Like many other baby boomers (technically speaking, I predated them as
having been born during the war), I became a big fan of Saturday Night
Live when it premiered in 1975. I had more than the usual interest in
the show because I had been a good friend of Chevy Chase at Bard College
and was following his career.
As such, I was curious to see what the Showtime documentary on John
Belushi would have to say, given the interviews with Chevy and other
personalities who worked with him. Belushi was interesting enough in his
own right for me to have read Bob Woodward’s “Wired: The Short Life and
Fast Times of John Belushi” back in 1984. Woodward’s lurid (how could it
have been anything else?) biography reminded me a lot of Albert
Goldman’s Elvis Presley biography that came out the same year and which
I also read. I was struck by the similarities between the two books and
the two men. Woodward and Goldman had little sympathy for their subjects
and wrote books that were meant to portray them as self-indulgent freaks
done in by their gargantuan drug habits and their huge popularity.
https://louisproyect.org/2020/12/26/belushi/
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