1980s

5 Movie Couples That Would Never Work In Real Life

HelloGiggles | Posted 05.10.2012

Read More: Grease 2, Relationships, 1980s, Can't Buy Me Love, Sixteen Candles, Pretty in Pink, Dirty Dancing, Love, Movies, Couples, Women News

There's a scene in my all-time favorite '80s movie, Parenthood, where Dianne Weist's character Helen helps get her teenage daughter (played by Martha ...

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Bringing Up Baby

Doug Bradley | Posted 04.18.2012

Read More: House-Husband, Fatherhood, Fathers and Daughters, 1980s, Daughters, Father-Daughter Bonding, Nostalgia, Parents News

Before you could say "Goodnight Moon," I found myself having to constantly answer questions about my employment status.

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9 Kate-Related Garbage Pail Kid Cards

Kate Torgovnick | Posted 04.13.2012

Read More: Toys, Garbage Pail Kids, 1980s, Cards, Trading Cards, Nostalgia, Slidepollajax, 1980s Toys, Garbage Pail Kids Book, Art Spiegelman, Children's Book, Book Review, Books News

Art Spiegelman, the man behind the graphic novel Maus, was a member of the team that made the cards. So he was a natural to write the introduction for a new book, called simply Garbage Pail Kids.

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Romney Says He Will "Restore" America... But, to What?

Paul Abrams | Posted 04.12.2012

Read More: Bill Clinton, Debt, 1960s, George HW Bush, Microsoft, Ronald Reagan, Tax Rates, Real Americans, Mitt Romney, Biotechnology Industry, 1950s, 1990s, 2000s, 1980s, Apple, Jimmy Carter, George W Bush, 1970s, Politics News

Mitt Romney, whose business experience enabled him to be 47th in the nation with respect to job growth when he was a one-term governor of Massachusetts, has told us that he is going to "restore" America.

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A Post 50 Perspective On Mad Men: My, How Things Have Changed!

Steven C. Eisner | Posted 03.30.2012

Read More: Mad Men, Advertising, Baby Boomers, 1980s, Steve-Eisner, 1960s, Advertising Agency, The MineFields, '60s, Fifty News

As a Baby Boomer and former ad agency head, I will be spending this "Mad Men" season commenting on how the show's themes would have played out differently had they occurred twenty years later, in 1986, when I was running my firm.

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Lost in the 1980s: Springsteen's Tunnel of Love

Craig Werner | Posted 05.27.2012

Read More: Tunnel of Love, 1980s, Bruce Springsteen, College News

From his first album, Springsteen has defied the time period. So why does Tunnel of Love sound like it's stuck in the 80's?

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WATCH: Manhattan Skateboarding In The 1980s

Posted 03.22.2012

Read More: NY Around Town, New York Around Town, Future Primitive, 1980s, New York Skateboarding, Skateboarders, Skateboarding, Video, New York News

We've already seen the stylish, Central Park skateboarders of the 60s and the slow-mo, high-def Brooklyn gliders of the aughts. Now, let's take a time...

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PHOTOS: Amazing Portraits Of An Edgy 1980s Times Square

Posted 03.08.2012

Read More: powerHouse Books, Bill Butterworth, Forty-Deuce Street, Times Square, Rudy Giuliani, 1980s, Old New York, New York Around Town, NY Around Town, Slidewide, Fran Lebowitz, New York News

Nowadays, as Fran Lebowitz put it, "If you’re a New Yorker and you run into another New Yorker in Times Square, it’s like running into someone at ...

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'Hot In Cleveland' Flashes Back To The 1980s

Posted 03.06.2012

Read More: TV Canada, How Did You Guys Meet Anyway, Flashback, Video, Canada Tv, 1980s, TV Land, Hot in Cleveland, Madonna, Tv Replay, Robert Palmer, Comedy, TV News

The girls took a trip back to the 1980s on "Hot in Cleveland" (Wed., 10 p.m. EST on TV Land) to tell Elka the story of how they first met. It must hav...

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MTV: ‘Sex Is Not An Accident’

Jessica Pearce Rotondi | Posted 02.20.2012

Read More: Slidepollajax, 1980s Cartoons, 1980s Music, Jem, 1980s, Love Sex, Sex, Safe Sex, Sex PSA, Mtv, Condoms, Women News

My dream has come true: MTV gone back to the 80s.

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Jeffery Eugenides On Love And Books

Madeleine Crum | Posted 02.16.2012

Read More: Virgin Suicides, Video, The Marriage Plot, College Books, 1980s, Books We Love, Middlesex, New Books, Semiotics, Jeffrey Eugenides, Victorian Literature, Books News

If you walk through Times Square in New York right now, you'll be met with a rare site: a book-themed billboard. A stern-faced Jeffery Eugenides strid...

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Blame Wall Street, Not Boomers

Leonard Steinhorn | Posted 12.07.2011

We like to think that our economic woes are unique to our time, that ours is the first era in which our democracy seems broken. What we need is a little perspective. And a little understanding of who's responsible.

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The 8 Most Overrated Things About the Eighties

Mark Juddery | Posted 12.04.2011

Read More: Slidepollajax, Overrated 1980s, 1980s Most Overrated, 1980s-Cabbage-Patch-Kids, 1980s, 1980s Trends, 1980s-Movies, Overrated Things, Things That Are Overrated, Overrated Things in 2011, Overrated Stuff, Most Overrated Things, Things of the Eighties, Culture News

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If They Left... and Came Back: OMD Returns With '80s Pop Synth Intact

Jon Chattman | Posted 11.13.2011

Read More: Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark, John Hughes, Walkman, 1980s, If You Leave, Dreaming, 80s Music, Pretty in Pink, Omd, Entertainment News

The music. The movies. The hair. The...lack of fashion. Anyone who came of age in the 1980s likely regrets taking part in certain fads but deep down wishes they could go back

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The Millennial Manifesto: How 80's Babies Can Save the World

Jermaine Spradley | Posted 11.11.2011

Read More: Unemployment, Jobs Act, Work, Millennials, Personal Fulfillment, Fulfillment, 1980's, Millennial Generation, American Dream, Happiness, Black Voices News

It's our turn to fulfill the promise of our generation and be the people we were raised to be. My plan is simple. Quit your day jobs.

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WATCH: Fallon's Dating Service Discovery

Posted 11.02.2011

Read More: Late Night With Jimmy Fallon, Video, 80s Dating Service, 1980s, Cupid's Arrow, Fallon Cupid's Arrow, Video Dating Service, Jimmy Fallon, Comedy News

Long before OK Cupid, there was Cupid's Arrow. On Thursday's episode of "Late Night," Jimmy Fallon explained that the show had "found" a video left ov...

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Sweet Cherry Pie

Janet Turley | Posted 10.12.2011

Read More: Heavy Metal, Warrant, 1980s, Rock N Roll, Sexism, 80s, Jani Lane, Glam Rock, Sexuality, Entertainment News

Watching "Cherry Pie," all I see is Jani Lane saluting the callipygian Bobbi Brown. She's hot. So hot he has to "think about baseball" so he can swing all night with her.

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Still Crazy After All These Years: The Reagan Legacy and the Debt Ceiling "Crisis"

Peter Birkenhead | Posted 09.24.2011

Read More: Reagan, Debt, Economics, Debt Ceiling, Supply-Side Economics, Beohner, Obama, 1980's, Bush, Culture, 1970's, Television, Politics, History, Tax Policy, Tax Cuts, Breaking Politics News, Politics News

The reality-inverting summer of 1981 laid the foundation for a dissociative political culture that nothing yet has been able to shake, and we're all paying the price.

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WATCH: 'The Office' As An 80s Sitcom

Posted 08.14.2011

Read More: The 80s, Sitcoms, Video, Parodies, 1980s, Funny Videos, The One, Urlesque, The Office, Recuts, Sitcom Parodies, 80s Sitcoms, Comedy News

If there's one thing people love more than NBC's comedy lineup, it's 80's nostalgia. YouTuber benny2700 has found the perfect way to combine them both...

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Remembering Randy "Macho Man" Savage

Jon Chattman | Posted 07.21.2011

Read More: Wrestling, Slim Jim, Wwe, Vince McMahon, Hulkamaniac, World Wrestling Entertainment, Foam Fingers, Roddy Piper, 1980s, Hulk Hogan, Spider-Man, Macho Man Randy Savage, Macho Man Killed, Wrestlemania, Wwf, Randy Savage, Sports News

There will never be another Savage. Without him, there would be no "Stone Cold" Steve Austin or "heels" you could root for. As a wrestler, I idolized him. As a man, I respected him.

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Get Me Out of the '80s Blondies

Miranda Levenstein | Posted 06.07.2011

Read More: Bill Cunningham, Mrs. Fields, Film Forum, Bill Cunningham New York, 1980s, Dynasty, David's Cookies, Studio 54, Food News

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WATCH: 'No York City': A Frantic, Hypnotic Look At 1980's New York

The Huffington Post | Jonah Green | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Video, Short Films, 1980s, NY Culture, NY Around Town, Short Film, New York City, New York News

Rick Liss' past-paced, trippy short film "No York City" is an erratic witness to New York in 1980. Liss flies by the Twin Towers, down a graffitied Si...

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From Charlie Sheen to Reagan Nostalgia, the 80s Just Won't Go Away

David Sirota | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Bill Cosby, Charlie Sheen, Ronald Reagan, 1980s, Politics News

The similarities between today and the 1980s reflect a country now run by those who came of age in that decade. No matter where we look for the roots of today's political debates, we find the tropes of '80s popular culture.

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Five '80s Flicks That Explain How the '80s Still Define Our World

David Sirota | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Back-to-Our-Future, 1980s, Politics News

Here are five classic flicks that show how the 1980s still shapes our thinking on government, the "rogue," militarism, race, and even our not-so-distant past.

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Ask an Art Critic: Jerry Saltz Answers Your Questions About George Condo, Online Art Fairs, and What Abstraction Really Is

Jerry Saltz | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: George Condo, Online Art Fair, East Village, 1980s, The New Museum, Abstraction, Portraits, New York Magazine, Agnes Martin, Arts News

Abstraction is one of the greatest visionary tools ever invented by human beings to imagine, decipher, and depict the world.

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