Wired: The Short Life & Fast Times of John Belushi

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This reissue of Bob Woodword’s classic book about John Belushi—some of the interesting performers and personalities in show business history—“is told with the similar narrative style that Woodward employed so effectively in All the President’s Men and The Final Days” (Chicago Tribune).

John Belushi was once found dead of a drug overdose March 5, 1982, in a seedy hotel bungalow off Sunset Boulevard in Hollywood. Belushi’s death was once the beginning of a trail that led Washington Post reporter Bob Woodward on an investigation that examines the dark side of American show business—TV, rock and roll, and the movie industry. From on-the-record interviews with 217 people, including Belushi’s widow, his former partner Dan Aykroyd, Belushi’s movie directors including Jack Nicholson and Steven Spielberg, actors Chevy Chase, Robin Williams, and Carrie Fisher, the movie executives, the agents, Belushi’s drug dealers, and those that live in the show business underground, the creator has written a close portrait of an excellent American comic talent, and of his struggle to succeed and to live on that ended in tragedy.

Using diaries, accountants’ records, phone bills, trip records, medical records, and interviews with firsthand witnesses, Woodward has followed Belushi’s life from childhood in a small town outdoor Chicago to his meteoric rise to fame.

Bob Woodward has written a spellbinding account of rise and fall, a cautionary tale for our times, and a poignant and gentle portrait of a young man who had such a lot, gave such a lot, and lost such a lot.

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