He had none of that darkness so associated with Belushi, none of the addled, jaded irony.
At times like this, he had the most pleasing and innocent of faces. March 5, 1982.” He sucked on that cigar until it lit up his entire face, making of it a great big glowing pink orb. “Did you know that he died at my age this year, at 33? Yeah. Anyway, I’m fatter than him now.” He paused. Was he trying to be like him in some ways?įarley tugged at his hair. It was well known that Farley had been obsessed with Belushi, and people loved making much of this fact, since the two seemed to share a love of certain rather common excesses.
For a while we talked about his hero and Saturday Night Live predecessor, John Belushi.
