Belushi (2020) EN

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Okay? Am I ready?

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Yeah, we're ready.

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Okay. All right.

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Are they ready?

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Now they're ready.

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Okay, I'm gonna do
some loosening-up exercises.

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Take to the right.

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Okay.
Take to the left.

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A double take to the right
and a double take to the left.

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Okay, let's work
on the eyebrows now.

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Ready?
Right eyebrow.

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Up, down, up, down, up, down,
and start.

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Okay, left.

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Up--up, down, up, down,
up, down.

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Okay, up, down, up, down.

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Hello?

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Ms. Shuster,
this is Tanner Colby

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calling about
the John Belushi interview.

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Yeah, hi.

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Mr. Michaels, how are you?

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Good.

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Tanner Colby, can I ask you

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to call me back
in ten minutes?

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That is not a problem.

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Okay, thanks.

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How about some Brando?

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You was my brother, Charley.

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You should've taken care of me
or some'n.

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Could've been a somebody.
Could've been a contender.

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Are you taping
or making notes?

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Uh, taping.
Is that okay?

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You should always
ask permission

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before you tape.

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Okay. May I tape?

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Yes, you may.

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What are you doing?

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It's gonna be like
an oral history

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told in the words of the
first-person participants

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because no one's ever done
a real biography

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of John as a performer.

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You know,
when he showed up,

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it radically altered
the landscape of comedy.

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I just wanted to give more
of a full portrait of him

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as a human being.

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Oh, okay.

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No, no, no.

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Want to do Steiger quickly?

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Terry, Terry, Terry,

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what are you talking about?

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What are you talkin' about?

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Don't talk to me that way!

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Give me a light,
Johnny.

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I'm going nuts, here.

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He was one of the most
lovable and tragic characters

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I've ever met.

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He could be completely kind

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and thoughtful and generous
and wonderful

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and, at the flipside
of the coin,

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be chaotic and tortured,
you know?

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He also was hilariously funny.

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He just had
a sort of giant humanity

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that hooked into
the collective unconsciousness

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of people's funny bone.

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All right, all right.

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John always had appetites

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that were completely out
of control for everything,

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but I didn't start
to worry about him

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until they were
at the Universal Amphitheatre

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playing for 7,000 people.

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Thank you.

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I looked at John
on the stage, and I thought,

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"He's on the most popular
comedy television show

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of our generation"...

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Live from New York,
it's Saturday Night!

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But, no!

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I logged a lot miles
training for that day,

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and I downed
a lot of doughnuts.

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That's why
Little Chocolate Donuts

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have been at my training table
since I was a kid.

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He's in the most
successful comedy film ever.

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This is absolutely gross.

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That boy is a P-I-G, pig.

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See if you can guess
what I am now.

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I'm a zit.
Get it?

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And now he's onstage,
fronting an amazing band.

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Suspenseful music

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My first thought was,
"How great for him."

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And my second thought was,

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knowing his appetites,

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"I don't think
he'll survive this."

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The Chips'
"Rubber Biscuit"

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energetic scatting

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I was a sophomore
in high school,

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and a bunch of the senior guys
gave us a ride home.

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And that was
when I first met him.

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Hi.

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My first date was homecoming,

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and he was homecoming king.

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That was a good introduction
to my life with John,

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because he has
to go dance with the queen...

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And I have to dance
with her boyfriend.

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When I first was
getting involved with John,

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his passion was football,

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but he was beginning
to do things onstage.

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He did the varsity show,

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and he came up with lots
of little skits,

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like a little jug band.

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He had a vision of the show

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so he just grabbed
his friends

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and said,
"Here's what we're gonna do."

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And they did it.

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His vehicle was a motorcycle
that he was very fond of.

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He bought it on his own.

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I wasn't supposed
to ride on motorcycles,

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so he would have to borrow
my parents' car to go out,

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but I thought
it was very cool.

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I did write a list of what
I wanted from a boyfriend,

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'cause, you know, you have
to manifest these things.

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It was "good at sports, smart,

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musical, and funny."

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And he was all those things.

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And, of course,
I thought he was Italian,

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as I think most people did.

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I didn't know
where Albania was

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when he said he was Albanian.

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"Is that a country?"
I was like, "Albania?"

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And I think he always felt
that immigrant label

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pretty strongly...

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that his family
were foreigners.

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When we first moved
to Wheaton from Chicago,

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John was six years old.

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John lived in a world
of his own.

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He was just like a little man.
He just took care of himself.

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His father was
an Albanian immigrant.

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He was embarrassed
by the way he spoke,

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and he didn't express himself
at all.

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He wanted to be a cowboy.

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He wanted to come to America
and be a cowboy.

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John's family
was a mystery to us.

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None of us had ever heard
of Albania, God knows.

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He was very ashamed
of his home,

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and we never went
inside his house, ever.

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We all wanted
to be American.

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So, if your parents spoke
Albanian in the house,

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it was kind of embarrassing
to you.

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Well, you know,
he was kind of intense,

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you know,
around the house

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but around the dinner table
every once in a while,

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he'd really let loose.

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He'd do impressions
of everything.

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Could've been a contender.

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He loved
to be a performer, you know?

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As a three-year-old kid,
he used to go the neighbor's,

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walk into a room,
and do a show.

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John just wanted
to make everyone laugh.

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Of course,
my dad didn't, like,

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even see the humor in it,
you know?

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He'd just keep eating.

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Country music

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But the strong influence
in our house,

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that was my grandmother,
who didn't speak English.

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She loved John very much.

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"Johnny nunnas,"
she used to say.

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She used to go,
"Johnny nunnas."

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I don't know what it means,

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but it sounds really warm,
you know?

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Well, I'm a king bee

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bluesy music

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Buzzing around your hive

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John's dad was
in the restaurant business

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and owned a restaurant
in Chicago.

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He stayed there, like,

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five nights a week
or something.

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Come back on the weekend.

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His father was a serious guy.

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When he was young,
he started drinking.

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He was abusing it,
and he stopped.

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He did not drink.

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Really was a hardworking guy

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and away from the house a lot.

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The idea was to get ahead.

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It was all
about the American dream.

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His mother,

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she worked in various
restaurants as well.

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She wasn't around a lot.

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And she herself
had aspirations.

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She wanted to be an actress

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and actually ran away once
and did a play.

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Like, left home.

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No one knew where she was.
Showed up,

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she's got a little apartment
and doing a play.

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And then she came home,
and that was the end of that.

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I just thought
that she felt sad...

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...that things hadn't gone

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how she would've liked.

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I don't think John's parents
really understood his essence.

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They didn't have the exchanges
with him to know it.

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They didn't share
that kind of time.

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It was Nana who provided
the unconditional love

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for the kids.

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Oh, boy,
what a fun night to drive!

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He'd play the records
something like a million times

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until you go crazy.

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Boy, hit that semi dead-on.

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Jonathan Winters
and Bob Newhart.

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You must've
been doing at least 65.

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I was doing 90, clown!

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And he'd imitate them
in the mirror.

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And then he'd write little
skit things off of it

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and do them.

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Special guest this morning,

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four-foot-two, 656-pound
Elsa Fattinsky.

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And then once
he starting doing it,

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he said that he felt like
he could, you know,

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go somewhere with this life,
you know?

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Earth tremors
were felt around the world

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to Schkorgus, New Jersey.

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And then in the band too.

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He had a band, you know?

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And he'd bring these kids,
anybody who could play.

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And he'd show up
with this whole mob of kids.

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That was the way he was.

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He would bring ten kids
with him.

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Rock music

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He felt like
he didn't have a family,

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so he tried to create his own.

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John was the star
of the class.

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He was so in control
when he was doing a play,

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and he was so funny.

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You just knew he was special.

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And when he found Judy
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I mean, that was it.

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The John and Judy relationship

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is really one of those things

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that you hear about
in storybooks.

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From the time I first met him,

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it seemed like he was always

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leading me into new doors
and experiences.

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And it was like John had
some kind of magic.

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He attracted people.

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His enthusiasm was such
that you got revved up

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and then you wanted to do it
too, whatever it was.

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He decided to audition
for a summer stock theater

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in Indiana.

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I think he was
the youngest performer

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they ever had who they paid.

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I believe
he was paid $45 a week,

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and he was expected
to mow lawn and paint as well.

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Dear Jutes, well, here it is.

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Twenty minutes to ten.

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We're going through the
readings of our first play.

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I don't have a real big part
in this one.

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I play a general.

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This is really
Hicksville, USA.

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I can't believe it.

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When I ride my bike in town,

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the local yokels think
I'm a Hells Angel.

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I'll write as often as I can,
sweetheart.

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00:11:19,595 --> 00:11:20,888
You know what they say.

260
00:11:20,930 --> 00:11:23,599
Absence
makes the heart grow fonder.

261
00:11:23,641 --> 00:11:26,477
Your one and only, John B.

262
00:11:26,519 --> 00:11:27,645
Dear Jutes,

263
00:11:27,687 --> 00:11:30,272
I'm listening to the Beatles
album Sgt. Pepper.

264
00:11:30,314 --> 00:11:32,191
Whenever I hear it,
I think of you.

265
00:11:32,233 --> 00:11:34,360
Especially "A Little Help
from My Friends."

266
00:11:34,402 --> 00:11:35,820
I've lost about five pounds.

267
00:11:35,861 --> 00:11:38,155
I'll fast for two weeks more
so we can go swimming.

268
00:11:38,197 --> 00:11:39,532
I smoked pot the other night.

269
00:11:39,573 --> 00:11:41,909
It's really something.
It's better than being drunk.

270
00:11:41,951 --> 00:11:43,911
I might take it again,
but I don't know.

271
00:11:43,953 --> 00:11:45,955
We got some reviews
from the papers.

272
00:11:45,996 --> 00:11:47,331
I got some good ones.

273
00:11:47,373 --> 00:11:49,208
A few papers
said I was superb.

274
00:11:49,250 --> 00:11:50,710
When I get back,
we'll have to go

275
00:11:50,751 --> 00:11:53,087
to Second City once
to see a show.

276
00:11:53,129 --> 00:11:54,755
I hear it's great.

277
00:11:59,093 --> 00:12:00,761
Directions on going out
on dates

278
00:12:00,803 --> 00:12:02,304
with anyone except John B:

279
00:12:02,346 --> 00:12:05,975
do not take bath and/or shower
three days prior to date.

280
00:12:06,016 --> 00:12:07,643
Do not use deodorant
before date.

281
00:12:07,685 --> 00:12:10,271
Do not brush teeth
and/or use mouthwash.

282
00:12:10,312 --> 00:12:13,023
Wear mother's dress
which covers entire body.

283
00:12:13,065 --> 00:12:16,819
Tell date that you have mono,
cramps, and halitosis.

284
00:12:16,861 --> 00:12:20,573
If he tries to kiss you,
kill him.

285
00:12:23,242 --> 00:12:27,121
He had a real penchant
for getting his feelings out.

286
00:12:27,163 --> 00:12:28,789
My family was very Waspy

287
00:12:28,831 --> 00:12:30,332
and emotions
weren't really discussed

288
00:12:30,374 --> 00:12:32,877
and he was very clear
about those things.

289
00:12:35,004 --> 00:12:38,758
A poem
by John Keats-Belushi.

290
00:12:38,799 --> 00:12:43,012
I wander through
the dark forest of my mind

291
00:12:43,053 --> 00:12:46,307
in search of something
that I must find.

292
00:12:47,433 --> 00:12:50,728
There is no purpose
to this little strife

293
00:12:50,770 --> 00:12:55,024
to find the answer
of what should be life.

294
00:12:55,065 --> 00:12:58,486
The bountiful monotony
of this petty place

295
00:12:58,527 --> 00:13:01,864
is broken
by an understanding face.

296
00:13:03,949 --> 00:13:06,410
For there the answer lies,

297
00:13:06,452 --> 00:13:09,246
the answer to my cries.

298
00:13:09,288 --> 00:13:11,248
I am forever yours

299
00:13:11,290 --> 00:13:13,000
and yours alone.

300
00:13:13,042 --> 00:13:14,293
John.

301
00:13:16,670 --> 00:13:18,464
His experience
at summer stock

302
00:13:18,506 --> 00:13:21,592
was a really important
confidence builder,

303
00:13:21,634 --> 00:13:25,596
and it gave him a broader
outlook on the world

304
00:13:25,638 --> 00:13:29,350
and what was going on
and how he saw himself in it.

305
00:13:29,391 --> 00:13:32,102
But when we went
to Second City,

306
00:13:32,144 --> 00:13:35,648
that really cemented
his passion for acting.

307
00:13:35,689 --> 00:13:36,982
Hi, Melvin. Sorry I'm late.

308
00:13:37,024 --> 00:13:38,359
I was working
down at the agency,

309
00:13:38,400 --> 00:13:39,401
and I don't recognize you.

310
00:13:39,443 --> 00:13:40,444
You're new, aren't you?

311
00:13:40,486 --> 00:13:42,488
Well, not terribly. I'm 30.

312
00:13:44,365 --> 00:13:46,909
Soft dramatic music

313
00:13:46,951 --> 00:13:50,246
The most memorable part
of the evening to me

314
00:13:50,287 --> 00:13:51,622
was that as we left,

315
00:13:51,664 --> 00:13:54,625
John stopped, turned around,
and said to me,

316
00:13:54,667 --> 00:13:57,253
"This is what I want to do...

317
00:13:57,294 --> 00:13:59,755
be an actor and create."

318
00:14:01,507 --> 00:14:04,051
And I'd have to be prepared
to support us

319
00:14:04,093 --> 00:14:07,179
because he was going to
probably never make any money.

320
00:14:07,221 --> 00:14:11,016
So I was prepared.

321
00:14:11,976 --> 00:14:13,978
But it was very much expected

322
00:14:14,019 --> 00:14:17,106
that he would go into business
with his father

323
00:14:17,147 --> 00:14:19,108
and take over the restaurant.

324
00:14:19,149 --> 00:14:21,819
That was his father's dream
for him.

325
00:14:21,861 --> 00:14:24,655
But John knew it wasn't
what he wanted to do,

326
00:14:24,697 --> 00:14:28,200
and he knew it would be wrong
to try to do it

327
00:14:28,242 --> 00:14:30,911
because his heart
wasn't in it.

328
00:14:30,953 --> 00:14:33,163
And that was John Belushi 101,
you know?

329
00:14:33,205 --> 00:14:36,375
You don't do something
that you don't believe in.

330
00:14:37,877 --> 00:14:39,211
Dear Judy,

331
00:14:39,253 --> 00:14:42,464
I guess I'm going through what
they call an identity crisis.

332
00:14:42,506 --> 00:14:46,051
You know, "Who am I?
Who do I want to be?"

333
00:14:46,093 --> 00:14:49,388
Any way you look at it,
we're gonna suffer in life.

334
00:14:49,430 --> 00:14:50,514
The only thing we can do

335
00:14:50,556 --> 00:14:53,058
is choose which way
we will suffer.

336
00:14:53,100 --> 00:14:55,144
Sure,
I've got big plans for us,

337
00:14:55,185 --> 00:14:58,522
but what if I fall on my face
and we're miserable?

338
00:14:58,564 --> 00:15:00,524
Being a basically happy person

339
00:15:00,566 --> 00:15:02,943
prone to occasionally
melancholy despair,

340
00:15:02,985 --> 00:15:05,321
I'm not sure of anything
right now

341
00:15:05,362 --> 00:15:07,323
in this whole damn,
fucked up world.

342
00:15:07,364 --> 00:15:10,743
The only thing I am sure of
is that if it wasn't for you,

343
00:15:10,784 --> 00:15:12,661
I'd be a mental
and physical wreck,

344
00:15:12,703 --> 00:15:14,413
and you're
the most wonderful thing

345
00:15:14,455 --> 00:15:15,789
that's ever happened to me.

346
00:15:15,831 --> 00:15:20,085
I think you're the one person
who really understands me.

347
00:15:20,127 --> 00:15:23,255
Love, John.

348
00:15:23,297 --> 00:15:26,425
The Stooges'
"Down on the Street"

349
00:15:26,467 --> 00:15:29,011
heavy rock music

350
00:15:29,053 --> 00:15:30,429
Within the following year,

351
00:15:30,471 --> 00:15:33,015
he went to college and had
organized two friends of his,

352
00:15:33,057 --> 00:15:34,975
Tino Insana
and Steve Beshekas,

353
00:15:35,017 --> 00:15:38,896
into a group that they called
the West Compass Players.

354
00:15:38,938 --> 00:15:41,440
Just like he pulled a band
together earlier,

355
00:15:41,482 --> 00:15:44,234
it was,
"Let's make an improv group."

356
00:15:45,486 --> 00:15:47,696
John was
the most serious actor,

357
00:15:47,738 --> 00:15:48,906
even in those days.

358
00:15:48,948 --> 00:15:52,242
And he would continually
study improvising and comedy,

359
00:15:52,284 --> 00:15:54,411
and he read
three newspapers a day--

360
00:15:54,453 --> 00:15:57,581
and a real political satirist.

361
00:15:57,623 --> 00:16:00,876
We would go to the coffeehouse
and hang out and rehearse.

362
00:16:00,918 --> 00:16:02,378
Okay, buster, on your feet!

363
00:16:02,419 --> 00:16:05,422
And those sketches were
about cops beating up hippies.

364
00:16:05,464 --> 00:16:08,300
Everything
was about hippies.

365
00:16:08,342 --> 00:16:09,551
Were you with him

366
00:16:09,593 --> 00:16:11,637
when he went down to protest
at the convention?

367
00:16:11,679 --> 00:16:12,638
Oh, yes, I was there.

368
00:16:12,680 --> 00:16:13,889
It was Judy and John and I,

369
00:16:13,931 --> 00:16:16,058
went down there,
and we were ten feet away

370
00:16:16,100 --> 00:16:19,478
from the incident
that started the riot.

371
00:16:19,520 --> 00:16:23,440
We were so much a part
of the counterculture.

372
00:16:23,482 --> 00:16:25,693
We were the '60s.

373
00:16:27,486 --> 00:16:29,989
John was very much
opposed to the war.

374
00:16:30,030 --> 00:16:31,740
He became quite radical.

375
00:16:31,782 --> 00:16:34,618
So there was a lot of politics
in his improv,

376
00:16:34,660 --> 00:16:37,162
and he was having a lot
of fun.

377
00:16:37,204 --> 00:16:39,540
Of course, John still
had the Second City,

378
00:16:39,581 --> 00:16:41,792
that hallowed institution
of comedy,

379
00:16:41,834 --> 00:16:44,169
as what he wanted to do,
and it turned out

380
00:16:44,211 --> 00:16:46,338
that they had heard about
the West Compass Players.

381
00:16:46,380 --> 00:16:47,506
And they called and said,

382
00:16:47,548 --> 00:16:48,882
"Why don't you come in
and audition?"

383
00:16:48,924 --> 00:16:52,344
John Belushi!

384
00:16:54,096 --> 00:16:56,932
They invited him
to join the main stage cast.

385
00:16:56,974 --> 00:16:59,893
It's first time ever anybody
was put on the main stage

386
00:16:59,935 --> 00:17:02,771
who hadn't been
in the touring company.

387
00:17:02,813 --> 00:17:04,523
My biggest recollection

388
00:17:04,565 --> 00:17:09,153
was his amazing magnetism
with the audience.

389
00:17:09,194 --> 00:17:10,779
He changed Second City,

390
00:17:10,821 --> 00:17:13,073
'cause all they used to talk
about was philosophy

391
00:17:13,115 --> 00:17:14,867
and intellectual concepts.

392
00:17:14,908 --> 00:17:16,201
And John would come in there

393
00:17:16,243 --> 00:17:18,037
and play this hippie
off the street

394
00:17:18,078 --> 00:17:21,081
who's lost his memory
from smoking too much pot,

395
00:17:21,123 --> 00:17:23,876
and the audience
would go nuts.

396
00:17:23,917 --> 00:17:26,211
He became our strongman.

397
00:17:26,253 --> 00:17:28,380
And instead
of stealing every scene,

398
00:17:28,422 --> 00:17:30,090
he knew how to save any scene.

399
00:17:30,132 --> 00:17:32,926
Literally, he'd walk onstage,
and people would laugh.

400
00:17:32,968 --> 00:17:37,014
Mr. Truman Capote.

401
00:17:43,312 --> 00:17:46,315
And his driving
ambition was the other one.

402
00:17:46,356 --> 00:17:48,776
He wanted to succeed.

403
00:17:48,817 --> 00:17:51,737
I remember him carrying his
reviews around in his pockets.

404
00:17:51,779 --> 00:17:54,907
We went to the local
TV station to do a show,

405
00:17:54,948 --> 00:17:56,533
and I remember seeing John...

406
00:17:56,575 --> 00:17:59,620
"I'm John Belushi, and here's
what they say about me."

407
00:17:59,661 --> 00:18:03,457
I mean, geez,
who carries his reviews?

408
00:18:03,499 --> 00:18:06,293
Before John came,
I was the long-haired guy.

409
00:18:06,335 --> 00:18:09,630
I was the hippie, the freak,
the radical, whatever,

410
00:18:09,671 --> 00:18:12,382
but he was genuinely
all those things.

411
00:18:12,424 --> 00:18:14,134
And it's kind of like
what was happening

412
00:18:14,176 --> 00:18:15,928
with the whole generation,
you know?

413
00:18:15,969 --> 00:18:17,721
He kind of shattered
the limits

414
00:18:17,763 --> 00:18:21,016
and brought rock and roll
to the show.

415
00:18:21,058 --> 00:18:22,893
He said to me one time,

416
00:18:22,935 --> 00:18:25,813
"You got to go onstage
like a bull in a bullring,

417
00:18:25,854 --> 00:18:29,274
with that much energy
and that much physicality.

418
00:18:29,316 --> 00:18:32,069
Just jump out there
and do it."

419
00:18:32,111 --> 00:18:33,737
We really felt that we were

420
00:18:33,779 --> 00:18:36,115
in the presence of genius.

421
00:18:36,156 --> 00:18:38,659
John would've done anything
for a laugh,

422
00:18:38,700 --> 00:18:42,246
and, you know, that carried
over into everything else.

423
00:18:42,287 --> 00:18:45,749
I mean, he was heroic
in his consumption, you know?

424
00:18:45,791 --> 00:18:48,293
And I both admired it
and feared it

425
00:18:48,335 --> 00:18:51,630
and realized that
it would take John really far,

426
00:18:51,672 --> 00:18:54,466
but there was something safer
and more comfortable

427
00:18:54,508 --> 00:18:55,717
about being me

428
00:18:55,759 --> 00:18:57,761
than there was
about being him.

429
00:18:57,803 --> 00:18:59,138
Discordant violin notes

430
00:18:59,179 --> 00:19:01,473
You don't have
a cigarette on you, do you?

431
00:19:01,515 --> 00:19:04,768
- Yeah.
- Ah, thanks.

432
00:19:04,810 --> 00:19:06,854
Did you grow up
in Chicago?

433
00:19:06,895 --> 00:19:07,938
Yes.

434
00:19:07,980 --> 00:19:10,482
- Are you Italian?
- No, I'm not.

435
00:19:10,524 --> 00:19:12,609
- What are you?
- I'm Albanian.

436
00:19:12,651 --> 00:19:13,777
Oh, really?

437
00:19:13,819 --> 00:19:15,654
Who was the little guy
in Abbott and Costello?

438
00:19:15,696 --> 00:19:17,739
Was that--
that was Costello.

439
00:19:17,781 --> 00:19:19,449
Do people ever compare you
to him?

440
00:19:19,491 --> 00:19:20,951
- No.
- No?

441
00:19:20,993 --> 00:19:23,328
- What's your opinion of him?
- I don't like him.

442
00:19:23,370 --> 00:19:24,872
- You don't?
- No, I don't.

443
00:19:24,913 --> 00:19:25,664
No? Why?

444
00:19:25,706 --> 00:19:27,124
'Cause I don't think
he's funny.

445
00:19:27,166 --> 00:19:29,710
Huh.
How do you see yourself?

446
00:19:29,751 --> 00:19:34,423
I don't see myself
as any type at all.

447
00:19:34,464 --> 00:19:37,467
I see myself as a new type,
you know?

448
00:19:37,509 --> 00:19:39,219
I take each thing as it comes

449
00:19:39,261 --> 00:19:42,639
to try and bring
whatever energy that I have,

450
00:19:42,681 --> 00:19:45,726
which makes it different
than other performers.

451
00:19:45,767 --> 00:19:47,060
You know?

452
00:19:47,102 --> 00:19:49,521
I want to do things
that are new.

453
00:19:49,563 --> 00:19:52,649
Upbeat rock music

454
00:19:58,906 --> 00:20:00,157
National Lampoon

455
00:20:00,199 --> 00:20:01,742
has been called
a MAD magazine for grown-ups.

456
00:20:01,783 --> 00:20:05,162
Its hallmark is a kind
of anarchistic social satire.

457
00:20:05,204 --> 00:20:09,833
We were the humor
empire in the United States.

458
00:20:09,875 --> 00:20:12,461
And we were doing this play
called Lemmings

459
00:20:12,502 --> 00:20:13,879
about a rock concert.

460
00:20:13,921 --> 00:20:17,966
I'd like to welcome you to
the Woodchuck Memorial Festival

461
00:20:18,008 --> 00:20:20,594
of peace, love, and death.

462
00:20:20,636 --> 00:20:22,804
Lemmings
was a parody of Woodstock.

463
00:20:22,846 --> 00:20:24,723
It was the "woodchuck"
festival.

464
00:20:24,765 --> 00:20:25,974
Lemmings are little animals

465
00:20:26,016 --> 00:20:27,392
that, when
they get overpopulated,

466
00:20:27,434 --> 00:20:29,394
they just run
and jump over cliffs,

467
00:20:29,436 --> 00:20:31,146
and that was sort of the idea.

468
00:20:31,188 --> 00:20:32,689
One, two, two, one.

469
00:20:32,731 --> 00:20:33,774
The target this time

470
00:20:33,815 --> 00:20:35,317
was the current
counterculture,

471
00:20:35,359 --> 00:20:37,569
which had its own gods
and divas

472
00:20:37,611 --> 00:20:39,571
who had not really
been made fun of,

473
00:20:39,613 --> 00:20:43,158
so taking shots, so to speak,
at people like Joe Cocker,

474
00:20:43,200 --> 00:20:46,495
Crosby, Stills & Nash, Dylan.

475
00:20:46,536 --> 00:20:49,206
We already had
Chris Guest and Chevy Chase,

476
00:20:49,248 --> 00:20:50,999
and then the director came
to me and said,

477
00:20:51,041 --> 00:20:53,335
"We heard that
there's this guy in Chicago

478
00:20:53,377 --> 00:20:56,505
with the Second City
who is absolutely fantastic."

479
00:20:56,546 --> 00:20:59,925
So I said, "Well,
get on a plane and grab him."

480
00:20:59,967 --> 00:21:02,719
- Hey! How you been, man?
- Hey! Hey, hey, hey!

481
00:21:02,761 --> 00:21:03,804
In a crowd

482
00:21:03,845 --> 00:21:05,222
of extraordinarily talented
people,

483
00:21:05,264 --> 00:21:07,975
he was the electrical force
that held it all together

484
00:21:08,016 --> 00:21:09,685
and gave the show its focus.

485
00:21:09,726 --> 00:21:12,813
National Lampoon's
"Lonely at the Bottom"

486
00:21:12,854 --> 00:21:16,024
band playing
jazzy show tune

487
00:21:17,693 --> 00:21:21,113
Well, I'm standing here,
singing my song

488
00:21:21,154 --> 00:21:24,783
There ain't nothing to do,
and all my friends are gone

489
00:21:24,825 --> 00:21:28,245
I had sunshine
and a country home

490
00:21:28,287 --> 00:21:31,331
I've been on the cover
of Rolling Stone

491
00:21:31,373 --> 00:21:33,709
- But it's lonely
- Yes, it's lonely

492
00:21:33,750 --> 00:21:35,335
He was clearly the star.

493
00:21:35,377 --> 00:21:39,172
He had a great command.
He had confidence.

494
00:21:39,214 --> 00:21:42,384
And, you know, we all
looked up to him that way.

495
00:21:42,426 --> 00:21:44,928
Yeah, now all my friends
are gone

496
00:21:44,970 --> 00:21:46,513
Oh, yeah,
who will help my friends?

497
00:21:46,555 --> 00:21:48,140
Oh, yeah, who will
help my friends?

498
00:21:48,181 --> 00:21:50,100
Oh, yeah,
who will help my friends?

499
00:22:01,528 --> 00:22:04,823
Uh-oh.

500
00:22:05,991 --> 00:22:07,492
Hey!

501
00:22:20,380 --> 00:22:21,840
What a day.

502
00:22:21,882 --> 00:22:25,927
I got to get up.

503
00:22:34,061 --> 00:22:36,229
Whoa.

504
00:22:41,151 --> 00:22:43,403
What

505
00:22:43,445 --> 00:22:44,905
Would you do

506
00:22:44,946 --> 00:22:48,784
If I sang out of tune

507
00:22:48,825 --> 00:22:50,827
Would you stand up

508
00:22:50,869 --> 00:22:54,081
- And walk out--
- One, two, three!

509
00:22:55,999 --> 00:22:58,001
Part of the appeal
for Lemmings was definitely

510
00:22:58,043 --> 00:23:00,670
the fact that the role was
to be a rock star.

511
00:23:00,712 --> 00:23:04,508
But that was also
when cocaine was introduced.

512
00:23:04,549 --> 00:23:07,552
Psychedelic rock music

513
00:23:08,845 --> 00:23:11,765
You can't talk about
John and not mention drugs

514
00:23:11,807 --> 00:23:14,476
because John did do a lot
of drugs.

515
00:23:14,518 --> 00:23:16,311
But it was part
of the culture,

516
00:23:16,353 --> 00:23:19,147
and everybody
was actively saying

517
00:23:19,189 --> 00:23:21,900
that drugs enhance
your artistic vision.

518
00:23:21,942 --> 00:23:25,320
And it was even encouraged
to a certain extent.

519
00:23:25,362 --> 00:23:27,781
But, I mean, it didn't affect
his performance

520
00:23:27,823 --> 00:23:28,949
or anything like that.

521
00:23:28,990 --> 00:23:31,326
God, this is the biggest
quaalude I've ever seen.

522
00:23:32,536 --> 00:23:35,455
Onstage,
he was dangerous.

523
00:23:35,497 --> 00:23:38,083
He gave the impression
that anything could happen,

524
00:23:38,125 --> 00:23:41,711
so you were engaged
by this raw id.

525
00:23:41,753 --> 00:23:45,132
And it was vulnerable,
the way an id is.

526
00:23:45,173 --> 00:23:47,384
There's nothing protecting it.

527
00:23:47,426 --> 00:23:49,761
It must've hurt a lot.

528
00:23:49,803 --> 00:23:52,431
In a way,
John was more fragile

529
00:23:52,472 --> 00:23:55,517
than those of us
who appeared more fragile.

530
00:23:55,559 --> 00:23:57,602
The biggest
White House scandal

531
00:23:57,644 --> 00:23:59,980
in a century
broke wide open today.

532
00:24:00,021 --> 00:24:01,690
As the show
was running,

533
00:24:01,731 --> 00:24:04,234
during the day
was the Watergate thing.

534
00:24:04,276 --> 00:24:07,529
What did the president know,
and when did he know it?

535
00:24:07,571 --> 00:24:09,406
All right, you.
Cool it.

536
00:24:09,448 --> 00:24:10,657
So at night,

537
00:24:10,699 --> 00:24:13,493
we would do a version
of the Watergate hearings.

538
00:24:13,535 --> 00:24:14,536
You know what?

539
00:24:14,578 --> 00:24:15,787
Please be quiet.
Please.

540
00:24:15,829 --> 00:24:17,956
It was called
"Mission: Impeachable."

541
00:24:17,998 --> 00:24:21,209
All right, I would like
to introduce at this time

542
00:24:21,251 --> 00:24:24,171
President
Richard Milhous Nixon.

543
00:24:37,225 --> 00:24:38,727
This
is another exciting chapter

544
00:24:38,768 --> 00:24:42,689
in the true-life drama
of John the Judy-lover.

545
00:24:42,731 --> 00:24:46,443
I got my woman,
and that's all I need.

546
00:24:46,485 --> 00:24:48,653
When I started working
at the Lampoon

547
00:24:48,695 --> 00:24:50,030
in the art department,

548
00:24:50,071 --> 00:24:51,740
Michael O'Donoghue
was doing a book

549
00:24:51,781 --> 00:24:53,783
called the
Encyclopedia of Humor.

550
00:24:53,825 --> 00:24:56,077
So we became friendly.

551
00:24:56,119 --> 00:24:59,873
And then Michael started
National Lampoon Radio Hour.

552
00:24:59,915 --> 00:25:01,917
I had suggested John
for the show,

553
00:25:01,958 --> 00:25:05,170
and, slowly,
because he came to trust me,

554
00:25:05,212 --> 00:25:07,047
he said,
"Okay, let's bring him in."

555
00:25:07,088 --> 00:25:08,882
Good evening.
This is John Belushi.

556
00:25:08,924 --> 00:25:11,218
And this is the
National Lampoon Radio Hour.

557
00:25:11,259 --> 00:25:13,428
You idiot! Now move!

558
00:25:15,472 --> 00:25:16,681
He's dead.

559
00:25:16,723 --> 00:25:18,975
You killed Ziegler when
you pushed him, Mr. President.

560
00:25:19,017 --> 00:25:20,393
I didn't push him.

561
00:25:20,435 --> 00:25:21,686
Mitchell pushed him.

562
00:25:21,728 --> 00:25:23,772
Don't blame me for everything
that goes on around here.

563
00:25:23,813 --> 00:25:25,398
I could've
been an anal retentive instead

564
00:25:25,440 --> 00:25:27,359
of a thumb-sucker,
which is what I am.

565
00:25:27,400 --> 00:25:28,610
Let's face it, Charley.

566
00:25:28,652 --> 00:25:29,986
Here, kid,
you better take this.

567
00:25:30,028 --> 00:25:31,112
You're going to need it;
I don't have time

568
00:25:31,154 --> 00:25:32,239
to fool around with you.

569
00:25:32,280 --> 00:25:34,574
I just dropped a big load
in my pants!

570
00:25:34,616 --> 00:25:37,202
Anybody who he thought
was talented

571
00:25:37,244 --> 00:25:39,538
he would basically want
to have work with him.

572
00:25:39,579 --> 00:25:42,123
And John was responsible
for bringing everybody

573
00:25:42,165 --> 00:25:45,085
that he knew from Second City
into the Radio Hour.

574
00:25:45,126 --> 00:25:47,295
He brought Gilda down,

575
00:25:47,337 --> 00:25:49,839
Bill Murray, Harold Ramis.

576
00:25:49,881 --> 00:25:53,927
And then Michael O'Donoghue
ended up splitting

577
00:25:53,969 --> 00:25:55,929
from the National Lampoon.

578
00:25:55,971 --> 00:25:58,723
So we needed another director,

579
00:25:58,765 --> 00:26:00,892
and the obvious choice
was John.

580
00:26:00,934 --> 00:26:04,854
You are listening to the
National Lampoon Radio Hour.

581
00:26:06,147 --> 00:26:08,316
Hey, you guys!
Come in for a second!

582
00:26:08,358 --> 00:26:11,570
Get out of that shower and stop
horsing around over there!

583
00:26:11,611 --> 00:26:15,198
Stop snapping those towels.
I got something to say.

584
00:26:15,240 --> 00:26:17,826
John always was
the anchor for everything,

585
00:26:17,867 --> 00:26:19,035
even socially.

586
00:26:19,077 --> 00:26:20,662
He and Judy would have
the Thanksgiving dinners,

587
00:26:20,704 --> 00:26:23,331
and it was his house
that you'd go to to hang out.

588
00:26:23,373 --> 00:26:25,292
They were already
like a married couple

589
00:26:25,333 --> 00:26:26,751
when they were so young.

590
00:26:26,793 --> 00:26:28,962
And she was always by his side

591
00:26:29,004 --> 00:26:33,258
and just as funny and dark
and crazy as everyone else.

592
00:26:33,300 --> 00:26:34,509
I'll tell you,

593
00:26:34,551 --> 00:26:37,095
Judy was a great
steadying influence on John.

594
00:26:37,137 --> 00:26:39,931
People knew that
he was gonna become a star.

595
00:26:39,973 --> 00:26:41,016
And he knew it.

596
00:26:41,057 --> 00:26:42,601
But Judy, she always kind of

597
00:26:42,642 --> 00:26:44,227
brought him back down
to Earth,

598
00:26:44,269 --> 00:26:47,063
'cause as talented and wild
and impulsive as he was,

599
00:26:47,105 --> 00:26:50,275
whenever some sort of order
was imposed on him,

600
00:26:50,317 --> 00:26:52,944
either self-imposed
or otherwise,

601
00:26:52,986 --> 00:26:55,655
it had a good effect on him.

602
00:26:55,697 --> 00:26:58,617
Don't want to discuss it

603
00:26:58,658 --> 00:27:01,870
Think it's time
for a change

604
00:27:01,911 --> 00:27:04,831
You may get disgusted

605
00:27:04,873 --> 00:27:08,001
Start thinking
that I'm strange

606
00:27:08,043 --> 00:27:11,296
That case
I'll go underground

607
00:27:11,338 --> 00:27:14,758
Get some solid rest

608
00:27:14,799 --> 00:27:16,551
Never have to worry

609
00:27:16,593 --> 00:27:20,013
About who's got what
and what is best

610
00:27:20,055 --> 00:27:24,184
I said oh, oh, Domino

611
00:27:24,225 --> 00:27:25,977
Roll me over, Romeo

612
00:27:26,019 --> 00:27:28,229
Time for a change

613
00:27:28,271 --> 00:27:29,439
All right

614
00:27:29,481 --> 00:27:30,940
I met him in Toronto.

615
00:27:30,982 --> 00:27:34,402
He came up to grab people
for his radio endeavors,

616
00:27:34,444 --> 00:27:37,864
but I couldn't do it 'cause
I had a TV show in Canada.

617
00:27:37,906 --> 00:27:39,949
One of
the greatest things John found

618
00:27:39,991 --> 00:27:41,743
was a friendship in Danny.

619
00:27:41,785 --> 00:27:42,911
Mm-hmm.

620
00:27:42,952 --> 00:27:45,288
You know,
Danny and John were really,

621
00:27:45,330 --> 00:27:46,706
I mean, amazingly tight.

622
00:27:46,748 --> 00:27:49,084
We fell in love
the moment we met

623
00:27:49,125 --> 00:27:50,669
'cause he was just one
of those characters

624
00:27:50,710 --> 00:27:53,213
that walked into a room
and high wattage from day one.

625
00:27:53,254 --> 00:27:56,341
And, you know, we saw the
worth in each other right away

626
00:27:56,383 --> 00:27:58,426
for a really
enduring friendship.

627
00:27:58,468 --> 00:27:59,928
You know, the great thing was

628
00:27:59,969 --> 00:28:01,888
everyone liked everyone else.

629
00:28:01,930 --> 00:28:02,972
I mean,
no one was getting rich,

630
00:28:03,014 --> 00:28:04,808
but we did not have
to hustle.

631
00:28:04,849 --> 00:28:06,768
No one had
to take second jobs.

632
00:28:06,810 --> 00:28:08,228
And I think
we all started feeling,

633
00:28:08,269 --> 00:28:11,398
"Hey, maybe we are as good
as we hope we are."

634
00:28:12,982 --> 00:28:16,027
Hi, I'm your
host-person, Gilda Radner,

635
00:28:16,069 --> 00:28:17,654
and tonight I'm gonna read you

636
00:28:17,696 --> 00:28:20,532
the people who contributed
to this week's show.

637
00:28:20,573 --> 00:28:21,616
John Belushi,

638
00:28:21,658 --> 00:28:24,285
Chevy Chase,
Brian Doyle-Murray,

639
00:28:24,327 --> 00:28:26,496
Chris Guest,
Doug Kenney,

640
00:28:26,538 --> 00:28:28,248
Bill Murray,
Joe Flaherty,

641
00:28:28,289 --> 00:28:29,374
Harold Ramis, Ed--

642
00:28:29,416 --> 00:28:31,126
- It's Ray-mis.
- What?

643
00:28:31,167 --> 00:28:32,252
Ray-mis, not Rah-mus.

644
00:28:32,293 --> 00:28:33,461
You want to spell it?

645
00:28:33,503 --> 00:28:34,587
R-A-M-I-S. Ramis.

646
00:28:34,629 --> 00:28:35,797
And how do you pronounce that?

647
00:28:35,839 --> 00:28:37,048
Pronounce it Ray-mus.

648
00:28:37,090 --> 00:28:38,675
Do you say,
"Will you slum the door?"

649
00:28:38,717 --> 00:28:40,969
Will you just read
the credits right, Gilda?

650
00:28:41,010 --> 00:28:43,471
And there you have
the essential struts, pillars,

651
00:28:43,513 --> 00:28:46,141
and crutches of
the American comedy industry

652
00:28:46,182 --> 00:28:47,434
as we have it today,

653
00:28:47,475 --> 00:28:49,352
and John was, like,
one of these cohesive forces

654
00:28:49,394 --> 00:28:51,396
bringing it all together,
you know?

655
00:28:51,438 --> 00:28:53,857
Low, ambient ringing

656
00:28:53,898 --> 00:28:56,985
I'd seen John
in his show with Gilda

657
00:28:57,026 --> 00:28:59,904
and Billy Murray
and Harold Ramis.

658
00:28:59,946 --> 00:29:02,031
You know,
I thought he was interesting,

659
00:29:02,073 --> 00:29:04,284
but I wasn't knocked out.

660
00:29:06,077 --> 00:29:07,787
Dramatic music

661
00:29:07,829 --> 00:29:10,206
There was a young
executive named Dick Ebersol

662
00:29:10,248 --> 00:29:13,585
who came over to NBC to be the
new director of Late Night.

663
00:29:13,626 --> 00:29:16,171
He and I had a bunch
of meetings.

664
00:29:16,212 --> 00:29:17,672
I just sort of added up

665
00:29:17,714 --> 00:29:19,174
everything
I was interested in,

666
00:29:19,215 --> 00:29:22,218
which was comedy and music
and politics and films,

667
00:29:22,260 --> 00:29:23,845
and threw it all together,

668
00:29:23,887 --> 00:29:26,890
and I sort of at the beginning
had the ingredients.

669
00:29:26,931 --> 00:29:29,142
I didn't quite have
the recipe.

670
00:29:29,184 --> 00:29:30,435
Okay, rework.

671
00:29:30,477 --> 00:29:31,811
I mean,
Saturday Night Live

672
00:29:31,853 --> 00:29:35,315
was the same format as the
National Lampoon Radio Show.

673
00:29:35,356 --> 00:29:36,608
And most of the actors came

674
00:29:36,649 --> 00:29:37,942
from one
of the Lampoon shows

675
00:29:37,984 --> 00:29:40,987
and a number of the writers
and what have you.

676
00:29:41,029 --> 00:29:43,823
Lorne, of course, denies it.

677
00:29:44,616 --> 00:29:47,076
Both Michael O'Donoghue
and Chevy

678
00:29:47,118 --> 00:29:51,706
wanted me to meet with John,
and they were big fans.

679
00:29:51,748 --> 00:29:53,291
But at our first meeting,

680
00:29:53,333 --> 00:29:55,627
he said that
he didn't do television.

681
00:29:55,668 --> 00:29:59,130
You know, like I'm supposed
to convince him to do it.

682
00:29:59,172 --> 00:30:02,217
And I thought,
"Oh, it's trouble.

683
00:30:02,258 --> 00:30:03,760
He's trouble."

684
00:30:03,802 --> 00:30:06,012
Because I was looking for,
you know,

685
00:30:06,054 --> 00:30:07,847
a group of people who saw this

686
00:30:07,889 --> 00:30:10,141
as the opportunity
that I saw it as,

687
00:30:10,183 --> 00:30:13,102
which was a sort
of cultural upheaval,

688
00:30:13,144 --> 00:30:17,816
and the enemy, to me,
was ambivalence.

689
00:30:17,857 --> 00:30:20,193
He went in
with his attitude

690
00:30:20,235 --> 00:30:22,946
and told him immediately
that he hated television

691
00:30:22,987 --> 00:30:25,281
and his television
had spit all over it.

692
00:30:25,323 --> 00:30:28,827
He pretty much turned
Lorne's conviction true,

693
00:30:28,868 --> 00:30:32,080
that he thought John would be
not the right mix.

694
00:30:33,540 --> 00:30:38,002
Lorne didn't like to
have his authority challenged,

695
00:30:38,044 --> 00:30:40,255
and Belushi's macho flexing

696
00:30:40,296 --> 00:30:43,716
was not something that Lorne
was gonna warm to, you know?

697
00:30:43,758 --> 00:30:44,759
Right.

698
00:30:44,801 --> 00:30:46,344
He didn't like power plays.

699
00:30:46,386 --> 00:30:48,054
We were the last two
to get hired for that show...

700
00:30:48,096 --> 00:30:49,639
Because they weren't sure--

701
00:30:49,681 --> 00:30:51,683
- We were too much.
- We had reputations of--

702
00:30:51,724 --> 00:30:54,519
I had what you call
a bad attitude, you know?

703
00:30:54,561 --> 00:30:56,980
"How about TV?"
I was kind of a punk.

704
00:30:57,021 --> 00:31:00,483
You know, I said, "I'll let you
have me on your show."

705
00:31:00,525 --> 00:31:03,570
I was real--the worst way
to try and get a job.

706
00:31:03,611 --> 00:31:05,405
Lorne Michaels
was not nuts about me.

707
00:31:05,446 --> 00:31:08,449
So when I went in to audition
for Saturday Night,

708
00:31:08,491 --> 00:31:10,368
he said,
"What are you gonna do?"

709
00:31:10,410 --> 00:31:12,245
Turned around and went...

710
00:31:12,287 --> 00:31:15,248
dramatic music

711
00:31:16,499 --> 00:31:18,501
Just before I was
on the Saturday Night show,

712
00:31:18,543 --> 00:31:20,378
there was a station
in New York

713
00:31:20,420 --> 00:31:22,672
showing a samurai movie.

714
00:31:22,714 --> 00:31:24,924
It was Toshirô Mifune.

715
00:31:24,966 --> 00:31:27,886
Oh, my God.

716
00:31:27,927 --> 00:31:29,262
Couldn't believe it.

717
00:31:29,304 --> 00:31:31,180
The sword fighting was
fabulous,

718
00:31:31,222 --> 00:31:32,515
and I was fascinated.

719
00:31:32,557 --> 00:31:34,726
So I just got doing it
around the house.

720
00:31:35,810 --> 00:31:37,228
Like, I would take
this broomstick

721
00:31:37,270 --> 00:31:39,480
that we had in the house
and I'd stick it in my belt,

722
00:31:39,522 --> 00:31:41,733
and I'd...

723
00:31:42,775 --> 00:31:43,985
I'd go up to my cats,
you know,

724
00:31:44,027 --> 00:31:45,361
with a sword and go...

725
00:31:48,197 --> 00:31:49,866
They loved it, they loved it.

726
00:31:49,908 --> 00:31:52,911
Dramatic music

727
00:31:55,663 --> 00:31:58,750
Can you hear me up there?

728
00:31:58,791 --> 00:32:00,668
Pick an adjective.

729
00:32:00,710 --> 00:32:02,754
It was great;
it was horrible;

730
00:32:02,795 --> 00:32:05,506
it was fascinating;
it was exhausting;

731
00:32:05,548 --> 00:32:06,841
it was exhilarating;

732
00:32:06,883 --> 00:32:09,510
and that was before
the show had launched.

733
00:32:09,552 --> 00:32:10,595
Well, it was like

734
00:32:10,637 --> 00:32:12,597
being in a college dorm,
you know?

735
00:32:12,639 --> 00:32:15,099
We had beers
and smoked the herb.

736
00:32:15,141 --> 00:32:18,645
Well, you just smelled
it in the air, and you knew.

737
00:32:18,686 --> 00:32:21,940
And there was definitely
cocaine around.

738
00:32:21,981 --> 00:32:24,609
Walked past Lorne's
office late one night,

739
00:32:24,651 --> 00:32:25,777
and there's Belushi,

740
00:32:25,818 --> 00:32:27,779
was snorting coke off
of Lorne's desk.

741
00:32:27,820 --> 00:32:30,406
You know, Lorne was long gone
by that time.

742
00:32:30,448 --> 00:32:31,991
I remember John and Lorne

743
00:32:32,033 --> 00:32:35,161
getting into some kind
of fight and Lorne firing him.

744
00:32:35,203 --> 00:32:37,246
Anne Beatts said
that you fired John

745
00:32:37,288 --> 00:32:39,457
just before the start
of the show; is that--

746
00:32:39,499 --> 00:32:42,293
God, it makes perfect
sense that I would have.

747
00:32:42,335 --> 00:32:43,628
I was like, "No, no, no,

748
00:32:43,670 --> 00:32:45,213
we have to put this
back together."

749
00:32:45,254 --> 00:32:48,967
And I went and found him in
some divey bar on 48th Street.

750
00:32:49,008 --> 00:32:50,969
Said, "Go back and apologize."

751
00:32:51,010 --> 00:32:53,763
And Lorne, of course,
you know, did take him back.

752
00:32:53,805 --> 00:32:55,390
Beginning on October the 11th,

753
00:32:55,431 --> 00:32:58,226
Saturday Night premieres
a whole new live venture.

754
00:32:58,267 --> 00:33:00,061
What should we look for
on your program?

755
00:33:00,103 --> 00:33:02,355
- Anxiety.
- Fear?

756
00:33:02,397 --> 00:33:04,732
Yeah.
It's--

757
00:33:04,774 --> 00:33:07,360
Will all of you
be seen every week?

758
00:33:07,402 --> 00:33:08,528
Well, we've got eight,

759
00:33:08,569 --> 00:33:11,572
and we're hoping
for two to really work.

760
00:33:11,614 --> 00:33:15,034
I mean, so not all of these
people will become stars.

761
00:33:17,161 --> 00:33:19,455
Quiet, please.

762
00:33:19,497 --> 00:33:21,874
And then,
despite Lorne's misgivings,

763
00:33:21,916 --> 00:33:23,668
John was in the opening

764
00:33:23,710 --> 00:33:26,462
of the first
Saturday Night Live ever.

765
00:33:26,504 --> 00:33:28,548
Let's begin.

766
00:33:30,174 --> 00:33:31,759
Repeat after me.

767
00:33:31,801 --> 00:33:34,303
- I would like...
- I would like...

768
00:33:34,345 --> 00:33:35,763
To feed your fingertips...

769
00:33:35,805 --> 00:33:36,931
To feed your fingertips...

770
00:33:36,973 --> 00:33:40,727
- To the wolverines.
- To the wolverines.

771
00:33:40,768 --> 00:33:44,313
- Next, I am afraid...
- I am afraid...

772
00:33:44,355 --> 00:33:45,773
- We are out...
- We are out...

773
00:33:45,815 --> 00:33:47,316
- Of badgers.
- Of badgers.

774
00:33:47,358 --> 00:33:49,485
- Would you accept...
- Would you accept...

775
00:33:49,527 --> 00:33:51,404
- A wolverine...
- A wolverine...

776
00:33:51,446 --> 00:33:54,657
- In its place?
- In its place?

777
00:33:54,699 --> 00:33:59,370
- "Hey," Ned exclaimed.
- "Hey," Ned exclaimed.

778
00:33:59,412 --> 00:34:01,247
- "Let's boil"...
- "Let's boil"...

779
00:34:01,289 --> 00:34:05,334
- "The wolverine."
- "The wolverine."

780
00:34:05,376 --> 00:34:06,377
Next...

781
00:34:22,643 --> 00:34:26,522
Live from New York,
it's Saturday Night!

782
00:34:26,564 --> 00:34:29,609
I mean, it wasn't,
like, an instant megahit,

783
00:34:29,650 --> 00:34:32,528
but it did build to that
relatively quickly.

784
00:34:32,570 --> 00:34:35,823
They became a new group
of cultural icons.

785
00:34:35,865 --> 00:34:38,242
The editorial was about Jewry,
not jewelry.

786
00:34:38,284 --> 00:34:41,245
Ooh, well,
that's very important.

787
00:34:41,287 --> 00:34:42,371
Yes.

788
00:34:42,413 --> 00:34:44,332
Never mind.

789
00:34:44,373 --> 00:34:46,167
It was very, very popular

790
00:34:46,209 --> 00:34:47,710
because of its attitude.

791
00:34:47,752 --> 00:34:52,090
Honey, did you send
for interior demolitionists?

792
00:34:52,131 --> 00:34:54,550
It was expressing
the rebellion

793
00:34:54,592 --> 00:34:57,970
that the ordinary person
was feeling.

794
00:34:58,012 --> 00:34:59,806
We were children of the '60s.

795
00:34:59,847 --> 00:35:02,558
We'd come out of free love
and sex, drugs, rock and roll,

796
00:35:02,600 --> 00:35:04,977
but also out of civil rights
and feminism,

797
00:35:05,019 --> 00:35:08,940
and there was nothing on the
airwaves that fed back to us

798
00:35:08,981 --> 00:35:10,358
the culture we were living.

799
00:35:10,399 --> 00:35:14,112
It's just a word association.
Colored?

800
00:35:14,153 --> 00:35:16,614
Redneck.

801
00:35:16,656 --> 00:35:19,325
- Burrhead.
- Cracker!

802
00:35:21,285 --> 00:35:22,829
New Shimmer is a floor wax.

803
00:35:22,870 --> 00:35:25,331
No, New Shimmer
is a dessert topping.

804
00:35:25,373 --> 00:35:28,751
- It's a floor wax.
- It's a dessert topping.

805
00:35:28,793 --> 00:35:30,795
It's a floor wax,
I'm telling you.

806
00:35:30,837 --> 00:35:32,588
It's a dessert topping,
you cow!

807
00:35:32,630 --> 00:35:35,133
Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey.
Calm down, you two.

808
00:35:35,174 --> 00:35:39,178
New Shimmer's a floor wax
and a dessert topping.

809
00:35:39,220 --> 00:35:41,305
- Mr. Bee?
- Yes?

810
00:35:41,347 --> 00:35:43,933
Congratulations,
it's a worker.

811
00:35:43,975 --> 00:35:45,143
It's a worker?

812
00:35:45,184 --> 00:35:47,603
In the very first days
of Saturday Night,

813
00:35:47,645 --> 00:35:49,689
all John did was be a bee,

814
00:35:49,730 --> 00:35:52,108
which he didn't like doing.

815
00:35:52,150 --> 00:35:54,360
There were roles
he thought he could do better

816
00:35:54,402 --> 00:35:55,820
that someone else would get.

817
00:35:55,862 --> 00:35:57,530
He didn't think he had a voice
to express that

818
00:35:57,572 --> 00:36:00,867
or be taken seriously
'cause Lorne made the choices.

819
00:36:00,908 --> 00:36:04,078
Do you think we like this?

820
00:36:04,120 --> 00:36:06,789
No.

821
00:36:06,831 --> 00:36:08,749
But we don't have any choice.

822
00:36:08,791 --> 00:36:10,376
We'd walk down the street,

823
00:36:10,418 --> 00:36:11,752
and someone
would hang out their car

824
00:36:11,794 --> 00:36:13,671
and point at John and go,
"Hey, Mr. Bee!"

825
00:36:13,713 --> 00:36:15,256
It was not what he had dreamed

826
00:36:15,298 --> 00:36:17,800
his life in television
would be.

827
00:36:17,842 --> 00:36:18,801
Meanwhile...

828
00:36:18,843 --> 00:36:19,886
And now

829
00:36:19,927 --> 00:36:22,471
Weekend Update
with Chevy Chase.

830
00:36:22,513 --> 00:36:24,932
I love it when you make noise.

831
00:36:26,434 --> 00:36:29,478
Remember when--
I got to go, hon.

832
00:36:29,520 --> 00:36:30,521
Good evening.

833
00:36:30,563 --> 00:36:32,356
I'm Chevy Chase,
and you're not.

834
00:36:33,858 --> 00:36:36,777
Chevy had his "I'm
Chevy Chase, and you're not,"

835
00:36:36,819 --> 00:36:39,238
so he was getting
pretty famous.

836
00:36:39,280 --> 00:36:41,532
Don't move.
There's a bee on your hand.

837
00:36:41,574 --> 00:36:44,911
From the first show
to the one I did,

838
00:36:44,952 --> 00:36:46,204
which was the fourth show,

839
00:36:46,245 --> 00:36:48,122
"I'm Chevy Chase,
and you're not"

840
00:36:48,164 --> 00:36:50,958
became part
of the pop culture.

841
00:36:56,339 --> 00:37:00,426
Live from New York,
it's Saturday Night!

842
00:37:00,468 --> 00:37:02,220
It was the
Chevy Chase show.

843
00:37:02,261 --> 00:37:05,890
Chevy, Chevy,
I love when you fall down

844
00:37:05,932 --> 00:37:08,809
It's Saturday Night
on my TV

845
00:37:08,851 --> 00:37:13,814
Oh, but Chevy, every time
you take that fall

846
00:37:13,856 --> 00:37:16,859
I wish
that you were falling

847
00:37:16,901 --> 00:37:19,612
Falling for me

848
00:37:19,654 --> 00:37:20,905
Good evening.

849
00:37:20,947 --> 00:37:23,115
I'm God, and here's the news.

850
00:37:24,533 --> 00:37:27,286
When Chevy, you know,
did take off very quickly

851
00:37:27,328 --> 00:37:29,705
and John didn't,
that was confusing to John

852
00:37:29,747 --> 00:37:30,998
and did cause some problems.

853
00:37:31,040 --> 00:37:32,875
- You comfortable?
- Oh, yeah.

854
00:37:32,917 --> 00:37:36,420
Okay, good.

855
00:37:36,462 --> 00:37:39,173
Oh, he'd go
on his tirades and sulk.

856
00:37:39,215 --> 00:37:40,341
There was a lot of,

857
00:37:40,383 --> 00:37:42,385
"How come Chevy's
in more stuff than I am?"

858
00:37:42,426 --> 00:37:43,594
That was after, at night.

859
00:37:43,636 --> 00:37:45,554
You know,
he'd come over to your hotel

860
00:37:45,596 --> 00:37:48,891
and then start moping and ask
if he wasn't "in" enough.

861
00:37:48,933 --> 00:37:51,102
And that he was talented,

862
00:37:51,143 --> 00:37:53,104
or wasn't he talented
or what is it?

863
00:37:53,145 --> 00:37:55,648
"You are talented,
just not, you know,

864
00:37:55,690 --> 00:37:57,900
doing what Chevy's doing
at the moment."

865
00:37:57,942 --> 00:37:59,110
"Why not?"

866
00:37:59,151 --> 00:38:01,654
He did not
throw himself into the group.

867
00:38:01,696 --> 00:38:04,907
He didn't come into the office
a lot and discuss sketches.

868
00:38:04,949 --> 00:38:07,618
I spent most of my time
in the office with Lorne.

869
00:38:07,660 --> 00:38:09,161
All the way up
from Second City

870
00:38:09,203 --> 00:38:11,622
to National Lampoon, John had
always been the ringleader.

871
00:38:11,664 --> 00:38:12,665
Yeah.

872
00:38:12,707 --> 00:38:14,417
He had been the top banana,

873
00:38:14,458 --> 00:38:17,670
and now it was all about Chevy
all the time,

874
00:38:17,712 --> 00:38:20,381
and that was driving
John crazy.

875
00:38:20,423 --> 00:38:23,676
Then with the samurai
on Richard Pryor's show,

876
00:38:23,718 --> 00:38:25,594
that was sort of
the breakthrough.

877
00:38:27,179 --> 00:38:28,973
John already had
the character,

878
00:38:29,015 --> 00:38:30,725
and that came about because

879
00:38:30,766 --> 00:38:33,102
Richard did not want
to come to the offices

880
00:38:33,144 --> 00:38:36,230
so I had John head over
to his hotel room

881
00:38:36,272 --> 00:38:38,607
and work with him there,
and Richard was like,

882
00:38:38,649 --> 00:38:40,568
"I got to do that.
I can do that with him."

883
00:38:54,874 --> 00:38:58,252
Fellas, which one of you is
gonna carry my bags upstairs?

884
00:39:09,805 --> 00:39:11,098
Everybody, you know,

885
00:39:11,140 --> 00:39:12,641
New York Magazine and
Rolling Stone and everybody

886
00:39:12,683 --> 00:39:15,603
was focusing on Chevy,
but John, I don't know,

887
00:39:15,644 --> 00:39:17,730
his energy
and the danger of him,

888
00:39:17,772 --> 00:39:20,524
the kind of excitement
whenever he came on screen

889
00:39:20,566 --> 00:39:22,360
was jarring...

890
00:39:22,401 --> 00:39:24,653
and a comedy
I hadn't seen before.

891
00:39:24,695 --> 00:39:27,990
Ah-choo.

892
00:39:28,032 --> 00:39:31,285
It was
a very mixed year for John.

893
00:39:31,327 --> 00:39:33,287
It was a disappointment
on a level

894
00:39:33,329 --> 00:39:36,707
that he wasn't able
to have the voice he wanted,

895
00:39:36,749 --> 00:39:39,960
but there was a certain family
sensibility for John,

896
00:39:40,002 --> 00:39:42,505
in that Danny was there,

897
00:39:42,546 --> 00:39:45,257
and it was a very strong...

898
00:39:45,299 --> 00:39:46,967
very strong friendship.

899
00:39:47,009 --> 00:39:48,344
I get the feeling that out of

900
00:39:48,386 --> 00:39:50,471
all the "not ready
for primetime" players,

901
00:39:50,513 --> 00:39:52,139
you two are really
close friends.

902
00:39:52,181 --> 00:39:54,517
Well, actually for
the first year of the show,

903
00:39:54,558 --> 00:39:56,435
none of sure it was gonna
go past seven shows,

904
00:39:56,477 --> 00:39:58,479
so I crashed at his house,
you know?

905
00:39:58,521 --> 00:39:59,855
So we'd take trips.

906
00:39:59,897 --> 00:40:02,358
Like, you know, Dan and
I would get sick of the show,

907
00:40:02,400 --> 00:40:03,734
and we'd get a driveaway car

908
00:40:03,776 --> 00:40:06,112
and just burn across
the country in three days

909
00:40:06,153 --> 00:40:08,697
with the CB radio.

910
00:40:08,739 --> 00:40:11,492
He'd drive like a madman
and we'd talk about something.

911
00:40:11,534 --> 00:40:12,827
We'd play music, you know?

912
00:40:12,868 --> 00:40:14,412
He turned me on
to the Allman Brothers

913
00:40:14,453 --> 00:40:16,705
and I turned him on
to "Ride of the Valkyries."

914
00:40:16,747 --> 00:40:18,624
Wagner, you know,
which he'd never heard.

915
00:40:18,666 --> 00:40:23,421
As we were sailing across the
Nevada mountains, you know?

916
00:40:23,462 --> 00:40:26,257
Wagner's
"Flight of the Valkyries"

917
00:40:34,014 --> 00:40:36,600
And then at the end
of the first year,

918
00:40:36,642 --> 00:40:39,895
Chevy announced
that he was leaving the show.

919
00:40:39,937 --> 00:40:43,107
Hey, Mr. Chase.

920
00:40:49,613 --> 00:40:51,449
And with Chevy gone,

921
00:40:51,490 --> 00:40:53,826
the thing John most hoped for,

922
00:40:53,868 --> 00:40:56,829
which was that he would be
the alpha male,

923
00:40:56,871 --> 00:40:59,290
now had happened.

924
00:40:59,331 --> 00:41:02,126
Now he had
what he said he wanted.

925
00:41:02,168 --> 00:41:05,296
Right now, NBC,

926
00:41:05,337 --> 00:41:07,798
one of the country's
largest corporations,

927
00:41:07,840 --> 00:41:10,968
with billions in assets...

928
00:41:11,010 --> 00:41:12,970
Is waiting for me,

929
00:41:13,012 --> 00:41:15,473
a stupid, troublemaking
punk actor

930
00:41:15,514 --> 00:41:18,309
from Wheaton, Illinois,
to open the show.

931
00:41:18,350 --> 00:41:19,852
And everybody says, you know,

932
00:41:19,894 --> 00:41:21,187
John was, you know,
the everyman,

933
00:41:21,228 --> 00:41:22,813
and that's why
he connected with people.

934
00:41:22,855 --> 00:41:25,232
Well, John had that
connection with the audience

935
00:41:25,274 --> 00:41:27,276
where they can see
right into his heart.

936
00:41:27,318 --> 00:41:29,111
You know,
when I think of Ireland,

937
00:41:29,153 --> 00:41:31,655
I think a lot
of colorful Irish expressions,

938
00:41:31,697 --> 00:41:33,657
like "top of the morning
to ya,"

939
00:41:33,699 --> 00:41:35,618
"kiss the Blarney Stone"...

940
00:41:35,659 --> 00:41:37,870
There was
so much vulnerability

941
00:41:37,912 --> 00:41:40,331
that you thought
you knew who he was.

942
00:41:40,372 --> 00:41:43,751
"I'd like to smash you in
the face with my shillelagh."

943
00:41:43,792 --> 00:41:47,087
Ladies and gentlemen,
Mr. Joe Cocker!

944
00:41:47,129 --> 00:41:49,715
Seems I've got to have...

945
00:41:49,757 --> 00:41:52,176
I remember standing
on the floor once,

946
00:41:52,218 --> 00:41:53,928
Lorne saying, "It's Gleason."

947
00:41:53,969 --> 00:41:56,847
And you think about it,
it was Ralph Kramden there.

948
00:41:56,889 --> 00:42:00,726
There was something so
blue-collar-ish about him.

949
00:42:00,768 --> 00:42:02,019
Ahh.

950
00:42:02,061 --> 00:42:03,521
It was almost like
he didn't have

951
00:42:03,562 --> 00:42:05,147
a command of the language.

952
00:42:06,899 --> 00:42:08,817
Where he made you laugh

953
00:42:08,859 --> 00:42:11,111
was when
he was breaking things.

954
00:42:13,364 --> 00:42:16,158
Joe Cocker's
"Feelin' Alright"

955
00:42:16,200 --> 00:42:18,077
Conveyance of conspiracy

956
00:42:18,118 --> 00:42:20,287
with the raise of an eyebrow.

957
00:42:20,329 --> 00:42:23,541
And you hooked into the ride
that he was going on.

958
00:42:23,582 --> 00:42:26,043
At least when George C. Scott
won the Oscar,

959
00:42:26,085 --> 00:42:27,503
he didn't accept it.

960
00:42:27,545 --> 00:42:30,297
You know, Marlon Brando
sent up an Indian.

961
00:42:30,339 --> 00:42:32,258
Now, you could've sent up
an Indian.

962
00:42:32,299 --> 00:42:35,302
But, no, no, no!

963
00:42:35,344 --> 00:42:37,805
People reacted to John
and loved John

964
00:42:37,846 --> 00:42:40,849
in the same way
that they love gangsters.

965
00:42:40,891 --> 00:42:43,477
I'm not feeling
that good myself, oh

966
00:42:43,519 --> 00:42:44,603
Oh, no

967
00:42:44,645 --> 00:42:47,523
Of course, I'm talking
about Elizabeth Taylor.

968
00:42:47,565 --> 00:42:51,026
Liz, welcome
to Celebrity Corner.

969
00:42:51,068 --> 00:42:53,737
Gangsters
are blue-collar immigrants

970
00:42:53,779 --> 00:42:55,155
who live the American dream

971
00:42:55,197 --> 00:42:57,366
by basically going outside
the system

972
00:42:57,408 --> 00:42:58,909
and breaking all the rules.

973
00:43:04,456 --> 00:43:06,959
Well, thank you so much, Liz.

974
00:43:07,001 --> 00:43:08,252
It's been a real treat

975
00:43:08,294 --> 00:43:11,630
for me to have you
on Celebrity Corner.

976
00:43:11,672 --> 00:43:15,509
And I think all your fans
in the whole world

977
00:43:15,551 --> 00:43:17,219
are joining me when I say,

978
00:43:17,261 --> 00:43:18,596
"Good luck with that diet."

979
00:43:20,431 --> 00:43:22,725
John was the leader,
after Chevy,

980
00:43:22,766 --> 00:43:25,352
of "all for one, one for all."

981
00:43:25,394 --> 00:43:27,187
You know, he loved the show.

982
00:43:27,229 --> 00:43:29,273
Would you consider
yourself an anarchist?

983
00:43:29,315 --> 00:43:30,733
A disciplined
anarchist, yeah.

984
00:43:30,774 --> 00:43:32,568
Yeah, sure.
I'm an anarchist.

985
00:43:32,610 --> 00:43:34,695
One thing I think I'm not
is a professional.

986
00:43:34,737 --> 00:43:37,239
I mean, I'd rather be an
anarchist than a professional.

987
00:43:37,281 --> 00:43:38,699
Because I think there are
too many people

988
00:43:38,741 --> 00:43:40,868
just kind of sitting down
and letting things happen.

989
00:43:40,909 --> 00:43:43,329
I like to shake things up
a little bit.

990
00:43:44,622 --> 00:43:46,874
Today with the success
of Saturday Night,

991
00:43:46,915 --> 00:43:49,627
TV comedy
is changing TV, right?

992
00:43:49,668 --> 00:43:51,295
Wrong.
Dead wrong.

993
00:43:51,337 --> 00:43:52,755
You see, we're an exception,

994
00:43:52,796 --> 00:43:55,883
a tropical island
in a sea of video sludge.

995
00:43:55,924 --> 00:43:59,386
But that first
intoxicating period of success

996
00:43:59,428 --> 00:44:01,305
is incredibly confusing,

997
00:44:01,347 --> 00:44:03,432
'cause you get to meet
everybody you ever thought

998
00:44:03,474 --> 00:44:07,811
you wanted to meet
and they want to meet you.

999
00:44:07,853 --> 00:44:11,607
John lived his life
in these eight-hour shifts,

1000
00:44:11,649 --> 00:44:14,068
and if you were with him
for eight hours,

1001
00:44:14,109 --> 00:44:16,695
you thought, "Well, God,
he must be exhausted.

1002
00:44:16,737 --> 00:44:18,364
But I'm going to bed."

1003
00:44:18,405 --> 00:44:20,282
But then there was
a whole other group of people

1004
00:44:20,324 --> 00:44:21,742
that he hung out with.

1005
00:44:21,784 --> 00:44:24,495
John and Danny both
were at a point

1006
00:44:24,536 --> 00:44:25,579
where they were famous,

1007
00:44:25,621 --> 00:44:28,415
and so their lives
were no longer the same.

1008
00:44:28,457 --> 00:44:31,752
They couldn't just go to a bar
somewhere and sit around.

1009
00:44:31,794 --> 00:44:34,296
That was no longer
a comfortable reality

1010
00:44:34,338 --> 00:44:36,965
because people were on them
all the time.

1011
00:44:37,007 --> 00:44:39,843
Do you remember
when the Blues Bar opened?

1012
00:44:39,885 --> 00:44:41,095
Oh, yeah.

1013
00:44:41,136 --> 00:44:42,721
You were there
for opening night, right?

1014
00:44:42,763 --> 00:44:44,848
Oh, yeah.

1015
00:44:44,890 --> 00:44:48,852
John and Danny's
Blues Bar was such a shithole

1016
00:44:48,894 --> 00:44:51,355
that it took my breath away.

1017
00:44:51,397 --> 00:44:53,399
It was tiny, it stunk,

1018
00:44:53,440 --> 00:44:55,818
and also had
the most terrifying bathroom

1019
00:44:55,859 --> 00:44:57,945
I've ever seen in my life.

1020
00:44:59,029 --> 00:45:01,824
But it was the most
spectacular jukebox.

1021
00:45:01,865 --> 00:45:03,742
And I remember Keith Richards
being there,

1022
00:45:03,784 --> 00:45:06,954
and the Allmans would
kind of set up in one corner

1023
00:45:06,995 --> 00:45:10,332
and Francis Ford Coppola
and Danny tending bar.

1024
00:45:10,374 --> 00:45:11,875
There was no money
changing hands.

1025
00:45:11,917 --> 00:45:15,212
There was nothing sinister.
It was their fantasy.

1026
00:45:15,254 --> 00:45:16,380
And it instantly became

1027
00:45:16,422 --> 00:45:19,341
the coolest party
in the history of New York.

1028
00:45:19,383 --> 00:45:20,342
Oh, freedom

1029
00:45:20,384 --> 00:45:22,594
It was a very heady time,

1030
00:45:22,636 --> 00:45:25,806
and I think he started
to lose his balance a little.

1031
00:45:29,017 --> 00:45:30,102
Hello?

1032
00:45:30,144 --> 00:45:32,062
Hi, Jane.
This is John.

1033
00:45:32,104 --> 00:45:35,190
- John Belushi.
- Hi, John! How are you?

1034
00:45:35,232 --> 00:45:37,109
Not too good, actually.

1035
00:45:37,151 --> 00:45:39,778
You probably noticed I haven't
been in the show yet.

1036
00:45:39,820 --> 00:45:41,739
Well, I just wanted
to tell everyone

1037
00:45:41,780 --> 00:45:43,699
that I am in the hospital.

1038
00:45:43,741 --> 00:45:47,870
I hurt my leg,
but I will be back next week

1039
00:45:47,911 --> 00:45:49,288
with or without my leg.

1040
00:45:49,329 --> 00:45:50,789
Uh-huh.

1041
00:45:50,831 --> 00:45:52,583
John began doing lectures

1042
00:45:52,624 --> 00:45:56,003
at colleges with Danny,
and on this particular show,

1043
00:45:56,044 --> 00:45:57,087
for whatever reason,

1044
00:45:57,129 --> 00:45:59,131
he decided
to jump off the stage,

1045
00:45:59,173 --> 00:46:02,760
and he broke the cartilage
in his knee.

1046
00:46:02,801 --> 00:46:04,845
He was put on painkillers,

1047
00:46:04,887 --> 00:46:07,598
and when they stopped
the painkillers,

1048
00:46:07,639 --> 00:46:10,768
he was not ready to stop.

1049
00:46:10,809 --> 00:46:13,729
And it got pretty out
of control.

1050
00:46:13,771 --> 00:46:15,606
Look, I can't put
this man on television.

1051
00:46:15,647 --> 00:46:16,690
He's barely awake.

1052
00:46:16,732 --> 00:46:20,194
Lorne,
if John Belushi could speak,

1053
00:46:20,235 --> 00:46:22,696
he'd tell you he's got
to go on.

1054
00:46:22,738 --> 00:46:23,864
Doc, I-I-I-I don't understand.

1055
00:46:23,906 --> 00:46:27,493
Why are you so convinced
that this man can do a show?

1056
00:46:27,534 --> 00:46:28,660
Well...

1057
00:46:28,702 --> 00:46:30,746
to be perfectly honest,
it's about my fee.

1058
00:46:30,788 --> 00:46:32,080
In the second year,

1059
00:46:32,122 --> 00:46:33,749
your prediction
that John would be trouble

1060
00:46:33,791 --> 00:46:35,793
- sort of came to fruition.
- Yeah.

1061
00:46:35,834 --> 00:46:38,670
And if he doesn't get paid,
I don't get paid.

1062
00:46:38,712 --> 00:46:40,881
And if I don't get paid,

1063
00:46:40,923 --> 00:46:44,343
I'll be forced
to cut off his drugs.

1064
00:46:44,384 --> 00:46:48,055
Live from New York,
it's Saturday Night!

1065
00:46:48,096 --> 00:46:50,432
He was testing all
the boundaries at that point.

1066
00:46:50,474 --> 00:46:52,684
The boundaries
of his relationship with Judy,

1067
00:46:52,726 --> 00:46:54,520
definitely with everyone
at the show.

1068
00:46:54,561 --> 00:46:59,191
Well, let them take you
for a clown

1069
00:46:59,233 --> 00:47:02,319
And they're bound
to bring you down

1070
00:47:02,361 --> 00:47:04,196
You got to make it
through the world...

1071
00:47:04,238 --> 00:47:05,948
I'd come up to the show,

1072
00:47:05,989 --> 00:47:07,407
and I was walking
into the studio,

1073
00:47:07,449 --> 00:47:09,952
and there's bleachers there,
and as I got in and under,

1074
00:47:09,993 --> 00:47:12,579
I saw that John and some woman
were kissing.

1075
00:47:12,621 --> 00:47:15,290
And he saw me
and came right after me,

1076
00:47:15,332 --> 00:47:16,375
and he grabbed me and said,

1077
00:47:16,416 --> 00:47:18,877
"I swear to God,
she just kissed me."

1078
00:47:18,919 --> 00:47:21,213
He would be late.
He would be erratic, you know?

1079
00:47:21,255 --> 00:47:23,882
He did have difficulties,
obviously.

1080
00:47:23,924 --> 00:47:25,968
I mean,
the phrase "where's John?"

1081
00:47:26,009 --> 00:47:27,970
Was said as frequently
in rehearsals

1082
00:47:28,011 --> 00:47:31,932
as, "Live from New York,
it's Saturday Night."

1083
00:47:31,974 --> 00:47:34,059
It was difficult
working with John.

1084
00:47:34,101 --> 00:47:38,647
I don't know whether it was
ego or ambition or the drugs,

1085
00:47:38,689 --> 00:47:43,235
but he didn't seem to respect
the women on the show.

1086
00:47:43,277 --> 00:47:46,196
He was very hard
on two of the women writers

1087
00:47:46,238 --> 00:47:48,532
and kind of just made it
a categorical,

1088
00:47:48,574 --> 00:47:49,825
"I don't like their work,

1089
00:47:49,867 --> 00:47:51,994
I don't want to do their work"
kind of thing.

1090
00:47:52,035 --> 00:47:54,246
And, of course,
they often wrote for Gilda,

1091
00:47:54,288 --> 00:47:57,791
and I think she felt
he was being mean and unfair.

1092
00:47:57,833 --> 00:47:59,459
Even so,
John would do stuff

1093
00:47:59,501 --> 00:48:01,587
like refusing to be in things
we wrote

1094
00:48:01,628 --> 00:48:03,922
and saying that girls
weren't funny.

1095
00:48:03,964 --> 00:48:05,090
And I mean, believe me,

1096
00:48:05,132 --> 00:48:07,885
all those men who
are accusing John of sexism,

1097
00:48:07,926 --> 00:48:11,513
I don't think their records
are too clear either.

1098
00:48:11,555 --> 00:48:15,559
John had to always look
like he was the boss.

1099
00:48:15,601 --> 00:48:18,562
It was a, you know,
a descent into hell.

1100
00:48:18,604 --> 00:48:20,564
I'll just leave it at that.

1101
00:48:20,606 --> 00:48:22,274
If you can

1102
00:48:24,359 --> 00:48:26,361
During that second season,

1103
00:48:26,403 --> 00:48:28,780
it just seemed
we were slipping apart.

1104
00:48:28,822 --> 00:48:30,282
He was being distant,

1105
00:48:30,324 --> 00:48:34,411
not responsive to concerns
I had about his drug use.

1106
00:48:34,453 --> 00:48:37,831
And I began to not trust
what he was telling me.

1107
00:48:37,873 --> 00:48:41,960
He wasn't following through
enough with things he said.

1108
00:48:42,002 --> 00:48:44,046
I felt I wasn't important
anymore,

1109
00:48:44,087 --> 00:48:48,050
and it didn't feel like
his interest was with me,

1110
00:48:48,091 --> 00:48:52,638
and that's really pretty much
why we split.

1111
00:48:52,679 --> 00:48:54,181
So he went to LA.

1112
00:48:54,222 --> 00:48:56,683
I'm the head
of the John Belushi fan club.

1113
00:48:56,725 --> 00:48:58,477
Yes, how's that?

1114
00:48:58,518 --> 00:48:59,519
What's this for?

1115
00:48:59,561 --> 00:49:02,147
We're making a documentary
about him.

1116
00:49:02,189 --> 00:49:03,190
You know Sally Kirkland?

1117
00:49:03,231 --> 00:49:04,858
No, I don't.

1118
00:49:04,900 --> 00:49:06,401
- She's a sweetheart.
- She is a sweetheart.

1119
00:49:06,443 --> 00:49:08,946
We're making it about people
who are about to make it,

1120
00:49:08,987 --> 00:49:10,948
who didn't make it,
who are gonna make it.

1121
00:49:10,989 --> 00:49:12,199
Now, here's Bob, right?

1122
00:49:12,240 --> 00:49:14,952
He's been in Hollywood for
two years from Brooklyn, right?

1123
00:49:14,993 --> 00:49:15,911
Y-yeah?

1124
00:49:15,953 --> 00:49:17,371
And all of a sudden,
he's a big star.

1125
00:49:17,412 --> 00:49:18,497
I'm not a big star.

1126
00:49:18,538 --> 00:49:20,624
That word
is not real anymore, man.

1127
00:49:20,666 --> 00:49:21,959
He probably has more to say.

1128
00:49:22,000 --> 00:49:23,877
That show's a hit,
and he's the biggest hit--

1129
00:49:23,919 --> 00:49:25,921
I was telling him
the first night

1130
00:49:25,963 --> 00:49:27,089
that you came to Hollywood

1131
00:49:27,130 --> 00:49:29,883
and you said,
"My God, should I shave?"

1132
00:49:29,925 --> 00:49:31,259
Right?

1133
00:49:31,301 --> 00:49:33,178
'Cause all of a sudden,
everybody knows you.

1134
00:49:33,220 --> 00:49:35,847
And they didn't know you the
last time you were here, right?

1135
00:49:35,889 --> 00:49:38,350
Uh, no--
oh, my friends knew me.

1136
00:49:38,392 --> 00:49:40,060
Well, I'm not
talking about your friends.

1137
00:49:40,102 --> 00:49:41,895
I'm talking about people
just walking in the door

1138
00:49:41,937 --> 00:49:43,981
- at the Comedy Canteen.
- No.

1139
00:49:44,022 --> 00:49:45,857
No, they didn't know me, no.

1140
00:49:45,899 --> 00:49:47,734
But they did this time?

1141
00:49:47,776 --> 00:49:50,070
Some knew me.
Some...

1142
00:49:50,112 --> 00:49:52,239
will never know me.

1143
00:49:52,280 --> 00:49:54,741
Some don't care.

1144
00:49:54,783 --> 00:49:57,494
Psychedelic music

1145
00:49:57,536 --> 00:49:59,246
Dearest Judy,

1146
00:49:59,287 --> 00:50:01,915
I've never doubted
your love for me.

1147
00:50:01,957 --> 00:50:04,459
I have doubted your faith
in me.

1148
00:50:04,501 --> 00:50:07,254
Experience
has taught you that.

1149
00:50:07,295 --> 00:50:08,505
When I dislike myself,

1150
00:50:08,547 --> 00:50:10,799
I think the people who like me
are fools

1151
00:50:10,841 --> 00:50:13,552
to like an asshole like me.

1152
00:50:13,593 --> 00:50:17,556
I know I'm inconsistent.
I work very hard.

1153
00:50:17,597 --> 00:50:19,683
I don't want
to be like my dad.

1154
00:50:19,725 --> 00:50:24,521
He never talked to my mom.
I am better, aren't I?

1155
00:50:24,563 --> 00:50:25,731
I'm trying to be clear,

1156
00:50:25,772 --> 00:50:28,442
but it's hard to understand
and explain.

1157
00:50:28,483 --> 00:50:31,778
Maybe it's nothing,
a coke paranoia.

1158
00:50:31,820 --> 00:50:34,489
I want to be with you
for the rest of my life,

1159
00:50:34,531 --> 00:50:37,659
but I don't think
you believe me.

1160
00:50:37,701 --> 00:50:40,912
I know what I'd like to do
after we talk more.

1161
00:50:40,954 --> 00:50:42,581
One, buy new clothes.

1162
00:50:42,622 --> 00:50:45,959
Two, stay away from drugs
and drug people.

1163
00:50:46,001 --> 00:50:48,336
Three, try to exercise.
Four, lose weight.

1164
00:50:48,378 --> 00:50:49,921
Five, stay home with you
and talk.

1165
00:50:49,963 --> 00:50:52,799
Six, go out more with you.
Seven, stop seeing others.

1166
00:50:52,841 --> 00:50:54,718
Eight, understand
other's needs.

1167
00:50:54,760 --> 00:50:56,094
Nine, be happy.

1168
00:50:56,136 --> 00:50:59,014
Ten, love you.

1169
00:50:59,056 --> 00:51:01,683
Please, let's talk.

1170
00:51:01,725 --> 00:51:03,643
Harmonica music

1171
00:51:03,685 --> 00:51:06,229
For about a month,
we didn't live together,

1172
00:51:06,271 --> 00:51:10,484
and then one day,
he came back.

1173
00:51:10,525 --> 00:51:12,402
He convinced me
that he loved me

1174
00:51:12,444 --> 00:51:16,323
and that he couldn't always do
what I was hoping,

1175
00:51:16,364 --> 00:51:18,241
but this time was unique

1176
00:51:18,283 --> 00:51:21,328
and that we were gonna change
our trajectory.

1177
00:51:22,788 --> 00:51:26,541
We decided to go to Aspen
for vacation.

1178
00:51:26,583 --> 00:51:27,876
My brother lived in Aspen,

1179
00:51:27,918 --> 00:51:29,211
and I heard him tell
my brother

1180
00:51:29,252 --> 00:51:31,797
we were gonna get married
while we were there.

1181
00:51:31,838 --> 00:51:34,257
Meanwhile, I personally
had forgotten

1182
00:51:34,299 --> 00:51:35,634
the idea of getting married

1183
00:51:35,675 --> 00:51:37,677
because of the way things
had just sort of all gone.

1184
00:51:37,719 --> 00:51:39,596
I said, "John,
I heard you say to my brother

1185
00:51:39,638 --> 00:51:40,847
that we were gonna
get married."

1186
00:51:40,889 --> 00:51:42,766
And he said, "Well, yeah.
Aren't we?"

1187
00:51:42,808 --> 00:51:45,894
Dark rock music

1188
00:51:50,524 --> 00:51:53,401
My dear sweet Judy,

1189
00:51:53,443 --> 00:51:55,112
a letter is so inadequate

1190
00:51:55,153 --> 00:51:58,115
to explain how I feel
about you.

1191
00:51:58,156 --> 00:52:01,159
It's just there,
living inside of me,

1192
00:52:01,201 --> 00:52:05,622
a living organism
that I need to live.

1193
00:52:05,664 --> 00:52:09,376
To my first
and only Valentine forever.

1194
00:52:09,417 --> 00:52:10,961
Love, John.

1195
00:52:13,004 --> 00:52:17,050
He was obviously
experiencing some wild peaks

1196
00:52:17,092 --> 00:52:18,969
and some dark troughs.

1197
00:52:19,010 --> 00:52:21,179
And then he
and Judy got married,

1198
00:52:21,221 --> 00:52:22,681
and things really
settled down.

1199
00:52:22,722 --> 00:52:23,723
Exactly.

1200
00:52:23,765 --> 00:52:26,893
It just seemed
like he needed that.

1201
00:52:42,117 --> 00:52:45,203
I went to visit John
at Saturday Night,

1202
00:52:45,245 --> 00:52:47,205
and I remember walking down
the street

1203
00:52:47,247 --> 00:52:49,833
with all these people I'd been
with when we had nothing,

1204
00:52:49,875 --> 00:52:52,127
when just having a job
was good enough.

1205
00:52:52,169 --> 00:52:54,045
And now I looked behind us,

1206
00:52:54,087 --> 00:52:57,048
and limousines were slowly
following us down the street,

1207
00:52:57,090 --> 00:52:58,091
you know?

1208
00:52:58,133 --> 00:53:00,051
Seemed like
they were the beginnings

1209
00:53:00,093 --> 00:53:03,054
of a kind of wretched excess.

1210
00:53:03,096 --> 00:53:04,264
You know, for John,

1211
00:53:04,306 --> 00:53:07,475
who lived for so long
with some sense of destiny,

1212
00:53:07,517 --> 00:53:10,228
what was kind of a hopeful
arrogance, you know,

1213
00:53:10,270 --> 00:53:12,731
turned into a kind
of expectation

1214
00:53:12,772 --> 00:53:15,358
of his own success.

1215
00:53:15,400 --> 00:53:18,236
And that was before
Animal House.

1216
00:53:19,696 --> 00:53:22,574
All right, you bastard.
Let's go, right here!

1217
00:53:22,616 --> 00:53:23,992
Upbeat oldies music

1218
00:53:24,034 --> 00:53:26,828
Hey, baby, won't you take
a chance...

1219
00:53:26,870 --> 00:53:29,331
Food fight!

1220
00:53:29,372 --> 00:53:31,416
My wife at that time said,

1221
00:53:31,458 --> 00:53:33,168
"You've always wanted
to write a movie

1222
00:53:33,210 --> 00:53:34,377
about your college
experience."

1223
00:53:34,419 --> 00:53:36,254
So Doug Kenney and I
started writing,

1224
00:53:36,296 --> 00:53:37,923
and then Doug and I recruited
Chris Miller,

1225
00:53:37,964 --> 00:53:41,551
who was the Lampoon's
resident college expert.

1226
00:53:41,593 --> 00:53:44,012
One thing
about Animal House is that,

1227
00:53:44,054 --> 00:53:46,556
at the center
of every great animal house,

1228
00:53:46,598 --> 00:53:48,350
there was a great animal.

1229
00:53:48,391 --> 00:53:50,936
And we looked at each other
for a beat,

1230
00:53:50,977 --> 00:53:54,356
and we all simultaneously
said, "Belushi."

1231
00:53:57,943 --> 00:53:59,861
And the script
wasn't designed

1232
00:53:59,903 --> 00:54:01,529
for Bluto to burst through.

1233
00:54:01,571 --> 00:54:03,531
It's just, John burst through.

1234
00:54:03,573 --> 00:54:07,369
Mr. Blutarsky...

1235
00:54:07,410 --> 00:54:10,789
zero-point-zero.

1236
00:54:10,830 --> 00:54:12,540
He's the ladies' man

1237
00:54:12,582 --> 00:54:15,168
Was it over when the Germans
bombed Pearl Harbor?

1238
00:54:15,210 --> 00:54:17,879
- "Germans"?
- Forget it. He's rolling.

1239
00:54:17,921 --> 00:54:20,465
Let's do it!

1240
00:54:23,551 --> 00:54:25,929
Holy shit!

1241
00:54:25,971 --> 00:54:27,555
Animal house

1242
00:54:28,974 --> 00:54:32,310
Seven years of college
down the drain.

1243
00:54:32,352 --> 00:54:33,770
Animal house

1244
00:54:33,812 --> 00:54:34,896
In the script,

1245
00:54:34,938 --> 00:54:36,648
John's character
had much more dialogue

1246
00:54:36,690 --> 00:54:38,275
than he does in the movie.

1247
00:54:38,316 --> 00:54:40,235
I took most of his lines away

1248
00:54:40,277 --> 00:54:42,779
because this idea of Bluto
as kind of--

1249
00:54:42,821 --> 00:54:44,364
you know,
I told him to channel

1250
00:54:44,406 --> 00:54:46,574
Harpo Marx
and the Cookie Monster.

1251
00:54:46,616 --> 00:54:47,993
It's just appetite.

1252
00:54:48,034 --> 00:54:49,786
Don't know much biology...

1253
00:54:49,828 --> 00:54:52,038
And what Belushi had
that was so great--

1254
00:54:52,080 --> 00:54:54,207
you actually can watch
his thought process.

1255
00:54:54,249 --> 00:54:55,500
You know,

1256
00:54:55,542 --> 00:54:58,628
you can see the ideas seeping
through his skull.

1257
00:55:00,046 --> 00:55:03,675
But what both the
Cookie Monster and Harpo have,

1258
00:55:03,717 --> 00:55:05,802
despite their
destructive tendencies,

1259
00:55:05,844 --> 00:55:08,388
is they're both very,
very sweet,

1260
00:55:08,430 --> 00:55:10,807
and that's the strength
of John's performance.

1261
00:55:14,269 --> 00:55:16,438
Good.

1262
00:55:18,148 --> 00:55:20,984
And a lot of the
stuff that people remember

1263
00:55:21,026 --> 00:55:22,027
is just John.

1264
00:55:22,068 --> 00:55:25,280
Hey.

1265
00:55:25,322 --> 00:55:26,573
There was a scene

1266
00:55:26,614 --> 00:55:29,242
where he's cheering up
Flounder.

1267
00:55:29,284 --> 00:55:31,786
To me,
it's this examination of John.

1268
00:55:33,121 --> 00:55:35,957
Because he really did
want you to have a good time,

1269
00:55:35,999 --> 00:55:38,043
and he could do
the most outrageous

1270
00:55:38,084 --> 00:55:40,795
and totally
unforgivable behavior...

1271
00:55:41,880 --> 00:55:45,383
...because he was
so damn charming.

1272
00:55:49,054 --> 00:55:52,140
John came to this movie
ready to work.

1273
00:55:52,182 --> 00:55:55,268
He went there with Judy.
They rented a great house.

1274
00:55:55,310 --> 00:55:57,270
It was a very familial affair.

1275
00:55:57,312 --> 00:55:59,773
He was there
with all guns blasting.

1276
00:55:59,814 --> 00:56:01,232
He was very creative.

1277
00:56:01,274 --> 00:56:05,862
There was no weirdness;
there was no acting out.

1278
00:56:05,904 --> 00:56:07,030
John, you know,

1279
00:56:07,072 --> 00:56:08,948
thought of himself
as a physical God.

1280
00:56:08,990 --> 00:56:10,700
I think he probably
would've thought

1281
00:56:10,742 --> 00:56:13,995
he could be a ballet dancer
if somebody asked him to.

1282
00:56:14,037 --> 00:56:15,622
But he always
introduced me as,

1283
00:56:15,663 --> 00:56:18,166
"Oh, this is my friend Bruce.
He's a great actor."

1284
00:56:18,208 --> 00:56:19,417
And after a while,
I said,

1285
00:56:19,459 --> 00:56:21,211
"John, why do you make
that distinction?

1286
00:56:21,252 --> 00:56:23,213
You're an actor, I'm an actor.
What's the deal?"

1287
00:56:23,254 --> 00:56:24,923
He said,
"Oh, no, I'm a sketch player."

1288
00:56:24,964 --> 00:56:27,008
And I think that's one
of the things that drove John

1289
00:56:27,050 --> 00:56:30,220
and frustrated him so,
is that he was so talented

1290
00:56:30,261 --> 00:56:32,555
and what he did came
so naturally

1291
00:56:32,597 --> 00:56:35,433
and without apparent effort
on his part

1292
00:56:35,475 --> 00:56:36,810
that he kept thinking

1293
00:56:36,851 --> 00:56:39,604
somebody was gonna find out he
wasn't really doing anything.

1294
00:56:39,646 --> 00:56:40,814
He was just cutting up.

1295
00:56:40,855 --> 00:56:42,315
The deal is he was cutting up

1296
00:56:42,357 --> 00:56:45,235
as one of the world's most
talented physical comics ever.

1297
00:56:46,945 --> 00:56:48,988
How do you think
the movie is coming along?

1298
00:56:49,030 --> 00:56:49,989
Are you pleased with it?

1299
00:56:50,031 --> 00:56:51,282
I'm very pleased with it.

1300
00:56:51,324 --> 00:56:54,285
I think it's the best thing
I've ever done.

1301
00:56:54,327 --> 00:56:56,621
It was really one of
the most remarkable previews

1302
00:56:56,663 --> 00:56:57,747
I'd ever gone to.

1303
00:56:57,789 --> 00:56:59,874
I've had some very big hits
since then,

1304
00:56:59,916 --> 00:57:03,169
but I've still never had
a screening like that one.

1305
00:57:04,295 --> 00:57:06,798
Excuse me, sir.
Is this the Delta house?

1306
00:57:06,840 --> 00:57:09,759
Sure.

1307
00:57:10,844 --> 00:57:12,137
Come on in.

1308
00:57:12,178 --> 00:57:15,306
From the moment Belushi
appeared on the screen

1309
00:57:15,348 --> 00:57:17,767
and peed
on the freshmen's trousers,

1310
00:57:17,809 --> 00:57:20,311
the audience went crazy
and didn't stop going crazy,

1311
00:57:20,353 --> 00:57:22,105
and if they could've torn
seats out,

1312
00:57:22,147 --> 00:57:23,356
literally,
they would have.

1313
00:57:23,398 --> 00:57:24,899
What about Animal House?

1314
00:57:24,941 --> 00:57:29,028
It's a comedy that I did,
and it's coming out today.

1315
00:57:29,070 --> 00:57:32,782
It's a stroll down memory lane
with a blowtorch.

1316
00:57:32,824 --> 00:57:34,826
Toga! Toga!

1317
00:57:34,868 --> 00:57:37,537
Toga, toga, toga!

1318
00:57:37,579 --> 00:57:38,621
It is toga fever,

1319
00:57:38,663 --> 00:57:40,665
and it is sweeping
college campuses

1320
00:57:40,707 --> 00:57:42,083
throughout the country.

1321
00:57:42,125 --> 00:57:44,544
Something
that happened to John

1322
00:57:44,586 --> 00:57:46,171
is instant stardom.

1323
00:57:46,212 --> 00:57:48,756
I mean, he was
a television personality

1324
00:57:48,798 --> 00:57:51,342
on a late-night fringe show,

1325
00:57:51,384 --> 00:57:54,596
and then out of this movie
comes this stardom,

1326
00:57:54,637 --> 00:57:56,556
and that's terrifying.

1327
00:57:56,598 --> 00:57:59,767
Around the movie,
there was this craze.

1328
00:57:59,809 --> 00:58:01,728
So Newsweek
put him on the cover.

1329
00:58:01,769 --> 00:58:03,146
That was certainly,
you know,

1330
00:58:03,188 --> 00:58:05,648
turning him
into a famous face.

1331
00:58:05,690 --> 00:58:08,234
It's more difficult
after that.

1332
00:58:08,276 --> 00:58:10,778
John was way more
comfortable onstage

1333
00:58:10,820 --> 00:58:12,572
than anywhere else.

1334
00:58:12,614 --> 00:58:13,781
And I always said to him,

1335
00:58:13,823 --> 00:58:15,241
"I don't understand
how you can do that.

1336
00:58:15,283 --> 00:58:18,328
Get up on the stage,
you have no fear whatsoever."

1337
00:58:18,369 --> 00:58:19,454
And he always said,

1338
00:58:19,496 --> 00:58:21,456
"Yeah, but you do the thing
that I can't do,

1339
00:58:21,498 --> 00:58:23,458
"which is you're
more comfortable in life.

1340
00:58:23,500 --> 00:58:25,585
I don't know how you do that."

1341
00:58:25,627 --> 00:58:27,378
He didn't really talk
to me about the difference

1342
00:58:27,420 --> 00:58:30,381
between movie stardom and
television stardom or that.

1343
00:58:30,423 --> 00:58:32,926
He did want to conquer
all mediums.

1344
00:58:32,967 --> 00:58:34,594
I think one
of his biggest prides

1345
00:58:34,636 --> 00:58:37,263
was his success
with the Blues Brothers act.

1346
00:58:37,305 --> 00:58:41,267
He was just ecstatic.

1347
00:58:49,025 --> 00:58:51,653
We're very fortunate
to have this person with us--

1348
00:58:51,694 --> 00:58:54,489
Mr. John Belushi.
Can we bring him out here?

1349
00:58:55,698 --> 00:58:57,408
Johnny Lee's
"Hey Bartender"

1350
00:58:57,450 --> 00:59:00,787
Went partying
the other night

1351
00:59:00,828 --> 00:59:04,040
Started drinking
and got real tight

1352
00:59:04,082 --> 00:59:07,669
I blew each
and all my friends

1353
00:59:07,710 --> 00:59:11,089
Felt so good,
I had to blow again

1354
00:59:11,130 --> 00:59:13,258
I said, "Hey, bartender"

1355
00:59:13,299 --> 00:59:14,634
I got turned on to blues

1356
00:59:14,676 --> 00:59:16,052
when I was filming
Animal House.

1357
00:59:16,094 --> 00:59:18,513
I mean, really into it,
you know what I mean?

1358
00:59:18,555 --> 00:59:20,890
So I've spent the last year
trying to learn

1359
00:59:20,932 --> 00:59:23,643
as much as I could,
you know, about blues.

1360
00:59:23,685 --> 00:59:25,687
One more time!

1361
00:59:25,728 --> 00:59:27,188
I'd carry albums with me.

1362
00:59:27,230 --> 00:59:29,023
When I would just go see
somebody or I'd go to work,

1363
00:59:29,065 --> 00:59:32,235
listening--I mean, I'd drive
my friends nuts, you know?

1364
00:59:32,277 --> 00:59:34,404
Draw a-one, two

1365
00:59:34,445 --> 00:59:37,824
Three more glasses of beer

1366
00:59:44,038 --> 00:59:45,123
He said to me,

1367
00:59:45,164 --> 00:59:46,833
"We're gonna do
the Blues Brothers.

1368
00:59:46,874 --> 00:59:49,002
We're gonna do, like, a band."

1369
00:59:49,043 --> 00:59:52,046
And he got Danny
to play harmonica, you know?

1370
00:59:52,088 --> 00:59:55,383
And then he said, "Okay, Judy,
you're gonna be the designer

1371
00:59:55,425 --> 00:59:57,260
and, Laila, you're gonna be
the president

1372
00:59:57,302 --> 00:59:58,386
of the Blues Brothers,

1373
00:59:58,428 --> 01:00:00,346
and you're gonna put it
all together."

1374
01:00:00,388 --> 01:00:02,932
I think John used the blues
as a way

1375
01:00:02,974 --> 01:00:04,684
to keep everybody together.

1376
01:00:04,726 --> 01:00:06,686
To sort of create a family?

1377
01:00:06,728 --> 01:00:07,895
Yes.

1378
01:00:07,937 --> 01:00:10,732
You know,
it was a real common effort,

1379
01:00:10,773 --> 01:00:12,317
but mainly led by John,
you know? He really--

1380
01:00:12,358 --> 01:00:14,444
It came out of trust
and people saying, you know,

1381
01:00:14,485 --> 01:00:16,195
they weren't sure what it was.

1382
01:00:16,237 --> 01:00:17,280
I knew what it was.

1383
01:00:17,322 --> 01:00:18,531
I knew exactly
what it was gonna be.

1384
01:00:18,573 --> 01:00:20,325
But they all showed up.

1385
01:00:20,366 --> 01:00:22,493
We got the best musicians
in the world.

1386
01:00:22,535 --> 01:00:25,455
Went partying
the other night

1387
01:00:25,496 --> 01:00:28,791
Started drinking
and got real tight

1388
01:00:28,833 --> 01:00:32,170
I blew each
and all my friends

1389
01:00:32,211 --> 01:00:35,590
Felt so good,
I had to blow again

1390
01:00:35,632 --> 01:00:36,591
I said, hey...

1391
01:00:36,633 --> 01:00:37,925
A lot of people thought

1392
01:00:37,967 --> 01:00:39,469
that it was kind of a joke.

1393
01:00:39,510 --> 01:00:40,762
I don't think people realized

1394
01:00:40,803 --> 01:00:43,264
that we really had
a great band

1395
01:00:43,306 --> 01:00:44,932
and that John
could really sing.

1396
01:00:44,974 --> 01:00:47,101
Three more glasses of beer

1397
01:00:49,896 --> 01:00:51,939
Once we actually performed,

1398
01:00:51,981 --> 01:00:54,692
I think we put to rest
that it wasn't a joke,

1399
01:00:54,734 --> 01:00:58,988
and it was a love of the music
that was driving John.

1400
01:00:59,030 --> 01:01:02,241
Come on down
and drink with me

1401
01:01:02,283 --> 01:01:04,577
I said, "Hey, bartender"

1402
01:01:04,619 --> 01:01:06,037
The whole thing,
it's a theatrical thing.

1403
01:01:06,079 --> 01:01:08,539
Like, you know, Greek theater
has the mask, you know?

1404
01:01:08,581 --> 01:01:10,750
Well, the Blues Brothers have
the shades and the suits.

1405
01:01:10,792 --> 01:01:14,045
So it basically looks
like '50s hipster junkie.

1406
01:01:14,087 --> 01:01:15,171
They look like cops.

1407
01:01:15,213 --> 01:01:16,673
They look like hit men,
you know?

1408
01:01:16,714 --> 01:01:18,007
Rabbis.
Some guys thought--

1409
01:01:18,049 --> 01:01:19,759
But the fact is
that Jake and Elwood

1410
01:01:19,801 --> 01:01:20,927
aren't any of those things.

1411
01:01:20,968 --> 01:01:23,137
They're just, like, musicians,
you know?

1412
01:01:42,949 --> 01:01:44,200
Well...

1413
01:01:44,242 --> 01:01:45,785
And here you are
on television every week.

1414
01:01:45,827 --> 01:01:47,912
What I'm getting from you is
that underneath it all of it,

1415
01:01:47,954 --> 01:01:50,206
the biggest fantasy is
to be a rock-and-roll star.

1416
01:01:50,248 --> 01:01:52,458
That's it, pal.

1417
01:01:52,500 --> 01:01:55,378
Hey, bartender

1418
01:01:55,420 --> 01:01:58,881
Hey,
bartender

1419
01:01:58,923 --> 01:02:02,051
Hey, bartender

1420
01:02:02,093 --> 01:02:03,803
Draw a-one, two

1421
01:02:03,845 --> 01:02:07,598
Three more glasses of beer

1422
01:02:16,441 --> 01:02:19,485
Atlantic Records wanted
to do a live album,

1423
01:02:19,527 --> 01:02:22,822
and that first night
at Universal Amphitheatre,

1424
01:02:22,864 --> 01:02:25,158
the crowd was just wild.

1425
01:02:25,199 --> 01:02:27,994
You know, John had loved being
in a band and wanted a band,

1426
01:02:28,035 --> 01:02:30,580
and now he had a band.

1427
01:02:30,621 --> 01:02:33,875
The best band in the world.

1428
01:02:33,916 --> 01:02:37,712
And I just thought,
"My God, they did it."

1429
01:02:37,754 --> 01:02:40,840
The Blues Brothers'
"She Caught the Katy"

1430
01:02:40,882 --> 01:02:43,926
We recorded the album,
and it was released

1431
01:02:43,968 --> 01:02:47,847
and pretty quickly went
to number one.

1432
01:02:47,889 --> 01:02:50,516
Triumphant blues music

1433
01:02:58,149 --> 01:03:00,693
She caught the Katy

1434
01:03:00,735 --> 01:03:02,528
And left me a mule...

1435
01:03:02,570 --> 01:03:04,906
That's when
the 1941 deal came down,

1436
01:03:04,947 --> 01:03:06,616
and he turned to me and said,
"It's done.

1437
01:03:06,657 --> 01:03:08,451
You know, I'm working
with Spielberg,

1438
01:03:08,493 --> 01:03:10,578
and I think
this means I'm set."

1439
01:03:10,620 --> 01:03:13,956
And left me a mule to ride

1440
01:03:17,919 --> 01:03:19,712
My baby caught the Katy...

1441
01:03:19,754 --> 01:03:21,506
Boy, you must be a busy guy.

1442
01:03:21,547 --> 01:03:23,257
You do Saturday Night Live;
you have time for movies;

1443
01:03:23,299 --> 01:03:25,384
you have time for
the Blues Brothers projects.

1444
01:03:25,426 --> 01:03:27,553
Plus, I mean, I'm a
night manager at Burger King.

1445
01:03:27,595 --> 01:03:30,223
I have to keep working.
You know, I'm like a shark.

1446
01:03:30,264 --> 01:03:31,766
If I stop, I'll die.

1447
01:03:31,808 --> 01:03:32,850
John? Hello?

1448
01:03:32,892 --> 01:03:33,935
Hello, hello, hello!

1449
01:03:33,976 --> 01:03:35,269
- Hello.
- Hello!

1450
01:03:35,311 --> 01:03:36,604
So why did you call, dear?

1451
01:03:36,646 --> 01:03:37,855
I called because

1452
01:03:37,897 --> 01:03:39,857
he's the greatest guy
on Saturday Night Live.

1453
01:03:39,899 --> 01:03:41,108
Aw.

1454
01:03:41,150 --> 01:03:42,652
If he just keeps on
doing what he's doing,

1455
01:03:42,693 --> 01:03:44,612
he's gonna make so many people
in the world so happy.

1456
01:03:44,654 --> 01:03:45,988
Well, I hope so.
Thank you.

1457
01:03:46,030 --> 01:03:47,657
Thank you. All right.
Let's take another call.

1458
01:03:47,698 --> 01:03:49,408
Let's see.
Hello?

1459
01:03:49,450 --> 01:03:50,743
On his 30th birthday,

1460
01:03:50,785 --> 01:03:52,453
the Blues Brothers
were number one,

1461
01:03:52,495 --> 01:03:54,747
he was on the number one
television show,

1462
01:03:54,789 --> 01:03:58,876
and Animal House was the
number one grossing comedy.

1463
01:03:58,918 --> 01:04:01,003
He was high on his success,

1464
01:04:01,045 --> 01:04:04,841
but he was unsure
of what people wanted from him

1465
01:04:04,882 --> 01:04:06,384
and how to relate to people.

1466
01:04:06,425 --> 01:04:07,760
All right, one more.
Hello.

1467
01:04:07,802 --> 01:04:09,262
- Hello?
- Hello!

1468
01:04:09,303 --> 01:04:11,639
That was
a difficult change for him.

1469
01:04:11,681 --> 01:04:12,765
BCN here.

1470
01:04:12,807 --> 01:04:14,433
Yes, I have one question.

1471
01:04:14,475 --> 01:04:15,726
Yeah, sure.

1472
01:04:15,768 --> 01:04:17,144
What is your drug
of preference?

1473
01:04:17,186 --> 01:04:18,062
Uh...

1474
01:04:18,104 --> 01:04:19,230
That's a good question.

1475
01:04:19,272 --> 01:04:21,065
Go ahead, John.
You can answer that.

1476
01:04:21,107 --> 01:04:22,650
Um...

1477
01:04:22,692 --> 01:04:24,819
I don't--I don't--
I don't tell people that.

1478
01:04:24,861 --> 01:04:26,320
Right.

1479
01:04:26,362 --> 01:04:28,322
That's a very good answer.

1480
01:04:29,949 --> 01:04:32,451
He was a very
American-like force.

1481
01:04:32,493 --> 01:04:35,037
I felt that
what made you laugh about John

1482
01:04:35,079 --> 01:04:36,581
was peculiarly American.

1483
01:04:36,622 --> 01:04:38,791
The raw energy
of this country

1484
01:04:38,833 --> 01:04:41,711
was summed up
in the way he hit the stage,

1485
01:04:41,752 --> 01:04:43,212
but at the same time,
I've always felt

1486
01:04:43,254 --> 01:04:46,215
that there's an enormous void
at the center of America,

1487
01:04:46,257 --> 01:04:49,218
a void that has to do with
promise and disappointment

1488
01:04:49,260 --> 01:04:52,138
and impossible expectations.

1489
01:04:52,179 --> 01:04:55,474
Behind all this energy
comes what?

1490
01:04:55,516 --> 01:04:59,687
The American dream
is ultimately just a dream.

1491
01:04:59,729 --> 01:05:03,608
When you finally get where
you're going, what then?

1492
01:05:07,945 --> 01:05:09,405
Hello?
Olympia Restaurant.

1493
01:05:09,447 --> 01:05:10,573
Cheeseburger, cheeseburger.

1494
01:05:10,615 --> 01:05:12,825
- Two Pepsi, one chip!
- Yeah. To go?

1495
01:05:12,867 --> 01:05:14,243
Four cheeseburger.

1496
01:05:14,285 --> 01:05:16,495
Cheeseburger, cheeseburger,
cheeseburger, cheeseburger.

1497
01:05:16,537 --> 01:05:18,706
Cheeseburger, cheeseburger,
cheeseburger, cheeseburger.

1498
01:05:18,748 --> 01:05:20,291
No--no fries.
Chips.

1499
01:05:20,333 --> 01:05:21,751
The one character

1500
01:05:21,792 --> 01:05:23,920
that I know definitely comes
from, you know, the family

1501
01:05:23,961 --> 01:05:25,922
is the "cheeseburger,
cheeseburger" guy.

1502
01:05:25,963 --> 01:05:28,758
No Coke, no orange, no grape?
Okay.

1503
01:05:28,799 --> 01:05:31,594
When I watched
the character, I went,

1504
01:05:31,636 --> 01:05:33,471
"My God, that's my dad."

1505
01:05:33,512 --> 01:05:37,850
I don't want a cheeseburger.
Eggs over lightly with sausage.

1506
01:05:37,892 --> 01:05:41,228
No, no, no, no; no eggs.
Cheeseburger.

1507
01:05:41,270 --> 01:05:42,855
You stopped serving breakfast?

1508
01:05:42,897 --> 01:05:44,065
No.
No breakfast.

1509
01:05:44,106 --> 01:05:45,483
- No breakfast?
- No.

1510
01:05:45,524 --> 01:05:48,027
All right.
I just want a couple eggs.

1511
01:05:48,069 --> 01:05:49,987
No breakfast.
Cheeseburger, huh?

1512
01:05:50,029 --> 01:05:51,030
I don't want a cheeseburger.

1513
01:05:51,072 --> 01:05:52,198
It's too early
for a cheeseburger.

1514
01:05:52,239 --> 01:05:54,116
Too early for cheeseburger?
Look.

1515
01:05:54,158 --> 01:05:55,284
Cheeseburger,
cheeseburger,

1516
01:05:55,326 --> 01:05:56,661
cheeseburger, cheeseburger,
cheeseburger.

1517
01:05:56,702 --> 01:05:59,205
Cheeseburger,
cheeseburger, cheeseburger.

1518
01:06:02,249 --> 01:06:03,626
I'll have a cheeseburger.

1519
01:06:03,668 --> 01:06:06,712
Bluesy rock music

1520
01:06:10,925 --> 01:06:14,679
Here we are
up in Julian, California.

1521
01:06:14,720 --> 01:06:18,099
And up here coming towards us,
Adam Belushi.

1522
01:06:18,140 --> 01:06:20,851
That's difficult.

1523
01:06:24,438 --> 01:06:27,024
With the first money
we really had,

1524
01:06:27,066 --> 01:06:28,526
one of the things we did

1525
01:06:28,567 --> 01:06:32,947
was to get a ranch
in California for his parents.

1526
01:06:34,657 --> 01:06:36,450
They weren't terribly close,
but he loved them,

1527
01:06:36,492 --> 01:06:38,995
and he wanted
to do nice things for 'em.

1528
01:06:40,454 --> 01:06:43,416
They were immigrants who,
in one generation, had a son

1529
01:06:43,457 --> 01:06:46,585
who had reached heights
they couldn't have imagined.

1530
01:06:46,627 --> 01:06:48,963
But it just didn't seem
to make a difference

1531
01:06:49,005 --> 01:06:51,632
to their relationship.

1532
01:06:51,674 --> 01:06:54,260
One of the things
that John struggled with

1533
01:06:54,301 --> 01:06:55,553
in his emotional life

1534
01:06:55,594 --> 01:06:58,347
was thinking
his parents weren't happy.

1535
01:06:58,389 --> 01:07:02,893
Adam seemed depressed,
and Agnes was up and down,

1536
01:07:02,935 --> 01:07:05,104
maybe bipolar.

1537
01:07:05,146 --> 01:07:06,897
He felt that his success

1538
01:07:06,939 --> 01:07:09,066
was supposed to help heal
the family,

1539
01:07:09,108 --> 01:07:12,153
yet he couldn't make that
happen.

1540
01:07:12,194 --> 01:07:14,572
It was very painful.

1541
01:07:14,613 --> 01:07:17,366
I think it really crushed him.

1542
01:07:17,408 --> 01:07:18,951
Hi, Jane.
How are you?

1543
01:07:18,993 --> 01:07:19,869
Hi, Dan.
Fine.

1544
01:07:19,910 --> 01:07:21,537
- How's Patrick?
- He's good.

1545
01:07:21,579 --> 01:07:23,372
I hear John's still out
in California.

1546
01:07:23,414 --> 01:07:25,374
What's he doing,
eight to ten for possession?

1547
01:07:25,416 --> 01:07:27,543
No, no.
He's really quite sick.

1548
01:07:27,585 --> 01:07:30,087
He has a bad ear infection.
He can't go up in an airplane.

1549
01:07:30,129 --> 01:07:31,881
Like, he can't land, or his
ear drum will burst, so...

1550
01:07:31,922 --> 01:07:35,593
Oh, I sure hope he didn't catch
it listening to himself sing.

1551
01:07:35,634 --> 01:07:38,054
- I'll see you, Dan.
- Sure.

1552
01:07:38,095 --> 01:07:40,014
Funky rock music

1553
01:07:40,056 --> 01:07:43,768
In the course
of 20-some-odd shows a year,

1554
01:07:43,809 --> 01:07:44,894
now, suddenly,

1555
01:07:44,935 --> 01:07:49,440
John was often
a bigger star than the host.

1556
01:07:49,482 --> 01:07:50,858
He was making 1941.

1557
01:07:50,900 --> 01:07:53,527
There's a short film
that I've never run

1558
01:07:53,569 --> 01:07:55,071
with John sitting
around a pool,

1559
01:07:55,112 --> 01:07:58,199
'cause it was the one time
John missed a show.

1560
01:07:58,240 --> 01:07:59,492
Right...

1561
01:07:59,533 --> 01:08:01,077
...because he broke
his leg or hurt his leg or--

1562
01:08:01,118 --> 01:08:02,745
- An ear infection.
- Whatever.

1563
01:08:02,787 --> 01:08:03,746
- Okay.
- Yeah.

1564
01:08:03,788 --> 01:08:05,039
Whatever it was,

1565
01:08:05,081 --> 01:08:06,332
he couldn't get on
the plane, blah, blah, blah.

1566
01:08:06,373 --> 01:08:07,875
And they made this film
for the show,

1567
01:08:07,917 --> 01:08:10,169
which was all
about kissing John's ass.

1568
01:08:10,211 --> 01:08:11,170
Mm-hmm.

1569
01:08:11,212 --> 01:08:13,005
I think we all just felt,

1570
01:08:13,047 --> 01:08:15,925
"Hey, you can't do this."

1571
01:08:18,594 --> 01:08:20,012
Yeah,
everyone says that, you know,

1572
01:08:20,054 --> 01:08:22,056
people didn't realize his
problem was as bad as it was

1573
01:08:22,098 --> 01:08:24,391
because he always
pulled it together at 11:30.

1574
01:08:24,433 --> 01:08:26,143
Yeah.

1575
01:08:26,185 --> 01:08:27,269
The Kate Jackson show.

1576
01:08:27,311 --> 01:08:30,231
Yes.
Here's the story, okay?

1577
01:08:30,272 --> 01:08:32,483
John is the fucking center
of the show.

1578
01:08:32,525 --> 01:08:33,859
It's about
Fred Silverman,

1579
01:08:33,901 --> 01:08:35,111
and he's playing
Fred Silverman.

1580
01:08:35,152 --> 01:08:37,446
You all remember
Freddy Silverman?

1581
01:08:37,488 --> 01:08:40,032
He'd been out with,
like, Ronnie Wood, you know?

1582
01:08:40,074 --> 01:08:43,119
And he was a mess.
And he was coughing, you know.

1583
01:08:43,160 --> 01:08:45,538
He looked terrible,
and the doctor says,

1584
01:08:45,579 --> 01:08:46,622
"John can't go on."

1585
01:08:46,664 --> 01:08:49,667
And I was just
somewhere between rage

1586
01:08:49,708 --> 01:08:52,253
and very little sympathy.

1587
01:08:52,294 --> 01:08:55,631
And I said, "Well,
what happens if he does it?"

1588
01:08:55,673 --> 01:08:58,592
He said, "Well, he could die."

1589
01:08:58,634 --> 01:09:02,471
And I said,
"What are the odds of that?"

1590
01:09:02,513 --> 01:09:05,182
And he said, "50/50."

1591
01:09:05,224 --> 01:09:08,602
And I said,
"I can live with those odds."

1592
01:09:08,644 --> 01:09:10,813
John looked at me,
he opened his eyes,

1593
01:09:10,855 --> 01:09:13,524
and he did the show.

1594
01:09:13,566 --> 01:09:14,859
And he was bad.

1595
01:09:14,900 --> 01:09:17,987
Dissonant dramatic music

1596
01:09:22,700 --> 01:09:26,871
I think he did everything
he could to hang on that year,

1597
01:09:26,912 --> 01:09:30,416
but John didn't know how to do
anything except full throttle.

1598
01:09:30,457 --> 01:09:32,960
So being a movie star meant,
in his brain,

1599
01:09:33,002 --> 01:09:36,213
that he had to turn
his back on this other thing.

1600
01:09:39,175 --> 01:09:40,926
I think
he never reconciled it,

1601
01:09:40,968 --> 01:09:43,929
and he got deeper and deeper
into the unhappiness

1602
01:09:43,971 --> 01:09:46,098
that comes with living

1603
01:09:46,140 --> 01:09:50,936
for what everybody else says
is the ideal life, you know?

1604
01:09:53,939 --> 01:09:57,651
Blues music

1605
01:09:59,945 --> 01:10:01,071
Mark.

1606
01:10:01,113 --> 01:10:03,532
John Belushi!

1607
01:10:03,574 --> 01:10:05,201
- How are ya?
- I'm fine.

1608
01:10:05,242 --> 01:10:06,535
You're up doing
the movie today?

1609
01:10:06,577 --> 01:10:08,370
Oh, yeah.
We're doing Blues Brothers.

1610
01:10:08,412 --> 01:10:10,414
Yeah.

1611
01:10:10,456 --> 01:10:13,250
Well, me and the Lord...

1612
01:10:13,292 --> 01:10:15,294
we got an understanding.

1613
01:10:15,336 --> 01:10:17,546
We're on a mission from God.

1614
01:10:17,588 --> 01:10:21,091
Sometimes I wonder

1615
01:10:21,133 --> 01:10:24,678
Danny and John
called me, and they said,

1616
01:10:24,720 --> 01:10:26,222
"I think there's a movie."

1617
01:10:26,263 --> 01:10:29,058
And it told the saga
of these brothers--

1618
01:10:29,099 --> 01:10:30,976
how Jake had been in prison,

1619
01:10:31,018 --> 01:10:32,895
how Elwood had to wait
for him,

1620
01:10:32,937 --> 01:10:34,980
how they had
to save the orphanage.

1621
01:10:35,022 --> 01:10:39,068
All against the backdrop
of their hometown of Chicago.

1622
01:10:39,109 --> 01:10:41,487
It was very important
that it be Chicago.

1623
01:10:41,528 --> 01:10:45,157
I mean, John, he was like--
he was a god in Chicago.

1624
01:10:45,199 --> 01:10:48,535
Ladies and gentlemen,
"Joliet" Jake Blues,

1625
01:10:48,577 --> 01:10:53,290
John Belushi!

1626
01:10:53,332 --> 01:10:56,543
John was just this big event.

1627
01:10:56,585 --> 01:10:59,838
Once you have that kind
of television fame,

1628
01:10:59,880 --> 01:11:01,632
you belong to people.

1629
01:11:01,674 --> 01:11:05,511
You live in their homes,
in their TV sets.

1630
01:11:05,552 --> 01:11:09,431
Everyone felt they knew him
and could just come up to him

1631
01:11:09,473 --> 01:11:13,811
and give him drugs
or do whatever

1632
01:11:13,852 --> 01:11:15,688
because he was their friend.

1633
01:11:15,729 --> 01:11:17,606
Okay, let's go.
Thank you very much.

1634
01:11:17,648 --> 01:11:19,692
Does it disturb you
to be an idol?

1635
01:11:19,733 --> 01:11:20,943
Yeah.

1636
01:11:20,985 --> 01:11:22,403
Does it disturb you
that so many people know you

1637
01:11:22,444 --> 01:11:23,779
and grab you
and recognize you?

1638
01:11:23,821 --> 01:11:25,072
Yeah, yeah,
you feel like a freak.

1639
01:11:25,114 --> 01:11:26,740
Is your family
theatrical at all?

1640
01:11:26,782 --> 01:11:28,158
Not at all, no.

1641
01:11:28,200 --> 01:11:31,036
- What'd your father do?
- He was a hit man.

1642
01:11:31,078 --> 01:11:33,289
These are all personal
questions I'm not gonna answer.

1643
01:11:33,330 --> 01:11:36,542
We can talk about television.
We can talk about movies.

1644
01:11:36,583 --> 01:11:38,085
Want to talk about something
like that, okay?

1645
01:11:38,127 --> 01:11:39,586
My personal life
really doesn't mean anything.

1646
01:11:39,628 --> 01:11:41,964
- You don't want to do that?
- No, I don't.

1647
01:11:43,382 --> 01:11:45,676
He enjoyed it for a while,

1648
01:11:45,718 --> 01:11:49,138
and then I think he felt
more haunted by it.

1649
01:11:49,179 --> 01:11:51,682
I know
there was a period where

1650
01:11:51,724 --> 01:11:53,017
it got really frenetic,

1651
01:11:53,058 --> 01:11:56,812
and so they opened a Blues Bar
in Chicago.

1652
01:11:56,854 --> 01:11:58,856
I was up late
with him and partying

1653
01:11:58,897 --> 01:12:03,027
up at Chicago Blues Bar
virtually every night.

1654
01:12:03,068 --> 01:12:04,778
You know,
we're having a lot of fun,

1655
01:12:04,820 --> 01:12:06,697
24 hours, 365,

1656
01:12:06,739 --> 01:12:08,991
going out and immersing
ourselves in the music

1657
01:12:09,033 --> 01:12:10,242
and going to Maxwell Street

1658
01:12:10,284 --> 01:12:13,162
and really living what we were
making the movie about.

1659
01:12:13,203 --> 01:12:15,706
We owned the town.
We owned the city of Chicago.

1660
01:12:15,748 --> 01:12:18,417
You know, we used to hail
police cars on the way home.

1661
01:12:18,459 --> 01:12:22,504
And to own a city and have
a partner to share it with,

1662
01:12:22,546 --> 01:12:25,966
that was just, you know,
the peak of life.

1663
01:12:26,008 --> 01:12:27,343
Roll camera!

1664
01:12:27,384 --> 01:12:30,262
Blues music

1665
01:12:33,766 --> 01:12:36,018
One night,
nobody could find John.

1666
01:12:36,060 --> 01:12:39,271
Someone said, "Well, I saw him
walking over across the street

1667
01:12:39,313 --> 01:12:41,315
and went into that
neighborhood over there."

1668
01:12:41,357 --> 01:12:43,817
I went to a house,
knocked on the door,

1669
01:12:43,859 --> 01:12:46,278
and a guy came to the door,
and he said,

1670
01:12:46,320 --> 01:12:49,365
"Oh, yes. Mr. Belushi--
he's in on the couch.

1671
01:12:49,406 --> 01:12:51,700
He's asleep."

1672
01:12:51,742 --> 01:12:53,994
Turned out John
had walked off the set,

1673
01:12:54,036 --> 01:12:56,205
gone to somebody's house,
knocked on the door, said,

1674
01:12:56,246 --> 01:12:57,664
"You know who I am.
John Belushi.

1675
01:12:57,706 --> 01:12:59,708
I'm tired.
I'm hungry."

1676
01:12:59,750 --> 01:13:01,085
He walked
into the guy's fridge,

1677
01:13:01,126 --> 01:13:03,712
made himself a sandwich,
had a glass of milk,

1678
01:13:03,754 --> 01:13:06,924
and then said, "Can I crash
out on your couch?"

1679
01:13:06,965 --> 01:13:08,258
Perfect stranger.

1680
01:13:08,300 --> 01:13:11,887
Answers, cast,
ready for rehearsal, please.

1681
01:13:11,929 --> 01:13:13,097
Danny was the one

1682
01:13:13,138 --> 01:13:14,932
that used to call him
"America's guest,"

1683
01:13:14,973 --> 01:13:17,601
because he could
go to anybody's house

1684
01:13:17,643 --> 01:13:21,063
and sleep in their beds
and eat their food

1685
01:13:21,105 --> 01:13:22,481
and watch their TV,

1686
01:13:22,523 --> 01:13:26,276
and there was no stopping John
doing anything.

1687
01:13:27,486 --> 01:13:29,530
Somehow, he got it
into his head

1688
01:13:29,571 --> 01:13:30,989
that I should date Danny.

1689
01:13:31,031 --> 01:13:34,576
So then Danny and I started
meeting in parking lots

1690
01:13:34,618 --> 01:13:36,453
and making out.

1691
01:13:36,495 --> 01:13:41,041
And it was
John's favorite thing ever.

1692
01:13:41,083 --> 01:13:42,751
The arrangement was

1693
01:13:42,793 --> 01:13:46,463
John and I were the bad kids,

1694
01:13:46,505 --> 01:13:49,675
and Danny and Judy

1695
01:13:49,716 --> 01:13:51,552
were the police.

1696
01:13:58,267 --> 01:13:59,643
Help you boys?

1697
01:13:59,685 --> 01:14:02,479
- You got any, uh, white bread?
- Yes.

1698
01:14:02,521 --> 01:14:06,150
I'll have some
toasted white bread, please.

1699
01:14:07,317 --> 01:14:10,028
You want butter
or jam on that toast, honey?

1700
01:14:10,070 --> 01:14:12,156
No, ma'am.
Dry.

1701
01:14:13,198 --> 01:14:14,283
Got any fried chicken?

1702
01:14:14,324 --> 01:14:17,536
Best damn chicken in the state.

1703
01:14:17,578 --> 01:14:20,247
Bring me
four fried chickens and a Coke.

1704
01:14:20,289 --> 01:14:22,666
You want chicken wings
or chicken legs?

1705
01:14:22,708 --> 01:14:25,461
Four fried chickens and a Coke.

1706
01:14:25,502 --> 01:14:27,629
And some dry
white toast, please.

1707
01:14:27,671 --> 01:14:29,715
Y'all want anything
to drink with that?

1708
01:14:29,756 --> 01:14:31,216
- No, ma'am.
- A Coke.

1709
01:14:31,258 --> 01:14:33,594
Be up in a minute.

1710
01:14:33,635 --> 01:14:35,345
We got two honkies out there

1711
01:14:35,387 --> 01:14:37,890
dressed like
Hasidic diamond merchants.

1712
01:14:37,931 --> 01:14:38,974
Say what?

1713
01:14:39,016 --> 01:14:41,518
They look like they're
from the CIA or something.

1714
01:14:41,560 --> 01:14:43,103
What they want to eat?

1715
01:14:43,145 --> 01:14:46,482
The tall one wants white bread,

1716
01:14:46,523 --> 01:14:48,609
toast, dry, with nothing on it.

1717
01:14:48,650 --> 01:14:49,693
Elwood.

1718
01:14:49,735 --> 01:14:52,946
And the other one wants
four whole fried chickens

1719
01:14:52,988 --> 01:14:53,947
and a Coke.

1720
01:14:53,989 --> 01:14:57,409
And Jake!
Shit, the Blues Brothers!

1721
01:14:57,451 --> 01:14:58,911
On The Blues Brothers,

1722
01:14:58,952 --> 01:15:00,746
John was different,
and it was hard.

1723
01:15:00,787 --> 01:15:03,665
But you know that whole thing
about America's guest?

1724
01:15:03,707 --> 01:15:05,125
Well, it's true.

1725
01:15:05,167 --> 01:15:07,169
He could be abrupt
and unpleasant,

1726
01:15:07,211 --> 01:15:10,464
but most of the time
he was totally charming,

1727
01:15:10,506 --> 01:15:12,466
and people adored him.

1728
01:15:12,508 --> 01:15:13,800
Having said all this--

1729
01:15:13,842 --> 01:15:15,802
and I don't want to make it
sound worse than it was,

1730
01:15:15,844 --> 01:15:18,722
because I don't think we lost
four or five days shooting

1731
01:15:18,764 --> 01:15:21,558
at the most because of drugs,
which is a lot--

1732
01:15:21,600 --> 01:15:23,977
but there's a couple of times
on the movie

1733
01:15:24,019 --> 01:15:26,730
when I was really worried
about his health.

1734
01:15:26,772 --> 01:15:28,190
And you can see it, you know?

1735
01:15:28,232 --> 01:15:29,775
There's some scenes
where he's there

1736
01:15:29,816 --> 01:15:31,276
and some scenes
where he's not.

1737
01:15:31,318 --> 01:15:33,529
It's 106 miles to Chicago.

1738
01:15:33,570 --> 01:15:36,698
We got a full tank of gas,
half a pack of cigarettes,

1739
01:15:36,740 --> 01:15:39,576
it's dark,
and we're wearing sunglasses.

1740
01:15:39,618 --> 01:15:40,452
Hit it.

1741
01:15:40,494 --> 01:15:44,373
Rock music

1742
01:15:49,169 --> 01:15:52,005
Traveling
at the high speeds he did,

1743
01:15:52,047 --> 01:15:54,049
he was just really
way out of control.

1744
01:15:54,091 --> 01:15:56,552
And the more they tried
to control him,

1745
01:15:56,593 --> 01:15:58,595
the more insane it got.

1746
01:16:00,055 --> 01:16:01,098
Hey!

1747
01:16:03,392 --> 01:16:04,518
Hey!

1748
01:16:07,229 --> 01:16:08,146
Hey!

1749
01:16:10,899 --> 01:16:13,569
It was clear
to everyone at that point

1750
01:16:13,610 --> 01:16:17,573
that John had a problem
with cocaine.

1751
01:16:17,614 --> 01:16:19,992
There was
a point where everyone said,

1752
01:16:20,033 --> 01:16:23,245
you know,
"He's really killing himself."

1753
01:16:23,287 --> 01:16:26,123
And then when he didn't, then,
you thought,

1754
01:16:26,164 --> 01:16:30,711
"Well, maybe John's right.
Maybe he is invincible."

1755
01:16:31,628 --> 01:16:33,422
John would be okay
for a while,

1756
01:16:33,463 --> 01:16:35,424
and then he would go
on a bender,

1757
01:16:35,465 --> 01:16:39,303
and he would feel so guilty
and so tormented by it.

1758
01:16:39,344 --> 01:16:40,887
It was just terrible.

1759
01:16:40,929 --> 01:16:44,141
He just felt like he'd let
everybody down, you know?

1760
01:16:44,182 --> 01:16:46,727
And in those days,
people thought it was, like,

1761
01:16:46,768 --> 01:16:49,313
a question of self-will
or whatever, and it isn't.

1762
01:16:49,354 --> 01:16:53,609
It's a disease and has
nothing to do with willpower.

1763
01:16:53,650 --> 01:16:55,986
But we didn't understand that.

1764
01:16:56,028 --> 01:16:57,404
It started to slip

1765
01:16:57,446 --> 01:16:59,281
into something
that was hurting him,

1766
01:16:59,323 --> 01:17:00,782
'cause he used to come over

1767
01:17:00,824 --> 01:17:02,326
and sleep
on my couch sometimes.

1768
01:17:02,367 --> 01:17:04,161
And it would keep me up
all night

1769
01:17:04,202 --> 01:17:06,121
because his sleeping
was so wet,

1770
01:17:06,163 --> 01:17:08,373
the sound in his chest
was so heavy

1771
01:17:08,415 --> 01:17:12,210
that I was worried
that he wasn't gonna wake up.

1772
01:17:12,252 --> 01:17:14,379
Now, you know, I had, like,
a few nights of it,

1773
01:17:14,421 --> 01:17:15,922
scattered, you know,
when he'd be at the house,

1774
01:17:15,964 --> 01:17:17,966
but that's how Judy lived.

1775
01:17:18,008 --> 01:17:19,259
You could leave as a friend.

1776
01:17:19,301 --> 01:17:21,303
You could just go
do your life,

1777
01:17:21,345 --> 01:17:23,513
but that was her life.

1778
01:17:44,159 --> 01:17:48,705
John's drug abuse
was disturbing to everyone.

1779
01:17:52,584 --> 01:17:56,672
We had some conversations
about rehab,

1780
01:17:56,713 --> 01:17:59,716
but he didn't like that idea.

1781
01:17:59,758 --> 01:18:03,345
I know I spoke, myself, to
some doctors who had told me,

1782
01:18:03,387 --> 01:18:07,015
"Wait till he's passed out
and then call,"

1783
01:18:07,057 --> 01:18:10,519
and they would make the
arrangements and commit him.

1784
01:18:10,560 --> 01:18:14,022
But I just--
I couldn't do that.

1785
01:18:15,774 --> 01:18:19,695
And that was when Nana had
a heart attack at the ranch.

1786
01:18:19,736 --> 01:18:21,655
And John was not being
cooperative.

1787
01:18:21,697 --> 01:18:23,532
He didn't want to go.

1788
01:18:23,573 --> 01:18:26,326
He said,
"I know what she's doing.

1789
01:18:26,368 --> 01:18:30,080
She's waiting for me to come
so she can die."

1790
01:18:30,122 --> 01:18:33,125
I said, "Why don't
you give her that," you know?

1791
01:18:33,166 --> 01:18:36,962
"Why don't you let her
have that, John?"

1792
01:18:37,003 --> 01:18:38,922
So we went.

1793
01:18:38,964 --> 01:18:41,675
He was making the nurses
laugh and he made Nana laugh

1794
01:18:41,717 --> 01:18:44,386
and he was kind of pretending
to scold her

1795
01:18:44,428 --> 01:18:45,846
for making everybody worry.

1796
01:18:45,887 --> 01:18:49,391
And then he put his head down
on her pillow

1797
01:18:49,433 --> 01:18:51,351
and fell asleep.

1798
01:18:51,393 --> 01:18:52,978
She said, "Johnny tired.
Go home.

1799
01:18:53,019 --> 01:18:54,271
Go sleep.
Sleep late."

1800
01:18:54,312 --> 01:18:56,398
I remember something about
"don't get up early"

1801
01:18:56,440 --> 01:18:58,108
or something.

1802
01:18:58,150 --> 01:19:01,486
The next morning,
the call was that she died,

1803
01:19:01,528 --> 01:19:04,656
and he just broke down.

1804
01:19:06,241 --> 01:19:08,493
I think that's when
he began to realize

1805
01:19:08,535 --> 01:19:11,413
that he'd crossed
into really dangerous behavior

1806
01:19:11,455 --> 01:19:14,875
and needed to find a way out.

1807
01:19:14,916 --> 01:19:17,169
And bringing in Smokey
was something he thought

1808
01:19:17,210 --> 01:19:20,005
was gonna help.

1809
01:19:20,046 --> 01:19:22,799
Let's talk about Smokey.

1810
01:19:22,841 --> 01:19:24,885
Smokey was Richard Nixon's

1811
01:19:24,926 --> 01:19:27,679
primary Secret Service
bodyguard

1812
01:19:27,721 --> 01:19:29,389
from the time Nixon went
to China

1813
01:19:29,431 --> 01:19:32,058
through the end
of his presidency.

1814
01:19:32,100 --> 01:19:35,687
So Smokey
was eminently qualified

1815
01:19:35,729 --> 01:19:37,773
to handle difficult problems,

1816
01:19:37,814 --> 01:19:42,027
and he kept the scum balls
and the sleazebags

1817
01:19:42,068 --> 01:19:44,613
away from John.

1818
01:19:44,654 --> 01:19:47,157
Between Judy, myself,
and Smokey,

1819
01:19:47,199 --> 01:19:50,744
we were able, really,
to keep John straight,

1820
01:19:50,786 --> 01:19:52,245
and, of course, you know,

1821
01:19:52,287 --> 01:19:54,956
it didn't seem that John
wanted to help himself,

1822
01:19:54,998 --> 01:19:57,000
really, until that point.

1823
01:19:57,042 --> 01:19:59,002
Rock music

1824
01:19:59,044 --> 01:20:01,004
Is there life after
Saturday Night,

1825
01:20:01,046 --> 01:20:03,924
after Animal House,
after The Blues Brothers?

1826
01:20:03,965 --> 01:20:07,052
John Belushi,
you have a new movie called

1827
01:20:07,093 --> 01:20:08,637
- Continental Divide.
- Right.

1828
01:20:08,678 --> 01:20:10,555
It is, to me, a
turning point in your career.

1829
01:20:10,597 --> 01:20:12,974
Hey, man.
I seen this one before.

1830
01:20:13,016 --> 01:20:15,519
- You're what's-his-name.
- That's right.

1831
01:20:15,560 --> 01:20:17,479
The character's different
than the other characters

1832
01:20:17,521 --> 01:20:18,647
I've played in the past.

1833
01:20:18,688 --> 01:20:20,482
This character can read
and write.

1834
01:20:20,524 --> 01:20:22,359
I play a reporter.

1835
01:20:22,400 --> 01:20:25,487
They send me out to do
an interview with this woman.

1836
01:20:25,529 --> 01:20:27,113
Now, this film
is a risk for you,

1837
01:20:27,155 --> 01:20:29,908
because your fans are gonna go
expecting to see Animal House.

1838
01:20:29,950 --> 01:20:31,409
Yeah,
they'd love to have me do

1839
01:20:31,451 --> 01:20:33,620
Animal House Goes To Camp,
Animal House Joins the Army,

1840
01:20:33,662 --> 01:20:37,499
Animal House Rides
the Space Shuttle, you know?

1841
01:20:37,541 --> 01:20:39,668
But that's not the way I work.

1842
01:20:43,129 --> 01:20:46,258
He had it in him
to be a terrific actor

1843
01:20:46,299 --> 01:20:48,844
rather than just a comedian,

1844
01:20:48,885 --> 01:20:51,721
and he really worked hard
at it.

1845
01:20:51,763 --> 01:20:53,431
He lost 40 pounds.

1846
01:20:53,473 --> 01:20:55,642
You know, he was working out
all the time.

1847
01:20:57,435 --> 01:21:00,146
He was very focused
about his life and his work.

1848
01:21:00,188 --> 01:21:02,941
This was, I think,
a good time for him.

1849
01:21:06,570 --> 01:21:09,114
People say you work
under such a frenetic pace.

1850
01:21:09,155 --> 01:21:11,116
Do you see the world
different now?

1851
01:21:11,157 --> 01:21:13,243
Are you a little bored?
Do you take time off?

1852
01:21:13,285 --> 01:21:14,619
Do you lounge around now?

1853
01:21:14,661 --> 01:21:16,538
I'm enjoying life
a little more.

1854
01:21:16,580 --> 01:21:19,207
I'm finding out what to do
with my spare time.

1855
01:21:19,249 --> 01:21:20,959
Find out who you are yet?

1856
01:21:21,001 --> 01:21:22,335
Yeah, yeah, I think so.

1857
01:21:22,377 --> 01:21:23,670
Who are you?
Are you Bluto?

1858
01:21:23,712 --> 01:21:26,047
Are you Mike Royko?
Who are you?

1859
01:21:26,089 --> 01:21:28,425
I don't know.
I'm just an actor.

1860
01:21:28,466 --> 01:21:31,803
Yeah, honey, something
special just for you

1861
01:21:31,845 --> 01:21:32,721
Yeah.

1862
01:21:36,766 --> 01:21:38,727
Times were good.

1863
01:21:38,768 --> 01:21:40,520
We were staying
at Martha's Vineyard

1864
01:21:40,562 --> 01:21:42,731
because we bought a new house.

1865
01:21:42,772 --> 01:21:44,024
He'd begun to, you know,

1866
01:21:44,065 --> 01:21:45,650
kind of calm down,
settle down,

1867
01:21:45,692 --> 01:21:48,445
not be as interested
in the whole social scene.

1868
01:21:48,486 --> 01:21:51,990
John, where are you?

1869
01:21:52,032 --> 01:21:53,783
Over here.

1870
01:21:53,825 --> 01:21:54,701
You up there?

1871
01:21:54,743 --> 01:21:57,287
Yes.
What are you doing?

1872
01:21:57,329 --> 01:22:01,166
Well, I'm preparing
the barbecue tonight.

1873
01:22:01,207 --> 01:22:02,125
That's good.

1874
01:22:02,167 --> 01:22:04,377
We're having steak
and sausage.

1875
01:22:04,419 --> 01:22:06,254
And you see,
I cleaned the grill.

1876
01:22:06,296 --> 01:22:08,757
Big Bill Broonzy's
"Trouble in Mind"

1877
01:22:08,798 --> 01:22:10,842
Get out of my kitchen.
Get out.

1878
01:22:10,884 --> 01:22:13,595
- Mmm.
- Mmm.

1879
01:22:13,637 --> 01:22:15,639
No, no, no, no!

1880
01:22:15,680 --> 01:22:19,893
Judy, we're going out
to the beach now.

1881
01:22:21,686 --> 01:22:23,396
And if the blues
overtake me

1882
01:22:23,438 --> 01:22:25,440
Gonna rock right away
from here

1883
01:22:25,482 --> 01:22:28,234
It was a summer
of just sun-filled days,

1884
01:22:28,276 --> 01:22:29,361
soaking in the sea.

1885
01:22:29,402 --> 01:22:30,862
Every day, we swam.

1886
01:22:30,904 --> 01:22:34,699
The whole summer
was basically clean.

1887
01:22:34,741 --> 01:22:39,037
There was no coke at all
for the entire summer.

1888
01:22:39,079 --> 01:22:40,956
I'm going out for croquet.

1889
01:22:42,624 --> 01:22:46,002
- Yes, sir.
- Yes, sir.

1890
01:22:46,044 --> 01:22:48,088
I don't care if I die

1891
01:22:48,129 --> 01:22:49,547
You're a big movie star.

1892
01:22:49,589 --> 01:22:50,715
Your pictures make money.

1893
01:22:50,757 --> 01:22:53,802
Are you as happy as you seem
to me to be right now?

1894
01:22:53,843 --> 01:22:55,679
Yeah.
This year, yeah.

1895
01:23:02,560 --> 01:23:03,853
John was, you know,

1896
01:23:03,895 --> 01:23:05,772
feeling pretty good
about himself.

1897
01:23:05,814 --> 01:23:08,274
We had Smokey with us,

1898
01:23:08,316 --> 01:23:10,652
and he saw John doing well

1899
01:23:10,694 --> 01:23:14,864
and decided
that it was time to go.

1900
01:23:14,906 --> 01:23:17,742
And I remember Smokey went
to him, "No, you're good.

1901
01:23:17,784 --> 01:23:20,328
You don't need me.
You'll be fine."

1902
01:23:21,663 --> 01:23:25,709
And when he left,
John was concerned.

1903
01:23:31,047 --> 01:23:34,342
We were up
in Martha's Vineyard.

1904
01:23:35,760 --> 01:23:38,596
And I just remember him
stripped to the waist

1905
01:23:38,638 --> 01:23:40,640
with this belly out,

1906
01:23:40,682 --> 01:23:42,600
and he was sort of howling
at the moon

1907
01:23:42,642 --> 01:23:45,103
and saying,
"You and I are alike.

1908
01:23:45,145 --> 01:23:48,106
We're addicts!"

1909
01:23:48,148 --> 01:23:50,316
He was mostly clean
for over a year.

1910
01:23:50,358 --> 01:23:54,946
Well, that must've
been a screaming hell for him.

1911
01:23:56,489 --> 01:24:00,285
Drugs aren't the problem.
Sobriety is the problem.

1912
01:24:00,326 --> 01:24:02,328
Because he had
no support group

1913
01:24:02,370 --> 01:24:07,000
to sort of tell him how
to deal with what comes up

1914
01:24:07,042 --> 01:24:08,710
when you stop doing drugs.

1915
01:24:08,752 --> 01:24:11,546
You're not doings drugs
for no reason.

1916
01:24:11,588 --> 01:24:16,092
And so once your management
medication is removed,

1917
01:24:16,134 --> 01:24:19,846
all those feelings that
it's been sitting on come up,

1918
01:24:19,888 --> 01:24:23,516
and you have
no coping skills.

1919
01:24:25,935 --> 01:24:30,273
So you can't trust yourself.

1920
01:24:46,748 --> 01:24:47,957
You know,

1921
01:24:47,999 --> 01:24:50,210
John gave me all his blues
albums at one point,

1922
01:24:50,251 --> 01:24:52,921
and it was really a drag
because he just said,

1923
01:24:52,962 --> 01:24:55,715
"Yeah, I don't listen
to this shit anymore.

1924
01:24:55,757 --> 01:24:56,883
Fuck this.

1925
01:24:56,925 --> 01:24:58,426
I'm just gonna listen to Fear
and the Dead Kennedys."

1926
01:24:58,468 --> 01:25:00,011
- Yeah.
- Punk and stuff.

1927
01:25:00,053 --> 01:25:01,805
Yeah.
I mean, I hated that shit.

1928
01:25:04,099 --> 01:25:07,435
But when you look at it,
in retrospect, it coincided

1929
01:25:07,477 --> 01:25:11,898
with a particularly chaotic
and dark thing in him.

1930
01:25:11,940 --> 01:25:14,859
I don't need anyone

1931
01:25:14,901 --> 01:25:17,529
Don't need no mom and dad

1932
01:25:17,570 --> 01:25:19,489
Don't need no pretty face

1933
01:25:19,531 --> 01:25:20,949
You know, for John, you know,

1934
01:25:20,990 --> 01:25:23,326
it's a classic
addictive pattern, you know?

1935
01:25:23,368 --> 01:25:24,828
It's what makes
an addict an addict,

1936
01:25:24,869 --> 01:25:28,540
is the expectation that if you
just get more of your drug

1937
01:25:28,581 --> 01:25:29,749
that you will, you know,

1938
01:25:29,791 --> 01:25:31,960
finally cross over
some threshold

1939
01:25:32,001 --> 01:25:34,796
or find
some permanent satisfaction,

1940
01:25:34,838 --> 01:25:37,924
but you can't get high enough,
you can't get famous enough,

1941
01:25:37,966 --> 01:25:39,259
you can't get rich enough

1942
01:25:39,300 --> 01:25:42,345
to kind of fill
those great holes, you know,

1943
01:25:42,387 --> 01:25:44,222
he had created himself.

1944
01:25:46,599 --> 01:25:50,687
John didn't have
a limit on anything.

1945
01:25:50,728 --> 01:25:52,105
Usually people have in them

1946
01:25:52,147 --> 01:25:53,898
a thing where you go,
"Ooh-ooh.

1947
01:25:53,940 --> 01:25:55,358
That's too much."

1948
01:25:55,400 --> 01:25:58,736
But John didn't have
whatever that is.

1949
01:25:58,778 --> 01:26:00,613
John took heroin.

1950
01:26:07,620 --> 01:26:10,748
John Belushi.
John Belushi on drums.

1951
01:26:10,790 --> 01:26:13,376
Dark music

1952
01:26:13,418 --> 01:26:15,420
Enid?

1953
01:26:15,461 --> 01:26:17,964
Someone's moving
into the Warren place.

1954
01:26:18,006 --> 01:26:20,675
What do you say, neighbor?

1955
01:26:21,384 --> 01:26:24,971
Welcome to the end of the road,
I guess.

1956
01:26:25,013 --> 01:26:27,182
As big a star as he was,

1957
01:26:27,223 --> 01:26:29,934
I think John was groping
for a film image.

1958
01:26:29,976 --> 01:26:32,979
He called me at one point
and he said,

1959
01:26:33,021 --> 01:26:34,856
"Yeah, I'd love for you
to read a screenplay.

1960
01:26:34,898 --> 01:26:36,399
I'm thinking
about directing it."

1961
01:26:36,441 --> 01:26:38,443
And I said, you know,
"Send it over,

1962
01:26:38,484 --> 01:26:39,986
and I'll get to it
when I can."

1963
01:26:40,028 --> 01:26:42,071
"Well, no, you kind of have
to read it now."

1964
01:26:42,113 --> 01:26:45,783
I said, "Well, what is it?"
He said, "It's Neighbors."

1965
01:26:45,825 --> 01:26:48,244
"But aren't you already
shooting that movie?

1966
01:26:48,286 --> 01:26:49,954
You know,
you have a director."

1967
01:26:49,996 --> 01:26:52,248
Menacing bass chords

1968
01:26:52,290 --> 01:26:54,584
Dan and John
were very excited

1969
01:26:54,626 --> 01:26:57,712
and started to work
with Avildsen, the director.

1970
01:26:57,754 --> 01:27:02,425
And immediately John was
really worried that the film,

1971
01:27:02,467 --> 01:27:05,470
rather than being the black
comedy that the book was,

1972
01:27:05,511 --> 01:27:08,389
it was taking on
a much more cartoony

1973
01:27:08,431 --> 01:27:10,433
and silly perspective.

1974
01:27:10,475 --> 01:27:14,646
And true to form,
he was fighting that.

1975
01:27:14,687 --> 01:27:17,398
John Avildsen
did not present himself

1976
01:27:17,440 --> 01:27:19,234
as a strong presence,

1977
01:27:19,275 --> 01:27:21,903
and John perceived weakness
right there.

1978
01:27:21,945 --> 01:27:24,405
It was like
the Battle of the Bulge.

1979
01:27:24,447 --> 01:27:25,990
The Allied lines were weak,

1980
01:27:26,032 --> 01:27:29,869
and the panzers rolled
right into the weak spot.

1981
01:27:29,911 --> 01:27:32,247
John felt isolated
and frustrated,

1982
01:27:32,288 --> 01:27:35,458
and that's when everything
fell apart.

1983
01:27:35,500 --> 01:27:37,335
Now, on the Neighbors set,

1984
01:27:37,377 --> 01:27:39,379
- Smokey was not there.
- Yeah.

1985
01:27:39,420 --> 01:27:41,005
And when we got to nights,

1986
01:27:41,047 --> 01:27:42,882
the drugs
became available again.

1987
01:27:44,759 --> 01:27:47,804
I never sensed that
there was anything going on

1988
01:27:47,845 --> 01:27:51,933
until we actually started
that week of night shooting.

1989
01:27:51,975 --> 01:27:54,811
Slowly building
punk rock

1990
01:27:54,852 --> 01:27:57,438
It was pretty horrifying,
quite frankly.

1991
01:27:58,648 --> 01:28:02,568
And I liked John,
but it wasn't John.

1992
01:28:02,610 --> 01:28:05,446
He wouldn't come
out of his trailer.

1993
01:28:05,488 --> 01:28:10,368
We'd go in, and the music
would be blasting away.

1994
01:28:10,410 --> 01:28:12,829
I won't believe that
this is all

1995
01:28:12,870 --> 01:28:16,249
He'd be in his undershorts
and was totally out of it.

1996
01:28:16,291 --> 01:28:18,501
No more, no more, no more

1997
01:28:18,543 --> 01:28:21,045
No more, no more,
no more, no

1998
01:28:21,087 --> 01:28:24,340
One time, we had two
guys standing behind him

1999
01:28:24,382 --> 01:28:26,884
holding him up off camera,
you know?

2000
01:28:26,926 --> 01:28:30,513
I mean, that's the kind
of shape he was in.

2001
01:28:30,555 --> 01:28:33,141
He couldn't control it,

2002
01:28:33,182 --> 01:28:35,893
and then no one
could control him.

2003
01:28:35,935 --> 01:28:39,105
Joy Division's
"I Remember Nothing"

2004
01:28:39,147 --> 01:28:42,191
dark rock music

2005
01:29:12,430 --> 01:29:17,393
We

2006
01:29:19,020 --> 01:29:23,191
Were strangers

2007
01:29:26,402 --> 01:29:30,031
We

2008
01:29:32,325 --> 01:29:36,537
John's choices had
always been America's choices.

2009
01:29:36,579 --> 01:29:38,998
What he wanted to do
was kind of resonating

2010
01:29:39,040 --> 01:29:40,792
with the country
that way, and...

2011
01:29:40,833 --> 01:29:43,211
the choices
weren't doing that anymore.

2012
01:29:45,797 --> 01:29:48,383
But John could've failed,
and Hollywood--

2013
01:29:48,424 --> 01:29:50,051
he could've done ten movies
in a row,

2014
01:29:50,093 --> 01:29:52,720
and they still would've wanted
him for the 11th.

2015
01:29:52,762 --> 01:29:54,889
You know,
there was nobody like him.

2016
01:29:56,391 --> 01:29:59,185
But the thing with cocaine
is that it puts you

2017
01:29:59,227 --> 01:30:00,645
in a vulnerable place.

2018
01:30:00,686 --> 01:30:03,606
His strength and confidence
and positive way

2019
01:30:03,648 --> 01:30:06,234
were being eroded
by all of it, and...

2020
01:30:06,275 --> 01:30:08,152
he just allowed it
to affect him.

2021
01:30:08,194 --> 01:30:11,489
And in the old days,
nothing could affect him.

2022
01:30:11,531 --> 01:30:13,449
What do you want to be
doing ten years from now,

2023
01:30:13,491 --> 01:30:14,909
John Belushi?

2024
01:30:14,951 --> 01:30:16,661
- Fiddler on the Roof.
- Okay.

2025
01:30:16,702 --> 01:30:18,871
And, Dan Aykroyd,
ten years from now?

2026
01:30:18,913 --> 01:30:21,082
Directing him in Fiddler.

2027
01:30:21,124 --> 01:30:23,459
I don't know, I don't know.
I'll work with this guy.

2028
01:30:23,501 --> 01:30:26,170
I'll be working with this guy
in ten years.

2029
01:30:26,212 --> 01:30:29,298
Solemn music

2030
01:30:39,183 --> 01:30:42,103
He always promised that
he would try to do better

2031
01:30:42,145 --> 01:30:44,856
and that I had to trust
that he loved me

2032
01:30:44,897 --> 01:30:47,024
and that, even when things
were difficult,

2033
01:30:47,066 --> 01:30:48,860
that I could count on him.

2034
01:30:50,903 --> 01:30:53,698
But every time John went
into that spin cycle,

2035
01:30:53,739 --> 01:30:57,243
it would immediately put me
back into a feeling of panic,

2036
01:30:57,285 --> 01:30:58,661
of, like, "Oh, no."

2037
01:30:58,703 --> 01:31:01,497
"I thought this was over."

2038
01:31:01,539 --> 01:31:05,209
I had begun to see
a psychiatrist.

2039
01:31:05,251 --> 01:31:08,379
And what my doctor immediately
said is, you know,

2040
01:31:08,421 --> 01:31:11,591
"You have to focus on yourself
and work on yourself."

2041
01:31:13,843 --> 01:31:17,805
It just sort of brought home
how things move so quickly,

2042
01:31:17,847 --> 01:31:20,683
and there was so much to do
all the time.

2043
01:31:20,725 --> 01:31:22,977
Helping him get
the things done he needed,

2044
01:31:23,019 --> 01:31:26,272
I didn't think
about myself, really.

2045
01:31:28,357 --> 01:31:29,734
John was supposed to go to LA

2046
01:31:29,775 --> 01:31:33,279
to start working on a script
with Don Novello, Noble Rot.

2047
01:31:33,321 --> 01:31:35,031
And normally
I would've gone with him,

2048
01:31:35,072 --> 01:31:36,824
but my psychiatrist
asked me to commit

2049
01:31:36,866 --> 01:31:40,036
to staying in the city
for three months at least

2050
01:31:40,077 --> 01:31:41,537
to work with him.

2051
01:31:43,247 --> 01:31:45,958
And I told him that it was
really hard for me not to go,

2052
01:31:46,000 --> 01:31:48,586
that John needed me,
and he said,

2053
01:31:48,628 --> 01:31:50,546
"Well,
what are you afraid of?"

2054
01:32:15,821 --> 01:32:17,532
John and I got together

2055
01:32:17,573 --> 01:32:19,617
when I had moved out
to Los Angeles,

2056
01:32:19,659 --> 01:32:21,869
and he would just kind of sit
down and have dinner with us,

2057
01:32:21,911 --> 01:32:24,664
and he wanted to get the band
together and play again.

2058
01:32:24,705 --> 01:32:26,666
That was his really big thing.

2059
01:32:26,707 --> 01:32:29,585
Light rock music

2060
01:32:29,627 --> 01:32:31,796
And he said,
"Who can you get?"

2061
01:32:31,837 --> 01:32:33,297
And I said,
"Well, Tony's out here.

2062
01:32:33,339 --> 01:32:35,341
We'll get Tony to play guitar.
I'll play bass.

2063
01:32:35,383 --> 01:32:36,509
You'll be on drums."

2064
01:32:36,551 --> 01:32:39,554
And we actually did a job,
believe it or not.

2065
01:32:39,595 --> 01:32:42,265
We played the wrap party
for Taxi.

2066
01:32:42,306 --> 01:32:44,433
"Louie Louie" playing

2067
01:32:44,475 --> 01:32:45,768
Whoa-oh

2068
01:32:51,107 --> 01:32:53,192
He was reaching out
for everybody

2069
01:32:53,234 --> 01:32:55,403
and trying to reconnect.

2070
01:32:55,444 --> 01:32:57,989
It was something
that we never spoke of

2071
01:32:58,030 --> 01:33:00,241
other than the fact
that we all kind of enjoyed

2072
01:33:00,283 --> 01:33:04,120
that we were all back in each
other's lives a little bit.

2073
01:33:04,161 --> 01:33:07,164
Dark music

2074
01:33:15,172 --> 01:33:16,757
He got Dick Blasucci

2075
01:33:16,799 --> 01:33:18,926
and a couple of other guys
from Wheaton together

2076
01:33:18,968 --> 01:33:20,386
and played this wrap party.

2077
01:33:20,428 --> 01:33:22,179
- Yeah.
- And it was really

2078
01:33:22,221 --> 01:33:24,098
this grasp for nostalgia,

2079
01:33:24,140 --> 01:33:26,851
you know,
for the innocent days.

2080
01:33:34,233 --> 01:33:36,569
So I hardly ever saw him,

2081
01:33:36,611 --> 01:33:39,822
but I saw him at a party.

2082
01:33:39,864 --> 01:33:41,866
He looked exhausted.

2083
01:33:41,907 --> 01:33:44,452
And he laid his head
on my shoulder,

2084
01:33:44,493 --> 01:33:47,288
and all he said was,
"Oh, Harold.

2085
01:33:47,330 --> 01:33:49,081
Oh, Harold."

2086
01:33:49,123 --> 01:33:53,210
Just couldn't even articulate
anything about his situation.

2087
01:33:53,252 --> 01:33:56,088
I just sensed
this total despair.

2088
01:33:58,174 --> 01:34:00,426
Judy had basically
given him an ultimatum.

2089
01:34:00,468 --> 01:34:02,511
That's why she wasn't with him
in California.

2090
01:34:02,553 --> 01:34:05,473
Judy was drawing a line
in the sand to save him

2091
01:34:05,514 --> 01:34:08,184
so they could be together,
but, you know, he was,

2092
01:34:08,225 --> 01:34:11,604
at that point, afraid
that he had lost Judy.

2093
01:34:11,646 --> 01:34:14,190
You know, and for all
their codependence,

2094
01:34:14,231 --> 01:34:16,859
you know,
Judy was an anchor for him.

2095
01:34:24,158 --> 01:34:26,494
After we turned in the script,

2096
01:34:26,535 --> 01:34:27,912
I didn't hear from him
for a while.

2097
01:34:27,953 --> 01:34:29,580
You know, a couple days
I was wondering.

2098
01:34:29,622 --> 01:34:32,917
And then he just said,
"They don't like the script."

2099
01:34:32,958 --> 01:34:34,585
They said, though,
we can do it,

2100
01:34:34,627 --> 01:34:38,297
but I have to do this other
movie first, Joy of Sex,

2101
01:34:38,339 --> 01:34:40,800
and they want me
to wear a diaper.

2102
01:34:40,841 --> 01:34:42,218
How's that, man?

2103
01:34:42,259 --> 01:34:43,386
The Joy of Sex

2104
01:34:43,427 --> 01:34:44,887
was basically
sort of a garbage script

2105
01:34:44,929 --> 01:34:46,389
that they were dusting
off the heap that,

2106
01:34:46,430 --> 01:34:47,848
if they put John's name on it,

2107
01:34:47,890 --> 01:34:50,184
they could guarantee
a big opening weekend.

2108
01:34:50,226 --> 01:34:52,520
They just wanted John Belushi,

2109
01:34:52,561 --> 01:34:54,355
and they want him
to wear a diaper.

2110
01:34:54,397 --> 01:34:57,066
They don't give a shit
about him.

2111
01:34:57,108 --> 01:34:59,860
This is the thing where John
had no one on his side.

2112
01:34:59,902 --> 01:35:02,071
I'm the guy, you know,
that wrote this with him.

2113
01:35:02,113 --> 01:35:04,782
I'm up in Toronto.
His wife's on the East Coast.

2114
01:35:04,824 --> 01:35:05,950
He's got nobody there.

2115
01:35:05,991 --> 01:35:08,869
So that's his state of mind.
He's got no one.

2116
01:35:08,911 --> 01:35:11,205
You know, he's alone.

2117
01:35:11,247 --> 01:35:13,249
Man.

2118
01:35:17,128 --> 01:35:19,463
Did you sense
that things were that bad

2119
01:35:19,505 --> 01:35:21,549
in terms of the drug use
during that last week?

2120
01:35:21,590 --> 01:35:23,843
No, he was keeping it from me.

2121
01:35:23,884 --> 01:35:25,720
He definitely kept it from me.

2122
01:35:25,761 --> 01:35:28,431
You know, everybody knew
about cocaine.

2123
01:35:28,472 --> 01:35:32,059
I mean, a lot of people were
doing cocaine in those days.

2124
01:35:32,101 --> 01:35:33,519
But the heroin?
Never.

2125
01:35:33,561 --> 01:35:36,439
Never thought of it,
never for a minute.

2126
01:35:40,234 --> 01:35:42,153
Last time I heard his voice,

2127
01:35:42,194 --> 01:35:43,654
it was
on the answering machine,

2128
01:35:43,696 --> 01:35:47,158
and it was very slurred, and,
you know, he was fucked up,

2129
01:35:47,199 --> 01:35:48,284
and he was hurting.

2130
01:35:48,325 --> 01:35:50,077
And I called
and talked him down,

2131
01:35:50,119 --> 01:35:52,371
and, you know,
he was sad and defeated.

2132
01:35:52,413 --> 01:35:54,165
He was sad and defeated,
and when I said,

2133
01:35:54,206 --> 01:35:57,501
"John, come on, man,
you gotta get home.

2134
01:35:57,543 --> 01:35:58,711
You gotta get home.

2135
01:35:58,753 --> 01:36:00,963
You gotta leave Hollywood
alone for a while.

2136
01:36:01,005 --> 01:36:02,339
Let's approach it
from another angle.

2137
01:36:02,381 --> 01:36:04,008
I'm writing
something great here for us

2138
01:36:04,049 --> 01:36:06,093
that's gonna solve
everything."

2139
01:36:06,135 --> 01:36:08,804
I was writing Ghostbusters.

2140
01:36:08,846 --> 01:36:11,932
So he said, "Okay."

2141
01:36:11,974 --> 01:36:15,936
It's just that
his sensitive side caved in

2142
01:36:15,978 --> 01:36:19,648
and he was numbing the pain
and fighting it off.

2143
01:36:19,690 --> 01:36:23,736
It seemed like, you know,
could never get out of that.

2144
01:36:23,778 --> 01:36:26,781
And I thought, you know,
"I better finish this page,

2145
01:36:26,822 --> 01:36:30,451
this paragraph,
and get the fuck out there."

2146
01:36:30,493 --> 01:36:32,119
But I didn't get
to him in time.

2147
01:36:32,161 --> 01:36:36,123
Of course, you know,
I carry that with me forever.

2148
01:36:49,553 --> 01:36:51,597
My brother, Jake,

2149
01:36:51,639 --> 01:36:53,849
would like to become....

2150
01:36:53,891 --> 01:36:56,811
increasingly intimate
with you.

2151
01:36:58,604 --> 01:37:02,316
And he feels that
he can unwind a little bit,

2152
01:37:02,358 --> 01:37:05,236
sing a song
about his personal life.

2153
01:37:05,277 --> 01:37:07,279
Here's my brother, Jake.

2154
01:37:07,321 --> 01:37:08,614
Thank you.

2155
01:37:11,283 --> 01:37:14,495
The Blues Brothers'
"Guilty"

2156
01:37:20,709 --> 01:37:23,504
Yeah, baby

2157
01:37:25,798 --> 01:37:28,092
Yeah, I been drinking

2158
01:37:30,302 --> 01:37:32,721
And I

2159
01:37:32,763 --> 01:37:36,308
I shouldn't come by, no

2160
01:37:40,062 --> 01:37:44,692
But I found myself
in trouble, darling

2161
01:37:47,528 --> 01:37:52,116
And I had nowhere else
to go

2162
01:37:54,451 --> 01:37:57,121
Got some whiskey

2163
01:38:00,040 --> 01:38:02,334
From the barman

2164
01:38:05,087 --> 01:38:07,464
I got some cocaine

2165
01:38:10,050 --> 01:38:12,553
From my friends

2166
01:38:15,306 --> 01:38:20,144
I gotta
keep on moving, baby

2167
01:38:22,938 --> 01:38:27,151
Till I'm back
in your arms again

2168
01:38:30,988 --> 01:38:32,740
Guilty

2169
01:38:34,909 --> 01:38:37,161
Yes, I'm guilty

2170
01:38:39,914 --> 01:38:42,416
And I'll be guilty

2171
01:38:42,458 --> 01:38:47,630
For the rest of my life

2172
01:38:48,714 --> 01:38:50,049
How come, baby

2173
01:38:50,090 --> 01:38:52,301
How come I never do

2174
01:38:54,678 --> 01:38:57,389
What I'm supposed to do?

2175
01:38:59,516 --> 01:39:03,479
How come everything I try

2176
01:39:03,520 --> 01:39:07,399
Never turns out right?

2177
01:39:10,569 --> 01:39:13,614
You know
how it is with me, baby

2178
01:39:20,412 --> 01:39:24,416
You know
I just can't stand myself

2179
01:39:29,129 --> 01:39:34,134
It takes a whole lot
of medicine, darling

2180
01:39:34,176 --> 01:39:36,887
For me to pretend

2181
01:39:36,929 --> 01:39:40,808
That I'm somebody else

2182
01:39:50,567 --> 01:39:53,112
Got the call,
and so I immediately got up

2183
01:39:53,153 --> 01:39:55,322
and began to really motor.

2184
01:39:55,364 --> 01:39:56,991
It was a beautiful March day.

2185
01:39:57,032 --> 01:39:59,827
It was a blue sky and sun
and everything,

2186
01:39:59,868 --> 01:40:01,578
and I remember
on the way down there

2187
01:40:01,620 --> 01:40:03,163
and as I just got
close to the village,

2188
01:40:03,205 --> 01:40:05,457
it was already
on the newsstand right there--

2189
01:40:05,499 --> 01:40:08,210
you know,
"Belushi dead at 33."

2190
01:40:08,252 --> 01:40:10,504
Somber music

2191
01:40:10,546 --> 01:40:13,632
I heard someone,
you know, opening the door,

2192
01:40:13,674 --> 01:40:16,343
and Danny yelled out
for me, and I--

2193
01:40:16,385 --> 01:40:19,054
his voice, you know, was off.

2194
01:40:19,096 --> 01:40:21,598
And I knew
something was wrong.

2195
01:40:21,640 --> 01:40:24,435
And I said, you know,
"Is he okay?

2196
01:40:24,476 --> 01:40:26,228
Was there an accident?"

2197
01:40:26,270 --> 01:40:29,565
And he said,
in the most gentle voice...

2198
01:40:30,482 --> 01:40:32,651
"No, honey, he's dead."

2199
01:40:35,654 --> 01:40:37,614
You know,
the pain didn't come out

2200
01:40:37,656 --> 01:40:39,867
for me, really,
until after the funeral,

2201
01:40:39,908 --> 01:40:41,785
at my house
in Martha's Vineyard.

2202
01:40:41,827 --> 01:40:43,954
And everybody was gone,

2203
01:40:43,996 --> 01:40:46,081
and the snow started to fall--

2204
01:40:46,123 --> 01:40:47,624
beautiful white snow,
you know,

2205
01:40:47,666 --> 01:40:51,086
and I got down on my knees,
and I wept.

2206
01:40:55,591 --> 01:40:58,052
I always believed that...

2207
01:40:58,093 --> 01:40:59,845
his true self
would shine through

2208
01:40:59,887 --> 01:41:03,724
and that he wouldn't
ultimately be destroyed

2209
01:41:03,766 --> 01:41:05,559
by drugs.

2210
01:41:05,601 --> 01:41:08,854
But I've spent a lot of time
thinking about it all,

2211
01:41:08,896 --> 01:41:11,065
and I have worked
through those things.

2212
01:41:11,106 --> 01:41:12,858
I don't, you know...

2213
01:41:12,900 --> 01:41:15,569
I don't blame myself...

2214
01:41:15,611 --> 01:41:16,737
anymore.

2215
01:41:18,489 --> 01:41:21,492
And the whole experience,
my whole life with John,

2216
01:41:21,533 --> 01:41:25,621
to meet so young
and have so many adventures

2217
01:41:25,662 --> 01:41:28,707
and the love that we shared...

2218
01:41:28,749 --> 01:41:31,043
I wouldn't trade.

2219
01:41:32,544 --> 01:41:35,631
- A final question.
- Yeah.

2220
01:41:35,672 --> 01:41:39,176
I would like to know
how you do what you do.

2221
01:41:39,218 --> 01:41:40,302
What are you asking me?

2222
01:41:40,344 --> 01:41:41,470
Let's take the cartwheel.

2223
01:41:41,512 --> 01:41:43,055
That catches everybody
by surprise.

2224
01:41:43,097 --> 01:41:45,766
Oh, I've been doing that
since sixth grade.

2225
01:41:45,808 --> 01:41:47,518
Everything you do
in your life,

2226
01:41:47,559 --> 01:41:48,936
everything that I've ever done
in my life,

2227
01:41:48,977 --> 01:41:51,188
I've used on camera
somewhere.

2228
01:41:51,230 --> 01:41:52,731
You can't ask him this.

2229
01:41:52,773 --> 01:41:54,024
This is why he's a star.

2230
01:41:54,066 --> 01:41:55,359
This is why he's John Belushi,

2231
01:41:55,400 --> 01:41:57,236
is because
he does these things,

2232
01:41:57,277 --> 01:41:59,863
- and it's his special energy.
- Yeah.

2233
01:41:59,905 --> 01:42:02,074
You know,
he'll expire on this planet

2234
01:42:02,116 --> 01:42:04,868
and have left his mark
because nobody can learn

2235
01:42:04,910 --> 01:42:09,331
how to do what Belushi does,
and no one ever will, man.

2236
01:42:15,546 --> 01:42:18,757
"With a Little
Help from My Friends"

2237
01:42:38,902 --> 01:42:40,863
What would you do

2238
01:42:40,904 --> 01:42:45,117
If I sang out of tune?

2239
01:42:45,159 --> 01:42:48,620
Would you stand up
and walk out on me?

2240
01:42:49,746 --> 01:42:51,957
Lend me your ear

2241
01:42:51,999 --> 01:42:55,919
And I'll,
I'll sing you a song

2242
01:42:55,961 --> 01:42:58,881
Oh, I will try not to sing
out of key

2243
01:42:58,922 --> 01:43:02,926
Oh, baby, I get high
with a little help

2244
01:43:02,968 --> 01:43:04,136
From my friends

2245
01:43:04,178 --> 01:43:06,972
Well, don't you know,
I'm gonna get high

2246
01:43:07,014 --> 01:43:09,057
With a little help
from my friends

2247
01:43:09,099 --> 01:43:11,935
Oh, don't you know
I'm gonna get my friends

2248
01:43:11,977 --> 01:43:14,980
High with a little help
from my friends

2249
01:43:15,022 --> 01:43:16,982
Oh, oh, oh, oh

2250
01:43:17,024 --> 01:43:18,358
Oh, yeah

2251
01:43:18,400 --> 01:43:22,738
Whoo, ooh, ooh

2252
01:43:22,779 --> 01:43:24,907
What do I do

2253
01:43:24,948 --> 01:43:27,618
When my love is away?

2254
01:43:27,659 --> 01:43:31,622
Does it worry you
to be alone?

2255
01:43:31,663 --> 01:43:33,790
Oh, no

2256
01:43:33,832 --> 01:43:38,545
How do I feel
at the end of the day?

2257
01:43:38,587 --> 01:43:42,633
Are you sad because you're
on your own?

2258
01:43:42,674 --> 01:43:44,176
Oh, man, I

2259
01:43:44,218 --> 01:43:49,181
High with a little help
from my friends

2260
01:43:49,223 --> 01:43:53,936
Whoo, ooh, ooh

2261
01:43:57,231 --> 01:44:00,359
The Ventures'
"The 2000 Pound Bee, Part 2"

2262
01:44:00,400 --> 01:44:03,487
up-tempo rock music

2263
01:45:35,579 --> 01:45:36,955
mellow acoustic music

2264
01:45:36,997 --> 01:45:39,207
Well,
I'm a fast-talking

2265
01:45:39,249 --> 01:45:43,420
Fast-walking Midwest kid

2266
01:45:43,462 --> 01:45:45,422
Never thought I'd grow up

2267
01:45:45,464 --> 01:45:48,675
But I'm glad I finally did

2268
01:45:48,717 --> 01:45:50,635
I done good in school

2269
01:45:50,677 --> 01:45:54,264
I learned to be cool,
and it served me well

2270
01:45:54,306 --> 01:45:57,142
I married a rebel,
I fought with the devil

2271
01:45:57,184 --> 01:45:59,394
And I lived to tell

2272
01:46:01,104 --> 01:46:03,315
These are the best days

2273
01:46:03,357 --> 01:46:06,234
These are the best days
of my life

2274
01:46:06,276 --> 01:46:08,528
These are the best days

2275
01:46:08,570 --> 01:46:11,823
These are the best days
of my life

2276
01:46:13,241 --> 01:46:16,828
There was a time I thought
I'd be a virgin all my life

2277
01:46:16,870 --> 01:46:19,790
I never thought
I would make a wife

2278
01:46:19,831 --> 01:46:22,584
When it came round
to adultery

2279
01:46:22,626 --> 01:46:25,128
Never thought
that I was sultry

2280
01:46:25,170 --> 01:46:27,964
But you know
the best one, kiddo

2281
01:46:28,006 --> 01:46:30,133
Never thought
I'd be a young widow

2282
01:46:30,175 --> 01:46:32,469
You cut the debt,
you get what you get

2283
01:46:32,511 --> 01:46:36,264
You play your best game,
and you never forget that

2284
01:46:36,306 --> 01:46:38,767
These are the best days

2285
01:46:38,809 --> 01:46:41,895
These are the best days
of my life

2286
01:46:41,937 --> 01:46:44,189
These are the best days

2287
01:46:44,231 --> 01:46:47,442
These are the best days
of my life

2288
01:46:49,403 --> 01:46:51,488
Hello, blue eyes

2289
01:46:51,530 --> 01:46:53,698
You are my best surprise

2290
01:46:53,740 --> 01:46:56,535
Now you and your sisters

2291
01:46:56,576 --> 01:46:58,578
Stand by my side

2292
01:46:58,620 --> 01:47:01,706
Times may get rough,
we get tougher

2293
01:47:01,748 --> 01:47:04,376
We're not the kind to sit
and suffer

2294
01:47:04,418 --> 01:47:07,003
I got your backs,
and that's the facts

2295
01:47:07,045 --> 01:47:10,507
Because I am
your motherfucking mother

2296
01:47:10,549 --> 01:47:13,218
These are the best days

2297
01:47:13,260 --> 01:47:15,971
These are the best days
of my life

2298
01:47:16,012 --> 01:47:18,598
These are the best days

2299
01:47:18,640 --> 01:47:21,893
These are the best days
of my life

2300
01:47:23,937 --> 01:47:27,774
I lost
my good friend today

2301
01:47:29,067 --> 01:47:32,696
We had so much more
to say now

2302
01:47:34,114 --> 01:47:35,699
All we shared

2303
01:47:37,868 --> 01:47:40,996
Is in the past

2304
01:47:41,037 --> 01:47:44,249
These are the best days

2305
01:47:44,291 --> 01:47:47,544
These are the best days
of my life

2306
01:47:47,586 --> 01:47:50,422
These are the best days

2307
01:47:50,464 --> 01:47:53,425
These are the best days
of my life

2308
01:47:53,467 --> 01:47:56,178
These are, these are

2309
01:47:56,219 --> 01:47:57,512
These are the best days

2310
01:47:57,554 --> 01:48:00,307
Oh, these, these are,
these are

2311
01:48:00,348 --> 01:48:04,478
These, these are
the best days

2312
01:48:04,519 --> 01:48:07,522
Of my life

2313
01:48:10,442 --> 01:48:11,651
Ha ha, that's it.