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Word: rockers (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...David Bowie in his next movie looks like a wild-haired descendant of Cookie Monster and Chewbacca the wookie, well, in a manner of speaking, he is. The versatile rocker has just finished shooting Labyrinth, a $25 million gothic fantasy directed by Muppets Creator Jim Henson and overseen by Star Wars Mastermind George Lucas. Bowie, who wrote and sings a batch of new songs for the movie, plays Jareth the Goblin King, a baddie who lives at the center of a maze and turns human babies into goblins. Most of the other characters are part of a new Hensonagerie that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Sep. 23, 1985 | 9/23/1985 | See Source »

...model turned actress from Lake Oswego, Ore. He and the blue-eyed brunet beauty will wed this week in a nuptial Mass at her hometown church (both are Roman Catholics, neither has been married before). "We're very proud to have Bruce Springsteen in our family," bubbled the rocker's mother-in-law-to-be. "We just couldn't be happier." Sounds like your basic down-to-earth family wedding. Ah, but who will be the Boss at home...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: May 20, 1985 | 5/20/1985 | See Source »

...efficient living machine, but she is also helping to redefine the boundaries of femininity. One man's Helen of Troy is another man's sideshow hermaphrodite. So when Francis strolls in to meet her more discreetly muscled competitors for the World Cup, she causes the commotion of a punk rocker intruding on an at home at Lady Astor's. Producer- Director George Butler catches many weirdly poignant moments, backstage and onstage, from a sport in which women declare their sexual independence by miming the physical self-absorption of the male jock. It's like a Jane Fonda workout carried...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Real People in a Reel Peephole | 5/6/1985 | See Source »

...writes a piece for the school paper on female reproductive organs. Yawn, Carla, unresponsive to Louden's sexual urgings, plays the stoic sex kitten for most of the movie. She doesn't even take off her clothes, destroying any hope of a teen-sex angle. In addition, rocker Madonna makes a cameo appearance, and she doesn't take her clothes off either...

Author: By Christopher J. Harley, | Title: A Philosophical Athlete? | 3/16/1985 | See Source »

...melted Crayolas and who dresses in the kinds of duds gypsies might wear if they had proms. Part Piaf, part Little Peggy March, she also has a razzle- dazzle, multi-octave range, a voice that can coax a broken promise out of a ballad or pin a rocker right to the mat. She has the whole package. But Madonna has the look...

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

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