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A bit over a decade after Venkman and co. busted some ghosts, and nearly exactly two decades before Gilbert, Yates, and co. started their Ghostbusters, Michael J. Fox was having his own encounters with ghosts. 20 years ago today, The Frighteners opened in theaters. It was one year after Casper, another movie that had its male lead character seeing ghosts after the death of his wife. Frighteners was Peter Jackson’s theatrical film follow-up to Heavenly Creatures, and it was one of the earliest films that wowed audiences with visual effects by Jackson’s Weta Digital. It’s Fox’s last starring role in a live-action feature film. After Frighteners, he started his run on the TV series Spin City and then took on fewer major acting gigs after revealing his diagnosis with Parkinson’s. Hasn’t stopped Fox from taking the stage and rocking out with Coldplay as recently as this weekend.

Veteran comedy writer Ben Starr died Sunday at the age of 92. Starr began his Hollywood career in radio as a writer for Al Jolson, George Burns, Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis. He later segued into television, amassing dozens of credits over a nearly 50-year span, most recently as a writer on 2001′s The Facts Of Life TV Reunion. Starr was a writer and co-creator of the Facts Of Life, which first aired in 1979 and ran through 1988. His other writing and/or producing credits include Mr. Ed (1961-1963), The Andy Griffith Show (1966), The Brady Bunch (1971-1973), Maude (1974), Chico And The Man (1977), All In The Family (1975-1978), Diff’rent Strokes (1978-1982) and Silver Spoons (1982-1987). Starr’s film credits include Oliver Twist (1974), Treasure Island (1973), and 1966′s Texas Across The River and Our Man Flint. He also was featured in Lunch, Donna Kanter’s documentary about comedians.

Marines finds a dead diver on the beach. Tony (Michael Weatherly) checks his desk for the van keys and finds gum, lip balm and change. Ziva (Cote de Pablo) finds some leftover candy from Valentine's day. Tony can't resist asking who it's from, it matters since Ziva "didn't eat it, so that person must not mean very much to you." Ziva replies it means nothing, which got Tony's goat, he's glad he wasn't her Valentine and so is she. Tony found McGee's (Sean Murray) CDs in his desk, which means McGee should've looked harder for them. McGee apologizes for not thinking to look in Tony's desk. Whoever drove the van last, has the keys. Tony got pizza cos he was hungry, that's nothing new, so doesn't he have his own car to drive now, or the agency car. Ziva asks where the dumpster is, why's she asking that when she's...