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...John Belushi...
...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...
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...
...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...
...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...