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Ghostbusters II

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Ghostbusters II is a 1989 American supernatural comedy film directed and produced by Ivan Reitman, written by Dan Aykroyd and Harold Ramis and starring Bill Murray, Aykroyd, Sigourney Weaver, Ramis, Ernie Hudson and Rick Moranis. [1]

91 relations: All Media Network, AllMusic, Annie Potts, At the Movies (U.S. TV series), Auld Lang Syne, Babyface (musician), Batman (1989 film), Beach Pneumatic Transit, Ben Stein, Ben Stiller, Bernard Wright, Bernie Taupin, Bill Murray, Bobby Brown, Bobby Caldwell, Brian Doyle-Murray, Cheech Marin, Collider (website), Coloring book, Columbia Pictures, Comedy film, Contemporary R&B, Dan Aykroyd, Danny Elfman, Daryl Simmons, David Margulies, Disney–ABC Domestic Television, Donn Cambern, Doug E. Fresh, Egon Spengler, Elton John, Ernie Hudson, Gene Siskel, Ghostbusters, Ghostbusters (2016 film), Glenn Frey, Gracie Mansion, Harold Ramis, Harris Yulin, Hawk Wolinski, Hip hop music, Howard Huntsberry, Ivan Reitman, Jackie Wilson, James "J.T." Taylor, Janet Margolin, Janine Melnitz, Jason Reitman, Jellybean Johnson, Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis, ..., Kurt Fuller, L.A. Reid, List of ghost films, List of Ghostbusters characters, Max von Sydow, MCA Records, Michael Chapman (cinematographer), New Edition, New jack swing, NOW Comics, Oingo Boingo, On Our Own (song), Paranormal, Parapsychology, Paul Feig, Peter MacNicol, Peter Venkman, Phil Lord and Christopher Miller, Philip Baker Hall, Randy Edelman, Ray Parker Jr., Ray Stantz, Rick Moranis, RMS Titanic, Roger Ebert, Rolling Stone, Run-DMC, Sequel, Sheldon Kahn, Sigourney Weaver, Slimer, Statue of Liberty, Stereogum, Supernatural fiction, The Real Ghostbusters, University Press of Kentucky, Variety (magazine), Wilhelm von Homburg, Winston Zeddemore, (Your Love Keeps Lifting Me) Higher and Higher, 1989 in film. Expand index (41 more) »

All Media Network

All Media Network (formerly All Media Guide (AMG) and AllRovi) is an American company that owns and maintains AllMusic, AllMovie, AllGame (until its closure in 2014), SideReel and Celebified.

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AllMusic

AllMusic (previously known as All Music Guide or AMG) is an online music guide.

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Annie Potts

Anne Hampton Potts (born October 28, 1952) is an American actress.

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At the Movies (U.S. TV series)

At the Movies (originally Siskel & Ebert & the Movies, and later At the Movies with Ebert and Roeper) is a movie review television program produced by Disney-ABC Domestic Television in which two film critics share their opinions of newly released films.

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Auld Lang Syne

"Auld Lang Syne" (note "s" rather than "z") is a Scots poem written by Robert Burns in 1788 and set to the tune of a traditional folk song (Roud # 6294).

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Babyface (musician)

Kenneth Brian Edmonds (born April 10, 1959), known professionally as Babyface, is an American singer, songwriter and record producer.

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Batman (1989 film)

Batman is a 1989 American superhero film directed by Tim Burton and produced by Jon Peters and Peter Guber, based on the DC Comics character of the same name.

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Beach Pneumatic Transit

The Beach Pneumatic Transit was the first attempt to build an underground public transit system in New York City.

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Ben Stein

Benjamin Jeremy Stein (born November 25, 1944) is an American writer, lawyer, actor, and commentator on political and economic issues.

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Ben Stiller

Benjamin Edward Meara Stiller (born November 30, 1965) is an American actor, comedian, writer, producer, and director.

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Bernard Wright

Bernard Wright (born November 16, 1963) is an American funk and jazz keyboardist and singer who began his career as a session musician and later released four solo albums.

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Bernie Taupin

Bernard John Taupin (born 22 May 1950) is an English lyricist, poet, and singer, best known for his long-term collaboration with Elton John, writing the lyrics for the majority of the star's songs.

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Bill Murray

William James Murray (born September 21, 1950) is an American actor, comedian, and writer.

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Bobby Brown

Robert Barisford "Bobby" Brown (born February 5, 1969) is an American singer, songwriter, dancer and actor.

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Bobby Caldwell

Robert Hunter Caldwell (born August 15, 1951) is an American singer and songwriter who recorded the hit single "What You Won't Do for Love" in 1978.

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Brian Doyle-Murray

Brian Doyle-Murray (né Murray, born October 31, 1945) is an American actor, voice actor, comedian and screenwriter.

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Cheech Marin

Richard Anthony "Cheech" Marin (born July 13, 1946) is an American stand-up comedian, actor, voice actor, writer and activist who gained recognition as part of the comedy act Cheech & Chong during the 1970s and early 1980s with Tommy Chong and as Don Johnson's partner, Insp.

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Collider (website)

Collider is an entertainment website and YouTube channel founded by Editor in Chief Steve Weintraub in July 2005 and February 2007.

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Coloring book

A coloring book (or colouring book, or colouring page) is a type of book containing line art to which people are intended to add color using crayons, colored pencils, marker pens, paint or other artistic media.

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Columbia Pictures

Columbia Pictures Industries, Inc. (commonly known as Columbia Pictures and Columbia, formerly CBC Film Sales Corporation, and stylized as COLUMBIA) is an American film studio, production company and film distributor that is a member of the Sony Pictures Motion Picture Group, a division of Sony Entertainment's Sony Pictures subsidiary of the Japanese multinational conglomerate Sony Corporation.

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Comedy film

Comedy is a genre of film in which the main emphasis is on humor.

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Contemporary R&B

Contemporary R&B (also known as simply R&B), is a music genre that combines elements of rhythm and blues, pop, soul, funk, hip hop, and electronic music.

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Dan Aykroyd

Daniel Edward Aykroyd (born July 1, 1952) is a Canadian-American actor, comedian, musician, and filmmaker.

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Danny Elfman

Daniel Robert Elfman (born May 29, 1953) is an American composer, singer, songwriter, and record producer.

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Daryl Simmons

Daryl Simmons (born April 11, 1957) is an American R&B songwriter, musician and record producer, who worked with the production duo of L.A. Reid and Kenneth "Babyface" Edmonds.

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David Margulies

David Joseph Margulies (February 19, 1937 – January 11, 2016) was an American actor.

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Disney–ABC Domestic Television

Disney–ABC Domestic Television, also operating as ABC Syndication (formerly known as Buena Vista Television, Inc., also known as Disney Domestic Television and currently known as Disney–ABC Home Entertainment and Television Distribution), is the in-home sales and content distribution firm of the Disney–ABC Television Group, a division of The Walt Disney Company.

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Donn Cambern

Donn Cambern (born October 9, 1929) is an American film editor.

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Doug E. Fresh

Doug E. Fresh (born September 17, 1966) is a Barbadian-American rapper, record producer, and beatboxer, also known as the Human Beat Box And the pioneer of 20th-century American beatboxing, Fresh is able to accurately imitate drum machines and various special effects using only his mouth, lips, gums, throat, tongue and a microphone.

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Egon Spengler

Egon Spengler, PhD is a fictional character from the ''Ghostbusters'' franchise.

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Elton John

Sir Elton Hercules John (born Reginald Kenneth Dwight; 25 March 1947) is an English singer, pianist, and composer.

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Ernie Hudson

Earnest Lee "Ernie" Hudson (born December 17, 1945) is an American character actor.

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Gene Siskel

Eugene Kal Siskel (January 26, 1946 – February 20, 1999) was an American film critic and journalist for the Chicago Tribune.

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Ghostbusters

Ghostbusters is a 1984 American comedy film directed and produced by Ivan Reitman and written by Dan Aykroyd and Harold Ramis.

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Ghostbusters (2016 film)

Ghostbusters (also known as Ghostbusters: Answer the Call and marketed as such on home release) is a 2016 supernatural comedy film directed by Paul Feig and written by Feig and Katie Dippold.

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Glenn Frey

Glenn Lewis Frey (November 6, 1948 – January 18, 2016) was an American singer, songwriter, actor and founding member of the rock band the Eagles.

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Gracie Mansion

Archibald Gracie Mansion (commonly called Gracie Mansion) is the official residence of the Mayor of the City of New York.

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Harold Ramis

Harold Allen Ramis (November 21, 1944 – February 24, 2014) was an American actor, director, writer, and comedian.

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Harris Yulin

Harris Yulin (born November 5, 1937) is an American actor who has appeared in over a hundred film and television series roles, such as Scarface (1983), Ghostbusters II (1989), Clear and Present Danger (1994), Looking for Richard (1996), The Hurricane (1999), Training Day (2001), and Frasier which earned him a Primetime Emmy Award nomination in 1996.

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Hawk Wolinski

David J. "Hawk" Wolinski (born 1948) is an American keyboardist, songwriter and record producer, probably best known for his work with the funk band Rufus and their lead singer Chaka Khan.

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Hip hop music

Hip hop music, also called hip-hopMerriam-Webster Dictionary entry on hip-hop, retrieved from: A subculture especially of inner-city black youths who are typically devotees of rap music; the stylized rhythmic music that commonly accompanies rap; also rap together with this music.

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Howard Huntsberry

Howard Stafford Huntsberry (born March 5, 1952) is an American R&B singer and actor from Pacoima, California.

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Ivan Reitman

Ivan Reitman, (born October 27, 1946) is a Slovak-Canadian film producer and director, best known for his comedy work, especially in the 1980s and 1990s.

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Jackie Wilson

Jack Leroy "Jackie" Wilson Jr. (June 9, 1934 – January 21, 1984) was an American soul singer and performer.

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James "J.T." Taylor

James "J.T." Taylor (born August 16, 1953, Laurens, South Carolina) is an American singer and actor best known as the former lead singer of the R&B/funk band, Kool & the Gang.

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Janet Margolin

Janet Margolin (July 25, 1943 – December 17, 1993) was an American theater, television and film actress.

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Janine Melnitz

Janine Melnitz is a fictional character in the Ghostbusters series.

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Jason Reitman

Jason Reitman (born October 19, 1977) is a Canadian-American film director, screenwriter, and producer, best known for directing the films Thank You for Smoking (2005), Juno (2007), Up in the Air (2009), and Young Adult (2011).

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Jellybean Johnson

Garry George "Jellybean" Johnson (born November 19, 1956), is an American drummer, guitarist, songwriter, producer and musician based out of Minneapolis, Minnesota.

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Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis

James Samuel "Jimmy Jam" Harris III (born June 6, 1959) and Terry Steven Lewis (born November 24, 1956) are an American R&B songwriting and record production team.

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Kurt Fuller

Kurtis "Kurt" Fuller (born September 16, 1953) is an American character actor.

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L.A. Reid

Antonio Marquis "L.A." Reid (born June 7, 1956) is an American music executive, musician, songwriter, record producer, author, and former television music competition judge.

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List of ghost films

Ghost movies and shows can fall into a wide range of genres, including romance, comedy, horror, juvenile interest, and drama.

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List of Ghostbusters characters

This is a list of fictional characters in the Ghostbusters universe, in order of franchise appearance.

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Max von Sydow

Max von Sydow (born Carl Adolf von Sydow, 10 April 1929) is a Swedish actor.

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MCA Records

MCA Records was an American record label owned by MCA Inc., which later gave way to the larger MCA Music Entertainment Group (now Universal Music Group), which the label was part of until its dissolution in 2003.

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Michael Chapman (cinematographer)

Michael Crawford Chapman, A.S.C. (born November 21, 1935) is an American cinematographer who is well known for his work on many films of the American New Wave of the 1970s and in the 1980s with prominent directors such as Martin Scorsese and Ivan Reitman.

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New Edition

New Edition is an American R&B group from the Roxbury neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts, formed in 1978.

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New jack swing

New jack swing or swingbeatSilverton, Peter.

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NOW Comics

NOW Comics was a comic book publisher founded in late 1985 by Tony C. Caputo as a sole-proprietorship.

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Oingo Boingo

Oingo Boingo was an American new wave band, formed by songwriter Danny Elfman in 1979.

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On Our Own (song)

"On Our Own" is a song by Bobby Brown recorded in April 1989 and released the following month as a single from the Ghostbusters II soundtrack.

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Paranormal

Paranormal events are phenomena described in popular culture, folk, and other non-scientific bodies of knowledge, whose existence within these contexts is described to lie beyond normal experience or scientific explanation.

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Parapsychology

Parapsychology is the study of paranormal and psychic phenomena which include telepathy, precognition, clairvoyance, psychokinesis, near-death experiences, reincarnation, apparitional experiences, and other paranormal claims.

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Paul Feig

Paul Samuel Feig (born September 17, 1962) is an American actor, film director, producer, and screenwriter.

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Peter MacNicol

Peter MacNicol (born April 10, 1954) is an American actor.

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Peter Venkman

Peter Venkman, Ph.D., is a fictional character from the ''Ghostbusters'' franchise.

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Phil Lord and Christopher Miller

Philip A. Lord (born July 12, 1975) and Christopher Robert Miller (born September 23, 1975) are an American filmmaker duo.

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Philip Baker Hall

Philip Baker Hall (born September 10, 1931) is an American actor.

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Randy Edelman

Randy Edelman (born June 10, 1947) is an American musician, producer, and composer for film and television known for his work in comedy films.

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Ray Parker Jr.

Ray Erskine Parker Jr. (born May 1, 1954) is an American guitarist, singer-songwriter, record producer, and actor, best known for writing and performing the theme song to the 1984 movie Ghostbusters, for his solo music, and for performing with his band, Raydio, and with Barry White.

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Ray Stantz

Raymond "Ray" Stantz, PhD is a fictional character from the ''Ghostbusters'' franchise.

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Rick Moranis

Frederick Allan "Rick" Moranis (born April 18, 1953) is a Canadian actor, comedian, screenwriter, producer, musician, and songwriter.

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RMS Titanic

RMS Titanic was a British passenger liner that sank in the North Atlantic Ocean in the early hours of 15 April 1912, after colliding with an iceberg during its maiden voyage from Southampton to New York City.

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Roger Ebert

Roger Joseph Ebert (June 18, 1942 – April 4, 2013) was an American film critic, historian, journalist, screenwriter, and author.

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Rolling Stone

Rolling Stone is an American monthly magazine that focuses on popular culture.

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Run-DMC

Run-DMC was an American hip hop group from Hollis, Queens, New York, founded in 1981 by Joseph Simmons, Darryl McDaniels, and Jason Mizell.

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Sequel

A sequel is a literature, film, theatre, television, music or video game that continues the story of, or expands upon, some earlier work.

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Sheldon Kahn

Sheldon F. Kahn (born March 1, 1940) is a film editor and producer.

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Sigourney Weaver

Susan Alexandra Weaver (born October 8, 1949), known professionally as Sigourney Weaver, is an American actress.

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Slimer

Slimer is a character from the ''Ghostbusters'' franchise.

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Statue of Liberty

The Statue of Liberty (Liberty Enlightening the World; La Liberté éclairant le monde) is a colossal neoclassical sculpture on Liberty Island in New York Harbor in New York City, in the United States.

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Stereogum

Stereogum is a daily Internet publication that focuses on music news, song premieres, and irreverent commentary.

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Supernatural fiction

Supernatural fiction or supernaturalist fiction is a genre of speculative fiction exploiting or requiring as plot devices or themes some contradictions of the commonplace natural world and materialist assumptions about it.

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The Real Ghostbusters

The Real Ghostbusters is an American animated television series, a spinoff of the 1984 comedy movie Ghostbusters.

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University Press of Kentucky

The University Press of Kentucky (UPK) is the scholarly publisher for the Commonwealth of Kentucky, and was organized in 1969 as successor to the University of Kentucky Press.

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Variety (magazine)

Variety is a weekly American entertainment trade magazine and website owned by Penske Media Corporation.

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Wilhelm von Homburg

Norbert Grupe (August 25, 1940 – March 10, 2004), better known outside Germany by his stage name Wilhelm von Homburg, was a German wrestler, boxer, and actor, best known for his portrayal of Vigo the Carpathian in the film Ghostbusters II.

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Winston Zeddemore

Winston Zeddemore is a fictional character appearing in the Ghostbusters films, TV series, and video games.

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(Your Love Keeps Lifting Me) Higher and Higher

"(Your Love Keeps Lifting Me) Higher and Higher" is an R&B song written by Gary Jackson, Carl Smith, R. Miner, and Raynard Miner, and produced by Carl Davis.

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1989 in film

The year 1989 involved many significant films.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghostbusters_II

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