When a great talent dies young, the world is diminished.
You find yourself thinking not only of what that person created but of what that person could have created if he’d had time.
For me, there is no purer case of the-acorn-that-would-have-become-the-oak-had-it-not-been-pancaked-by-the truck than John Belushi, who, had he not died at age 33 in 1982, would turn 75 this month.
In a world full of followers, Belushi seemed like the last free man.
He lived the showbiz maxim: to do anything original, you must be willing to make a fool of yourself.
Persons:
he’d, John Belushi, Belushi
Organizations:
National Lampoon