esmith@uok.UUCP (06/15/84)
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uok!esmith Jun 15 11:06:00 1984
Ghost Busters... see it!
The other night I happened to catch about two-thirds of the video for
the song Ghost Busters on M-TV and it was a fairly good video. But I
have some questions to anyone who has seen it... I recognized a few of
the people they have guest appearing in the video and I was wondering
if anyone outthere could tell me who the others were.
People I recognized.
Chevy Chase, James Coco, Teri Garr, and of course Dan, Bill and Harold...
Hey, no flames please the video had clips from the movie......
Eric L. Smith
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I saw this video at the start of a show by Dr. Demento and "Weird" Al Yankovic at the Starry Night, here in Portland. One of the bodies was Peter Falk( Columbo, The In-Laws, etc). Great video. Great movie. Yum, yum. Dan C Duval ISI Engineering Tektronix,Inc. tektronix!tekigm!dand
fishkin@ucbvax.UUCP (Ken Fishkin) (06/21/84)
A few others in the Ghostbusters video:
Peter Falk
Al Franken
Melissa Gilbert (I may have the name wrong;
the brunette from Little House on the Prairie)
But, more importantly, who's the georgeous woman in the video?
Ken Fishkin
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fishkin@berkeleydje@mouton.UUCP (06/22/84)
These are the people I recognized in the video:
Chevy Chase
Irene Cara
John Candy
Melissa Gilbert
Danny DeVito
Peter Falk
Teri Garr
Al Franken
I think there are two other guys, but I don't know them.
Danny Espinoza
{allegra!mouton!dje}dsmith@uiucuxc.UUCP (06/22/84)
#R:uok:5100021:uiucuxc:31100012:000:77 uiucuxc!dsmith Jun 22 09:39:00 1984 I've only seen the video once, but I believe that Irene Cara is also in it.
spaf@gatech.UUCP (06/24/84)
Besides the other individuals mentioned, I believe Carly Simon was in
one of the celeb cameo shots chorusing "Ghostbusters!"
The very attractive young lady in the white lace thingy running away
from Ray Parker is one of the regulars on HBO's Not Necessarily the
News. I don't remember her name, but a dedicated lecher like myself
seldom forgets such nice legs (et. al.).
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...!{rlgvax,sb1,uf-cgrl,unmvax,ut-sally}!gatech!spafjkb@sdcrdcf.UUCP (John Barbee) (06/25/84)
Danny,
In addition to the ones you named, I also found:
Somebody who looks like Eddie Grant,
The lawyer-turned-judge on Hill Street Blues,
George Wendt (Norm on Cheers) and,
Carly Simon
I don't think there are any others, but I would like to find out
who the Eddie Grant lookalike is.
jkbhutch@shark.UUCP (06/25/84)
<I ain't afraid of no bugs> | But, more importantly, who's the georgeous woman in the video? | | Ken Fishkin Carly Simon, of course! -Hutch
kaufman@uiucdcs.UUCP (06/25/84)
#R:uok:5100021:uiucdcs:10700067:000:35 uiucdcs!kaufman Jun 25 15:20:00 1984 I think I caught John Candy in it.
grw@fortune.UUCP (Glenn Wichman) (06/27/84)
bip. In the Ghostbusters video (this is from memory): Chevy Chase, James Coco, Danny De Vito, Carly Simon, Melissa Gilbert, Terri Garr, Peter Falk. There were a bunch of others as well, but I don't remember offhand. Among all of us we ought to be able to get a complete list. -Glenn
ab3@pucc-h (Rsk the Wombat) (06/28/84)
NO, no, NO! Not the "cameo" gorgeous woman; the gorgeous woman
who's the "co-star"...that's the one who's name we want.
And address.
And phone number.
Thanks you.
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"This chick is toast!"moriarty@fluke.UUCP (Jeff Meyer) (06/29/84)
It's not Pia Zadora, is it? God, I hope not... she might be contagious, and
I don't want Murray, Ramis, Ackroyd, Falk, et. al. contaminated.
Hey, who was the woman who played Gozer's initial incarnation?
"Aim for her flat-top!"
Moriarty, aka Jeff Meyer
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#R:ucbvax:-114000:inmet:6500046:000:148 inmet!mjs Jul 1 21:41:00 1984 THAT gorgeous woman in the video, and the co-star of the movie, is none other than Sigourney Weaver. Mike Steinberg harpo!inmet!mjs
terryl@tekchips.UUCP (Terry Laskodi) (07/03/84)
And there's the guy who played on Kojack who was supposedly Telly
Savalas's brother, at least I think it's him.
Who's the great-looking chick who gets the bedcovers pulled off of her??esmith@uok.UUCP (07/09/84)
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uok!esmith Jul 8 19:09:00 1984
Obviously Mike is confused... We have been talking about the co-star
of the video. You know the one who runs around in the sexy nighty,
and is getting sung to.
- Eric L. Smith
!ctvax!uokvax!uok!esmithesmith@uok.UUCP (07/09/84)
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uok!esmith Jun 25 23:03:00 1984
Carly Simon... of course!
-Eric L. Smith
ctvax!uokvax!uok!esmithesmith@uok.UUCP (07/12/84)
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uok!esmith Jun 28 23:42:00 1984
Seeing the video a second, and third time, I also picked out
Eddy Grant. But I'm not sure the guy we think is James Coco is James Coco
he looks like the guy who played the vampire in Saturday the 14th.
-Eric L. Smith
!ctvax!uokvax!uok!esmithboyajian@akov68.DEC (Jerry Boyajian) (07/16/84)
> The following people are in the "Ghostbusters" video: > > ...[various names] > Teri Garr > -- > Dennis Gibbs ********** > I was at home last night when the Ghostbusters video came on. > In order to once and for all settle the burning question, > 'just who are those people in the chorus?', I made me a leetle list. In Order: > ...[various names] > Terry Garr > > Ken Fishkin After I saw Dennis Gibbs' posting, I said to myself, "Nah, that isn't Terri Garr, is it?" In the time between then and now, when I read Ken Fishkin's post- ing making the same identification, I have seen the video three times. That is definitely *not* Terri Garr!!! I'm not *positive* who it is, but my original guess, which I stick by now, is that it's Christie Brinkley. --- jayembee (Jerry Boyajian, DEC, Maynard, MA) UUCP: {decvax|ihnp4|allegra|ucbvax|...}!decwrl!dec-rhea!dec-akov68!boyajian ARPA: boyajian%akov68.DEC@DECWRL.ARPA
grw@fortune.UUCP (Glenn Wichman) (07/17/84)
bip.
Terri Garr is the very last person to appear in the video,
and a lot of stations cut it before she comes on. But she is
there, honest.
-Glenndvw@hopd3.UUCP (D. V. Wilkerson) (07/17/84)
No, it's Teri Garr. And the last walk-on in the video is the second appearance of Chevy Chase flipping a lighted cigarette in his mouth. Diane Wilkerson ..!hopd3!dvw
fcm@ihuxp.UUCP (F.C. McAtee) (07/17/84)
xx xx In an attempt to put the questions on the cast of Ghostbusters to rest, I submit the following: Excerpted, in part, from the Chicago Tribune, Sunday, July 15, 1984 without permission (of course). "Rock video's latest gimmick: Cameos by famous faces" By David Bianculli The latest and best example of the video cameo is tied in with the new "Ghostbusters" film. Ray Parker Jr.,who sings the title song in that comedy, appears in a video clip that--unlike earlier film and video tie-ins, such as Michael Sembello's "Maniac" from "Flashdance"--takes an unprecedented triple threat approach. First, it peppers Parker's performance with healthy doses of "Ghostbusters" film clips, including virtually all of the movie's most memorable special effects. Second, it features the stars of the film--Bill Murray, Dan Aykroyd and Harold Ramis--strutting and singing in a brief, specially recorded insert. Third, and most important, it is comprised of cameo roles by nearly a dozen music, film and TV stars, all of whom appear for an instant, sing or shout the word "Ghostbusters!" and vanish. In this one clip, the cameo guest list includes John Candy, Carly Simon, Peter Faulk, Teri Garr, Irene Cara, "Saturday Night Live" veterans Chevy Chase and Al Franken, Danny De Vito, Melissa Gilbert [Laura on "Little House on the Prairie"], George Wendt [Norm on NBC's "Cheers"] and Jeffrey Tambor [who plays Judge Alan Wachtel on NBC's "Hill Street Blues"]. The challenge to the other videos seems to be "beat this!"--and before too long, one of them probably will. -- F. C. McAtee AT&T Consumer Products, Inc. AT&T BL-IH ...ihnp4!ihuxp!fcm
benson@uicsg.UUCP (07/17/84)
#R:fortune:-380600:uicsg:34000002:000:544 uicsg!benson Jul 17 14:20:00 1984 Sorry, but Chevy Chase is the last person to appear in the Ghostbuster's video. He comes on just after Teri Garr, and the music is beginning to fade out. He's doing the trick of flipping the cigarette around in his mouth, and then the Ghostbuster's logo appears on the huge electronic billboard in NYC (the one on the beginning credits of Saturday Night Live). The question still stands: who's the gal Ray Parker's dancing around with. I'm pretty sure it's not the lady from HBO's Not Necessarily the News as somebody suggested earlier.
benson@uicsg.UUCP (07/17/84)
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uicsg!benson Jul 17 14:30:00 1984
I think you may be seeing a shortened version
of the video, and confusing her with Carly Simon.
I've made a VCR copy off of MTV (where they play
the whole thing) and watched it several times.
It is definitely Terri Garr. She speaks the word
"Ghostbusters" and puts her hands up to her cheeks.
Hearing her voice leaves no doubt in my mind.
Timscooper@brl-tgr.ARPA (Stephan Cooper ) (07/18/84)
It is not Pia Zadora
boyajian@dec-akov68.UUCP (07/19/84)
Well, I got a few mail messages with respect to my posting about Teri Garr not
being in the "Ghostbusters" video, most of them saying, when all is said and
done, that I was full of what makes the grass grow. So, Wednesday morning, I set
the Betamax to tape five hours worth of MTV whilst I slept the sleep of the con-
fident. Hah! I'll show those bastards! I arose in the late afternoon, and having
caught my fix of YOU CAN'T DO THAT ON TELEVISION (on Nickelodeon), I zipped
through approximately three and a half hours of the tape, until I hit "Ghost-
busters". When I got to the controversial sequence, I watched it about three
times, the whole while saying, "Naaahhhh. Doesn't look like Teri Garr to me."
Then, to be sure, I went through it again, frame by frame. Jaw drops to the
floor (Thud!). "Nahhh [a little less confidently], can't be! But it is! It *is*
Teri Garr!" And so, here I sit, with egg on my face. I can only say, and truth-
fully, too, that seen at normal speed, it *still* doesn't look like her! You
guys have sharper eyes than I.
<God, I'm so embarrassed>
--- jayembee (Jerry Boyajian, DEC, Maynard, MA)
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ARPA: boyajian%akov68.DEC@DECWRL.ARPAscooper@brl-tgr.ARPA (Stephan Cooper ) (07/19/84)
It is not Eddie Grant. I video taped the video, and have rewatched it many times...and can state positively that it is not Eddie Grant.
perl@rdin.UUCP (Robert Perlberg) (07/19/84)
<Who you gonna call?> You're all wrong! The girl in the video is Teri Garr. By the way, I missed the original list. Could someone send it to me or repost it? Thanks. Robert Perlberg Resource Dynamics Inc. New York philabs!rdin!perl
jkb@sdcrdcf.UUCP (07/20/84)
Stephan, et al:
I finally got tired of trying to find out who the Eddy Grant/
Rick James/Stevie Wonder/whoever person is in the Ghostbusters
video, so I called all the way to Arista records, who produced the
video, in NY and asked them. And the answer is... Ollie Brown.
Huh? That's what they said, Ollie Brown. Anybody out there know
who Ollie Brown is, 'cause I sure don't.
My next attempt is to call MTV to find out who the blonde
chased by Ray Parker, Jr. is. The only thing I have ever seen her
in besides the video is a TV commercial for Caress soap: a couple
is asleep in bed and the alarm goes off, "...it's 8:05 and...", they
jump up out of bed and she's the first one to hit the shower. She
comes out all soft and glittery, he starts to get a little frisky,
and she says, "We're gonna be late..." Cut.
If I find out anything interesting, I'll post it.
John Barbee
"O.K....So...she's a dog"boyajian@akov68.DEC (Jerry Boyajian) (07/21/84)
**********
I submitted this a couple of days ago, but it didn't seem to get to any of the
newsgroups it was posted to, so I'm going to try again. If any of you are see-
ing for a second time, I apologize.
**********
Well, I got a few mail messages with respect to my posting about Teri Garr not
being in the "Ghostbusters" video, most of them saying, when all is said and
done, that I was full of what makes the grass grow. So, Wednesday morning, I set
the Betamax to tape five hours worth of MTV whilst I slept the sleep of the con-
fident. Hah! I'll show those bastards! I arose in the late afternoon, and having
caught my fix of YOU CAN'T DO THAT ON TELEVISION (on Nickelodeon), I zipped
through approximately three and a half hours of the tape, until I hit "Ghost-
busters". When I got to the controversial sequence, I watched it about three
times, the whole while saying, "Naaahhhh. Doesn't look like Teri Garr to me."
Then, to be sure, I went through it again, frame by frame. Jaw drops to the
floor (Thud!). "Nahhh [a little less confidently], can't be! But it is! It *is*
Teri Garr!" And so, here I sit, with egg on my face. I can only say, and truth-
fully, too, that seen at normal speed, it *still* doesn't look like her! You
guys have sharper eyes than I.
<God, I'm so embarrassed>
--- jayembee (Jerry Boyajian, DEC, Maynard, MA)
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ARPA: boyajian%akov68.DEC@DECWRL.ARPAkaufman@uiucdcs.UUCP (07/23/84)
The only Ollie Brown I ever heard of played for the Padres some 10 years ago. Has he gone into show biz?
fcm@ihuxp.UUCP (F.C. McAtee) (07/23/84)
From: ihnp4!seismo!rlgvax!cvl!umd5!igold Subject: Re: Ghostbusters Video References: <799@ihuxp.UUCP> Who was the black man doing one of the cameos? Ira Gold (BITNET: IGOLD@UMDB) I haven't seen the video, myself. All I have on it is the article I quoted. Perhaps someone else on the net might know? -- F. C. McAtee AT&T Consumer Products, Inc. ...ihnp4!ihuxp!fcm