Ghostbusters made Ivan Reitman Legendary but he had such an iconic career other than just those two original films. He left us Saturday in his sleep at home, as reported by The Associated Press. Reitman was the highly successful producer behind several top comedies like Animal House and of course, Ghostbusters. Undoubtedly the world will be grieving the death of another film icon with this tremendous loss. He was 75 years old.
Reitman’s son, Jason Reitman, recently directed and co-wrote Ghostbusters: Afterlife and has often said the film is a love letter to his father’s work on the original films. Ivan was able to see his son’s work come to life this past summer with the highly successful film which was released to highly touted critical acclaim.
Reitman, whose big break came from National Lampoon’s Animal House, went on to be a top mind and producer on several of Hollywood’s biggest, most outrageous comedies from Stripes to Bill Murray’s first starring role, Meatballs. Of course, there is no doubt that Reitman’s best, most prolific work came in the not so spectral form of Ghostbusters. The 1984 film starring Bill Murray, Harold Ramis, Dan Aykroyd, and Ernie Hudson has spawned two sequels now, and a reboot featuring an all-female cast in 2016. However, this aside, his work on Ghostbusters spawned comics, cartoons, merchandise, books, video games, and indeed shaped pop culture for the better. Reitman also tried his directing chops in such comedies as Dave, Kindergarten Cop, and Twins.
Last year, while on the press tour with his son Jason, Reitman, who did have a cameo in Afterlife, was asked about his masterpiece, and how it continued to fascinate, and even grow. He had a great response as he said, “I always had a sort of sincere approach to the comedy. I took it seriously even though, it was a horror movie and a comedy, I felt you had to sort of deal with it in a kind of realistic and honest way.”
Born in Komarmo, Czechoslovakia in 1946, the son of a vinegar factory owner, Reitman will go down as one of, if not the best comedy producers of all time. This is a legacy his son Jason, and daughters Catherine Reitman and Caroline Reitman can be proud of as well as join in with millions of fans worldwide united in grief and celebration of a magnificent and award-winning career. Our thoughts go out to them at this painful time. Ivan will always be remembered for his incredible work and his legacy will live on forever. Rest in peace.
Tonight got some real sad news, one which hurt bad as he was a good friend and someone I looked up to very much so both in life, and ufology has left us…
My good friend, and fellow researcher Butch Witkowski has passed away. While he was supposed to be joining my show tonight as a guest there won’t be a show as I’m in total shock right now, and there are no words to express how sad this loss has left me so I’m not doing my show tonight but me, and Bryan and maybe Danny and some other folks who knew him will do a show to express our final thoughts on Butch, his life, and his work… We last spoke last
December when he agreed to be on my show again as a guest, and I was so looking forward to having him on, and when he didn’t reply the last few days I knew something was happening as this wasn’t normal.
Danny Benten broke the news to me, and I confirmed it with Bryan M. Bowden. Thanks guys…
Butch was an independent researcher since 1989 when, along with four other people, he witnessed a UFO of substantial size quietly hover above a mountain in Tucson, Arizona. That was the day that he began his investigations into the UFO phenomenon. He soon became a member of MUFON and a field investigator. After moving back to Pennsylvania, he concentrated on UFO research and cases related to alien abduction, mutilations, and unexplained encounters.
Butch had been a member of the Caernarvon Township (PA) Police Department in the 1970s. He used his investigative abilities as a police officer for his fieldwork, later becoming the founder of the UFO Research Center of Pennsylvania (UFORCOP).
I met Butch for the first time in 2016 while at a Mufon show, and he was one of the nicest guys around spent sometime with him just talking about his experience in ufology, and tonight he was going to be on my show as my guest. I had booked him back in December, and just got the word that he passed on 01/13/2022 recently.
I’m proud to say that Butch was a friend, and will miss him deeply… My deepest condolences to his family.
Worked:
At Pennsylvania Lycan Investigations June 14, 2014 – Present
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Hanover, Pennsylvania
Director at UFO Research Center of Pennsylvania January 2009 to present
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Birdsboro, Pennsylvania
Research Center for Ufo, Paranormal, Crypto Zoology and Abduction in the State of Pennsylvania
Journal of Abnormal Abduction Research, Bi-monthly journal dealing with the abduction phenomenon
Research Associate at Phantoms & Monsters Fortean Research Hanover, Pennsylvania
Tonight got some real sad news, one which hurt bad as he was a good friend and someone I looked up to very much so both in life, and ufology has left us… My good friend, and fellow researcher Butch Witkowski has passed away. While he was supposed to be joining my show tonight as a guest there won’t be a show as I’m in total shock right now, and there are no words to express how sad this loss has left me so I’m not doing my show tonight but me, and Bryan and maybe Danny and some other folks who knew him will do a show to express our final thoughts on Butch, his life, and his work.
We last spoke last December when he agreed to be on my show again as a guest, and I was so looking forward to having him on, and when he didn’t reply the last few days I knew something was happening as this wasn’t normal.
Danny Benten broke the news to me, and I confirmed it with Bryan M. Bowden. Thanks guys…
Butch was an independent researcher since 1989 when, along with four other people, he witnessed a UFO of substantial size quietly hover above a mountain in Tucson, Arizona. That was the day that he began his investigations into the UFO phenomenon. He soon became a member of MUFON and a field investigator. After moving back to Pennsylvania, he concentrated on UFO research and cases related to alien abduction, mutilations, and unexplained encounters.
Butch had been a member of the Caernarvon Township (PA) Police Department in the 1970s. He used his investigative abilities as a police officer for his fieldwork, later becoming the founder of the UFO Research Center of Pennsylvania (UFORCOP).
I met Butch for the first time in 2016 while at a Mufon show, and he was one of the nicest guys around spent sometime with him just talking about his experience in ufology, and tonight he was going to be on my show as my guest.
I had booked him back in December, and just got the word that he passed on 01/13/2022 recently.
I’m proud to say that Butch was a friend, and will miss him deeply… My deepest condolences to his family.
Worked:
At Pennsylvania Lycan Investigations June 14, 2014 – Present
·
Hanover, Pennsylvania
Director at UFO Research Center of Pennsylvania January 2009 to present
·
Birdsboro, Pennsylvania
Research Center for Ufo, Paranormal, Crypto Zoology and Abduction in the State of Pennsylvania
Journal of Abnormal Abduction Research, Bi-monthly journal dealing with the abduction phenomenon
Research Associate at Phantoms & Monsters Fortean Research Hanover, Pennsylvania
Snoop Dogg is officially in charge at Death Row Records. Decades after the label owned the industry now one of it’s founding members owns the label as yes the “DOGFATHER” himself the cooking with Martha Stewart sidekick Snoop buys the label. The announcement that the rapper has acquired the label came Wednesday and It’s a sentimental move, considering Death Row Records launched his career in the ’90s with his debut album “Doggystyle.”
“I am thrilled and appreciative of the opportunity to acquire the iconic and culturally significant Death Row Records brand, which has immense untapped future value,” the rapper said in a statement.
Check out the music which made the label the monster it once was…
“It feels good to have ownership of the label I was part of at the beginning of my career and as one of the founding members. This is an extremely meaningful moment for me.”
Death Row Records was founded by Dr. Dre, Suge Knight, the D.O.C. and Dick Griffey. It rose to prominence with artists including Tupac Shakur. The news of Snoop Dogg’s business deal comes just days before he will hit the stage at the Super Bowl halftime show.
He will be performing alongside Eminem, Dr. Dre, Mary J. Blige and Kendrick Lamar.
“The fact that people have jobs always contributes to an increase in inflation, and that’s a good thing,” Pelosi said. “But inflation is not a good, you know, we have to contain it.”
“Wages are not keeping up with prices,” Stephanopoulos interjected.
“That’s right, and let me just say what Congress has been doing,” the congresswoman replied.
Pelosi touted the COMPETES Act, which passed the House earlier this month by a 222-210 largely partisan vote and addressed supply chain disruptions exacerbated by the coronavirus pandemic. The bill includes a $52 billion “chips” fund to bring semiconductor fabrication back to the U.S. and a $45 billion investment to ensure critical goods are made in the U.S. rather than relying on China.
“What contributes to inflation? More people having jobs, scarcity of product, which makes prices go up, and the rest,” Pelosi said. “So we passed the Competes Act last Friday – this was a giant step for it.”
Pelosi also promoted Biden’s Build Back Better Act, a $1.75 trillion economic and climate package that is all but dead due to Manchin’s opposition in the evenly divided Senate. Manchin said passing BBB would only add fuel to the already burning economy, but Pelosi pushed back Sunday, claiming it is a “deficit reduction bill.”
“Clearly, he has—,” she said, stopping herself. “Look, Joe Manchin, as you said, is the senator that counts, every senator counts, and we have legislation that is so transformative for our country. When you say what President Biden has done and in this year, whether it’s the Rescue package that has put money in people’s pockets, taken people off of poverty, vaccines in their arms and the rest—”
“Yes, but people aren’t feeling it right now,” Stephanopoulos interjected. “They’re upset.”
“I understand that, but there has to be a cumulative effect, a cumulative effect,” Pelosi said. “And part of the consequences of all of that investment and the infrastructure bill and the rest is that more people have jobs and therefore inflation goes up.”
“Yes, we have inflation,” she continued. “It’s very important for us to address it, we must bring it down, but it’s not right, with all due respect in the world for my friend Joe Manchin, it’s not right to say that what we’re doing is contributing to inflation, because it’s exactly the opposite.”
Pelosi also addressed rising crime in her interview, declaring that the stance taken by Rep. Cori Bush, D-Mo., who wants to defund the police, “is not the position of the Democratic Party.”
“Community safety, to protect and defend in every way, is our oath of office,” Pelosi said. “Public safety is our responsibility.” I still have not decided which is more frightening, that she believes what she is saying or that she expects us to believe it. Employment is not driving inflation. Refuse to believe that which you know is untrue.
Meet Joe Biden’s New Dept. of Energy Hire: A Gender Fluid Drag Queen Into Kinks Related to Animal Role-Playing… This is Biden giving back to the Antifa community as you know most of those people are made up of Trans, and or people in the Alphabet community. So with his misadministration he’s been hiring more, and more of these people.
Sam Brinton, a genderqueer drag queen into BDSM, has been appointed to oversee the US’s nuclear power plants.
“SAM BRINTON will be the deputy assistant secretary of Spent Fuel and Waste Disposition in the Energy Department’s Office of Nuclear Energy.” – Politico reported.
Brinton is a “non-binary” drag queen into “kink” with “they/them” pronouns.
— JON MILLER (@MillerStream) February 10, 2022
Brinton is also a “pup handler” — *yikes*
This is Sam Brinton – a drag queen and LGBTQ+ activist who was just hired to a top level position at the DOE. pic.twitter.com/2zN8s2iMUK
— Libs of Tik Tok (@libsoftiktok) February 10, 2022
This is sickening! Look I have my issues with the police but this is uncalled for by this teacher, and it’s a result of the radical left which is crazy as hell. You know this substitute teacher is a crazy person just by watching this video. Make no mistakes folks this man is looney tunes. I mean watching this shows why we’re having so many issues with schools failing us all over the country. There are a lot of nuts in the school system teaching nothing but hate to kids.
Personally I think this teacher needs his teaching licensing revoked, and he shouldn’t be able to teach anywhere.
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