Upside Down performance
Jackson performs Upside Down with Diana Ross whom he joins on the stage in Los Angeles, California.
Can You Feel It performance
Jackson performs Can You Feel It with the Jacksons on the Triumph tour in Los Angeles. This is the highest grossing tour that the Jackson’s have done thus far in over 50 states and four sold out concerts.
Rock With You performance
Jackson performs Rock With You after being introduced by Diana Ross on the Diana Ross Show in Los Angeles, California.
Raging Bull
DeNiro plays Jake La Motta, a middleweight boxer and portrays his violent journey through life. This biopic is directed by Martin Scorsese and co-stars Joe Pesci and Cathy Moriarty.
It was sent to me by Pete Savage who was very helpful in getting the whole thing started and very helpful in getting me trained with Jake and Jake was one of the associate producers and something about the story interested me.
Popeye
Williams portrays Popeye in Robert Altman’s musical comedy live-action realization of the American comic strip character Popeye the Sailor Man. Popeye is a spinach-eating sailor in love with Olive Oil (Shelley Duvall) and at odds with Bluto (Paul L. Smith), his perennial nemesis.
Near the end of the movie . . . the studio had pooled all of the money, so all the special effects people left. It was Ed Wood the last weeks of the movie. Shelley Duvall was in a pond, basically, with an octopus with no internal mechanism, having to drape it over her body like a feather boa. I’m in the water, and I’m kind of like sitting there .. . . . . we’re there on Malta, which is a very small island in between Italy and North Africa, and it was some of the worst weather they had had in 60 years. So it was a pretty crazy experience. But! I got to work with Robert Altman and I’ll never forget that.
The Blues Brothers
Aykroyd plays Elwood Blues, brother to “Joliet” Jake Blues, who is fresh out of prison, in this comedy directed by John Landis. The pair set out to bring their band back together so they can raise $5,000 and save the Catholic home where they were raised. Co-starring John Belushi, Cab Calloway, James Brown, Ray Charles, and Aretha Franklin.
The idea is based on two classic recidivist American characters. It’s based on a love of the city of Chicago and the music that came out of there.
The Shining
Stanley Kubrick adapts King’s The Shining into a feature film starring Jack Nicholson and Shelly Duvall as young parents who move with their young son to a large abandoned hotel to be caretakers for the winter off season. The film grossed $44.4 million after being filmed for $19 million. The famous line proclaimed by Jack Torrence as he chops down a bathroom door, “Here’s Johnny!” was improved by Nicholson on the spot, originally being inspired by the introduction of The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson. King was disappointed with Kubrick’s decision not to film at the Stanley Hotel and did not like the adaptation, saying that his novel focused on main problems such as the disintegration of a family and the dangers of alcoholism, which, he believes, Kubrick completely ignored.
Parts of the film are chilling, charged with a relentlessly claustrophobic terror, but others fall flat. Not that religion has to be involved in horror, but a visceral skeptic such as Kubrick just couldn’t grasp the sheer inhuman evil of The Overlook Hotel. So he looked, instead, for evil in the characters and made the film into a domestic tragedy with only vaguely supernatural overtones. That was the basic flaw: because he couldn’t believe, he couldn’t make the film believable to others. What’s basically wrong with Kubrick’s version of The Shining is that it’s a film by a man who thinks too much and feels too little; and that’s why, for all its virtuoso effects, it never gets you by the throat and hangs on the way real horror should.
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All That Jazz
Scheider plays Joe Gideon, a director/choreographer, in this musical drama written by Robert Alan Aurthur and Bob Fosse, directed by Fosse. Gideon is a thinly veiled version of Fosse himself in a cynical and fantasy driven vision of his own life, fueled as it was by his many addictions. Co-starring Ann Reinking, Jessica Lange, and Leland Palmer.
That will always be my favorite film. But I never worked harder in my life. I felt I had to prove myself to the dance company. I didn’t want to misrepresent them. . . . I was in relatively good shape. But at the end of the day, I’d return to the Holiday Inn with my Tiger Balm.
Skatetown, U.S.A.
Swayze plays Ace Johnson, a skater who indulges into a rivalry with Stan Nelson(Greg Bradford) which culminates in a contest, the winning prize for which is $1000. The two rivals later become friends. This comedy is directed by William A. Levey. Co-starring Scott Baio, Flip Wilson, Maureen McCormick and Katherine Kelly Lang.
A dancer-turned-actor is not viewed very well in this business. I kept it quiet at first, hoping it would turn into ‘actor with other talents.’ But I saw what dancing would and could do to me after my first movie came out. The reviews came in, and they were accolades, not for the movie, or for my acting talent, but just for the way I could move. I read those reviews and knew that’s what I was headed for: teen-idol status. So I turned down a four-picture deal at Columbia – turned all the offers down, in fact – and went back to acting classes.
Ben performance
Jackson performs Ben with his brothers as background singers during the Moving Violations tour in Mexico.
I Want You Back performance
Jackson performs I Want You Back along with his brothers during the Destiny tour in London, England.
Mad Max
Gibson plays the role of Mad Max Rockatansky, an Australian policeman who sets out to avenge his partner, wife and son’s death which was a result of a motorcycle gang’s retaliation for the death of their leader:
It was the only job. I just walked in and director George Miller asked me to tell him a joke. I did, and I got the gig.
Dancing Machine performance
Jackson performs Dancing Machine with the Jacksons in New Orleans, Louisiana during the Destiny Tour.
Show You The Way To Go performance
Jackson performs Show You The Way to go along with the Jacksons live in London, England during their Destiny tour. This event is a series of tours in Great Britain.
Multiple song performance
Jackson performs I’ll be there, Give Me One More Chance along with other hits along with the Jacksons in Breman, Germany while promoting their new album on the Destiny tour. The tour is planned to be in over eighty countries nationally and internationally.
Invasion of The Body Snatchers
Nimoy plays Dr. David Kibner, a psychologist, in the remake of the 1953 science fiction horror thriller, directed by Philip Kaufman. A group of people discover the human race is being replaced one by one, with clones devoid of emotion. Co-starring Donald Sutherland and Brooke Adams.
ABC Sesame Street performance
Mcferrin performs an acapella improvisation of the alphabet with Hoots the Owl on an episode of Sesame Street.
Blame It On The Boogie performance
Jackson performs Blame It On The Boogie with his brothers—the Jacksons—during their Destiny tour in London, England.
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Mork and Mindy
Robin Williams stars in ABC’s thirty minute comedy serial Mork and Mindy. Mork is sent from planet Ork to investigate the primitive lifestyle of earthlings. His spaceship egg lands in Boulder, Colorado, and he makes friends with Mindy McConnell (Pam Dawber). Once Mork reveals to Mindy that he is an alien, she agrees to keep it a secret and to help him adjust to life on Earth. Producer Gary Williams:
He was all set to go, I said, “All right, Robin, we have three cameramen … Okay, Robin, ready, action.” And he ran around, he did a very funny thing, he ad-libbed a little, he said the lines, he was all over the place, and I yell, “Cut! Great!” And to Sam, my oldest cameraman, I said, “Did you get that, Sam?” And Sam said, “Never came by here.” I said, “You gotta move the camera, Sam. The man’s a genius.” And Sam said, “If he’s a genius, he could hit that mark right over there and he’ll be on camera.” So we hired a fourth camera, just to follow Robin.”
Dog Eat Dog performance
The band performs, Dog Eat Dog, from their album, Let There Be Rock, at the Apollo Theatre in Glasgow, Scotland.
