The 29-year-old Belushi plays his elderly self utterly straight, with some fine makeup and wardrobe coupling with Belushi’s weathered croak of a voice to convey Schiller’s premise with stark authenticity.
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I am reminded of another Belushi movie where he played it straight, and his costar, Dan Aykroyd played the comedic role.
Very few people have even heard of or even remember the movie. It was ‘Neighbors’.
On March 11, 1978, Art Garfunkel's beautiful, ethereal girlfriend Laurie Bird still had 469 days left on this earth.
I still have the VCR tape of Belushi’s Greatest Scenes. This dancing in the graveyard is the last one.
Look up the video SNL Belushi Captain Kirk for an amazing 7-8 minutes of incredible Belushi. While Belushi was a quick study, he could also ‘become’ other people.
I remember his wife talking about Belushi practicing certain characters at home. One day she arrives home, and he is hidden, practicing the samurai voice. Ooo—ooh—ooh, etc. She couldn’t find him immediately, and he kept it up. Hilarious.
“And the late Chris Farley’s spirit has forever been tied to one specific “Chris Farley Show” sketch, where the wide-eyed comic wild man guilelessly asks guest Paul McCartney if, as the Beatles sang, ‘The love you take is equal to the love you make’.”
A Wisconsin Boy and a family friend. So many of us miss him every day. :(
From the article -“Radner went on to become a big TV star in her native Canada after SNL..”
I thought she was from the D.C. suburbs.
Personally never found SNL to be that funny...always thought SCTV was far more creative/talented.
...but to each, his/her own.