Ray: Hey, I'm more than willing to talk about having my character be your's mentor/old friend/father figure, but you seemed pretty set on the idea that he would quit after the first real case. I'M not going away that easily. It'd add an interesting dimension to Doc Fritz, though–a nice break from the Mad Scientist stereotypes.
Here's one more profile I think belongs with ours… :d
Name Peter C. Venkman
Role: Financial backer/Senior Advisor/Ghostbuster Emiritus
Age 48
Born October 25, 1954
Height: 6'
Weight: 180lbs
Hair: Brown. It's greying but only his wife and his hairdresser know that…
Eyes: Green
Build: Average
Former jobs: Ghostbuster, Talk Show Host, Psychic Researcher
Hobbies: Model Trains, Baseball cards
College: Columbia University
Phds in what: Parapshychology and Psychology.
Likes: Women, especially tall, musically inclined ones; Dewey LaMort westerns; women; the New York Giants; women; carrots; women; alternative music. Did we mention he has an eye for women?
(Note that it's only an academic interest now: Venkman loves Dana and is faithful to her)
Dislikes: Cockroaches, green slime, hay fever season, and having his hair tousled
Peter Venkman is, of course, an authenic Legend of Ghostbusting. He was raised by conman Charlie Venkman, but discovered the value of honesty and hard work via his meeting an intensely serious young man named Egon Spengler at Columbia University in 1973. Later, the energetic Ray Stantz would join their team, and they would work in the Psychology department until they were fired by Dean Yeager in 1983. Shortly after that, Venkman conned Ray into getting three mortgages on his parents house to found the original Ghostbuster team. Venkman, Egon, Ray, Winston Zeddemore, and Janine Melnitz (now Janine Spengler) would form a close surrogate family of sorts, and spend three years defending the world from supernatural menaces such as Gozer, Cthulhu, Proteus, Mee-Krah, and Hob Ana Garik.
In their first case, Venkman met celloist Dana Barrett and fell madly in love with her. Unfortunately, after the battle with Gozer she dumped him because he wouldn't commit to her. She married another man and gave birth to a son before divorcing him in 1988.
In 1986, the Ghostbusters were forced to disband as part of settlement of lawsuits dating back to the Gozer crisis of 1983. Venkman became host of a cheesy low-budget talk show,
World of the Psychic, until the Ghostbusters were allowed to return to buisness in late 1988.
During the Vigo the Carpathian crisis, Venkman was reunited with Dana Barrett. Both had grown, but their dating was derailed when Dana was offered a position with a travelling orchestra, and spent most of the next three years travelling around the world with her son, Oscar.
At the end of 1991, the Ghostbusters were once again forced to disband. As fate would have it, Dana's obligation to the orchestra ended about that time and Venkman made the ultimate commitment to her: the two wed in 1992, and moved to California, where Venkman became a Hollywood agent. He colluded with Dan Aykroyd for several years to get
Ghostbusters 3 made, but by 1998 the project collapsed because neither Bill Murray or Venkman's second choice to play him, Brad Pitt, would sign onto the project.
In 2003 Venkman was living happily in LA with his wife and stepson, and the small Canadian publisher he was secretly funding, 88MPH Studios, had just announced that it would be publishing a new Ghostbusters comic book when fate would again intervene…at the premiere of
Dance of the Skeletons…
PS: Lupin III is just awesome. I also watch Sealab and Space Ghost (when they show it). But my absolute fave is Aqua Teen Hunger Force!!! (You may recall I used the dumb alien with the German accent, Oglethrope, in my sig picture for a while
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