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‘Belushi’: A Loving Look At The Comedy Legend’s Rush Toward Oblivion [Review]

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A wickedly industrious joke-machine intellect attached to a pneumatic pair of eyebrows, John Belushi was the king of American comedy in the mid-to-late 1970s.

At the peak of his career, he could boast a sinecure at “Saturday Night Live,” blockbuster movies, a hit band, and the best Toshiro Mifune imitation ever to hit American TV.

Nevertheless, as related in R.J. Cutler’s tragic documentary “Belushi,” he destroyed everything he had with the same abandon that John Landis wrecked police cruisers in their movie “The Blues Brothers.” Using heretofore-unheard interviews from an oral history project by Tanner Colby, “Belushi” can be seen as something of a riposte to Bob Woodward’s 1984 biography “Wired.” The book is seen by people in Belushi’s.

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