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I would like to know if Bruce Joel Rubin, the screenwriter of "Ghost", found the inspiration for it in the M*A*S*H* tv episode "Follies of the Living, Concerns of the Dead"?? Very parallell ideas from the very start (dead soldier's ghost rises out his body and talks to
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Sam Wheat is the main character in the movie Ghost and is played by
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seemingly impossible states of being, situations, or environments will require considerable psychological adjustment, but a character suffering from Sam Wheat syndrome will pass through most of the length of the program without fully coming to grips with the situation at hand.
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So what is this Sam Wheat
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I keep hearing about this, but it's mentioned nowhere in the article. At what point did someone drive someone else nuts by singing "
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Yeah, I sing this sometimes to drive other people crazy, but in the movie Sam uses this device to persuade Oda Mae to help him.
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The sypnosis part of the article is badly written, improper for an encyclopedia... I suggest a revision.
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