A wickedly industrious joke-machine intellect attached
to a pneumatic pair of eyebrows, John Belushi was the king of American
comedy in the mid-to-late 1970s. At the peak of his career, he could boast a
sinecure at “Saturday Night Live,” blockbuster movies, a hit band, and the
best Toshiro Mifune imitation ever to hit American TV. Nevertheless, as
related in R.J. Cutler’s tragic documentary “Belushi,” he
destroyed everything he had with the same abandon that John Landis wrecked
police cruisers in their movie “The Blues Brothers.”