Bill Murray and Bob Woodward are said to have exchanged “tense” words on Reporter Watergate’s book on John Belushi when they came face to face at the Kennedy center over the weekend.
Their spat took place on Sunday in a show “Doing Katharine Graham”, a documentary in the former Washington Post.
“Bill Murray and Bob Woodward had words about Woodward’s Belushi book tonight at Kennedy Center,” reporter Ben Terris wrote in a post on X.
“It was a little tense,” added Terris, who is leaving the Washington Post after 11 years to join the New York magazine.
Representatives for Murray and Woodward did not immediately respond to the commentary post request.
The quarrel was about Woodward’s 1984 biography of John Belushi, “Wired”, which Murray collided during a Podcast appearance on Saturday.
The late Belushi, who was found dead by an overdose of drugs at the age of 33 in 1982, was the former shock and close friend of Murray “Saturday Night Live”.
“I read like five pages with” wired “, and I went,” Oh my Lord. They created Nixon, ‘”Murray told Rogan.
Woodward’s journalist and Comrade Wapo Carl Bernstein broke the Watergate scandal during the Nixon administration, for which they won a Pulitzer award.
“If this is what he writes about my friend that I have known, you know, about half of my adult life, which is completely incorrect, speaking like, outer, outer circle people, taking the story – what the hell could they have done for Nixon?” Murray said, attacking Woodward for using resources far from Belushi.
“You are telling me that guy there, that guy who is so far from the center of things, is telling you the facts about John Belushi? That guy F -there is telling you who John Belushi is?”
Murray was tearful in Woodward’s reporting to Belushi, calling it “criminal” and “cruel”.
“I admit that I have read only five pages, but the five pages I read made me want to wear the fire for everyone,” he said. “He will have to answer this somewhere.”
He shared good words for Belushi, saying that many actors and comedians slept in the late star bed over the years when they had nowhere to go.
But the book of Woodward “Tore Down My Friend,” Murray said. “Only the title alone. It was cold. “
Murray meant that Belushi’s unclear portrayal of Belushi may have come from a place of jealousy, saying that Belushi is the most famous person from Wheaton, Illinois – while Woodward is the third most famous from the same city, following Harold “Red” football.
Judy Belushi Pisano, the widow of the late comedian who died last year in 73, also slammed Woodward’s book as inaccurate after being published in the 1980s.
“The man in the wired is not the man I knew,” she said.
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