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...York City club was the starting point for such performers as Robin Williams Pat Benetar, Andy Kaufman, John Belushi and Freddy Prinze...
...author stops writing, an actor dies a radio or a T.V. show goes off the air, a fan's daily schedule is significantly altered. There's no longer a regular afternoon set aside for the new Agatha Christie, no longer a weekly hour and a half for the Belushi Ackroyd Saturday Night Live. These are giant gaps in the landscape and to compensate for them, you shift your perspective and learn to work around them...
...Most Tragic Waste: The senseless death of John Belushi, 33, from a drug overdose, which silenced one of the best comic talents of his generation...
...serious headache. Drug users have their codes, but they seem to have lost some of their glamour. Certain drugs have a fatality about them that cannot be concealed in jaunty language. The comedian Richard Pryor introduced the outer world to freebasing a couple of years ago, and John Belushi died after he speed-balled (mixed heroin and cocaine). Punk language has made a couple of its disarmingly nasty contributions: sleaze (as in, "There was a lot of sleaze at the party," meaning much of the transcendentally rotten) has passed from the homosexual vocabulary into punk, and is headed for mainstream...
...neither the recession nor the drug-related troubles of the famous have lessened the demand for coke. "The economy has had no effect," says Randell. "If anything, it makes using drugs more desirous, since people want to escape the pressure of the bad times." Incidents like the death of Belushi can have a perverse effect. Says Randell: "The more the fashionable people are arrested for doing...