Trading Places 1983

In Trading Places Don Amechi is Mortimer Duke and Ralph Bellamy is Randolph Duke. Together they are totally gnarly super rich investors who play games with the human  tragedy. They bet that a super rich associate couldn’t make it as a poor man and that a poor man doesn’t have what it takes to be a rich man.

Louis Winthorpe III, Dan Aykroyd (Blues Brothers, Ghost Busters, Dr. Detroit) is an up and coming yuppie investor with a beautiful girlfriend and ultra yuppie frat boy friends. His world is perfect until a well orchestrated game is played by the Duke brothers. Down on his luck and out of money, he sees his world fall apart.

Billy Ray Valentine, Eddie Murphy (Beverly Hills Cop, Coming to America, The Golden Child) is a down on his luck super schemer whose world suddenly changes when the Duke brothers replace Winthorpe with him.  Suddenly rich and full of investment opportunities, Valentine begins the investment game.

A series of events brings the dejected Winthorpe and the newly minted investor Valentine together. Both smelling the Duke’s rotten scheme, they come up with a plan to set things right.  They are helped along the way by a prostitute with a good head for investing, played by teens scream queen Jamie Lee Curtis (Halloween franchise), and the butler.

Will Winthorpe get his job back? Will the prostitute get off the streets? Will Valentine have to go back to the streets? Find out these answers and more in Trading Places.

"Did You Hear About Ice? He won another one"

"I feel the need the need for speed"

New Cell Phone

"You're not going to believe this Thomas, I'm talking to you from a phone and there's not even a house near by. Technology T., Technology" 

Users are Losers

Do What McGruff says, take a bite out of crime...Thanks Regina

Sweet Dreams You Can't Resist N-E-S-T-L-E-S

One of my favorite commercials from the '80s.

Teen Wolf-1985

Scott Howard (Michael J. Fox: Back to the Future franchise) is just an average teenage boy right? Wrong, he’s a dweeb fer sher who doesn’t know when he’s got it made. Though the super foxy Boof (Susan Ursitti: Zapped), totally has the hots for him, Howard is in love with the beautiful, but opportunistic cheerleader Pamela (Lori Griffin: Cheerleader Camp).

It’s not until his hormones kick in that he transforms from dork to hunk and catches the eye of Pamela. Why? The family secret howls out loud: Howard is a werewolf and everyone wants him including, geeks, yuppies, the basketball team, Pamela, his best friend and the evil principal. The loser Howard can’t get anything right. But as a wolf, he howls, surfs on a truck, slam dunks basketballs, steals the staring part in a play and makes out with Pamela (yes, in full wolf personality). Soon this new man’s best friend is riding high on fame, but can it last?

Find out in Teen Wolf.

Teen Wolf is rated

Valley Girl - 1983

Valley Girl stars Nicolas Cage (Fast Times at Ridgemon High- Nicolas Coppola)  as Randy and Deborah Foreman (My Chauffer, 3:15, April Fool’s Day) as Julie. Both are high school stars in their own societies , but don’t fit into each other’s world. This movie is totally reminiscent of the gnarly trouble Romeo and Juliet, and the people in West Side storied suffered. No support from their friends.

Julie is a Valley Girl and her friends also share her pension for shopping and saying awesome, totally, tubular, gnarly and all the other valley terms. They are so into themselves and anything materialistic. On the other hand, Randy and his buddies just want to have fun and listen to music at the club.

The two cultures pass quietly at the beach where invitations to a party are loosely given. Randy’s buddy catches the address and brings Randy with. The two obviously don’t fit in, but there is bitchin’ chemistry between Randy and Deborah.

Will their love endure or will they be drawn apart by ill meaning friends? Find out in Valley Girl.

80’s hits include the smashes:

“Love My Way"
by The Psychedelic Furs

"I Melt With You"
Performed by Modern English

Valley Girl is rated R for nudity and sex scenes