Word: belushi
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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CHICAGO: Let's not take the easy way, which is this: Chris Farley wanted to be John Belushi, and that's why he's dead. Let's say instead that Chris Farley, the funniest fat guy ever to cross a stage or a movie set in a long, long time, is dead of a heart attack at 33 because he was troubled. Manic. Still the fat little kid that no girl would look at, even once he was rich, famous and still on the rise with a $6 million price tag. Or, Chris Farley is dead at 33 probably because...
...hear him tell it, maybe wisely and sincerely, maybe in a 'we both now I'll never change' Robert Downey Jr. kind of way, Farley was catching on that maybe there was a point at which to stop idolizing Belushi. "Although I love this kind of comedy, sometimes I feel trapped by always having to be the most outrageous guy in the room," Farley said in 1996. "In particular, I'm working on trying not to be that guy in my private life...
...other hand, learning's for suckers, and comedy's for kings. 1941 billed itself in 1979 as "A Comedy Spectacular," and it is: big, garrulous, messy, and often (but alas, not always) hilarious. A cast-of-thousands stacked with comedy veterans, from Aykroyd to Belushi to Candy to Slim Pickens to Tim Matheson to . . . to everybody, even Patti LuPone and an uncredited Penny Marshall. Not for the high-falutin, but that scene with the door . . . whooeee...
What a shame it was for the comics of the first decade of Saturday Night Live that there was ever such a thing as movies. First Dan Aykroyd, Gilda Radner and John Belushi proved their worth as sketch artists who could inhabit weird, endearing characters while running wild laps around them. Then they exiled themselves into big-screen junk where they looked forlorn and their talents were cramped. Ninety minutes of Doctor Detroit offered a lot less pure Aykroyd than five minutes of his Nixon on S.N.L...
...idea of starting his blues chain, Tigrett wisely spread the financial risk by appealing to friends for the start-up money to fund his venture. Dan Aykroyd (who played one of the dark-suited Blues Brothers on TV and in films) chipped in, as did actor Jim Belushi (brother of the late John Belushi, Aykroyd's fellow Blues Brother). Even Harvard University pitched in $10 million because an investment fund it runs liked Tigrett's plan. In all, the resourceful--or at least very well-connected--Tigrett raised about $30 million in private cash, and in 1993 opened the first...