
Every weekend had a snowstorm in New York. I remember it was winter, because we kept getting shut down every weekend, so I got a month’s work out of it. I was sitting on top of a mountain in Julian, California. You shot Trading Places a few months after your brother died with a few of his main collaborators, Dan Aykroyd and John Landis. “You see Thief yet?” He kept saying, “Nah nah, not yet. would watch the Bears game together on the phone. I happened to be doing Bal at the Goodman Theatre, a pretty high-status regional theater. Did you ever talk to John about making these two definitive Chicago movies? How do you get cast in the first place?ġ980. You did Thief, which came out a year after Blues Brothers. Your brother wants me to make sure you’re all right.” “Take care of my brother, keep an eye on him.” So my first taping, she walks in with Rob Reiner: “Hello, I’m Penny. John called her, because I was on the Paramount lot. Penny was a good friend of mine, until she passed. Then they brought me back the next year for Working Stiffs with Michael Keaton. He saw me in Second City and brought me for a show called Who’s Watching the Kids? And the answer is nobody they canceled it. Garry Marshall was the one that started it.
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People may not realize it, but you cut your teeth on TV when Garry Marshall shows were dominating in the late ’70s. Fess up!- Cannabis Farmer: Jim Belushi December 28, 2020 What is out there? C’mon, some of you guys have to be nerds. I did one many, many years ago, My Neighbors the Yamadas.Īny anime fans out there? I always loved Studio Ghibli after I worked with them - however I don’t know much else.īut, I just saw “Your Name” and it blew me away. One of 2020’s few bright spots was seeing your request for anime recommendations go viral. In a conversation with Vulture, Belushi reflected on his experience being fired - then rehired - for Saturday Night Live, working with the likes of John Candy and Tupac Shakur, and more. It is the latest chapter in a bending, twisty career that’s taken the self-described outsider from his initiation in Garry Marshall and John Hughes’s creative troupes to a string of auteur collaborations and inside the famed halls of 30 Rockefeller Center. Last August, Growing Belushi premiered on Discovery, chronicling his efforts with a burgeoning legal cannabis operation on his 93-acre farm along the Rogue River in southern Oregon. “I feel like a dummy right now,” he says.ĭespite this time away from the stage, Belushi has stayed busy. Improv isn’t something you turn on and off like a spigot. For example: It’s been over 15 months since the 67-year-old Belushi was last able to perform improv with his troupe, Board of Comedy. Starbucks kicked him out for trying to hold this interview in its seating area though pandemic restrictions here, as elsewhere, are beginning to ease, all is not yet back to normal. Jim Belushi is perched on a shoeshine stand near his hotel in downtown Philadelphia.
