John Candy and Eugene Levy ended up playing roles intended for John Belushi and Dan Aykroyd in a misfiring buddy cop movie screenwriter Harold Ramis tried to get his name taken off of for reasons that are very easy to understand.
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Like so many great directors, Harold Ramis’ career got off to a terrific start, with the classic 1980 comedy Caddyshack but ended bleakly, with the dire broad comedy Year One.
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My patron-funded exploration of the films of Blue Oyster Cult ends on a high note (in more ways than one) with a fond look back at the cult classic 1981 Canadian animated stoner film Heavy Metal, from Ivan Reitman and the screenwriters of Meatballs and Stripes.
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