These included Flashdance ( 1983 ), which told the story of blue-collar worker Alexandra ( Alex ) Owens ( Jennifer Beals ), who works as an exotic dancer in a Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania bar at night and at a steel mill as a welder during the day.

Flashdance is a 1983 American romantic drama film that was the first collaboration of producers Don Simpson and Jerry Bruckheimer.

Flashdance opened to negative reviews by professional critics, but was a surprise box office success, becoming the third highest grossing film of 1983 in the USA.

Moroder has won three Academy Awards: Best Original Score for Midnight Express ( 1978 ); Best Song for " Flashdance ... What a Feeling ", from the film Flashdance ( 1983 ); and Best Song for " Take My Breath Away ", from Top Gun ( 1986 ).

These included Flashdance ( 1983 ), which told the story of blue-collar worker Alexandra ( Alex ) Owens ( Jennifer Beals ), who works as an exotic dancer in a Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania bar at night and at a steel mill as a welder during the day.

*" Maniac " ( song ), by Michael Sembello from the 1983 film Flashdance

She played the role of Alexandra " Alex " Owens in the 1983 film Flashdance, and as Bette Porter on the Showtime drama series The L Word.

In 1983, Cara reached the peak of her music career with the title song for the movie Flashdance: " Flashdance ... What A Feeling ", which she co-wrote with Giorgio Moroder and Keith Forsey.

* Flashdance ( 1983 )-Jennifer Beals ' character doing a breakdance routine during a prestigious dance school audition to the Academy Award-winning song " Flashdance ... What a Feeling ".

Eszterhas, who wrote the film in 13 days, and who had been the creative source for several other blockbusters, including Flashdance ( 1983 ) and Jagged Edge ( 1985 ), was replaced by Gary Goldman as the writer because Eszterhas and producer Irwin Winkler had walked off the picture after failing to reach agreement with Verhoeven over how the film should be approached.

It went on to earn $ 90. 4 million during its U. S. theatrical run, making it the fourth highest grossing film of 1983, behind Flashdance ($ 92. 9 million ), Terms of Endearment ($ 108. 4 million ) and Return of the Jedi ($ 252. 5 million ), and the second highest grossing R-rated film of 1983 behind Flashdance.

In 1983, Kim's song, " I'll Be Here Where the Heart Is ", was included on the Flashdance soundtrack which received a Grammy for Best Album of Original Score Written for a Motion Picture.

Director Ardolino was adamant that they choose dancers who could also act, as he did not want to use the " stand-in " method that had been used with the 1983 Flashdance.

* In Flashdance ( 1983 ), directed by Adrian Lyne, there is a scene wherein Jennifer Beals ' character performs a footjob on Michael Nouri's character, under the table at a restaurant.

* Flashdance ( 1983 ) ( distributed by Paramount Pictures )

* " Manhunt ", a song by Karen Kamon from the soundtrack of the 1983 film Flashdance

* Flashdance ( 1983 )

( 1981 ), the soundtrack to the film Flashdance ( 1983 ), and the final three Kiss LP's on Casablanca: Unmasked, Music from " The Elder " and Creatures of the Night.

*" Gloria " ( Umberto Tozzi song ), a 1979 Umberto Tozzi track later covered by Laura Branigan, featured on the soundtrack of the film Flashdance

Branigan also contributed songs to notable motion picture and television soundtracks, including the Grammy and Academy Award-winning Flashdance soundtrack ( 1983 ), the Ghostbusters soundtrack ( 1984 ), and the Baywatch soundtrack ( 1994 ), as well as having songs featured in the popular Grand Theft Auto video game series.

Furthermore, he played the strip club owner in Flashdance ( 1983 ), Mr. Boddy in Clue ( 1985 ), and a small role in Streets of Fire ( 1984 ), among other roles in films and television shows.

series, this film did not focus specifically on MGM films and included more recent performances by the likes of John Travolta ( from Saturday Night Fever ) and Michael Jackson and from the then-popular films Fame ( 1980 ) and Flashdance ( 1983 ), as well as classic films from other studios, including Carousel, released by 20th Century Fox, and Oklahoma !, released by Magna Corporation ( roadshow ) and 20th Century Fox ( general release ).

The skyscraper features prominently in the 1983 film Flashdance ( while still under construction ), the 1998 Michael Keaton film Desperate Measures ( serving as part of the " hospital "), as well as cameos in Sudden Death, Striking Distance and the 2010 rap video Black and yellow

After completing Dressed to Kill, De Palma was considering several projects, including Acts of Vengeance ( later produced for HBO starring Charles Bronson and Ellen Burstyn ), Flashdance, and a script of his own titled Personal Effects.

Arsenic and Old Lace, Vacanza Romana ( Roman Holiday ), Irving Berlin's White Christmas, Footloose, Saturday Night Fever, Urban Cowboy, Flashdance, First Wive Club, Johnny Guitar, Ghost, Sunset Boulevard and the stage adaptation of Happy Days with Gary Marshall.

The show is presented as an original musical which features parodies of the early 1980s breakdancing craze, MTV, the movies Saturday Night Fever and Flashdance, and a number of popular top 40 hit songs of the early 1980s.

In the movie Flashdance, released in 1983, the move was used in the breakdance scene, where a street performer, with an umbrella prop, mimed the wind blowing him backward as he first walks forward, fighting the wind, then starts moonwalking backwards, this scene was also shown in the Malcom McLaren film clip Buffalo Gals ).

In June 2005, Cara won the third round of the NBC television series Hit Me, Baby, One More Time, performing " Flashdance ( What a Feeling )" and covered Anastacia's song " I'm Outta Love " with her current all-female band, Hot Caramel.

Recognising this, Brent quickly grows to despise Neil, and spends most of series two trying to one-up him at every point, most memorably with a dance routine in episode five, which he describes with typical false modesty and inaccuracy, saying " I've sort of fused Flashdance and MC Hammer shit ".

Wearing black leggings under long, often diaphanous, skirts was part of a general fashion trend of wearing gym or dance clothes as street wear that evolved along with the fitness craze and under the influence of the movie Flashdance and the long-running Broadway show A Chorus Line.

The album sold over one million copies and the movie, although apparently simple and with generally low expectations, surpassed the Hollywood movie " Flashdance " at the box office.

Their reach has tapped into major hit productions such as Fresh Prince of Bel Air, Sex in the City, Grey ’ s Anatomy, Bones, CSI: Miami, Dancing with the Stars, Flashdance, Fame, Studio 54, Summer of Sam, Bad Santa, Joe Dirt, Rio, Open Season, G Force, Dreyers Ice Cream, Gap, Diet Pepsi, Miller Coors, Grand Theft Auto and many more.

Both " Flashdance " and " This Will Be " were released on promo only with remixes, and in 2007 were available as digital downloads on iTunes under the misspelt artist name ' Karren Parry '.

He attended John F. Kennedy High School with b-boy superstars, Crazy Legs and Mr. Freeze of the Rock Steady Crew ( both, fresh off the movie Flashdance ), Fastbreak ( from Magnificent Force ), DJ Kid Capri, and Glidemaster & Chino ( New York City Breakers ).

Giorgio Moroder originally recorded " Flashdance ... What a Feeling " with Joe Esposito ; Paramount Pictures asked Moroder to rework the song with a female artist to parallel the gender of the dancer who was the film's protagonist.

Some of his best known films include Beverly Hills Cop, Flashdance, Top Gun, The Rock, Con Air, Armageddon, Bad Boys, Enemy of the State, Black Hawk Down, Pearl Harbor, Pirates of the Caribbean, and the National Treasure franchise.

He produced such hits as Flashdance, Beverly Hills Cop, Top Gun and The Rock.

* Adrian Cristea ( born 1983 ), Romanian footballer

* Adrian Cruciat ( born 1983 ), Romanian tennis player

* Adrian McPherson ( born 1983 ), American quarterback in the Canadian Football League

* Adrian Piţ ( born 1983 ), Romanian footballer

* Adrian Sălăgeanu ( born 1983 ), Romanian footballer

* Adrian Sutil ( born 1983 ), German Formula One racing driver

* Adrian Boult ( 1889 – 1983 ), English conductor

* Albert II, Prince of Thurn and Taxis ( born 1983 ), Prince of Thurn und Taxis, German prince

In 1983 he wrote an extended manuscript ( about 600 pages ) entitled Pursuing Stacks, stimulated by correspondence with Ronald Brown, ( see also R. Brown and Tim Porter at University of Bangor in Wales ), and starting with a letter addressed to Daniel Quillen.

In C ++ ( 1983 ), class templates exist for multi-dimensional arrays whose dimension is fixed at runtime as well as for runtime-flexible arrays.

* Ark ( The Animals album ), a 1983 album by The Original Animals

On the European stage Roma won an Inter-Cities Fairs Cup in 1960 – 61, coming close to European Cup victory in 1983 – 84 ( lost the one-legged final played at home against Liverpool after a penalty shootout ), and finishing as runners-up in the UEFA Cup for 1990 – 91 ( two-legged aggregate defeat against Internazionale ).

* Alexandra Shiryayeva ( born 1983 ), Russian beach volleyball player

* Dance a Little Closer ( 1983 ), with Charles Strouse

Throggs Neck ( 1983 ), pictorial

Göran Bror Benny Andersson () ( born 16 December 1946 ), known professionally as Benny Andersson, is a Swedish musician, composer, former member of the Swedish musical group ABBA ( 1972 – 1983 ), and co-composer of the musicals Chess, Kristina från Duvemåla, and Mamma Mia !.

Throughout the 1970s and early 1980s, De Palma worked repeatedly with actors Jennifer Salt, Amy Irving, Nancy Allen ( his wife from 1979 to 1983 ), Gary Sinise, John Lithgow, William Finley, Charles Durning, Gerrit Graham, cinematographers Stephen H. Burum and Vilmos Zsigmond ( see List of noted film director and cinematographer collaborations ), set designer Jack Fisk, and composers Bernard Herrmann, John Williams and Pino Donaggio.

The Orioles experienced their greatest success from 1964 – 1983, as well as 1996-1997, winning eight Division Championships ( 1969 – 1971, 1973 – 1974, 1979, 1983, 1997 ), six pennants ( 1966, 1969 – 1971, 1979, 1983 ), three World Series Championships ( 1966, 1970, 1983 ), one wild card berth ( 1996 ), and five Most Valuable Player awards ( 3B Brooks Robinson 1964, OF Frank Robinson 1966, 1B Boog Powell 1970 and SS Cal Ripken Jr. 1983 & 1991 ).