Decades later, the writer and director Nelson Lyon launched the X-rated sex comedy "The phone book" in 1971, the film has been acclaimed as a work of art overlooked. Since then, Lyons was a former "Saturday Night Live" writer long for a darker connection: It was in a drug fueled excess with John Belushi in the last days of comics in 1982.
"He was blamed for the death of Belushi, and ruin his career," said Dennis Perrin, author of "Mr. Mike," a 1999 biography of the former "Saturday Night Live" head writer Michael O'Donoghue, who Lyons was a partner was to write.
Lyon, 73 years old, died Tuesday of liver cancer at home in Los Angeles, said Mark Mothersbaugh, lead singer of Devo and a close friend.
When the Los Angeles County jury investigating the death of Belushi overdosed, Lyon said in early 1983 with a grant of immunity from prosecutors. He presented a sordid picture of life in the late Belushi.
Three days before his death, he began a Belushi "by Boys Night Out" at home in Lyon, when the comedian came up with Cathy Evelyn Smith. A former backup singer, who later admitted giving Belushi the mixture of heroin and cocaine that killed him and then serve 15 months in prison.
"I have a surprise for you," says Belushi Lyon said. "Remángate".
Smith injects Belushi and times of several days and Lyon 4 March 1982, the day before the body of Belushi was found at Chateau Marmont in West Hollywood, according to the testimony of Lyon.
In a private club, Lyon Belushi and mingled with celebrities before the two men who inject Smith with a "Speedball", a mixture of heroin and cocaine. It "made me a walking zombie," said Lyons.
Belushi was ill on the way back to his hut, where the actor Robert De Niro and comedian Robin Williams was stopped, according to Lyon. He stated that Belushi was left exhausted with Smith about 3:30 on March 5. The Belushi 33 years old, was found dead later that morning.
In his testimony, Lyons said he had taken drugs to please Belushi.
Lyon back in place as a director was thin, but "the telephone" has experienced a renaissance after nearly 40 years when it was screened at international level.
Initially rejected by mainstream critics pornographic and obscene, is now considered a "lost gem" said Mothersbaugh.
In its 1971 review of the Times critic Kevin Thomas praised the farce rises to about a woman who falls for an obscene phone call. The satire of pornography was "so bright that people are desperately searching for risks sexploitation always fun to attend," he wrote.
The film "was made with a degree of freedom to insult and attack and the assault on the audience and try to entertain the audience," Lyons said the Wall Street Journal in January. "It was an era of sexual obsession, and the film has focused on the biggest problem in life. Sex"
Through the film, Lyon met O'Donoghue and was soon writing for "Saturday Night Live" in the 80's. The burly and imposing Lyon became the basis of an O'Donoghue recurring characters in the series - the dark lord Mike.
"When he met Nelson, have you seen the pace of entretallats Mr. Mike," said Perrin, "and certainly the black humor."
Taken February 28, 1939, at Troy Hills, New Jersey, he attended Columbia University Lyon.
He was a writer and designer for an advertising agency in New York when she met Andy Warhol in 1966, and later worked for the artist's studio, the Factory.
When Warhol was struggling with a concept for the cover of the 1971 Rolling Stones album "Sticky Fingers" said Lyon to join a work rack in a picture on top of jeans, according to an unpublished report Lyon. After Warhol was the idea, gave five Lyons Marilyn Monroe print to pay for it, the writer later recalled.
Photographs Lyon co spoken word record for the writers William Burroughs and Terry Southern, and took Lyon Burroughs were presented in the galleries.
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