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...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, TV and the movies-was found dead...
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 was inching to ward mid-life without another climax immediately in view. Now it has found him. In his early days with Lemmings, he had mocked celebrity burnout with the All-Star Dead Band - Jimi Hendrix, Brian Jones, Jim Morrison, Janis Joplin. Less than a decade later, the samurai comic had provided another ghastly punch line to his own joke. This time, no one was laughing...
Vince Wilcox meanders through the large, dusty room, past mummies of Eskimo babies, past Amazonian poison darts and Japanese dollhouses, past lost cultures and found treasures. President James Buchanan's saddle is over in the corner, next to a statue of a samurai warrior. Meditating Buddhas sit on top of cabinets filled with spears and mandolins. Wilcox opens a drawer full of shrunken heads, some human, some sloth, some monkey. He holds up an apple-size human specimen and strokes the long black hair. "See how soft the hair is?" he marvels. "They removed the skull and then they...
...Samurai Success...