barry@ames-lm.UUCP (07/06/84)
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I have a question on "Ghostbusters". That unusual, Art Deco building
where Sigourney Weaver lived looked to me like the same building used
for Doc Savage's headquarters in George Pal's "Doc Savage" movie. Did
anyone else notice this? More important, does anyone know what building
it is? I really like it.
Kenn Barry
{dual,hao,menlo70,hplabs}!ames-lm!barrymoriarty@fluke.UUCP (Jeff Meyer) (07/10/84)
Actually, it is not based on any real buildings... it was apparently
(according to the CINEFEX article) put together from scraps of the buildings
used in the climax of BLADERUNNER.
"There's something you don't see every day."
Moriarty, aka Jeff Meyer
John Fluke Mfg. Co., Inc.
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fluke!moriarty@uw-beaver.ARPAdsmith@uiucuxc.UUCP (07/11/84)
#R:ames-lm:-39000:uiucuxc:31100014:000:668 uiucuxc!dsmith Jul 11 09:03:00 1984 Yes, it is a wonderful building. I noticed it too when I saw the movie. Now, its been two years since I lived in New York, but the building is in fact on CPW (Central Park West), in the 80's I believe. I wish I remembered the name, but I've forgotten. It was so strange towards the end of the film, when the building is being destroyed and you have all those people milling about across the street by the park - at first, I thought they had shot it on location, but then I don't think that the tenants would have liked having their apartments destroyed, even for a major motion picture. (One must sacrifice for art; but one's apartment - in Manhattan?! Never!!)
frdish@aecom.UUCP (Larry Freund) (07/16/84)
> I have a question on "Ghostbusters". That unusual, Art Deco building > where Sigourney Weaver lived looked to me like the same building used > for Doc Savage's headquarters in George Pal's "Doc Savage" movie. Did > anyone else notice this? More important, does anyone know what building > it is? I really like it. > Kenn Barry > {dual,hao,menlo70,hplabs}!ames-lm!barry I don't know about "Doc Savage", but the building you mention is really on 69st & central park west in manhattan right next to the crosstown route through the park.