
That night, Sam and Molly are attacked by a mugger who shoots and kills Sam in a scuffle before stealing his wallet. He decides to investigate the matter himself, declining Carl's offer of assistance. One afternoon, Sam confides in Carl his discovery of unusually high balances in obscure bank accounts.

Sam Wheat, a banker, and his girlfriend Molly Jensen, an artist, renovate and move into an apartment in Manhattan with the help of Sam's friend and co-worker Carl Bruner. Ghost earned five nominations at the 63rd Academy Awards: Best Picture, Best Original Score, Best Film Editing, and winning Best Supporting Actress for Goldberg and Best Original Screenplay. The film received positive reviews from critics, with particular praise going towards the score and performances of the cast. Ghost was theatrically released on July 13, 1990, to commercial success, grossing $505 million against a budget of $22 million and emerging as the highest-grossing film of 1990 and at the time of its release, was the third-highest-grossing film of all time. The plot centers on Sam Wheat (Swayze), a murdered banker, whose ghost sets out to save his girlfriend, Molly Jensen (Moore), from the person who killed him - through the help of the psychic Oda Mae Brown (Goldberg). "I thought, 'Dirty Dancing - this sounds like a porno movie.Ghost is a 1990 American romantic fantasy thriller film directed by Jerry Zucker from a screenplay by Bruce Joel Rubin, and starring Patrick Swayze, Demi Moore, Whoopi Goldberg, Tony Goldwyn, Vincent Schiavelli and Rick Aviles. "When they offered me the Dirty Dancing theme, I turned it down," he said. He's hoping it will be a success - in fact, he knows it will - because he says he has applied the same career strategy to this song as he did to I've Had the Time of My Life. They're touring this summer as the Righteous Brothers - "Not a reunion," he stressed, "just for fun" - and he has a new solo album, Blue Eyed Singer, due in August.Ī first single, Don't Ya Love Me Anymore, is due any day. He and Hatfield, both turning 50 at summer's end, are the proud owners of a popular Southern California nightclub called The Hop, where '50s, '60s and '70s music takes center stage. In the meantime, he's consoling himself with plenty of good fortune on several fronts. "My lawyers are working on it," Medley said. He made no money then and will likely make no money from Ghost, even though producers are hurrying out a sound track and may even release Unchained as a single. 1 in 1964) surfaced in the film Top Gun, also without any prior notice. The Righteous Brothers' first hit, You've Lost That Lovin' Feelin' (No. "Yeah, I've kicked myself, but I just keep going."

"I know it's in the low 2, 3 or 4 millions," he said. Medley may be extrasensitive because his losses are far greater on a relative scale than those incurred by a mega-star such as McCartney. But within the last 10 to 15 years, everyone has learned about (ownership.) How could he have let this happen?" "You have to wonder about McCartney," Medley said.

His cherished Lennon-McCartney catalog traded hands several times and with each sale grew more valuable and more costly to buy back. Paul McCartney is a more celebrated example of what can happen when business deals sour and songs slip away. Medley is just one of many artists no longer earning royalties for his work. You keep what's yours, but who knew then?" "Now, of course, you don't get rid of anything.

So I just figured, who is ever gonna want these old songs? We were the last of a regime, and I guess we thought of ourselves as maybe a little older and cornier. "At about the time we split up (in the late '60s) everything was hard rock and long hair.
