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Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: End of a Samurai Comic | 3/15/1982 | See Source »

...writers for NBC's original Saturday Night Live might have used these facts to make a satiric point about the self-destruction of performers who spoke most electrifyingly to their generation. And at the end of the skit, the victim-played by SNL 's reigning cutup, John Belushi-would have sprung back to life, bounced to his feet and bellowed: "But no-o-o-o!" But yes. Late last week, in a bungalow of West Hollywood's Hotel Chateau Marmont, Belushi-the Blues Brother, the raging bull of Animal House, the samurai comic of cabaret...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: End of a Samurai Comic | 3/15/1982 | See Source »

Police reported that Belushi's physical trainer had arrived at the hotel early Friday afternoon and found the actor curled naked and unconscious on his bungalow bed. A hotel security guard attempted mouth-to-mouth resuscitation without success. By the time the corpse, covered with a brown blanket, was removed from the hotel, all elements of a Hollywood creep show were in place: stories of a mysterious woman in Belushi's room early that morning; rumors of the star's traveling with a cocaine crowd; paparazzi shouting and shoving and climbing over police cars to catch...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: End of a Samurai Comic | 3/15/1982 | See Source »

...There Belushi blossomed into an archangel of the grotesque. His face-round and blandly menacing in repose, like a middle-level Mafioso's-could contort into semblances of slashing samurai, killer bees, Joe Cocker or Marlon Brando. Belushi's body, stolid as a '53 Studebaker, could erupt in spasms of grace. As one of the Blues Brothers, the blue-eyed soul group that brought Belushi a platinum record and a big-budget movie, this slab in a black suit would suddenly turn a series of split-second cartwheels, like a hippo Baryshnikov. Belushi was the ideal comic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: End of a Samurai Comic | 3/15/1982 | See Source »

...Belushi kept insisting that it was all just an act. "If people want to think that I'm a drug-crazed anarchist and it brings them into the theaters, that's fine," he said in 1980. "Actually, I'm a pretty boring guy most of the time." But it was the anarchist image that made him a movie star with Animal House (1978). The role of Bluto Blutarsky was just a featured part, not much larger than the ones he played in Old Boyfriends and Goin' South. But audiences cheered as Bluto bellowed "Food fight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: End of a Samurai Comic | 3/15/1982 | See Source »

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