Whatcha Gonna Rhyme? Part 2

Yesterday I wrote about “Ghostbusters,” a movie based on the life of Emmett Lee Dickinson (Emily Dickinson’s third cousin, twice removed – at her request).   The movie was originally going to be called “Poetbusters.”  Information is HERE.
 
Harold Ramis, who attended the Emmett Lee Dickinson School for Boys in Chicago, was a great aficionado of Emmett Lee Dickinson, and he suggested the change in the movie from “Poetbusters” to “Ghostbusters” based on Dickinson’s “There comes an hour when shrieking starts.”  He also cited Dickinson’s now-classic poem “My ghost Acquaintances are those” (below on the left).  Dickinson’s poem also inspired third cousin Emily to pen her poem with the same opening line (below on the right).

By Emmett Lee Dickinson:
 
My ghost Acquaintances are those
With Whom I speak no Word –
The Spirits in the Neighborhood
When something’s always Weird –
And so ask “Who ya gonna Call?”
Then wait for their reply  –
In constant – existential Space
Suspicious Fantasy

By Emily Dickinson:
 
My best Acquaintances are those
With Whom I spoke no Word –
The Stars that stated come to Town
Esteemed Me never rude
Although to their Celestial Call
I failed to make reply –
My constant – reverential Face
Sufficient Courtesy.
 

Below:  The stars of the original “Poetbusters” movie (later changed to “Ghostbusters”) in a promotional shot where all four actors are in the classic pose of Emmett Lee Dickinson.  Bill Murray was to play Emmett Lee Dickinson, Harold Ramis was Edgar Allan Poe,   Dan Aykroyd was Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, and Ernie Hudson was James Monroe Whitfield.