Dan Aykroyd

DAN AYKROYD WANTS A BIGGER CHUNK OF THE CELEBRITY LIQUOR BUSINESS

Dan Aykroyd is in Philadelphia autographing bottles of his Crystal Skull Vodka for Ghostbusters fans. (The Italian-designed skull bottle is quite attractive.) He spends a few months every year making personal appearances at wine & spirits stores across the country to promote his $40 vodka. Certainly he must be inspired by the success of George Clooney’s billion dollar Casamigos Tequila company. In 2011, 21,000 bottles of Crystal Skull were stolen from a California warehouse and Dan joked that he was “happy that some customers will have the opportunity of tasting it at a significantly lower price.”

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A BIG FAT SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE REUNION!

Aha! The mystery of Steve Martin’s twitter photo from a few days ago is solved. Martin tweeted a picture of a group of Saturday Night Live old-timers, without explaining WHY they were reunited. It turns out they all guested on this week’s Justin Timberlake hosted SNL show. In case you missed it- the “5 Timers Club” sketch is one of their funniest.

DAN AYKROYD IS THE MINISTER AT CHEVY CHASE FAMILY WEDDING

We were surprised to hear that Saturday Night Live alumni Dan Aykroyd and Chevy Chase are still SO friendly that Dan performed the marriage ceremony for Chevy’s daughter Cydney’s wedding this week. (Remember, Chevy left SNL after the first season to become a MOVIE STAR, and there were some hard feelings.) Who knew Aykroyd was an ordained minister? He posted this photo on Facebook which shows him cracking up the wedding party – that’s Chevy in the front row. Dan is active in the alcohol business, and he was in the news last year when 21,000 bottles of his expensive CHV vodka in their distinctive skull shaped glass bottles were hijacked. This was Dan’s tongue in cheek statement:
“My partners and I are sorry to lose this much vodka to theft and do not condone criminal activity in any fashion, but we are happy that some consumers will be afforded the opportunity of tasting it at significantly lower than retail price,”

DAN AYKROYD AND DONNA DIXON ARE LIVELY ON SATURDAY NIGHT

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SNL pioneer Dan Aykroyd and his wife Donna Dixon had dinner at Crustacean in Beverly Hills this weekend. They’ve been married for 27 years, since they met while filming “Doctor Detroit,” and he still makes her laugh. Donna is a former beauty queen and KISS’s Paul Stanley wrote the song “I Still Love You” for her after she left him for Dan. The Aykroyds have three daughters aged 12 to 20.