#the 80s
This week on FFR, we’re casting a spell with the amazing women of The Witches of Eastwick! Join us as we talk about the film’s decidedly 80s gender and sexual politics, its all-out strangeness, and Jack Nicholson’s scenery-chewing performance. Listen now
Just found this incredible video of Kate Bush discussing vegetarian food on a cooking show in 1980.
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9 Books That Pine for the ’80s
[via Penguin Random House]
The 1980s. Is there a decade more imitated, recreated, and memorialized — from the power ballads to the AIDS crisis to the late-decade fall of the Berlin Wall? With so many iconic movies and other coming-of-age pop culture artifacts created during the period, it’s no surprise that the same nostalgic fondness has extended to the novel.
- We Ride Upon Sticks by Quan Barry
- The Address by Fiona Davis
- Swing Time by Zadie Smith
- Red at the Bone by Jacqueline Woodson
- Tell the Wolves I’m Home by Carol Rifka Brunt
- My Best Friend’s Exorcism by Grady Hendrix
- A Ladder to the Sky by John Boyne
- The Secret History by Donna Tartt
- Ready Player One by Ernest Cline
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“The Night the Reindeer Died” (1988), a TV movie event greenlit by the controversial and polarizing IBC television network executive, Frank Cross. In it, Lee Majors battles terrorists who seized the North Pole led by Walter Goggins.
“Oh, and Lee? You’ve been a very good boy this year.”
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2. According to his book Trump: The Art of the Deal, what did Donald Trump do the day after meeting that “man of great warmth,” Cardinal John O’Connor?
a) He volunteered to renovate three churches of the Cardinal’s choosing
b) He went to confession for the first time in years and spent several hours in the booth
c) He used him as a character reference on his application for a Nevada gambling license
d) He tried to enlist the Cardinal in his campaign to jail street peddlers who spill condiments on the sidewalk
The Clothes Have No Emperor: A Chronicle of the American 80s, pgs. 223-224.
Correct answer: C.
Und in der HAUPT-ROLLE B-) …äh, in der Haupt-NEBEN-ROLLE ;-) : Gerhard Martin als 3 verschiedene Komparsen/Statisten !!! B-) :D YEAH !!! B-) Als: jubelnder Zuschauer in den Tribünen, als Kameramann auf der Schanze & als Canadian Coach im Auslauf
Happy birthday Tommy Lee! (b. 3rd October 1962)
Photo: Tommy Lee photographed backstage by Neal Preston (1989)
