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Always looking for new challenges, Bernstein kept breaking new ground, scoring some of the biggest blockbuster comedies of the Seventies and Eighties, including John Landis' National Lampoon's Animal House. Bernstein became highly sought after for high-profile comedies, composing the music for such blockbusters as Slap Shot, Meatballs, Airplane!, Ivan Reitman's innovative animated feature Heavy Metal, Stripes, Trading Places, which garnered Bernstein his twelfth Oscar nomination, Ghostbusters, Three Amigos, and Funny Farm! Even with these great successes, Bernstein refused to be limited to a certain genre and told his agent to say "No" to the sequel Ghostbusters 2.
(from his official bio)
Did you ever feel, during those phases, that you were being pigeonholed into the genre? Oh, definitely - there's no question! For instance, the comedies. Well, the second film I did was a comedy - Never Wave at a WAC - but I didn't really do a lot of comedies until I got the Academy Award for Thoroughly Modern Millie. But in 1977, I did the music for Animal House which was a huge commercial success. So for about ten years I was in demand to do comedies - and yes, I couldn't get out of there! Finally, when it came to the point of whether or not I should do Ghostbusters 2, I realized I needed to get out.
(from a 7/26/2000 interview)
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