The ghost of John Belushi looks back on his troubled life and career. | dG1fc3JfdzJ3YWpGOUE
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00:001982, John Belushi, the fabulous comedy star of TV's Saturday Night Live, Animal House,
00:13and The Blues Brothers, is dead at the age of 33.
00:171984, his story becomes a book by Bob Woodward, the prize-winning author of All the President's
00:23Men.
00:24You know, this could be one of those stories we've always talked about, that whole Hollywood
00:26drug scene out there.
00:281989, the man and the book become the motion picture that Hollywood never wanted to be
00:33made.
00:34The Life.
00:35Cut the demons loose, John.
00:36Let them loose.
00:37Don't!
00:38My God, I just punched the star of my movie.
00:41The Laughter.
00:43You scratch my hiney, I'll scratch your hiney, your hiney.
00:47The Loves.
00:48Please, please, please, I'll even marry you.
00:52The Incredible Times.
00:53I use drugs to keep myself alert to the comic possibilities in everything around me.
01:00The Truth.
01:02Belushi told people that drugs were built into his contract.
01:05Accidental.
01:06What is this, a Saturday Night Live routine?
01:17You were a living legend, John.
01:19Your friend Aykroyd called you America's guest.
01:21Everybody loved you.
01:22Why did you shove a needle in your arm?
01:24God's got a saying, life's not for everyone.
01:31It's not just a story about the man, it's a story about America.
01:37Wired, the laughs and times of John Belushi.