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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...alpine course Jenny Hale took fourth in the giant slalom and Pam Singer took eighth in slalom...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Men, Women Ski To Fourth Place | 2/22/1984 | See Source »

After 13 movies in five years in which she played a succession of teenyboppers, Diane Lane, 19, has graduated. For her next role in Streets of Fire, a film that is being billed as a "rock-'n'-roll fantasy," Lane portrays an adult singer who is kidnaped by a gang of biker-thugs. "Hormones have happened," explains Lane. "I'm past the growing-up stage." In Lane's most recent movie, Rumble Fish, she was saddled with the unbecoming part of a wayward outsider, a tough adolescent in tarty makeup. Says...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Feb. 20, 1984 | 2/20/1984 | See Source »

...Brigadoon. Stoked by the hellfire-and-tarnation sermons of the starchy Rev. Shaw Moore (John Lithgow), the locals have outlawed dancing. Enter Ren (Kevin Bacon), a city boy with radical ideas about popular music: he likes it. Will Ren win over the Rev.'s wil lowy daughter (Lori Singer)? Will Ren and his pal Willard (Christopher Penn) beat up the town's five toughest punks in a roadside brawl? Will he be able to put the show on right here? You get plenty of time for your three guesses: 106 minutes, discouragingly few of which surrender themselves...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Revel Without a Cause | 2/20/1984 | See Source »

While Jackson's attorneys contemplated a lawsuit, friends denied one rumored cause of the injury: the singer's hair, they say, had no flammable pomade or hairspray...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Too Much Risk on the Set? | 2/13/1984 | See Source »

DIED. Ada Beatrice Queen Victoria Louise Virginia Smith, 89, legendary red-haired singer, entertainer and nightclub owner better known to generations of café society on two continents as Bricktop; in New York City. Born in West Virginia to a black father and a mother who was part Irish, part black, freckle-faced Bricktop began her career in Harlem, then moved to Paris. Cole Porter wrote Miss Otis Regrets for her. John Steinbeck sent a taxiful of roses to apologize for getting drunk in her place. Hemingway, Fitzgerald and the Duke of Windsor were regular visitors to her ultrachic Place...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Feb. 13, 1984 | 2/13/1984 | See Source »

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