Invoice Murray and Bob Woodward reportedly exchanged “tense” phrases over the Watergate reporter’s guide on John Belushi after they got here head to head on the Kennedy Middle over the weekend.
Their spat befell on Sunday at a screening of “Becoming Katharine Graham,” a documentary on the previous Washington Publish writer.
“Bill Murray and Bob Woodward had words about Woodward’s Belushi book tonight at the Kennedy Center,” reporter Ben Terris wrote in a put up on X.
“It was a little tense,” added Terris, who’s leaving The Washington Publish after 11 years to hitch New York journal.
Representatives for Murray and Woodward didn’t instantly reply to The Publish’s requests for remark.
The quarrel involved Woodward’s 1984 biography of John Belushi, “Wired,” which Murray slammed throughout an look on Joe Rogan’s podcast on Saturday.
The late Belushi, who was discovered useless of a drug overdose at age 33 in 1982, was Murray’s former “Saturday Night Live” castmate and shut good friend.
“I read like five pages of ‘Wired,’ and I went, ‘Oh my God. They framed Nixon,’” Murray advised Rogan.
Woodward and fellow WaPo journalist Carl Bernstein famously broke the Watergate scandal throughout the Nixon administration, for which they received a Pulitzer Prize.
“If this is what he writes about my friend that I’ve known, you know, for half of my adult life, which is completely inaccurate, talking to like, the people of the outer, outer circle, getting the story – what the hell could they have done to Nixon?” Murray stated, attacking Woodward for utilizing sources too distant from Belushi.
“You’re telling me that that guy over there, that guy whose that far away from the center of things, is telling you the facts about John Belushi? That guy way the f–k over there is telling you who John Belushi is?”
Murray tore into Woodward’s reporting on Belushi, calling it “criminal” and “cruel.”
“I acknowledge I only read five pages, but the five pages I read made me want to set fire to the whole thing,” he stated. “He’s gonna have to answer for that sometime.”
He shared type phrases about Belushi, saying many actors and comedians slept on the late star’s sofa by the years after they had nowhere else to go.
However Woodward’s guide “tore down my friend,” Murray stated. “Just the title alone. It was cold.”
Murray implied that Woodward’s unflattering portrayal of Belushi might have come from a spot of jealousy, saying Belushi is probably the most well-known individual from Wheaton, Illinois – whereas Woodward is the third most well-known from the identical city, trailing soccer participant Harold “Red” Grange.
Judy Belushi Pisano, the late comic’s widow who died final yr at 73, additionally slammed Woodward’s guide as inaccurate after it was revealed within the Nineteen Eighties.
“The man in Wired is not the man I knew,” she stated.
