* It was seen as the home of a wealthy Englishman that Mr. Fortescue visited seeking money in the 1982 film starring Michael Palin, The Missionary.

* In 1982, John Swenson wrote Bill Haley: The Daddy of Rock and Roll ( published in the UK under the title, Bill Haley ).

He wrote dozens of polemical articles and essays during this period, which are collected in the books Zero Option ( 1982 ) and The Heavy Dancers ( 1985 ).

In 1980 and 1982 feminist physicians Nawal El Saadawi and Asma El Dareer wrote about FGM as a dangerous practice intended to control women's sexuality.

Josef Tal wrote Concerto for harpsichord & electronic music ( 1964 ) and Chamber Music ( 1982 ) for s-recorder, marimba & harpsichord.

Journalist John Corry, wrote a 6, 000-word feature article in The New York Times in November 1982, responding and defending Kosiński, which appeared on the front page of the Arts and Leisure section.

Kosiński wrote his novel Pin Ball ( 1982 ) for his friend George Harrison, having conceived of the idea for the book at least ten years before writing it.

Grand Pianola Music ( 1982 ): Adams commented, " Dueling pianos, cooing sirens, Valhalla brass, thwacking bass drums, gospel triads, and a Niagara of cascading flat keys all learned to cohabit as I wrote the piece.

She later expanded her work with the organization after arriving in Washington, and wrote about her experiences in her 1982 book To Love a Child.

However in 1982 Thatcher wrote to President Reagan to request the United Kingdom be allowed to procure the Trident II ( Trident D5 ) system, the procurement of which had been accelerated by the US Navy.

John Milton ( 1608 – 1674 ) wrote a textbook in logic or dialectic in Latin based on Ramus ' work, which has now been translated into English by Walter J. Ong and Charles J. Ermatinger in The Complete Prose Works of John Milton ( Yale University Press, 1982 ; 8: 206-407 ), with a lengthy introduction by Ong ( 144-205 ).

In a 1982 essay for Natural History Gould wrote:

However in 1982 Thatcher wrote to President Reagan to request the United Kingdom be allowed to procure the Trident II system, the procurement of which had been accelerated by the US Navy.

Joan Howard Maurer, daughter of Moe, wrote the following in 1982:

In his 1982 autobiography Mon Dernier soupir ( My Last Sigh, 1983 ), Buñuel wrote that, over the years, he had rejected Dalí's attempts at reconciliation.

In 1982, he wrote a West End farce Pass the Butler, starring Willie Rushton.

Reviewing Genesis 1976 – 1982 in Q, Andy Fyfe wrote: "... in spite of 150 million album sales the bottom line is that little of the band ’ s output has aged well ...

In The New York Times Book Review, novelist Paul Auster wrote, " Georges Perec died in 1982 at the age of 46, leaving behind a dozen books and a brilliant reputation.

Thousands of Falun Gong followers wrote to Guangming Daily and to the CQRS to complain against the measures, claiming that they violated Hu Yaobang's 1982 ' Triple No ' directive.

In 1982, Asimov gave in after a thirty-year hiatus, and wrote what was at the time a fourth volume: Foundation's Edge.

The 1973 – 1982 versions were produced by veteran Goodson-Todman producer Ira Skutch, who also wrote some questions and acted as on-stage judge.

Towne also wrote and directed Personal Best ( 1982 ), a fictional drama of female track-and-field athletes, and Without Limits ( 1998 ), a biopic based on the life of distance runner Steve Prefontaine.

The proposed amendment was ratified by Wyoming in 1978 as a protest to a Congressional pay raise, but the proposed amendment was largely forgotten before University of Texas at Austin undergraduate student Gregory Watson wrote a paper on the subject in 1982.

In July 1982, during the film's first theatrical run, Spielberg and Mathison wrote a treatment for a sequel to be titled E. T.

" Animation historian Charles Solomon wrote that development took place between 1982 and 1983, which combined " ethnic tales from around the world with the music of the various countries ".

He starred in more than 60 films including Some Like It Hot, The Apartment, Mister Roberts ( for which he won the 1955 Best Supporting Actor Academy Award ), Days of Wine and Roses, The Great Race, Irma la Douce, The Odd Couple, Save the Tiger ( for which he won the 1973 Best Actor Academy Award ), The Out-of-Towners, The China Syndrome, Missing ( for which he won ' Best Actor ' at the 1982 Cannes Film Festival ), Glengarry Glen Ross, Grumpy Old Men and Grumpier Old Men.

In 1982, Eastwood directed and starred alongside his son Kyle in Honkytonk Man, based on the eponymous Clancy Carlile's depression-era novel.

He then starred as Rick Deckard in Ridley Scott's cult sci-fi classic Blade Runner ( 1982 ), and in a number of dramatic-action films: Peter Weir's Witness ( 1985 ) and The Mosquito Coast ( 1986 ), and Roman Polanski's Frantic ( 1988 ).

Newman starred in Exodus ( 1960 ), The Hustler ( 1961 ), Hud ( 1963 ), Harper ( 1966 ), Hombre ( 1967 ), Cool Hand Luke ( 1967 ), The Towering Inferno ( 1974 ), Slap Shot ( 1977 ), and The Verdict ( 1982 ).

She also produced and starred in over 20 exercise videos released between 1982 and 1995, and once again in 2010.

Crothers starred in three short-lived 1980s television series: One of the Boys ( 1982 ), Casablanca ( 1983 ), and Morningstar / Eveningstar ( 1986 ).

Barker and Corbett also starred in the short, mostly silent, films The Picnic ( 1975 ) and By the Sea ( 1982 ).

During 1982 Sykes played the Chief Constable in the slapstick police comedy film The Boys in Blue, which starred the comedy duo Cannon and Ball, with Jon Pertwee.

On the night of June 9 – 10, 1982, Wolf Gremm, director of the film Kamikaze 1989 ( 1982 ), which starred Fassbinder, was staying in his apartment.

Scott also starred in well-received productions of Larry Gelbart's Sly Fox ( 1976 ) ( based on Ben Jonson's Volpone ), which ran 495 performances, and a revival of Noël Coward's Present Laughter ( 1982 ).

He also starred in the short-lived but critically lauded 1976 period detective series City of Angels and the 1979 – 1982 CBS series House Calls, first with Lynn Redgrave, and then later with actress Sharon Gless, who went on to co-star in the CBS-TV crime drama series Cagney and Lacey with actress Tyne Daly ( coincidentally, one of the House Calls co-stars was Roger Bowen who played the original Colonel Henry Blake in the MASH movie ).

In 1969, Supergirl's adventures became the lead feature in Adventure Comics, and she later starred in an eponymous comic book series which debuted in 1972 and ran until 1974, followed by a second monthly comic book series titled The Daring New Adventures of Supergirl, which ran from 1982 to 1984.

He had a minor role in Halloween II, and co-starred on One of the Boys in 1982, a short-lived television sitcom that also starred Mickey Rooney, Nathan Lane, and Meg Ryan.

Pleasence starred as the Reverend Septimus Harding in the BBC's 1982 TV series The Barchester Chronicles.

In lighter vein, West starred as patriarch Bradley Hardacre in Granada TV's satirical Northern super-soap Brass over three seasons ( 1982 – 1990 ), and made a memorable appearance as Professor Furie in A Very Peculiar Practice in 1986.

In 1982, River was cast in the NBC short-lived TV series, Seven Brides for Seven Brothers, in which he starred as the youngest brother, Guthrie McFadden.

Later in 1982, Cates Kline starred in Fast Times at Ridgemont High which features " the most memorable bikini-drop in cinema history.

The show starred Lee Aaker ( born 1943 ) as Rusty, James Brown ( 1920 – 1992 ) as Lieutenant Ripley " Rip " Masters and Joe Sawyer ( 1906 – 1982 ) as Sergeant Biff O ' Hara.

The 1982 adaptation starred Carl-Heinz Schroth and Johannes Heesters, the 1995 version featured Harald Juhnke and Wolfgang Spier, and Werner Schneyder and Dieter Hildebrandt appeared in the 2001 edition.

Hasselhoff starred in the science-fiction series Knight Rider from 1982 to 1986.

In 1982, he starred as the voice of Nicodemus in the animated film, The Secret of NIMH.

He has starred in more than fifty movies, including The Great Escape ( 1963 ), Paddy Chayefsky's The Americanization of Emily ( 1964 ), Blake Edwards ' Victor Victoria ( 1982 ), Murphy's Romance ( 1985 ), for which he received an Academy Award nomination, and The Notebook ( 2004 ).

A BBC radio adaptation in 1982 starred Michael Hordern as Merlyn.