Word: belushi
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Though Director John Landis (The Kentucky Fried Movie) strives for an ensemble effort, he does allow one true star performance-from John Belushi. This Saturday Night Live regular, here making his big-screen debut, may be the funniest fat comic actor since Jackie Gleason. Ill-shaven and semicomatose, Belushi plays the mangiest animal of them all. He does not have many lines, but he is splendid at starting food fights and leading his fraternity brothers in drunken choruses of Louie Louie...
...what is probably the film's most telling scene: one night he hoists a lad- der up the side of a sorority house and spies on the coeds through a window. In any other college movie, his efforts would not pay off, but here they do in spades. Belushi's wide eyes take in one gorgeous nude body after another as the girls engage in pillow fights and unmentionable other acts. Yet there is nothing sordid about his voyeurism; it seems almost pure. That is because the Lampoon people understand the darkest secret of an American college education...
...radio show. Better still, the Lampoon has nurtured a new generation of comic talent. Many of the creators of NBC's Saturday Night Live, including Michael O'Donoghue, the Chief Writer, are Lampoon alumni. That show's Not-Ready-for-Prime-Time-Players Chevy Chase, John Belushi, Gilda Radner and Bill Murray first hit the big time in Lampoon revues...
...eight-section, $4.95 send-up of Middle American journalism that is starting to hit trade-paperback bestseller lists. This week the magazine's first film venture, a college satire titled National Lampoon's Animal House, opens in 600 theaters nationwide. Bolstered by good reviews and Star, John Belushi, the movie is already playing to smash business in New York City and should return a hefty profit on its modest $2.7 million production cost...
...Simmons who raided Chicago's satirical Second City troupe to bring Belushi to New York for the 1973 revue National Lampoon's Lemmings. He in turn eventually brought along Radner and Harold Ramis (another Animal House co-screenwriter). Then counter-raiding began. For Saturday Night Live, TV Producer Lome Michaels hired away half the cast of Lemmings' sequel, The National Lampoon Show. When Belushi departed, Simmons replaced him with Meat Loaf, then an obscure rock singer...