These films in particular, as well as others including Play Misty for Me ( 1971 ), Thunderbolt and Lightfoot ( 1974 ), The Outlaw Josey Wales ( 1976 ), Escape from Alcatraz ( 1979 ), Tightrope ( 1984 ), Pale Rider ( 1985 ), Heartbreak Ridge ( 1986 ), In the Line of Fire ( 1993 ), The Bridges of Madison County ( 1995 ), and Gran Torino ( 2008 ), have all received commercial success and critical acclaim.

Tightrope ( 1984 ) had Eastwood starring opposite his daughter Alison, Geneviève Bujold, and Jamie Rose in a provocative thriller, inspired by newspaper articles about an elusive Bay Area rapist.

The police procedural film, often with a surprise twist ending, has also remained a vital format with Cruising ( 1980 ), Gorky Park ( 1983 ), Tightrope ( 1984 ), The Dead Pool ( 1988 ), Mortal Thoughts ( 1991 ), Rising Sun ( 1993 ), Striking Distance ( 1993 ), The Usual Suspects ( 1995 ), Lone Star ( 1996 ), Under Suspicion ( 2000 ), Blood Work ( 2002 ), Mindhunters ( 2004 ), and Righteous Kill ( 2008 ).

* Tightrope ( 1984 )

His early television career featured many guest starring roles in such series as Wagon Train, Black Saddle, Have Gun-Will Travel, The Fugitive, The Twilight Zone, The Outer Limits, Gunsmoke, Harbor Command, Tombstone Territory, Tightrope, The Blue Angels ( as arrogant flight instructor Lieutenant Dayl Martin ), Laramie, COronado 9, The Eleventh Hour, Bonanza, Thriller ( US TV series ), and Channing, an ABC drama about college life.

Tightrope Pictures have produced several high-profile dramas for the BBC, including Richard Curtis's The Girl in the Café ( also directed by David Yates for BBC One, 2005 ) and an adaptation of William Golding's novel To the Ends of the Earth ( BBC Two, 2005 ).

* Sur le Fil, ( On The Tightrope )-by Fernando Arrabal, directed by Pierre Constant.

Tightrope crossings of the falls ended — by law — in 1896, when James Hardy crossed.

This philosophical slant rubbed off onto some of his new musical poems of the time: A Singer at the Microphone, The Tightrope Walker, and The Misery ( a sad folky tale of a girl who became victim of circumstance, later recorded by Marina and covered by countless female performers ) and others.

Walk the Tightrope is the fourth album by Australian boy band and pop vocal group Human Nature released on 26 April 2004.

A digital-only EP, Psychic Life, fronted by the song " Tightrope ", was released in October 2011.

The film is produced by the independent production company Tightrope Pictures and was originally screened on BBC One in the United Kingdom on 25 June 2005.

Tightrope Pictures is a British television production company, founded in late 2003 by writer Paul Abbott and producer Hilary Bevan-Jones, who had worked together that year on the successful BBC drama serial State of Play.

Connors later took the starring roles in Tightrope ( 1959 – 1960 ), Mannix ( 1967 – 1975 ) and Today's F. B. I.

Eastwood has appeared in over 50 films and has starred in 42 films, including Hang ' Em High, Play Misty for Me, Dirty Harry, Escape from Alcatraz, Tightrope, The Bridges of Madison County, and Gran Torino.

In his book A Modest Proposal ( 1984 ), evangelical author Frank Schaeffer emulated Swift's work in social conservative polemic against abortion and euthanasia in a future dystopia that advocated recycling of aborted embryos and fetuses, as well as some disabled infants with compound intellectual, physical and physiological difficulties.

His later novels included fixups such as The Beast ( aka Moonbeast ) ( 1963 ), Rogue Ship ( 1965 ), Quest for the Future ( 1970 ) and Supermind ( 1977 ); expanded short stories ( The Darkness on Diamondia ( 1972 ), Future Glitter ( aka Tyranopolis ) ( 1973 ); original novels such as Children of Tomorrow ( 1970 ), The Battle of Forever ( 1971 ) and The Anarchistic Colossus ( 1977 ); plus sequels to his classic works, many of which were promised, but only one of which appeared, Null-A Three ( 1984 ; originally published in French ).

::::::::::::- Christie expressing her interest in archaeology, a passage from An Autobiography ( London, 1984 ), p. 389

::::::::::::- Christie wishing for an earlier exposure to Archaeology, a passage from An Autobiography ( 1984 ), p. 546

* Szatmary, David P. Shay's Rebellion: The Making of an Agrarian Insurrection ( 1984 ), 1787 in Massachusetts

The second generation was led by Fernand Braudel ( 1902 – 1985 ) and included Georges Duby ( 1919 – 1996 ), Pierre Goubert ( 1915 – 2012 ), Robert Mandrou ( 1921 – 1984 ), Pierre Chaunu ( 1923 – 2009 ), Jacques Le Goff ( 1924 – ) and Ernest Labrousse ( 1895 – 1988 ).

A third generation was led by Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie ( 1929 – ) and includes Jacques Revel, and Philippe Ariès ( 1914 – 1984 ), who joined the group in 1978.

Major successes include Absurd Person Singular ( 1975 ), The Norman Conquests trilogy ( 1973 ), Bedroom Farce ( 1975 ), Just Between Ourselves ( 1976 ), A Chorus of Disapproval ( 1984 ), Woman in Mind ( 1985 ), A Small Family Business ( 1987 ), Man Of The Moment ( 1988 ), House & Garden ( 1999 ) and Private Fears in Public Places ( 2004 ).

* Lyotard, Jean-François ( 1979 ), The Postmodern Condition, Manchester University Press, 1984.

* Alexandra Dahlström ( born 1984 ), Swedish actress

* B. V. L ’ vov ( 1984 ), Twenty-five years of furnace atomic absorption spectroscopy, Spectrochim.

** Andre Iguodala ( born 1984 ), NBA basketball player for the Philadelphia 76ers

This revival was due to the dramatic and highly fictionalized depiction of Salieri in Peter Shaffer's 1979 play Amadeus, which was given its greatest exposure in its 1984 film version, directed by Miloš Forman.

* A hugely popular yet heavily fictionalized perpetuation of the story came in Peter Shaffer's play Amadeus ( 1979 ) and the Oscar-winning 1984 film directed by Miloš Forman based upon it.

In 1984, he directed the music video of Bruce Springsteen's song " Dancing In The Dark ".

Citizen exhaustion due to the conflict's newfound intensity led to the election of president Belisario Betancur ( 1982 – 1986 ), a Conservative who won 47 % of the popular vote, directed peace feelers at all the insurgents, and negotiated a 1984 cease-fire with the FARC and M-19 after a 1982 release of many guerrillas imprisoned during the previous effort to overpower them.

" Earlier, in December 1984, the Council on Hemispheric Affairs had issued a report condemning the Contras and the United States government as being among the worst human rights violators in Latin America: " The CIA directed forces are among the worst human rights violators in Latin America, responsible for systematic brutality against a civilian population.

He made a cameo appearance in the 1984 film Gremlins and directed the Bugs Bunny / Daffy Duck animated sequences that bookend Gremlins 2: The New Batch ( 1990 ).

In 1984 Coppola directed Robert Evans-produced The Cotton Club.

New directors who appeared in the 80s include actor Jūzō Itami, who directed his first film, The Funeral, in 1984, and achieved critical and box office success with Tampopo in 1985.

Wes Craven directed A Nightmare On Elm Street ( 1984 ).

* Kaos ( film ), a 1984 Italian film directed by Paolo and Vittorio Taviani

In 1984, Arnaud Sélignac produced and directed a film called Nemo or Dream One, starring Jason Connery, Harvey Keitel and Carole Bouquet.

In 1984 Scott directed a big-budget ( US $ 900, 000 ) television commercial to launch the Apple Macintosh computer.

Repo Man is a 1984 cult film directed by Alex Cox.

Apple's famous " 1984 " television commercial, introducing the Apple Macintosh computer and directed by Ridley Scott, ran during a timeout in the third quarter.

The memoir was adapted and produced as a TV movie, Solomon Northup's Odyssey ( 1984 ), directed by Gordon Parks.

In 1984, a made-for-TV movie, based on Northup's memoir, was directed by Gordon Parks.

* In 1984, Twelve Years a Slave was adapted as a PBS television movie entitled Solomon Northup's Odyssey, directed by Gordon Parks.

* Sunday in the Park with George ( 1984 ) ( book by James Lapine ; directed by James Lapine )

The Terminator is a 1984 American science fiction action film directed by James Cameron, co-written by Cameron, Gale Anne Hurd and William Wisher Jr. and starring Arnold Schwarzenegger, Michael Biehn, and Linda Hamilton.

The band's 1984 – 1985 tour was the most lucrative in their history and spawned 9012Live, a concert film directed by Steven Soderbergh with added special effects from Charlex that cost $ 1 million.

In 1984, Moore had another hit, starring in the Blake Edwards directed Micki + Maude, co-starring Amy Irving.

Other references to Le Pétomane include Mel Brooks's 1974 film Blazing Saddles, Kevin Gilbert's The Shaming of the True, the 1984 college romp film Up the Creek, directed by Robert Butler, in which the four protagonists represent Lepetomane University in an inter-collegiate river raft race, Kinky Friedman's 1999 novel Spanking Watson, and John Hodgman's book The Areas of My Expertise.

In 1984, the memoir was adapted as a PBS television movie entitled Solomon Northup's Odyssey, directed by Gordon Parks.

In 1984 the Riverside Shakespeare Company of New York City produced a modern dress Julius Caesar set in contemporary Washington, called simply CAESAR !, starring Harold Scott as Brutus, Herman Petras as Caesar, Marya Lowry as Portia, Robert Walsh as Antony, and Michael Cook as Cassius, directed by W. Stuart McDowell at The Shakespeare Center.

:: A politically-oriented film directed by J. Lee Thompson in 1984