Dan Aykroyd, Still Full of the ‘Blues’

Sunday, August 14th, 2005

The other day, I caught the tail end of an NPR “Fresh Air” interview, and I couldn’t immediately tell who was being interviewed, but he mentioned dealing with Tourette’s and Asperger’s (which he pronounced Asperjer’s). When Terry Gross mentioned that he co-wrote The Blues Brothers, it dawned on me that she was interviewing Dan Aykroyd:

After soaring to fame with Saturday Night Live, Dan Aykroyd built a solid film career. But he’s still capitalizing on his early hit, The Blues Brothers (now available in a 25th-anniversary DVD).

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