Bill Murray and Bob Woodward reportedly exchanged “stiff” words about Watergate Reporter John Belushi for “stiff” words when they met at the Kennedy Center over the weekend.
Their spat took place on Sunday at a screening of “Become Catherine Graham,” a former Washington Post Publishing documentary.
“Bill Murray and Bob Woodward had words about Woodward's Belushi book tonight at the Kennedy Center,” reporter Ben Terris said. I wrote it in x's post.
“I was a little nervous,” Terris added. Terris leaves the Washington Post 11 years later to join New York magazine.
Representatives for Murray and Woodward did not immediately respond to requests to post comments.
The argument was about the 1984 biography of John Belushi, “Wired.”
The late Belushi, who died of a drug overdose at the age of 33 in 1982, was a former castmate and close friend of Murray's “Saturday Night Live.”
“I read it like five pages of 'wired' and I went,” they put together Nixon,” Murray told Logan.
Woodward and fellow WAPO journalist Carl Bernstein were famous for breaking the Watergate scandal during the Nixon administration, and won the Pulitzer Prize.
“If this is what he writes about my friends, you can talk about half of my adult life, it's completely inaccurate, and get the stories, people from the outer circle, the outside, what could they do to Nixon?” Murray said he attacked Woodward using sources far from Belushi.
“Is that guy over there, that guy far from the center of things telling you the facts about John Belushi? Does that guy over there tell you who John Belushi is?”
Murray tore Woodward's report on Belushi, calling it “crime” and “cruel.”
“I admit I only read five pages, but with the five pages I read, I wanted to set the whole thing on fire,” he said. “He'll have to answer for that one day.”
He shared kind words about Belushi, saying that many actors and comedians were sleeping on the sofas of the late star throughout the year, when they didn't go anywhere else.
But Woodward's book, “Tearing a friend of mine,” Murray said. “It's just the title. It was cold.”
Murray hints that Woodward's portrayal of Belushi may have come from the location of je, saying Belushi is the most famous person from Wheaton, Illinois.
Judy Versi Pisano, the widow of the late comedian who passed away last year at the age of 73, also accused Woodward's book of inaccuracy after it was published in the 1980s.
“The wired guy is not the guy I knew,” she said.
