John Belushi: 25 Years Later
Just in case you forgot to update your celebrity death calendar, Monday March 5 marked the 25th anniversary of John Belushi's death. The AP marked the occasion with a retrospective, noting his classic SNL turns as samurai deli guy, Joe Cocker and Jake Blues, his resuscitation of Ray Charles'/Aretha Franklin' careers, plus a tradition of self-destructive behavior that extends to Britney Spears.
By extension of the story's logic, here are other things you can assign to John Belushi:
1. 28 years' worth of season previews grousing about the current state of Saturday Night LIve.
2. Jamie Foxx's Oscar
3. The lost potential of Robert Downey Jr., Lindsay Lohan and any Hollywood actor who's ever had a drug problem since 1982.
According to the piece, director John Landis is still angry at him "for dying foolishly and young." We're angry at John for inadvertently creating the career of Jim Belushi.
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