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Gil Scott-Heron

Gilbert Scott-Heron (April 1, 1949 – May 27, 2011) was an American soul and jazz poet, musician, and author, known primarily for his work as a spoken-word performer in the 1970s and 1980s. His collaborative efforts with musician Brian Jackson featured a musical fusion of jazz, blues, and soul, as well as lyrical content concerning social and political issues of the time, delivered in both rapping and melismatic vocal styles by Scott-Heron. His own term for himself was "bluesologist", which he defined as "a scientist who is concerned with the origin of the blues".

His music, most notably on the albums Pieces of a Man and Winter in America in the early 1970s, influenced and foreshadowed later African-American music genres such as hip hop and neo soul. Scott-Heron is considered by many to be the first rapper/MC ever. His recording work received much critical acclaim, especially one of his best-known compositions, "The Revolution Will Not Be Televised". AllMusic's John Bush called him "one of the most important progenitors of rap music," stating that "his aggressive, no-nonsense street poetry inspired a legion of intelligent rappers while his engaging songwriting skills placed him square in the R&B charts later in his career."

Scott-Heron remained active until his death, and in 2010 released his first new album in 16 years, entitled I'm New Here. A memoir he had been working on for years up to the time of his death, The Last Holiday, was published posthumously in January 2012. Scott-Heron received a posthumous Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award in 2012. He also is included in the exhibits at the National Museum of African American History and Culture (NMAAHC) that officially opened on September 24, 2016, on the National Mall, and in an NMAAHC publication, Dream a World Anew.

Early years

Gil Scott-Heron was born in Chicago, Illinois. His mother, Bobbie Scott, was an opera singer who performed with the New York Oratorio Society. Scott-Heron's father, Gil Heron, nicknamed "The Black Arrow", was a Jamaican soccer player in the 1950s who became the first black man to play for Celtic Football Club in Glasgow. Gil's parents separated in his early childhood and he was sent to live with his maternal grandmother, Lillie Scott, in Jackson, Tennessee. When Scott-Heron was 12 years old, his grandmother died and he returned to live with his mother in The Bronx in New York City. He enrolled at DeWitt Clinton High School, but later transferred to The Fieldston School after impressing the head of the English department with one of his writings and earning a full scholarship. As one of five black students at the prestigious school, Scott-Heron was faced with alienation and a significant socioeconomic gap. During his admissions interview at Fieldston, an administrator asked him, "'How would you feel if you see one of your classmates go by in a limousine while you're walking up the hill from the subway?' And [he] said, 'Same way as you. Y'all can't afford no limousine. How do you feel?'" This type of intractable boldness would become a hallmark of Scott-Heron's later recordings.

After completing his secondary education, Scott-Heron decided to attend Lincoln University in Pennsylvania because Langston Hughes (his most important literary influence) was an alumnus. It was here that Scott-Heron met Brian Jackson with whom he formed the band Black & Blues. After about two years at Lincoln, Scott-Heron took a year off to write the novels The Vulture and The Nigger Factory. Scott-Heron was very heavily influenced by the Black Arts Movement. The Last Poets, a group associated with the Black Arts Movement performed at Lincoln in 1969 and Abiodun Oyewole of that Harlem group said Scott-Heron asked him after the performance, "Listen, can I start a group like you guys?" Scott-Heron returned to New York City, settling in Chelsea, Manhattan. The Vulture was published by the World Publishing Company in 1970 to positive reviews.

Although Scott-Heron never completed his undergraduate degree, he was admitted to the Writing Seminars at Johns Hopkins University, where he received an M.A. in creative writing in 1972. His master's thesis was titled Circle of Stone. Beginning in 1972, Scott-Heron taught literature and creative writing for several years as a full-time lecturer at Federal City College in Washington, D.C. while maintaining his music career.

Recording career

Scott-Heron began his recording career in 1970 with the LP Small Talk at 125th and Lenox. Bob Thiele of Flying Dutchman Records produced the album, and Scott-Heron was accompanied by Eddie Knowles and Charlie Saunders on conga and David Barnes on percussion and vocals. The album's 14 tracks dealt with themes such as the superficiality of television and mass consumerism, the hypocrisy of some would-be black revolutionaries, and white middle-class ignorance of the difficulties faced by inner-city residents. In the liner notes, Scott-Heron acknowledged as influences Richie Havens, John Coltrane, Otis Redding, Jose Feliciano, Billie Holiday, Langston Hughes, Malcolm X, Huey Newton, Nina Simone, and long-time collaborator Brian Jackson.

Scott-Heron's 1971 album Pieces of a Man used more conventional song structures than the loose, spoken-word feel of Small Talk. He was joined by Jackson, Johnny Pate as conductor, Ron Carter on bass and bass guitar, drummer Bernard "Pretty" Purdie, Burt Jones playing electric guitar, and Hubert Laws on flute and saxophone, with Thiele producing again. Scott-Heron's third album, Free Will, was released in 1972. Jackson, Purdie, Laws, Knowles, and Saunders all returned to play on Free Will and were joined by Jerry Jemmott playing bass, David Spinozza on guitar, and Horace Ott (arranger and conductor). Carter later said about Scott-Heron's voice: "He wasn't a great singer, but, with that voice, if he had whispered it would have been dynamic. It was a voice like you would have for Shakespeare."

1974 saw another LP collaboration with Brian Jackson, the critically acclaimed opus Winter in America, with Bob Adams on drums and Danny Bowens on bass. The album contained Scott-Heron's most cohesive material and featured more of Jackson's creative input than his previous albums had. Winter in America has been regarded by many critics as the two musicians' most artistic effort. The following year, Scott-Heron and Jackson released Midnight Band: The First Minute of a New Day. 1975 saw the release of the single "Johannesburg", a rallying cry to the issue of apartheid in South Africa. The song would be re-issued, in 12"-single form, together with "Waiting for the Axe to Fall" and "B-movie" in 1983.

A live album, It's Your World, followed in 1976 and a recording of spoken poetry, The Mind of Gil Scott-Heron, was released in 1978. Another success followed with the hit single "Angel Dust", which he recorded as a single with producer Malcolm Cecil. "Angel Dust" peaked at No. 15 on the R&B charts in 1978.

In 1979, Scott-Heron played at the No Nukes concerts at Madison Square Garden. The concerts were organized by Musicians United for Safe Energy to protest the use of nuclear energy following the Three Mile Island accident. Scott-Heron's song, "We Almost Lost Detroit" was included in the No Nukes album of concert highlights. It alluded to a previous nuclear power plant accident and was also the title of a book by John G. Fuller. Scott-Heron was a frequent critic of President Ronald Reagan and his conservative policies.

Scott-Heron recorded and released four albums during the 1980s: 1980 and Real Eyes (1980), Reflections (1981) and Moving Target (1982). In February 1982, Ron Holloway joined the ensemble to play tenor saxophone. He toured extensively with Scott-Heron and contributed to his next album, Moving Target the same year. His tenor accompaniment is a prominent feature of the songs "Fast Lane" and "Black History/The World". Holloway continued with Scott-Heron until the summer of 1989, when he left to join Dizzy Gillespie. Several years later, Scott-Heron would make cameo appearances on two of Ron Holloway's CDs; Scorcher (1996) and Groove Update (1998), both on the Fantasy/Milestone label.

Scott-Heron was dropped by Arista Records in 1985 and quit recording, though he continued to tour. The same year he helped compose and sang "Let Me See Your I.D." on the Artists United Against Apartheid album Sun City, containing the famous line, "The first time I heard there was trouble in the Middle East, I thought they were talking about Pittsburgh". The song compares racial tensions in the U.S. with those in apartheid-era South Africa, implying that the U.S. was not too far ahead in race relations. In 1993, he signed to TVT Records and released Spirits, an album that included the seminal track "'Message to the Messengers". The first track on the album criticized the rap artists of the day. Scott-Heron is known in many circles as "the Godfather of rap" and is widely considered to be one of the genre's founding fathers. Given the political consciousness that lies at the foundation of his work, he can also be called a founder of political rap. Message to the Messengers was a plea for the new generation of rappers to speak for change rather than perpetuate the current social situation, and to be more articulate and artistic. Regarding hip hop music in the 1990s, he said in an interview:

They need to study music. I played in several bands before I began my career as a poet. There's a big difference between putting words over some music, and blending those same words into the music. There's not a lot of humor. They use a lot of slang and colloquialisms, and you don't really see inside the person. Instead, you just get a lot of posturing.

Later years

Prison terms and more performing

In 2001, Scott-Heron was sentenced to one to three years imprisonment in a New York State prison for possession of cocaine. While out of jail in 2002, he appeared on the Blazing Arrow album by Blackalicious. He was released on parole in 2003, the year BBC TV broadcast the documentary Gil Scott-Heron: The Revolution Will Not Be Televised—Scott-Heron was arrested for possession of a crack pipe during the editing of the film in October 2003 and received a six-month prison sentence.

On July 5, 2006, Scott-Heron was sentenced to two to four years in a New York State prison for violating a plea deal on a drug-possession charge by leaving a drug rehabilitation center. He claimed that he left because the clinic refused to supply him with HIV medication. This story led to the presumption that the artist was HIV positive, subsequently confirmed in a 2008 interview. Originally sentenced to serve until July 13, 2009, he was paroled on May 23, 2007.

After his release, Scott-Heron began performing live again, starting with a show at SOB's restaurant and nightclub in New York on September 13, 2007. On stage, he stated that he and his musicians were working on a new album and that he had resumed writing a book titled The Last Holiday, previously on long-term hiatus, about Stevie Wonder and his successful attempt to have the birthday of Martin Luther King Jr. declared a federally recognized holiday in the United States.

Malik Al Nasir dedicated a collection of poetry to Scott-Heron titled Ordinary Guy that contained a foreword by Jalal Mansur Nuriddin of The Last Poets. Scott-Heron recorded one of the poems in Nasir's book entitled Black & Blue in 2006.

In April 2009, on BBC Radio 4, poet Lemn Sissay presented a half-hour documentary on Gil Scott-Heron entitled Pieces of a Man, having interviewed Gil Scott-Heron in New York a month earlier. Pieces of a Man was the first UK announcement from Scott-Heron of his forthcoming album and return to form. In November 2009, the BBC's Newsnight interviewed Scott-Heron for a feature titled The Legendary Godfather of Rap Returns. In 2009, a new Gil Scott-Heron website, gilscottheron.net, was launched with a new track "Where Did the Night Go" made available as a free download from the site.

In 2010, Scott-Heron was booked to perform in Tel Aviv, Israel, but this attracted criticism from pro-Palestinian activists, who stated: "Your performance in Israel would be the equivalent to having performed in Sun City during South Africa's apartheid era... We hope that you will not play apartheid Israel". Scott-Heron responded by canceling the performance.

I'm New Here

Scott-Heron released his album I'm New Here on independent label XL Recordings on February 9, 2010. Produced by XL label owner Richard Russell, I'm New Here was Scott-Heron's first studio album in 16 years. The pair started recording the album in 2007, with the majority of the record being recorded over the 12 months leading up to the release date with engineer Lawson White at Clinton Studios in New York. I'm New Here is 28 minutes long with 15 tracks; however, casual asides and observations collected during recording sessions are included as interludes.

The album attracted critical acclaim, with The Guardian's Jude Rogers declaring it one of the "best of the next decade", while some have called the record "reverent" and "intimate", due to Scott-Heron's half-sung, half-spoken delivery of his poetry. In a music review for public radio network NPR, Will Hermes stated: "Comeback records always worry me, especially when they're made by one of my heroes ... But I was haunted by this record ... He's made a record not without hope but which doesn't come with any easy or comforting answers. In that way, the man is clearly still committed to speaking the truth". Writing for music website Music OMH, Darren Lee provided a more mixed assessment of the album, describing it as rewarding and stunning, but he also states that the album's brevity prevents it "from being an unassailable masterpiece".

Scott-Heron described himself as a mere participant in an interview with The New Yorker:

This is Richard's CD. My only knowledge when I got to the studio was how he seemed to have wanted this for a long time. You're in a position to have somebody do something that they really want to do, and it was not something that would hurt me or damage me—why not? All the dreams you show up in are not your own.

The remix version of the album, We're New Here, was released in 2011, featuring production by English musician Jamie xx, who reworked material from the original album. Like the original album, We're New Here received critical acclaim.

In April 2014, XL Recordings announced a third album from the I'm New Here sessions, titled Nothing New. The album consists of stripped-down piano and vocal recordings and was released in conjunction with Record Store Day on April 19, 2014.

Death

Scott-Heron died on the afternoon of May 27, 2011, at St. Luke's Hospital, New York City, after becoming ill upon returning from a European trip. Scott-Heron had confirmed previous press speculation about his health, when he disclosed in a 2008 New York Magazine interview that he had been HIV-positive for several years, and that he had been previously hospitalized for pneumonia.

He was survived by his firstborn daughter, Raquiyah "Nia" Kelly Heron, from his relationship with Pat Kelly; his son Rumal Rackley, from his relationship with Lurma Rackley; daughter Gia Scott-Heron, from his marriage to Brenda Sykes; and daughter Chegianna Newton, who was 13 years old at the time of her father's death. He is also survived by his sister Gayle; brother Denis Heron, who once managed Scott-Heron; his uncle, Roy Heron; and nephew Terrance Kelly, an actor and rapper who performs as Mr. Cheeks, and who was a member of Lost Boyz.

Before his death, Scott-Heron had been in talks with Portuguese director Pedro Costa to participate in his film Horse Money as a screenwriter, composer and actor.

After Scott-Heron's death, Malik Al Nasir told The Guardian's Simon Hattenstone of the kindness that Scott-Heron had showed him throughout his adult life since meeting the poet back stage at a gig in Liverpool in 1984. The BBC World Service covered the story on their Outlook program with Matthew Bannister, which took the story global. It was subsequently covered in other media such as BBC Radio 4's Saturday Live, where jazz musician Al Jarreau paid tribute to Gil, and was mentioned the U.S. edition of Rolling Stone and The Huffington Post. Malik & the O.G's performed a tribute to Scott-Heron at the Liverpool International Music Festival in 2013 with jazz composer Orphy Robinson of The Jazz Warriors and Rod Youngs from Gil's band The Amnesia Express. Another tribute was performed at St. Georges Hall in Liverpool on August 27, 2015, called "The Revolution will be Live!", curated by Malik Al Nasir and Richard McGinnis for Yesternight Productions. The event featured Talib Kweli, Aswad, The Christians, Malik & the O.G's, Sophia Ben-Yousef and Cleveland Watkiss as well as DJ 2Kind and poet, actor, and radio DJ Craig Charles. The tribute was the opening event for 2015 Liverpool International Music Festival.

In response to Scott-Heron's death, Public Enemy's Chuck D stated "RIP GSH...and we do what we do and how we do because of you" on his Twitter account. His UK publisher, Jamie Byng, called him "one of the most inspiring people I've ever met". On hearing of the death, R&B singer Usher stated: "I just learned of the loss of a very important poet...R.I.P., Gil Scott-Heron. The revolution will be live!!". Richard Russell, who produced Scott-Heron's final studio album, called him a "father figure of sorts to me", while Eminem stated: "He influenced all of hip-hop". Lupe Fiasco wrote a poem about Scott-Heron that was published on his website.

Scott-Heron's memorial service was held at Riverside Church in New York City on June 2, 2011, where Kanye West performed "Lost in the World" and "Who Will Survive in America", two songs from West's album My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy. The studio album version of West's "Who Will Survive in America" features a spoken-word excerpt by Scott-Heron. Scott-Heron is buried at Kensico Cemetery in Westchester County in New York.

Scott-Heron was honored posthumously in 2012 by the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences with a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award. Charlotte Fox, member of the Washington, DC NARAS and president of Genesis Poets Music, nominated Scott-Heron for the award, while the letter of support came from Grammy award winner and Grammy Hall of Fame inductee Bill Withers.

Scott-Heron's memoir, The Last Holiday, was published in January 2012. In her review for the Los Angeles Times, professor of English and journalism Lynell George wrote:

The Last Holiday is as much about his life as it is about context, the theater of late 20th century America — from Jim Crow to the Reagan '80s and from Beale Street to 57th Street. The narrative is not, however, a rise-and-fall retelling of Scott-Heron's life and career. It doesn't connect all the dots. It moves off-the-beat, at its own speed ... This approach to revelation lends the book an episodic quality, like oral storytelling does. It winds around, it repeats itself.

Scott-Heron's estate

At the time of Scott-Heron's death, a will could not be found to determine the future of his estate. Additionally, Raquiyah Kelly-Heron filed papers in Manhattan, New York's Surrogate's Court in August 2013, claiming that Rumal Rackley is not Scott-Heron's son and should therefore be omitted from matters concerning the musician's estate.According to the Daily News website, Rackley, Kelly-Heron and two other sisters have been seeking a resolution to the issue of the management of Scott-Heron's estate, as Rackley stated in court papers that Scott-Heron prepared him to be the eventual administrator of the estate. Scott-Heron's 1994 album Spirits was dedicated to "my son Rumal and my daughters Nia and Gia", and in court papers Rackley added that Scott-Heron introduced me [Rackley] from the stage as his son."

In 2011, Rackley filed a suit against sister Gia Scott-Heron and her mother, Scott-Heron's first wife, Brenda Sykes, as he believed they had unfairly attained US$250,000 of Scott-Heron's money. The case was later settled for an undisclosed sum in early 2013; but the relationship between Rackley and Scott-Heron's two adult daughters already had become strained in the months after Gil's death. In her submission to the Surrogate's Court, Kelly-Heron states that a DNA test completed by Rackley in 2011—using DNA from Scott-Heron's brother—revealed that they "do not share a common male lineage", while Rackley has refused to undertake another DNA test since that time. A hearing to address Kelly-Heron's filing was scheduled for late August 2013, but by March 2016 further information on the matter was not publicly available. Rackley still serves as court-appointed administrator for the estate, and donated material to the Smithsonian's new National Museum of African American History and Culture for Scott-Heron to be included among the exhibits and displays when the museum opened in September 2016. In December 2018, the Surrogate Court ruled that Rumal Rackley and his half sisters are all legal heirs.

According to the Daily News website, Kelly-Heron and two other sisters have been seeking a resolution to the issue of the management of Scott-Heron's estate. The case was decided in December 2018 with a ruling issued in May 2019.

Influence and legacy

Scott-Heron's work has influenced writers, academics and musicians, from indie rockers to rappers. His work during the 1970s influenced and helped engender subsequent African-American music genres, such as hip hop and neo soul. He has been described by music writers as "the godfather of rap" and "the black Bob Dylan".

Chicago Tribune writer Greg Kot comments on Scott-Heron's collaborative work with Jackson:

Together they crafted jazz-influenced soul and funk that brought new depth and political consciousness to '70s music alongside Marvin Gaye and Stevie Wonder. In classic albums such as 'Winter in America' and 'From South Africa to South Carolina,' Scott-Heron took the news of the day and transformed it into social commentary, wicked satire, and proto-rap anthems. He updated his dispatches from the front lines of the inner city on tour, improvising lyrics with an improvisational daring that matched the jazz-soul swirl of the music".

Of Scott-Heron's influence on hip hop, Kot writes that he "presag[ed] hip-hop and infus[ed] soul and jazz with poetry, humor and pointed political commentary". Ben Sisario of The New York Times writes that "He [Scott-Heron] preferred to call himself a "bluesologist", drawing on the traditions of blues, jazz and Harlem renaissance poetics". Tris McCall of The Star-Ledger writes that "The arrangements on Gil Scott-Heron's early recordings were consistent with the conventions of jazz poetry – the movement that sought to bring the spontaneity of live performance to the reading of verse". A music writer later noted that "Scott-Heron's unique proto-rap style influenced a generation of hip-hop artists", while The Washington Post wrote that "Scott-Heron's work presaged not only conscious rap and poetry slams, but also acid jazz, particularly during his rewarding collaboration with composer-keyboardist-flutist Brian Jackson in the mid- and late '70s". The Observer's Sean O'Hagan discussed the significance of Scott-Heron's music with Brian Jackson, stating:

Together throughout the 1970s, Scott-Heron and Jackson made music that reflected the turbulence, uncertainty and increasing pessimism of the times, merging the soul and jazz traditions and drawing on an oral poetry tradition that reached back to the blues and forward to hip-hop. The music sounded by turns angry, defiant and regretful while Scott-Heron's lyrics possessed a satirical edge that set them apart from the militant soul of contemporaries such as Marvin Gaye and Curtis Mayfield.

Will Layman of PopMatters wrote about the significance of Scott-Heron's early musical work:

In the early 1970s, Gil Scott-Heron popped onto the scene as a soul poet with jazz leanings; not just another Bill Withers, but a political voice with a poet's skill. His spoken-voice work had punch and topicality. "The Revolution Will Not Be Televised" and "Johannesburg" were calls to action: Stokely Carmichael if he'd had the groove of Ray Charles. 'The Bottle' was a poignant story of the streets: Richard Wright as sung by a husky-voiced Marvin Gaye. To paraphrase Chuck D, Gil Scott-Heron's music was a kind of CNN for black neighborhoods, prefiguring hip-hop by several years. It grew from the Last Poets, but it also had the funky swing of Horace Silver or Herbie Hancock—or Otis Redding. Pieces of a Man and Winter in America (collaborations with Brian Jackson) were classics beyond category".

Scott-Heron's influence over hip hop is primarily exemplified by his definitive single "The Revolution Will Not Be Televised", sentiments from which have been explored by various rappers, including Aesop Rock, Talib Kweli and Common. In addition to his vocal style, Scott-Heron's indirect contributions to rap music extend to his and co-producer Jackson's compositions, which have been sampled by various hip-hop artists. "We Almost Lost Detroit" was sampled by Brand Nubian member Grand Puba ("Keep On"), Native Tongues duo Black Star ("Brown Skin Lady"), and MF Doom ("Camphor"). Additionally, Scott-Heron's 1980 song "A Legend in His Own Mind" was sampled on Mos Def's "Mr. Nigga", the opening lyrics from his 1978 recording "Angel Dust" were appropriated by rapper RBX on the 1996 song "Blunt Time" by Dr. Dre, and CeCe Peniston's 2000 song "My Boo" samples Scott-Heron's 1974 recording "The Bottle".

In addition to the Scott-Heron excerpt used in "Who Will Survive in America", Kanye West sampled Scott-Heron and Jackson's "Home is Where the Hatred Is" and "We Almost Lost Detroit" for the songs "My Way Home" and "The People", respectively, both of which are collaborative efforts with Common. Scott-Heron, in turn, acknowledged West's contributions, sampling the latter's 2007 single "Flashing Lights" on his final album, 2010's I'm New Here.

Scott-Heron admitted ambivalence regarding his association with rap, remarking in 2010 in an interview for the Daily Swarm: "I don't know if I can take the blame for [rap music]". As New York Times writer Sisario explained, he preferred the moniker of "bluesologist". Referring to reviews of his last album and references to him as the "godfather of rap", Scott-Heron said: "It's something that's aimed at the kids ... I have kids, so I listen to it. But I would not say it's aimed at me. I listen to the jazz station." In 2013, Chattanooga rapper Isaiah Rashad recorded an unofficial mixtape called Pieces of a Kid, which was greatly influenced by Heron's debut album Pieces of a Man.

Following Scott-Heron's funeral in 2011, a tribute from publisher, record company owner, poet, and music producer Malik Al Nasir was published on The Guardian's website, titled "Gil Scott-Heron saved my life".

In the 2018 film First Man, Scott-Heron is a minor character and is played by soul singer Leon Bridges.

He is one of eight significant people shown in mosaic at the 167th Street renovated subway station on the Grand Concourse in the Bronx that reopened in 2019.

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The year is 2019

An era of antiquity. The first ferret wars and the TUAEG oppression of OGPosting niblings took place. Unkle Adams was at the pinnacle of his power. Having decimated the entire ferret nation of Utah in retaliation for orchestrating penguin attacks on Unk and his queen Babema, only one ferret survived - Colby the Ferret. But Colby was a prophetic ferret. He knew that Unkle Adams had enemies who could destroy the entire planet. During the same timeline, the precious lore items and artifacts were stolen away from Unk's unrequited OGposting niblings, who were forced to live a life of destitution. Despite the suffering inflicted by Unkle Adams upon all niblings, his delusional narcissism, hedonistic tendencies for going on raw benders and a tempestuous feet sniffing addiction, Colby believed Unkle Adams could defeat two of the planet's biggest threats: the dreaded white supremacists Cleetus and Tom MacDonald.

Cleetus is the little brother of Unkle Adams, both being the sons of the same goblin father who sold their souls to the goblin gods for a lifetime supply of free Tim Hortons stepped tea served with a side of infamous goblin delicacy, the Pæ Wørtër™. They grew up in Regina, the goblin province of Saskatchewan. It is often believed that Cleetus was self-indoctrinated into white supremacy when he was at least a million seconds old. They were best buddies growing up, sodomizing every wives they could. This brotherhood seemed eternal until something eerie happened in 2017

Cleetus was punished by Unkle Adams for doing 10 KKK shows in an hour and burning all of his omelettes, causing an egg crisis throughout Regina. When Cleetus found out that Unkle Adams had written the prophecy to "Change the World" and "Die One Day", by collaborating with his special minority friends, Cleetus felt betrayed. Also, in his "At Least A Million" memoir, Unkle Adams accused Cleetus of being a white supremacist and told his loyal follwers to understand that it was NOT him that caused the genocide of the Australian aboriginals. Cleetus vowed revenge on Unkle Adams. He began plotting the entire takeover of earth and establishing it as a single universal white ethnostate.

Fast forward to 2030. At the top of the huge monolithic tower of what used to be the headquarters of The Unkle Adams Entertainment Group in Regina, sits Cleetus and Tom MacDonald. Being enthroned as the corporate rulers of the entire white planet ethnostate now under "The Hangover Corporation", they annihilated everybody except the loyal supporters of Tom, the truest whiteboys who were oppressed by the libtards for centuries. Only a handful of niblings and Colby managed to survive by escaping earth using the magic kangaROOS light-up flying shoes. They decided to take refuge in Mars. When they landed there, the surface was moist and red. They slowly began to sink under it but were saved and held under captivity by the local Martian police. When they were interrogated, the cop called the administrator of the Martian regime to check out the niblings. When the administrator approached the door of the prison cell, the niblings heard something familiar. The guards were singing an historic song about being original. When the administrator finally arrived, the niblings were dead shocked. Silence ensued for five minutes because the administrator was none other than the Nephilim lord Thomas James Arelis Carpenter aka TJAC, who escaped earth before the niblings. In this short time, TJAC managed to not only colonize mars, but also turned all Martians into his slaves, now called the #tjacarmy

TJAC stared at them with an evil sadistic grin and repeatedly started saying "Unkle Adams" while performing pull-ups on the prison cell top bar. When Colby reminded him that Cleetus and Tom MacDonald were ruling the earth, TJAC was filled with rage. He led all the niblings into his secret dungeon, where he showed them a cryogenic tank. The niblings were shocked to see Unkle Adams in it. TJAC told them that he had been waiting for them to come so that the #tjacarmy can launch an attack on The Hangover Corporation. Unkle Adams was finally defrosted. When he woke up, he was mumbling incoherently about feeling inspired. He became appalled by the presence of fellow niblings at first but understood everything later. Unkle Adams offered them help but only if he gets to smell Babema's feet. TJAC told Unk that he forgot to save Babema but instead, he saved Jared Robinson, unfreezing him. Unk was more than happy to smell Jared's feet and thus, the fight to save planet earth began.

The time had come to strike. The #tjacarmy launched an earth invasion and began to attack HOGC target sites in full force but were instantly destroyed by Tom's air force. Unk wore his nibling's precious kangaROOS lightup shoes, ate the highly nutritious Nephilim beef lasagna soup and went to battle with Tom's airforce. He destroyed all the aircrafts in mid-air and landed on the roof of the monolith. When Cleetus came to fight him, Unk suddently pondered the techniques of Mistress Miranda and managed to torture Cleetus' cock and balls so hard that he fell dow the tower and died. Tom MacDonald was enraged. But before Tom could do anything, Unkle Adams showed all the HOG worshippers the album artwork of "If I Was Black", which proved that Tom MacDonald was a fraud. When his true colors were revealed, Tom said that he was a social experiment conducted by Harvard. The HOG worshippers were so hurt that they dispersed and were reduced to crystal meth, along with Tom. Unkle Adams then took the mic and started rapping "This is for my nation, this is innovation This is demonstration of the dedication, I can put in place when I am feelin’ patient, I torch beats like the burners on my space sh..."- before he could continue, Jared interrupted Unk and told him that he needs to record a new song, since his rap was ages old. Jared managed to milk out at least a million dollars from Unk and increased his debt to $1,227,000. The new track is called Original 69. As soon as Unk finished rapping the verses of his new song, a bald vegan demon ascended from hell and gave the song a NOT GOOD rating. Tears rolled down Unk's cheeks as he started running away. "Hey Adam, where are you going?" asked Nichole. "Vietnam. I have been drafted" replied Unkle Adams, never to be seen again.

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#(I AM SO SORRY IF I MISPRONOUNCE ANY NAMES.)#(AND ALSO IF MY VOICE SOUNDS HOARSE. AND MY CONSISTENT RAMBLING.)#(and basically existing BUT MOSTLY THE RAMBLING AND SMALL PART OF THE ORIGINAL ADAMS ADMINISTRATION RAP.)#(I was kind of nervous with this so It's a mess. I'm sorry.)#(and now I will stop apologizing.)#(and just post it.)#(thank you for sending in this prompt!!)#🐶♏ ❝ i'м gσiиg тσ รнυт υρ иσw bєfσяє i รαy รσмєтнiиg єiтнєя iиcяєdibly รтυρid σя υиbєαяαbly αwkwαяd.❞ ♏🐶 {Ava Speaks}

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wingedprunepsychiclawyer · 5 years

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This is the original Adams Administration from Hamilton, and I LOVE IT. Hamilton went OFF, and we get to hear Lin Manuel Miranda rapping at speeds that rival Lafayette in Guns and Ships!

#hamilton #alexander hamilton #hamilton musical #lin manuel miranda #the adams administration #original hamilton songs #hamilton songs #original adams administration #this is awesome

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bettereveryletter · 6 years

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little things from Hamilton West End that I didn’t notice the past times I’ve been

This is so overly long but last night is looking to be the last night I will have seen the original west end cast and I wanted to pick up on everything I could. Firstly, here’s the cast I saw:

Ash Hunter (Alternate Alexander Hamilton), Rachelle Ann Go (Eliza Hamilton), Giles Terera (Aaron Burr), Rachel John (Angelica Schuyler), Obioma Ugoala (George Washington), Jason Pennycooke (Marquis de Lafayette/Thomas Jefferson), Tarinn Callender (Hercules Mulligan/James Madison), Cleve September (John Laurens/Philip Hamilton), Christine Allado (Peggy Schuyler/Maria Reynolds), Michael Jibson (King George). Ensemble: Jade Albsersten, Johnny Bishop, Leslie Garcia Bowman, Courtney Mae Briggs, Jack Butterworth, Jon Scott Clarke, Leah Hill, Waylon Jacobs, Miriam-Teak Lee, Gabriel Mokake, and Lindsey Tierney.

-There was applause after Alexander Hamilton, I’ve finally witnessed it!

-Ash’ Burrs Corner in My Shot - “a bunch of revolutionary revolution revolutionists”

-Tarinn stealing Cleve’s mug in The Story Of Tonight and then them proceeding to do a bit about it

-Rachelle and Christine holding hands and looking so delightfully thrilled to be in New York in The Schuyler Sisters

-Christine is such a cute Peggy, she seems to be either annoyed at being left out, or very happy-go-lucky and sometimes childlike

-Applause and woops after “compel him to include women in the sequel” line!

-Cleve swiftly whipping Giles away for the distraction on the exact first “mercy” beat in Farmer Refuted

-Obi blocking the ‘letter’ being passed along by the ensemble during Right Hand Man, the last time I saw him on was February and he collected the ‘letter’ from them

-“we keep meeting”

-Ash’s super cocky grin on “that’s true!”

-Christine and Rachel holding hands and bopping during the “heys” at the start of Helpless

-I love that Peggy and Laurens dance together during Helpless because it means I get to watch my two favourite cast members at the same time

-Cleve persuading Rachel to get up and make her speech in Satisfied, after her laughing and shaking her head, by nodding and saying “yes! Go!”

-Christine and Rachelle’s eskimo kiss in Helpless/Satisfied

-Ash placing his hand on cleves chest, and cleve’s dramatic look down to it at the start of Meet Me Inside

-Ash nodding in agreement with Eliza at the end of That Would Be Enough

-Rachel’s Angelica in Satisfied, or Rachel John in general tbh

-the way cleve sung “let’s have another round” in tsot (reprise)

-overall rapport between Tarinn and Cleve

-tarinn randomly bear-hugging Ash on “wonders great and small”

-Tarinn’s verse in Yorktown!! Always!! Astounding!!

-My friend bursting into tears at the first note of Dear Theodosia

-the quiet “will you read it for me?” In The Laurens’ Interlude

-Jason encouraging applause like 4 times over in What’d I Miss?, and receiving it louder each time

-an elderly lady who was sat near me found every funny line absolutely hilarious and it was so endearing

-very close shave mic drop in Cabinet Battle #1

-cleve being all reluctant to play piano, and the stroppy, mimicking, “sept-huit-neuf”

-cleve ‘practicing’ the Philip rap with a piece of paper with ‘the lyrics’ in his hand, dropping it all flustered when ham comes over unexpectedly, then gradually sliding it away with his shoe mid-rap

-Christine is an incredible Maria, her voice is so mesmerising oh my god

-a red spotlight shining on Maria’s red dress

-Reynolds summoning Maria with a heel-click

-the room where it happens was amazing, Giles is incredible

-Rachelle looking miffed on “I’m sure he already knows” in Schuyler Defeated

-the audience’s utter amusement at the tantalising Burr at the beginning of Washington On Your Side

-air-punching of audience members during Cabinet Battle #2

-a man in the royal circle stood up after One Last Time, applause went on a while, and you could see Obi grinning from ear-to-ear and it was lovely

-mike making giles laugh at the start of The Adams Administration

-the way hurricane is ...choreographed? Blocked? I’m not sure what the word is but it’s super clever

-Cleve angrily screwing up The Reynolds Pamphlet and tossing it to the floor

-Ash’s riff on “slow down” during Blow Us All Away

-My friend whispering a subtle “oh no” at the end of Blow Us All Away

-Cleve writhing in pain during Stay Alive (Reprise) and Rachelle looking so, completely heartbroken. She nails grieving-Eliza.

-the way Ash sung “You knock me out I fall apart” in IQU

-giles’ subtle disbelief and betrayal when burr finds out ham supports jefferson in The Election of 1800

-complete audience silence as they’re enraptured during the monologue in The World Was Wide Enough

-rachel blowing a kiss at the end of curtain call and then pointing to the audience member so they knew it was for them

-Ash jumping on someone’s back to walk off the stage, I couldn’t see which cast member it was since I was too far over

-that was such a great show, shoot me a message if interested in full audio

#hamilton west end #hamilton london #hamilton #hamilton review #hamilton london review #hamilton west end review #giles terera #obioma ugoala #cleve september #christine allado #rachel john #jason pennycooke #tarinn callender #rachelle ann go #ash hunter

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beforewegottoten · 8 years

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The Adams Administration

“bUT you HAVen’t Done anything NEW SINCE!

YOU NUISANCE!

WIth NO SENSE!”

AM I RIGHT THO, WHO ELSE LOVES THIS. I FEEL THIS IN MY SOUL MAN

#hamilton #alexander hamilton #hamilton an american musical #adams administration #original adams administration #cut rap #cute song #i love this #who else loves this #I am salty it got cut #its my favorite #who else feels this

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GHOSTBUSTERS Final Film Transcript original script by Dan Aykroyd and Harold Ramis transcribed by Adam Bertocci Outside New York Public Library Eerie music. Pigeons fly from the steps. New York Public Library, reading room ALICE pushes a cart of books. New York Public Library, basement ALICE brings some books down to the basement of library. As she walks along, a few books float to other shelves. When she turns around to investigate, nothing happens. She makes some notes on a pad and passes a card catalog. The drawers slide open, spilling cards all over the place. She screams and runs. She runs through the shelves. Comes to what must be the ghost; she screams. Her hair blows back. Ghostbusters logo dissolves onto screen. Music: Ghostbusters. Columbia University Main title pops up. Ghostbusters theme keeps playing. We see people going in and out of the building. Corridor outside Paranormal Studies Laboratory We hear DR. PETER VENKMAN giving the ESP test. On door: "Dr. Egon Spengler Dr. Raymond Stantz Dr. Peter Venkman Venkman burn in hell Maid please make up this room as soon as possible" Inside lab PETER gives ESP test to MALE STUDENT and JENNIFER. MALE STUDENT is hooked up to electrodes. PETER All right, I'm going to turn over the next card. I want you to concentrate. I want you to tell me what it is. card is a star MALE STUDENT Square? PETER showing him card and shocking him Good guess, but wrong. holds a circle card up in front of JENNIFER Clear your head. All right, tell me what you think it is. JENNIFER Is it a star? PETER It is a star! Very good. That's great. holds up a square card for MALE STUDENT All right. Think hard. What is it? MALE STUDENT Circle? PETER showing him square and shocking him Ooh, close, but definitely wrong. MALE STUDENT's gum shoots out of his mouth. He puts it back in and keeps chewing. PETER holds a plus sign card up for JENNIFER. Okay. All right. Ready? What is it? no answer Come on. JENNIFER Figure eight. PETER pretending to be astonished Incredible. That's five for five. You can't see these, can you? JENNIFER No, no. PETER You're not cheating me, are you? JENNIFER No, I swear, they're just coming to me. PETER to MALE STUDENT Okay. Nervous? MALE STUDENT Yes... I don't like this. PETER Don't worry, you only have seventy-five more to go. holds up a card with three wavy lines Okay, what's this one? MALE STUDENT A couple of wavy lines. PETER who wants to zap him just for fun Sorry! This isn't your lucky day! MALE STUDENT I know. I - PETER reaches for the little lever. JENNIFER seems amused, so PETER winks to her. MALE STUDENT stumbles over some words before PETER zaps him. Hey! I'm getting a little tired of this! PETER You volunteered, didn't you? We're paying you, aren't we? MALE STUDENT Yeah, but I didn't know you were giving me electric shocks! What are you trying to prove here anyway? PETER I'm studying the effect of negative reinforcement on ESP ability. MALE STUDENT The effect?! I'll tell you what the effect is! It's pissing me off! PETER Well, then maybe my theory is correct! MALE STUDENT ripping electrodes off hands You can keep the five bucks, I've had it! runs out of room and slams door PETER I will mister! kindly, to JENNIFER You may as well get used to that, that's the kind of resentment that your ability is going to provoke in some people. JENNIFER Do you think I have it, Dr. Venkman? PETER You're no fluke, Jennifer. DR. RAYMOND STANTZ enters the room, all in a flurry. RAY grabbing stuff off shelves This is it! This is definitely it! Did those UV lenses come in for the video camera? And that blank tape? I need it. The one you erased yesterday. PETER to JENNIFER Can you excuse me for a second? JENNIFER Sure. PETER runs to RAY, jumps up and smacks him on the head. PETER I'm right in the middle of something, Ray! Ah, I need a little more time with this subject. Could you come back in an hour, hour and a half? RAY Peter, at 1:40 PM at the main branch of the New York Public Library on Fifth Avenue, ten people witnessed a free floating, full torso, vaporous apparition. It blew books off shelves from twenty feet away and scared the socks off some poor librarian! PETER I'm very excited. I'm very pleased. I want you to get right down there, check it out and get back to me. RAY No, no. PETER Get right back to me... RAY You're coming with us on this one! Spengler went down there and took PKE valances. Went right off the top of the scale. Buried the needle! We're close on this one. I can feel it! PETER I can feel it. We're very, very close. to JENNIFER I have to go now, Jennifer, but I'd like to work with you some more. Perhaps you could come back this evening, say at - JENNIFER Eight o'clock? PETER I was just about to say eight o'clock! You are a legitimate phenomenon! Outside New York Public Library PETER is yelling at RAY all the way there. PETER As a friend I have to tell you: you've finally gone round the bend on this ghost business. You guys have been running your ass off meeting and greeting every schizo in the five boroughs who says he has a paranormal experience. What have you seen? New York Public Library, reading room RAY Of course you forget, Peter, I was present at an undersea, unexplained, mass sponge migration. PETER Ooh, Ray, those sponges migrated about a foot and a half. DR. EGON SPENGLER is under the table, listening to it with a stethescope. PETER runs over to him and speaks in a zombie voice. Egon... EGON is puzzled. PETER raps table with knuckles, then slams it with a book. EGON is starled and jumps up. EGON Oh, you're here. PETER Yeah, what have you got? EGON This is big, Peter. This is very big. There is definitely something here. PETER Egon, this reminds me of the time you tried to drill a hole through your head. You remember that? EGON That would have worked if you hadn't stopped me. LIBRARY ADMINISTRATOR walks up to the three. LIBRARY ADMINISTRATOR I'm Roger Delicore. Are you the men from the university? PETER introducing them all Yes. I'm Dr. Venkman. Dr. Stantz, Egon. LIBRARY ADMINISTRATOR Thank you for coming. I hope we can clear this up quickly and quietly. PETER Let's not rush things. We don't even know what you have yet. They go to a smaller room. ALICE is lying on a table. ALICE I don't remember seeing any legs, but it definitely had arms because it reached out for me. RAY Arms?! I can't wait to get a look at this thing! PETER Alice, I'm going to ask you a few standard questions, okay? Have you or any of your family ever been diagnosed schizophrenic, mentally incompetent? ALICE My uncle thought he was St. Jerome. PETER I'd call that a big yes. Uh, are you habitually using drugs, stimulants, alcohol? ALICE No! PETER No, no. Just asking. Are you, Alice, menstruating right now? LIBRARY ADMINISTRATOR What has that got to do with it? PETER Back off, man. I'm a scientist. EGON Ray, it's moving. New York Public Library, basement EGON is in front, with PKE meter. RAY has a video camera. PETER is in the back, bored stiff. He starts making scary gestures at RAY. They come to a tall tower of books. RAY Look! EGON This is hot, Ray. RAY Symmetrical book stacking, just like the Philadelphia mass turbulence of 1947. PETER You're right. No human being would stack books like this. RAY Listen! eerie music You smell something? they go to a card catalog; it is slimed Talk about telekinetic activity! Look at this mess! EGON Raymond, look at this. RAY Ectoplasmic residue. EGON Venkman, get a sample of this. RAY It's the real thing! PETER Somebody blows their nose and you want to keep it? EGON I'd like to analyze it. As RAY and EGON continue talking, PETER scrapes slime into a dish. Gets it all over his hands. Groans and grunts. Flicks slime away. Wipes hands and feet on books. RAY There's more over here! EGON I'm getting stronger readings here, this way. RAY Come on. They turn a corner. PETER gives EGON slime. PETER Egon, your mucus. a bookshelf falls with a crash This happen to you before? RAY shakes head Oh, first time? RAY nods. They continue. EGON's PKE meter goes nuts. They see LIBRARY GHOST. EGON It's here. RAY A full torso apparition, and it's real. PETER So what do we do? no answer Could you come over here and talk to me for a second, please? pulls RAY by the ear Could you just come over here for a second, please? Right over here. Come here, Francine! Come here. What do we do? RAY I don't know. What do you think? EGON starts with calculator, but PETER slaps it away PETER Stop that! RAY We've got to make contact. One of us should actually try to speak to it. EGON Good idea. They look to PETER. He groans and goes to the ghost. RAY starts taking pictures. PETER Hello. I'm Peter. Where are you from? Originally. LIBRARY GHOST Ssh. PETER going back All right. Okay, the usual stuff isn't working. RAY Okay, I have a plan. I know exactly what to do. Now stay close, stay close. I know. Do exactly as I say. Ready, ready, get her! LIBRARY GHOST turns into a monster and scares them. They run away. Music: Cleanin' Up The Town. Outside New York Public Library PETER, RAY and EGON run away. LIBRARY ADMINISTRATOR Did you see it? What was it? PETER We'll get back to you! LIBRARY ADMINISTRATOR What?! Columbia University grounds PETER, RAY and EGON go back to the lab. PETER is laughing at RAY. PETER Hee, hee, hee! Get her. That was your whole plan. Get her. It was scientific. RAY I just got overexcited. But wasn't it incredible, Pete? I mean, we actually touched the etheric plane. You know what this could mean to the university? PETER Yeah, it's gonna be bigger than the microchip. Ray, I'm very excited. EGON working with calculator I wouldn't say the experience was totally wasted. According to these new readings, I think we have an excellent chance of actually catching a ghost and holding it indefinitely. RAY Well, this is great! If this ionization rate is constant for all ectoplasmic entities, we could really bust some heads! In a spiritual sense, of course. PETER Spengs? You serious about this catching a ghost? EGON I'm always serious. PETER Egon, I'm gonna take back some of the things I've said about you. You... you've earned it. gives EGON a candy bar Their lab Moving men cart stuff out of the room. DEAN YEAGER stands in wait. Music: I Can Wait Forever. RAY The possibilities are, are limitless! Hey, Dean Yeager! PETER I trust you're moving us to better quarters on campus. DEAN YEAGER No! You're being moved off campus. The board of regents has decided to terminate your grant. You are to vacate these premises immediately. PETER This is preposterous. I demand an explanation. DEAN YEAGER Fine. The university will no longer continue any funding of any kind for your group's activities. PETER But the kids love us! DEAN YEAGER Dr. Venkman, we believe that the purpose of science is to serve mankind. You, however, seem to regard science as some kind of dodge or hustle. Your theories are the worst kind of popular tripe, your methods are sloppy and your conclusions are highly questionable. You, Dr. Venkman, are a poor scientist. PETER I see. DEAN YEAGER And you have no place in this department or in this university. Outside Columbia University RAY is worriedly pacing. PETER is relaxing with a bottle. RAY This is a major disgrace. Forget MIT or Stanford now. They wouldn't touch us with a ten-meter cattle-prod. PETER You're always so concerned about your reputation. Einstein did his best stuff when he was working as a patent clerk! RAY You know how much a patent clerk earns? PETER No! RAY Personally, I liked the university. They gave us money and facilities. We didn't have to produce anything! You've never been out of college. You don't know what it's like out there. I've worked in the private sector. They expect results. PETER For whatever reasons, Ray, call it fate. Call it luck. Call it karma. I believe that everything happens for a reason. I believe that we were destined to get thrown out of this dump. RAY For what purpose? PETER To go into business for ourselves. Offers RAY a drink. RAY drinks. RAY This ecto-containment system that Spengler and I have in mind is going to require a load of bread to capitalize. Where are we going to get the money? PETER I don't know. drinks I don't know. Outside Manhattan City Bank The three come out of the bank. Fanfare. PETER You're never going to regret this, Ray! RAY My parents left me that house! I was born there! PETER You're not going to lose the house. Everybody has three mortgages nowadays. RAY But at nineteen percent! You didn't even bargain with the guy! EGON flashing a calculator Ray, for your information, the interest rate alone for the first five years comes to $95,000. PETER Will you guys relax? We are on the threshold of establishing the indispensable defense science of the next decade. Professional paranormal investigations and eliminations. The franchise rights alone will make us rich beyond our wildest dreams. Outside Hook and Ladder No. 8 The building's windows are whitewashed. We hear REAL ESTATE AGENT talking. Inside Hook and Ladder No. 8 REAL ESTATE WOMAN shows PETER and EGON the fire house. REAL ESTATE WOMAN There's office space, sleeping quarters and showers on the next floor and a full kitchen on the top left. PETER It just seems a little pricey for a unique fixer-upper opportunity, that's all. What do you think, Egon? EGON I think this building should be condemned. There's serious metal fatigue in all the load-bearing members, the wiring is substandard, it's completely inadequate for our power needs, and the neighborhood is like a demilitarized zone. RAY calling to them from upstairs Hey! Does this pole still work? slides down the fire pole Wow! This place is great! When can we move in? You've got to try this pole! I'm gonna get my stuff. runs up stairs Hey, we should stay here tonight. Sleep here! You know, to try it out! PETER I think we'll take it. REAL ESTATE WOMAN Good. Outside Ivo Shandor Building The building is huge and grandiose. Ominous music. Show the terror dog statues on the roof. DANA BARRETT gets out of a taxi and enters the building. Inside Shandor Building DANA gets off the elevator. Sees a neighbor. DANA Oh, hi. LOUIS TULLY pops out of his apartment LOUIS Oh, Dana, it's you! DANA Oh, hi, yes Louis, it's me. LOUIS I thought it was the drugstore. DANA Oh, are you sick? LOUIS Oh! No, no, I'm fine, I feel great! Just ordered some more vitamins and stuff. I was just exercising. I taped a 20-minute workout and played it back at high speed on my machine so it only took ten minutes. I got a great workout. DANA Good. LOUIS You wanna come in for a mineral water or something? DANA Oh, I'd really like to, Louis, but I have to go rehearsal now. Excuse me. LOUIS No sweat, I'll take a rain check on that. I always have plenty of low sodium mineral water and other nutritious foods in the house. But you already know that. DANA Yeah, I know that. LOUIS Listen, that reminds me, I'm having a big party for all my clients, my fourth anniversary as an accountant, you know, and even though you do your own tax return, which you shouldn't do, I'd like you to stop by, being that you're my neighbor and all - DANA cutting him off Well, thank you, Louis, I'll really try to stop by. LOUIS Listen, that reminds me, you shouldn't leave your TV on so loud when you go out. The creep down the hall phoned the manager. DANA That's strange, I didn't realize I'd left it on. LOUIS Well, yeah, you know what I did? I climbed on the ledge and tried to disconnect the cable, but I couldn't get in, so you know what I did? I turned my TV up real loud too so everyone would think all our TVs had something wrong with them - DANA closing her door on him Bye, Louis. LOUIS Okay, so I'll see you later, huh?! I'll give you a call! I'm going to go have a shower. tries to open his door, but he's locked himself out DANA's living room DANA watches an ad on TV. In the ad: PETER, RAY and EGON stand outside the fire house wearing long blue coats and talk to the camera. RAY Are you troubled by strange noises in the middle of the night? EGON Do you experience feelings of dread in your basement or attic? PETER Have you or any of your family ever seen a spook, specter or ghost? RAY If the answer is yes, then don't wait another minute. Pick up your phone and call the professionals. PETER, RAY, EGON Ghostbusters! RAY Our courteous and efficient staff is on call twenty-four hours a day to serve all your supernatural elimination needs. PETER, RAY, EGON We're ready to believe you! Message flashes on screen: "GHOSTBUSTERS 555-2368". DANA turns off TV. DANA's kitchen DANA lays some groceries out on the table. She turns around. Eggs tremble, leap out of their shells and cook on counter. Growling noise from fridge. DANA opens fridge. The spirit world appears in front of her. A terror dog, ZUUL, jumps out in front of her. ZUUL roaring Zuul! DANA closes fridge, screaming Outside Ghostbusters HQ PETER watches Marty put up a sign, reading "GHOSTBUSTERS" in small type. PETER You don't think it's too subtle, Marty? You don't think people are going to drive down and not see the sign? Marty shakes head. Dark blue hearse drives up. You can't park that here! RAY getting out of car Everybody can relax, I found the car! Needs some suspension work; and shocks, and brakes, brake pads, lining, steering box, transmission, rear end - PETER How much? RAY as PETER groans Only forty-eight hundred. And maybe new rings, also mufflers, a little wiring... Inside Ghostbusters HQ The secretary, JANINE MELNITZ, sits at her desk reading a magazine. PETER comes up. PETER Janine! Any calls? JANINE No. PETER Any messages? JANINE No. PETER Any customers? JANINE No, Dr. Venkman. PETER It's a good job, isn't it? Type something, will you? We're paying you for this stuff!... Don't stare at me, you got them bug eyes... Janine! Sorry about the bug eyes thing. I'll be in my office. PETER goes off. EGON pops up out from under JANINE's desk. JANINE You're very handy. I can tell. I bet you like to read a lot, too. EGON Print is dead. JANINE Oh, that's very fascinating to me. I read a lot myself. Some people think I'm too intellectual, but I think it's a fabulous way to spend your spare time. I also play racquetball. Do you have any hobbies? EGON I collect spores, molds and fungus. DANA enters DANA Hello? goes to JANINE Oh. Excuse me. This, this is the Ghostbusters' office? JANINE filing nails Yes, it is. Can I help you? DANA I don't have an appointment. I'd like to talk to someone, please. PETER bolting out of his office I'm Peter Venkman. May I help you? DANA Well, I don't know. What I'm about to say may sound a little unusual. PETER Oh, that's all we get day in, day out around this place. Come into my office, Miss - DANA Barrett, Dana Barrett. Lab in fire house DANA is hooked up to a machine. As she talks, PETER, RAY and EGON watch a monitor which turns her head different colors. DANA And this voice said "Zuul". And then I slammed the refrigerator door and I left. That was two days ago, and I haven't been back to my apartment. PETER Generally you don't see that kind of behavior in a major appliance. What do you think it was? DANA Well, if I knew what it was I wouldn't be here. PETER Egon, what do you think? EGON shining a head lamp in PETER's eyes She's telling the truth. At least, she thinks she is. DANA Well, of course I'm telling the truth! Who would make up a story like that? PETER Some are people who just want attention. Others, just nutballs who come in off the street. RAY You know what it could be? Past-life experience intruding on present time. EGON Could be erased memories stored in the collective unconscious. I wouldn't rule out clairvoyance or telepathic contact, either. DANA I'm sorry, I don't believe in any of those things. PETER Well, that's all right. I don't either. But there are some things we do. Standard procedures we carry out in a case like this which often bring us results. RAY Well, I could go down to the hall of records and check out the structural details in the building. Maybe the building itself has a history of psychic turbulence. PETER nodding Right, go do that. EGON I could look for the name Zuul in the usual literature. RAY Spates Catalog. EGON Tobin's Spirit Guide. RAY Yeah. PETER Tell you what. I'll take Miss Barrett back to her apartment and check her out - I'll go check out Miss Barrett's apartment, okay? knows he's said the wrong thing; groans to himself DANA Okay, thank you. DANA's living room PETER and DANA enter. PETER Let me. If something's gonna happen here I want it to happen to me first. Opens a few closet doors. Nothing happens. DANA The closet. PETER goes to the piano. Plays the two highest notes over and over. PETER They hate this. I like to torture them. That's right, boys. It's Dr. Venkman! works a tool A lot of space. Just you? DANA Yes. PETER Good. DANA What is that thing you're doing? PETER It's technical. It's one of our little toys. DANA I see. That's the bedroom, but nothing ever happened in there. PETER What a crime. DANA You know, you don't act like a scientist. PETER They're usually pretty stiff. DANA You're more like a game show host. The words sting PETER. PETER That's the kitchen, huh? DANA's kitchen PETER Dana, are these the eggs? DANA Yes, see, I was over there, and the eggs just jumped right out of their shells and started to cook right on the counter. PETER That is weird. DANA And that's when I to hear that awful noise from the refrigerator. PETER starts using his tool again Dr. Venkman, you've come all this way. Would you like to examine the refrigerator? PETER I'll check the fridge. Good call. Oh, my God! DANA is worried Look at all the junk food! DANA No, God damn it! Look, this wasn't here. PETER You actually eat this stuff? DANA Look! This wasn't here! There was nothing here! There was a space, and there was a building or something with flames coming out of it, and creatures riding around and they were growling and snarling! And there were flames! And I heard a voice say Zuul! It was right here! PETER I'm sorry, I'm just not getting any reading. DANA Well, are you sure you're using that thing correctly? PETER Well, I think so. But I'm sure there are no animals in there. DANA Well, that's great. Either there's a monster in my kitchen or I'm completely crazy. PETER I don't think you're crazy. DANA sarcastically Good, that makes me feel so much better. DANA's living room PETER Let me tell you something about myself. I come home from work to my place and all I have is my work. There's nothing else in my life! DANA Dr. Venkman - PETER I meet you, and I say, my God, there's someone with the same problem I have! DANA Yes. We both have the same problem. You! PETER I'm gonna go for broke. I am madly in love with you. DANA I don't believe this. Will you please leave? PETER to an invisible audience And then she threw me out of her life. She thought I was a creep, she thought I was a geek and she probably wasn't the first... DANA You are so odd... No. PETER turning around I've got it! DANA No, no, no, no, no. PETER I'll prove myself to you! DANA guiding him out That's not necessary. PETER Yeah. I'll solve your little problem. DANA Okay... PETER And then you'll say, "Pete Venkman's a guy who can get things done!" DANA Right. PETER "I wonder what makes him tick!" DANA I wonder! PETER "I wonder if he'd be interested in knowing what makes me tick?" DANA Right! PETER I bet you're going to be thinking about me after I'm gone. DANA I bet I am! Pushes him out the door. He sticks his face back in. PETER No kiss? pushes his face out door and slams it shut Corridor LOUIS comes out, then tries to go back in, but he's locked himself out. PETER leaves. Outside Ghostbusters HQ Night. Inside Ghostbusters HQ; upstairs The Ghostbusters dine on takeout Chinese. Music: In The Name Of Love. PETER To our first customer. RAY To our first and only customer. They toast with soda cans. PETER I got to take out some petty cash. We should take her out to dinner. We don't want to lose her. RAY Uh, this magnificent feast here represents the last of the petty cash. PETER Slow down. Chew your food. By JANINE's desk Phone rings. JANINE Hello, Ghostbusters. Yes, of course they're serious. - You do? You have? No kidding?... Uh-huh. Well, just give me the address. Yes, of course. Oh, they'll be totally discreet. Thank you. hangs up We got one! slams down alarm bell Upstairs RAY It's a call! Music: Cleanin' Up The Town. They slide down the fire pole. Downstairs They slide down the fire pole and suit up. RAY Come on! Outside Ghostbusters HQ Ecto-1 drives off wildly. Outside Sedgewick Hotel Ecto-1 drives up. Close-up on Ghostbusters logo. Lobby of Sedgewick Hotel The Ghostbusters enter. PETER Hey, anybody seen a ghost? A pretty lady goes by. They all stare appreciatively. HOTEL MANAGER Thank you for coming so quickly! The guests are starting to ask questions and I'm running out of excuses. RAY Has it happened before? HOTEL MANAGER Well, most of the original staff knows about the twelfth floor; the disturbances, I mean. But it's been quiet for years! Up until two weeks ago. It was never, ever this bad, though! EGON Did you ever report it to anyone? HOTEL MANAGER Heavens! No! PETER Oh, no. You kidding? HOTEL MANAGER The owners don't even like us to talk about it. I hope we can take care of this. Quietly! Tonight! RAY Yes sir, don't worry. We handle this kind of thing all the time! they go up to an elevator MAN AT ELEVATOR What are you supposed to be, some kind of a cosmonaut? PETER No, we're exterminators. Someone saw a cockroach up on twelve. MAN AT ELEVATOR That's gotta be some cockroach. PETER Bite your head off, man. elevator arrives RAY Going up? MAN AT ELEVATOR I'll take the next one. Elevator RAY You know, it just occurred to me, we haven't had a completely successful test of this equipment. EGON I blame myself. PETER So do I. RAY No sense worrying about it now. PETER Why worry? Each of us is wearing an unlicensed nuclear accelerator on his back. RAY Yep. Let's get ready. Switch me on! EGON charges RAY's proton pack, then backs away Twelth floor The Ghostbusters exit the elevator. EGON charges his proton pack. RAY Come on. CHAMBERMAID enters. RAY and EGON shout and blast her cart with proton beams. PETER Hold it! CHAMBERMAID What the hell are you doing? EGON Sorry. PETER Sorry. RAY I'm sorry. PETER We thought you were someone else. Successful test. RAY I guess so. I think we'd better split up. EGON Good idea. PETER Yeah, we can do more damage that way. EGON goes down a hallway, with his PKE meter. RAY walks around, smoking. Sees Slimer pigging out at a room service cart. Is shocked. Cigarette falls out of his mouth. RAY Venkman! Venkman! Ugh... disgusting blob! I'm going to have to hold it myself... Charges pack, aims and fires. Startles Slimer. He flies through the wall. Cart smashes a table and a vase. EGON pokes a man to see if he's a ghost. PETER sees Slimer. Talks into walkie-talkie. PETER Come in, Ray. RAY unhooking walkie-talkie Venkman! I saw it! I saw it! I saw it! PETER It's right here, Ray. It's looking at me. RAY voice over walkie-talkie He's an ugly little spud, isn't he? PETER I think he can hear you, Ray. RAY voice over walkie-talkie Don't move. It won't hurt you. Slimer flies towards PETER. PETER screams and covers face. RAY runs to help. Venkman! Venkman! Pete! RAY arrives. Slimer is gone. PETER is dripping in slime. Venkman! What happened? Are you okay? PETER spitting out slime He slimed me. RAY That's great! Actual physical contact! Can you move? EGON voice over walkie-talkie Ray? Ray! Come in please! PETER I feel so funky. RAY Spengler! I'm with Venkman! He got slimed! EGON That's great, Ray! Save some for me! Get down here right away. It just went into a ballroom! Lobby RAY talks to HOTEL MANAGER regarding the bust. RAY Okay, sir. If you and your staff will just wait out here, we'll take care of it. Ballroom The Ghostbusters hide under a table. RAY scans with his ecto-goggles and sees Slimer near a chandilier. RAY There it is, on the ceiling. PETER That's the one that got me. they come out from under table RAY All right, boys. Ready? Throw it! They fire. Slimer flies away. The chandilier falls on a table and smashes. Lobby HOTEL MANAGER is worried. He tries to open door. Finds it locked. Ballroom RAY I did that! I did that! That's my fault! PETER That's okay. The table broke the fall. EGON There's something very important I forgot to tell you. PETER What? EGON Don't cross the streams. PETER Why? EGON It would be bad. PETER I'm fuzzy on the whole good-bad thing. What do you mean, bad? EGON Try to imagine all life as you know it stopping instantaneously and every molecule in your body exploding at the speed of light. RAY Total protonic reversal. PETER All right, that's bad, okay. Important safety tip, don't cross the streams. Thanks, Egon. All right. Ray, take the left. Egon, take the right. Okay, Ray. Give me one eye on the outside... Ray! RAY fires. Slimer screams and flies away. Egon! EGON fires. Destroys crystal glasses, a layer cake, etc. Slimer flies behind a bar. EGON fires. Keeps firing even after Slimer flies away. Okay, all right, hold it! Hold it! Hold it! Whoa! Nice shooting, Tex! Slimer hides at the ceiling Lobby HOTEL MANAGER I assure you, Mrs. Van Hoffman, there is nothing wrong with the room. It will be ready promptly, in time, as soon as your guests are with us. Ballroom RAY The last throw took something out of him, but he's gonna move! I need some; I need some room to put the trap down. Give me some room. EGON chucks a table Lobby HOTEL MANAGER to MRS. VAN HOFFMAN If you'll excuse me, please. sends a bellhop to get security Ballroom RAY We gotta get this in the clear! PETER Wait, wait! I always wanted to do this. pulls tablecloth out from under table, knocking everything but flowers over And the flowers are still standing! RAY sends out the trap RAY Okay, on my go signal. Spengler, I want a confinement stream from you. Okay? Go! EGON fires and hits Slimer Okay, hold him up there. He's gonna move. Hold him up. Go! PETER fires and hits EGON It's working, Ray! RAY Start bringing him down. Start bringing him down. You got him. Don't cross the streams. PETER Maybe now you'll never slime a guy with a positron collider, huh? EGON Venkman, shorten your stream! I don't want my face burned off! RAY All right. I'm opening the trap now; don't look directly into the trap! opens trap EGON his eyes widening I looked at the trap, Ray. RAY Bring your streams off as soon as I close the trap. Get ready. I'm closing it, now! Closes trap. PETER and EGON stop firing and look away. Slimer is sucked into trap. The Ghostbusters look at it, keeping their guns pointed at it. EGON shoving trap with foot; makes blue lightning It's in there. PETER to Slimer Hey! RAY Well, that wasn't such a chore, now, was it? Lobby A crowd has gathered. HOTEL MANAGER Mr. Smith, quickly. I want that door open now! Stand over there! PETER We came, we saw, we kicked its ass! HOTEL MANAGER Did you see it? What is it? RAY We got it! HOTEL MANAGER What is it? Will there be any more of them? RAY Sir, what you have there is what we refer to as a focused, non-terminal repeating phantasm, or a Class Five full roaming vapor. Real nasty one, too! PETER Now, Let's talk seriously, now. For the entrapment, we're gonna have to ask you for four big ones. Four thousand dollars for that. But we are having a special this week on proton charging and storage of the beast, and that's only going to come to one thousand dollars, fortunately. HOTEL MANAGER Five thousand dollars? I had no idea it would be so much. I won't pay it. PETER Well, that's all right! We can just put it right back in there. RAY We certainly can, Dr. Venkman. HOTEL MANAGER No, no, no, no! All right! I'll pay anything! PETER Thanks so much. RAY Thank you! Hope we can help you again! All right, coming through! Watch out! Class Five full roaming vapor! Watch out! Begin musical montage. Music: Ghostbusters. An apartment A woman does crunches while ROGER GRIMSBY gives the news. ROGER GRIMSBY Good evening, I'm Roger Grimsby. Today the entire eastern seaboard is alive with talk of incidents of paranormal activity. Alleged ghost sightings and related supernatural occurrences have been reported across the entire tri-state area. New York City street JOE FRANKLIN Well, everybody's heard ghost stories around the campfire. Heck, my grandma used to spin yarns about a spectral locomotive that would rocket past the farm where she grew up! But now, as if some unperceived authority... Ghostbusters HQ; bedroom Alarm bell rings. PETER, RAY and EGON run out, still in their sleeping clothes. USA Today wipes to: Street Ecto-1 rushes past. New York Post wipes to: Outside Chinese restaurant A Chinese man gives PETER and RAY some free Peking duck. They bow in thanks. Outside a building RAY wields a trap. RAY Stand aside please! A street Ecto-1 drives up. We hear LARRY KING talking. Time wipes to: LARRY KING's studio LARRY KING Hi, this is Larry King. The phone-in topic today: ghosts and ghostbusting. The controversy builds, more sightings are reported. Some maintain these professional paranormal eliminators in New York are the cause of it all. Rockefeller Center PETER, RAY and EGON run along. Omni wipes to: Outside a building EGON comes out, with a trap. EGON I got it! Pete? Ray! Outside yet another building PETER, RAY and EGON triumphantly exit to a cheering crowd. RAY waves trap. Atlantic Monthly wipes to: A street The Ghostbusters run down, brandishing proton guns. CASEY KASEM talks. His broadcast runs into the next scene. CASEY KASEM Still making headlines all across the country, the Ghostbusters are at it again, this time at the fashionable dance club, The Rose. The boys in gray slugged it out with a pretty pesky poltergeist, then stayed on to dance the night away with some of the lovely ladies who witnessed the disturbance. This is Casey Kasem! Now on with the countdown. DANA's kitchen DANA listens to CASEY KASEM. Laughs and sips champagne. A building PETER Twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week! No job is too big! No fee is too big! Ghostbusters HQ; JANINE's desk JANINE on phone Is it just a mist, or does it have arms and legs? An apartment A woman watches the news as she strings her cello. TV REPORTER to RAY As they say in TV, I'm sure there's one big question on everybody's mind and I imagine you are the man to answer it. How is Elvis? And have you seen him lately? Globe wipes to: Outside Ghostbusters HQ Ecto-1 drives up. Two people ask the tired PETER for autographs. Ghostbusters HQ; bedroom The Ghostbusters sleep. Swirl to dream sequence with dream music. RAY's dream RAY lies in bed. DREAM GHOST hovers above him and vanishes. Then she disappears. An unseen force unbuckles his belt and unzips his pants. His eyes cross and his head knocks back in pleasure overload. Ghostbusters HQ; bedroom RAY falls out of bed. Outside Ghostbusters HQ WINSTON ZEDDEMORE, bearing a newspaper ad, looks up at the Ghostbusters logo sign. Wind down Ghostbusters theme. JANINE's desk JANINE interviews WINSTON over the job. JANINE Do you believe in UFOs, astral projection, mental telepathy, ESP, clairvoyance, spirit photography, telekinetic movement, full trans-mediums, the Loch Ness monster and the theory of Atlantis? WINSTON If there's a steady paycheck in it, I'll believe anything you say. A tired PETER and RAY enter. RAY Boy, I've gotta get some sleep. I'm dying. PETER You don't look good. RAY I don't? PETER You've looked better. You didn't used to look like this. to JANINE Here's the paper for the woman out in Brooklyn. She paid with Visa. JANINE Here's tonight's worksheet. RAY Oh, great! Two more free repeaters. JANINE This is Winston Zeddemore. He's here about the job. RAY Beautiful. You're hired. Ray Stantz, Pete Venkman. Congratulations. Can you help me, please? gives WINSTON some traps Welcome aboard! Outside Carnegie Hall DANA and VIOLINIST exit the building. DANA I don't know where they get these guest conductors. Someone should tell him that it's not going to do much good to scream at us in German. VIOLINIST Well, I don't think the man is competent to conduct a major symphony orchestra. DANA sees PETER DANA Um, could you wait here a minute? VIOLINIST Uh, sure. DANA going to PETER Dr. Venkman, this is a surprise. PETER That was a wonderful rehearsal. DANA You heard that? PETER Yes. You're the best one in your row. DANA Oh, thank you. You're good. Most people can't hear me with the whole orchestra playing. PETER Hey, I don't have to take this abuse from you. I've got hundreds of people dying to abuse me. DANA I know. You're a big celebrity now. Do you have some information on my case? PETER indicating VIOLINIST Who's the stiff? DANA The stiff happens to be one of the finest musicians in the world! Now do you have some information for me, please? PETER Sure, but I'd prefer to give it to you in private. DANA Why don't you tell me now? PETER Well, okay. I found the name Zuul for you. The name Zuul refers to a demi-god worshipped around 6000 BC by the - what's that word? DANA Hittites. PETER Hittites, the Mesopotamians and the Sumerians. DANA reading PETER's notes Zuul was the minion of Gozer. What's Gozer? PETER Gozer was very big in Sumeria. Big guy. DANA Well, what's he doing in my icebox? PETER I'm working on that. If we could get together Thursday night, I'm thinking nine-ish, you know, we could exchange information. DANA I can't see you Thursday, I'm busy! PETER Miss Barrett, you seem to think there is something wrong up here in your mind that says: he enjoys taking his evenings off and spending them with his clients. No. I'm making a special exception in your case. Because... I respect you. It's corny but I respect you as artist. And as a dresser, too! This is a magnificent coordination you have going here today. DANA All right. I'll see you Thursday. PETER I'll bring The Roylance Guide and we'll eat and read! DANA and VIOLINIST walk off VIOLINIST So! Who the hell was that? DANA Just a friend. VIOLINIST A friend? DANA An old friend. PETER Right, I'll see you Thursday! I'm sorry I didn't get to meet you, sir! And I'm glad you're feeling much better. You're still very pale, though! A little sun... VIOLINIST What's he do? DANA Oh, he's a scientist. PETER spins around as upbeat music plays Outside Ghostbusters HQ We see the building as the music winds down. Ghostbusters HQ; basement RAY shows WINSTON ecto-containment unit. RAY This is where we put all the vapors and entities and slimers that we trap. Quite simple, really. Load a trap here, open, unlock the system. Insert the trap, release, close, lock the system. Set your entry grid, neutralize your field andÉ the light is green, the trap is clean. The ghost is incarcerated here in a custom-made storage facility. JANINE's desk JANINE There's a man from the EPA here to see you. He's waiting in your office. PETER EPA? What's he want? JANINE I don't know. All I do know is that I've been working two weeks without a break and you promised me you'd hire more help. PETER Janine, someone with your qualifications would have no trouble finding a top-flight job in either the food service or housekeeping industries. You gonna answer that? JANINE I've quit better jobs than this. picks up phone Ghostbusters! What do you want?! PETER's office WALTER PECK stands in wait. PETER Can I help you? PECK I'm Walter Peck. I represent the Environmental Protection Agency, the third district. PETER Great! How's it going down there? slaps PECK on back PECK Are you Peter Venkman? PETER Yes, I'm Dr. Venkman. PECK Exactly what are you a doctor of, Mr. Venkman? PETER Well, I have PhD's in parapsychology and psychology. PECK I see. And now you catch ghosts? PETER Yeah, you could say that. PECK And how many ghosts have you caught, Mr. Venkman? PETER I'm not at liberty to say. PECK And where do you put these ghosts, once you catch them? PETER In a storage facility. PECK And would this storage facility be located on these premises? PETER Yes. PECK And may I see this storage facility? PETER No. PECK And why not, Mr. Venkman? PETER Because you did not use the magic word. PECK What is the magic word, Mr. Venkman? PETER Please! PECK May I please see the storage facility? PETER Why do you want to see the storage facility? PECK Well, because I'm curious. I want to know more about what you do here! Frankly, there have been a lot of wild stories in the media and we want to assess for any possible environmental impact from your operation! For instance, the presence of noxious, possibly hazardous waste chemicals in your basement! Now you either show me what is down there or I come back with a court order. PETER You go get a court order! And I'll sue your ass for wrongful prosecution. PECK You can have it your way, Mr. Venkman. Basement EGON I'm worried, Ray. It's getting crowded in there. And all my recent data points to something big on the horizon. WINSTON What do you mean, big? EGON Well. Let's say this Twinkie represents the normal amount of psychokinetic energy in the New York area. According this morning's sample, it would be a Twinkie thirty-five feet long weighing approximately six hundred pounds. RAY coughs violently WINSTON That's a big Twinkie. EGON nods and eats his Twinkie. RAY We could be on the verge of a fourfold crossrip! A PKE surge of incredible, even dangerous proportions! PETER coming down stairs We just had a visit from the Environmental Protection Agency. How's the grid holding up? RAY Not good. WINSTON Tell him about the Twinkie. PETER What about the Twinkie? Ivo Shandor Building Lightning strikes the huge building. The terror dog statues on the roof begin to crumble, revealing the real terror dogs inside. On floor 22 DANA gets off the elevator. She passes LOUIS's apartment. Tries to sneak by quietly, but LOUIS runs out to greet her. Music: Hot Night. LOUIS Oh, Dana, it's you! DANA Hello, Louis. LOUIS You gotta come in here! You're missing a classic party! DANA Yes, well, I would, Louis. But I have a date. LOUIS disappointed You made a date tonight? DANA Well, I'm sorry, Louis. I forgot. LOUIS Well, that's okay. You can bring him along! DANA All right, maybe we'll stop by. Okay? goes into apartment LOUIS That's great, I'll tell everybody you're coming. We're gonna play Twister and we're gonna do some break dancing. Hey, everybody - can't open door; has locked himself out... again Hey, let me in! It's Louis, somebody let me in! DANA's living room DANA starts to change. Phone rings. DANA Hello? Oh, hi Mom. - I've been busy. - No, everything is fine. Just that one time. - I will. - I won't. - Mom, I have to go. I have a date. - Yes. - No, no one you know. It's, um- Well, he's a Ghostbuster. Those guys on TV. - Yes, well, I'll have to let you know. Love to Dad. Right. Bye. - Bye! Hangs up. Growling noise. Oh shit. Claw from her chair grabs her. Another shuts her mouth. She screams and screams. Chair swivels around. Door opens. A terror dog growls at her. Chair rushes out the door. Ivo Shandor Building; roof Terror dog statues are crumbled. LOUIS's apartment Music: Disco Inferno. WOMAN AT PARTY Do you have any Excedrin or Extra Strength Tylenol? LOUIS Gee, I think all I got is this cedacelacytic acid. Generic. See, I can get six hundred tablets of that for the same price as three hundred of the name brand. Makes good financial sense. Good advice. Hey, this is real smoked salmon from Nova Scotia, Canada, $24.95 a pound. It only cost me $14.12 after tax, though. I'm giving this whole thing as a promotional expense. That's why I invited clients instead of friends. You having a good time, Marv? How ya doing? Why don't you have some of the Brie? It's at room temperature! You think it's too warm in here for the Brie? TALL WOMAN AT PARTY Louis, I'm going home. LOUIS Oh, don't leave yet. Listen, maybe if we start dancing, other people will join in. TALL WOMAN AT PARTY Okay! They dance. Doorbell rings. LOUIS Oh, don't move. I just gotta get the door. opens door to reveal TED FLEMING and ANNETTE FLEMING Ted! Annette! Hi! How you doing? Give me your coats. Everybody, this is Ted and Annette Fleming. Ted has a small carpet-cleaning business in receivership, and that's drawing a salary from a deferred bonus from two years ago. They've got fifteen thousand left on the house at 8%; so they're okay! throws coats into closet on top of a terror dog So, does anybody want to play Parcheesi? growling Okay! Who brought the dog? Terror dog jumps out. Party guests scream. TALL WOMAN AT PARTY jumps out window. LOUIS runs away. Corridor Terror dog smashes through door. LOUIS runs into elevator. LOUIS'S NEIGHBOR leaves her apartment. Sees terror dog, yells and runs back in. Outside Ivo Shandor Building LOUIS running Help! There's a bear loose in my apartment! Help, help! Help! jumps over a wall DOORMAN A bear in his apartment? terror dog runs out, knocks DOORMAN over and jumps over wall Tavern-on-the-Green LOUIS runs. LOUIS I'm going to bring this up at the next tenant's meeting. There's not supposed to be any pets in the building. bangs on windows There's gotta be in a way in. Somebody let me in! keeps screaming, then turns to face terror dog Nice doggie. Cute little pooch. Maybe I got a Milk-Bone... Terror dog growls. LOUIS screams. Restaurant guests are quiet for a couple of seconds, then resume normal conversation. Outside Ivo Shandor Building PETER What happened? POLICE CAPTAIN Some moron brought a cougar to a party and it went berserk. PETER to DOORMAN Hi, I'm going up to Dana Barrett's. DOORMAN shows him in Floor 22 Police question partygoers about LOUIS. PARTY GUESTS T, u, l, l, y. No! He ran out! PETER knocks on DANA's door. PETER Hello? DANA has become ZUUL. Eerie music plays. She has wild hair and a bright orange dress. That's a different look for you, isn't it? DANA Are you the Keymaster? PETER Not that I know of. She slams door in his face. He knocks again. DANA Are you the Keymaster? PETER Yes. Inside DANA's apartment PETER I'm a friend of his. He told me to meet him here. I didn't get your name. DANA I am Zuul. I am the Gatekeeper. PETER What are we doing today, Zuul? DANA We must prepare for the coming of Gozer. PETER Gozer, huh? DANA The Destructor. PETER Are we still going out? You know, you could pick up the place if you're expecting someone. DANA flops on bed, writhing up and down Do you want this body? PETER Is this a trick question? I guess the roses worked, huh. DANA Take me now, subcreature. PETER We never talk any more. DANA grabs him and pulls him down I make it a rule never to get involved with possessed people. Actually, it's more of a guideline than a rule. she rolls them over DANA I want you inside me. PETER Go ahead! No, I can't, sounds like you've already got at least two people in there already. breaks free Might a little crowded. Now, why don't you quit trying to upset and disturb Dr. Venkman and just relax. Lie down there, relax. Put your hands on your chest. Yes. What I'd like to do is talk to Dana. I wanna talk to Dana. Dana? It's Peter. DANA There is no Dana. There is only Zuul. PETER Whoa, Zuulie you nut. Now come on. Come on. I want to talk to Dana. Dana, Dana. Relax, come on. Dana, Dana. Can I talk to Dana? DANA smiles a vicious smile. The voice of ZUUL eminates from her. ZUUL There is no Dana, only Zuul! PETER What a lovely singing voice you must have. Now I'm going to count to three, Zuulie, and if I don't get to hear Dana, there's going to be some real trouble in this apartment, I think. One! Two! DANA's eyes flutter and turn white Two and a half! The voice of ZUUL screams. DANA rises above the bed. Please come down. ZUUL roars Central Park LOUIS has become Vinz Clortho. He runs around talking to himself. LOUIS I am the Keymaster! The Destructor will come, the Traveler! The Destroyer! Gatekeeper! approaches a horse on a wagon I am Vinz. Vinz Clortho, Keymaster of Gozer, Volguus Zildrohar, Lord of the Sebouillia. Are you the Gatekeeper? COACHMAN Hey, he pulls the wagon, I make the deals. You wanna ride? LOUIS's eyes flare red. He talks to the horse again. LOUIS Wait for the sign, and our prisoners will be released. running away You will perish in flame! Soon as I find the Gatekeeper! COACHMAN What an asshole. Outside Ghostbusters HQ POLICE CAPTAIN knocks on door. JANINE answers. JANINE Dropping off or picking up? POLICE CAPTAIN Dropping off. JANINE Just a moment. EGON comes out with JANINE POLICE CAPTAIN You a Ghostbuster? EGON Yes. POLICE CAPTAIN We picked up this guy, now we don't know what to do with him. Bellevue doesn't want him and I'm afraid to put him in the lock-up. And I know you guys are into this stuff, so I figured we'd check with you. EGON All right. LOUIS is in the van in a straight jacket. LOUIS Are you the Gatekeeper? EGON runs a PKE meter over LOUIS and watches the readings climb EGON You'd better bring him inside. JANINE You are so kind to take care of that poor man. You know, you're a real humanitarian. EGON I don't think he's human. Ghostbusters HQ lab EGON What'd you say your name was? LOUIS Vinz Clortho, Keymaster of Gozer. JANINE looking at LOUIS's wallet Well, according to this, his name's Louis Tully. Lives on Central Park West. Do you want some coffee, Mr. Tully? LOUIS Do I? EGON Yes, have some. LOUIS Yes, have some. EGON Vinz, you said before you were waiting for a sign. What sign are you waiting for? LOUIS Gozer the Traveler! He will come in one of the pre-chosen forms. During the Rectification of the Vuldronaii, the Traveler came as a large and moving Torb! Then, during the Third Reconciliation of the Last of the Meketrex Supplicants, they chose a new form for him, that of a giant Sloar! Many Shubs and Zuuls knew what it was to be roasted in the depths of a Sloar that day, I can tell you! JANINE Egon? EGON going to JANINE, talking to LOUIS Excuse me. JANINE There's something very strange about that man... LOUIS is sniffing a jar of popcorn Listen, I'm usually very psychic, and I'm have a terrible feeling that something awful is going to happen to you. I'm afraid you're going to die. EGON holds JANINE in his arms. Phone rings. LOUIS jumps. EGON I'll get it! Picks up. LOUIS drags the rest of the phone over to him. Hello? Thanks, I've got it. DANA's apartment PETER Egon, it's Peter. I have some news from the world of Gozer. EGON over phone What is it, Peter? PETER I'm here with Dana Barrett. It seems that the Goz' has been putting some moves on my would-be girlfriend! EGON How is she? PETER I think we can get her a guest shot on Wild Kingdom. I just whacked her up with about 300 cc's of thorozine. She's going to take a little nap now. She says she's the Gatekeeper, does that make any sense to you? Ghostbusters HQ EGON Some. I've just met the Keymaster. He's here with me now. PETER over phone Oh, wonderful, we have to get these two together. LOUIS takes a slice of pizza, sniffs it and sticks it on his cheek EGON I think that would be extraordinarily dangerous. PETER Okay, well, hold on to him. I'll be over there in a little while. EGON Good. LOUIS takes phone from EGON. Thank you, Vinz. to JANINE We have to find Ray. I need him here immediately. DANA's apartment DANA lies on her bed, asleep. PETER Bad news, honey. I gotta go to work. Hey, will you stay here in bed until I get back? kisses her Brooklyn Bridge Ecto-1 drives across the bridge. WINSTON drives. RAY is studying blueprints. WINSTON Hey, Ray, do you believe in God? RAY Never met him. WINSTON Yeah, well I do. And I love Jesus's style, you know. RAY ... this roof cap is made of a magnesium-tungsten alloy... WINSTON What are you so involved in there? RAY These are the blueprints for the structural ironwork for Dana's apartment building, and they're very, very strange. WINSTON Hey, Ray. Do you remember something in the Bible about the last days, when the dead would rise from the grave? RAY I remember Revelation 7:12. And I looked, as he opened the sixth seal, and behold, there was a great earthquake, and the sun became as black as sackcloth. And the moon became as blood. WINSTON And the seas boiled and the skies fell. RAY Judgment Day. WINSTON Judgment Day. RAY Every ancient religion has its own myth about the end of the world. WINSTON Myth? Ray, has it ever occurred to you that maybe the reason we've been so busy lately is because the dead have been rising from the grave? long pause RAY shivering How about a little music? WINSTON Yeah. Ecto-1 drives onward. Outside Ghostbusters HQ Police cars drive up. A man gives PECK a manila folder. Inside Ghostbusters HQ PECK enters, with POLICE CAPTAIN and CON EDISON MAN. PECK This way. JANINE Excuse me. Excuse me! Just where do you think you're going? PECK Stand aside, miss, or I'll have you arrested for interfering with a police - JANINE Oh no, hold on! I've seen TV, I know you can't come in here without a writ or warrant or something! PECK brandishing manila folder Cease and desist all commerce order, seizure of premises and chattels, ban on use of public utilities for unauthorized waste handlers, and a federal entry and inspection order. he continues on Basement EGON Vinz, there's one more test I'd like to perform - JANINE runs down. PECK, POLICE CAPTAIN and CON EDISON MAN follow. JANINE Egon, I tried to stop them! He says they have a warrant. EGON Excuse me, this is private property! PECK pointing out ecto-containment unit Shut this off. Shut these all off. EGON I'm warning you, turning off these machines would be extremely hazardous. PECK I'll tell you what's hazardous. You're facing federal prosecution for at least half a dozen environmental violations. Now either you shut these beams off or we shut them off for you. Outside Ghostbusters HQ A taxi drops PETER off. Ghostbusters HQ; basement EGON Try to understand. This is a high voltage laser containment system. Simply turning it off would be like dropping a bomb on the city. PECK Don't patronize me! I'm not grotesquely stupid like the people you bilk! PETER coming down stairs At ease, officer. I'm Peter Venkman. I think there's just been a slight misunderstanding and I wanna to cooperate in any way that I can. PECK Forget it, Venkman! You had your chance to cooperate, but you thought it'd be more fun to insult me. Well, now it is my turn, wise ass. EGON He wants to shut down the protection grid, Peter. PETER You shut that thing down and we are not going to be held responsible for whatever happens. PECK On the contrary! You're going to be held responsible. PETER No! We won't be held responsible! PECK Shut it off! PETER Don't shut it off. I'm warning you. CON EDISON MAN I - I've never seen anything like this before. PECK I'm not interested in your opinion, just shut it off. PETER stopping CON EDISON MAN My friend, don't be a jerk. POLICE CAPTAIN Step aside! PECK If he does that again, you can shoot him. POLICE CAPTAIN You do your job, pencil neck! Don't tell me how to do mine! PETER Thank you, officer. PECK Shut it off! PETER starts up stairs. EGON makes an explosion with his fingers in POLICE CAPTAIN's face, mouthing "Boom". CON ED MAN pulls red lever. Alarms goes off. Lights flash. DANA's apartment DANA trembles. Ghostbusters HQ; basement Walls tremble. Bricks pop out. Everyone starts running. CON EDISON MAN Oh shit. Ghostbusters HQ; entrance Everyone runs like hell. EGON Clear the building! Outside Ghostbusters HQ LOUIS runs out. The door of the fire house is smoking. The roof explodes. DANA's apartment DANA is jolted awake. Outside Ghostbusters HQ Explosion. Pink strams of psychokinetic energy zap out. Crowd gathers. LOUIS This is it! This is the sign! walks away JANINE Yeah, it's a sign all right; we're going out of business. Ecto-1 drives up. Police start to arrive. RAY What happened? EGON The storage facilities blew. He shut off the protection grid. RAY Oh, great. WINSTON That's bad, isn't it? RAY Yeah. PETER Where's the Keymaster? EGON Shit! RAY Who's the Keymaster? EGON Come on! The Ghoustbusters run. PECK and some police stop them. PECK Hold it! I want this man arrested. Captain, these men are in criminal violation of the Environmental Protection Act, and this explosion is a direct result of it! EGON Your mother - They fight. Police try to keep order. The ghosts keep pouring out of the fire house roof. Music: Magic. New York City The pink streams fly over the city. DANA's apartment DANA goes to her window, grinning. Outside subway tunnel LOUIS passes. Papers fly around. A blue creature rises up out of tunnel. By taxi Pink smoke enters a taxi's exhaust. BUSINESSMAN IN CAB enters. BUSINESSMAN IN CAB Columbia Building, 53rd street, and I'm in a hurry, so let's not dawdle. Driver is a zombie. Drives at breakneck speed, making a U-turn. Other cars swerve. Street LOUIS walks down street, gazing upwards. Hot dog cart Slimer is inside, pigging out. DANA's apartment Bolts of pink light fly up, past her window. Another street LOUIS walks down, gazing upwards. DANA's apartment Her wall explodes. Street Pigeons fly from LOUIS. Remnants of DANA's apartment She stares out, her hair blowing in the wind. Jail WINSTON Hey, guard! I want to make a phone call! I just work with these guys! I wasn't even there! RAY and EGON look over blueprints EGON The structure of this roof cap is exactly like the kind of telemetry tracker that NASA uses to identify dead pulsars in deep space. RAY Cold riveted girders with cores of pure selenium. PETER to other jailbirds Everyone getting this so far? So what? I guess they just don't make them like they used to. RAY No! Nobody ever made them like this! The architect was either a certified genius or an aesthetic wacko! PETER Ray, for a moment, pretend that I don't know anything about metallurgy, engineering or physics and just tell me what the hell is going on. RAY You never studied. The whole building is a huge super-conductive antenna that was designed and built expressly for the purpose of pulling in and concentrating spiritual turbulence. Your girlfriend, Pete, lives in the corner penthouse of Spook Central. PETER She's not my girlfriend. I find her interesting because she's a client and because she sleeps above her covers. Four feet above her covers! She barks, she drools, she claws... EGON It's not the girl, Peter, it's the building! Something terrible is about the enter our world and this building is obviously the door. The architect's name was Ivo Shandor. I found it in Tobin's Spirit Guide. He was also a doctor. Performed a lot of unnecessary surgery. And then in 1920 he founded a secret society. PETER Let me guess. Gozer worshippers. EGON Right. PETER No studying! EGON After the First World War, Shandor decided that society was too sick to survive. And he wasn't alone. he had close to a thousand followers when he died. They conducted rituals up on the roof, bizarre rituals intended to bring about the end of the world, and now it looks like it may actually happen! PETER singing So be good, for goodness sake! Whoa! Somebody's coming! Somebody's coming! RAY We have to get out of here. We've gotta get a judge or something. WINSTON Hey! Hey! Hold it! Now we going to actually going to go before a federal judge and say that some moldy old Babylonian god is going to drop in on Central Park West and start tearing up the city? RAY Sumerian, not Babylonian. PETER Yeah, big difference! WINSTON No offense, guys, but I gotta get my own lawyer. JAIL GUARD Okay, Ghostbusters! The mayor wants to see you guys. The whole island's going crazy! Let's go. PETER to other jailbirds I gotta split. The mayor wants to rap with me about some things. Outside Ivo Shandor Building LOUIS walks by. Shocked. Looks up to the top. Remnants of DANA's apartment LOUIS I am the Keymaster! DANA I am the Gatekeeper. they kiss, then go up the stairs to the Temple of Zuul Outside City Hall Police escort Ghostbusters to the MAYOR. Reporters and photographers try to get press. Music: Savin' The Day. POLICE CAPTAIN Stay back! Stay back! Inside MAYOR's office MAYOR I got a city blowing up, and you guys are not giving me any answers! POLICE COMMISIONER All right. We're blocking the bridges, the roads. I mean - MAYOR'S AIDE The Ghostbusters are here, Mr. Mayor. MAYOR The Ghostbusters, all right, the Ghostbusters. Hey, where's this Peck? PECK I am Walter Peck, sir, and I'm prepared to make a full report. These men are consummate snowball artists! They use sensitive nerve gases to induce hallucinations. People think they're seeing ghosts! And they call these bozos, who conveniently show up to deal with the problem with a fake electronic light show! RAY Everything was fine with our system until the power grid was shut off by dickless here. PECK They caused an explosion! MAYOR Is this true? PETER Yes, it's true. This man has no dick. PECK lunges at PETER. Police try to break up fight. POLICE SERGEANT Break it up, break it up! PETER Well, that's what I heard! MAYOR This is City Hall! Now what am I gonna do here, John? What is this? FIRE COMMISIONER All I know is: that was no light show we saw this morning. I've seen every kind of combustion known to man, but this beats the hell out of me. POLICE COMMISIONER The walls in the 53rd precinct were bleeding. How do you explain that? ARCHBISHOP entering Good afternoon, gentlemen. MAYOR Oh... Your Eminence! kisses ARCHBISHOP's ring ARCHBISHOP How are you, Lenny? MAYOR You're looking good, Mike. gives ARCHBISHOP a friendly slap We're in a real fix, here. What do you think I should do? ARCHBISHOP Lenny, officially, the Church will not take any position on the religious implications of these phenomena. Personally, Lenny, I think it's a sign from God. But don't quote me on that. MAYOR I think that's a smart move, Mike. But I'm not gonna call a press conference and tell everyone to start praying. WINSTON I'm Winston Zeddemore, Your Honor. Look, I've only been with the company for a couple of weeks. But I gotta tell you, these things are real. Since I joined these men, I've seen shit that'll turn you white! PETER Well, you could believe Mr. Pecker. PECK My name is Peck! PETER Or you could accept the fact that this city is headed for a disaster of biblical proportions. MAYOR What do you mean, biblical? RAY What he means is Old Testament biblical, Mr. Mayor. Real wrath-of-God-type stuff. Fire and brimstone coming from the sky! Rivers and seas boiling! EGON Forty years of darkness! Earthquakes! Volcanoes! WINSTON The dead rising from the grave! PETER Human sacrifice, dogs and cats living together, mass hysteria! MAYOR Enough! I get the point! What if you're wrong? PETER If I'm wrong, nothing happens! We go to jail. Peacefully, quietly. We'll enjoy it! But if I'm right, and we can stop this thing; Lenny, you will have saved the lives of millions of registered voters. MAYOR smiles. ARCHBISHOP nods. PECK all the wind sucked out of his sails I don't believe you're seriously considering listening to these men. PETER smiles a smug smile. MAYOR Get him out of here. PETER waving Bye. PECK I'll fix you, Venkman. I'm gonna fix you! PETER I am going to send you a nice fruit basket. I'm gonna miss him! PECK All right, all right! MAYOR You've got work to do. Now what do you need from me? The streets of New York Music: Savin' The Day. The streets are clear, but the sidewalks are jammed with people waving signs and cheering. Military and police personnel yell things. The Ghostbusters wait in Ecto-1 with their police escort. PETER Come on, let's run some red lights! The cars start moving. Outside Ivo Shandor Building Dark clouds gather atop the building, shrouding the Temple of Zuul. The police escort drives up. The Ghostbusters get out and suit up. The crowd cheers. PETER Hello, New York! Well, hi, everyone! raises RAY's hand high Dr. Ray Stantz! Would you please? The heart of the Ghostbusters! Thank you. They love you. They love you here! walks down the sidewalk, shaking and kissing hands I like that shirt, pal! Gotta run. Got a date with a ghost! All right, whatever happens, let's be professionals. The Ghostbusters assemble in front of the building, looking up at the darkness above. Lightning strikes the building. RAY We might have to put a little overtime in on this one! Earthquake! A water main breaks. People fall and scream. A pit opens below the Ghostbusters. They fall in. So does the front end of a police car. The earthquake suddenly stops. The crowd comes to its feet. PEOPLE IN CROWD Are you all right? Ghostbusters? Are they all right? A dazed RAY pops out of the hole There they are! the others climb out of the hole Ghostbusters! Ghostbusters! Ghostbusters! PETER We're all right, it's all right, we can take it! You gotta learn to play rough! You wanna play rough? RAY Yeah! WINSTON Let's go! Music: Savin' The Day. They grab hands, pushing down, then up, and go into building Ivo Shandor Building; many flights of stairs They groan as they climb the stairs. PETER Where are we? RAY Oh, it looks like we're in the teens somewhere. PETER Well, when we get to twenty, tell me. I'm gonna throw up. Temple of Zuul DANA and LOUIS stand on terror dog pedestals. Lightning shoots between them and the gates to the spirit world. The gates open up. Floor 22 RAY Twenty-two. Is this it? PETER Yeah. EGON Art Deco. Very nice. RAY Where is it? PETER It's at the end of the hall. Remnants of DANA's apartment RAY points out the stairs to the Temple of Zuul. RAY Hey, where do these stairs go? PETER They go up. He's about to go upstairs. Lightning goes off. He pushes his friends on. Okay. Go ahead. Come on, go ahead. Come on. Go ahead! Temple of Zuul The Ghostbusters arrive. Lightning strikes DANA and LOUIS. PETER Dana! DANA and LOUIS turn into terror dogs Okay. That's all. She's a dog. The Ghostbusters line up in front of the temple. GOZER emerges from the temple. RAY It's a girl. GOZER pets the terror dogs EGON It's Gozer. WINSTON I thought Gozer was a man. EGON It's whatever it wants to be. PETER Well, whatever it is, it's gotta get by us! RAY Right! PETER Go get her, Ray! RAY steps up RAY Gozer the Gozerian! Good evening! As a duly designated representative of the state, county and city of New York, I order you to cease any and all supernatural activity and return forthwith to your place of origin or to the nearest convenient parallel dimension! PETER That ought to do it. Thanks very much, Ray. GOZER Are you a god? PETER nods "yes" to RAY RAY No. GOZER reaching its arms back into the temple Then... die! Fires lightning at the Ghostbusters. They sail across the temple, clinging to the edge of the building. Outside Ivo Shandor Building Crowd screams. Temple of Zuul WINSTON Ray, when someone asks you if you're a god, you say, "Yes!" RAY nods PETER All right. This chick is toast! they march up to the temple Got your stick? PETER, RAY, EGON, WINSTON unhooking proton guns Holding! PETER Heat 'em up! PETER, RAY, EGON, WINSTON charging guns Smoking! PETER Make 'em hard! PETER, RAY, EGON, WINSTON Ready! PETER Let's show this prehistoric bitch how we do things downtown. Strike! They blast GOZER. It yowls and flips across the temple. Nimble little minx, isn't she? Aim for the flat top! They blast again. GOZER vanishes. Well! That wasn't so hard. RAY We neutralized it! You know what that means? A complete particle reversal! WINSTON Hey, we have the tools, we have the talent! PETER It's Miller time! EGON looking at PKE meter Ray? This looks extraordinarily bad. Earthquake at the temple. Rocks fall. Look out! Outside Ivo Shandor Building Rocks fall. Crowd screams. Temple of Zuul Voice of GOZER sounds. GOZER Subcreatures! Gozer the Gozerian, Gozer the Destructor, Volguus Zildrohar, the Traveler, has come! Choose and perish! RAY What do you mean, choose? We don't understand! GOZER Choose! Choose the form of the Destructor! PETER Whoa! I get it, I get it. Very cute! Whatever we think of - if we think of J. Edgar Hoover, J. Edgar Hoover will appear and destroy us, okay? So empty your heads. Empty your heads. Don't think of anything. We've only got one shot at this. GOZER The choice is made! The Traveler has come! PETER Whoa! Whoa! Nobody choosed anything! Did you choose anything? EGON No! PETER Did you? WINSTON My mind's totally blank! PETER I didn't choose anything! PETER, EGON and WINSTON stare at RAY RAY trembling I couldn't help it. It just popped in there! PETER What? What just popped in there? RAY I - I tried to think - stomping and screaming from below EGON Look! RAY No! It can't be! WINSTON What is it? RAY It can't be! WINSTON What did you do, Ray? RAY It can't be! WINSTON Aw, shit! RAY solemnly It's the Stay-Puft Marshmallow Man. Outside Shandor Building Stay-Puft Marshmallow Man stomps cars as people run and scream in terror. Temple of Zuul PETER Well, there's something you don't see every day. RAY I tried to think of the most harmless thing. Something I loved from my childhood. Something that could never, ever possibly destroy us. Mr. Stay-Puft... PETER Nice thinking, Ray. RAY We used to roast Stay-Puft marshmallows, by the fire at Camp Waconda! PETER Ray has gone bye-bye, Egon. What have you got left? EGON Sorry, Venkman. I'm terrified beyond the capacity for rational thought. Stay-Puft Marshmallow Man growls at them. WINSTON Oh, no. PETER Mother pus-bucket! Outside Shandor Building PECK keeps his distance from the marshmallow man. It stomps on a church. Temple of Zuul PETER Nobody steps on a church in my town! RAY One, two, three! Roast him! They blast Mr. Stay-Puft. It puts him on fire which soars up to them. He climbs up the side of the building. PETER Whoa... they run and hide RAY Funny, us going out like this. Killed by a hundred-foot marshmallow man. PETER We've been going about this all wrong! This Mr. Stay-Puft isn't so bad. He's a sailor, he's in New York; we get this guy laid, we won't have any trouble! marshmallow man continues scaling up the side of building EGON I have a radical idea. The door swings both ways. We could reverse the particle flow through the gate. PETER How? EGON We'll cross the streams. PETER Excuse me, Egon, you said crossing the streams was bad. RAY Cross the streams... PETER You're gonna endanger us, you're gonna endanger our client. The nice lady who paid us in advance before she became a dog. EGON Not necessarily. There's definitely a very slim chance we'll survive. PETER giving RAY a friendly slap I love this plan! I'm excited to be a part of it. Let's do it! WINSTON This job is definitely not worth eleven-five a year! they run to the temple just as Mr. Stay-Puft lifts his head up EGON Hurry! PETER See you on the other side, Ray. fires RAY Nice working with you, Dr. Venkman. Fires. They cross the streams. Let's turn 'em on, Spengler! EGON and WINSTON fire Cross 'em now, Spengler! Mr. Stay-Puft sees what's going on. He screams. The four proton beams combine to make one big one, blasting right into the temple. The gates swing shut. PETER, RAY, EGON, WINSTON shouting randomly Aggh! Oh, no! Help! It's gonna blow! Let's get out of here! They stop firing and run away. The Temple of Zuul explodes. Mr. Stay-Puft does as well. Outside Ivo Shandor Building Marshmallow spatters all over. PECK looks up just in time to see a big glob splatter on him. He yells and curses at the sky. Remnants of Temple of Zuul Marshmallow all over everything, including RAY and WINSTON. RAY Oh... oh... Winston? Are you all right? WINSTON Yeah, yeah. they laugh RAY Venkman? Spengler? Venkman? Spengler? EGON, covered in marshmallow, enters Oh, Spengler, are you okay? EGON I feel like the floor of a taxi cab. PETER enters. He has very little marshmallow on him. RAY Venkie! PETER Yeah. I'm all right. RAY Thank God. You okay? EGON I'm all right. RAY You all right? PETER I'm all right. RAY You okay? PETER Fine... Walks away. Comes across remnants of terror dog statue. RAY Oh. Smells like barbecued dog hair. Oh... Venkman. Oh, Venkman, I'm sorry... I'm sorry... I... I just forgot. PETER walks away sadly. Then part of the statue breaks off. A hand reaches out. DANA Mm... RAY Look! The Ghostbusters break open the statue, and PETER lifts DANA out. LOUIS, with a terror dog statue head on his head, walks around helplessly. LOUIS Somebody turn on the lights! Help! Somebody turn on the lights! PETER Go check on that little guy! RAY, EGON and WINSTON go to help them. They remove the terror dog head. LOUIS What happened? DANA coming to Oh... oh... oh... where am I? opens eyes, sees PETER Oh... hi... EGON regarding LOUIS He'll be all right. LOUIS Boy, the superintendent's gonna be pissed. RAY Are you okay? LOUIS Who are you guys? RAY We're the Ghostbusters. LOUIS Who does your taxes? PETER leads DANA away. RAY, EGON and LOUIS start to walk off. RAY You know, Mr. Tully, you are a most fortunate individual! LOUIS I know. RAY You have been a participant in the biggest interdimensional crossrip since the Tunguska blast of 1909! LOUIS Felt great! EGON We'd like to get a sample of your brain tissue. LOUIS Okay. WINSTON throwing up hands and cheering I love this town! Outside Ivo Shandor Building Music: Ghostbusters. The crowd cheers for the Ghostbusters. PETER gives DANA a long kiss on the lips. RAY takes a puff on a cigarette as he waves. PETER escorts DANA into Ecto-1. EGON leaves building. JANINE runs into his arms. JANINE Egon! They kiss. He pats her cheeks. LOUIS comes out, waving. LOUIS What's going on? Does anyone wanna interview me? I'm an eyewitness. I was up there! Red Cross employees take him off, but LOUIS protests. I wanna go with them, in the car. WINSTON puts his proton pack away. The Ghostbusters get into Ecto-1 and the crowd parts to let them through. As Ecto-1 drives off, the crowd chases after it. Slimer flies above the crowd, screaming, and flies into the camera. Fade to black. Final credits roll. The End

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What Will Become of the Cruise Ship Smorgasbord?

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Cruise companies have been fighting contagious viruses for years, which loyal cruisers say makes eating aboard as appetizing as ever

In those early days of the novel coronavirus, as we all watched its terrifying spread from its point of origin, cruise ships dominated the headlines.

Reports of big numbers of cases on board were bandied first as a precautionary tale, then simply a precursory one. In the eyes of the wider public, the Diamond Princess, the site of one of the first major outbreaks outside of China, with 712 infections, 14 dead, and thousands quarantined for weeks, demonstrated not just the highly contagious nature of COVID-19, but a failure on the part of the industry — one often maligned as a source of disease outbreaks in general.

For many loyal customers and people within the industry, though, the illness’s strong sea legs represent bad timing and unfortunate coincidence — a function of nearly 4,000 people, more than a quarter of them staff, packed into a ship less than 1,000 feet long — more than a failure of procedures. The virus caught cruise ships, hit hard and early, off guard and before epidemiologists and public health experts fully understood its nature and characteristics.

It’s no wonder, then, that the industry’s shockingly fast return to the stage leaves much of the American public wondering who in their right mind would go on a cruise right now — or, more precisely, in August, when the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s “no sail” order on large cruise ships expires.

The answer, logically, is people who go on cruises: For those who already prefer their vacations shipboard, confidence in the industry barely wavered. An April survey by the Independent found that two-thirds of readers wouldn’t consider a cruise; that ratio was inverted for readers who had previously been on one. An industry survey in the U.K. similarly found that 75 percent of previous cruise customers would book again — down by only 4 percent from the previous year. And as of April, the LA Times reported that cruise ship bookings actually increased since the same time last year.

None of these surveys asked if or how cruisers still planned to eat aboard, if they’d still feel confident hitting the signature mile-long buffets or communal table-stacked dining halls — or if the presence or absence of these traditional setups would change their choice at all.

With its tightly packed lines, utensils used and reused, and massive numbers of strangers breathing directly over each other’s food, the classic cruise ship buffet and 1,000-person main dining room fall smack into the intersection of large gatherings and restaurants — two things that the novel coronavirus has turned into the stuff of horror movies.

As of April, the LA Times reported that cruise ship bookings actually increased since the same time last year.

But cruise companies come into the ring more prepared than many industries. “A lot of this is things we do every day,” says Wes Cort, the vice president of food and beverage operations for Norwegian Cruise Lines. “We have an advantage here because this is not a stretch for us.” Due to size and strict tracking requirements, ships have long held reputations for spreading norovirus — so companies have fought both the floating-petri-dish image and actual contagious diseases for years.

“I feel like they have a bad rap,” says Kathy Casey, a chef and owner of a food and beverage consultancy who has worked extensively on and with ships, and a cruiser herself. But in her 20 years of experience in the industry, she trusts the sanitation and safety situation completely. “I always joke with my team that I would lick the floor if you asked me to.”

Few people who watched a Japanese video simulating viral spread at a cruise ship buffet would do the same. The buffet seems like the first thing that ships should toss overboard, but so far few of the major cruise lines have released details of their new safety protocols for returning to service. “We’re doing all of this work now,” says Susan Lomax, the associate vice president of public relations at Celebrity Cruises, saying they were working with “a group of leading epidemiologists” to dive into what best practices will be.

The hesitation by companies to put out concrete policies plays out like a game of chicken, with those who speak first risking getting picked apart by the media, customers, and the public. “Cruise lines are talked about quite a bit now,” says Cort. “I watch CNBC, they talk about us every day.” Royal Caribbean ended up backtracking on their CEO’s comment that the famous Windjammer buffet won’t return: While most of the comments on Royal Caribbean’s blogpost on the topic support the company’s efforts — anything to get back on the board — a few voice hope that the changes are temporary. “Otherwise I may have to forgo cruising,” one cruiser posted.

“Buffets will exist in some sort of form,” says Chris Gray Faust, the managing editor of Cruise Critic, confidently, noting that their readers are “very passionate” about them. “But it won’t be this sort of free-for-all where you’re getting your own food.” The evolving nature of what we know about the virus keeps things unstable, as Gray Faust has heard from cruise line CEOs. “The thought is that every week they’re learning more about the disease, and so specific changes can’t be announced yet until they actually know what needs to be done.”

The first of the big lines, Norwegian, put out its new safety plan, called “Peace of Mind,” on June 1. Its plan includes a buffet, but not one that’s self-serve — food items will be dished out by staff. Though he acknowledges this may mean meals might take a little longer, with sanitation, distancing, and serving, Cort says they plan to adjust staffing to expedite the process. But he also knows what people care most about: “We’re not planning on adjusting our menus right now.”

Cort compares changing guests’ minds about self-serve to moving the opinion needle on plastic straws: When they explain it, it makes sense, and guests get it. But he’s adamant the change is minimal, and overall, the goal is “to provide exactly what [guests] have enjoyed in the past — albeit with masks on.” That contrasts with the headline on The Points Guy’s piece about boats returning. “Believe it or not, cruising is back — and it’s weirder than we expected.”

But the drastic headline belies the reality of the outlined safety procedures by Norwegian and smaller ships — which can return sooner than those over the CDC order’s 250-person limit. Many of the changes already exist on ships, points out Casey. “There’s handwashing stations right there at buffets,” along with sanitation stations outside dining rooms, and enthusiastic enforcement of personal use of them by crew members — like Norwegian’s “Washy Washy” song and this “Let It Go” parody by Royal Caribbean employees.

But unlike norovirus, which mostly spreads by particles, the coronavirus significantly spreads through respiratory droplets that travel through the air, meaning even the cleanest of hands can’t contain its movement between people. “On most ships, dining rooms are usually full,” says Sheri Doyle, the owner of Pacific Northwest Journeys, an independent affiliate of Travel Experts and a Virtuoso travel advisor. “People sit cheek to jowl, back to back; you can barely squeeze between tables.” She expects — and hopes for her own cruising and that of her clients — to see more spread out dining hours, and thus more social distancing. Gray Faust says on a lot of the larger ships, a trend away from communal tables was already underway. “The idea of eating with strangers has kind of been decreasing in popularity anyway,” leading ships to move toward smaller tables. “I think this will just accelerate that trend.”

Most notably, the “served buffet” style is already more common than most people realize, she explains. “Passengers weren’t actually reaching out and getting the food themselves” on many upscale lines, nor on larger lines like Holland America during other virus outbreaks. Cort says that normally when they switch to the served buffet, there’s pushback from guests. “I think people are going to be fully understanding,” he says of the current situation. And while the self-serve buffet has some avid fans who will be disappointed if it disappears, Casey notes that staff tune in closely to what people want, asking how much, aiming to please, and keeping the biggest draw on offer: a little bit of everything.

“People love a wide variety,” she says. “They like to cruise because you don’t have to make a lot of decisions,” and that includes on what to eat — the buffet means they don’t have to. As ships moved away from the mega-dining rooms, that variety also morphed — toward more small specialty restaurants, where, conveniently for the current situation, numbers can be controlled more easily through reservations. Cruisers want Indian food and French food; they want fancy meals and barbecue. They want the chance to eat food from Thomas Keller on Seabourn, Curtis Stone on Princess, and Edouardo Jordan on Holland America. These days, says Gray Faust, “some people never go to the buffet, never go to the main dining room.”

While the details about what cruise ship dining will look like in the coming months and years remain unknown, the major lines all emphasize the same thing: that they look to science and regulatory entities like the CDC and WHO for guidance. In addition, Cort points out that Norwegian already has a full division of the company dedicated to health and safety and has brought on Dr. Scott Gottlieb, the former Commissioner of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration and an experienced public health and medical policy expert, as an advisor.

“I would lick the floor if you asked me to.”

As a cruise customer herself, Doyle hopes to see a vaccine or at least rapid tests administered to everyone at boarding before she gets back on, but she also wants to know more about one aspect that few CEOs seem to be addressing. “All the focus is on the guest, and not on worker safety,” she says, stating that recent webinars and industry events have largely ignored the health and safety of the staff — one of the more egregious oversights during the Diamond Princess crisis — not to mention how staff health can affect guests.

“It’s been really upsetting to me,” says Doyle. Three-quarters of the infected crew members on the Diamond Princess were food-service workers, but for his part, Cort says with the pre-screening, quarantining, and testing, his staff will be safe, and that they are already pretty well distanced at their stations. “Food safety inside the kitchen is paramount. I’m not sure if there’s anything we can do more there, really.”

The biggest changes floated so far come in overall reduction in numbers to promote distancing — how many people in a dining room, how many people on a boat. But Gray Faust discourages people from making the logical leap to considering this a sign of impending price hikes for a vacation format long seen as an affordable alternative to high-end resorts. In a recent call with Royal Caribbean’s parent company, she learned that newer ships sailing with just 30 percent load factor (of capacity) break even, and that even older ones — which tend to be less expensive — only need 50 percent to hit that mark.

On top of that, many ships gave customers of canceled cruises credits worth more than their original payment, meaning that plenty of customers have vacation money ready to spend. Doyle’s customers, both those with credits in hand and without, are mostly looking at next year, rather than the immediate reopening.

They assume there will either be a vaccine, “or that things will be better in some ways,” she reports. But with lines requiring lower deposits and offering lenient cancellation policies, the minimal financial risk is tempting.

For her, reassurances about all safety measures — for guests and workers — are top priority in bringing her back. “Overall, it won’t be fundamentally different,” she says of eating on cruise ships. “But new health and safety things might become normal, like how we wear masks in public.”

Which really forms the crux of the evolution of cruise ships and their dining rooms: It mirrors the changes we’re seeing in restaurants on dry land. “We’re all grappling with life as we know it changing,” says Gray Faust.

Really, cruisers considering whether to return to onboard dining rooms are no different from landlocked diners assessing the safety of returning to one of their favorite restaurants. But everybody’s own equation of risk versus reward depends on personal preferences. So while a certain kind of traveler — those for whom boutique hotels and Michelin restaurants are the norm — are unlikely to reassess their judgement of cruises, devoted passengers are trusting in cruise companies to help them find old joys under new circumstances.

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Gil Scott-Heron

Gilbert (Gil) Scott-Heron (April 1, 1949 – May 27, 2011) was an American soul and jazz poet, musician, and author, known primarily for his work as a spoken-word performer in the 1970s and 1980s. His collaborative efforts with musician Brian Jackson featured a musical fusion of jazz, blues, and soul, as well as lyrical content concerning social and political issues of the time, delivered in both rapping and melismatic vocal styles by Scott-Heron. His own term for himself was "bluesologist", which he defined as "a scientist who is concerned with the origin of the blues". His music, most notably on Pieces of a Man and Winter in America in the early 1970s, influenced and helped engender later African-American music genres such as hip hop and neo soul. In fact, Scott-Heron himself is considered by many to be the first rapper/MC ever, a recognition also shared by fellow American MC Coke La Rock.

His recording work received much critical acclaim, especially one of his best-known compositions "The Revolution Will Not Be Televised". Gil Scott-Heron received a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award in 2012. He also is included in the exhibits at the National Museum of African American History and Culture that officially opened on Sept. 24, 2016 on the National Mall, and in an NMAAHC publication, Dream a World Anew. During the museum's opening ceremonies, the Sylvan Theater on the monument grounds was temporarily named the Gil Scott-Heron stage.

Early years

Gil Scott-Heron was born in Chicago, Illinois. His mother, Bobbie Scott-Heron, was an opera singer who performed with the New York Oratorio Society. Scott-Heron's father, Gil Heron, nicknamed "The Black Arrow", was a Jamaican football player in the 1950s who became the first black man to play for Celtic Football Club in Glasgow. Gil's parents separated in his early childhood and he was sent to live with his maternal grandmother, Lillie Scott, in Jackson, Tennessee. When Scott-Heron was 12 years old, his grandmother died and he returned to live with his mother in The Bronx in New York City. He enrolled at DeWitt Clinton High School, but later transferred to The Fieldston School after impressing the head of the English department with one of his writings and earning a full scholarship. As one of five black students at the prestigious school, Scott-Heron was faced with alienation and a significant socioeconomic gap. During his admissions interview at Fieldston, an administrator asked him, "'How would you feel if you see one of your classmates go by in a limousine while you're walking up the hill from the subway?' And [he] said, 'Same way as you. Y'all can't afford no limousine. How do you feel?'" This type of intractable boldness would become a hallmark of Scott-Heron's later recordings.

After completing his secondary education, Scott-Heron enrolled at Lincoln University in Pennsylvania because Langston Hughes (his most important literary influence) was an alumnus. It was here that Scott-Heron met Brian Jackson with whom he formed the band Black & Blues. After about two years at Lincoln, Scott-Heron took a year off to write the novels The Vulture and The Nigger Factory. Scott-Heron was very heavily influenced by the Black Arts Movement. The Last Poets, a group associated with the Black Arts Movement performed at Lincoln in 1969 and Abiodun Oyewole of that Harlem group said Scott-Heron asked him after the performance, "Listen, can I start a group like you guys?" Scott-Heron returned to New York City, settling in Chelsea, Manhattan. The Vulture was published by the World Publishing Company in 1970 to positive reviews.

Recording career

Scott-Heron's 1971 album Pieces of a Man used more conventional song structures than the loose, spoken-word feel of Small Talk. He was joined by Jackson, Johnny Pate as conductor, Ron Carter on bass and bass guitar, drummer Bernard "Pretty" Purdie, Burt Jones playing electric guitar, and Hubert Laws on flute and saxophone, with Thiele producing again. Scott-Heron's third album, Free Will, was released in 1972. Jackson, Purdie, Laws, Knowles, and Saunders all returned to play on Free Will and were joined by Jerry Jemmott playing bass, David Spinozza on guitar, and Horace Ott (arranger and conductor). Carter later said about Scott-Heron's voice, "He wasn't a great singer, but, with that voice, if he had whispered it would have been dynamic. It was a voice like you would have for Shakespeare."

A live album, It's Your World, followed in 1976 and a recording of spoken poetry, The Mind of Gil Scott-Heron, was released in 1979. Another success followed with the hit single "Angel Dust", which he recorded as a single with producer Malcolm Cecil. "Angel Dust" peaked at No. 15 on the R&B charts in 1978.

Later years

Prison terms and more performing

In April 2009 on BBC Radio 4, poet Lemn Sissay presented a half-hour documentary on Gil Scott-Heron entitled Pieces of a Man, having interviewed Gil Scott-Heron in New York a month earlier. Pieces of a Man was the first UK announcement from Scott-Heron of his forthcoming album and return to form. In November 2009, the BBC's Newsnight interviewed Scott-Heron for a feature titled The Legendary Godfather of Rap Returns. In 2009, a new Gil Scott-Heron website, gilscottheron.net, was launched with a new track "Where Did the Night Go" made available as a free download from the site.

In 2010 Scott-Heron was booked to perform in Tel Aviv, Israel, but this attracted criticism from pro-Palestinian activists, who stated: "Your performance in Israel would be the equivalent to having performed in Sun City during South Africa's apartheid era... We hope that you will not play apartheid Israel". Scott-Heron responded by canceling the performance.

I'm New Here

Scott-Heron described himself as a mere participant in an interview with The New Yorker:

Death

He is survived by his firstborn daughter, Raquiyah "Nia" Kelly Heron, from his relationship with Pat Kelly; his son Rumal Rackley, from his relationship with Lurma Rackley; daughter Gia Scott-Heron, from his marriage to Brenda Sykes; and daughter Chegianna Newton, who was 13 years old at the time of her father's death. He is also survived by his sister Gayle; brother Denis Heron, who once managed Scott-Heron; his uncle, Roy Heron; and nephew Terrance Kelly, an actor and rapper who performs as Mr. Cheeks, and who was a member of Lost Boyz.

Before his death, Scott-Heron had been in talks with Portuguese director Pedro Costa to participate in his film Horse Money as a screenwriter, composer and actor.

After Scott-Heron's death Malik Al Nasir told his story to The Guardian's Simon Hattenstone of the kindness that Scott-Heron had showed Malik throughout his adult life since meeting the poet back stage at a gig in Liverpool in 1984. The BBC World Service covered the story on their Outlook program with Matthew Bannister, which took the story global. It was subsequently covered in many other mediums such as BBC Radio 4's Saturday Live, where jazz musician Al Jarreau paid tribute to Gil, and was mentioned the U.S. edition of Rolling Stone and The Huffington Post. Malik & the O.G's performed a tribute to Scott-Heron at the Liverpool International Music Festival in 2013 with jazz composer Orphy Robinson of The Jazz Warriors and Rod Youngs from Gil's band The Amnesia Express. Another tribute was performed at St. Georges Hall in Liverpool on August 27, 2015, called "The Revolution will be Live!", curated by Malik Al Nasir and Richard McGinnis for Yesternight Productions. The event featured Talib Kweli, Aswad, The Christians, Malik & the O.G's, Sophia Ben-Yousef and Cleveland Watkiss as well as DJ 2Kind and poet, actor, and radio DJ Craig Charles. The tribute was the opening event for 2015 Liverpool International Music Festival.

Scott-Heron's memoir, The Last Holiday, was released in January 2012. In her review for the Los Angeles Times, professor of English and journalism Lynell George wrote:

Scott-Heron's estate

At the time of Scott-Heron's death, a will could not be found to determine the future of his estate. Additionally, Raquiyah Kelly-Heron filed papers in Manhattan, New York's Surrogate's Court in August 2013, claiming that Rumal Rackley is not Scott-Heron's son and should therefore be omitted from matters concerning the musician's estate. According to the Daily News website, Rackley, Kelly-Heron and two other sisters have been seeking a resolution to the issue of the management of Scott-Heron's estate, as Rackley stated in court papers that Scott-Heron prepared him to be the eventual administrator of the estate. Scott-Heron's 1994 album Spirits was dedicated to "my son Rumal and my daughters Nia and Gia", and in court papers Rackley added that Scott-Heron introduced me [Rackley] from the stage as his son." .

In 2011 Rackley filed a suit against sister Gia Scott-Heron and her mother, Scott-Heron's first wife, Brenda Sykes, as he believed they had unfairly attained US$250,000 of Scott-Heron's money. The case was later settled for an undisclosed sum in early 2013; but the relationship between Rackley and Scott-Heron's two adult daughters already had become strained in the months after Gil's death. In her submission to the Surrogate's Court, Kelly-Heron states that a DNA test completed by Rackley in 2011—using DNA from Scott-Heron's brother—revealed that they "do not share a common male lineage", while Rackley has refused to undertake another DNA test since that time. A hearing to address Kelly-Heron's filing was scheduled for late August 2013, but, As of March 2016, further information on the matter is not publicly available. However, Rackley still serves as court-appointed administrator for the estate, and donated material to the Smithsonian's new National Museum of African American History and Culture for Scott-Heron to be included among the exhibits and displays when the museum opened in September 2016.

According to the Daily News website, Kelly-Heron and two other sisters have been seeking a resolution to the issue of the management of Scott-Heron's estate. During the time Scott-Heron's 1994 album Spirits was being produced, he was living in Brooklyn, New York, with Nia and her mother.

Influence

Chicago Tribune writer Greg Kot comments on Scott-Heron's collaborative work with Jackson:

Will Layman of PopMatters wrote about the significance of Scott-Heron's early musical work:

Following Scott-Heron's funeral in 2011, a tribute from publisher, record company owner, poet, and music producer Abdul Malik Al Nasir was published on The Guardian's website, titled "Gil Scott-Heron saved my life".

Filmography

Saturday Night Live, musical guest, December 13, 1975.

Black Wax (1982). Directed by Robert Mugge.

5 Sides of a Coin (2004). Directed by Paul Kell

The Revolution Will Not Be Televised (2005). Directed by Don Letts for BBC.

Word Up (2005). Directed by Malik Al Nasir for Fore-Word Press.

The Paris Concert (2007).

Tales of the Amnesia Express Live at the Town & Country.

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