The 80s were great for a lot of things, especially dancing at the movies. In the span of just five years we had three iconic movies: Flashdance (1983), Footloose (1984) and Dirty Dancing (1987). I, of course, loved them all. Flashdance was the story of a...
When we moved into our Manhattan apartment back in 2002, we got cable TV for the first time since 1999 and with it we were introduced to Boomerang, a spin-off channel from the Cartoon Network that showcased mostly older cartoons. We fell in love with the...
Even though MTV premiered in 1981, we didn’t have it on our local cable system in Tuscaloosa, Alabama until the summer of 1986 (the same summer I graduated high school). My diet of music videos came primarily from Night Tracks on TBS during videos’ early...
Long before High School Musical there was another Disney musical directed by Kenny Ortega (it was his feature film directorial debut coming off his stint as choreographer on Dirty Dancing) that featured teens singing, dancing… and staging a strike against New...
The early 80s were a weird time in music. Remember the craze of the disco medley? Songs strung together with a backbeat to keep everything moving in just the right 4/4 time? I had albums by a couple of groups that were popular at the time. One was a bit more highbrow:...
Zip back in time 16 years to August 1992 and you’d find Nickelodeon’s debut of SNICK (Saturday Night Nick), which was geared to a teen audience featuring shows like Are You Afraid of the Dark?, Clarissa Explains It All, Pete & Pete, and my favorite of...
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