whom you haven't thought of much, or at all, since the 80's.
Offsite Link| by Anonymous | reply 379 | June 24, 2018 3:59 PM |
Is he a Stevie Nicks impersonator?
| by Anonymous | reply 1 | January 5, 2018 11:25 AM |
Model Slash Actress Marla Hanson and Jay McInerney
Offsite Link| by Anonymous | reply 4 | January 5, 2018 11:31 AM |
Young-ish Meryl rides the graffiti-filled subways sometime in the early 80s.
Offsite Link| by Anonymous | reply 7 | January 5, 2018 11:37 AM |
1980's fashionable "literary" trifecta: Jay McInerny, Tama J, and Brett Easton Ellis.
Offsite Link| by Anonymous | reply 8 | January 5, 2018 11:39 AM |
Other than Meryl, who remains current, I haven't thought about any of them since, well, the 80s, although I now appreciate thta there was a lot of unruly hair in the 80s.
| by Anonymous | reply 10 | January 5, 2018 11:43 AM |
I listen to Brett Easton Ellis's very on again off again podcast. He's full of himself and yet it amusing listening to him go on his long zeitgeist jams.
| by Anonymous | reply 11 | January 5, 2018 11:44 AM |
Star of Tomorrow, Lori Singer...
Offsite Link| by Anonymous | reply 12 | January 5, 2018 11:46 AM |
Star of Tomorrow, Mia Sara...
Offsite Link| by Anonymous | reply 13 | January 5, 2018 11:48 AM |
LOL, R12! I remember Lori Singer being described as “The Poor Man’s Daryl Hannah” — think about THAT for a second!
| by Anonymous | reply 18 | January 5, 2018 11:54 AM |
I love this post!! Please keep it going!
| by Anonymous | reply 21 | January 5, 2018 12:00 PM |
Star of Tomorrow, Judd Nelson!
Still smirking.
Offsite Link| by Anonymous | reply 29 | January 5, 2018 12:24 PM |
Has anyone mentioned me and my juicy tits yet?
Offsite Link| by Anonymous | reply 30 | January 5, 2018 12:44 PM |
The beautiful and talented Nastassja Kinski.
| by Anonymous | reply 31 | January 5, 2018 12:48 PM |
Abscam political wife turned Playboy model Rita Jenrette
Offsite Link| by Anonymous | reply 33 | January 5, 2018 1:16 PM |
R32) Chaka Kahn is still relevant as much as any 64 year old can be. My goodness, she was in the game for 40 years. She still works, but things have slowed down. Others would be retired at this age, but in 2015, she did DWTS. Now, she's touring. I don't know what do you expect from her.
| by Anonymous | reply 34 | January 5, 2018 1:22 PM |
Chaka Khan is stil relevant. She won a Grammy Award within the last 10 years or so for one of her albums.
| by Anonymous | reply 35 | January 5, 2018 1:23 PM |
Palm Beach trophy wife turned Playboy model Roxanne Pulitzer. Famous for sleeping with a trumpet (and a French horn, and a tuba and a saxophone, apparently).
Offsite Link| by Anonymous | reply 36 | January 5, 2018 1:23 PM |
For your consideration... Clara Peller! "Where's the beef?"
Offsite Link| by Anonymous | reply 38 | January 5, 2018 1:26 PM |
R38) No fair. Clara died within 3 years of the airing of the Wendy's commercial.
| by Anonymous | reply 40 | January 5, 2018 1:34 PM |
Did not know that about Chaka kahn. Sorry, to ruffle feathers.
| by Anonymous | reply 41 | January 5, 2018 1:36 PM |
When the working day is done
Offsite Link| by Anonymous | reply 42 | January 5, 2018 1:37 PM |
Hey, Cindy does that psoriasis commercial.
| by Anonymous | reply 43 | January 5, 2018 1:45 PM |
Scott Madsen for Soloflex.
Offsite Link| by Anonymous | reply 46 | January 5, 2018 2:12 PM |
R48) Uh... the title of thread says the 80s -- not 90s.
| by Anonymous | reply 49 | January 5, 2018 2:30 PM |
Some of these people are obscure even for the 80s.
| by Anonymous | reply 53 | January 5, 2018 2:59 PM |
Sydney Biddle Barrows "The Mayflower Madam"
Offsite Link| by Anonymous | reply 54 | January 5, 2018 3:03 PM |
No one thinks of Tama anymore because she was a fraud. It’s why no one thinks about Kevin Smith anymore.
| by Anonymous | reply 57 | January 5, 2018 3:23 PM |
Amazing that Meryl and Cindy are mentioned here — what about the thread title is so hard to fathom?
Speaking of fathoms....
Offsite Link| by Anonymous | reply 58 | January 5, 2018 3:27 PM |
Just this morning, I heard the name “Georgette Mosbacher”. Blast from the past.
I tried to read Tama Janowitz’s memoir about a year ago and I just couldn’t get through it. She is so dysfunctional, probably due to her insane and neurotic family. It started out as slightly entertaining by it reminded me too much of my HPD friend who’s an emotional vampire. Exhausting.
| by Anonymous | reply 59 | January 5, 2018 3:33 PM |
^^ BUT it reminded me.
She also seemed to be coasting on her “Slaves of New York” success which was decades ago.
And she’s a terrible name-dropper.
| by Anonymous | reply 60 | January 5, 2018 3:34 PM |
R22, I know Haviland! Very nice woman. Class act.
| by Anonymous | reply 61 | January 5, 2018 3:38 PM |
Haviland Morris should have had a huge career. She is so talented. She reminds me of Missi Pyle, who always steals scenes.
Haviland added that extra something to the standard girlfriend role in Sixteen Candles, was the best thing in the Madonna movie Who's That Girl? and she and John Glover stole all their scenes in Gremlins 2: The New Batch.
| by Anonymous | reply 62 | January 5, 2018 3:42 PM |
Gary Hart, shown with Donna Rice. His "sex scandal" seems almost like nothing compared to today's.
Offsite Link| by Anonymous | reply 63 | January 5, 2018 3:46 PM |
scott madsen for soloflex spent time in prison for embezzlement from soloflex...........he is a fat slob now........living in the Portland OR area.........
| by Anonymous | reply 64 | January 5, 2018 3:47 PM |
C.B. Barnes aka C.D. Barnes
Offsite Link| by Anonymous | reply 67 | January 5, 2018 3:49 PM |
That Leather Tuscadero girl
| by Anonymous | reply 68 | January 5, 2018 3:50 PM |
Billy Jacoby and Billy Zabka
Offsite Link| by Anonymous | reply 71 | January 5, 2018 3:54 PM |
Well OP, Tama did release a memoir 2 years ago in 2016:
Offsite Link| by Anonymous | reply 72 | January 5, 2018 4:08 PM |
Yes, the Gary Hart sex scandal was rather quaint and really nothing compared to today's scandals.
| by Anonymous | reply 74 | January 5, 2018 4:10 PM |
That Guardian article mentions one name that truly belongs on this list: Jay McInerney.
| by Anonymous | reply 77 | January 5, 2018 4:14 PM |
And I posted him at R4, R77
| by Anonymous | reply 78 | January 5, 2018 4:16 PM |
Disgraced church secretary Jessica Hahn
Offsite Link| by Anonymous | reply 79 | January 5, 2018 4:19 PM |
Those red plastic frames though:
Offsite Link| by Anonymous | reply 83 | January 5, 2018 4:24 PM |
R69, I had an encounter with Princess Gloria von Thurn und Taxis in the late 1990s. I was in Regensburg, having lunch one Sunday afternoon in a restaurant's courtyard. There was an attractive woman with two good-looking younger guys. The woman's dog kept coming over to my table. I didn't mind. It was a friendly, little dog. Finally, she came over to get the dog and apologized. Told her it was no bother. My waiter (a nice-looking guy/ law student whom I was flirting with) told me who she was. And he indicated that she was not the most popular woman in town.
Her closeted husband, I believe, was dead by then.
| by Anonymous | reply 84 | January 5, 2018 4:26 PM |
She raises horses in Kenya now (or something/somewhere) and looks like a huge stereotypical lesbian.
| by Anonymous | reply 85 | January 5, 2018 4:34 PM |
Amy Fisher and that Italian guy she was fucking when she shot his wife. I can't spell his name and I'm too lazy to look it up.
| by Anonymous | reply 88 | January 5, 2018 5:05 PM |
Melanie Chartoff known for Fridays / What's Hot - What's Not / Parker Lewis Can't Lose.
Offsite Link| by Anonymous | reply 89 | January 5, 2018 5:10 PM |
[quote]Amy Fisher and that Italian guy she was fucking when she shot his wife.
The "Long Island Lolita" incident happened in '92.
| by Anonymous | reply 91 | January 5, 2018 5:19 PM |
I guess I’ve been not thinking about them for so long, I have nothing. Not a single name to mention.
| by Anonymous | reply 92 | January 5, 2018 5:24 PM |
Wow, r64, at first I didn't believe you so I had to Google it...
Offsite Link| by Anonymous | reply 94 | January 5, 2018 5:35 PM |
My bad. Thought Fisher was a 1980 thing. It seems like 50 years ago.
When was that Joel Steinberg (sp?) killing his adopted daughter and beating the crap out of his wife thing, was that the 90s too?
What about the Howard Beach thing and the riots in NY when that little black boy was run over by a religious Jewish guy...80s or 90s?
| by Anonymous | reply 96 | January 5, 2018 5:54 PM |
The Preppy Murderer, Robert Chambers
Mr. T
Mitch Gaylord
| by Anonymous | reply 98 | January 5, 2018 6:08 PM |
[quote]When was that Joel Steinberg (sp?) killing his adopted daughter and beating the crap out of his wife thing, was that the 90s too?
1987. That poor little girl.
| by Anonymous | reply 99 | January 5, 2018 6:34 PM |
Joe Hunt and The Billionaire Boys Club
| by Anonymous | reply 100 | January 5, 2018 6:40 PM |
[quote] Some of these people are obscure even for the 80s.
That's because the A- and B-listers of the decade still get talked about regularly here.
| by Anonymous | reply 101 | January 5, 2018 6:52 PM |
Mr. Belvedere and Ollie/Oliver North.
| by Anonymous | reply 102 | January 5, 2018 7:13 PM |
jody watley still records music even though she hasn't been popular since the late 80s.
| by Anonymous | reply 104 | January 5, 2018 7:20 PM |
She came back as Johnny Rapid.
| by Anonymous | reply 106 | January 5, 2018 7:23 PM |
What I yam is what I yam.
Man, I didn't get to eat any Christmas Yams last year (2017). I'm so bummed.
Offsite Link| by Anonymous | reply 107 | January 5, 2018 7:25 PM |
[quote]"Refrigerator" Perry
Talk about a hard fall from fame.
| by Anonymous | reply 110 | January 5, 2018 7:29 PM |
I wish Donald Trump had been relegated to the decade where he belongs: greed is good; evil real estate developers; tacky straight guys with bimbo mistresses.
| by Anonymous | reply 111 | January 5, 2018 7:31 PM |
Patrick Nagel
Downtown Julie Brown, Eric Nies and all the original MTV VJs
Yakov Smirnov
| by Anonymous | reply 112 | January 5, 2018 7:32 PM |
[quote]I wish Donald Trump had been relegated to the decade where he belongs: greed is good; evil real estate developers; tacky straight guys with bimbo mistresses. —The Donald-is-a-Sociopathic-Aspies troll
You mean just like Leona Helmsley?
| by Anonymous | reply 114 | January 5, 2018 7:35 PM |
Bosom Buddies- Tom Hanks and Who? This would've torched to the moon if they tried to make this today:
Offsite Link| by Anonymous | reply 116 | January 5, 2018 7:39 PM |
I always believed Peter Scolari belonged in FILM
silent ones - because his voice annoys me,
very nekkid ones- because he had an awesome body,
with a diverse well-hung all-male-cast - just to keep him busy
| by Anonymous | reply 117 | January 5, 2018 7:51 PM |
R94 - Scott has gone on to the other side, sadly.
| by Anonymous | reply 123 | January 5, 2018 8:05 PM |
That kid with the huge nose. Eric Gurry
| by Anonymous | reply 124 | January 5, 2018 8:06 PM |
The thing about "Queen of Mean" Leona Helmsley was that she looked so much the part, straight out of central casting. You couldn't have made up someone who looked more like the cuntiest cunt who ever cunted.
Offsite Link| by Anonymous | reply 125 | January 5, 2018 8:16 PM |
R120: I'd let him suck me off just so he'd shut up. Too bad that shirt was a size too big.
| by Anonymous | reply 126 | January 5, 2018 8:20 PM |
I felt guilty about wanting to have hot, rough sex with Robert Chambers.
| by Anonymous | reply 127 | January 5, 2018 8:21 PM |
I was thinking about Tama not too long ago, when Tim Hunt died. Despite my history of fake DM fashion posts, I can't come up with a single thing to say about this:
Offsite Link| by Anonymous | reply 128 | January 5, 2018 8:23 PM |
Tom Hanks had more sexual chemistry with Peter Scolari on [italic]Bosom Buddies[/italic] than he did with Antonio Banderas in [italic]Philadelphia[/italic], yet it's the latter that got him all the acclaim and an Oscar.
| by Anonymous | reply 129 | January 5, 2018 8:23 PM |
Does this also include Aliens?
Offsite Link| by Anonymous | reply 130 | January 5, 2018 8:26 PM |
I didn't think of half these people in the 80s, either.
| by Anonymous | reply 131 | January 5, 2018 8:29 PM |
R130: Come to think of it, Anne Schedeen hasn't worked much since ALF was cancelled and she had a fair bit of TV work before that.
Offsite Link| by Anonymous | reply 133 | January 5, 2018 8:31 PM |
R120 Eldergays might know that the kid is Donavan Freberg the son of Stan Freberg and use to voice Linus in a few Peanuts specials.
| by Anonymous | reply 134 | January 5, 2018 8:32 PM |
R6...she started following me on Instagram last month....she is a trumpster religious fanatic...
| by Anonymous | reply 136 | January 5, 2018 8:33 PM |
R122, kids nowadays know “Take On Me”. My elementary and middle school kids know the song and the video (they sing it!). It’s apparently highly meme-worthy.
I’m trying to introduce them to Grace Jones, but you can’t force these things.
| by Anonymous | reply 138 | January 5, 2018 8:36 PM |
Since Debbie Gibson and Yahoo Serious have been mentioned, other Aussies Paul Hogan and Jacko Jackson who were all over the place in the 80s.
| by Anonymous | reply 139 | January 5, 2018 8:37 PM |
Carol Alt also had a "wellness" show on Fox News for a while. She seemed to be promoting the same kind of borderline-hucker stuff Suzanne Somers does.
| by Anonymous | reply 140 | January 5, 2018 8:38 PM |
[quote][R122], kids nowadays know “Take On Me”. My elementary and middle school kids know the song and the video (they sing it!). It’s apparently highly meme-worthy.
If their parents let them watch [italic]Family Guy[/italic], then maybe kids would know it from that.
Offsite Link| by Anonymous | reply 141 | January 5, 2018 8:40 PM |
Is the Alf dad still a crackhead sleeping with homeless men?
| by Anonymous | reply 142 | January 5, 2018 8:54 PM |
[post redacted because linking to dailymail.co.uk clearly indicates that the poster is either a troll or an idiot (probably both, honestly.) Our advice is that you just ignore this poster but whatever you do, don't click on any link to this putrid rag.]
Offsite Link| by Anonymous | reply 143 | January 5, 2018 8:55 PM |
Anyone remember Brian Bloom?
Offsite Link| by Anonymous | reply 146 | January 5, 2018 9:10 PM |
Duran Duran, Bow Wow Wow, Kristy McNichol, Irene Cara
| by Anonymous | reply 147 | January 5, 2018 9:12 PM |
R145 - wow, Robert Hays is 70 years old now!
| by Anonymous | reply 148 | January 5, 2018 9:13 PM |
i was thinking recently about Tama too! how weird, didn't know she wrote a memoir....
| by Anonymous | reply 150 | January 5, 2018 9:47 PM |
Fawn Hall
(I feel slightly cheated that she wasn't the subject of a movie. I'm getting a Kim Bassinger vibe. Or, if it was a TV movie, either Mary Beth Evans or Sheree J. Wilson).
Offsite Link| by Anonymous | reply 151 | January 5, 2018 10:04 PM |
[quote]Irene Cara
Funny how she hasn't gotten film or TV work since the 1990s but Erica Gimpel, who played her [italic]Fame[/italic] role in the TV version, still gets work. Meanwhile, both Diane Ladd and Polly Holliday still get work.
| by Anonymous | reply 152 | January 5, 2018 10:07 PM |
Don't wanna fall in love with Jane Child all over again
Offsite Link| by Anonymous | reply 154 | January 5, 2018 10:11 PM |
David Lascher and Chris Barnes were still popular in the 90s.
| by Anonymous | reply 155 | January 5, 2018 10:13 PM |
R151 She works at a bookstore in WeHo.
| by Anonymous | reply 156 | January 5, 2018 10:15 PM |
Sydney Biddle Barrows: Mayflower Madam.
Offsite Link| by Anonymous | reply 157 | January 5, 2018 10:16 PM |
[quote] Sydney Biddle Barrows: Mayflower Madam.
Too bad Disney will never make a three-hour musical about her.
| by Anonymous | reply 159 | January 5, 2018 10:22 PM |
Terry Toye, Marie Sophie, Keith Harring, Kenny Scharf, Steven Sprouse, Andy Warhol, International Chrysis, Madonna, Jean-Michele Basquiat, Dianne Brill, Taboo, Ethel Eichelberger, Tim Miller, Frank Maya, David Seidner, et.al.>
| by Anonymous | reply 160 | January 5, 2018 10:23 PM |
R117: Peter Scolari is shirtless in his prime in the 1991 Disney Channel TV movie [italic]Perfect Harmony[/italic], which is on DVD and should still be in print and easy to get. But if you dislike the sound of his voice, imagine that plus an attempt at a Boston accent while Darren McGavin attempts a "Suthun" accent.
| by Anonymous | reply 162 | January 5, 2018 10:33 PM |
R144, that’s Mayim Bialik any day of the week.
| by Anonymous | reply 163 | January 5, 2018 10:55 PM |
Cold War comic Yakov Smirnoff
Offsite Link| by Anonymous | reply 167 | January 5, 2018 11:20 PM |
Speaking of the Cold War...Raisa Gorbachev and her frenemy Nancy Reagan!
Offsite Link| by Anonymous | reply 168 | January 5, 2018 11:22 PM |
Billy Squier
Rich Hall
Marilyn (Boy George's friend)
| by Anonymous | reply 171 | January 5, 2018 11:35 PM |
Emo Philips has become the lady who's always trying to give the neighborhood kids unwrapped candy bars covered in cat hair.
Offsite Link| by Anonymous | reply 172 | January 5, 2018 11:52 PM |
Years ago Emo was at the Montreal Just For Laughs festival and he came out in his normal hair and without the Emo drag. Watching him do his act looking like a normal guy but with the falsetto voice was disturbing.
| by Anonymous | reply 173 | January 5, 2018 11:55 PM |
[quote]People from the '80's
[quote]whom you haven't thought of much, or at all, since the 80's.
[quote]Tanya Roberts
She was in That 70s Show which ran from 1998 to 2006
| by Anonymous | reply 177 | January 6, 2018 12:09 AM |
R168, SNL covered that in a hilarious way.
| by Anonymous | reply 178 | January 6, 2018 12:14 AM |
[quote]I listen to Brett Easton Ellis's very on again off again podcast. He's full of himself and yet it amusing listening to him go on his long zeitgeist jams.
I used to listen to it until it turned out Ellis is a Trumptard. Apparently the latest episode is from last June so I assume I'm not the only one who got tired of him.
| by Anonymous | reply 179 | January 6, 2018 12:16 AM |
Nina Hagen, Falco, Greg Kihn
| by Anonymous | reply 182 | January 6, 2018 1:36 AM |
R185, that is "Larry Bud Melman," with his "Toast on a Stick"!
| by Anonymous | reply 187 | January 6, 2018 1:50 AM |
Yep r185. Thanks for clarifying my mention,
| by Anonymous | reply 188 | January 6, 2018 1:54 AM |
Nina Hagen had a longer run in Europe than just the 80's.
Its fun to think of all those fashion designers who hit their peaks then faded.
| by Anonymous | reply 189 | January 6, 2018 1:54 AM |
Apollonia Kotero.
"We're all going to be BIG SCHTARS!" -- Purple Rain
Offsite Link| by Anonymous | reply 190 | January 6, 2018 1:55 AM |
Cher's Bagel Boy. Well he WAS really cute at least. Must have been a better fuck than Tammy, though not a s pretty as young Val Kilmer.
Offsite Link| by Anonymous | reply 192 | January 6, 2018 1:58 AM |
Karen Cellini, the forgotten Amanda:
Offsite Link| by Anonymous | reply 194 | January 6, 2018 2:01 AM |
Adam Ant
Mitzi Kaptur & Rob Estes, from Silk Stalkings
Alison LaPlaca & Brian Benben
Michael Biehn.
Danny Aiello
| by Anonymous | reply 196 | January 6, 2018 2:09 AM |
Apollonia was very pretty...she really destroyed herself with bad plastic surgery.
Offsite Link| by Anonymous | reply 199 | January 6, 2018 2:34 AM |
Whitley Streiber and all those other people who thought they were molested by aliens.
Offsite Link| by Anonymous | reply 201 | January 6, 2018 2:36 AM |
The late, great Klaus Nomi
Offsite Link| by Anonymous | reply 202 | January 6, 2018 2:37 AM |
Double Trouble Twins - Jean and Liz Segal
Offsite Link| by Anonymous | reply 207 | January 6, 2018 2:41 AM |
McMartin Preschool - alleged Satanic abuse of children...modern day Salem witch trial...
In The Devil in The Nursery, Margaret Talbot for The New York Times summarized the case:
When you once believed something that now strikes you as absurd, even unhinged, it can be almost impossible to summon that feeling of credulity again. Maybe that is why it is easier for most of us to forget, rather than to try and explain, the Satanic-abuse scare that gripped this country in the early 80's – the myth that Devil-worshipers had set up shop in our day-care centers, where their clever adepts were raping and sodomizing children, practicing ritual sacrifice, shedding their clothes, drinking blood and eating feces, all unnoticed by parents, neighbors and the authorities.[4]
Offsite Link| by Anonymous | reply 208 | January 6, 2018 2:43 AM |
The Ultimate '80's girlfriend, "Julie Richman."
Offsite Link| by Anonymous | reply 210 | January 6, 2018 2:46 AM |
Imelda “I don’t have any shoes” Marcos
| by Anonymous | reply 211 | January 6, 2018 2:47 AM |
Donald Trump...oh ..wait.
| by Anonymous | reply 215 | January 6, 2018 3:01 AM |
Imelda Marcos is still alive with more shoes than ever!
| by Anonymous | reply 219 | January 6, 2018 3:06 AM |
A-ha: aging well in 2017!!
Offsite Link| by Anonymous | reply 224 | January 6, 2018 3:53 AM |
Someone above mentioned Adam Ant, but I'm adamant he needs to be seen
Offsite Link| by Anonymous | reply 225 | January 6, 2018 4:17 AM |
Aiden Quinn in the first ever TV movie about AIDS (1985).
Offsite Link| by Anonymous | reply 226 | January 6, 2018 4:23 AM |
Dammit, R214, now this is in my head.
Offsite Link| by Anonymous | reply 228 | January 6, 2018 5:19 AM |
There are no small parts. Only small actors.
Like Hervé Villechaize!
Offsite Link| by Anonymous | reply 229 | January 6, 2018 5:20 AM |
^ And while we're at it...
Willow
Offsite Link| by Anonymous | reply 230 | January 6, 2018 5:23 AM |
Spuds Mackenzie, beloved corporate shill!
Offsite Link| by Anonymous | reply 231 | January 6, 2018 7:27 AM |
Who, amongst our Elder Gays, recall "Aerobicise" from 1982?
To refresh your now delicate memories, the show involved leotard-attired models (with heavy make-up) perched atop a white rotating turntable, turning out cheesy poses in unison to just as cheesy instrumental '80's soundtracks.
Offsite Link| by Anonymous | reply 233 | January 6, 2018 7:52 AM |
Mickey Mouse wearing a Dan Quayle watch.
| by Anonymous | reply 234 | January 6, 2018 8:07 AM |
Pop music sensation Stacey Q!
Offsite Link| by Anonymous | reply 235 | January 6, 2018 8:10 AM |
Ronald Reagan supporting the Contras in Nicaragua.
Offsite Link| by Anonymous | reply 237 | January 6, 2018 8:22 AM |
For the New Yorkers out there....
Offsite Link| by Anonymous | reply 243 | January 6, 2018 9:10 AM |
80's porn god, Jeff Stryker
Offsite Link| by Anonymous | reply 245 | January 6, 2018 9:30 AM |
AIDAN Quinn has been working steadily since the 80s and has been in a hit TV show for the last five years, R226.
Offsite Link| by Anonymous | reply 246 | January 6, 2018 9:33 AM |
R39 I regret to inform you that your pussy died in a raging grease fire. My condolences
| by Anonymous | reply 247 | January 6, 2018 9:36 AM |
R226 Aiden played an aids victim - interesting!
| by Anonymous | reply 248 | January 6, 2018 9:46 AM |
Samantha Smith, 13 year old peace activist and actress.
Offsite Link| by Anonymous | reply 250 | January 6, 2018 1:14 PM |
Peter Ivers, musician, composer, and host of New Wave Theatre (often shown on USA’s “Night Flight”)
Offsite Link| by Anonymous | reply 252 | January 6, 2018 1:23 PM |
Some people mentioned actually had their biggest moments in the 90s (Jane Child, Sophie B. Hawkins).
Some people mentioned arguably had their peak fame in the 80s, but continued to be featured in popular work beyond (Ralph Macchio in My Cousin Vinnie, Aidan Quinn in Elementary, Peter Scolari in Girls, Heather Locklear in Spin City and Melrose Place, etc.) So I don't associate them with only the 80s.
| by Anonymous | reply 254 | January 6, 2018 1:26 PM |
Berke Breathed and the original Bloom County comic strip.
Offsite Link| by Anonymous | reply 256 | January 6, 2018 1:41 PM |
Reagan impersonator Jim Morris.
Offsite Link| by Anonymous | reply 257 | January 6, 2018 1:45 PM |
Comedian Rich Hall and his “sniglets” on HBO’s “Not Necessarily the News.”
Offsite Link| by Anonymous | reply 259 | January 6, 2018 1:48 PM |
SNL afterthought and bodybuilding shill, Joe Piscopo.
Yes, I yanked off to him once or twice, but immediately felt guilty....
Offsite Link| by Anonymous | reply 261 | January 6, 2018 1:51 PM |
Madame! I know she was around before the '80s, but I associate her with Solid Gold and of course, "Madame's Place."
Offsite Link| by Anonymous | reply 262 | January 6, 2018 1:52 PM |
Surgeon General C. Everett Koop
Offsite Link| by Anonymous | reply 265 | January 6, 2018 1:54 PM |
"I'm gunna get you Cecil."
Offsite Link| by Anonymous | reply 269 | January 6, 2018 2:26 PM |
Datalounge's Patron Saint, Betty Broderick
Offsite Link| by Anonymous | reply 270 | January 6, 2018 2:34 PM |
Toukie and Willi Smith, sister and brother. She dated DeNiro for a few years during the 80's and he was a talented clothing designer who died of AIDS :(
Offsite Link| by Anonymous | reply 272 | January 6, 2018 4:14 PM |
The entire cast of thirtysomething
| by Anonymous | reply 273 | January 6, 2018 4:33 PM |
François Mitterrand et ses Grands travaux
Offsite Link| by Anonymous | reply 275 | January 6, 2018 4:39 PM |
Gary Dotson, from the 1985 DNA evidence false rape conviction controversy.
Offsite Link| by Anonymous | reply 276 | January 6, 2018 4:45 PM |
Rick Rossovich - very hot back then, very hot now.
Offsite Link| by Anonymous | reply 279 | January 6, 2018 5:00 PM |
KT Oslin! 80s Ladies was my mom's JAM lol!
Offsite Link| by Anonymous | reply 281 | January 6, 2018 5:34 PM |
[quote] Aiden Quinn in the first ever TV movie about AIDS (1985).
And 15 years later, the producers of that TV movie showed how to get AIDS when they produced that awful Showtime show with an anti-gay slur in its name.
| by Anonymous | reply 282 | January 6, 2018 5:41 PM |
Corazon Aquino was the 11th president (and first female president) of the Philippines.
Offsite Link| by Anonymous | reply 283 | January 6, 2018 5:43 PM |
Kelly "Don't hate me because I'm beautiful" LeBrock
Time has not been kind to her looks.
Offsite Link| by Anonymous | reply 284 | January 6, 2018 5:51 PM |
Michelle Meyrink from all the nerd movies.
| by Anonymous | reply 287 | January 6, 2018 6:14 PM |
WA Inc.
"Red" - Whatshername, Bondy's wife, who spent all her time with her pet gays.
Richard Holmes a Court and his quite socially aware wife, Janet.
Mark Povey, who had...oops, nevermind, it seems he's still alive and healthy. Was briefly a petrol millionaire.
Laurie Potter- HealthClub rich guy, then broke guy
Laurie Connell, Took the fall for WA Inc
| by Anonymous | reply 291 | January 6, 2018 6:50 PM |
r182, there used to be a clothing resale store in Santa Monica, Ca that had celebrity cast offs. There was a black filthy Azzedine Alaia (looked like she never wore underwear AND barfed around her dress) that was Nina Hagen's. The blond actress gal that hooked up with Paul Hogan (Now, THAT'S a knife!) had surprisingly great taste.
| by Anonymous | reply 293 | January 6, 2018 6:57 PM |
I never knew that Toukie and Willi Smith were siblings.
| by Anonymous | reply 297 | January 6, 2018 7:09 PM |
Um...Calvin & Hobbes has never gone out of style.
| by Anonymous | reply 298 | January 6, 2018 7:15 PM |
Lily, Holden & Dusty from as the world turns!
| by Anonymous | reply 305 | January 6, 2018 8:41 PM |
OH FOR FUCK'S SAKE DO NOT LIST EVERY SINGLE FUCKING PERSON FROM A FUCKING SOAP IN THE 80s.
Thank you.
| by Anonymous | reply 306 | January 6, 2018 8:43 PM |
Siobhan Ryan and Joe Novak from Ryan's Hope!!!
| by Anonymous | reply 307 | January 6, 2018 8:52 PM |
Not a person, a club: Area, the hottest club in NYC that not many people were able to get into!
| by Anonymous | reply 309 | January 6, 2018 9:57 PM |
Haoui Montaug, most obnoxious door person in NYC.
Offsite Link| by Anonymous | reply 310 | January 6, 2018 10:03 PM |
Holy cow! Those amaretto liqueur ad people were spot-on at capturing people who were of the moment - and then disappeared into obscurity...
Seriously - that’s gotta be a very high batting average!
| by Anonymous | reply 313 | January 6, 2018 10:35 PM |
Pretty much everyone mentioned in Julie Brown's "Vague". Kathy Griffin is one of the backup dancers.
Offsite Link| by Anonymous | reply 316 | January 6, 2018 11:04 PM |
1980 Tai Babilonia and Randy Gardner
Offsite Link| by Anonymous | reply 318 | January 6, 2018 11:30 PM |
She may have already been mentioned, but it bears repeating because I think she didn't exist outside of the 80s.
Tiffany.
Offsite Link| by Anonymous | reply 320 | January 6, 2018 11:56 PM |
Christine McGlade from “You Can’t Do That on Television”
Offsite Link| by Anonymous | reply 321 | January 7, 2018 12:06 AM |
The entire cast of Night Court
Offsite Link| by Anonymous | reply 323 | January 7, 2018 12:37 AM |
Bryan Brown and awful F/X movie that was supposed to make him a star.
Offsite Link| by Anonymous | reply 325 | January 7, 2018 12:49 AM |
Fawn Hall, Ollie North’s secretary
Offsite Link| by Anonymous | reply 327 | January 7, 2018 12:56 AM |
The man who popped my cherry on my first naval cruiser in1985. I was 19. He was 34 and married. Beautiful man with a tattoo of a heart on his hairy chest - with barbed wire around it. Silly me, I thought that he would leave his wife hahahaha! I was only sea pussy. But I still get hard at the memory of him and me in the supply storeroom, pounding my ass! My best eighties experience!
| by Anonymous | reply 330 | January 7, 2018 1:08 AM |
Some people I knew in the 80's in San Francisco followed that Ramtha crowd to Palm Beach county.
| by Anonymous | reply 332 | January 7, 2018 1:13 AM |
Caryn Richman, Dean Butler, and Sydney Penny, aka the cast of “The New Gidget.”
Offsite Link| by Anonymous | reply 333 | January 7, 2018 1:17 AM |
[quote]Bryan Brown and awful F/X movie that was supposed to make him a star.
I loved the F/X movie as a kid! And I remember wanking furiously to Bryan in The Thorn Birds. Bryan's been working steadily all this time so I wouldn't exactly call him only an 80's phenomenon. That said he turned 40 already in 1987 so his stardom came a bit late.
| by Anonymous | reply 334 | January 7, 2018 1:24 AM |
Except of course for William Schallert who worked for decades until his death recently, R333.
Offsite Link| by Anonymous | reply 335 | January 7, 2018 1:24 AM |
Remember Donnie Simpson, host of Video Soul on BET? Silky voiced and handsome.
Offsite Link| by Anonymous | reply 336 | January 7, 2018 1:44 AM |
The guy who played Mallory’s boyfriend Nick on Family Ties.
| by Anonymous | reply 337 | January 7, 2018 1:51 AM |
I liked F/X too. I was surprised to read a negative comment. Everyone I know liked it, and it has an 87% positive score on Rotten Tomatoes.
| by Anonymous | reply 340 | January 7, 2018 2:12 AM |
The millennials have no idea how popular this guy was
Offsite Link| by Anonymous | reply 342 | January 7, 2018 2:33 AM |
Walter Polovchak, the 12-year-old who defected ..
Offsite Link| by Anonymous | reply 343 | January 7, 2018 2:54 AM |
The Hollywood Kids. I actually subscribed to their newsletter which they mailed to me every month. They were my DL and TMZ before the Internet existed.
| by Anonymous | reply 344 | January 7, 2018 3:11 AM |
Judd Nelson Tawny Kitaan or whatever her name Tiffany Oliver North Menendez brothers Pete Burns Leona Helmsley Imelda Marcos
| by Anonymous | reply 346 | January 7, 2018 5:34 AM |
Lisa Sliwa of the Guardian Angels.
Offsite Link| by Anonymous | reply 348 | January 7, 2018 6:16 AM |
I was at the gym and an Andy Gibb song came on (An Everlasting Love) and it made me so sad, I remember his death (myocarditis aggravated by cocaine abuse) was a shocker in '88. Andy had just turned thirty!
Alexander Godunov dies of hepatitis from chronic alcoholism. I remember being very surprised.
I was so in love with Donnie Simpson, I haven't thought about him in years!
Adam Curry was sex on a stick, he was such a crush of mine in my 20s! I liked cheap looking guys always.
| by Anonymous | reply 350 | January 7, 2018 6:56 AM |
Rachel Ward and Bryan Brown....Thornbirds
Offsite Link| by Anonymous | reply 351 | January 7, 2018 11:39 AM |
The 1984 Los Angeles Olympics US Swim Team. I don't remember their names, I just remember we had beefcake shots of them all year long. I was very impressionable then. (Code for "I beat off to their pics all the time.)
Offsite Link| by Anonymous | reply 352 | January 7, 2018 11:50 AM |
Travolta leading lady Madolyn Smith
Offsite Link| by Anonymous | reply 355 | January 7, 2018 12:02 PM |
Debi Thomas, Caryn Kadavy, and Jill Trenary and her poufy Peter Pan haircut.
I beat them ALL.
Offsite Link| by Anonymous | reply 357 | January 7, 2018 1:43 PM |
Steven Saban / the [italics]real[/italics] Details magazine
| by Anonymous | reply 358 | January 7, 2018 2:56 PM |
^Don't pluralize italic.^
| by Anonymous | reply 359 | January 7, 2018 3:31 PM |
Weird thread, especially as so many of the actors and actresses listed in this thread actually remained well known, and gainfully employed, way beyond the 1980s. They might not have become superstars or A-List, but many remained working performers. Especially the character actors and actresses. In fact, I saw Lauri Hendler on a TV One series, of all places, the other night!
How about a thread about people who were no longer remembered beyond the 1980s? Actual one hit wonders.
| by Anonymous | reply 360 | January 7, 2018 5:40 PM |
R351 Im pretty sure Rachel & Bryan are/were married to each other.
| by Anonymous | reply 361 | January 7, 2018 7:26 PM |
They are r361, Rachel Ward directs a lot more these days. Bryan is still doing movies although not necesarily big mainstream American ones. I think he does the occasional guest spot on American TV however. Their daughter Matilda is an actress too now.
| by Anonymous | reply 362 | January 7, 2018 8:09 PM |
Everyone may know their songs, but The Weather Girls and Toni Basil themselves have to be a bit obscure.
| by Anonymous | reply 363 | January 7, 2018 8:50 PM |
The thread title is "People from the '80s whom you haven't thought of much, or at all, since the 80's." This can be anyone from the 1980s who, despite a long career past the '80s, you haven't thought of since then.
| by Anonymous | reply 365 | January 7, 2018 8:55 PM |
[quote]he thread title is "People from the '80s whom you haven't thought of much, or at all, since the 80's." This can be anyone from the 1980s who, despite a long career past the '80s, you haven't thought of since then.
Anal much?
| by Anonymous | reply 366 | January 7, 2018 9:08 PM |
R366, No, anal is the person who keeps pointing out how so-and-so continues to work in such-and-such field/medium, regardless if you haven't heard about said person since their heyday.
| by Anonymous | reply 368 | January 7, 2018 10:48 PM |
Paulina Porizkova & Ric Ocasek
Offsite Link| by Anonymous | reply 369 | January 8, 2018 2:35 AM |
Jeff Smith, the Frugal Gourmet.
I used to like the way this guy presented his recipes.
But I really liked his assistant, Craig. I lived for shows where Craig was shown.
Jeff, Elmo, and Craig:
Offsite Link| by Anonymous | reply 372 | January 8, 2018 3:22 PM |
[quote]Paulina Porizkova & Ric Ocasek
Ric must have a big dick, I can't imagine what else he might have going for him. Does he even still have a career in music? His first wife was also very attractive. I recall his son with his first wife was handsome. Ric is a pencil-necked geek!
| by Anonymous | reply 373 | January 8, 2018 5:53 PM |
Clare Grogan, Altered Images
Offsite Link| by Anonymous | reply 375 | January 9, 2018 2:10 AM |
Square Pegs marathon starts today 1pm ET on Decades (at least in my area of the US)
| by Anonymous | reply 376 | June 24, 2018 3:23 PM |
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