Eighties Blog - 1980s Retro Movies Fashion Music » Movie of the Week http://eightiesblog.com The best 1980's Music Fashion and Movies! Tue, 11 May 2010 22:33:04 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 The Day My Kid Became a Poser http://eightiesblog.com/2010/03/30/the-day-my-kid-became-a-poser/ http://eightiesblog.com/2010/03/30/the-day-my-kid-became-a-poser/#comments Wed, 31 Mar 2010 02:14:56 +0000 Timewarp http://eightiesblog.com/?p=281 80s poser

The heart warming story of when swell folks go punk and how their family learns a valuable lesson in understanding and bla bla bla fake but funny! Look for familiar seventies and eighties stars Jay Underwood (Uncle Buck,Fantastic Four), Bernie Kopell (The Love Boat) and James Noble (Benson) in this corny After School Special. Some of the 80s values expressed here include the value of conformity, selling out for cash and big hair.

(Sorry, YouTube deleted the video)

Don’t worry, no one was falling for that family friendly slop except naive parents – real punk rock thrived in the 80s and there was no love for the phony suburban posers that became punk overnight in appearance but not attitude. Here are some punks that weren’t faking it – The Dead Kennedys with their hit Holiday in Cambodia performed live!

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In memory of The King of Pop the Eighties Blog brings you The Jacksons: An American Dream. Originally broadcast as a two part mini-series in 1992, this five hour biography of the Jackson 5 follows Michael Jackson, his parents and siblings from their beginnings in Gary, Indiana to their rise to fame and how it affected them individually and as a family. The mini-series was very popular with fans and critics garnering high ratings and taking home an Emmy Award for the choreography and many other accolades.

The movie will play continuously and is divided in to 25 parts so you can always continue watching later.

The miniseries starred Lawrence Hilton-Jacobs as the Jacksons’ father Joseph Jackson, Angela Bassett as the mother Katherine Jackson, Jason Weaver and Wylie Draper played Michael Jackson in different eras, while Bumper Robinson and Terrence Howard played Jackie Jackson in different eras, Angel Vargas played Tito Jackson, Margaret Avery as Katherine’s mother Martha Scruse, Holly Robinson-Peete as Diana Ross, Billy Dee Williams as Berry Gordy and Vanessa L. Williams as Suzanne de Passe. Bumper Robinson won a Young Artist Award for Best Young Actor in a Television Movie, and Alex Burrall and Jason Weaver both won a special award for Outstanding Young Performers Starring in a Mini-Series.

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  • “V”: The Betrayal (1984)
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  • “V”: The Dissident (1984)
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  • “V”: War of Illusions (1984)
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  • “V”: The Littlest Dragon (1984)
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  • “V”: Breakout (1984)
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  • “V”: The Sanction (1984)
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  • “V”: Liberation Day (1984)
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    Classic 1980s sci-fi movie with a message that is still pertinent.
    More alien and ufo movie available on SIGH7INGS.
    clipped from www.sigh7ings.com

    Part science fiction thriller and part black comedy, the plot posits a world in which some of the monied elite are actually aliens oppressing the poverty-stricken lower classes through subliminal media advertising.
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    Not just any Christmas special, the Muppets Family Christmas goes all out with appearances from all the Muppet franchises – The Muppet Show, Sesame Street, Fraggle Rock and the Muppet Babies.

    Watch for a cameo appearance by Jim Henson in the kitchen while the Muppets are singing Christmas carols at the end.

    (Parts 1-7)

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UU-Wi3tXUEM

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p3KYue-hmLc

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zH2QO_wimdE

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kutmlu2j7vw

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q94PZJvLLho

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XsLc5lx-oKA

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=asAJ85×7z5g

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