Great Landis reminiscence about Aretha, but he is flat wrong regarding Lorne not releasing me for Animal House and John knows it.
In fact, Lorne put no pressure on me, said I was free to go, but I decided not to leave him short-handed.
He served Landis very well as a producer on one of John’s really great films — The Three Amigos.
He is, however, the greatest impresario and promoter of comedians, actors and musicians in history, and a true empire builder with the interests of talented people at heart.