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Michaelis' account of the book's final pair of friends, John Belushi and Dan Aykroyd, comes as something of a shock. The relationship between the two antic entertainers is like a half nelson after a series of handshakes. Aykroyd's attachment to his friend, dead of a drug over dose in 1982, sometimes edges close to hysteria: "Whenever Danny Aykroyd drives by [Belushi's] graveyard, he always honks his car horn - long and loud - on the good chance that somewhere, somehow, in some form, John can hear...
...cocaine, the drug is pushing its roots wider and deeper into America's social strata. Peter Bensinger, director of the Drug Enforcement Administration from 1976 to 1981, is now a consultant to businesses on employee drug use. "It is not just a matter of John De Lorean and John Belushi," he says. "Cocaine use does not exempt anyone. You see it in mid-level managers and factory workers...
Evidence against Smith, 35, includes the National Enquirer's interview tapes and the grand jury testimony of Nelson Lyon, a former writer for the TV show Saturday Night Live who apparently has been given immunity from prosecution. Lyon partied with Belushi during the hours before he died. According to people involved in the case, Lyon testified that he saw Smith inject Belushi with drugs...
...year ago this month on Sunset Boulevard, after a sleepless drug-and-liquor binge, John Belushi was injected with a "speedball," a potent mixture of heroin and cocaine. Early that afternoon the wasted comedian was dead in his hotel bed, and a Hollywood hanger-on named Cathy Smith was in Los Angeles police custody. But Smith, who had been with Belushi all night, was not charged with any crime. Two months later, the tabloid National Enquirer reportedly paid her $15,000 for an interview. The paper quoted her (inaccurately, she claims) as saying that she had given Belushi the fatal...
Nonetheless, with no suggestion that Belushi was drugged against his will, California criminal lawyers believe that the murder case against Smith will be hard to make. But there is a precedent: in 1980 the state court of appeals upheld the second-degree murder conviction of a man who had furnished an unintentionally fatal overdose of heroin to a friend. "California," said Los Angeles Attorney Robert Sheahen, who has represented Smith, "stands virtually alone in making this kind of thing murder." Says Smith: "They're trying to find a scapegoat...