An American rock band, sometimes
referred to as "The Bad Boys from Boston" and
"America's Greatest Rock and Roll Band."
Their style, which is rooted in blues-based hard
rock,has come to also incorporate elements
of pop,heavy metal, and rhythm and blues, and has inspired
many subsequent rock artists. The band
was formed in Boston, Massachusetts in 1970.
Guitarist Joe Perry and bassist Tom Hamilton, originally in a band
together called the Jam Band, met up with singer Steven Tyler,
drummer Joey Kramer, and guitarist Ray Tabano, and formed
Aerosmith. In 1971, Tabano was replaced by Brad Whitford, and
the band began developing a following in Boston
Aerosmith is the best-selling American rock band of all time, having sold more than 150
million albums worldwide,[17] including 66.5 million albums in the United States alone.
They also hold the record for the most gold and multi-platinum albums by an American
group. The band has scored 21 Top 40 hits on the Billboard Hot 100, nine number-one
Mainstream Rock hits, four Grammy Awards, and ten MTV Video Music Awards. They
were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2001, and were included among
both Rolling Stone's and VH1's lists of the 100 Greatest Artists of All Time.
“Sweet Emotion”, “Walk This Way,” “Dream On”, “Same Old Song and Dance”, “Back in
the Saddle” , “Last Child”
Freddie Mercury (Farrokh/Freddie Bulsara)
(lead vocals, piano), Brian May
(guitar, vocals), John Deacon(bass guitar), and
Roger Taylor (drums, vocals). Queen's earliest
works were influenced by progressive rock, but
the band gradually ventured into more
conventional and radio-friendly works,
incorporating more diverse and innovative styles
in their music
By the early 1980s, Queen were one of the biggest stadium
rock bands in the world, and their performance at 1985's Live
Aid is regarded as one of the greatest in rock history.
In 1991, Mercury died of bronchopneumonia, a complication of
AIDS
Bohemian Rhapsody, We Will Rock You, We Are the Champions,
Crazy Little Thing Called Love, Fat Bottomed Girls, Bicycle
Race
English rock singer-songwriter, composer,
pianist
Has sold more than 250 million records,
making him one of the most successful artists
of all time. His single "Candle in the Wind 1997" has sold over
33 million copies worldwide
He has more than 50 Top 40 hits, including seven consecutive
No. 1 US albums, 56 Top 40 singles, 16 Top 10, four No. 2 hits,
and nine No. 1 hits. He has won six Grammy Awards, an
Academy Award, a Golden Globe Award and a Tony Award.
"Bennie and the Jets", "Goodbye Yellow Brick Road", "Candle
in the Wind", "Saturday Night's Alright for Fighting", “Rocket
Man”
American television sitcom series about a
widowed mother and her five children who
embark on a music career
They acquire an old school bus for touring, paint it with
Mondrian-inspired patterns, and depart to Las Vegas for their
first live gig at Caesars Palace. The Partridge children were
played by David Cassidy (Jones' real-life stepson)
as her eldest son Keith, Susan Dey as Laurie,
Danny Bonaduce as Danny, Jeremy Gelbwaks
(Brian Forster seasons 2-4) as Chris, and
Suzanne Crough as Tracy.
Follows a team of doctors and support staff stationed at the
"4077th Mobile Army Surgical Hospital" in
Uijeongbu, South Korea during the Korean War
The show's title sequence features an instrumental
version of "Suicide Is Painless", the theme song from the
original film.
The finale, "Goodbye, Farewell and Amen", becoming the
most watched television episode in U.S. television history
at the time, with a record-breaking 125 million viewers
(60.2 Rating
and 77 Share), according to the New York Times.[
Many of the stories in the early seasons are based on
real-life tales told by real MASH surgeons who were
interviewed by the production team. Like the movie,
the series was as much an allegory about the
Vietnam War (still in progress when the show began) as it
was about the Korean War
Moore is best known for The Mary Tyler Moore Show
(1970–77), in which she starred as Mary Richards, a
30-something single woman who worked as a local
news producer in Minneapolis, and for her earlier role as
Laura Petrie (Dick Van Dyke's wife) on
The Dick Van Dyke Show (1961–66). She also appeared in a
number of films, most notably 1980's Ordinary People, in which
she played a role that was the polar opposite of the television
characters she had portrayed, and for which she was
nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actress.
The Mary Tyler Moore Show was a half-hour newsroom sitcom
featuring Ed Asner as her gruff boss Lou Grant, a character
that would later be spun off into an hour-long dramatic series.
The premise of the single working woman's life, alternating
during the program between work and home, became a
television staple.
She was one of the more popular acts at the
Monterey Pop Festival and later became one of the major
attractions to the Woodstock festival
"Down on Me", "Summertime", "Piece of My Heart",
"Ball 'n' Chain", "Maybe", "To Love Somebody”,
"Cry Baby", "Mercedes Benz", and her only number one hit, "Me
and Bobby McGee".
Joplin was well known for her performing abilities, and her fans
referred to her stage presence as "electric".
At the height of her career, she was known as "The Queen of
Rock and Roll" as well as "The Queen of Psychedelic Soul," and
became known as Pearl amongst her friends
Rose to fame as a founding member and lead
singer of the Motown group The Supremes during
the 1960s.
Began a solo career in 1970
She received a Best Actress Academy Award nomination for her
role as Billie Holiday in Lady Sings the Blues (1972), for which
she won a Golden Globe award
"Reach Out and Touch (Somebody's Hand)" and "Ain't No
Mountain High Enough," “Touch Me in the Morning”
Country music icon, his songs and sound spanned
many other genres including rockabilly and rock and roll—
especially early in his career—as well as blues, folk, and
gospel. This crossover appeal led to Cash being inducted in the
Country Music Hall of Fame, the Rock and Roll Hall of
Fame, and Gospel Music Hall of Fame.
Cash was known for his deep, distinctive bass-baritone voice;
for his rebelliousness, an increasingly somber and humble
demeanor;for providing free concerts inside prison walls, and for
his dark performance clothing, which earned him the nickname
"The Man in Black".
He traditionally started his concerts by saying "Hello, I'm Johnny
Cash.” and usually following it up with his standard "Folsom
Prison Blues".
An abundance of Cash's music, especially that of his later
career, echoed themes of sorrow, moral tribulation and
redemption.["I Walk the Line", "Folsom Prison Blues", "Ring of
Fire", "Get Rhythm" and "Man in Black""A Boy Named Sue"
Brian Jones on guitar and harmonica,
Ian Stewart on piano, Mick Jagger on lead
vocals, harmonica and maracas, Keith Richards
on guitar and vocals, Bill Wyman on bass and
Charlie Watts on drums.
“World’s Greatest Rock and Roll Band.”[
"(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction” was a huge hit"Paint It, Black," "Lady Jane," "Under My Thumb,“ “It’s Only
Rock and Roll”
Band performed at the Altamont Free Concert at the Altamont
Speedway, about 60 km east of San Francisco. The biker gang
Hells Angels provided security, and a fan, Meredith Hunter, was
stabbed and beaten to death by the Angels
She rose to fame in the 1960s with films such as
Barbarella and Cat Ballou. She has won two
Academy Awards, an Emmy Award and received several
other movie awards and nominations during more than 50
years as an actress. After 15 years of retirement, she
returned to film in 2005 with Monster-in-Law, followed by
Georgia Rule two years later. She also produced and
starred in over 20 exercise videos released between
1982 and 1995, and once again in 2010.
Fonda has been an activist for many political causes; her
opposition to the Vietnam War and associated activities were
controversial.
Fonda won her first Academy Award for Best Actress in 1971,
playing a high-class call girl, Bree Daniels, in the murder
mystery Klute. She won her second Oscar in 1978 for Coming
Home, as a Marine officer's wife who volunteers at a veterans'
hospital and becomes involved with a disabled Vietnam War
veteran
An English rock band active in the late 1960s and
throughout the 1970s. Formed as the New
Yardbirds in 1968, the band consisted of guitarist
Jimmy Page, singer Robert Plant, bassist/
keyboardist John Paul Jones, and drummer
John Bonham. They are widely considered to be
one of the most successful, innovative and
influential rock groups in history.
Led Zeppelin are frequently recognized as the progenitors of heavy metal and hard
rock. However, the band's individualistic style drew from a wide variety of influences,
including folk music, which they incorporated into their next two albums. Their untitled
fourth album, which features the track "Stairway to Heaven", is among the most
popular and influential works in rock music, and it cemented the status of the group
as "superstars."
Kashmir, Immigrant Song, Stairway to Heaven, Achilles Last Stand, Whole Lotta
Love, Black Dog, Over the Hills & Far Away
Nominated for five Academy Awards,
winning two, Hackman has also won
three Golden Globes in
a career that spanned five decades. He
first came to fame in 1967 with his performance as Buck
Barrow in Bonnie and Clyde. His major subsequent films
include The French Connection(1971), in which he played
Jimmy "Popeye" Doyle; The Poseidon Adventure(1972); The
Conversation (1974); Superman (1978), in which he played
arch-villain Lex Luthor; Hoosiers (1986); Mississippi Burning
(1987); Unforgiven (1992); The Firm (1993); Crimson Tide
(1995); Get Shorty (1995); The Birdcage (1996); Enemy of the
State (1998); and The Royal Tenenbaums (2001).
protagonist, Archie Bunker, TV's greatest character of all time.[5]
All in the Family revolved around the life of a
working class bigot and his family. The show broke
ground in its depiction of issues previously considered
unsuitable for U.S. network television comedy, such as
racism, homosexuality, women's liberation, rape,
miscarriage, abortion, breast cancer, the Vietnam War,
menopause, and impotence. Through depicting these
controversial issues, the series became arguably one of
television’s most influential comedic programs, as it injected the
sitcom format with real-life conflicts.
Archie Bunker (Carroll O'Connor),is an outspoken
bigot, seemingly prejudiced against everyone who
is not a U.S.-born, politically conservative,
heterosexual White Anglo-Saxon Protestant male,
and dismissive of anyone not in agreement with
his view of the world.
Archie is considered to be one of TV's greatest
characters of all time.[5]
American screen and stage actor. Considered to
be one of the most important actors in American
cinema,[ Brando was one of only three
professional actors, along with Charlie Chaplin
and Marilyn Monroe, named by Time magazine
as one of its 100 Persons of the Century in 1999.[
Brando had a significant impact on film acting.
While he became notorious for his "mumbling" diction and exuding a raw animal
magnetism,his performances were nonetheless highly regarded, and he is widely
considered as one of the greatest and most influential actors of the 20th century.Director
Martin Scorsese said of him, "He is the marker. There's 'before Brando' and 'after
Brando'." Actor Jack Nicholson once said, "When Marlon dies, everybody moves up
one."Brando was ranked by the American Film Institute as the fourth greatest screen
legend among male movie stars whose screen debuts occurred in or before 1950.
Played Vito Corleone in Francis Ford Coppola's The Godfather(1972), a role critics
consider among his greatest. The movie, which became the most commercially
successful film of all time when it was released — along with his Oscar-nominated
performance as Paul in Last Tango in Paris (1972), another smash hit — revitalized
Brando's career and reestablished him in the ranks of top box office stars, placing
him at number 6 and number 10 in Top 10 Money Making Stars poll in 1972 and
1973, respectively.
Some of his notable roles include Bo 'Bandit'
Darville in Smokey and the Bandit, Bobby "Gator"
McCluskey in White Lightning and sequel Gator,
Paul Crewe in The Longest Yard and Jack Horner
in Boogie Nights.
His breakout performance in Deliverance in 1972 made
him a star. The same year, Reynolds gained notoriety
when he posed naked in the April (Vol. 172, No. 4) issue
of Cosmopolitan Magazine.Reynolds claims the centerfold in
Cosmopolitan hurt the chances for Deliverance and the film's
stars, including himself, from receiving Academy Awards.
Deliverance: Four Atlanta businessmen, Lewis (Burt Reynolds), Ed (Jon Voight), Bobby
(Ned Beatty) and Drew (Ronny Cox), decide to canoe down a river in the remote North
Georgian wilderness, expecting to have fun and see the glory of nature before the
fictional Cahulawassee River valley is flooded by the construction of a dam.
The four men encounter friction with the locals, some of whom appear to be inbred. The
locals are suspicious of the city men while the four middle class men act superior to the
poor and uneducated locals. Bobby is particularly contemptuous of the poverty and
uncouth nature of the local men. Despite this, Drew bonds with a local albino boy when
they engage in an impromptu rendition of "Dueling Banjos".
ABBA was a Swedish pop group formed in
Stockholm in 1972, comprising
Agnetha Fältskog, Björn Ulvaeus,
Benny Andersson and Anni-Frid Lyngstad.
ABBA is an acronym of the first letters of the
band members' first names and is sometimes
stylized as the registered trademark ᗅᗺᗷᗅ.
They became one of the most commercially successful acts in
the history of pop music, topping the charts worldwide from
1972 to 1982
Fernando, Mamma Mia, Dancing Queen, Take a Chance on Me,
Slipping Through My Fingers, Waterloo, Thank You for the
Music, Chiquitita, Gimme Gimme Gimme
Former World No. 1 professional tennis player.
King won a total of 39 Grand Slam titles through out
her career; this includes 12 singles, 16 doubles and
11 mixed doubles titles.Additionally King won the first
ever WTA Tour Championships and was a three time
winner of the doubles event.
5]
King is an advocate for sexual equality and won The
Battle of the Sexes tennis match against Bobby Riggs in 1973
and was the founder of the Women's Tennis Association,
World Team Tennis and the Women's Sports Foundation.

Despite King's achievements at the world's biggest tennis tournaments, the
U.S. public best remembers her for her win over Bobby Riggs in 1973, and
winning $100,000 in the winner-take-all match.

Riggs had been a top men's player in the 1930s and 1940s in both the
amateur and professional ranks. He won the Wimbledon men's singles title
in 1939, and was considered the World No. 1 male tennis player for 1941,
1946, and 1947. He then became a self-described tennis "hustler" who
played in promotional challenge matches. In 1973, he took on the role of
male chauvinist. Claiming that the women's game was so inferior to the
men's game that even a 55-year-old like himself could beat the current top
female players, he challenged and defeated Margaret Court 6–2, 6–1. King,
who previously had rejected challenges from Riggs, then accepted a
lucrative financial offer to play him for $100,000, winner-take-all.

Dubbed the Battle of the Sexes, the Riggs-King match was played at the
Houston Astrodome in Texas on September 20, 1973. The match garnered
huge publicity. In front of 30,492 spectators and a worldwide television
audience estimated at 50 million people in 37 countries, King beat Riggs 6–
4, 6–3, 6–3. The match is considered a very significant event in developing
greater recognition and respect for women's tennis (and perhaps women's
sports in general). King said, "I thought it would set us back 50 years if I
didn't win that match. It would ruin the women's [tennis] tour and affect all
women's self-esteem."[51] "To beat a fifty-nine-year old guy was no thrill for
me. The thrill was exposing a lot of new people to tennis
American actor, film director, producer, businessman,
environmentalist, philanthropist, and founder of the
Sundance Film Festival. At the height of Redford's
fame in the late 1960s to 1980s, he was often
described as one of the world's most attractive men
and remains one of the most popular movie stars.
The biggest hit of his career; the blockbuster crime
caper The Sting (1973), which became one of the top 20 highest grossing movies of all
time when adjusted for inflation and for which he was also nominated for an Oscar.
The popular and acclaimed All the President's Men (1976), was a landmark film for
Redford. Not only was he the executive producer and co-star, but the film's serious
subject matter — the Watergate scandal — and its attempt to create a realistic portrayal
of journalism also reflected the actor's offscreen concerns for political causes.[8]
He also starred in a segment of the war film A Bridge Too Far (1977), the prison drama
Brubaker (1980), playing a prison warden attempting to reform the system, and the
fantasy baseball drama The Natural (1984).Redford continued his involvement in
mainstream Hollywood movies, though with a newfound focus on directing. The first film
he directed, Ordinary People, which followed the disintegration of an upper class
American family after the death of a son, was one of the most critically and publicly
acclaimed films of the decade, winning a number of Oscars, including the Academy
Award for best director for Redford himself.
American pianist, singer-songwriter, and
composer
Joel had Top 40 hits in the 1970s, 1980s,
and 1990s, achieving 33 Top 40 hits in the
United States, all of which he wrote
himself. He is also a six-time Grammy
Award winner, a 23-time Grammy nominee and has sold over
150 million records worldwide.
“Piano Man,”"Allentown," and "Goodnight Saigon," “Uptown
Girl” “She’s Always a Woman” “Tell Her About It” “Pressure”
1980’s: Joel stated that he wanted to communicate his
feelings about the American dream and how changes in
American politics during the Reagan years meant that "all of a
sudden you weren't going to be able to inherit the kind of life
your old man had.
American actor, film director, entrepreneur,
humanitarian, professional racing driver, auto
racing team owner and auto racing enthusiast.
He won numerous awards, including an Academy
Award for best actor for his performance in the
1986 Martin Scorsese film The Color of Money
and eight other nominations,[2] three Golden Globe
Awards, a BAFTA Award, a Screen Actors Guild Award, a
Cannes Film Festival Award, an Emmy award, and many
honorary awards. He also won several national championships
as a driver in Sports Car Club of America road racing, and his
race teams won several championships in open wheel IndyCar
racing.
Newman was a co-founder of Newman's Own, a
food company from which Newman donated all
post-tax profits and royalties to charity.As of June
2012, these donations exceeded $330 million.
Starred in: Exodus (1960), The Hustler (1961), Hud
(1963), Harper (1966), Cool Hand Luke(1967),
The Towering Inferno (1974), Slap Shot (1977),
and The Verdict (1982). He teamed with fellow
actor Robert Redford in Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969) and The Sting
(1973).
Set in the Midwestern city of Milwaukee, Wisconsin,
the series revolves around teenager Richie
Cunningham (Ron Howard) and his family: his father,
Howard (Tom Bosley), who owns a hardware store;
traditional homemaker and mother, Marion (Marion
Ross); younger sister Joanie (Erin Moran); and high
school dropout, biker and suave ladies' man Arthur
"Fonzie"/"The Fonz“ Fonzarelli (Henry Winkler), who would
eventually become the Cunninghams' upstairs tenant. The earlier
episodes revolve around Richie and his friends, Warren "Potsie"
Weber (Anson Williams) and Ralph Malph (Donny Most), with
Fonzie as a secondary character. As the series progressed,
Fonzie proved to be a favorite with viewers and soon more story
lines were written to reflect his growing popularity.[Fonzie
befriended Richie and the Cunningham family, and when Richie
left the series for military service, Fonzie became the central
figure of the show. In later seasons, other characters were
introduced including Fonzie's young cousin, Charles "Chachi"
Arcola (Scott Baio), who became a love interest for Joanie
Cunningham.
He was nicknamed "The King of Cool."His
"anti-hero” persona, which he developed at the height
of the Vietnam counterculture, made him one of the top
box-office draws of the 1960s and 1970s. McQueen
received an Academy Award nomination for his role in
The Sand Pebbles. His other popular films include
The Magnificent Seven, The Blob, The Great Escape,
The Thomas Crown Affair, Bullitt, The Getaway, Papillon,
and The Towering Inferno. In 1974, he became the
highest-paid movie star in the world.[5] Although McQueen was combative with
directors and producers, his popularity put him in high demand and enabled him to
command large salaries.
He was an avid racer of both motorcycles and cars. While he studied acting, he
supported himself partly by competing in weekend motorcycle races and bought his
first motorcycle with his winnings. He is recognized for performing many of his own
stunts, but one of the most widely claimed and cherished examples of this—that he did
the majority of the stunt driving for his character during the high-speed chase scene in
Bullitt—was revealed not to be true by his most trusted stuntman and stunt driver
Loren James.[7] Another example of the legend occasionally overshadowing reality was
the famed "barbed wire jump" in the 1962 film "The Great Escape"—a stunt performed
by McQueen's good friend and champion motorcycle racer Bud Ekins.
His first major film roles were in Bang the
Drum Slowly and Mean Streets, both in
1973. In 1974, he played the young
Vito Corleone in The Godfather Part II for
which he won the Academy Award for Best
Supporting Actor.His critically acclaimed,
longtime collaborations with director Martin
Scorsese began with 1973's Mean Streets, and earned De Niro an Academy Award
for Best Actor for his portrayal of Jake LaMotta in the 1980 film Raging Bull. He
was also nominated for an Academy Award for his roles in Scorsese's Taxi Driver
(1976) and Cape Fear (1991). In addition, he received nominations for his acting in
Michael Cimino’s The Deer Hunter (1978) and Penny Marshall's Awakenings
(1990). In 1990, his portrayal as Jimmy Conway in Martin Scorsese's Goodfellas
earned him a BAFTA nomination.
De Niro has earned four nominations for the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor –
Motion Picture Musical or Comedy, for his work in New York, New York (1977),
Midnight Run (1988), Analyze This (1999), and Meet the Parents (2000). He has
also directed films such as A Bronx Tale (1993) and The Good Shepherd (2006).
Through the years, De Niro has received widespread accolades for his esteemed
career, including the AFI Life Achievement Award and the Golden Globe Cecil B.
DeMille Award.
Deborah Harry lead vocals
pioneer in the early American New Wave and
Punk scenes of the mid-1970s
"Call Me", "Atomic" and "Heart of Glass" and became noted
for its eclectic mix of musical styles incorporating elements of
disco, pop,rap,and reggae, while retaining a basic style as a
New Wave band.
•Robert Allen Zimmerman is an American singersongwriter, musician, author, poet and artist.
•He has been an influential figure in popular music
and culture for more than five decades.
•Informal chronicler and a seemingly reluctant
figurehead of social unrest. A number of Dylan's early
songs, such as "Blowin' in the Wind" and "The Times
They Are a-Changin'", became anthems for the US civil rights
and anti-war movements.
•Dylan has both amplified and personalized musical
genres. His recording career, spanning fifty years, has explored
many of the traditions in American song—from folk, blues and
country to gospel, rock and roll, and rockabilly to English,
Scottish, and Irish folk music, embracing even jazz and swing.
Dylan performs with guitar, keyboards, and harmonica.
•Grammy, Golden Globe, and Academy Awards; The Pulitzer
Prize jury in 2008 awarded him a special citation for "his
profound impact on popular music and American culture,
marked by lyrical compositions of extraordinary poetic power
Mike Brady (Robert Reed), a
widowed architect; with three sons,
Greg (Barry Williams), Peter
(Christopher Knight), and Bobby
(Mike Lookinland); marries Carol Ann Martin
(née Tyler) (Florence Henderson), who has
three daughters: Marcia (Maureen McCormick), Jan (Eve
Plumb) and Cindy (Susan Olsen). The wife and daughters take
the Brady surname. Producer Schwartz wanted Carol to have
been a divorcée but the network objected to this. A compromise
was reached whereby no mention was made of the
circumstances in which Carol's first marriage ended. Included in
the blended family are Mike's live-in housekeeper, Alice Nelson
(Ann B. Davis), and the boys' dog, Tiger. The setting is a large,
suburban, two-story house designed by Mike, in a Los Angeles,
California suburb.
American late-night live television sketch comedy and
variety show created by Lorne Michaels and
developed by Dick Ebersol. The show premiered on
NBC on October 11, 1975, under the original title
NBC's Saturday Night. The show's comedy sketches,
which parody contemporary culture and politics, are
performed by a large and varying cast of repertory and newer
cast members. Each episode is hosted by a celebrity guest, who
usually delivers an opening monologue and performs in sketches
with the cast, and features performances by a musical guest. An
episode normally begins with a cold open sketch that ends with
someone breaking character and proclaiming, "Live from
New York, it's Saturday Night!", beginning the show
proper
Chevy Chase, Bill Murray, John Belushi, Dan Aykroyd,
Al Franken, Gilda Radner, Laraine Newman, Garrett
Morris, Jane Curtain
American pop music duo, actors, singers and entertainers
made up of husband-and-wife team Sonny and Cher
Bono in the 1960s and 1970s. The couple started their
career in the mid-1960s as R&B backing singers for
record producer Phil Spector
The pair first achieved fame with two hit songs in 1965,
"Baby Don't Go" and "I Got You Babe"
In the 1970s, they also positioned themselves as media
personalities with two top ten TV shows in the US, The Sonny
& Cher Comedy Hour and The Sonny & Cher Show. The
couple's career as a duo ended in 1975 following their divorce.
In the decade they spent together, Sonny and Cher sold 80
million records worldwide.
His twelve Oscar nominations make him the second
most nominated actor of all time, tied with Katharine
Hepburn and behind only Meryl Streep.
Nicholson has twice won the Academy Award for Best Actor, for
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest and for As Good as
It Gets. He also won the Academy Award for Best Supporting
Actor for the 1983 film Terms of Endearment. He is tied with
Walter Brennan for most acting wins by a male actor (three).
Nicholson is well known for playing villainous roles, such as Jack
Torrance in The Shining, Frank Costello in The Departed, and the
Joker in 1989's Batman.
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest: In 1963 Oregon, Randle Patrick "Mac"
McMurphy (Jack Nicholson), a recidivist anti-authoritarian criminal serving a short
sentence on a prison farm for statutory rape of a 15-year-old girl, is transferred to a
mental institution for evaluation. Although he does not show any overt signs of mental
illness, he hopes to avoid hard labor and serve the rest of his sentence in a more
relaxed hospital environment.
McMurphy's ward is run by steely, unyielding Nurse Mildred Ratched (Louise
Fletcher), who employs subtle humiliation, unpleasant medical treatments and a
mind-numbing daily routine to suppress the patients. McMurphy finds that they are
more fearful of Ratched than they are focused on becoming functional in the outside
world.
Originally known as Cassius Clay, at the age of
22 he won the world heavyweight championship.
Ali changed his name after joining the Nation of
Islam in 1964, subsequently converting to Sunni
Islam in 1975. In 1967, three years after Ali had
won the heavyweight championship, he was
publicly vilified for his refusal to be conscripted into
the U.S. military, based on his religious beliefs and
opposition to the Vietnam War. Ali was eventually arrested and found guilty on draft
evasion charges; he was stripped of his boxing title, and his boxing license was
suspended. He was not imprisoned, but did not fight again for nearly four years while
his appeal worked its way up to the U.S. Supreme Court, where it was eventually
successful.
Nicknamed "The Greatest", Ali was involved in several historic boxing matches.Notable
among these were three with rival Joe Frazier, which are considered among the
greatest in boxing history, and one with George Foreman, where he finally regained his
stripped titles seven years later. Ali was well known for his unorthodox fighting style,
epitomized by his catchphrase "float like a butterfly, sting like a bee", and employing
techniques such as the Ali Shuffle and the rope-a-dope. He was also known for his prematch hype, where he would "trash talk" opponents, often with rhymes.
In 1999, Ali was crowned "Sportsman of the Century" by Sports Illustrated
Family group from Gary, Indiana.
Jackie, Tito, Jermaine, Marlon and Michael
formed the group
Have sold 100 million records worldwide,
making them one of the best selling
artists of all time.
The Jackson 5 was one of very few in recording history to
have their first four major label singles ("I Want You Back",
"ABC", "The Love You Save", and "I'll Be There") reach the top
of the Billboard Hot 100.
The show focuses on George and
Louise Jefferson, an affluent Black couple living
in New York City. The show was launched as a
spin off of All in the Family, on which the
Jeffersons had been the neighbors of Archie and Edith Bunker.
The Jeffersons evolved into more of a traditional sitcom, relying
more on the characters' interactions with one another rather
than explicitly political dialog or storylines. It did, however, tackle
a few serious topics including racism, suicide, gun control and
adult illiteracy.
Travolta first became known in the 1970s, after
appearing on the television series
Welcome Back, Kotter and starring in the box office
successes Saturday Night Fever and Grease.
Travolta's acting career declined through the 1980s.
His career enjoyed a resurgence in the 1990s with his
role in Pulp Fiction, and he has since continued
starring in Hollywood films, including Face/Off,
Ladder 49, and Wild Hogs. Travolta was nominated for the
Academy Award for Best Actor for Saturday Night Fever and
Pulp Fiction. He won the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor Motion Picture Musical or Comedy for his performance in Get
Shorty.
Welcome Back Kotter: wisecracking teacher returns to his
high school alma mater, the fictional James Buchanan High in
Brooklyn, New York, to teach an often unruly group of
remedial wiseguys known as the "Sweathogs." Travolta
played Vinnie Barbarino
glam rock era
flamboyant, androgynous alter ego
Ziggy Stardust
Bowie's "challenged the core belief of the rock music of its
day" and "created perhaps the biggest cult in popular culture."
"Fame" "Under Pressure", a 1981 collaboration with Queen
"Space Oddity"
Fawcett rose to international fame when she first appeared as
private investigator Jill Munroe in the first season of the
television series Charlie's Angels, in 1976
Fawcett was a sex symbol whose iconic poster,
released the same year Charlie's Angels premiered, broke
sales records, making her an international pop culture icon.
Her hairstyle was emulated by young women in the 1970s and
1980s.
Rocky is a 1976 American sports drama film
and both written by and starring Sylvester
Stallone. It tells the rags to riches American
Dream story of Rocky Balboa, an uneducated
but kind-hearted debt collector for a loan shark
in the city of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Rocky
starts out as a club fighter who later gets a shot
at the world heavyweight championship. It also
stars Talia Shire as Adrian, Burt Young as Adrian's brother
Paulie, Burgess Meredith as Rocky's trainer Mickey Goldmill,
and Carl Weathers as the champion, Apollo Creed.
The film, made on a budget of $1.1 million and shot in 28 days,
was a sleeper hit; it made over $225 million, the highest
grossing film of 1976, and won three Oscars, including Best
Picture. The film received many positive reviews and turned
Stallone into a major star. It spawned five sequels: Rocky II, III,
IV, V and Rocky Balboa.
It starred Penny Marshall as Laverne De Fazio and
Cindy Williams as Shirley Feeney, roommates who
worked in a fictitious Milwaukee brewery called
"Shotz Brewery."
The show was a spin-off from Happy Days, as the
two lead characters were originally introduced on that series as
acquaintances of Fonzie. Set in roughly the same time period
as Happy Days, the Laverne & Shirley timeline started in
approximately 1959, when the series began, through 1967,
when the series ended.
At the start of each episode, we see Laverne and Shirley
skipping down the street, arm in arm, reciting a YiddishAmerican hopscotch chant: "1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 Schlemiell
Schlimazel! Hasenpfeffer Incorporated," which then leads into
the series' theme song entitled "Making Our Dreams Come
True,"
Creator of The Muppets- Miss Piggy, Kermit the Frog,
Fozzie Bear, Scooter, Gonzo, Animal
Jim Henson was the performer for several well
known characters, including Kermit the Frog,
Rowlf the Dog, Dr. Teeth, the Swedish Chef,
Waldorf, Link Hogthrob, and Guy Smiley.
As a puppeteer, Henson performed in various television
programs, such as Sesame Street and The Muppet Show, films
such as The Muppet Movie and The Great Muppet Caper, and
created advanced puppets for projects like Fraggle Rock, The
Dark Crystal, and Labyrinth. He was also an Oscar-nominated
film director, Emmy Award-winning television producer
Star Wars is an American epic space opera franchise
consisting of a film series created by George Lucas.
The franchise portrays a universe which is in a galaxy
that is described as far, far away. It commonly portrays
Jedi as a representation of good, in conflict with the
Sith, their evil counterpart. Their weapon of choice, the
lightsaber, is commonly recognized in popular culture. The
fictional universe also contains many themes, especially
influences of philosophy and religion.
The first film in the series was originally released on May 25,
1977, under the title Star Wars, and became a worldwide pop
culture phenomenon, followed by two sequels,
released at three-year intervals

The original trilogy begins 19 years later as Vader nears completion of
the massive Death Star space station, which will allow the Empire to
crush the Rebel Alliance, an organized resistance formed to combat
Palpatine's tyranny. Vader captures Princess Leia, who has stolen the
plans to the Death Star and hidden them in the astromech droid R2D2. R2, along with his protocol droid counterpart C-3PO, escapes to
Tatooine. There, the droids are purchased by Luke Skywalker and his
step-uncle and aunt. While Luke is cleaning R2, he accidentally
triggers a message put into the droid by Leia, who asks for assistance
from Obi-Wan. Luke later assists the droids in finding the Jedi Knight,
who is now passing as an old hermit under the alias Ben Kenobi. When
Luke asks about his father, Obi-Wan tells him that Anakin was a great
Jedi who was betrayed and murdered by Vader.

Obi-Wan and Luke hire the smuggler Han Solo and his Wookiee copilot Chewbacca to take them to Alderaan, Leia's home world, which
they eventually find has been destroyed by the Death Star. Once on
board the space station, Obi-Wan allows himself to be killed during a
lightsaber rematch with Vader; his sacrifice allows the group to
escape with the plans that help the rebels destroy the Death Star.
Luke himself fires the shot that destroys the deadly space station.

Three years later, Luke travels to find Yoda, now living in exile on
the swamp-infested world Dagobah, in order to start his Jedi
training. However, Luke is interrupted when Vader lures him into a
trap by capturing Han and the others. During a fierce lightsaber
duel, Vader reveals that he is Luke's father and attempts to turn
him to the dark side.[9] Luke escapes, and, after rescuing Han
from the gangster Jabba the Hutt a year later, returns to Yoda to
complete his training. However, now over 900 years old, Yoda is
on his deathbed. Before he passes away, Yoda confirms that Vader
is Luke's father; moments later, Obi-Wan's spirit tells Luke that he
must face his father before he can become a Jedi, and that Leia is
his twin sister. As the Rebels attack the second Death Star, Luke
confronts Vader as Palpatine watches; both Sith Lords intend to
turn Luke to the dark side and take him as their apprentice.[10]

During the subsequent lightsaber duel, Luke succumbs to his anger
and brutally overpowers Vader, but controls himself at the last
minute; realizing that he is about to suffer his father's fate, he
spares Vader's life and proudly declares his allegiance to the Jedi.
An enraged Palpatine then attempts to kill Luke with Force
lightning, a sight that moves Vader to turn on and kill his master,
suffering mortal wounds in the process. Redeemed, Anakin
Skywalker dies in his son's arms. Luke becomes a full-fledged Jedi,
and the Rebels destroy the second Death Star.[
The story revolves around three single
roommates: Janet Wood, Chrissy Snow and
Jack Tripper who all platonically share
Apartment 201 in a Santa Monica, California
] apartment building owned by Mr. and
Mrs. Roper. Later, following Suzanne Somers's departure,
Jenilee Harrison joined the cast as Cindy Snow (Chrissy's
cousin), who was later replaced by Priscilla Barnes as Terri
Alden. After the Ropers were spun-off into their own sitcom,
Don Knotts joined the cast as the roommates' new landlord
Ralph Furley, brother of the new building owner.
The show, a comedy of errors, chronicles the escapades and
hijinks of the trio's constant misunderstandings, social lives,
and struggle to keep up with rent.
Barry Gibb and fraternal twin
brothers Robin and Maurice Gibb
Saturday Night Fever Soundtrack:
Major cultural impact of both the
film and the soundtrack, not only in the United States, but in
the rest of the world as well. It brought the disco scene
mainstream.
Wrote "Night Fever", "Stayin' Alive", "If I Can't Have You",
"Emotion" and "Love is Thicker Than Water".
Barry Gibb became the only songwriter to have four
consecutive number one hits in the US breaking the John
Lennon and Paul McCartney 1964 record. These songs were
"Stayin' Alive", "Love Is Thicker Than Water", "Night Fever", "If I
Can't Have You".
By the mid-1960s Allen was writing and directing films, first
specializing in slapstick comedies before moving into more
dramatic material influenced by European art cinema
during the 1970s. He is often identified as part of the New
Hollywood wave of filmmakers of the mid-1960s to late '70s.
Allen often stars in his own films, typically in the persona
he developed as a standup. Some of the best-known of his
over 40 films are Annie Hall (1977), Manhattan (1979),
Hannah and Her Sisters (1986), and Midnight in Paris
(2011). Critic Roger Ebert has described Allen as "a treasure of
the cinema".
Annie Hall won four Academy Awards in 1977, including Best Picture, Best
Actress in a Leading Role for Diane Keaton, Best Original Screenplay and
Best Director for Woody Allen. Annie Hall set the standard for modern
romantic comedy and also started a minor fashion trend with the clothes worn
by Diane Keaton in the film (the masculine clothing, such as ties with
cardigans, was actually Keaton's own).. The film is ranked at No. 35 on the
American Film Institute’s "100 Best Movies" and at No. 4 on the AFI list of
"100 Best Comedies."
He won the Academy Award for Best Supporting
Actor for his performance in the 1997 film
Good Will Hunting. He has also won two
Emmy Awards, four Golden Globes, two
Screen Actors Guild Awards and five
Grammy Awards
Mork & Mindy- As Mork, Williams improvised much of his
dialogue and physical comedy, speaking in a high, nasal voice.
Mork, an alien who comes to Earth from the planet Ork in a
small, one-man egg-shaped spaceship. Pam Dawber costarred as Mindy McConnell, his human friend and roommate.
Mork's greeting was "Na-Nu Na-Nu" (pronounced "nah-noo
nah-noo") along with a hand gesture similar to Mr. Spock's
Vulcan salute from Star Trek combined with a handshake. It
became a popular catchphrase at the time, as did "Shazbot"
(Shozz-bot), an Orkan profanity that Mork used. Mork also
said "kay-o" in place of "Okay".
The series stars Gary Coleman and
Todd Bridges as Arnold and Willis Jackson, two
African American boys from Harlem who are
taken in by a rich white Park Avenue
businessman named Phillip Drummond
(Conrad Bain) and his daughter Kimberly
(Dana Plato), for whom their deceased mother
previously worked.During the first season and first half of the
second season, Charlotte Rae also starred as the Drummonds'
housekeeper, Mrs. Garrett (who ultimately spun-off into her own
successful show, The Facts of Life).
The series made stars out of child actors Coleman, Bridges, and
Plato, and became known for the "very special episodes" in
which serious issues such as racism, illegal drug use and child
sexual abuse were dramatically explored. The lives of stars
Coleman, Bridges, and Plato were later plagued by legal
troubles and drug addiction, as the stardom and success they
achieved while on the show eluded them after the series was
cancelled.
stars Marlon Brando (Jor-El is Kal-El’s biological
father on Krypton), Gene Hackman (Lex Luthor- an
evil genius- nemesis of Superman) Christopher
Reeve (Kal-El, known as Superman, is Clark Kent
On Earth), Margot Kidder (Lois Lane), Glenn Ford
(Jonathan Kent- Clark Kent’s adoptive father),
Phyllis Thaxter (Martha Kent, Clark Kent’s adoptive mother),
Jackie Cooper (Perry White, Clark Kent’s boss at the Daily
Planet), Valerie Perrine (Eve Teschmacher- Lex Luthor’s
girlfriend- she saves Superman’s life) and Ned Beatty (OtisLex Luthor’s sidekick)
The film depicts the origin of Superman, including
his infancy as Kal-El of Krypton and his youthful years in the
rural town of Smallville. Disguised as reporter Clark Kent, he
adopts a mild-mannered disposition in Metropolis and develops
a romance with Lois Lane, while battling the villainous Lex
Luthor.
The Carol Burnett Show which was aired on CBS
television from 1967 to 1978. With roots in vaudeville,
The Carol Burnett Show was a variety show that
combined comedy sketches, song and dance. The
comedy sketches included film parodies and character
pieces. Burnett created many memorable characters
during the show's television run, and both she and the
show won numerous Emmy and Golden Globe Awards.
Its ensemble cast included Tim Conway(who was a
guest player until the ninth season),Harvey Korman, Lyle
Waggoner, and the teenaged Vicki Lawrence (who was cast partly
because she looked like a younger Burnett).
Burnett opened most shows with an impromptu
question and answer session with the audience,
lasting a few minutes, during which she often
demonstrated her ability to humorously ad lib. On
numerous occasions, she obliged when asked to
perform her trademark Tarzan yell.
Construction worker, Native American, police officer,
leatherman, cowboy
Disco and dance hits, including their trademark
"Macho Man", "Go West", the classic club medley of
"San Francisco (You've Got Me) /
In Hollywood (Everybody is a Star)", "In the Navy",
"Can't Stop the Music", and their biggest hit,
"Y.M.C.A.“
Originally created to target disco's gay audience by featuring
popular gay fantasy personas,[1] the band's popularity quickly
brought them into the mainstream
Eastwood first came to prominence as a supporting cast
member in the TV series Rawhide (1959–1966). He rose
to fame for playing the Man with No Name in Sergio
Leone's Dollars trilogy of spaghetti westerns (A Fistful of
Dollars, For a Few Dollars More, and The Good, the Bad
and the Ugly) during the late 1960s, and as Harry
Callahan in the Dirty Harry films (Dirty Harry, Magnum
Force, The Enforcer, Sudden Impact, and The Dead Pool)
throughout the 1970s and 1980s. These roles, among
others, have made him an enduring cultural icon of a certain type of masculinity[
For his work in the films Unforgiven (1992) and Million Dollar Baby(2004),
Eastwood won Academy Awards for Best Director and Producer of the Best
Picture, as well as receiving nominations for Best Actor. 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. Eastwood's only comedies have been
Every Which Way but Loose (1978) and its sequel Any Which Way You Can
(1980), which are his two most commercially successful films after adjustment for
inflation.
In 1977, she co-starred with Burt Reynolds, Jackie Gleason
and Jerry Reed in that year's #2 grossing film, Smokey and
the Bandit. In 1979, she played a union organizer in
Norma Rae, a successful film that established her status as
a dramatic actress. She won the Academy Award for Best
Actress.
Field did three more of Reynolds' films (The End, Hooper and
Smokey and the Bandit II). In 1981, Field continued to
change her image, playing a foul-mouthed prostitute opposite
Tommy Lee Jones in the South-set film Back Roads, which
received middling reviews and grossed $11 million at the box office. She received
Golden Globe nominations for the 1981 drama Absence of Malice and the 1982 comedy
Kiss Me Goodbye.
Then came a second Oscar for her starring role in the 1984 drama Places in the Heart.
Field's gushing acceptance speech is well remembered for its earnestness. She said, "I
haven't had an orthodox career, and I've wanted more than anything to have your
respect. The first time I didn't feel it, but this time I feel it, and I can't deny the fact that
you like me, right now, you like me!"[7] The line ending in "...I can't deny the fact that you
like me, right now, you like me!" is often misquoted as simply, "You like me, you really
like me!" which has subsequently been the subject of many parodies.The phrase, "You
like me", was originally from her wry, understated, famous reply in the film Norma Rae,
but many people missed the connection.
American artist who was a leading figure in the visual art
movement known as pop art. His works explore the relationship
between artistic expression, celebrity culture and advertisement
that flourished by the 1960s. After a successful career as a
commercial illustrator, Warhol became a renowned and
sometimes controversial artist.
The Andy Warhol Museum in his native city,
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, holds an
extensive permanent collection of art and
archives. It is the largest museum in the
United States of America dedicated to a
single artist.
Art encompassed many forms of media,
including hand drawing, painting,
printmaking, photography, silk screening,
sculpture, film, and music.
He coined the widely used expression
"15 minutes of fame".
She has won two Academy Awards eight Grammy Awards,
five Emmy Awards including one Daytime Emmy a Special
Tony Award, and is one of the few entertainers who has won
an Oscar, Emmy, Grammy, and Tony Award.
During the 1970s, she was also highly prominent on the pop
charts, with Top 10 recordings such as "The Way We Were" ,
"Evergreen (Love Theme from A Star Is Born)”, "No More
Tears (Enough Is Enough)" (1979, with Donna Summer), which
as of 2010 is reportedly still the most commercially successful
duet, "You Don't Bring Me Flowers" (with Neil Diamond) and
"The Main Event", some of which came from soundtrack
recordings of her films. As the 1970s ended, Streisand was
named the most successful female singer in the U.S. — only
Elvis Presley and The Beatles had sold more albums. In 1980,
she released her best-selling effort to date, the Barry Gibbproduced Guilty. The album contained the hits "Woman in
Love" (which spent several weeks atop the pop charts in the
Fall of 1980), "Guilty", and "What Kind of Fool".