Five things I miss about the '80s

I had a random conversation with the apartment mate recently; in the course of it, I happened to start listing things I missed about the '80s. Accordingly, I've put a list behind the cut; I intentionally kept it down to the first things that happened to hove through my mind. (If you feel like making such a list in return (granted that not all of my flist were alive back then), I'd certainly be curious to read it.)

( A qualifier: I grew up in pre-Internet rural northern New York; a lot of what people might miss about, say, The Limelight in its heyday simply wasn’t available to me. )

Special mention to: a sense of innocence about just how badly George Lucas could strip mine the mythology he had created.

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For sale: 1964 Aston Martin DB5. Machine guns, bulletproof shield, revolving number plates, tracking device, removable roof panel, oil slick sprayer, nail spreader, and smoke screen included.

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William Fraker, rest in peace. (Heaven Can Wait; One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest; Close Encounters- I'd never really realized how many of my childhood favorites he'd shot or worked on.)

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Federal officials are now consulting with James Cameron about fixing the oil spill.

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( Random: a picture of Dennis Hopper, from 1961's Night Tide, his first leading role. )

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A manhunt is under way today for a fired porn actor who went berserk at a Southern California production studio after he lost his job there, killing one co-worker and wounding two others with a sword that was used as a movie prop, police said.