Posted on 08/28/2020 11:38:10 AM PDT by nickcarraway
Cathy Smith, the onetime girlfriend of singer-songwriter Gordon Lightfoot who might have been best remembered for inspiring the hit song Sundown had she not met up with John Belushi at the Chateau Marmont on March 5, 1982, died Aug. 18 at the age of 73.
Her death was reported by Canadas The Globe and Mail. The longtime resident of Maple Ridge, British Columbia, had been on oxygen and in failing health the past few years, the newspaper said.
Smith, who had been a back-up singer (and occasional drug supplier) to the Canadian rockers who would later become The Band (she claimed The Weight was inspired by her), admitted to injecting Belushi with the heroin and cocaine that led to his death at age 33. In a 1986 plea bargain, she pleaded no contest to involuntary manslaughter and several drug charges and served a 15-month prison sentence at California Institution for Women. Upon release, she was deported to her native Canada, where she reportedly took a job in Toronto as a legal secretary.
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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.
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.
“...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.
Andy dick...amazing what passes for talent isn’t it?...chris elliott as well.
no that’s a fact :)
ROFL
Belushi was a slow motion train wreck.If it wasn’t her it would have been someone...or something...else.
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.
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 :)
Perhaps. But you can’t just kill someone, because they will get there eventually.
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
Did a great job of the bad guy in “Mission Impossible III”. Just a gifted, all around actor.
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.
No you didnt.
At least she was ten miles short of messing with Duane Eddy.
Cathy Smith to John Belushi: “you will just feel a pinch”...
For a moment I thought it was “The Days of Wine and Roses”, another B&W tale of a dissolute couple sunk into drunkeness.
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