(1982)and henTrading Places (1983).Murphy became one of the first black movie stars to be widely accepted by white America.The film was the biggest box-office hit of the year (at $234.8 million), barely edging outGhostbusters (1984)at $229.2 million (domestic).However, afterGhostbusters"" re-release in 1985, it became the # 1 highest-grossing box-office (domestic) film of 1984 (with box-office success of $243.After the surgery, Cukrowicz confronted and berated Hostader in his office, and threatened to return to Chicago after six months of empty promises about improving the facility.Although she considered Breedlove "arrogant, self-centered, and yes, a somewhat entertaining man," she phoned him up and invited him to her bedroom one evening soon after to look at a Renoir painting as a pretext for sex (after fifteen years of celibacy): "I""m inviting you to come over and look at my Renoir.He had also directed the Kanin""s first screenplay two years earlier forA Double Life (1947)starring Ronald Colman.