Significant People in the 80s?
Significant People in the 80s?
BwayTheatre11
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/25/03
#0Significant People in the 80s?
Posted: 12/19/04 at 9:43pm
I am having trouble finding people who were significant in this decade. Could you please help me?
Here is my list as of now:
1. Harold Prince
2. Donald Trump
3. Earvin "Magic" Johnson, Jr.
#1re: Significant People in the 80s?
Posted: 12/19/04 at 9:43pmCameron McKintosh (sp?)
Gothampc
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/20/03
#3re: Significant People in the 80s?
Posted: 12/19/04 at 9:45pm
Bill Cosby
Michael J. Fox
#4re: Significant People in the 80s?
Posted: 12/19/04 at 9:49pm
Madonna.
Madonna Madonna Madonna.
MADONNA
#5re: Significant People in the 80s?
Posted: 12/19/04 at 9:56pmJohn Hughes (King of teen comedy)
BwayTheatre11
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/25/03
#6re: Significant People in the 80s?
Posted: 12/19/04 at 10:05pmThanks to everyone...keep them coming!
TheGaIsSilent
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/25/04
#7re: Significant People in the 80s?
Posted: 12/19/04 at 10:22pmDr. Emmitt Smith
Matt_G
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/1/04
#8re: Significant People in the 80s?
Posted: 12/19/04 at 10:24pm
Ronald Reagan
Gothampc
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/20/03
#9re: Significant People in the 80s?
Posted: 12/19/04 at 10:28pmDr. Ruth Westheimer
Gothampc
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/20/03
#10re: Significant People in the 80s?
Posted: 12/19/04 at 10:45pmPrincess Diana
BwayTheatre11
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/25/03
#11re: Significant People in the 80s?
Posted: 12/19/04 at 10:50pmI would do Ronald Reagan, but we cannot include presidents.
Matt_G
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/1/04
#12re: Significant People in the 80s?
Posted: 12/19/04 at 10:52pmInteresting since his choice to ignore an epidemic that was sweeping the world and is still killing millions.
BwayTheatre11
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/25/03
#13re: Significant People in the 80s?
Posted: 12/19/04 at 10:55pmThe project is a decade notebook and we also need three themes. I am including the beginning of the Aids crisis as one of them.
kjklo
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/29/03
#14re: Significant People in the 80s?
Posted: 12/19/04 at 10:59pm
Philip Glass
Peter Sellars
Julian Schnabel
Mark Morris
David Salle
Karole Armitage
Mario Cuomo
Louis Erdrich
Jesse Jackson
David Byrne
Spalding Gray
Toni Morrison
Updated On: 12/20/04 at 10:59 PM
Gothampc
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/20/03
#15re: Significant People in the 80s?
Posted: 12/19/04 at 11:02pm
Linda Bloodworth-Thomason
Harry Thomason
Dixie Carter
Delta Burke
Annie Potts
Jean Smart
Susan Harris
Bea Arthur
Rue McClanaghan
Betty White
Estelle Getty
Gothampc
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/20/03
#16re: Significant People in the 80s?
Posted: 12/19/04 at 11:06pm
ET (phone home)
Steven Spielberg
etoile
Broadway Legend Joined: 8/2/03
#17re: Significant People in the 80s?
Posted: 12/19/04 at 11:54pm
Are there certain areas? Sports, theater, entertainment, government, world leaders,
medicine, science?
If one area is dealing with AIDS there is the supermodel Gia. Don't know if she used a last name. She was deemed one of the first women in the US to have died from the virus.
Mary_Ethel
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/6/04
#18re: Significant People in the 80s?
Posted: 12/19/04 at 11:58pm
I know you said no Presidents, BT11, but what about First Ladies?
Who could forget Nancy Reagan and the White House China?
Mary_Ethel
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/6/04
#19re: Significant People in the 80s?
Posted: 12/20/04 at 12:03am
BT11,
This will probably help--it's a whole site devoted to the 1980s:
http://www.nationmaster.com/encyclopedia/1980s
Gothampc
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/20/03
#20re: Significant People in the 80s?
Posted: 12/20/04 at 12:11am
If you are concentrating on AIDS, you want to explore Randy Shilts, Larry Kramer, Ryan White, actor Paul Michael Glaser, his wife and their children.
In the '80's there was an urban legend that said that there was a male flight attendant who was the first AIDS carrier and had infected hundreds of people.
TheGaIsSilent
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/25/04
#21re: Significant People in the 80s?
Posted: 12/20/04 at 12:32amAnother AIDS activist and writer: Paul Monette, although his most famous work didn't win the National Book Award until 1992.
BwayTheatre11
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/25/03
#22re: Significant People in the 80s?
Posted: 12/20/04 at 8:52am
Yes, I can do first ladies.
Marquise
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/1/04
#23re: Significant People in the 80s?
Posted: 12/20/04 at 9:32am
cyndi lauper and the eternal girl's anthem - -
"girls just wanna have fun"
fast times at ridgemont high
the last american virgin
fame - the movie and tv show
the facts of life
cats - now and forever
breakdancers and the following flicks:
beat street
breakin'
breakin 2: electric boogaloo
rappin'
krush groove
prince
purple rain
dallas - who shot j.r.
dynasty
falcon crest
knots landing
shannon's eternal club classic: "give me tonight"
madonna
#24re: Significant People in the 80s?
Posted: 12/20/04 at 12:08pm
Martha Quinn
David Lee Roth
Boy George
Cyndi Lauper
Madonna
Ronald Reagan
Charles and Diana
Huey Lewis
Michael J. Fox
Olivia Newton-John
Billy Joel
George Michael
Dolly Parton
Philip Glass
Laurie Anderson
Yahoo Serious
Prince
David and Jerry Zucker
Michael Jackson
Jeana Yeager and Richard Rutan
Tim Burton
Danny Elfman
The Dallas Cowboy Cheerleaders
Nell Carter
Charlotte Rae
Gary Coleman
Emmanuel Lewis
Dixie Carter and Delta Burke
Tom Wopat and John Schneider
Ted Danson and Shelly Long
Danny DeVito and Rhea Perlman
Candice Bergman
Betty White, Bea Arthur and Rue McClanahan
Roseanne
Max Headroom
Scott Bakula
Punky Brewster
Pee Wee Herman
John Carpenter
We Craven
Freddy Krueger
John Hughes
The Brat Pack
Matthew Broderick
Joan Collins and Linda Evans
Larry Hagman
Ricky Schroeder
Jamie Lee Curtis
Andrew Lloyd Webber
Cameron Mackintosh
Whoopi Goldberg
Bruce Willis and Cybill Shepherd
Tyne Daly and Sharon Gless
Mr. T
Michael Jordan
Christa McAuliffe and the Challenger crew
Baby Jessica
Richard Ramirez
Oliver North
Mikhail Gorbachev
Anwar al-Sadat
And of course......
MINDY COHN !!!!!
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