Toward the end of 1977, Griffin Dunne introduced Carrie Fisher, then just turning 21, to John Belushi, the biggest star of TV’s two-year-old Saturday Night Live.This would be an important but ...

The film highlights the offscreen friendship between Belushi and Carrie Fisher, who appeared "The Blues Brothers" in 1980 and was briefly engaged to Belushi's co-star Dan Aykroyd.

Actor Carrie Fisher recalled how The Empire Strikes Back could have looked very different if friends and comedians Dan Aykroyd and John Belushi had their request granted to appear in the film ...

On and off camera, “John was just this big event,” says Carrie Fisher. John Belushi’s immortal characters on “Saturday Night Live” included the Samurai (with Buck Henry). NBC ...

Singer-composer Paul Simon and actress Carrie Fisher leave the Cathedral of St. John the Divine in New York City, after a memorial service for comedian John Belushi. (Marty Lederhandler ...

There was one time, back in 1980, Joely says when Carrie showed up at her house with the Blues Brothers (John Belushi and her then-fiancé Dan Aykroyd) in sunglasses, silent and clearly on drugs. 4.

Culled from an extraordinary collection of audiotaped interviews, “Belushi” turns out to be a lot more than just another documentary look at a star who succumbed to drug abuse.

Carrie Fisher’s 1978 Oscar Date Recalls His Unexpected Evening With ‘Star Wars’ Royalty. George Lucas, Steven Spielberg and John Belushi were all part of one 27-year-old's storied night.

I Was Carrie Fisher’s 1978 Oscar Date: Spielberg, Lucas and a 3 a.m. Afterparty With John Belushi "This is just like prom!" said the 'Star Wars' actress, set up with 27-year-old Tom Coleman, who ...

The new Showtime documentary aims to present a more complex view of John Belushi, the tragically fated star of “Animal House,” “The Blues Brothers” and “S.N.L.,” beyond the stunts and ...

Aykroyd calls Fisher “one of the most brilliant and hilarious minds of our eon.” Remembering a few gems from their time together, he says, “Carrie would say things like: ‘I love tiny babies.