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January 2008
January 24, 2008
I Heart the ’80s - Members Only Jackets Relaunch
From Daily Candy:
In the ’80s, if you wanted some action (and you weren’t living in a dark hole of teased hair and Oingo Boingo tapes), you wore a Members Only jacket.
Ready to get it on again (we mean the jacket)? The iconic brand is back in full force, courtesy of Kelli Delaney (she helped start a little magazine called Us Weekly) — who added tube, shift, and racer-back dresses; lambskin vests; and trenches to the collection of bombers (black, white, cognac, chocolate, hot-to-trot metallic gold leather).
They’ve got the same elasticized waist, same zip-up front, same closure at the neck, and same classic tagline: “When you put it on something happens.” But, unfortunately, they do not have the same reasonable price tag (these new ones ring in around $950). Which may deflate your hopes of becoming a member.
To say nothing of your member itself.
Available at Henri Bendel, 712 Fifth Avenue, at 56th Street (212-247-1100).
You Know You Were Born in the 80s if...
- You know all the words to "ice ice baby".
- You remember M.C hammer.
- You can still sing the rap to "fresh Prince of BelAir".
- You own any cassettes.
- You were led to believe that in the year 2000 we'd all be living on the moon.
Eclectic Chanel conjures the spirit of the Eighties
The ghost of the late Eighties seemed to be hovering over proceedings, even before the models emerged from the bowels of a concrete cast of a Chanel jacket the size of a small apartment block (and try doing that with dignity).
Like Cleopatra, the Chanel jacket has infinite variety: cropped, elongated, minimalist, gaudy. It’s exceptionally obliging, hence its longevity. This season it’s on the long side, snaking down the hips and in some cases ending not far above the tulip shaped skirts that blossomed beneath it. That’s a late Eighties/early Nineties silhouette if ever there was one, especially when worn with sheer black tights, another piece of Big Bang nostalgia.
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January 23, 2008
Awesome 80s Tee-Shirts!
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January 22, 2008
Out of the blue, Debbie Gibson is back
Debbie Gibson -- oh, sorry ... Deborah Gibson -- is back and ready to entertain the masses. Whether we like it or not, I guess.
Gibson just signed a deal with Harrah's in Atlantic City, N.J., for a three-week engagement (on May 4-24 for those who seriously are considering going). The announcement on her official website says Debbie will perform her late-80s hits along with Broadway tunes that reprise her many stage roles in the years since her solo career went into much-needed hibernation.
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January 21, 2008
Track of the Day: "The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air"
Unless you were living in a cave with your eyes closed and your fingers in your ears during the entire 1990s, you are no stranger to these words. Former hit NBC sitcom “The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air” has the most familiar theme song since all those Brady kids were forced to integrate with one another back in the 70s.
The lyrics are written by the Fresh Prince himself, Will Smith, and the music is orchestrated by Quincy Jones III. The song displays the simple, yet effective genius of Smith’s emceeing skills, as he brings the popular style of comedic, narrative rhyming from the late ‘80s and early ‘90s to the television screen to share with a wide audience.
As universal as this song is, most who know the words are probably unaware that there are an entire four stanzas (an additional 50 seconds of awesome!) in the song that were only included in the first three episodes. Now that your mind has been blown, take a deep breath and relax. You’ve only missed a few scenes. Will begs his mother not to send him away. She does anyway, so he boards a first class flight to Bel-Air. When he gets off the plane he sees a cop and then runs away for some reason ... it’s better if you hear it for yourself.
Tough Guys for Tough Times
YOU don’t need to follow Mike Huckabee, or even politics, to appreciate that Chuck Norris is everywhere these days.
On television spots for the former Arkansas governor, Mr. Norris, the star of such shoot-’em-up fare as “Missing in Action” and “Walker, Texas Ranger,” is there. (“My plan to secure the border?” Mr. Huckabee says in deadpan. “Two words: Chuck Norris.”) On T-shirts, “Saturday Night Live” skits, Mountain Dew ads, and Web sites like the satirical thetruthaboutchuck.com, Mr. Norris — or at least his image — is there.
Now, suddenly, he is not alone, as several other action stars who peaked in prominence in the ’80s are rejoining him on the pop culture landscape.
Sylvester Stallone, at 61, is starring in the first Rambo film since 1988, called simply “Rambo,” which opens on Jan. 25. Hulk Hogan, 54, who was doing face plants in wrestling bouts back when Frankie Goes to Hollywood was still riding the charts, re-emerged this month as the face of NBC’s unlikely new hit, “American Gladiators.” Mr. T, the mohawk-sporting muscleman who squared off against Mr. Stallone in “Rocky III” back in 1982, when Leonid I. Brezhnev was still the Soviet leader (and when there was still a Soviet Union), is back as a television pitchman for the popular World of Warcraft video game.
Even the Terminator is back — in Fox’s new series “Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles” — although the original star, Arnold Schwarzenegger, is too busy with other engagements in California to participate.
The leading action symbols of the Reagan era — with all their excess, jingoism and good vs. evil bombast — have returned, as outsize and obvious as they were in the decade of stonewash. Yet as stars of prime-time hits and feature films (not to mention Republican mascots), these actors are still as ripped and imposing as they were 20 years ago, and they continue to carry an undeniable authority with fans old and new.
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