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Get ready for another star-studded blast from the past.
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The newest American Girl hails from a bygone era, an ancient decade few will remember — the 1980s. Courtney Moore, the latest “historical character” from the beloved doll brand, may feel more nostalgic than old-fashioned to the many adults who personally lived through the Reagan era. “Growing up in 1986, Courtney’s story reflects the pop …
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In “Bill & Ted Face the Music,” opening Friday on demand, Bill (Alex Winter) and Ted (Keanu Reeves) travel through time in search of the perfect song to unite and save the world. Like, whoa. So it was important to make sure that the music in the film was most excellent. “We wanted to make …
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Frankie Banali, the drummer for heavy metal band Quiet Riot, died Thursday in Los Angeles. He was 68. His wife Regina wrote in a statement that he had been battling stage four pancreatic cancer since April 2019. The longtime Quiet Riot drummer also played with Billy Idol, W.A.S.P. and Faster Pussycat. “He put up an inspiringly …
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It was the coolest song of 1990. And Floyd “DJ Earthquake” Brown is the man responsible for its sample, one of the most memorable in ’90s hip-hop: the bass line from Queen and David Bowie’s “Under Pressure,” which he used as the funky foundation of the Vanilla Ice smash “Ice Ice Baby.” “That song caught …
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Spyglass Media Group has teamed with Atomic Monster’s James Wan and Michael Clear to develop a film based on the 1980s classic action series “Knight Rider.” TJ Fixman, a former video game writer, is adapting the screenplay. Created by Glen A. Larson, “Knight Rider” first aired on NBC from 1982 to 1986 and is credited …
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The Spice Girls and the Pussycat Dolls would be nothing without the Go-Go’s. Formed in Los Angeles in 1978, they were an all-women band that, over just seven years, wrote and performed some of the best remembered songs of the 1980s: “We Got the Beat,” “Our Lips Are Sealed” and “Vacation.” All unforgettable. No all-girl …
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Amid the jocks, nerds and shoulder pads of the ’80s teen rom-com landscape, a dark horse emerged: 1985’s “Just One of the Guys,” which wore its feminist agenda lightly. In a riff on Shakespeare’s “Twelfth Night,” high-schooler Terry (Joyce Hyser Robinson) goes undercover as a boy at a rival school after deciding she’s been discriminated …
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“Prince was in every way incomparable.” So says John Legend, speaking of a real, true legend before launching into “Nothing Compares 2 U” during “Let’s Go Crazy: The Grammy Salute to Prince,” which airs on CBS at 9 p.m. Tuesday — four years to the day after Prince Rogers Nelson got his purple wings. And …
Get ready for another star-studded blast from the past.
