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...TODAY'S young adult, that can hardly be denied; an entire generation of college students has received much of its pop-cultural indoctrination from Animal House and such Saturday Night Live gang spinoffs as Trading Places. Landis' most successful work has come from his association with the late John Belushi, Dan Aykroyd, Eddie Murphy and other SNL types. The Landis picture screened before the seminar, An American Werewolf in London, is a comedy-horror riot, simply plotted and masterfully executed, and laced with the kind of suburb-smart dialogue that engenders instant identification, from Great Neck, N.Y., to Encino, Calif...
...director of "Animal House" and "The Blues Brothers," who is on trial for three deaths on the set of "Twilight Zone: The Movie," said Saturday night that writer Bob Woodward lied about John Belushi in his biography of the comedian...
...Woodward is a lying scumbag," movie director John Landis told a crowd of nearly 200 at the Hasty Pudding Theatre. In 1984, Woodward wrote "Wired: The Short Life and Fast Times of John Belushi," a national bestseller...
...invented most of it. He never met John. He was never there," Landis said at a champagne reception after a screening of his film "An American Werewolf in London." Belushi died in 1982 of a drug overdose...
Landis had fond memories of Belushi, whom he worked with on "Animal House" and "The Blues Brothers. "John was a wonderful person," Landis said, though he admitted that Belushi's cocaine addiction hindered his acting in "The Blues Brothers...