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In music and comedy, timing is everything. Few would know that as well as late-night bandleader Paul Shaffer, whose charmed career took him from synagogue performances as a kid in northern Ontario to TV gigs backing comedy and musical greats including Bob Dylan, Gilda Radner, John Belushi, Ray Charles and David Letterman.

BRAD WHEELER Published on Monday, Nov. 09, 2009 12:00AM EST Last updated on Monday, Nov.

Almost every famous hilarious comic got his or her start at Chicago's Second City , a training center, theater and overall jokester factory.

When Bluto Blutarsky, John Belushi's character in the movie "Animal House," was finally expelled from fictional Faber College, he was in his seventh year.

Here is Landis's other great smash-hit: the great ancestor of lowbrow crassness and fratboy wackiness, says Peter Bradshaw Friday, 30 October 2009 Here is Landis's other great smash-hit: the great ancestor of lowbrow crassness and fratboy wackiness.

I struggle for the words to describe this movie. Sure, it's a TV movie, but that's no excuse.

Audience members will be experiencing both a unique and familiar show when Wausau East High School students perform "The Best of Saturday Night Live" on stage this weekend.

University of Michigan junior Joey Juanico rallies a crowd of student protesters outside Ann Arbor's city hall this afternoon.

College town rental housing and condos have been a profitable niche for investors for years.

Opinionline Archives Hey Rio, it's not over until Chicago says it's over! By William Choslovsky As Chicago weighs life without the Olympics, forget all the pep talks about dusting ourselves off and moving on.

OK, we love . Barneys Creative Director discussed the "Have a Witty Holiday" campaign the other day, which will stroll down memory lane with mannequins reliving such classics as the Coneheads; John Belushi as a killer bee; Steve Martin as King Tut ; Martin and Dan Akroyd as Two Wild and Crazy Guys; Molly Shannon 's Mary Katherine Gallagher; Gilda ...

The concept has since gone from merely a Windy City-based cabaret theater to an additional outpost in Toronto and training centers in those cities and Los Angeles.

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Besides being about music, the movie is about car crashes. Too many of them. I SELL THE DEAD A schlocky horror comedy made with fond reverence for the schlocky horror movies that came before it.

Death expert and former Chicagoan Scott Michaels, whose intriguingly macabre Web site findadeath.com is a searchable database of Tinseltown tragedies , has positioned himself as one of the country's foremost experts on Hollywood true crime.

Dear Mick: Is there a way you could include in your reviews the number of times the f-word is used in a movie? We accept a few expletive uses of the word.

The band was released on bail six hours later. 1976 - Joe Cocker received a surprise during his performance on "Saturday Night Live' when John Belushi came out on stage, dressed as him and they deueted on 'Feelin' Alright.' 1976 - Rod Stewart released "Tonight's The Night.' 1977 - The bodies of Elvis Presley and his grandmother were relocated to ...

Okay, Lirim Jacobi isn't John Belushi and Taverna Opa isn't Faber College, but a toga party is a toga party.

Like blue cheese or a blue Ford Mustang, The Blues Brothers don't spoil with age.

A bit of this and a bit of that ... with a reminder that the Caprock Caf, in the strip center at 5217 82nd St., will be showing the movie "National Lampoon's Animal House" at 9 p.m. Tuesday.