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| From | "Stewart Mason" <craigtorso@verizon.net> |
| Subject | Re: Opening acts/SCTV |
| Date | Fri, 25 Feb 2005 14:31:41 -0500 |
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From: "Jaimie Vernon" <bullseyecanada@hotmail.com>
>>On the other thread: for me SCTV was never the same after Harold
>>Ramis left. So I'm going way back when it was only a half hour show,
>>I think.
>
> I believe Ramis was only with the show for a season and a half.
> Guess he had Chevy Chase's agent working for him [i.e. quit hit TV
> show in mid-flight]. Ramis's saving grace was that he went on to
> work in feature film as not only an actor, but as writer and
> producer (Ghostbusters, anyone?).
Watching the season one DVDs made me nostalgic enough to pick up Dave
Thomas' book about SCTV through Amazon: apparently, the story is that
Ramis simply preferred being a writer/producer to being onscreen, and
when he got the chance to move to L.A. and do that, he took it. Can't
really blame the guy.
What, no love for Tom Monroe? "Turning Japanese, I think I'm turning
Japanese..."
S
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