A
reunion poem!1984 Year in Review
1984 TOP MOVIES
- Ghostbusters ($238.6m*) - Who ya gonna call? The gang battles ghosts, goblins, and Gozar the Gozarian. (#23 all-time)
- Beverly Hills Cop ($234.8m) - Detroit cop Eddie Murphy chases a killer to the very different environment of California. (#24 all-time)
- Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom ($179.9m) - Indy seeks the Ankara Stone in the film that lead to the creation of the PG-13 rating.
- Gremlins ($153.1m) - Adorable creatures become malevolent destructors... don't get 'em wet and never, EVER feed them after midnight!
- The Karate Kid ($90.8m) - Pat "Mr. Miyagi" Morita teaches Ralph "Daniel-san" Macchio to wax on and wax off.
- Police Academy ($81.2m) - A group of misfits face off against police instructors.
- Footloose ($80.0m) - Kevin Bacon cuts loose in a conservative Iowa town.
- Romancing the Stone ($76.6m) - A romance writer teams with a low-life adventurer to rescue her kidnapped sister.
- Star Trek III: The Search for Spock ($76.4m) - Kirk steals the Enterprise to return to the Genesis planet.
- Splash ($69.8m) - Tom Hanks falls in love with the mermaid who saved him from drowning as a child.
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 Best Actor Tom Courtenay for The Dresser (Drama) Robert Duvall for Tender Mercies (Drama) Michael Caine for Educating Rita (Music/Comedy) Best Actor
-- Supporting Best Actress Best Actress
-- Supporting Best Director
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Best Film -- Drama Terms of Endearment Best Film
-- Musical/Comedy Best Foreign
Film Best Score Best Song Best Screenplay
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OLYMPIC
YEAR - 1984
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After the U.S. boycotted the 1980
Summer Games, it only made sense that the Soviet Union boycott
the 1984
Summer Games, right? Right.
Fourteen nations from around the globe did not send athletes to
the Summer Games of the XXIII Olympiad held in Los Angeles, California.
From July 28th through August 12th, cheering crowds of nearly
100,000 watched as medals were awarded for 221 events, including
two new ones -- synchronized swimming (which had a beautiful parody
write-up on "Saturday Night Live") and rhythmic gymnastics. Tennis
and basketball were also on display as "exhibition" sports but
no medals were awarded.
Memorable moments were Carl
Lewis' speed garnering him four gold medals, Edwin
Moses hurdling to victory in the 400-m race, diver Greg Louganis
taking the gold in the springboard and platform events, Mary Decker
and Zola Budd colliding on the track, and the future Queen of
Wheaties, Mary
Lou Retton, doing her stuff.
The Games of the XIV Winter Olympics,
in Sarajevo, Yugoslavia, went off without a single problem (i.e.
no political intervention). Vucko, the official mascot of the
Olympics, was on hand to welcome the 1,500+ athletes from 49 countries.
The Games ran from February 7th through the 19th.
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1984
Facts
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You consider Ocean Pacific a designer label. 2. You thought the Stray Cats were bringing guitars back to rock 'n' roll. 3. You thought the lead singer of Poison was hot ... until you realized she was a he. 4. You still get the shakes when you remember Apple Macintosh's 1984 advertisement. 5. You preferred Van Hagar to Van Halen. 6. You thought George Michael was straight. 7. You had just discovered this great new singer called Tina Turner. 8. You owned a home Beta video recorder. 9. The Day After gave you nightmares. 10. Your favorite G.I. Joe figure was Snake Eyes. 11. You wondered what Lisa Bonet was doing married to that loser Lenny Kravitz. 12. You never figured out who the crooks were on Murder She Wrote. 13. You believed The Last Temptation of Christ was going to send Martin Scorsese to hell. 14. You regard Look Who's Talking as a turning point in John Travolta's career. 15. You admired Bill Cosby's taste in sweaters in The Cosby Show. 16. You didn't realize The Official Preppy Handbook was a gag. 17. You rolled up the sleeves on your sports jacket for the Sonny Crockett look. 18. You had no problems thinking members of the Miami police department drove Lamborghinis. 19. You thought Burt and Loni were a fairytale romance. 20. You thought Clint Eastwood would one day be president. |
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1984
Super Bowl XVIII
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LA Raiders over Washington Redskins 38 to 9. |
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1984
BASKETBALL
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| NBA: Boston
Celtics over LA Lakers, 4-3 NCAA: Georgetown over Houston, 84 to 75 |
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1984
WORLD SERIES BASEBALL
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| Detroit Tigers over San Diego Padres, 4-1 | |||||||||
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FUN
STUFF! OMG! THE 80s
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