) Where the irony with which Reefer Madness was adopted as a midnight favorite had its roots in a countercultural sensibility, in the latter's place there is now the paradoxical element of nostalgia: the leading revivals currently on the circuit ironically include clearly non-cult films like John Hughes oeuvre — The Breakfast Club ( 1985 ), Pretty in Pink ( 1986 ), and Ferris Bueller's Day Off ( 1986 ), which were major studio productions and popular and financially successful during their original releases, and the teen adventure film The Goonies ( 1985 ).

The first major artist to have his entire catalogue converted to CD was David Bowie, whose 15 studio albums were made available by RCA Records in February 1985, along with four Greatest Hits albums.

* 2008 – A major tornado outbreak across the Southern United States leaves 57 dead, the most since the May 31, 1985 outbreak that killed 88.

When Godzilla 1985 failed at the box office, it was the last Godzilla film produced by Toho to receive any major release in North American theaters until Godzilla 2000 fifteen years later.

It was initially popularized circa 1984 in discothèques catering to gay and mixed, primarily African-American and Latino audiences in Chicago, but beginning in 1985, fanned out to other major cities such as Detroit, Toronto, New York City, Boston, Montreal, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Manchester, Miami, London, and Paris.

In 1985, under the management of Giovanni Trapattoni, who led the Torinese team to thirteen official trophies in ten years until 1986, including six league titles and five international titles ; Juventus became the first club in the history of European football to have won all three major competitions organised by the Union of European Football Associations: the European Champions ' Cup, the ( now-defunct ) Cup Winners ' Cup and the UEFA Cup ( the first Italian and Southern European side to win the tournament ).

He gave six major lectures in 1985 and nine in 1986.

Some major works composed during this period include Wavemaker ( 1977 ), Phrygian Gates for solo piano ( 1977 ), Shaker Loops ( 1978 ), Common Tones in Simple Time ( 1979 ), Harmonium ( 1980 – 81 ), Grand Pianola Music ( 1982 ), Light Over Water ( 1983 ), Harmonielehre ( 1984 – 85 ), The Chairman Dances ( 1985 ), Short Ride in a Fast Machine ( 1986 ), and Nixon in China ( 1985 – 87 ).

Several major computer-related organizations have originated at MIT since the 1980s: Richard Stallman's GNU Project and the subsequent Free Software Foundation were founded in the mid-1980s at the AI Lab ; the MIT Media Lab was founded in 1985 by Nicholas Negroponte and Jerome Wiesner to promote research into novel uses of computer technology ; the World Wide Web Consortium standards organization was founded at the Laboratory for Computer Science in 1994 by Tim Berners-Lee ; the OpenCourseWare project has made course materials for over 2, 000 MIT classes available online free of charge since 2002 ; and the One Laptop per Child initiative to expand computer education and connectivity to children worldwide was launched in 2005.

Also in 1985, 20 nations, including most of the major CFC producers, signed the Vienna Convention, which established a framework for negotiating international regulations on ozone-depleting substances.

Subsequent ' numerologists ' including Lynn Buess ( 1978 ), Mark Gruner ( 1979 ), Kathleen Roquemore ( 1985 ), and Florence Campbell ( 1983 ), expanded on the use of numerology for assessing major aspects of personality and cyclical patterns in life.

Construction began on a major new CCTV studio in Beijing in 1985.

Porsche made small improvements to the 924 each model year between 1977 and 1985, but nothing major was changed on non-turbo cars.

The band was close to a major label contract, but often alienated label representatives by intentionally performing badly in concert ; their 1985 live album, The Shit Hits the Fans, was an example of their concert performances at the time.

Michigan Opera Theatre was the first major American Opera Company to produce West Side Story in late 1985.

The concert was a major global international effort by musicians and activists to sponsor action to send aid to the people of Ethiopia who were suffering from a major 1984 – 1985 famine in Ethiopia | famine.

In May 1985, News Corporation agreed to pay $ 2. 55 billion to acquire independent television stations in six major U. S. cities from John Kluge's company, Metromedia.

In October 1985, 20th Century Fox announced its intentions to form an independent television system, a fourth television network which would compete with the three major U. S. television networks ( ABC, CBS, and NBC ).

GEC's major defence related acquisitions included Associated Electrical Industries in 1967, English Electric Company ( including its Marconi subsidiary ) in 1968, Yarrow Shipbuilders in 1985, parts of Ferranti's defence business in 1990, Vickers Shipbuilding and Engineering in 1995 and Kvaerner Govan in 1999.

Marc Zaharovich Chagall ( ; ; ; ;) ( 28 March 1985 ), was a Russian-French artist associated with several major artistic styles and one of the most successful artists of the 20th century.

Henderson became the first player in major league history to reach 80 stolen bases and 20 home runs in the 1985 season.

Notably, from 1985 to 1988, author and television writer Hugh Miller wrote seventeen novels, detailing the lives of many of the show's original characters before 1985, when events on screen took place.

Opening on August 23, 1985, in 235 North American theaters, the film grossed $ 509, 502 USD ($ 2, 168 per screen ) in its opening weekend, on its way to a lackluster $ 4, 116, 395 total gross.

The television series Moonlighting ( 1985 – 1989 ), Married ... with Children ( 1987 – 1997 ), NewsRadio ( 1995 – 1999 ), Gilmore Girls ( 2000 – 2007 ), and Standoff ( 2006 – 2007 ) have also adapted elements of the screwball comedy genre for the small screen.

Wenders admired the dance choreographer Pina Bausch since 1985, but only with the advent of digital 3-D cinema did he decide that he could sufficiently capture her work on screen.

His screen career ran from 1929 to 1985, and he is best remembered for his Academy Award – winning portrayal of an alcoholic writer in The Lost Weekend ( 1945 ), a sophisticated leading man opposite a corrupt John Wayne in Reap the Wild Wind ( 1942 ), the murder-plotting husband in Dial M for Murder ( 1954 ), and as Oliver Barrett III in Love Story ( 1970 ).

Rutledge was even hired to do a cameo in one episode as a teacher at Punky's school ( in the opening scene of the episode titled " The Search ", aired November 10, 1985 ) so that both the real and fictional Punky Brewster could be on screen at the same time ( the teacher even comments " Punky Brewster?

He made his breakthrough screen performance in Terry Gilliam's 1985 cult film Brazil.

In January 1985, after A & E dropped its partnership with Nickelodeon and became its own 24-hour channel, Nickelodeon simply went to a test screen after sign-off.

The film would win the 1966 Academy Award for Documentary Feature, and BBC would not screen the film on-air until 1985.

In 1985, she was awarded the Kennedy Center Honors, Lifetime Achievement for a career that spanned three decades and a range of musical theater, the silver screen, Broadway, radio and television.

From 1985 to 1994, the left-field wall included a six-foot clear Plexiglas screen for a total height of.

In December 1985, Hockney was commissioned to draw with the Quantel Paintbox, a computer program that allowed the artist to sketch directly onto the screen.

Zane's first two screen roles were in the science fiction fllms Back to the Future in 1985 and Critters in 1986.

June Tripp ( June 11, 1901-January 14, 1985 ), sometimes known just by her screen name, June, was a British actress.

Bridge to Terabithia has been adapted for the screen twice: a 1985 PBS TV movie and a 2007 Disney / Walden Media feature film.

From 1979 – 1985, the Fairlight CMI ( and Fairlight CMI IIx ) was a high-end musical sampling and re-synthesis workstation that utilized light pen technology, with which the user could allocate and manipulate sample and synthesis data, as well as access different menus within its OS by touching the screen with the light pen.

The remodeled ident first introduced in May 1985 was on a fading sky background, with 3 pairs of green semicircles ( same design as the first logo ) that flip from the bottom of the screen into 2D at the middle of the screen.

The film itself shows on screen that it takes place when John ( born February 28, 1985 ) is age 10.

He also wrote an original spin-off novel for Target, Harry Sullivan's War, starring the character he had played on screen, which was published in 1985 ( considered the first original Doctor Who-related novel ).

The X Window System was one of the earliest systems to include support for an arbitrary image as wallpaper via the xsetroot program, which at least as early as the X10R3 release in 1985 could tile the screen with any solid color or any binary-image X BitMap file .< ref > X10R3, X. org downloads,: xsetroot program attributed to " Tony Della Fera, DEC ", dated " 28-Nov-84 ".</ ref > In 1989, a free software program called xgifroot was released that allowed an arbitrary color GIF image to be used as wallpaper, and in the same year the free xloadimage program was released which could display a variety of image formats ( including color images in Sun Rasterfile format ) as the desktop background.

Wong supported himself as a photographer and as a dancer ( appearing in rock videos with David Bowie, Donna Summer, and Janet Jackson, among others ) before scoring his first screen roles in 1985, appearing in a Hong Kong musical called Ge wu sheng ping ( aka Musical Dancer ) and in a screen adaptation of James Clavell's best-seller Tai-Pan.