Fear and later Aykroyd's movie Dragnet.

Ghostbusters became a huge success for Aykroyd as a co-creator, co-writer, and one of the lead actors ; the film's inspiration came from Aykroyd's fascination with parapsychology.

In the 2000s, Aykroyd's film appearances have tended to be small character parts in big-budget productions, such as a signals analyst in Pearl Harbor and a neurologist in 50 First Dates.

In 2009, Aykroyd contributed a series of reminiscences on his upbringing in Canada for a charity album titled Dan Aykroyd's Canada.

Dan Aykroyd's star on Canada's Walk of Fame.

" CSICOP did this in response to Aykroyd's program Psi Factor.

In the 1980s, he won three consecutive British Academy of Film and Television Arts ( BAFTA ) awards – Best Supporting Actor for Trading Places as Dan Aykroyd's kindly butler, A Private Function, and Defence of the Realm – as well as an Academy Award nomination for A Room with a View.

In addition to Aykroyd's high-concept basic premise, and Ramis ' skill at grounding the fantastic elements with a realistic setting, the film benefits from Bill Murray's semi-improvisational performance as Peter Venkman, the character initially intended for Belushi.

While admitting Aykroyd's success in demonstrating " perfect prissiness as Winthorpe ", Schickel commented on Murphy's performance as Valentine calling Murphy " a force to be reckoned with " and stating that he " makes Trading Places something more than a good-hearted comedy.

Some notable cast members in the film include one of Bill Murray's siblings, Brian Doyle-Murray, who played the psychiatric doctor, Dan Aykroyd's niece, Karen Humber, who played one of the school children, and Ben Stein, who played a public works official for the mayor.

He was soon seen as the ideal model by those disliking the excesses of Mannerism: the opinion ... was generally held in the middle of the sixteenth century that Raphael was the ideal balanced painter, universal in his talent, satisfying all the absolute standards, and obeying all the rules which were supposed to govern the arts, whereas Michelangelo was the eccentric genius, more brilliant than any other artists in his particular field, the drawing of the male nude, but unbalanced and lacking in certain qualities, such as grace and restraint, essential to the great artist.

Many poets, artists, environmentalists and numerous eccentric characters reside in Katoomba ( and the Blue Mountains, generally ) and the town hosts the well-patronised Winter Solstice festival, Winter Magic, that features local talent, art and handicraft.

Initially, Levitation received a lot of publicity from the music press because of Terry Bickers ' reputation as an eccentric talent, and his fondness of various conspiracy theories.

He showed a talent for detailed drawing and mechanical invention made him study architecture under the gifted but eccentric Augustus Pugin.

It is said that the eccentric Timothy Dexter, who was one of the first share-holders, stood on the table and made a speech worthy of the occasion.

In An Autobiography Christie admits, " I was still writing in the Sherlock Holmes tradition – eccentric detective, stooge assistant, with a Lestrade-type Scotland Yard detective, Inspector Japp ".

Though the only accounts of his lectures seem to show a sort of eccentric style and approach, he was said to have been good friends with many other masters at the school in Paris, and taught there, as well as some time in southern France, into his old age.

Its orbit around the planet was highly eccentric ( e = 0. 9986 ).

He was the Hearst newspapers ' baseball columnist for many years, beginning in 1911, and his knack for spotting the eccentric and the unusual, on the field or in the stands, is credited with revolutionizing the way baseball was covered.

An eccentric, Satie was introduced as a " gymnopedist " in 1887, shortly before writing his most famous compositions, the.

Although he was an eccentric man, learned in the ways of science, physics, and astrology, he loved his people.

Two particular examples are Lillian, an eccentric ( and very nearsighted ) old lady with odd quirks, and Greta, a muscle bound woman who was hired to look after the pets during New Years.

In the early 1860s, when the United States Congress was considering organizing a new territory in the Rocky Mountains, eccentric lobbyist George M. Willing suggested the name " Idaho ," which he claimed was derived from a Shoshone language term meaning " the sun comes from the mountains " or " gem of the mountains ".

Another B-movie influence from his childhood was Ghoulardi, an eccentric Cleveland television show which featured horror films.

Bowersock in particular ), Julian's paganism was highly eccentric and atypical because it was heavily influenced by an esoteric approach to Platonic philosophy sometimes identified as theurgy and also Neoplatonism.

Led by the eccentric, reclusive and brilliant Arthur Lee, the Los Angeles quintet was not as optimistically Aquarian as its name suggests.

Sterne continued his comic novel, but every sentence, he said, was “ written under the greatest heaviness of heart .” In this mood, he softened the satire and recounted details of Tristram's opinions, eccentric family and ill-fated childhood with a sympathetic humour, sometimes hilarious, sometimes sweetly melancholic — a comedy skirting tragedy.

She was perhaps best known for her film roles such as Minnie Castevet, Rosemary's overly solicitous neighbor in Rosemary's Baby, as the eccentric Maude in Harold and Maude and as the mother of Orville Boggs in the Clint Eastwood film Every Which Way but Loose.

Several years younger than most of his classmates, he was viewed as eccentric and arrogant, and he often expressed dissatisfaction with much of the education, which he found boring.

His friend Johnny Depp, a teen idol at the end of the 1980s due primarily to his work on the hit TV series 21 Jump Street, was cast in the title role of Edward, who was the creation of an eccentric and old-fashioned inventor ( played by Vincent Price in one of his last screen appearances ).

The White House remained accessible in other ways ; President Abraham Lincoln complained that he was constantly beleaguered by job seekers waiting to ask him for political appointments or other favors, or eccentric dispensers of advice like “ General ” Daniel Pratt, as he began the business day.

But these eccentric spies made Robertson aware that handling double agents was going to be a difficult task.

Privately, he was highly eccentric with his preference for communing with spirits, including those of Leonardo da Vinci, Sir Wilfrid Laurier, his dead mother, and several of his Irish Terrier dogs, all named Pat except for one named Bob.

The Zohar is mostly written in what has been described as an exalted, eccentric style of Aramaic, which was the day-to-day language of Israel in the Second Temple period ( 539 BCE – 70 CE ), was the original language of large sections of the biblical books of Daniel and Ezra, and is the main language of the Talmud.