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[celinedionsfan]

Was the theme song for a "brat pack" movie in the 80's

[stevethefan]

"Man in motion" by John Parr from the movie "St Elmo's Fire" ? Although, I don't know if that was the theme.

Edited by stevethefan, 07 January 2008 - 08:07 PM.

[celinedionsfan]

Yes that is the theme song from St Elmo's Fire - but the clue was for the the song lyrics that I had already given:

"Won't you come see about me, I'll be alone, dancin'"

and

"tell me your troubles and doubts"

[stevethefan]

I think I FINALLY know this!

"Don't you forget about me" by Simple Minds from "Sixteen Candles"?

[celinedionsfan]

Right song and right group - but - alas - wrong movie --- but the star of 16 Candles was in this other movie!

[stevethefan]

Pretty in Pink?

[celinedionsfan]

There's another movie... she was one of the stars... but it was an ensemble cats of brat packers!

[stevethefan]

Breakfast Club?

[celinedionsfan]

[ByuSmurf]

Hmmmm.... I don't think I watched any of the brat packer movies or listened to any of the 80's pop music.  I really zoned out of the culture that decade... it was quite inane.

[stevethefan]

ByuSmurf, on Jan 8 2008, 09:35 PM, said:

Hmmmm.... I don't think I watched any of the brat packer movies or listened to any of the 80's pop music.  I really zoned out of the culture that decade... it was quite inane.

Although I know a lot about 80's music, I'm not that great at 80's TV. For about four years, when I was at school back then, I watched very little TV and I did not miss it! I should go back to doing that NOW.

Edited by stevethefan, 08 January 2008 - 08:43 PM.

[celinedionsfan]

Loved ..

no,

LOVED

the 80's!!

[stevethefan]

celinedionsfan, on Jan 8 2008, 09:46 PM, said:

Loved ..

no,

LOVED

the 80's!!

Oh I did too! The 1880's!

[celinedionsfan]

stevethefan, on Jan 8 2008, 09:49 PM, said:

celinedionsfan, on Jan 8 2008, 09:46 PM, said:

Loved ..

no,

LOVED

the 80's!!

Oh I did too! The 1880's!

I knew you were an old geezer!!!!

[ByuSmurf]

stevethefan, on Jan 8 2008, 08:43 PM, said:

ByuSmurf, on Jan 8 2008, 09:35 PM, said:

Hmmmm.... I don't think I watched any of the brat packer movies or listened to any of the 80's pop music.  I really zoned out of the culture that decade... it was quite inane.

Although I know a lot about 80's music, I'm not that great at 80's TV. For about four years, when I was at school back then, I watched very little TV and I did not miss it! I should go back to doing that NOW.

Yeah... the early 80's I was too busy with school and work.  In the mid to late 80's, raising a kid, working, living in MN and we didn't have cable TV, as we lived too far out in the boonies.

[stevethefan]

(In old man's voice) "In my day...we didn't have these fancy schmancy cell phones. If we needed to make a call and we weren't at home we'd have to drive our '75 Chevy Nova's to the nearest 7-11 and put a dime (yes a DIME) in something called a PAYPHONE.

And if we needed to write a paper for a homework assignment we had to go to these building that housed these things called BOOKS which I know are foreign to you and we had to do our research there and then come home and write our DOUBLE-SPACED reports on this machine called a...well let me think now what was it called? Oh yeah a TYPEWRITER."

[ByuSmurf]

stevethefan, on Jan 8 2008, 09:08 PM, said:

(In old man's voice) "In my day...we didn't have these fancy schmancy cell phones. If we needed to make a call and we weren't at home we'd have to drive our '75 Chevy Nova's to the nearest 7-11 and put a dime (yes a DIME) in something called a PAYPHONE.

And if we needed to write a paper for a homework assignment we had to go to these building that housed these things called BOOKS which I know are foreign to you and we had to do our research there and then come home and write our DOUBLE-SPACED reports on this machine called a...well let me think now what was it called? Oh yeah a TYPEWRITER."

[celinedionsfan]

Oh yeah... been there and used those many times!!!

[stevethefan]

Believe it or not you can STILL buy new typewriters!

[celinedionsfan]

So remember before all the designer sneakers came into being... raise your hand if you wore Converse

[roubaix]

I'm still a newbie and I have FINALLY found a thread I feel at home in!

Saturday mornings and "The Nine Lives of Waldo Kitty!"

[stevethefan]

roubaix, on Jan 11 2008, 03:28 PM, said:

I'm still a newbie and I have FINALLY found a thread I feel at home in!

Saturday mornings and "The Nine Lives of Waldo Kitty!"

Wow I should remember that but I don't!

Welcome to this topic. We always need new people and new fun questions.

[celinedionsfan]

So... were you  wearin' Converse or Keds when you were little?

Edited by celinedionsfan, 11 January 2008 - 08:13 PM.

[stevethefan]

celinedionsfan, on Jan 11 2008, 09:13 PM, said:

So... were you  wearin' Converse or Keds when you were little?

I'm trying to remember. I know the big names for sneakers then were Converes, Adidas, Puma...
I know I wore ones called PF Flyers.

[celinedionsfan]

I remember PF Flyers I think Ked put them out... I liked Converse cause they had the most rubber and lasted the longest!

[stevethefan]

Yeah it used to seem so exciting to get new sneakers back then. It usually seemed to be, for me at least, in the fall when school started.

[celinedionsfan]

Of course there were not so many choices nor such high prices....

[roubaix]

winforlife, on Nov 1 2007, 10:45 PM, said:

Great thread  

I remember:

TVs with antennas. Watching Neil Armstrong walking on the moon in 1969-memorable day!

Did anyone watch  Zoom, The Archies or Flipper?
  The first year of Saturday Night Live- Killer Bees  and Samurai Bar Mitzvah sketches
6 Million Dollar Man with the sound effects, Super Woman...



My parents thought the  Schwinn bike with the banana was unsafe so I rode the typical bicycle     The roller skates that needed a key  
My room was filled with flower power stickers, ant-Vietnam war slogans , and Peter Max posters-I threw out all of them...found out a few years ago, many of his posters are worth quite a bit of money

I watched ZOOM all the time - I could never get the zoomy language thing they spoke worked out though....

"Come on and zoom, zoom, zooma, zoom"

[roubaix]

celinedionsfan, on Jan 11 2008, 08:13 PM, said:

So... were you  wearin' Converse or Keds when you were little?

Neither - we couldn't buy "name brand" - I had el cheapos from K-Mart!

I always wanted a pair of the Converse Chuck Taylors.

Now the kids wear them because they are cool and retro - back then, they were it!

[celinedionsfan]

actually back then they weren't even "named" they were just high tops and low tops