WE GOT BOTH KINDS--COUNTRY AND WESTERN: Twenty-five years ago today, The Blues Brothers film opened nationwide, marking the beginning of a month-long period of generation-defining film comedies, which continued with Airplane and concluded with Caddyshack. (And this from a summer that already saw the release of The Empire Strikes Back and The Shining.)
The Chicago Sun-Times today has a fond look back at the movie the late Gene Siskel (whose newspaper affiliation the Bright One conveniently did not have room to mention) hailed as "the best movie ever made in Chicago."
Also of note, the Blues Brothers' competition at the box office its opening weekend included the debut of another big-budget movie musical--the Village People's Can't Stop the Music.
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