"His Materials and His Letters Were Just Sitting in Boxes in the Basement of Her House": R.J. Cutler on Belushi at DOC NYC

From the mid to late 70s John Belushi was a multimedia meteor, seemingly destined to be an inescapable part of the zeitgeist for years to come. The outsized and ubiquitous talent -- original cast member on late night TV's SNL, scene-stealing star of the big screen (National Lampoon's Animal House, The Blues Brothers), and hit record maker (again with The Blues Brothers) -- was so inescapable that when in 1982, at the age of only 33 and the peak of his career, his life crashed to a drug-fueled en...