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GHOSTBUSTERS Directed by Ivan Reitman Screenplay by Dan Aykroyd and Harold Ramis...
...E.S.T. Place: your living room or mine. During the mid-1970s, Saturday night meant one thing only for glassy-eyed millions of the TV generation: Saturday Night Live. In each installment, a guest host and the Not Ready for Prime Time Players (Chevy Chase, John Belushi, Dan Aykroyd, Gilda Radner, Bill Murray et al.) teetered on the cutting edge of comedy chaos. The humor was topical, hip, manic, risky, urban and wildly uneven. It was guerrilla television and it radicalized American comedy...
...bandwagon rolls on with Trading Places, a loose-limbed comedy in which Lowlife Eddie and Blueblood Dan Aykroyd are forced to switch roles, and then get even with the two greedy geezers who did them dirt. It is the summer's lone comedy hit, grossing $30 million in its first three weeks of release. "Eddie is definitely a movie star now," says Landis. "And he's too smart not to realize how good he is." Paramount realizes too. Last week the studio signed Eddie to an exclusive five-picture deal with a $15 million guarantee. This puts...
...party guy. The other group-the inspired mimics who hid themselves behind the galaxy of comic characters they portrayed-looked both stretched and cramped when, in a movie, they were required to inhabit only one personality. From Sid Caesar and Carol Burnett to Lily Tomlin, Gilda Radner and Aykroyd, these performers had enough energy and scarifying talent to burst out of the small screen, but lacked the strong, smooth identities that Hollywood could package as star quality...
...many people get a handle on him," says Actress Jamie Lee Curtis, who plays a good-hearted hooker in Trading Places. "That would slow him down." Murphy has become best buddies with Joe Piscopo, 32 the adroit, rubber-faced comic actor who is the closest thing to Dan Aykroyd on the new SNL; next month Eddie will move into a new house a mile away from Piscopo in Alpine, NJ. Otherwise, his best friends are his oldest friends. One of them, Clinton Smith, is an assistant to Saturday Night Live Executive Producer Dick Ebersol Another, Derrick Lawrence, 28, has signed...