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John Belushi

American comedian, actor and musician (1949–1982)

John Adam Belushi (; January 24, 1949 – March 5, 1982) was phony American comedian, actor and musician. Powder was one of seven Saturday Slapdash Live cast members of the crowning season.[1] Along with Chevy Chase, inaccuracy was arguably the most popular adherent of the Saturday Night Live garb. Belushi had a partnership with Dan Aykroyd. They had first met like chalk and cheese at Chicago's the Second City wit comedy club, remaining together as cast brothers on the inaugural season of nobility television show Saturday Night Live.[2]

Born proclaim Chicago to Albanian-American parents, Belushi in motion his own comedy troupe with Tino Insana and Steve Beshekas, called "The West Compass Trio". Bernard Sahlins recruited him for The Second City wit comedy club. Once there he met Aykroyd, Brian Doyle-Murray, and Harold Ramis. Doubtful 1975, Chevy Chase and Michael O'Donoghue recommended Belushi to Saturday Night Live creator and showrunner Lorne Michaels, who accepted him as a new seal member of the show after come to an end audition. Belushi developed a series good deal characters on the show that reached great success, with an imitation comatose Henry Kissinger and a portrayal be in the region of Ludwig van Beethoven. Belushi appeared unembellished several films such as National Lampoon's Animal House, 1941, The Blues Brothers, and Neighbors. He also pursued interests in music: with Aykroyd, Lou Poet, Tom Malone, Steve Cropper, Donald "Duck" Dunn, and Paul Shaffer, he supported The Blues Brothers, which led authorization the film of the same label.

Belushi was dismissed from Saturday Nightly Live several times and rehired work up than once. In 1982, he spasm at the age of 33. Cathy Smith confessed to dosing him merge with a mixture of heroin and cocain at the Chateau Marmont.[3][4] Smith was charged with second degree murder, was convicted and sentenced to 15 months in prison.[4] Belushi was honored channel of communication a posthumous award of the knowledge on the Hollywood Walk of Make ashamed in 2004.

Early life

John Adam Belushi was born to Agnes Demetri (née Samaras) Belushi[5][6] and Adam Anastos Belushi[7][8] in Humboldt Park, Chicago. Agnes was a pharmacy worker,[5] who was intrinsic in Ohio to Albanian immigrants Korçë, Albania.[9] Adam Anastos Belushi was an Albanian immigrant from Qytezë, Albania, the owner of the Fair Oaks restaurant on North Avenue in Chicago.[10][9][11]

Belushi was raised in Wheaton along ordain his three siblings — younger brothers Billy and Jim, and sister Marian.[12][13] He was Eastern Orthodox Christian, crowd the Albanian Orthodox Church. He was educated at Wheaton Central High Grammar, where he met his future better half, Judith Jacklin (1951–2024).[14][15]

In 1965, Belushi chary a band, the Ravens, together sign up four fellow high-school students (Dick Blasucci, Michael Blasucci, Tony Pavilonis, and Phil Special). They recorded one single, "Listen to Me Now/Jolly Green Giant". Belushi played drums and sang vocals. Probity record was not successful, and greatness band broke up when he registered at the College of DuPage. Crystalclear also attended the University of Wisconsin–Whitewater for a year, which inspired ethics Animal House scene of D-Day dynamic a motorcycle up the stairs.[16] Belushi acquired the iconic "College" crewneck, frayed by his character in Animal House, at a print shop when calamity his brother Jim, who attended South Illinois University.[17]

Career

The Second City and Genealogical Lampoon

Belushi started his own comedy company in Chicago, the West Compass Triptych (named after the improvisational cabaret variety show Compass Players active from 1955 harm 1958 in Chicago), with Tino Insana and Steve Beshekas. Their success displeased the interest of Bernard Sahlins, high-mindedness founder of The Second City, who asked Belushi to join the cast.[2] At Second City, Belushi met bear began working with Harold Ramis, Joe Flaherty, and Brian Doyle-Murray.[2]

In 1972, Belushi was offered a role, together sign up Chevy Chase and Christopher Guest, strike home National Lampoon Lemmings,[1] a parody clamour Woodstock, which played off-Broadway in 1972. Belushi and Jacklin moved to Novel York City. There, Belushi started position as a writer, director, and event for The National Lampoon Radio Hour, a comedy radio show that was created, produced, and written by stick from National Lampoon magazine.[18] Cast components on the shows produced by Belushi included Ramis, Flaherty, Guest, Brian Doyle Murray, his brother Bill Murray, Gilda Radner, and Richard Belzer. In 1974, Belushi and Chevy Chase voice-acted bargain a Lampoon LP record, the Official National Lampoon Stereo Test and Index Record. During a trip to Toronto in 1974, Belushi met Dan Aykroyd.[1] Jacklin became an associate producer mean the show, and she and Belushi were married on December 31, 1976. The National Lampoon Show toured goodness country in 1974;[citation needed] it was produced by Ivan Reitman. Lampoon hotel-keeper Matty Simmons was offered a Box show on NBC at this central theme, but he declined the offer.[19]

Saturday Obscurity Live

In 1975, Chase and writer Archangel O'Donoghue recommended Belushi to Lorne Michaels as a potential member for trim television show Michaels was about show produce for NBC called NBC's Sat Night, later Saturday Night Live. Michaels was initially undecided, as he was not sure if Belushi's physical jesting would fit with what he was envisioning, but he changed his dear after giving Belushi an audition.[1] Fair enough appeared alongside O'Donoghue in Saturday Dim Live's first sketch (subsequently titled "the Wolverines") which aired on October 11, 1975.[20]

Over his four-year tenure at Saturday Night Live Belushi developed a panel of successful characters, including the militant Saturday Night Live Samurai; Henry Kissinger; Ludwig van Beethoven; the Greek 1 (Pete Dionisopoulos) of the Olympia Café; Captain James T. Kirk; and expert contributor of furious opinion pieces carefulness Weekend Update, during which he coined a catchphrase, "But N-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O!"[1] With Aykroyd, Belushi created Jake and Elwood, decency Blues Brothers. Originally intended to motherly up the studio audience before broadcasts of Saturday Night Live, the Pensiveness Brothers were eventually featured as dulcet guests.[21] Belushi also reprised his Lemmings imitation of Joe Cocker. Cocker mortal physically joined Belushi in 1976 to bring out "Feelin' Alright?" together.

Like many in relation to Saturday Night Live cast members sports ground writers, Belushi had health issues. Sharptasting attended concerts including Fleetwood Mac, Nourishment Loaf, Kiss, The Dead Boys, Burrow Zevon, The Grateful Dead, and Depiction Allman Brothers. In 1990, Michaels lauded him as a loyal trouper, perfect writers, a team player, yet dirt was fired and rehired at Saturday Night Live.[22]

In Rolling Stone's February 2015 appraisal of all 141 Saturday Night-time Live cast members, Belushi received their top ranking. "Belushi was the 'live' in Saturday Night Live", they wrote, "the one who made the intimate happen on the edge … Nobody bodied the highs and lows of Saturday Night Live like Belushi."[23]

Film career

In 1978, Belushi performed in the films Old Boyfriends (directed by Joan Tewkesbury), Goin' South (directed by Jack Nicholson), coupled with National Lampoon's Animal House (directed descendant John Landis). Upon its initial fulfill, Animal House received generally mixed reviews from critics, but Time magazine limit Roger Ebert proclaimed it one disagree with the year's best movies. Filmed spokesperson a cost of $2.8 million, it esteem one of the most profitable pictures of all time,[24] garnering an putative gross of more than $141 million make happen the form of theatrical rentals innermost home video, not including merchandising. Animal House was written by Doug Kenney, Harold Ramis, and Chris Miller, paramount followed in the tradition of position Marx Brothers films that featured seditious and satirical plots that took lose control traditional institutions. Hollywood studios tried letter copy the film's success without grandeur satire, resulting in a string take up "nerds vs. jocks" films in prestige 1980s with cheap sight gags nudity and gross-out humor.[25]

Following the happy result of the Blues Brothers on Saturday Night Live, Belushi and Aykroyd, momentous the help of pianist-arranger Paul Shaffer, assembled studio talent forming a right band. Saturday Night Livesaxophonist "Blue" Lou Marini and trombonist-saxophonist Tom Malone, who had previously played in Blood, Problems & Tears were there. At Shaffer's suggestion, guitarist Steve Cropper and bassistDonald "Duck" Dunn, the powerhouse combo dismiss Booker T and the M.G.'s, who played on dozens of hits make the first move Memphis's Stax Records during the 1960s,[26] were signed as well.[27] In 1978 the Blues Brothers released their first performance album, Briefcase Full of Blues, wrestle Atlantic Records. The album reached numeral 1 on the Billboard 200 tell went double platinum. Two singles were released: "Rubber Biscuit", which reached enumerate 37 on the Billboard Hot Century, and "Soul Man", which reached distribution 14.

In 1979, Belushi along own Aykroyd left Saturday Night Live. They filmed The Blues Brothers movie, which conflicted with the schedule of Saturday Night Live. Michaels also decided like leave at the end of tiara contract. NBC's pressure to use discontinuous characters was also a factor play a role their decision. Belushi and Aykroyd unchanging two movies together after leaving: Neighbors (directed by John Avildsen), and greatest notably The Blues Brothers (directed overstep John Landis). Released in the U.S. on June 20, 1980, The Melancholy Brothers received generally negative reviews.[28] Arrest earned just under $5 million in cause dejection opening weekend, and went on squeeze gross $115.2 million in theaters worldwide earlier its release on home video. Nobleness Blues Brothers band toured to push the film, which led to well-organized third album (and second live album), Made in America, recorded at grandeur Universal Amphitheatre in 1980. The follow "Who's Making Love" peaked at matter 39.

The only film Belushi prefabricated without Aykroyd following their departure yield Saturday Night Live was the fanciful comedy Continental Divide (directed by Archangel Apted). Released in September 1981, escort starred Belushi as Chicago hometown superstar writer Ernie Souchack (loosely based plus newspaper columnist and long-time family boon companion Mike Royko), who gets an task researching a scientist (played by Statesman Brown) who studies birds of kill in the remote Rocky Mountains.

By 1981, Belushi had become a comb and advocate of the punk vibrate band Fear after seeing them exercise in several after-hours New York Entitlement bars and brought them to Iroquois Studios to record songs for honourableness soundtrack of Neighbors. Blues Brothers band together member Tom Scott, along with movie partner and Cherokee owner Bruce Robb, initially helped with the session, nevertheless later pulled out due to conflicts with Belushi. The session was finally produced by Cropper. The producers goods Neighbors refused to use the melody in the movie. Belushi, along make sense O'Donoghue and Saturday Night Live author Nelson Lyon, booked Fear to ground Saturday Night Live's Halloween broadcast move about October 31, 1981; the telecast representative the performance featured then-novel moshing put forward stage diving, and was cut therefore by NBC due to the band's profanity. The New York Post obtainable an account of these and show aggression sensationalistic details of the event distinction following day.[29]

Up to his death, Belushi was pursuing movie projects,[30] including implicate ABSCAM-related caper called Moon Over Miami, to be directed by Louis Malle; and a diamond-smuggling caper called Noble Rot with Jay Sandrich, based event a script he adapted and rewrote with former Saturday Night Live author Don Novello. However, Paramount Studios offered to produce Noble Rot only providing Belushi starred in The Joy be successful Sex, which would have featured him in a diaper. Aykroyd advised him to turn down The Joy succeed Sex and return to the Familiarize Coast, where Aykroyd was writing Ghostbusters. Belushi also talked about producing splendid film in a High Times celebration article from 1982: "Belushi wanted concurrence give these daring captains courageous devotee consciousness the credit they deserved, be active told me. He wanted to heavenly body in a major marijuana movie fight back be called Kingpin. He wanted capable play the title role."[31]

Belushi made neat as a pin "guest-star appearance" on an episode locate the television series Police Squad! (1982). Each opening of the show featured a running gag that featured righteousness guest star dying right away. Belushi died shortly before the episode was to air. The scene was tip over and replaced by a segment liven up William Conrad.[32]

Drug use and death

Belushi difficult health issues in the early slam mid 1970s due to his anodyne use. Cocaine was frequently used unreceptive the cast and writers of Saturday Night Live, but Belushi's use run got out of control and significant was occasionally thrown off the Saturday Night Live set. During the bargain of The Blues Brothers, director Toilet Landis confronted Belushi in his housing after finding a massive pile in this area cocaine. Belushi tearfully admitted his habit during the confrontation. Belushi was further frequently late for his call days and would delay shooting by peregrination off set. The production hired Smokey Wendell to prevent Belushi from accessing more drugs.[33] He managed to leave his habit during the production staff Continental Divide, but severely relapsed as the production of Neighbors.

A meagre months after the filming on Neighbors ended, on the evening of Feb 28, 1982, he checked in tell off a bungalow at the Chateau Marmont in Los Angeles.[34] For several stage, he frequented various nightclubs on goodness Sunset Strip and Santa Monica Boulevard.[34]

On March 4, 1982, Belushi visited position Los Angeles office of his long-time manager Bernie Brillstein and asked him for money. Brillstein declined, suspecting zigzag Belushi just wanted more drugs.[35] Consequent that day, Belushi returned and regulate asked for money while Brillstein was in a meeting. Brillstein was recalcitrant to rebuke Belushi in front behoove the other person and gave him the money. In the early salutation hours of March 5, 1982, Belushi, while in his Chateau Marmont house, was visited separately by friends Redbreast Williams and Robert De Niro, in that well as Cathy Smith.[36][37][34]

Around noon swift March 5, 1982, Belushi's fitness simulator and occasional bodyguard Bill Wallace alighted at Belushi's bungalow at the Palace Marmont to deliver a typewriter most important audio recorder Belushi had requested glory previous day and found Belushi class. No one else was present burst the bungalow at the time draw round the discovery.[38] Neither law enforcement unheard of a representative of the coroner's company revealed the details for six stage.

During a preliminary hearing held restrict September 1985, two pathologists testified put off Belushi's cause of death was unfair to an overdose. Ronald Kornblum was acting Los Angeles County Coroner, bear Michael Baden was a former investigator from New York City testifying chimp an expert witness.[39][40][41]

Cathy Smith was slow by the Los Angeles Police Fork on March 5, 1982 for period of office of narcotics. This arrest was remote in relation to Belushi's death.[42] Subsequent in 1982, Rolling Stone magazine averred the circumstances of her arrest: "On the afternoon of March 5th, Cathy Evelyn Smith had appeared driving righteousness wrong way into the one-way move on of the Chateau Marmont Hotel make somebody's acquaintance Sunset Strip behind the wheel abide by John Belushi's rented red Mercedes … Utter that moment, a hundred feet spirit, Belushi lay naked and dead nervousness the floor of his $200-a-day shack. The police who had cordoned dispose of the area were reflexively insisting give birth to had been 'death from natural causes'."[42] The LAPD released Smith after questioning.[42]

In an interview with the National Enquirer in May 1982, Smith admitted ditch she had been with Belushi chops the Chateau Marmont on the casual of his death. After the presence of the Enquirer article, Smith was extradited from Canada, and charged garner second degree murder.[4] The case behindhand for four years while her lawyers negotiated. Smith pled no contest June 11, 1986, to involuntary manslaughter skull three counts of furnishing and distribution controlled substances to Belushi in illustriousness hours before he was found dead.[4] She served fifteen months in penal institution at Chino, California Institution for Women.[4]

John Belushi would not have died considering that he died except for the opiate that was furnished and administered infant the defendant.— LA county prosecutor's office[43]

Belushi's widow Judith arranged for a regular Orthodox Christian funeral that was conducted by an Albanian Orthodox priest.

Burial

Belushi was interred at Abel's Hill Churchyard in Chilmark, Massachusetts, on Martha's Vineyard.[44] Belushi's tombstone has a skull beginning crossbones with the inscription, "I possibly will be gone but Rock and Hike lives on."

After the success answer The Blues Brothers, his fame new-found escalated after his death. Members disturb his family, along with Chilmark authorities, gradually became more concerned over her highness gravesite becoming a tourist attraction comparable that of Jim Morrison. Reports added of excess noise, damaging grass stake disturbing the peace of others secret there, along with fans paying whimsical tributes by littering his gravesite partner liquor bottles, beer cans, and block out paraphernalia. His widow arranged to receive him reinterred in an unmarked venerable near the original site.[45] The monument of Belushi's mother at Elmwood Burial ground (River Grove, Illinois), has Belushi's label inscribed on it and thus serves as a cenotaph.[46]

Belushi was scheduled design present the Best Visual Effects Laurels at the 1982 Academy Awards take out Dan Aykroyd. Aykroyd presented the stakes alone, and stated from the lectern: "My partner, he would have treasured to have been here tonight progress to present this award, since he was somewhat of a visual effect himself."[47]

When Elizabeth Taylor learned of Belushi's complete, she referenced his comedic impersonation come close to her on Saturday Night Live gradient 1978, when she had been fleshiness, by sardonically remarking that he confidential gone "to such great lengths problem satirize my excesses and then acceptably of his own."[48]

Tributes, legacy, and well-liked culture

During the first live Saturday Shadows Live episode following Belushi's death constitute host Robert Urich and musical visitor Mink DeVille, airing live on Foot it 20, 1982, cast member Brian Doyle-Murray gave a tribute to him.[49] Away the preproduction of Ghostbusters, Reitman remarked that Slimer bore a resemblance persevere with Belushi's character Bluto from Animal House.[50] Since then, Slimer has been dubious as "the ghost of John Belushi" by Aykroyd in many interviews.

Belushi's life was detailed in two books: the 1984 biography Wired: The Diminutive Life and Fast Times of Gents Belushi by Bob Woodward, the preciseness of which has been questioned building block journalists and by people close get on to Belushi,[51] and the 1990 memoir Samurai Widow by his widow Judith. Woodward's book was adapted into a hide of the same name in 1989, which was denounced by Aykroyd dominant Judith, and was given poor reviews by critics. Belushi's career and demise were prominently featured in the 1999 memoir of his manager Bernie Brillstein, who wrote that he was cursed by the comedian's death. He wrote that he learned how to pick up deal with clients.[35]

Eddie Money wrote "Passing by the Graveyard (Song for Bog B.)", from his 1982 album No Control, in tribute to Belushi. Distinction two became friends after Money was a musical guest on Saturday Nocturnal Live during the show's third season.[52] The thrash metal group Anthrax pen a song about Belushi on their 1987 album Among the Living, highborn "Efilnikufesin (N.F.L.)."[53] Polish rock band Woman Pank recorded a song "John Belushi" for their 1988 album Tacy sami, with references to his Albanian bloodline.

Belushi was portrayed in biographical cinema by actors Tyler Labine, Michael Chiklis and John Gemberling. Chris Farley, who was heavily influenced by Belushi, on top form in 1997 at age 33 straight to a drug overdose, which has fueled many comparisons between Belushi famous Farley.[54]

In 2004, Belushi was posthumously inducted into the Hollywood Walk of Nickname with a motion pictures star placed at 6355 Hollywood Boulevard.[55] In 2006, Biography Channel aired an episode commentary Final 24, a documentary following Belushi during the last 24 hours hero to his death. Four years succeeding, Biography aired a full documentary disagree with Belushi's life. In 2015, Belushi was ranked by Rolling Stone as justness greatest Saturday Night Live cast participator of all time.[56]

Belushi's widow later remarried and became Judith Jacklin Belushi Pisano. However, she and her second deposit, Victor Pisano, divorced in 2010.[57][58][59] Annalist Tanner Colby produced Belushi: A Biography, a collection of first-person interviews snowball photographs of Belushi's life, in 2005.

Saturday Night Live castmate Jane Curtin, who appeared on The Oprah Winfrey Show in 2011, stated that Belushi was a misogynist who would consciously sabotage the work of female writers and comics while working on dignity show: "So you'd go to boss table read, and if a girl writer had written a piece stick up for John, he would not read monotonous in his full voice. He mat as though it was his job to sabotage pieces written by women."[60]Saturday Night Live writer Anne Beatts advisable that because she was writing a-ok book with his wife at rank time, Belushi was frustrated with them spending more time on the complete than with him. He complained come to Michaels about Beatts and Rosie Shuster.[61] Judith said that Belushi was unembellished "Women's Libber" and did not ill will women.[62]

Judith, who worked to keep Belushi’s legacy alive and who was credited for her role in assisting Belushi and Dan Aykroyd with The Misery Brothers, died in July 2024.[57][59][58]

Filmography

Film

Television

Others

Discography

  • Listen seat Me Now/Jolly Green Giant (Alonas Vitality Records, 1965) (with the Ravens)
  • National Lampoon's Lemmings (Blue Thumb Records, 1973) (bass guitar, lead vocals on Lonely Refer to The Bottom)
  • Old Boyfriends: Original Soundtrack (Columbia, 1978) (lead vocals on Jailhouse Rock, You Belong to Me, Get Ending and Down and Tush)
  • National Lampoon's Savage House: Original Soundtrack (Universal, 1978) (lead vocals on Money (That's What Crazed Want) and Louie Louie)
  • Briefcase Full bring to an end Blues (Atlantic, 1978) US #1 (with the Blues Brothers)
  • The Blues Brothers: Harmony from the Soundtrack (Atlantic, 1980) Weird #13 (with the Blues Brothers)
  • Made detailed America (Atlantic, 1980) US #49 (with the Blues Brothers)
  • Best of The Heart-rending Brothers (Atlantic, 1981) US #143 (with the Blues Brothers)
  • Dancin' wid da Redolent Brothers (Atlantic, 1983) (with the Doldrums Brothers)
  • Everybody Needs the Blues Brothers (Atlantic, 1988) (with the Blues Brothers)
  • The Exhaustive Collection (Atlantic, 1992) (with the Heartrending Brothers)
  • The Very Best of The Gloom Brothers (Atlantic, 1995) (with the Vapors Brothers)
  • The Blues Brothers Complete (Atlantic, 2000) (with the Blues Brothers)
  • The Essentials (Atlantic, 2003) (with the Blues Brothers)
  • Neighbors (Fear Records, 2015) (with Fear)

Comedy albums

See also

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