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After Working With John Belushi, Lorne Michaels Used To 'Ban' Chris Farley From SNL Amidst Drug Addiction: 'Obviously, It Didn't Do It For Him'
But the ending was painfully familiar. On December 18, 1997, just two months after hosting SNL, Chris Farley died of an ...
Aykroyd Family & Judy Belushi-Pisano’s Estate Pass Down The Briefcase Of Blues With First Graphic Novel
EXCLUSIVE: The Blues Brothers are back in business. Only this time, the Briefcase Full of Blues will be opening through a ...
John Mulaney recalls Lorne Michaels invoking the death of John Belushi amid struggles with addiction
Belushi died of an accidental drug overdose in 1982 at age 33. John Mulaney's been very open about his issues with addiction ...
Meet the the LA coroner who shot to stardom after inventing the ‘celebrity death’
The man dubbed by the press as “coroner to the stars” would go on to perform autopsies on famous names like Natalie Wood, ...
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John Belushi's Death Meant He Couldn't Be A Ghostbuster, But They Still Worked A Tribute To Him Into The Movie
The role that Murray played, Peter Venkman, was first written with John Belushi in mind. Sadly, Belushi’s death in 1982 meant that he couldn’t be a member of the team. They still found a way ...
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John Mulaney Recalls How Lorne Michaels Invoked the Late John Belushi to Encourage His Sobriety
"He goes, 'I knew John Belushi for seven years. I've been talking about him for 48 years, because that's the shrapnel that happens when someone goes down like that,'" Mulaney recalled of Michaels ...
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“His Materials and His Letters Were Just Sitting in Boxes in the Basement of Her House”: R.J. Cutler on Belushi at DOC NYC
From the mid to late 70s John Belushi was a multimedia meteor, seemingly destined to be an inescapable part of the zeitgeist for years to come. The outsized and ubiquitous talent — original cast ...
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‘SNL’ Boss Lorne Michaels Used To “Ban” Chris Farley “For Weeks At A Time” As Farley Struggled With Drug Addiction
Michaels’ biographer Susan Morrison, author of Lorne: The Man Who Invented Saturday Night Live, revealed during a recent appearance on Dax Shepard’s Armchair Expert podcast that John Belushi ...
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'The Smell of SNL': An oral history of the cannabis that changed comedy forever
Jim Belushi on his Oregon farm, where he grows the strain of weed that helped kickstart his brother John's career on "Saturday Night Live" in 1975. Credit: belushi's farm Saturday Night Live has ...
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After Working With John Belushi, Lorne Michaels Used To 'Ban' Chris Farley From SNL Amidst Drug Addiction: 'Obviously, It Didn't Do It For Him'
But his struggles with addiction are a sobering reminder of another SNL legend, John Belushi. Lorne Michaels , the show's creator, aimed to ensure that history wouldn’t repeat itself.