BELUSHI: A BIOGRAPHY:

“Ours was a full friendship, no dimension of it unexplored except the sexual one. John and I shared bunkbeds backstage at Saturday Night Live. We shared the blood brotherhood of Jake and Elwood Blues. We shared many a late night discussing our dreams and ambitions. And yet, page after page, I was staggered by the things this book reveals outside of my own knowledge of John and his life.” – Dan Akroyd

I didn’t need to know that. The Akryod quote is, curiously, the very first sentence on this new book’s web site. But the book (by Belushi’s widow and co-author Tanner Colby) looks worth reading:

Belushi: A Biography seeks to correct much of the damage done by Wired, focusing instead on John’s career and creative accomplishments. It’s an oral history featuring over a hundred new interviews with Belushi contemporaries like Bill Murray, Dan Aykroyd and SNL producer Lorne Michaels. It also contains dozens of personal photographs from the Belushi archives.

I remember reading WIRED when it came out. It was interesting “crash and burn” detail about celebrity life, but it was obvious that Woodward didn’t get the point of why people loved Belushi.