John Belushi

National Lampoon's Animal House (Widescreen Double Secret Probation Edition)
$12.98
awsome movie and beleive it or not kind of hard to find. I got it at a great price cheaper than anywhere else I bet. :)

Animal House Poster ~ John Belushi College Shirt ~ 23x35"
$14.95
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1941 (Collector's Edition)
$9.99
This film has always gotten a bad rap from the crittics. But don`t let that bother you, it really is a very funny film.
It all revolves around the fear of a Jap invasion of CA right after Pearle Harbour. There are plenty of nuts running wild and even
one or two reasonably sane characters. It`s non-stop gags and non-stop laughs. If anything it`s too wild and crazy. Not the best
timing, with too many things going on at once.
Still, I give it 4 stars just for the shear number of laughs. The bit with Slim Pickens being captured by the crew of a Jap sub is
worth the price of the movie all by itself.

Wired: Short Life and Fast Times of John Belushi
$18.60
Funny how a quarter-century gives a bit more perspective. Wired was published two years after Belushi's death, and at that time so much of the focus on him regarded his drug use (fair enough, as that was what killed him), so it is only natural that a book about his life would touch on that subject. Reading Wired again recently for the first time in many years, I found the book to be even more lopsided in emphasizing this aspect of Belushi's life than I did when it first came out. The book opens with a three-day drug binge in 1979 drug binge, and the last quarter of the 400-odd page book it is entirely focused on Belushi's last several weeks, chronicling in minute detail what drugs he took, how much he paid for them, how much of them he snorted and shot up and who he did them with. His formative years are glossed over in about 20 pages, and insights into other facets of his personality are sparse; it's as if Woodward couldn't get to the darker episodes of Belushi's life quick enough, so he just decided to edit out the less controversial stories and sides of Belushi's person(a) in order to throw in a few more tales of John snorting cocaine.
What has made the memory of Belushi lasting and endearing, to me, was his talent, be it in the work he did on SNL, the several movies he made and the music he played with the Blues Brothers. Yes, Wired is an interesting read, but I will say if one is looking to find out more about Belushi...more beyond just the drug addictions and binges...one should seek out the book Samurai Widow, by Judy Jacklin. It will provide a tonic and counterpoint to the toxicity of Wired, and between the two one might find something closer to the truth other than the portrait of Belushi offscreen as a one-dimemsional character who cared about nothing other than getting stoned.