Spiegel Stuff: The Man in the Latex Suit; the Making of ‘Ghostbusters’; the Real-Life Exorcist

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'Tis the season for all things scary. As the air gets brisker, the nights get shorter, and we inch closer to Halloween, sit back with these eerie tales from the VF Archive.

The Making of Ghostbusters

From a potential lead who died of a drug overdose to a marshmallow-man suit that went up in flames, Ghostbusters looked like anything but a slam dunk when Columbia Pictures made it. Lesley M. M. Blume reveals how Dan Aykroyd's big idea led to an all-time comedy classic.

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Battling the Devil

When he made his 1973 classic The Exorcist, William Friedkin had never seen an exorcism, and for decades he wondered how close his film had come to reality. Then, the director was allowed to film as Father Amorth—a 91-year-old Vatican legend who would die just four months later—fought to expel Satan from an Italian woman. It began a chilling investigation into the phenomenon of possession.

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"Dr. Lecter, My Name Is Clarice Starling"

Thirty-three years ago, a lionhearted FBI trainee went to a cannibalistic killer for advice. Together, they changed pop culture. Jodie Foster and Anthony Hopkins talk with VF about the legacy of The Silence of the Lambs.

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The Man in the Latex Suit

The killing in Geneva of Edouard Stern, one of Europe's richest men, stunned the global financial elite. Once the heir apparent to Michel David-Weill, his father-in-law, at the investment bank Lazard Frères, Stern was known as much for his brutal arrogance as for his dashing style. With exclusive access to the financier's inner circle, including the friend who found his latex-clad, bullet-riddled body, Bryan Burrough reveals the fears and enemies that plagued Stern's last days as well as the erotic entanglement that came undone just before his death.

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Twin Visions

The dark, fractured world of Twin Peaks sprang from the imaginations of not one but two single-minded auteurs. Faced with David Lynch's compulsion to erase answers, fans have come to rely on Mark Frost for clues to the fates of their favorite characters.

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Saturday, October 26, 2024

The Man in the Latex Suit; the Making of ‘Ghostbusters’; the Real-Life Exorcist

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