What type of media does Ghostbusters and Harold Ramis have in common?
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Ghostbusters Ghostbusters is a 1984 American supernatural comedy film directed and produced by Ivan Reitman and written by Dan Aykroyd and Harold Ramis. The film stars Bill Murray, Aykroyd and Ramis as eccentric parapsychologists who start a ghost-catching business in New York City. Sigourney Weaver and Rick Moranis co-star as a client and her neighbor, and Ernie Hudson as the Ghostbusters' first recruit.
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Harold Ramis Harold Allen Ramis (November 21, 1944 – February 24, 2014) was an American actor, director, writer, and comedian. His best-known film acting roles were as Egon Spengler in "Ghostbusters" (1984) and "Ghostbusters II" (1989) and Russell Ziskey in "Stripes" (1981); he also co-wrote those films. As a director, his films include the comedies "Caddyshack" (1980), "National Lampoon's Vacation" (1983), "Groundhog Day" (1993), and "Analyze This" (1999). Ramis was the original head writer of the television series "SCTV", on which he also performed, as well as a co-writer of "Groundhog Day" and "National Lampoon's Animal House" (1978). His final film that he wrote, produced, directed and acted in was "Year One" (2009).
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James Woods James Howard Woods (born April 18, 1947) is an American actor and producer. He is known primarily for playing villainous roles, and has appeared in a variety of films, including "The Way We Were" (1973), "The Onion Field" (1979), "Videodrome" (1983), "Once Upon a Time in America" (1984), "Best Seller" (1987), "Chaplin" (1992), "Casino" (1995), "Nixon" (1995), "Vampires" (1998), "Straw Dogs" (2011) and "White House Down" (2013). On television, he is known for portraying the titular protagonist of "Shark" (2006–2008), and for playing himself on eight episodes of the animated series "Family Guy", as well as on one episode of "The Simpsons".
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Ghost to a Ghost/Gutter Town Ghost to a Ghost/Gutter Town is the seventh solo album by country artist Hank Williams III. The double album was released on September 6, 2011. All songs were recorded in Hank III’s home studio The Haunted Ranch. The album features guest appearances by Tom Waits, Ray Lawrence Jr., Eddie Pleasant (Hank III's merchandise and scheduling guy), Alan King (Hellstomper), Les Claypool (Primus), Dave Sherman (Wretched, Earthride), Troy Medlin (Sourvein), and Williams' dog Trooper. "Ghost to a Ghost/Gutter Town" consisted of two of the four albums Hank Williams III simultaneously released on September 6, 2011 on Hank 3 Records (www.hank3.com), with distribution through Megaforce Records.
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Steven Samblis Steven Samblis is an American producer, actor, TV host, Interviewer and Movie Critic.
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White Rabbit Project (TV series) White Rabbit Project is a Netflix series starring Grant Imahara, Tory Belleci, and Kari Byron, the build team from "MythBusters", that was released on December 9, 2016. According to the official synopsis, the team investigates topics such as "jailbreaks, superpower technology, heists, and crazy World War II weapons", which they will explore through experiments, builds, and tests.
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Let Sleeping Corpses Lie (film) Let Sleeping Corpses Lie (Italian: "Non si deve profanare il sonno dei morti" / "Do Not Profane the Sleep of the Dead"; Spanish: "No profanar el sueño de los muertos" / "Do Not Profane the Sleep of the Dead"), also known as The Living Dead at the Manchester Morgue and Don't Open the Window, is a 1974 Spanish-Italian science fiction horror film written and directed by Jorge Grau and starring Ray Lovelock, Arthur Kennedy and Cristina Galbó. The film focuses on two protagonists who are harassed by a local police investigator in the English countryside and are implicated in murders committed by zombies who have been brought to life by a farming tool designed to kill insects via ultra-sonic radiation.
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Charles Portis Charles McColl Portis (born December 28, 1933) is an American author best known for his novels "Norwood" (1966) and the classic Western "True Grit" (1968), both adapted as films. The latter also inspired a film sequel and a made-for-TV movie sequel. A newer film adaptation of "True Grit" was released in 2010.
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Andy Houts Andrew Laurence "Andy" Houts (June 23, 1965 – February 26, 1997) was an American actor. Houts began his career at Klasky-Csupo, working on "The Simpsons", "Rugrats" (where he wrote two episodes), "Duckman" and "Aaahh!!! Real Monsters" in numerous capacities (most commonly as a production coordinator and an actor). He also wrote one episode of "Rocko's Modern Life", and appeared on "The Drew Carey Show" and "Ellen" in small roles. Houts died in 1997 of a brain tumor before the new season of "Rugrats" began. The episode "" is dedicated to his memory. He was a gifted comic.
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Martin Balsam Martin Henry Balsam (November 4, 1919 – February 13, 1996) was an American character actor. He is best known for a number of renowned film roles, including detective Milton Arbogast in Alfred Hitchcock's "Psycho" (1960), Arnold Burns in "A Thousand Clowns" (1965) (for which he won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor), Juror #1 in "12 Angry Men" (1957), and Mr. Green in "The Taking of Pelham One Two Three" (1974), as well as for his role as Murray Klein in the television sitcom "Archie Bunker's Place" (1979–1983).
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Mel Brooks Mel Brooks (born Melvin Kaminsky; June 28, 1926) is an American actor, writer, producer, director, comedian, and composer. He is known as a creator of broad film farces and comic parodies. Brooks began his career as a comic and a writer for the early TV variety show "Your Show of Shows". He became well known as part of the comedy duo with Carl Reiner in the comedy skit "The 2000 Year Old Man". He also created, with Buck Henry, the hit television comedy series "Get Smart", which ran from 1965 to 1970.
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Nocturne (video game) Nocturne is a survival horror adventure video game set in the late 1920s and early 1930s – the Prohibition and Great Depression era. The player takes the part of The Stranger (voiced by Lynn Mathis), an operative of a fictional American Government secret organization known as "Spookhouse", which was created by President Theodore Roosevelt to fight monsters. He investigates four strange cases and saves people from classic monsters such as werewolves, zombies, and vampires.
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Sid Haig Sid Haig (born July 14, 1939) is an American actor. His roles have included acting in Jack Hill's blaxploitation films of the 1970s as well as his role as Captain Spaulding in Rob Zombie's horror films "House of 1000 Corpses" and "The Devil's Rejects". He had a leading role on the television series "Jason of Star Command", as the villain Dragos. He has appeared in many television programs including "Batman", "", "", "Gunsmoke", "The Rockford Files", "Buck Rogers in the 25th Century", "Get Smart", "Fantasy Island", "Sledge Hammer!", "The A-Team", "The Fall Guy", "The Dukes of Hazzard" and "MacGyver".
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Star vampire A star vampire (or Shambler from the Stars) is a monster in the Cthulhu Mythos. The being first appeared in Robert Bloch's short story "The Shambler from the Stars", which was originally published in the September 1935 issue of "Weird Tales".
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Rankin/Bass Productions Rankin/Bass Productions, Inc. (founded as Videocraft International, Ltd.) was an American production company, known for its seasonal television specials, particularly its work in stop motion animation. The pre-1974 library is owned by Universal Studios (via DreamWorks Animation/DreamWorks Classics), while the post-1973 library is owned by Warner Bros. Rankin/Bass stop-motion features are recognisable by their visual style of doll-like characters with spheroid body parts, and ubiquitous powdery snow using an animation technique called "Animagic". Often, traditional cel animation scenes of falling snow would be projected over the action to create the effect of a snowfall.
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Egon Spengler Egon Spengler, PhD is a fictional character from the "Ghostbusters" franchise. He appears in the films "Ghostbusters" and "Ghostbusters II", in the animated television series "The Real Ghostbusters" and "Extreme Ghostbusters", in the video games "" and Beeline's "Ghostbusters". Spengler was portrayed by Harold Ramis in the films and voiced by him in "" and "Lego Dimensions", and voiced by Maurice LaMarche in the cartoon series. He is a member of the Ghostbusters and one of the three doctors of parapsychology, along with Dr. Peter Venkman and Dr. Ray Stantz.
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Tony Ramey Tony Ramey is an Americana and Country Music singer and songwriter. During his career, he has recorded nine albums and had dozens of songs recorded by other country music artists. His repertoire of songs reaches over 2,400 in number and his songwriting career spans eighteen years as a professional. Ramey wrote and performed the title song for the movie, "The Last Ride" a fact-based drama about the final days of troubled country-music legend Hank Williams. His music can also be heard on the soundtrack for . His songs have appeared in television as well on daytime drama series “The Young and the Restless” and on outdoor television shows such as “Canada in the Rough”.
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Jamie Hyneman James Franklin Hyneman (born September 25, 1956) is an American special effects expert who is best known as the co-host of the television series "MythBusters" alongside Adam Savage. He is also the owner of M5 Industries, the special effects workshop where "MythBusters" was filmed. He is known among "Robot Wars" devotees for his robot entry, Blendo, which, for a time, was deemed too dangerous for entry in the competition. He is one of the designers of the aerial robotic camera system Wavecam, used in sports and entertainment events.
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David Burris David Burris (sometimes credited as Dave Burris or David Allen Burris) is an American filmmaker, television producer, writer and musician. He directed the feature film "The World Made Straight" ("Millennium Entertainment") and the short film "The Side of the Road", which he also wrote. He was the executive producer on CBS's "Survivor" and a writer on the USA/SyFy series "Good vs. Evil". As a musician, he was a founding member and songwriter for Sire/Warner recording artists Jolene and a recording and touring member of Mercury/Polygram recording artists The Veldt.
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Harold and Maude Harold and Maude is a 1971 American romantic black comedy drama directed by Hal Ashby and released by Paramount Pictures. It incorporates elements of dark humor and existentialist drama, with a plot that revolves around the exploits of a young man named Harold (Bud Cort) intrigued with death. Harold drifts away from the life that his detached mother (Vivian Pickles) prescribes for him, and slowly develops a strong friendship, and eventually a romantic relationship, with a 79-year-old woman named Maude (Ruth Gordon) who teaches Harold about living life to its fullest and that life is the most precious gift of all.
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Rick Sloane Rick Sloane (born August 22, 1961, in Los Angeles) is an American cult film maker. He is credited as writer, director, producer, Film editor and cinematographer of much of his own work. He is perhaps best known for his B-movie-grade, camp horror film "Hobgoblins," which was revived during its television airing on "Mystery Science Theater 3000", where the hosts were as critical of Sloane as a director as they were of the film itself.
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The Crimson Ghost The Crimson Ghost is a 1946 Republic film serial directed by Fred C. Brannon and William Witney with Charles Quigley and Linda Stirling playing the leads. This was Witney's last serial, after a career that left him one of the most praised of all serial directors. The serial was re-released as a six-episode television series in the 1950s and as a television film called Cyclotrode "X" in 1966. In the 1990s "The Crimson Ghost" was one of only two Republic serials to be colorised. The villain of the serial, the Crimson Ghost of the title, is one of the most visually striking of the medium. The horror punk band Misfits adapted his visage as their skull logo, and he has appeared in the music video for the song "The Number of the Beast" by Iron Maiden.