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Cathy Smith I liked Cathy from the first time I met her in 1965 she was Paul  Donnelly's  girlfriend. We were social friends always glad to see each other. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Cathy Evelyn Smith  (born 1948 in  Hamilton ,  Ontario [1] ) is a former  backup singer  and  rock  star  girlfriend ,  groupie  and  drug dealer , who served time in the  California state prison  system for the manslaughter of  John Belushi  in 1982. Smith had been paid for a front page headline story in the  Hollywood   tabloid  the  National Enquirer , [2]  where she stated she was the person who injected the actor with a fatal drug overdose. In 1984, Smith co-authored a book entitled  Chasing the Dragon [3]  which told her life story. The title is an allusion to Smith's heroin addiction. Smith appeared prominently in the  Bob Woodward  book  Wired: T...

Cayle was a dear friend for many years. TORONTO — Actress Cayle Chernin, best known for appearing in the seminal Canadian road movie, "Goin' Down the Road," has died. She was 63. Going Down the Road. When I was living at Hazelton Ave. in Toronto (we had a commune)  there was a premier or preview of 'Going Down the Road' at the New Yorker. I went with Melinda, Carla and Helen and Pauline. Pauline and i were going together at the time. We were knocked out by the movie and afterwards we went to the Pilot and we all raved about it. we felt it was a big step for Canadian Movies. Pauline really liked it. anyway they wanted to go back to Hazelton and i stayed on for a few more drinks.  so I am sitting there and who walks in but Paul Bradley. We hit it off we were friends from almost the first moment we met. We had a couple of hours of drinking and story telling and somewhere in  this haze i got a great idea. it was Pauline's birthday on Friday and we were having a pa...