Ghostbusters: 30 Things You Might Not Know About The Classic Comedy
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26) The term “proton pack” wasn’t actually used onscreen until Ghostbusters II.
27) Ghostbusters marked the film debut of Larry King.
28) For the scenes outside Dana’s apartment late in the film, the production shut down the streets at 65th and Central Park West, resulting in a massive logjam of traffic. In a quintessentially New York moment, Aykroyd noticed science fiction writer Isaac Asimov, a New York native at the time, standing in the crowd watching the filming. When Aykroyd went to introduce himself, Asimov told him off for creating such a traffic jam.
29) Although the idea of “crossing the streams” was established as a very bad thing earlier in the script, they didn’t hit on the idea of using that to kill Stay-Puft until they were actually working on the climactic sequence on set.
30) It was Murray’s idea that Venkman should be the least covered by marshmallow fluff after killing Gozer. In contrast, Aykroyd kept asking for more.
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