Showing posts with label 80s. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 80s. Show all posts
July 11, 2025

LIve Aid at 40: Personal Reflections from the Day Pop Music Reached Its Pinnacle: Part 1

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As we reach the 40th anniversary of Live Aid, many articles are being written and CNN is planning a multi-episode documentary about what was...
April 12, 2025

John Hughes Already Explained Everything You Need to Know About Trump's Tariff Plan

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In a frighteningly uncanny case of life imitating art, this well-known scene from John Hughes classic Ferris Bueller's Day Off features...
April 8, 2025

5 Films Hollywood Needs to Get to Work On

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Back in 1990, my friend Steve and I were riding down the New Jersey Turnpike in a rented truck, delivering furniture to his parents' ne...
February 10, 2025

The 80's Will Never Die #6 (Hellman's Mayonaisse/When Harry Met Sally)

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Super Bowl commercials always lean heavily into pop culture and this year's crop was no exception. Check out this parody of the iconic ...
January 1, 2025

Flashdance: The Surprise 80's Hit...That Would Never Get Made Today

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April of 1983 saw the release of Flashdance , a film that became a sleeper hit and finished as the third highest grossing movie of the year....
December 10, 2024

The 80's Will Never Die #5 (Roxette/Repatha)

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  The music in this commercial for Repatha, a drug used to treat high cholestrol, is a cover of the 1988 power ballad "Listen to Your...
June 28, 2024

Why St. Elmo's Fire Still Matters

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In discussing Andrew McCarthy's new documentary about the Brat Pack with a good friend, he began rather aggressively maligning the movi...
May 4, 2024

1984's Breakin' Brought Urban & Inner City Art Forms to the Big Screen

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I have a tremendous memory when it comes to things pop culture related (hence the name of this blog.) So even though it was 40 years ago (to...
February 29, 2024

FX's Capote vs. The Swans & How Iconic 80's Actresses Diane Lane, Molly Ringwald & Demi Moore Make it Great

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  One of the most enjoyable things about Murphy's series: seeing the three most iconic actresses of the 1980's sharing the screen fo...
December 31, 2023

Happy New Year (from Belinda Carlisle!)

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From the Pop Culture Fiend Archives , here are a couple of rare photos from a 1980's shoot with Belinda Carlisle. Happy 1989 everyone! R...
December 27, 2023

Great Album Covers: Breakfast in America, Big Lizard in My Backyard and She's So Unusual

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The cover for Supertramp's 1979 smash Breakfast in America is nothing short of a masterpiece of composition. It features the view from ...