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Bill Murray Defends John Belushi After Bob Woodward’s “Completely Inaccurate” Biography


More than 40 years later, Bill Murray has a bone to pick with Bob Woodward over his literary treatment of friend and collaborator John Belushi.

Following Belushi’s death at age 33 in 1982, Murray called out Woodward’s 1984 biography Wired as “completely inaccurate” After Murray moved to New York City in 1974, Belushi recruited him to The National Lampoon Radio Hour. Murray’s starring role as Peter Venkman in Ghostbusters(1984) was originally written by co-stars Dan Aykroyd and Harold Ramis for Belushi before his death.

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