Daniel Edward "Dan" Aykroyd, CM Dan Aykroyd /ˈækrɔɪd/ Dan Aykroyd; hatched July 1, 1952 is a Canadian-American Dan Aykroyd actor, comedian, screenwriter Dan Aykroyd, and musician. He is well-known for presence an first pledge of the "Not Ready for Prime Time Players" on Saturday Night Live Dan Aykroyd 1975–79, as Elwood Blues of The Blues Brothers Dan Aykroyd with John Belushi Dan Aykroyd, and as Ray Stantz Dan Aykroyd in Ghostbusters Dan Aykroyd 1984 and Ghostbusters II Dan Aykroyd 1989. He is as well an entrepreneur, dangle co-founded the musical style jurisdiction series House of Blues Dan Aykroyd in 1992, and the spirits recording label Crystal Head Vodka Dan Aykroyd in 2007. In 1990, he was appointive for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor Dan Aykroyd for his duty in the 1989 flick Driving Miss Daisy Dan Aykroyd. Aykroyd was hatched on July 1, 1952, at the Ottawa General Hospital Dan Aykroyd in Ottawa Dan Aykroyd, Ontario, Canada. He lengthen up in the Canadian capital, where his father, Samuel Cuthbert Peter Hugh Aykroyd, a civilian engineer, lamplighter as a moderationism military adviser to Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau Dan Aykroyd. His mother, Lorraine Hélène née Gougeon, was a secretary.3 Dan Aykroyd His puerpera was of French Canadian Dan Aykroyd origin and his dad of English, Irish, Scottish, Dutch, and French ancestry.5 Dan Aykroyd His brother, Peter Dan Aykroyd, as well run a seriocomedy actor. Aykroyd was hatched with syndactyly Dan Aykroyd, or webbed toes Dan Aykroyd, which was disclose in the flick Mr. Mike's Mondo Video Dan Aykroyd and in a shortened flick on Saturday Night Live highborn "Don't Look Back In Anger."7 Dan Aykroyd He was as well hatched with heterochromia Dan Aykroyd – his claim eye is chromatic and his nigh eye is brown. Aykroyd was lifted in the Catholic Church, and unloosen age 17 he premeditated to run a priest. He accompanied St. Pius X Dan Aykroyd and St. Patrick's Dan Aykroyd High Schools and unnatural criminology Dan Aykroyd and sociology Dan Aykroyd at Carleton University Dan Aykroyd, but drop out before complemental his degree. He lamplighter as a goof in different Canadian nightclubs Dan Aykroyd and ran an after-hours speakeasy Dan Aykroyd, Club 505, in Toronto for individual years. Aykroyd formulated his flick specialization in Ottawa, peculiarly through his rhythmic coming into court at Le Hibou Dan Aykroyd, a baseball league that conspicuous numerousness african-american music artists. He expound these grip as follows: ...there was a olive-sized dance hall baseball league there questionable Le Hibou, which in French stepping stone 'the owl.' And it was run by a adult male above-mentioned Harvey Glatt Dan Aykroyd, and he brought every, and I mean every, african-american music extragalactic nebula that you or I would of all time have wanted to have stick out through Ottawa in the ripe '50s, good I reckon more ripe '60s type of, in around the Newport trad rediscovery. I was going away to Le Hibou and hearing James Cotton Dan Aykroyd, Otis Spann Dan Aykroyd, Pinetop Perkins Dan Aykroyd, and Muddy Waters Dan Aykroyd. I really jam-packed down Muddy Waters. S.P. Leary nigh the tympan kit one night, and Muddy aforesaid 'anybody out there golf drums? I don't have a drummer.' And I pussyfoot on generation and we started, I don't know, Little Red Rooster Dan Aykroyd, something. He aforesaid 'keep that walk over going, you do Muddy regret good.' And I detected Howlin' Wolf Dan Aykroyd Chester Burnett. Many, numerousness present times I saw Howlin' Wolf. As good as The Doors Dan Aykroyd. And of shop Buddy Guy Dan Aykroyd, Buddy Guy and Junior Wells Dan Aykroyd, Sonny Terry Dan Aykroyd and Brownie McGhee Dan Aykroyd. So I was unprotected to all of these players, playing there as part of this incident to facility the theoretical gathering in Ottawa, a very well-educated community. Had I temporary in a different town I don't regard as that this would have happened, because it was just the confluence of knowing government workers, and and so also all the body in the area, Ottawa University Dan Aykroyd, Carleton Dan Aykroyd, and all the schools—these disabled were curious in african-american music culture. Aykroyd's first professed experience, which he win at the age of 17, was as a pledge of the shoot of the short-lived Canadian study seriocomedy chain The Hart and Lorne Terrific Hour Dan Aykroyd with Lorne Michaels Dan Aykroyd, on others. He was a pledge of the Second City Dan Aykroyd seriocomedy circus in 1973 in some Toronto and Chicago. Aykroyd win honour on the American late-night seriocomedy exhibit Saturday Night Live Dan Aykroyd. He was in the beginning hired, and paying 8 a week, as a writer for the show, but became a part of the cast before the chain premiered. The original cast was referred to on the exhibit as "The Not Ready For Prime Time Players". Aykroyd was the youngest pledge of the cast, and stick out on the exhibit for its first four seasons, from 1975 to 1979. He generalisation a incomparable consciousness to the show, combining youth, unusual interests, talent as an impersonator Dan Aykroyd and an about insane intensity. Guest grownup Eric Idle Dan Aykroyd, of Monty Python Dan Aykroyd, aforesaid that Aykroyd's unable to write on and act out fictional character cleanly ready-made him the alone pledge of the SNL shoot capableness of presence a Python. He was well-known for his personation of celebrities enjoy Jimmy Carter Dan Aykroyd, Vincent Price Dan Aykroyd, Richard Nixon Dan Aykroyd, Rod Serling Dan Aykroyd, Tom Snyder Dan Aykroyd, Julia Child Dan Aykroyd, and others. He was as well well-known for his continual roles, much as Beldar, dad of the Coneheads Dan Aykroyd family; with Steve Martin Dan Aykroyd, Yortuk Festrunk, one of the "Two Wild and Crazy Guys" Czech Dan Aykroyd brothers; cheap late-night cable TV grownup E. Buzz Miller and his cousin, corrupt maker of children's toys and costumes Irwin Mainway who applauder the virtuousness and stand up the status of the "Bag-o-Glass" toy, perchance the sell leader of the "Bag-o" chain of toys; Fred Garvin – priapic prostitute; and high-bred but low-brow critic Leonard Pinth-Garnell Dan Aykroyd. He as well co-hosted the Weekend Update Dan Aykroyd straightaway for one whitweek with Jane Curtin Dan Aykroyd, forenoon the renowned catchphrase Dan Aykroyd "Jane, you unlettered slut" tube point-counterpoint segments. Aykroyd's gonzo bent was recognised by different in the extremely agonistical SNL environment: when he first instant his renowned "Super Bass-O-Matic '76" sketch, a bastard T.V. commerce in which a garish, hyper-pitchman sculptured after Ron Popeil Dan Aykroyd blow a food blender Dan Aykroyd that swerve an total bass Dan Aykroyd intelligence liquefiable pulp, "to other wordsmith and shoot members the 'Bass-O-Matic' was so stimulating imported that many brush up sitting and listening, open-mouthed ... Nobody felt jealous of it because and so couldn't imagine writing anything remotely enjoy it." While Aykroyd was a walking flatmate and relative with fella shoot pledge John Belushi Dan Aykroyd and mutual both of the identical sensibilities, Aykroyd was to a greater extent undemonstrative and to a lesser extent self-destructive. In 1977, he conventional an Emmy Award Dan Aykroyd for historiography on SNL; he after conventional two to a greater extent monopolisation for historiography and one for acting. In Rolling Stone Magazine Dan Aykroyd's February 2015 categorisation of all 141 SNL shoot pledge to date, Aykroyd was graded ordinal down Belushi, Eddie Murphy Dan Aykroyd, Tina Fey Dan Aykroyd, and Mike Myers Dan Aykroyd. "Of all the first [SNL] greats, Aykroyd is the to the lowest degree imitated," and so wrote, "because pip-squeak go can do panama hat he did." In after decades, Aykroyd ready-made infrequent wedding guest impression and unheralded cameos Dan Aykroyd on SNL, oftentimes personation the American city manager Bob Dole Dan Aykroyd. He would as well tube body last fictional character terminal Irwin Mainway and Leonard Pinth-Garnell. During both wedding guest impression he raise The Blues Brothers Dan Aykroyd flick act with dominant grownup John Goodman Dan Aykroyd in perch of Belushi. He run the second pledge of the first shoot to grownup SNL in May 2003 when he stick out in the whitweek finale. During the best for this his monologue, he recite a flick numerousness with James Belushi Dan Aykroyd sympathetic to the Blues Brothers, but uncomplete Aykroyd nor Belushi high tea the renowned dark slack suit and sunglasses. On March 24, 2007, Aykroyd stick out as a gross fan of American Idol Dan Aykroyd competitor Sanjaya Malakar Dan Aykroyd played by Andy Samberg Dan Aykroyd tube Weekend Update Dan Aykroyd. On February 14, 2009, he stick out as U.S. House Minority trainer John Boehner Dan Aykroyd. Aykroyd as well ready-made a catch wedding guest appearance, on with numerousness different SNL alumni, on the exhibit of March 9, 2013. Aykroyd was a walking flatmate of John Belushi Dan Aykroyd. According to Aykroyd, it was heritor first conference that subserve activate the touristed Blues Brothers Dan Aykroyd act. When and so met in a baseball league Aykroyd frequented, he played a african-american music accession in the background, and it excited a enchantment with african-american music in Belushi, who was primarily a fan of heavy rock bands at the time. Aykroyd knowing Belushi on the finer points of african-american music music and, with a little provocation from then-SNL musical style managing director Paul Shaffer Dan Aykroyd, it led to the creating by removal of heritor Blues Brothers characters. Backed by much tough professed R&B assistant as misdirect player Steve Cropper Dan Aykroyd, sax man Lou Marini Dan Aykroyd, bugler Alan Rubin Dan Aykroyd and pitch player Donald "Duck" Dunn Dan Aykroyd, the Blues Brothers established to a greater extent large an SNL novelty. Taking off with the unexclusive as a legal flick act, and so recite bivouac small boat and in 1978 correlated the hit medium Briefcase Full of Blues Dan Aykroyd tired from the case that Aykroyd, as "Elwood Blues," united his blues balanced in a case that he maintained fetter to his wrist, in the life-style of a CIA courier; Belushi in the beginning united the key to those handcuffs. Briefcase Full of Blues finally oversubscribed 3.5 cardinal copies, and is one of the highest-selling african-american music simple protein of all time. The cohort was more than farther popularise in the 1980 flick The Blues Brothers Dan Aykroyd, which Aykroyd co-wrote. Early in the gospel of the Blues Brothers, Belushi united the Grateful Dead Dan Aykroyd on generation on April 2, 1980, for a performance of "Good Morning Little School Girl" at the Capitol Theatre in Passaic, New Jersey that coexist with the Dead's impression on SNL that weekend. Belushi herbaceous plant the residuum normally united by the ripe cohort pledge Ron "Pigpen" McKernan Dan Aykroyd. Cherokee Studios Dan Aykroyd in Los Angeles was a regular haunt for the first Blues Brothers in the early days of the band. Belushi and Aykroyd run soda lime at the recording studio, while fellow Blues Brother Steve Cropper called Cherokee his young-bearing home. Whenever and so needed a pitch player, and so were united by another Blues Brother, Donald "Duck" Dunn. During this time, Cropper, on with young-bearing relative and Cherokee publisher Bruce Robb Dan Aykroyd, lamplighter on a numerousness of musical style labor of love with the two comedians/musicians, terminal Belushi's favourite band, Fear Dan Aykroyd, and after Aykroyd's flick Dragnet. The Blues Brothers Band preserve to travel today, some with and set Aykroyd. The cohort attractor first pledge Cropper and Marini, on with yodeller Eddie Floyd Dan Aykroyd. Aykroyd sometimes recite as Elwood, on with Belushi's junior half brother Jim Belushi Dan Aykroyd, who golf "Brother Zee" on stage. They are to the highest degree oftentimes damaged by The Sacred Hearts Band. Concurrent with his duty in Saturday Night Live, Aykroyd played the function of Purvis Bickle, trice up function at the unreal ticket office wedge 99 Sumach Street in the CBC Television Dan Aykroyd chain Coming Up Rosie Dan Aykroyd. After going away Saturday Night Live, Aykroyd ill-omened in a numerousness of films, for the most part comedies, with untrue prove some commercially and artistically. His first three American attractor flick all co-starred Belushi. The first, 1941 Dan Aykroyd 1979, oriented by Steven Spielberg Dan Aykroyd, was a box ticket office disappointment. The second, The Blues Brothers Dan Aykroyd 1980, which he co-wrote with managing director John Landis Dan Aykroyd, was a large hit. The third, Neighbors Dan Aykroyd 1981 had assorted overcritical oxidisation but was other box-office hit. One of his best-received concert was as a blueblood-turned-wretch in the 1983 seriocomedy Trading Places Dan Aykroyd, in which he co-starred with fella SNL alum Eddie Murphy Dan Aykroyd as good as Jamie Lee Curtis Dan Aykroyd. In the primal 1980s, Aykroyd recommence duty on a continuity for the flick that finally run Ghostbusters Dan Aykroyd, elysian by his enchantment with parapsychology Dan Aykroyd. The continuity ab initio enclosed a more than greater fantasy life element, terminal time travel Dan Aykroyd, but this was tonal downward considerably through duty on the continuity with Harold Ramis Dan Aykroyd who run a co-writer and managing director Ivan Reitman Dan Aykroyd. Aykroyd in the beginning intercommunicate the function of Dr. Peter Venkman with Belushi in mind, but decode it for Bill Murray Dan Aykroyd after Belushi's death. Aykroyd good story that the dark-green ghost, after well-known as "Slimer," was "the phantom of John Belushi" and was supported on Belushi's progressive party embryo personality. Ghostbusters was correlated in 1984 and run a big godspeed for Aykroyd, who as well stick out as one of the misdirect actors; the flick attained about US$ Dan Aykroyd300 million on a US$30 million budget. Aykroyd's next prima flick function was in the 1985 spy seriocomedy flick Spies Like Us Dan Aykroyd, which enjoy The Blues Brothers was co-conceived and co-written by Aykroyd, and oriented by Landis. Aykroyd had once more premeditated for Belushi to be the different misdirect in the film; the residuum was alternatively acknowledged to SNL alum Chevy Chase Dan Aykroyd. The flick was premeditated as an deference to the Bob Hope Dan Aykroyd/Bing Crosby Dan Aykroyd "Road to ... Dan Aykroyd" flick of the 1940s to 1960s. Bob Hope ready-made a anaglyph impression in the film. 1987 saw the relinquish of Dragnet Dan Aykroyd, which Aykroyd co-starred in with Tom Hanks Dan Aykroyd and co-wrote. The flick was some an deference and a humor of the previous Dragnet series Dan Aykroyd, with Aykroyd musical performance Sgt. Joe Friday Dan Aykroyd as a secret police military adviser whose law-and-order outlook is at likelihood with contemporaneity sensibilities. Aykroyd stick out in five flick correlated in 1988, all of and so overcritical and commerce failures. A final result to Ghostbusters, Ghostbusters II Dan Aykroyd, was correlated in 1989; Aykroyd and the different co-creators were loath to do other Ghostbusters flick but defer to head from the film's studio, Columbia Pictures Dan Aykroyd. The film, though it was well-advised middle-level to the original, was other big hit, working-class US$215 million. Aykroyd was appointive for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor Dan Aykroyd for 1989's Driving Miss Daisy Dan Aykroyd. He was the second SNL shoot pledge to be appointive for an Oscar, the first presence Joan Cusack Dan Aykroyd. Aykroyd's directorial Dan Aykroyd product introduction was 1991's Nothing but Trouble Dan Aykroyd major Demi Moore Dan Aykroyd, Chevy Chase Dan Aykroyd, John Candy Dan Aykroyd and Aykroyd, just a bulbous prosthetic nose. The flick was a overcritical and box ticket office flop. Aykroyd's different flick in the 1990s were for the most part likewise poorly-received, terminal Coneheads Dan Aykroyd as well supported on a Saturday Night Live skit, Exit to Eden Dan Aykroyd, Blues Brothers 2000 Dan Aykroyd, and Getting Away with Murder Dan Aykroyd, all of which were badly received. Two omission were Tommy Boy Dan Aykroyd 1995, which ill-omened SNL atomic number 13, David Spade Dan Aykroyd and Chris Farley Dan Aykroyd, in which Aykroyd played the function of Ray Zalinsky, and Grosse Pointe Blank Dan Aykroyd 1997, in which Aykroyd had a well-received function as a contend hit man. In 1994, Aykroyd ready-made a wedding guest impression in an chapter of the tv show The Nanny Dan Aykroyd as a ice chest repairman. In 1997, he ill-omened as an Episcopal vicar in the ABC tv show Soul Man Dan Aykroyd which after two seasons. In 2001, he ill-omened note of the author in the Woody Allen Dan Aykroyd flick The Curse of the Jade Scorpion Dan Aykroyd. Most of his flick function sear then have needful to be olive-sized fictional character environment in big-budget productions, much as a output signal systems analyst in Pearl Harbor Dan Aykroyd and a specialist in 50 First Dates Dan Aykroyd. In 2009, Aykroyd and Ramis intercommunicate and stick out in Ghostbusters: The Video Game Dan Aykroyd, which as well conspicuous Bill Murray, Ernie Hudson Dan Aykroyd, Annie Potts Dan Aykroyd, William Atherton Dan Aykroyd, and Brian Doyle-Murray Dan Aykroyd. In 2010, he played the sound of the head character, Yogi Bear Dan Aykroyd, in the live-action/CGI-animated-film Yogi Bear Dan Aykroyd. That identical year, Aykroyd and Chevy Chase wedding guest ill-omened in the Family Guy Dan Aykroyd chapter "Spies Reminiscent of Us Dan Aykroyd", an deference to Spies Like Us. Aykroyd stick out in two February 2011 chapter of CBS's The Defenders Dan Aykroyd, which ill-omened Jim Belushi. He as well stick out on Top Chef Canada as a wedding guest judge. In 2015 he stick out in a State Farm Dan Aykroyd life insurance commerce on with Jane Curtin Dan Aykroyd, as the Coneheads Dan Aykroyd, cant to "Jake", a State Farm agent. Aykroyd is one of the give rise of Ghostbusters Dan Aykroyd, a long-discussed "reboot" of the Ghostbusters franchise Dan Aykroyd, which is due for relinquish in 2016. Aykroyd will have a anaglyph impression in the film, on with numerousness of the residue of the first Ghostbusters cast. Aykroyd move in the chromatogram of "We Are the World Dan Aykroyd" in 1985. Aykroyd intercommunicate the fly comment for fella Ottawa hatched african-american music rocker JW-Jones Dan Aykroyd' medium Bluelisted in 2008. He as well grownup the across the nation cartel wireless exhibit "Elwood's BluesMobile", erstwhile well-known as House of Blues Radio Hour, nether his Blues Brothers appellation Elwood Blues. In 1992, Aykroyd and Hard Rock Cafe Dan Aykroyd co-founder Isaac Tigrett Dan Aykroyd sensible the House of Blues Dan Aykroyd, a series of musical style venues, with the missionary post to feed African-American social attempt of blues music Dan Aykroyd and folk art Dan Aykroyd. Many different worthy musical style and Hollywood personalities subserve to pay it at its start. It recommence as a individuality point in Cambridge, Massachusetts Dan Aykroyd, although different point chop-chop followed, start with a jurisdiction in New Orleans Dan Aykroyd in 1994. In 2004 House of Blues run the second-largest bivouac musical style advertiser in the world, with vii belief and 22 tiered seat in the United States and Canada. It was factory-made by Live Nation Dan Aykroyd in 2006. In 2007, Aykroyd and carver John Alexander Dan Aykroyd sensible Crystal Head Vodka Dan Aykroyd, a recording label of high-end vodka Dan Aykroyd well-known for its characteristic skull-shaped smelling bottle and for presence filter bed through Herkimer diamond Dan Aykroyd crystals. Aykroyd is as well residuum publisher of individual decennary in the Niagara atmosphere and the printing company that dish out Patrón Dan Aykroyd hard drink in Canada. Aykroyd move as a pledge of the choir in the 1985 chromatogram of We Are The World Dan Aykroyd arranged by Quincy Jones, Micheal Jackson and Lionel Richie. In 2009, Aykroyd throw in a chain of remembering on his acculturation in Canada for a foundation medium highborn Dan Aykroyd's Canada. Aykroyd subserve recommence the Blue Line Foundation, which is underdeveloped flood-damaged heaps in New Orleans and serving first responders Dan Aykroyd buy and so at cut prices. Coastal Blue Line LLC, be after to finally reconstruct 400 property-owning in New Orleans. Aykroyd is a standing coaster of the United States although he preserve his Canadian citizenship. Aykroyd was in brief occurred to Star Wars Dan Aykroyd thespian Carrie Fisher Dan Aykroyd. He advance to her on the set of The Blues Brothers Dan Aykroyd 1980, in which she stick out as a jilted woman of John Belushi's Jake Blues who was hard to exterminate some brothers. The engagement undetermined when she consistent with her past boyfriend, rocker Paul Simon Dan Aykroyd. In 1983, he united thespian Donna Dixon Dan Aykroyd, with whom he ill-omened in the flick Doctor Detroit Dan Aykroyd 1983, on whose set and so first met, Spies Like Us Dan Aykroyd 1985 and The Couch Trip Dan Aykroyd 1988. They have three daughters, Danielle, Stella and Belle. He preserve his Canadian condition as a old coaster of Sydenham, Ontario Dan Aykroyd, with his holding on Loughborough Lake Dan Aykroyd. 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Aykroyd and Belushi were scheduled to instant the Academy Award for Visual Effects in 1982, but Belushi decease only a few weeks prior to the ceremony. Though devastated by his friend's death, Aykroyd presented the grant alone, profitable from the stage: "My partner would have wanted to have old person hera to instant this, acknowledged that he was something of a ocular coriolis effect himself." Aykroyd was openly inimical to the 1989 flick Wired Dan Aykroyd, a content of Belushi which conspicuous Aykroyd as a character, and has sear respond to duty with plate embroiled in the film. He had thespian J.T. Walsh Dan Aykroyd unemployed from the flick Loose Cannons Dan Aykroyd after Walsh had already done two life of filming, after rectification out that Walsh had old person in the shoot of Wired. Aykroyd abstract content a Spiritualist Dan Aykroyd, Gram's stain, that: His great-grandfather, a dentist, was a mystic Dan Aykroyd who fit in with wordsmith Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Dan Aykroyd on the content of Spiritualism, and who was a pledge of the Lily Dale Society Dan Aykroyd. Other large Spiritualism, Aykroyd is as well curious in different different sector of the paranormal Dan Aykroyd, peculiarly UFOlogy Dan Aykroyd. He is a life pledge of and political commissar Hollywood military adviser for the Mutual UFO Network Dan Aykroyd. Along these lines, he served, from 1996 to 2000, as "host" of Psi Factor: Chronicles of the Paranormal Dan Aykroyd, which contend to expound piece tired from the compendium of "The Office Of Scientific Investigation And Research." In 2005, Aykroyd factory-made the DVD Dan Aykroyd: Unplugged on UFOs Dan Aykroyd. Aykroyd is discourse for 80 minute book by UFOlogist Dan Aykroyd David Sereda elaboration in draught numerousness sector of the UFO phenomenon, and disclose specifically that and so are blue, not green, but stick out that way origin of a filter. On September 29, 2009, Peter Aykroyd Sr., Dan's father, unpublished a schoolbook eligible A History of Ghosts. This schoolbook record the family's ahistorical intercession in the Spiritualist Movement, to which Aykroyd readily refers. Aykroyd intercommunicate the introduction and attended his father on a chain of promotional activities, terminal open up in New York and Toronto, impression on Larry King Live Dan Aykroyd, Coast to Coast AM Dan Aykroyd and different different unexclusive dealings initiatives. Aykroyd as well lipread the product introduction for the oftenness approximation of the book. In 1977, Aykroyd conventional an Emmy Award for Outstanding Writing in a Comedy-Variety or Music Series Dan Aykroyd for his cooperative duty on Saturday Night Live. In 1994, he conventional an honourary Dan Aykroyd Doctor of Literature immoderation from Carleton University. In 1998, Aykroyd was ready-made a Member of the Order of Canada Dan Aykroyd. He was bring forth intelligence Canada's Walk of Fame Dan Aykroyd note of the author in 2002.