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The Ghostbuster and Blues Brother on living in a haunted house, jamming with a president, and befriending a bear called Uncle Joe

Remember that movie [Guarding Tess] with Nicolas Cage and Shirley MacLaine, where he’s the secret service agent assigned to her? Well, John was from Chicago, so he had been to blues clubs that I had never even heard of – he’d been to the Checkerboard, Wise Fools, Kingston Mines, Legends. Photograph: Universal Pictures/RGA/RGR Collection/AlamyAs for film, I always return to The Day The Earth Stood Still, that spectacular movie with Michael Rennie and Patricia Neal about the saucer landing in Washington DC in the 1950s.

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