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...could provide such a uniquely 1980s fusion of chic and sleaze. WrestleMania's guest referee is Muhammad Ali; the guest ring announcer is Battlin' Billy Martin; the guest timekeeper, manipulating a tiny silver bell that might have come from King Farouk's dinner table, is Liberace. Pop Thrush Cyndi Lauper is "managing" Wendi Richter ("150 pounds of twisted steel and sex appeal") as she attempts to regain her W.W.F. championship belt from zaftig Leilani Kai, managed by former longtime (28 years) women's champ, the Fabulous Moolah. And in the main event, teaming with Hulk Hogan against the preening Paul...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Hype! Hell Raising! Hulk Hogan! | 4/15/1985 | See Source »

...Saturday Night's Main Event, the pilot for a possible monthly series, in its Saturday Night Live slot May 11. Three videocassettes, including one on the Hulkster, are scheduled to hit the stores next month. There are Hulk Hogan action dolls, T shirts and sweatbands. Propelled by Hogan and Lauper, who last year brought her rock-'em sock-'em glamour to the "sport," wrestling has moved from the regional sideshows of trash sports to the national...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Hype! Hell Raising! Hulk Hogan! | 4/15/1985 | See Source »

...song, We Are the World, written by Michael Jackson and Lionel Richie, featured, besides the vocal talents of Belafonte and its composers, the arranging prowess of Quincy Jones and the raised voices of some of the brightest names in the music business. Ray Charles. Bruce Springsteen. Willie Nelson. Cyndi Lauper. Billy Joel. Tina Turner. Kenny Rogers. Kim Carnes. Paul Simon. Diana Ross. Huey Lewis. Dionne Warwick. Bob Dylan. And keep counting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Forty-Five Voices | 3/25/1985 | See Source »

Coloring is also a big part of this spring's hair styles, and that means everything from subtle highlighting to "Cyndi Lauper kind of coloring," as Gino Ruotolo, owner of Gino's' Parruchiere on 20 Holyoke St., jokingly puts it Because hair fades with washing, highlighting is designed to bring out the natural shade of your hair through a process of "lifting" the color to one of 12 successive shades...

Author: By Andrea Shen, | Title: What's New in Hair | 3/19/1985 | See Source »

...records, neither Lauper's nor Madonna's efforts come within a mile of Tina Turner's splendid album of racked soul, Private Dancer, or get into the depth and irony explored by Linda Thompson on the just released One Clear Moment. But, as pop icons, Lauper and Madonna are exerting more power right now than any other women on the scene. With her squashed face looking as if it is pressed perpetually behind glass, Lauper is every lost girl's projection of success: a little nutty, a lot mocking and splendidly vindicated, all in her own terms. Madonna...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: These Big Girls Don't Cry | 3/4/1985 | See Source »

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