View Single Post
Old 03-05-2007, 06:27 PM   #4
Borderstone
Senior Member
 
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Phoenix,Arizona -America
Posts: 4,427
Default

Well...nearly four years later!

I thought I'd bring this up here,instead of in a new topic. Just taking a moment to remember John Belushi,who left us on this day (March 5th) in 1982.

Really doesn't seem possible but,it is and has been 25 years. I remember Saturday Night Live a few weeks later playing a specially made tribute/music video for him called,"Gone Like the Wind".

I can't remember if one of the ladies in the cast introduced it or was it a lady close to him at the time. I do know it was quite moving and (aside from the Lennon vigil in 1980) was the first tribute I'd seen to someone who'd passed on.

I also remember just months befoe having seen his movie,"Continental Divide". For him a pretty straight forward comedy role but it didn't do too well. Then his last movie "Neighbors" came out and flopped. I guess fans weren't ready for a "different" kind of Belushi.

We know he was a great comic talent and it always will be a sad thing,that it was wasted on excess,and that he didn't reach the true pinnacle of success that he would have.

I could even see him playing the life story of actor Edward G. Robinson,given his facial features and voice.

He would have been 57 this year. Here's to you John:

"Foooooooooood Fiiiiiiiiiiiight"!!!

[ March 05, 2007, 17:34: Message edited by: Borderstone ]
__________________
"A knight of the road,going back to a place where he might get warm." - Borderstone
Borderstone is offline   Reply With Quote