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Elmer Bernstein (April 4, 1922 – August 18, 2004) was an American composer and conductor best known for his many film scores. In a career which spanned fifty years, he composed music for hundreds of film and television productions. His most popular works include the scores to The Magnificent Seven, The Ten Commandments, The Great Escape, To Kill a Mockingbird, Ghostbusters, The Black Cauldron, Airplane!, and The Rookies. Bernstein won an Oscar for his score to Thoroughly Modern Millie (1967) and was nominated for fourteen Oscars in total. He also won two Golden Globes and was nominated for two Grammy Awards. Bernstein wrote the theme songs or other music for more than 200 films and TV shows, including The Magnificent Seven, The Great Escape, The Ten Commandments (1956), The Man with the Golden Arm, To Kill a Mockingbird, Robot Monster, and the fanfare used in the National Geographic television specials. His theme for The Magnificent Seven is also familiar to television viewers, as it was used in commercials for Marlboro cigarettes. Bernstein also provided the score to many of the short films of Ray and Charles Eames. In 1961 Bernstein co-founded Äva Records an American record label based in Los Angeles together with Fred Astaire, Jackie Mills and Tommy Wolf.
Elmer Bernstein
Composer
for Composer in Ghostbusters: A Nightmare in New York (1986)
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It's October in New York, Peter Venkman (Bill Murray), Ray Stantz (Dan Aykroyd), Egon Spengler (Harold Ramis) and Winston Zeddemore (Ernie Hudson) are still individually recovering from the 1984 incident where Gozer came into their dimension, nearly destroying the city and the world. However, one night changed into something much darker. Reports of some of the local teenagers dying in their sleep start popping up around the city. Ray starts to dig into some research on the ongoing situation, finding similar incidents in Springwood, Ohio and all were connected by one name that stood out, the child murdering dream stalker. Freddy Krueger, later that night Peter Venkman also began to suffer nightmares before The Springwood Slasher began to target Ray, Egon, Winston and everyone around them as now the Ghostbusters have a foe that is more sinister than anything that they have faced. Egon dug into deeper research and found one of the many survivors that Krueger had targeted, Nancy Thompson. (Heather Langenkamp) who just happened to be living in the city away from Springwood, Nancy called for some help back home as well, three individuals who have been holed up in Westin Hills that have encountered Krueger before. Now with the Ghostbusters and the survivor of Krueger's reign of terror in place with the help of some of Elm Street's last children. Can they stop the maniacal dream demon once and for all, or will New York have another Elm Street that Freddy will dwell?..
