

Then at the end, Dom DeLuise appeared for no reason, dressed as what I think was supposed to be the Phantom of the Opera, and sort of banished the ghosts by blasting electricity through his fingertips at them. Poor Ray Parker Jr was forced to perform the entire song from inside a levitating forklift truck that he had spent more than a minute quietly manoeuvring into place at the start of his performance. In the 3000 meter track and field event, Ms. The 28-year-old bodyguard, who was representing Ethiopia, could not find suitable shoes in Rome. In the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, Zola Budd age 17 famously collided with Mary Decker. The ghosts clattered around to hokey xylophone runs. In the 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome, a relatively unknown marathon runner named Abebe Bikila became famous in one of the weirdest episodes from the Games' history. Three Ghostbusters appeared, but they were dressed in purple satin jumpsuits and appeared to be holding the same laser guns as Orange James Bond from two years previously.

Ray Parker Jr’s theme was nominated for best song in 1985, but his performance bore zero resemblance to anything even remotely connected to Ghostbusters.

The best thing about the Oscars in the 80s was how obviously the organisers didn’t care about the nominated films. Photograph: ABC Photo Archives/Walt Disney Television/Getty Images Olympic medallist Gail Emms said spectators, who had. Dom DeLuise (centre) and Ray Parker Jr (on the forklift) performing Ghostbusters in 1985. All four pairs were accused of wanting to lose in an attempt to manipulate the draw for the knockout stage.
