Tag: Gary Busey

• RIP Glenn Frey: Husband. Father. The Coke Fiend From Let’s Get Harry.

  This month we lost Glenn Frey, a consummate entertainer, at the age of 67. Frey is probably best known for his role as Spence, a coke-addled regular Joe from Illinois who, with his buddies, mounts a daring rescue of their buddy who’s being held hostage in Colombia in the 1986 film Let’s Get Harry. This film is…

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  2016-01-31

  ’80s, Entertainment, Movies

  Alan Smithee, Anthony Michael Hall, Back To The Future, Colombia, Columbia University, Gary Busey, Glenn Frey, Hollywood, Let’s Get Harry, Mark Harmon, Michael J. Fox, Michael Schoeffling, New Coke, Ocean’s 11, People’s Sexiest Man Alive, Rick Rossovich, Robert Duvall, Shrike, Sixteen Candles, South America, Stuart Rosenberg, The Eagles, Thomas F. Wilson, Tom Cruise, Top Gun, Washington

• We Are The Worst: A Retrospective of Forgotten Songs For A Cause

  Activist/singer/hobo impersonator Bob Geldof recently got the Band Aid back together for an Ebola relief effort (actually, Bono was the only member to return). We’re also heading into prime radio play territory for Band Aid’s 1984 classic “Do They Know It’s Christmas?” I’ve always loved the concept of the cause song. The eclectic mishmash of singers. The “WTF?” presence of…

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  2014-11-27

  ’80s, ’80s music

  Band Aid, Bob Geldof, Chevy Chase, Crystal Pepsi, David Foster, Debbie Gibson, Do They Know It’s Christmas?, Gary Busey, Herb Alpert, James Woods, Jean-Claude Van Damme, Kevin Costner, Mark Knopfler, Meryl Streep, Michael Jordan, Mike Tyson, Money For Nothing, Nelson, Orel Hershiser, Peter Cetera, Ralph Tresvant, That, That’s What Friends Are For, Voices That Care, We Are The World, You Can’t Do That on Television