John Belushi: Like MJ, Belushi was seen as a man who had cross beyond the point of no return where a person ceases to care if he survived his deadly drug binges or not. One of the greatest movie comedians of all time, Belushi was nevertheless ceaselessly entangled in a poisonous mental web of anguish. He is best known for the all-time classics Animal House and Blues Brothers and his gut-splitting routines on “Saturday Night Live.” Interestingly, Belushi, the older brother of comedian James “Jim” Belushi, celebrated his 30th birthday with a rare entertainment trifecta: he had #1 movie in America [Animal House], the number one album in the U.S. [Blue Brothers: Briefcase Full of Blues] and “Saturday Night Live” was the highest-rated late night show on television. He died before he was to be the star of the mega-blockbuster Ghostbusters, written by great friends Dan Akroyd and Harold Ramis. Bill Murray took over the role and eventually the movie became one the highest-grossing comedies ever in 1984. The night Belushi left the realm of the living in 1982, Belushi, an serial drug uses with a reputation for outlandish behavior, took a fatal dose of speedball, the combination of cocaine and heroin in West Hollywood, Calif.
