Belushi Declaws Catwoman Fight
The nation's long Jim Belushi-Julie Newmar nightmare is over.
The sitcom star and the former Catwoman have settled a neighborly squabble that culminated in a $4 million lawsuit, Belushi's publicist confirmed Friday.
"Belushi and Newmar have amicably resolved their dispute and regret any harm they may have caused to the other," said a statement from the office of Rogers & Cowan. "They look forward to a peaceful and neighborly relationship."
Additionally, the statement noted, Belushi "has agreed to settle" the lawsuit he lodged against Newmar in November 2004. In it, he accused Nemar of engaging in a "malicious and premeditated campaign to prevent and destroy [his] quiet peace."
Evidence of the formerly feuding pair's newfound harmony will be seen in a new episode of According to Jim, Belushi's ABC sitcom. Shot last month, the installment is scheduled to air Feb. 21.
According to a story rundown issued this week by the network, Newmar will guest star as Belushi's neighbor, a children's book author whose tales depict a grumpy old man modeled after Belushi's character. The episode's entitled "The Grumpy Guy."
In real life as in TV life, Belushi, 51, and Newmar, 72, are neighbors in tony Brentwood, California.
In the lawsuit, Belushi claimed that Newmar was trying to drive him from his home by playing too-loud music, disparaging him to their fellow neighbors and messing with his fence.
In a 2004 interview with the Los Angeles Times, Newmar said it was Belushi who was the bad neighbor. "When he is in his Jacuzzi, his voice is an indisputable boom box," she said. "I put pillows around my ears."
According to the newspaper, Belushi and Newmar's Hatfields and McCoys act went back years, and involved at least one egging (said to have been perpetrated by Newmar).
Newmar is best known for slinking around in Catwoman's catsuit on the 1960s Batman series. Belushi, formerly of big screen vehicles such as Curly Sue and About Last Night..., has starred on According to Jim since 2001. The sitcom has been hammered on Tuesdays this season by CBS' Navy NCIS and, of late, Fox's American Idol. Its viewership is down more than 25 percent this TV year to last.
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