The Real Mystery Behind Poltergeist

I'm not sure how it happened, but I managed to go 30.5 years without seeing Poltergeist.  (Or technically 25 years since it came out in 1982.)  I finally saw it last night in the comfort of a spooky creaky building, where you could hear neighbors whispering in the adjacent units.

I love me some scary movies, and usually they're as scary as I let them be.  I decided to let this one scare me bad, so I spent of lot of it bundled up in my hoodie, hiding under a pillow, letting myself get freaked out.  But there was one nagging detail that kept me from fully surrendering myself to the fear....

And that detail is that Dr. Lesh, the lead old-lady paranormal expert who came to help them, looks exactly like Dorothy Michaels from Tootsie:

 

So when I got scared, I would just start thinking of Dr. Lesh breathily appealing to Dr. Ambruster about how she was a damned fine hospital administrator, and it just ruined everything.