Vintage Interviews With Notable People
If you are of a certain age, there’s a good chance that you, or your kids, participated in the DARE program.
DARE stands for Drug Abuse Resistance Education , and was launched in 1983 by Los Angeles police chief Daryl Gates.
Its first executive director was LAPD deputy chief Glenn Levant.
I met Glenn in 1998, when he and the DARE program published a book called Keeping Kids Drug Free.
So here now, from 1998, Glenn Levant
Tomorrow, March 5th, is the 40th anniversary of the untimely deaf of comedian. John Belushi.
Belushi was one of the original cast members of Saturday Night Live when it premiered in 1975, and he was the star movies like Animal House and The Blues Brothers.
But John Belushi also had a substance abuse problem, and on March 5th, 1982, he died in a Los Angeles hotel room. A woman named Cathy Smith was accused of administering a fatal speedball to Belushi.
And suddenly, at the age of 31, his high school sweetheart Judy was left a widow.
A few years later, Judith Belushi wrote a memoir of her experience. And that’s when I met her.
So here now, from 1990, Judith Belushi.
Judith Belushi Pisano is 71 now. She and Victor Pisano divorced a couple of years ago.
