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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...director of "Animal House" and "The Blues Brothers," who is on trial for three deaths on the set of "Twilight Zone: The Movie," said Saturday night that writer Bob Woodward lied about John Belushi in his biography of the comedian...

Author: By Vindu P. Goel, | Title: Landis Speaks at Hasty Pudding | 11/10/1986 | See Source »

...Woodward is a lying scumbag," movie director John Landis told a crowd of nearly 200 at the Hasty Pudding Theatre. In 1984, Woodward wrote "Wired: The Short Life and Fast Times of John Belushi," a national bestseller...

Author: By Vindu P. Goel, | Title: Landis Speaks at Hasty Pudding | 11/10/1986 | See Source »

...newspaper's famed Watergate sleuth, Bob Woodward, unearthed a damning document to back up the charge: a memo from National Security Adviser John Poindexter to President Reagan. In it Poindexter outlined a plan that "combines real and illusionary events -- through a disinformation program -- with the basic goal of making Gaddafi think that there is a high degree of internal opposition to him within Libya, that his key trusted aides are disloyal, that the U.S. is about to move against him militarily." According to the Post, this disinformation policy was approved on Aug. 14 at a meeting of the National Security...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Real and Illusionary Events | 10/13/1986 | See Source »

While recovering from a debilitating stroke -- suffered in part, says Julie, because her mother read Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein's account of Nixon's fight for his presidency, The Final Days -- Pat Nixon was resting on the patio one afternoon in San Clemente, looking through the window into the house where her husband sat. "Watergate is the only crisis that ever got me down," she told her daughter. "And I know I will never live to see the vindication. The thing that's so sad is that I don't think there is a man living who has more...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Julie Nixon's Tribute: A daughter's view of Pat Nixon | 10/6/1986 | See Source »

...former rock-'n'-roll groupie and longtime drug abuser, Smith was reportedly adept at living off the money and drugs of others. Belushi had plenty of both. In his biography of the actor, Bob Woodward wrote that Belushi, as part of his movie contract, received a $2,500-a-week stipend, which he understood to be his drug allowance. Smith is believed to have been the last person to see the comedian alive after a five-day binge that ended with her injecting him with a series of speedballs, powerful mixtures of cocaine and heroin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Merchants of Misery | 9/15/1986 | See Source »

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