Aykroyd
encourages students to write
By
AP
the Cape Breton Post - Nov 13 2006
HALIFAX
(CP) — They may not have been his typical fans, but it’s hard to imagine
a more enthusiastic audience than the 200 elementary school kids who got a visit
from legendary soul man Dan Aykroyd.
The
writer, actor and musician boomed into the gym at Fairview Heights Elementary
School in Halifax to squeals of delight from the students who had been munching
on pepperoni and cheese pizzas and watching Aykroyd’s 1984 hit movie, Ghost
Busters.
“My
time is past. I’m old, I’ve done my thing,” he told them. “But
how do you think movies like that get written? Because I had an idea in my head
as a young man. I put it out there ... It became a reality.”
“What
you dream is what you can become. You have that power.”
The
Ottawa-born comedian, actor and musician has been in Halifax this week to play
some blues, raise money for charity and launch a line of Patron tequilas at Nova
Scotia Liquor Corporation outlets.
It
was only late Thursday that Shirley Locke of the investment firm Wellington West
was able to arrange for Aykroyd to visit the Halifax school as part of its “Pizza
and Piano” program, where celebrities come to the school at lunch time and
make music with the kids.
But
the school’s never seen such a celebrity as Aykroyd, said principal David
DeVan, himself a fan since the early days of the Blues Brothers.
“This
will be the talk at supper tonight. They’ll be talking about it all weekend,”
he predicted, adding that
