The Year - 1982
The Family News..:

Twin girls, Denise & Diane were born to Theresa (Jennings) & Michael Kelly on Nov. 29th, in Chicago.

The #1 Songs Were .....
AbracadabraThe Steve Miller Band
CenterfoldThe J. Geils Band
Chariots of FireVangelis (instrumental)
Don't You Want MeHuman League
Ebony and IvoryPaul McCartney & Stevie Wonder
Eye of the TigerSurvivor
Hard to Say I'm SorryChicago
I Can't Go for That (No Can Do)Daryl Hall & John Oates
I Love Rock 'N' RollJoan Jett & The Blackhearts
Jack & DianeJohn Cougar
ManeaterDaryl Hall & John Oates
MickeyToni Basil
TrulyLionel Richie
Up Where We BelongJoe Cocker & Jennifer Warnes
Who Can It Be Now?Men at Work


AT THE MOVIES....
Best Picture - Gandhi, Richard Attenborough.
Other Nominees - ET, Missing, Tootsie, The Verdict.

Best Actor - Ben Kingsley, Gandhi.
Other Nominees - Jack Lemmon, Peter O'Toole, Dustin Hoffman. Paul Newman.

Best Actress - Meryl Streep, Sophie's Choice.
Other Nominees - Jessica Lange, Sissy Spacek, Debra Winger, Julie Andrews.

Supporting Actor - Louis Gossett Jr., Officer and a Gentleman.
Other Nominees - Charles Durning, James Mason, Robert Preston, John Lithgow.

Supporting Actress - Jessica Lange, Tootsie.
Other Nominees - Kim Stanley, Teri Garr, Lesley Ann Warren, Glenn Close.

Best Director - Richard Attenborough, Gandhi.
Original Screenplay - John Briley, Gandhi.
Adapted Screenplay - Costa-Gavras, Donald Stewart, Missing.
Best Sound - ET, Robert Knudson, Robert Glass, Don Digirolamo, Gene Cantamessa.
Sound Effects - ET, Charles Campbell, Ben Burtt
Visual Effects - ET, Carlo Rambaldi, Dennis Muren, Kenneth Smith.
Best Song - "Up Where We Belong", Officer and a Gentleman, Jack Nitzsche & Buffy Sainte-Marie (music), Will Jennings (lyrics).

In The News..:
British overcome Argentina in Falklands war (April 2-June 15).
Israel invades Lebanon in attack on P.L.O. (June 4).
John W. Hinckley, Jr. found not guilty because of insanity in shooting of President Reagan (June 21).
Alexander M. Haig, Jr., resigns as Secretary of State (June 25).
Equal Rights Amendment fails ratification (June 30).
Princess Grace, 52, dies of injuries when car plunges off mountain road; daughter Stephanie, 17, suffers serious injuries (Sept. 14).
Lebanese Christian Phalangists kill hundreds of people in two Palestinian refugee camps in West Beirut (Sept. 15).
Leonid I. Brezhnev, Soviet leader, dies at 75 (Nov. 10).
Yuri V. Andropov, 68, chosen as successor (Nov. 15).
Permanent artificial heart implanted in human for first time in Dr. Barney B. Clark, 61, at University of Utah Medical Center in Salt Lake City (Dec. 2).

Last updated on Saturday, May 13, 2000