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Dan Aykroyd, shown April 22, is reported to be in talks to voice Yogi Bear. Canadian comedian and winemaker Dan Aykroyd is in talks to play Yogi Bear in a part-live action, part-animated film based on the 1960s cartoon series.

Comedy star Dan Aykroyd has signed onto John Landis' dark horror-comedy Burke and Hare , alongside the previously cast Simon Pegg and David Tennant as Burke and Hare, respectively.

Rob Zombie performs at The Pearl in the Palms on Oct. 30, 2009. Published Monday, Nov.

While the brand new movie Paranormal Activity is, er, knocking 'em dead at the box office, other ghostly spirits have been haunting us for centuries - and not all of them should be welcomed with open arms, according to experts.

Downchild Blues Band is among the best of the white blues bands, whose music inspired the Blues Brothers, whose star Dan Aykroyd founded the House of Blues, which was poked by The Onion newspaper in a headline that read: "House of Blues Actually House of Whites." Let us marvel at the great cycle of life.

AP Photo Seriously. Just ask Dan Aykroyd and his father, Peter, whose real-life family history with the supernatural inspired Ghostbusters .

Comic actor Dan Aykroyd, who is guesting with Downchild on several eastern Canadian dates of this tour, became one of the group's biggest fans.

Like father, like son: Aykroyds bring the funny - and the ghost stories Peter Hugh Aykroyd, left, and his son and actor Dan Aykroyd pose for a photograph in Toronto on Thurdsay, Oct.

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.

Dan Aykroyd's ghosts Friday, Oct. 16, 2009 02:02AM EDT Ghostbusters star Dan Aykroyd says he's often asked where he got the inspiration for his blockbuster '80s comedy and he says it's simple -- his own family.

Peter Aykroyd, author of A History of Ghosts, enjoyed his son Danny's film Ghost Busters, which was, for a spell, the highest-grossing comedy of all time.

Peter Aykroyd, author of A History of Ghosts, enjoyed his son Danny's film Ghost Busters, which was, for a spell, the highest-grossing comedy of all time.

"Ghostbusters" star Dan Aykroyd says he is often asked where he got the inspiration for his blockbuster '80s comedy.

One of the biggest challenges that faces local directors is casting. So when area actors Sydney Davis and Jim Symmons approached Crowded Kitchen Players and said they wanted to do Alfred Uhry's three-actor play ''Driving Miss Daisy,'' the answer was yes.

Looking back on 40 years with Downchild, Toronto blues pioneer Donnie Walsh doesn't offer much insight on his longevity.

With "Ghostbusters" in the headlines due to a certain hit movie we won't name and a certain cameo we won't name -- everyone knows it by now, but still, our fingers prevent us from typing it -- we were delighted to find Dr.

Middle-class marital strain makes women svelte and focused, men doughy and awkward -- and everybody stupid.

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.

All four members of the movie team will lend their voices and likenesses to the game, which is set in the '90s after Ghostbusters II.

Long before The Daily Show , long before The Colbert Report , Saturday Night Live was making fun of the news in a way that no one had ever seen before.