Scott Blomquist

Somehow this evening I ended up on Fandango’s web site (I think I was checking to see if The Island was still playing in my area) and I noticed that The Blues Brothers was back on the big screen in celebration of the release of its DVD special edition. The start time for this one-time deal was already past, but apparently they simulcast a live interview with Dan Aykroyd and the other writer before the movie itself, so I hurried to the theater. When I asked the ticket person if it was too late to buy a ticket for a show that started an hour ago, she looked at me funny and then volunteered to sell it at the student rate (still a whopping $7–the _real_ reason no one goes to movie theaters these days: high prices). I got in just in time to see Joliet Jake being let out of prison. Easily got my $7 out of the deal.