Donna Dixon and Dan Ackroyd on the Fran Drescher show

Dan Akroyd is a sleaze bag. Constantly hits on young women and doesn’t take no for an answer. Or used to anyway. He was also caught having an affair with a married woman and wanted to leave Donna for her.

Donna in better days. Settling for Dan never made sense.

Drescher had a talk show ?

There was a Fran Drescher show?

R2 Donna was drop dead stunning in her youth. Even with extra weight, she still was beautiful.

R4 - Very short lived, in 2010.

OP & R1 His name is AYKROYD.

The flotsam and jetsam sharted onto DL is stupefying.

Thanks for the spelling lesson, R7

Dixon has a weird speaking affectation.

R10 It got more pronounced over time.

I thought they split up?

Catherine O'Hara based her Schitt's character on Donna Dixon.

I believe they are divorcing.

R12 Who said they didn’t?

R1- I think you're wrong there.

I heard that Dan Ackroyd is a HOMO.

r16 see r7

Dingbats, the clip is 14 years old. They could be dead and buried but DL cryptdwellers just yak yak on like this is current news.

R12 - Clip is from 2010. Dan wishes he looked like that now.

Donna looks great in the clip at OP - but that affected accent is something else. She grew up in the DMV.

In the beginning of their marriage were they not swingers? Why did she ever settle for Dan Ackroyd, he's not attractive at all!!

There were stories a million years ago about their "swinging ways" in LA.

DMV?

Dixon was so pretty but such a bad actress. She was practically reading her lines off a cue card on “Bosom Buddies.”

Dixon and Ackroyd legally separated in 2022

r24 Who's "Ackroyd?"

R23 I think that was one of her first roles.

She has Hidden Valley Ranch Voice

r22 DC Maryland and Virginia

r21 r24 - see r7

Donna was in Moonlighting too.

I wonder if Carrie Fisher wore her gold bikini to their swinger parties.

Dixon was in a back door pilot episode of “Who’s the Boss” with … Fran Drescher. First time I ever saw Drescher and thought she was hilarious. Dixon wasn’t that great.

Season Two, Episode 26: “Charmed Lives.”

[quote] Dixon was in a back door pilot episode of “Who’s the Boss” with … Fran Drescher. First time I ever saw Drescher

How did you miss Fran earlier in Saturday Night Fever?

Looking it up I see Donna and Fran's spinoff lasted four episodes.

Donna and Fran on Who’s the Boss.

R34,I saw “Saturday Night Fever” (the PG version released into theaters after “Grease”) when I was 7. And I didn’t like it. The only women I remember were Karen Lynn Gorney and the great Donna Pescow.

Go Fran

Fran has come very well for herself.

Donna should have had a bigger career.

Dan is said to be on the spectrum, but he's also supposed to be a creep.

r38 No one wants to hear that fake accent

Dan and Donna got chunky together.

Funnily enough, I saw mention of Dan being autistic on a blog I was reading, r39. I’d never heard that before. It made me think of the autism troll here on DL.

[quote]DMV?

Tell me you’re not from the DMV without telling me you’re not from the DMV.

Dan had a pretty big ass back in the day.

Holy shit, Donna Dixon IS Moira Rose! Catherine O'Hara knows Danny, of course, so this makes total sense. But I hadn't heard Donna speak in decades (and I don't think she always put on that accent), so I never made the connection until seeing that clip.

The comments on the clip are full of people saying "Gee, Donna, why not mention that you cheated on Paul Stanley when you and Dan got together?" Looks like a couple of years ago, chickens came home to roost.

R45 Yes

He covered for Belushi's drug use too, so he has that to live with.

Wow, that is an affected way of speaking. She sounds insufferable. But Dan the douchebag was attracted to the blonde hair and the funbags. Comedians really have basic tastes in women.

You know what I care about less than straight couples? Old, straight couples.

[quote] But Dan the douchebag was attracted to the blonde hair and the funbags. Comedians really have basic tastes in women.

He was with Carrie Fisher for a couple years (around the time of Blues Brothers). She ain't "basic".

She's the furthest thing from basic.

R10, not when she’s in the FRAN DRESCHER SHOW.