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Remember: Saturday Night Live had become the brightest, brashest success on television, the show to see, and be seen at. Chevy Chase had already made his mark there, and left for Hollywood. John Belushi had brought his brute comic force to Animal House, which pulled down some $150 million at the box office, and he and his buddy Dan Aykroyd were spending off-time starring in Steven Spielberg's home-front destruction derby 1941. Gilda Radner was the country's favorite comedy Kewpie, and Bill Murray, a shambling declension of goofiness, was hoving into view...
Taylor continues to describe his reaction to the death of his friend, John Belushi, and how Belushi's drug overdose brought home the dangers that fast living imposed upon his own life...
...Lane Meyer, seems uniquely inappropriate after his boisterous role in The Sure Thing to play someone on the down side of teen life. In another dimension, where teen comedies all have good script writers, the pairing of Cusack and Armstrong might have been relatively magical, something like proto-Belushi meets proto-Murray. Instead, they are confined to gags that only a teen messiah could save, and only a child could enjoy. Hopefully, Cusack's role in the Disney flick The Journey of Natty Gann turns out better...
...John Belushi sank into a coma and died in March 1982, his body devastated by lethal dosages of heroin and cocaine, his arms disfigured by the red splotches of needle injections. A preliminary hearing started last week in Los Angeles Municipal Court to determine if Cathy Evelyn Smith, 38, a former singer and Belushi's companion during his final days, should be tried for second-degree murder in the 33-year-old comedian's death. Prosecution witnesses, among them former Saturday Night Live Writer Nelson Lyon, said they saw Smith give Belushi repeated drug injections...
Smith's lawyers argued that their client was acting on Belushi's direction. They also contend that the drug dosage that actually killed Belushi could have been administered only by Belushi himself or by someone other than Smith. She may wind up being tried on 13 counts of illegally supplying drugs, but the murder charge may not stick. Many friends watched Belushi plunge into his drug nightmare, and it is unfair, says Defense Lawyer Howard Weitzman, to single out Cathy Smith. Said he: "The guilty person, unfortunately, is dead...