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* 1982 – Time's Man of the Year is for the first time a non-human, the personal computer.
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At these shows, Devo performed a new stage show utilizing synchronized video, similar to the 1982 tour, new costumes, and three new songs: " Don't Shoot, I'm a Man!
Stephen KingKing dedicated Bachman's early books — Rage ( 1977 ), The Long Walk ( 1979 ), Roadwork ( 1981 ), and The Running Man ( 1982 ) — to people close to him, and worked in obscure references to his own identity.
Joshi cites two early non-supernatural novels — Rage ( 1977 ) and The Running Man ( 1982 )— as King's best, suggesting both are riveting and well-constructed suspense thrillers, with believable characters.
The comics explore religious fundamentalism through the person of William Stryker and his Purifiers, an anti-mutant group that emerged in the 1982 graphic novel God Loves, Man Kills.
* Oscar winners: Ordinary People ( 1980 ), Chariots of Fire ( 1981 ), Gandhi ( 1982 ), Terms of Endearment ( 1983 ), Amadeus ( 1984 ), Out of Africa ( 1985 ), Platoon ( 1986 ), The Last Emperor ( 1987 ), Rain Man ( 1988 ), Driving Miss Daisy ( 1989 )
* The Running Man ( 1982 ) was a book by Stephen King depicting a game show in which a contestant flees around the world from " hunters " trying to chase him down and kill him ; it has been speculated that the book was inspired by Robert Sheckley's The Prize of Peril.
In 1982, Eastwood directed and starred alongside his son Kyle in Honkytonk Man, based on the eponymous Clancy Carlile's depression-era novel.
Jane Seymour, OBE ( born Joyce Penelope Wilhelmina Frankenberg ; 15 February 1951 ) is an English actress best known for her performances in the James Bond film Live and Let Die ( 1973 ), Somewhere In Time ( 1980 ), East of Eden ( 1982 ), Onassis: The Richest Man in the World ( 1988 ), War and Remembrance ( 1988 ), the ill-fated queen Marie Antoinette in the 1989 political thriller La Révolution française, Wedding Crashers ( 2005 ), and the American television series Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman ( 1993 – 1998 ).
Many of his stories have been re-released in posthumous volumes ( Best of Beaumont ( Bantam, 1982 ) and The Howling Man ( Tom Doherty, 1992 )), and a set of previously unpublished tales, A Touch of the Creature ( Subterranean Press, 1999 ), is now available.
Caine was averaging two films a year, but these included such failures as the BAFTA Award-nominated The Magus ( 1968 ), the Academy Award-nominated The Swarm ( 1978 ), Ashanti ( 1979 ) ( which he claimed were the worst three films of all the other worst films he ever made ), Beyond the Poseidon Adventure ( 1979 ), The Island ( 1980 ), The Hand ( 1981 ) and a reunion with his Sleuth co-star Laurence Olivier in The Jigsaw Man ( 1982 ).
In November, 1982 the Motown influenced electro pop single " Mirror Man " reached No. 2 in the UK chart, just missing another Christmas No. 1, which was taken by a novelty record by Renée and Renato.
* Bones and the Man: Toward a History of Bones Playing Robert E McDowell ( 1982 ) The Journal of American Culture 5: 1, ( Spring 1982 ) pp. 38 – 43.
His TV career saw him measure with Inside the Third Reich ( 1982 ), where he played Hitler ; Mr Pye ( 1985 ); and Little Dorrit ( 1987 ), from Charles Dickens's book ; The Tenth Man ( 1988 ) with Anthony Hopkins and Kristin Scott Thomas.
In 1982, Brotherhood of Man signed a deal with EMI in the hope that the new pop revival would encompass them.
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