Cathy Smith, Who Injected John Belushi With Fatal Overdose, Dies at 73

New York Post ^ | August 28, 2020 | Greg Evans

[nickcarraway]

I keep fighting and it is hard but I KNOW I would not last one line of coke without a heart attack.You look like Len Bias.

[SamAdams76]

I saw one movie that featured Philip Seymour Hoffman and that was "Big Lebowski". A movie well worth seeing by the way. Preferably on a Friday or Saturday night a couple beers deep. It's about a scruffy, lazy work-averse guy named Jeff Lebowski who gets mistaken for a workaholic millionaire with the same name. Something about a stolen carpet that "really tied the room together."

But that's the only time I ever saw this guy Philip Seymour Hoffman in a movie. He turned in a pretty good performance being the flunky of the "other" Jeff Lebowski. I guess in real life, he got caught up in a downward spiral of drug abuse and died in his mid 40s.

[V_TWIN]

All relevant my friend. I miss John Candy as well. A lot of laughs not enjoyed because of his early departure...and yet Chevy Chase is still with us....what a hack. IMO of course.

[moehoward]

“...he looked high to me in those movies...”

According to the Woodward book Wired, he was. Sometimes so coked up he couldn’t speak his lines. Not so much on Animal House. But Blues Brothers, Goin South, and Neighbors in particular.

[V_TWIN]

Andy dick...amazing what passes for talent isn’t it?...chris elliott as well.

[dp0622]

no that’s a fact :)

[dp0622]

ROFL

[Gay State Conservative]

Belushi was a slow motion train wreck.If it wasn’t her it would have been someone...or something...else.

[Rebelbase]

My favorite Belushi story comes from Joe Walsh.

He and Belushi were wasted in NYC and went to a high dollar restaurant where they were rejected entry because they were wearing blue jeans.

Belushi came up the the idea to go to a hardware store and buy black spray paint to make their jeans the proper color.

They went back to the restaurant and were promptly seated on fancy, fabric covered chairs.

When they got up to leave the chair seats were black from the paint.

[dp0622]

I have heard it is quite disturbing.

I need to finally get that out of the way.

When I was a child, my brother had that book in his bookcase and of course I thought Woolfe meant like a real wolf and it was about the wolf man :)

yes, i was an idiot as a child :)

[nickcarraway]

Perhaps. But you can’t just kill someone, because they will get there eventually.

[dp0622]

I did not know that. wow.

I thought he died at a very heavy weight. I stand corrected.

I lost 100 (still need to lose so much more) over the course of a year going back 5 years now.

But that’s only 2 pounds a week. Not that fast

[moovova]

Did a great job of the bad guy in “Mission Impossible III”. Just a gifted, all around actor.

[moovova]

Yike! Nothing wrong with that movie that a few (or many) AA meetings wouldn’t have cured. I cringe every time I think of the movie.

[moovova]

No you didnt.

[smalltownslick]

At least she was ten miles short of messing with Duane Eddy.

[minnesota_bound]

Cathy Smith to John Belushi: “you will just feel a pinch”...

[elcid1970]

For a moment I thought it was “The Days of Wine and Roses”, another B&W tale of a dissolute couple sunk into drunkeness.

[Bonemaker]

"...yes, i was an idiot as a child :)..." Don't feel embarrassed...I'm stuck in that rut somewhat at 80!😎

[Bonemaker]

"Yike! Nothing wrong with that movie that a few (or many) AA meetings wouldn’t have cured. I cringe every time I think of the movie." My wife and I (at least my wife) were so taken with the movie that we tend to reenact and role-play some of the scenes frequently during "happy hour"!😎