Kevin Norwood Bacon ( born July 8, 1958 ) is an American film and theater actor whose notable roles include Animal House, Diner, Footloose, Flatliners, Wild Things, A Few Good Men, JFK, The River Wild, Murder in the First, Apollo 13, Hollow Man, Stir of Echoes, Trapped, Mystic River, The Woodsman, Friday the 13th, Death Sentence, Frost / Nixon, X-Men: First Class and Tremors.

The plot of the 1984 movie, Footloose, is loosely based on events in Elmore City since dancing was banned for almost 100 years in this city.

Anson is also the town that may or may not have been the inspiration for the movie " Footloose " and, as of 1987, still had an enforced " no dancing " law on the books that is / was only lifted for the annual Christmas dance.

Lehi Roller Mills is a landmark in Lehi and famous for being featured in the movie Footloose.

Payson is where most of the 1984 hit movie Footloose was filmed, in settings such as Payson High School and Sudsie's, a local car wash.

The opposite scenario occurs in Footloose where Ren McCormack is stuck in his tractor and hence wins the game as he can't play " chicken ".

* Footloose ( 1984 )-starring Kevin Bacon, about a town in which dancing is banned.

* Ren McCormack is the main character from the film Footloose

Footloose is a 1984 American musical-drama film directed by Herbert Ross.

Payson High School was also a site for the filming of the 1984 film Footloose, as is much of the surrounding Payson area.

She is perhaps best known for her role as Ariel Moore, the female lead in the 1984 feature film Footloose, and as Julie Miller in the television series Fame.

She is a 2008 graduate of Deer Park High School, where she appeared in school productions of " The Wiz ," and " Footloose.

Leo Geter is an American character actor who has appeared in many films, including the 1984 hit Footloose, as well as Near Dark, The Stand, and Halloween: The Curse of Michael Myers, and Silent Night, Deadly Night.

While Footloose does have the man under the sniper rifle crosshairs it is Gary who talks the man into surrendering.

Bolstered by the attention garnered by his performance in Diner, Bacon starred in the 1984 box-office smash Footloose.

Richard Corliss of TIME likened Footloose to the James Dean classic Rebel Without a Cause and the old Mickey Rooney / Judy Garland musicals, commenting that the film includes " motifs on book burning, mid-life crisis, AWOL parents, fatal car crashes, drug enforcement, and Bible Belt vigilantism.

Bacon did earn strong reviews for Footloose, and he appeared on the cover of People magazine soon after its release.

Bacon's critical and box-office success lead to a period of typecasting in roles similar to the two he portrayed in Diner and Footloose.

Productions of the 1980s and 1990s included The Apple, Xanadu, Annie, The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas, Victor Victoria, Footloose, Little Shop of Horrors, Absolute Beginners, Evita and Everyone Says I Love You.

Paramount's successful run of pictures extended into the 1980s and 1990s, generating hits like Airplane !, American Gigolo, Ordinary People, An Officer and a Gentleman, Flashdance, Terms of Endearment, Footloose, Pretty in Pink, Fatal Attraction, the Friday the 13th slasher series, as well as Raiders of the Lost Ark and its sequels.

Other popular films included About Last Night ..., Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure, Dirty Dancing, Flashdance, Footloose, Raging Bull and St. Elmo's Fire which also launched the careers of high profile celebrities like Demi Moore, Joe Pesci, Keanu Reeves, Kevin Bacon, Rob Lowe and Patrick Swayze.

* Aitken, Bill, Footloose in the Himalaya, Delhi, Permanent Black, 2003.

According to an interview with the three in the spring 1999 issue of the college's magazine, The Albright Reporter, they were watching Footloose during a heavy snowstorm.

* The 1984 film Footloose was filmed at various locations in Utah County: American Fork, Lehi, Orem, Payson, and Provo.

Various citizens were featured on an anniversary edition of the Footloose DVD, recounting the events that led to the change in city code that allowed students at Elmore City High School to hold their first prom.

Lehi Roller Mills was immortalized in the 1984 film Footloose.

The lyrics had been written by Dean Pitchford, prolific writer of Fame, screenwriter of — and sole or joint lyricist of every song in the soundtrack of — the original 1984 film Footloose, and lyricist of the Solid Gold theme, and the music had been composed by Bill Goldstein, whose versatile career included the original music for NBC's Fame TV series.

Written by Dean Pitchford ( whose other output includes Fame, Footloose, Sing, Solid Gold and the musical Carrie ), this was the combined narration / theme from the movie The Legend of the Lone Ranger ... which was a box-office flop.

The soundtrack for the 1984 film Footloose included the song " Holding Out for a Hero ", performed by Bonnie Tyler.

One, " Holding Out for a Hero ", was the same track from the Footloose soundtrack.

Ann also sang the duet " Almost Paradise " with Mike Reno in the movie Footloose from 1984 which reached number seven on Billboard's Hot 100.

Their song " Never " was used as part of the soundtrack for the 1984 film " Footloose " & 2007 film Hot Rod.

If, in a certain part of the range, it starts life 1 foot longer than do any of the other ( relatively large ) giants, and reaches maturity at, let us guess, 18 inches longer than the others, a quadrupling of the maturity length would result in a maximum of ( nearly ) 40 feet.

Reader, if of the City, thou mayest probably have seen in the Fields of Islington or Mile-End or, If thou art in the environs of St James ', thou must have observed in the Park with what Ease and Agility a cow, heavy with calf, has rose up at the command of the milkwoman's foot: thus from the mossy bank sprang the DIVINE FARINELLI.

If the enemy oppresses my land under his foot,

If a rider is thrown from a horse but has a foot caught in the stirrup, they could be dragged if the horse runs away.

If the competitor starts the leap with any part of the foot past the foul line, the jump is declared a foul and no distance is recorded.

If the cavalry met foot soldiers, the pikemen would engage them.

If the child drops the gun and it breaks someone's foot, the HWR test fails, as a broken foot was not the type of harm anticipated.

If Imperial units are used, and if torque is in pounds-force feet and rotational speed in revolutions per minute, the above equation gives power in foot pounds-force per minute.

If you are suffering from nausea, for example, needles might be inserted into acupoints on your wrist, while a vision problem might be treated with needles in the foot.

" If the firm " actually copied code from a GPL'd program, such a suit would be a perfectly ordinary assertion of copyright, which most private firms would defend if the shoe were on the other foot.

* If any altitude, say AD, is extended to intersect the circumcircle at P, so that AP is a chord of the circumcircle, then the foot D bisects segment HP:

If only one foot is brought into this position, it is called a half-lotus position.

If this combined length is longer than a persons foot they may be over bearing.

If one is a minor, a deaf-mute, a mute, or mentally handicapped, or has a crooked or turned foot, the halizah cannot be performed.

If Zed wanders about on foot for long, he'll eventually encounter others.

If the stirrup is too large, the foot can go through the stirrup opening and be caught.

If the stirrup is too small, the foot can become trapped more easily as the foot cannot free itself.

If the stirrup is too far forward, on the toes, the rider risks losing if he pushes with too much pressure ( forcing it off the foot ) or too little ( allowing it to simply slide off ).

If the gradient is steep, active transport of materials down the fan creates a moving substrate that is inhospitable to travel on foot or wheels.

If you lose your lucky rabbit's foot or magic power crystal you've literally lost your luck or power.

If equipped, each chair has a retractable bar, sometimes with attached foot rests.

If the ferry service is not operating due to vessel maintenance issues or by being suspended due to fog, pedestrians can use the nearby Woolwich foot tunnel.

If no action is taken such as dredging, in a few hundred years, sediment deposits will begin to build up at the foot of the dam and will gradually block the different outlets used to release water.