Judy Belushi, the widow and keeper of John Belushi’s flame, died of cancer on July 5. She was 73. Judy and John were married from 1973 until his 1982 death (they met in high school in the late’ 60s). Moving to New York, John began getting work and Judy became associate producer for his National Lampoon Radio Hour. She also appeared in small roles in her husband’s Saturday Night Live, Animal House and The Blues Brothers. After Belushi’s fatal drug overdose, she wrote a book about him, and appeared in numerous documentaries (she also remarried, to Martha’s Vineyard gallery owner and producer Victor Pisano). She briefly put her hand into the wood-chipper that was “writing for SNL.” “I had been around it so much, and sometimes even participated,” she recalled. “Giving somebody a line or something. I can do that.” But she quickly found as did so many others, “I thought it would be interesting. But I really didn’t like it.”
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