What Was it Like in the 1980s?

"I Love Rock 'n' Roll", Joan Jett and the Blackhearts
"We are the World", USA for Africa
"Papa Don't Preach", Madonna
"Straight Up", Paula Abdul

The Hero and the Crown, Robin McKinley
Sophie's Choice, William Styron
This Boy's Life, Tobias Wolff
The Mismeasure of Man, Stephen Jay Gould

Best Pictures: Gandhi, Platoon, Out of Africa and Driving Miss Daisy

Best Actors: Ben Kingsley for Gandhi, Paul Newman for The Color of Money, William Hurt for Kiss of the Spider Woman and Daniel Day-Lewis for My Left Foot

Best Actresses: Meryl Streep for Sophie's Choice, Marlee Matlin for Children of a Lesser God, Geraldine Page for Trip to Bountiful and Jessica Tandy for Driving Miss Daisy

And on television: 227, 9 to 5, A Different World, Alf, Amen, America's Funniest Home Videos, Anything But Love, Cagney & Lacey, Cheers, Chicken Soup, Coach, Crazy Like a Fox, Dear John, Designing Women, Doogie Howser, M.D., Dynasty, Empty Nest, Falcon Crest, Full House, Gloria, Grand, Growing Pains, Hart to Hart, Head of the Class, Highway to Heaven, Hill Street Blues, Hotel, Hunter, In the Heat of the Night, Kate & Allie, L.A. Law, Magnum, P.I., Matlock, Miami Vice, Moonlighting, Murder, She Wrote, Murphy Brown, Newhart, Night Court, Remington Steele, Riptide, Roseanne, Scarecrow & Mrs. King, Simon & Simon, T.J. Hooker, The A-Team, The Cosby Show, The Facts of Life, The Fall Guy, The Golden Girls, The Hogan Family, The Simpsons, The Wonder Years, Too Close for Comfort, TV's Bloopers & Practical Jokes, Unsolved Mysteries, Valerie, Webster, Who's the Boss?, and You Again