Saturday marks the 40th anniversary of actor John Belushi's death.
“When she woke up this morning,” Cooke said, the woman found Mr. Belushi “breathing heavily. He had some nasal congestion. She asked him if he was all right and he said, ‘Yes.’Cooke said the woman signed a room-service receipt for breakfast at 8 a.m.Police and news media mill around on March 5, 1982, outside the Chateau Marmont Hotel in Los Angeles, where comedian John Belushi was found dead.
“We knew he was in his room because he checks out with the desk if he leaves,” Beckler said. “We suspected something was wrong.”“When I got there, his friend Bill was there already,” he said. “I asked, ‘Is Mr. Belushi OK?’ He says, ‘No, he’s dead.’ I said, ‘We’ve got to do something,’ and the paramedics were summoned.”
The other Belushi star, Jim, who was also a Second City actor, was at Chicago’s Shubert Theatre, where he is starring in “The Pirates of Penzance,” when he learned of his brother’s death. He went ahead with Friday night’s show because “John would have wanted me to,” a theater spokesman said. No special observance was made of Mr. Belushi’s death.“Yes, he’s dead. He died here,” said Laurie Johnson of the firm Solters, Roskin and Friedman, which represented him.
This undated photo originally released by Universal Studios Home Entertainment, shows actor John Belushi in a scene from the 1978 film"Animal House." Along with Aykroyd he invented the characters known as the Blues Brothers, a soul-singing duo who wore black suits, black hats, and black sunglasses. Aykroyd was the blues freak who turned Mr. Belushi on to the music that was born in part in Chicago.
Performing for a $1 admission charge at a Universal Life church and sharing a $35-a-week apartment, Mr. Belushi and his friends, Steve Bashekas and Tino Insana, were invited to audition at Second City in 1971. Mr. Belushi was accepted and immediately made the most of his big break. It was at Second City that Mr. Belushi’s gifts developed, and among the characters he created during his brief but explosive stay there was the Samurai warrior that became one of his trademarks on “Saturday Night Live.”
Long-haired and uncharacteristically subdued during much of the first season of “Saturday Night Live,” perhaps because the initial spotlight fell on Chevy Chase, Mr. Belushi eventually found characters into which he could pour his burly, macho passion. Mr. Belushi’s film career consists of seven films: “Animal House,” “Old Boyfriends,” “Goin’ South,” “1941,” “The Blues Brothers,” “Continental Divide” and “Neighbors.”
“I want to try to play every kind of part I can,” Mr. Belushi said in an interview. “Serious things and comic things.”
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