Life Moves Pretty Fast: The lessons we learned from eighties movies (and why we don't learn them from movies any more) (40 page)
Authors: Hadley Freeman
Short Circuit
3, 137, 217
Short, Martin 245
Shue, Elisabeth 15, 78, 250
Silkwood
178
Silverstone, Alicia 81, 86
Simple Minds 2, 242
Simpson, Don 4, 121–4, 147, 153, 263, 264
Sixteen Candles
1, 8, 65, 66, 67, 68, 76, 159, 212, 213–14, 249–50, 250
n
Smith, Mel 54
Some Kind of Wonderful
67, 71, 79, 87, 159, 164, 165, 167, 203, 212
Soul Man
250–1
Spaceballs
3, 17
n
, 113, 201, 299
Spader, James 69, 189
n
, 238
Spielberg, Steven 12–13, 128, 149, 171, 252
Splash
128
St Elmo’s Fire
16, 44, 62, 79, 300
Stakeout
120–1
Stallone, Sylvester 16, 118, 244, 263, 264
Stamp, Terence 89
Stand By Me
300
Star Trek
16
Star Wars
16, 137, 149, 225, 252
Stark, Ray 186
Steel Magnolias
7, 64, 175–200, 279
Stepford Wives, The
176
Stoltz, Eric 78–9, 157–8, 165, 203, 205
n
, 206–7
Stone, Oliver 6
Streep, Meryl 176, 193
Stripes
136, 246
Sutherland, Kiefer 121
Swayze, Patrick 19, 20, 24, 35, 174, 205
n
Teen Wolf
26
n
, 44, 78, 81, 204
Terms of Endearment
178, 181, 182, 183, 200
Thompson, Lea 157–8, 205, 208, 211–12
Three Amigos!
3, 10, 144, 295–6, 299
Three Men and a Baby
6, 62, 118–19, 144, 148, 217, 243
Tomlin, Lily 176
Tootsie
93–5, 118, 173, 193, 246, 280, 296
Top Gun
2, 4, 9, 121, 122–4, 123
n
, 125–7, 128–30, 133, 153, 173, 242, 280
Townshend, Robert 256
Toy Story 3
60
Toy, The
251, 254
Trading Places
5, 10, 130, 144, 201, 255–6, 259–63, 271, 278, 279, 297
Troop Beverly Hills
301
Turner, Kathleen 4, 92–3, 93
n
, 107, 197, 198
n
, 241
Turner, Tina 45, 239
21 Jump Street
168
Twins
289
Uncle Buck
67
n
, 118
Ursitti, Susan 15, 78
Used Cars
202
Valley Girl
25, 62, 78, 156, 173, 205
n
Van Damme, Jean-Claude 118
Vice Versa
149
Walken, Christopher 191–2, 229, 239
Wall Street
62, 156, 156
n
Wayans, Damon 258, 276
Weaver, Sigourney 92, 100, 107, 138–40, 188–9
Weekend at Bernie’s
69, 289, 299
Weird Science
67, 212, 250, 250
n
When Harry Met Sally
14, 90–111, 116
n
, 144, 187, 284
Who Framed Roger Rabbit?
52
Wild Life, The
205
Wilder, Gene 131, 259
Wilder, Joan 107
Willis, Bruce 128, 176
Winter, Alex 5–6
Witches of Eastwick, The
189
Wood, Elijah 14
Woods, James 6–7
Working Girl
15, 44, 63, 64, 92, 107, 188–9
Wright, Robin 48, 51, 54–5
Year of Living Dangerously, The
139
Yentl
4, 178
You’ve Got Mail
104
Young Sherlock Holmes
137, 205, 299
Zemeckis, Robert 202, 203, 206, 206
n
, 207, 208, 209, 210, 211
Enormous thanks to the following, for their love, support and advice. You guys can be my posse in an eighties teen film any time: Andy Bull, Carol Miller, Nell Freeman, India Knight, Catherine Shoard, Tim Robey, Julia Kingsford, Charlie Campbell, Ed Howker, Adam Curtis, Patrick Kennedy, Benedict Cumberbatch, Dixie Chassay, Kamila Shamsie, Michael Hogan, Peter Bradshaw and Arthur Ferdinand Freeman.
Huge thanks, too, to my editors at the
Guardian
, Catherine Shoard (again), Malik Meer, Tim Lusher and Nosheen Iqbal for commissioning me to interview various eighties legends for the newspaper during the writing of this book, thereby making it much easier for me to track them down. You guys are nothing like the evil bosses in eighties movies.
Endless gratitude to two people in particular: first, my agent, Georgia ‘patience of Job’ Garrett, who had faith in this book when no one else did, myself very much included (I know that’s a terrible cliché for a writer to say about their agent, but it really is the truth here). Next, to my ceaselessly supportive editor, Louise Haines, who was the Johnny Castle to my Baby (in the sense of being a masterful instructor, mind. We didn’t actually do any sexy high lifts, although, hey, there’s still time, Louise). Thanks also to everyone at 4th Estate, especially Georgia Mason, Rebecca McEwan and Morag Lyall.
For professional insights and interviews, thank you so much to Celestia Fox, Steven Gaydos at
Variety
, Paul Feig, Judd Apatow, Col Needham at
IMDB.com
, Jill Soloway, Jeffrey Tambor, Peter Biskind, Mark Cousins, Tom Shone, Mark Kermode, Linda Ruth Williams, Lynda Obst and Melissa Silverstein. Rebecca Wind and Laura Lindberg at the Guttmacher Institute helped me with research on the history of US sex education while Natika Halal and Bekki Burbidge at the Family Planning Association, Harriet Gill at Brook Advisory and Lucy Emmerson at the Sex Education Forum provided me with the UK perspective. Joan Graves at the MPAA and David Cooke patiently talked me through the ratings systems in their two countries. Dr Helen Sharpe at the Institute of Psychiatry talked to me about the influence of celebrities’ body shape on teenagers’ self-image, a subject matter I didn’t, in the end, write about in this book but may well return to in another. Eileen Jones at UC Berkeley and Dr James Russell at De Montfort University were fascinating about the depiction of social class in movies. Professor Mark Anthony Neal at Duke University and Professor Anna Everett at University of California Santa Barbara very kindly talked to me about African-American pop culture in the 1980s and helped me to place both Eddie Murphy and Spike Lee in context. All of the mistakes in the discussion of these subjects in this book are mine.
Finally, enormous thanks to all my eighties movie interviewees for pretending not to notice that I was and am utterly starstruck by them all: Molly Ringwald, John Landis, Ivan Reitman, Jon Avnet, Matthew Broderick, Amy Heckerling, Andrew McCarthy, Michael J. Fox, Cary Elwes, Tom Hanks, Lea Thompson, Howard Deutch, Tim Burton, Rick Moranis, Kathleen Turner, Geena Davis, Eleanor Bergstein, Olympia Dukakis, Bob Harling, Bob Gale and Ron Howard.
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