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Exit Egon: R.I.P. Harold Ramis
Writer, actor and director Harold Ramis died today at the age of 69. In all of the Ghostbusters-centric remembrance, it’s easy to forget that Ramis is also credited with co-writing that movie, along with National Lampoon’s Vacation, Stripes, Animal House, and many others, as well as writing and directing such movies as Caddyshack and Groundhog Day.
And yet all of the memorializing hews to the magnetic pull of Ghostbusters, as if that was the only movie with which Ramis had ever been associated. But there’s a reason for that: Egon Spengler was a geek hero of the highest order. … Read more
