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If you're talking about Belushi, he had two hit movies (Animal House and The Blues Brothers) and two that did OK but weren't big hits (1941 and Neighbors). The other two almost nobody saw (Goin' South and Continental Divide). His last film was Continental Divide, a step in that direction. He was in some major hits of the 80s as both a supporting actor and writer, but struggled in the leading man role. He segueed into more serious supporting roles, but never really became a superstar in his own right. Seems like Belushi and Aykroyd were symbioticaly linked, and stronger together than separately. That reminds me of the 1977 SNL Sketch "Elvis' Coat" after Elvis died; "The King is dead... but the coat lives on!" Sadly, not to be. They put Rothko, the District Attorney from Dirty Harry, on the job. Was Gloria Holden any relation to William Holden? 007 is later found dead in a Bangkok alley with a messaged pinned to his chest: "Smersh krovavym turistam" (Death to Bloody Tourists). 008 is sent to investigate. When you're a 4 hundred year old bloated tick with spindly legs you take love where you find it. Ennio Morricone's close associate Bruno Nicolai did a very fine musical score for the film, utilizing a Hungarian cimbalom. The cast seemed like it couldn't miss, either (Herbert Lom as Van Helsing, Christopher Lee as Dracula, Klaus Kinski as Renfield), yet miss it did. Lee could certainly rock a handlebar mustache like few others. That's not what sunk the movie, though. Jess Franco's inept direction and cheap production values did that. In Bram Stoker's novel Dracula does indeed have a mustache. Christopher in Count Dracula also palyed the Count with a handlebar mustache. However, Bela Lugosi's 1931 portrayal of Dracula (which he also played onstage before the film was made) proved to be so iconic that most Dracula films have had the Count clean-shaven. I'll take that as a "No". How can you be such a consistently worthless and shallow poster? Will you ever surprise us and NOT troll for a change, or is that too tall an order? "I wish I could just...wish away my feelings." "I truly... deeply.... love you." "Our lives are about to be destroyed anyway." "You assume too much." (How many fucking times do they say that in these prequels?) Speaking of bad make up, what the hell did they do to poor Catherine Schell's face? She looked hot and dead sexy in The Return of the Pink Panther in 1975, but she looked ten years older in 1978 as Maya in Season Two. One of the most unflattering make up jobs I've ever seen. He could have shot him with a paint gun and made the same point. Murdering him was gratuitous and more likely with create a backlash that won't help his engender support for his cause at all. Nosferatu - The Hutter Nutter It's particularly bad considering he wasn't in the movie all that much.