The second-most-famous person is Harold Red Grange, the football player.
And the third-most-famous person to come from Wheaton, Illinois, is Bob Woodward."
“So there’s all my controversy for today,” he concluded.
John Belushi; Bill Murray.Credit:Ron Galella, Ltd./Ron Galella Collection via Getty
The latter was initially involved in the biography, but she later expressed regret over its portrayal of Belushi.
“The man inWiredis not the man I knew,” she toldRolling Stoneimmediately after the book’s release.
“People claim it’s all facts.
(L-R): Paul Simon, Harry Shearer, John Belushi, Bill Murray, and James Taylor on ‘SNL’ in 1980.NBCU Photo Bank/NBCUniversal via Getty Images via Getty
It’s not all facts.
It’s a bunch of people’s opinions and memories put forth as facts.”
“I didn’t want to have anything to do with it,” he said.
“It went exactly where I thought it was going.
Even worse than I thought it was going.
Just the title alone, it was cold.”
The actor went on to praise Belushi’s work and how he helped his peers get their start.
“Belushi made people’s careers possible mine would be one of them,” Murray said.
“He went to New York first.
He did a lot of things for people.
There’s a lot of people that slept on John Belushi’s couch.
And I’m one.”
He was absolutely magnetic.
You couldn’t take your eyes off him."
Belushi recruited Murray to joinThe National Lampoon Radio Hourin 1974.
“In those five pages I read, he tore down my friend.
You don’t get away with that.
Not with my friend.”
A representative for Woodward did not immediately respond toEntertainment Weekly’s request for comment.
Watch Murray onThe Joe Rogan Experienceabove.
