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AUTHOR DANIEL DE VISÉ
JOHN LANDIS’ 1980 film The Blues Brothers is a Looney Tunes cartoon writ real: brazenly combining glorious R’n’B, spectacular car crashes, and the idiosyncratic comedy stylings of Dan Aykroyd and John Belushi. Such a bonkers movie is inevitably the result of a bonkers making-of story —one that Daniel De Visé’s impeccably researched, clear-headed, highly entertaining book does full justice to. But there is much more going on here than just a document of a single film.