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Type: BOOK - Published: 2013-06-24 - Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

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The untold story of a revolution in comedy. With unparalleled access to the architects and impresarios of this boom, Stein takes readers behind the jokes to wit
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The Blues Brothers hit theatres on June 20, 1980. Their scripted mission was to save a local Chicago orphanage; but Aykroyd, who conceived and wrote much of the