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Stuck in the ‘80s celebrates its 20th anniversary today, becoming the longest-running podcast devoted to 80s pop culture. Created and co-hosted by award-winning Orlando-based journalist Steve Spears, the show is marking the milestone with a special two-hour retrospective.

“Episode 750 is a nostalgic look back at some favorite Stuck in the ‘80s moments – of ours and our patrons – from the last two decades,” says Spears. “It is also a heartfelt thank you to our devoted listeners. We wouldn’t be here without them.”

Stuck in the ‘80s entertains a longtime global audience of listeners across North America and in such faraway outposts as Australia and New Zealand. Co-host Brad Williams attributes the podcast’s enduring popularity to the duo’s off-air connection.

“Steve and I really are friends, and I think that comes through in our banter,” Williams said. “There’s no one else I would want to be on this podcast time machine with.

Carrie Fisher was born for the Hollywood life, since both her parents, actress Debbie Reynolds and singer Eddie Fisher, were well-known Hollywood stars. Her initial break came with the film Shampoo, but her portrayal as Princess Leia in George Lucas’ Star Wars (1977) propelled her to international recognition. While the actress passed away in 2016 at the age of 60, she left behind a significant Princess Leia legacy that many people still remember fondly.

Carrie Fisher as Princess Leia in Star Wars (1977) || 20th Century Fox

While the movie was released almost five decades ago, the behind-the-scenes happenings still linger around Hollywood halls. One of the most prominent examples of that would be another actress was in the running for Fisher’s legendary role, and if it hadn’t been for Harrison Ford’s lack of interest, she could have gotten it.

Not Carrie Fisher but another actress could have grabbed the role of...

In 1977, "Star Wars" created a powerful fandom. Suddenly the world was invested in a space princess who directed her own rescue, a farm boy with big dreams, and a rogue pilot who charmed his way into our hearts and bags of smuggled goods. For many people, this marked the beginning of their love of genre films, and there are very few places on the planet where the names Luke Skywalker, Han Solo, and Princess Leia aren't recognized.

When we think about Leia Organa, the Princess/Senator/General that inspired a generation, it's almost impossible to imagine anyone but the late, great Carrie Fisher playing the role. However, that part went through auditions like any other. During a 2002 interview between Fisher and creator George Lucas on Fisher's show "Conversations from the Edge with Carrie Fisher" (via Comic Book Resources), Lucas revealed that the runner-up for her role ended up as a famous musician.

Tom Whitlock, who wrote the lyrics for the rock anthem “Danger Zone” and the chart-topping love song “Take My Breath Away” for the original Top Gun, winning an Oscar in the process, has died. He was 68.

Whitlock died Saturday at a memory care center in Gallatin, Tennessee, a spokesperson at the Gorman-Scharpf Funeral Home in Springfield, Missouri, confirmed. He had Alzheimer’s disease, friends told the Springfield News Leader.

Whitlock wrote both Top Gun songs with Giorgio Moroder. Their relationship began when he fixed the brakes on the Italian composer’s Ferrari.

“Danger Zone,” performed by Kenny Loggins, was employed for the opening scene in the Tony Scott-directed, Tom Cruise-starring 1986 action movie, while “Take My Breath Away,” sung by Terri Nunn of Berlin, inspired the filmmakers to shoot additional scenes with Cruise and Kelly McGillis months later.

“Take My Breath Away” made it to No. 1 on the Billboard...

St. Jude Children's Research Hospital today announced details for the 2020 St. Jude Jam presented by Delta Dental of Tennessee and InnerWorkings.

The virtual concert event and fundraiser, open to everyone, will take place at 6 p.m. Ct on Tuesday, June 30 and will be livestreamed on stjude.org/stjudejam. Attendees can party and dance along with a stellar lineup of performers and participate in an online charity auction, with top fundraisers receiving access to an exclusive VIP pre-event experience. Fundraising and event sponsorship opportunities are available now throughout the month of June.

Come together with fans around the globe to support the kids of St. Jude during this one-of-a-kind event with performances by Kevin Griffin of Better Than Ezra, Scott Stapp, founding member of Creed, Terri Nunn of Berlin, Uncle Kracker, Wally Palmar of The Romantics, all backed by house band Sixwire.

Fans and attendees can engage and enhance their experience...

Birthday shoutouts go to Jason Schwartzman (above), who is 34, Chris O’Donnell is 44, Ariana Grande is 21, and Sean Hayes is 44.

Also, two faboo 80′s ladies celebrate birthdays. Terri Nunn is 53?, and Patty Smythe is 57.

Inside George W. Bush’s Closet.

The state of same-sex marriage in the U.S.

The Normal Heart‘s problematic white men.

Heineken Launching #LikeForLove Campaign For Gay Pride Month

We have our Mr. Belding!

Me as "Mr Belding" and the gang! #sbtb #lifetime #mrbelding #goodcastandcrew http://t.co/HEW5sjk2kQ pic.twitter.com/iZMqOJ5Myd

— Ken Tremblett (@KenTremblett) June 20, 2014

Tony Winners Neil Patrick Harris and Lena Hall with The Hedwig Band, Director Michael Mayer and Hetrick- Martin CEO Thomas Krever with a $100,000 check donated to The Hetrick- Martin Institute of The Harvey Milk School

Matthew Mitcham covers Dolly Parton

Here’s the latest from ‘I’m From Driftwood”. This is harrowing, but it has a happy ending.

Sara Gilbert is one happily married lady. The co-host of The Talk, 39, who wed musician Linda Perry late last month, gushed about her Justine Ungaro-photographed nuptials Monday on her show, sharing everything from photos to the meal plan to the special gift she received from her wife. "It definitely feels different," she explained to the audience, of life as a newlywed. "It feels more different than you expect. You feel like you're part of this institution and it's official, and, oh, I better not mess this up. You feel safer in a way and you feel like you've really committed and it's not about,...

I went to an 80s rock concert this weekend and a wedding broke out ... is how guests at the nuptials of Linda Perry and Sara Gilbert must have felt ... because the affair was Jam Packed with rock performances. Perry and Gilbert tied the knot in Malibu on Sunday, after announcing their engagement a year ago. According to our sources, Sharon Osbourne, Julie Chen, Aisha Tyler, Steven Tyler, Juliette Lewis and Tobey Maguire were all in attendance.

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Birthday shoutouts go to Henry Rollins (above), who is 53, Stockard Channing is 70, Robbie Williams is 40, Carol Lynley is 72, and Peter Gabriel is 64. Here’s his greatest song that wasn’t featured in Say Anything.

The CW Gives Early Renewals To Arrow, The Vampire Diaries, Supernatural, The Originals and Reign. The first four were expected, but Reign is a surprise. No word on bubble shows The Tomorrow People and Carrie Diaries

Jim Parsons will host Saturday Night Live on March 1st, with musical guest Beck. Beck? You mean 90′s Beck?

How Sports Illustrated Botched The Michael Sam Story.

Mother Scrawls Antigay Declination to 7-Year-Old’s Birthday Party. I hate to say this, but the first thing I thought was “Is this another hoax?”

Some enterprising game developers from the Netherlands have created “Putin Gay Dress Up,” in which you can adorn Vlad and share your creation in a gallery and on social media.

Shadow Play Shirley Temple in Fort Apache

Shoshi Games 2014 Ha Ha. A must for fans of Zosia Mamet on "Girls" and the Winter Olympics

In Contention Karen O to perform "The Moon Song" at the Oscars. So now all the songs will be represented including...

EW Idina Menzel doing "Let It Go" so we got our wish

The Wrap Drake is pissed that Psh's death robbed him of his Rolling Stone cover

Keyframe The fall of Roman Eye Candy in sword and sandal epics

BAFTA last day to vote on the Rising Star award. I chose Lea Seydoux though Lupita Nyong'o was tempting, only because Léa has been great several times already in short succession. Let's hope Lupita gets a fair shot at a big career!

La Times Gravity dominates the Visual Effects Society awards (as if anything else would have occurred!)

Variety on Disney's very smart hands-off approach to...

I feel as if we gush over every guest we have on the show, but this time we want to Really gush over this week's guest -- the iconic, incredible Terri Nunn of Berlin. She's candid, funny and insightful -- and she has lots of opinions that will make you think. We loved spending time with Terri -- so much so, we went Way over our usual time limit. We think you'll love her, too. If you want to hear Terr's radio show Unbound, check it out at kscn.org. Find out more about "Animal" on iTunes and at berlinpage.com. Check out the rundown: ...

1. Mgmt - 'Mgmt' (Columbia Records)

If the psychedelic band, Mgmt, blew you away with the release of their single Alien Days back in April, this full album will be a constant repeat on your playlist. With Rolling Stone capitalizing the bands self-titled album opener, Alien Days, as a "shimmering, psychedelic soundscape," the nine other songs won't disappoint as you escape into great musical sounds. With their huge tour in Europe coming up for the fall, you won’t want to miss out! Click here for tour dates, and don't forget to download the album on iTunes.

2. Avicii - 'True' (Island Records)

Grabbing inspiration from all sorts of musical genres, Avicii has sure set his own personal voice and direction with his electronic musical sound. Being the face of Denim and Supply Ralph Lauren, and also an international hit on many club charts, we can't be too surprised that his first full album True is as highly anticipated...

Birthday shoutouts go to Patty Smyth, who is 56, Terri Nunn is 52, and Sean Hayes is 43.

Today, of course, was all about Scotus. First, let’s take a look at the good.

Edie Windsor, the reason why this happened, gets the first response.

Prop 8 plaintiffs Kris Perry and Sandy Stier, and Hrc President Chad Griffin chat with Thomas Roberts when they get a very special phone call on air.

Act.Mtv has some great pics and vids of the day’s events.

On the other hand …. Bwa-Ha-Ha! The Drama Queens are falling apart.

But the funniest reaction came from the biggest drama queen, who I think popped a blood vessel.

We all have to accept the bad with the good, however, and while there was history in the making in the U.S today, Tragedy Occurred In England. (spoilers for tennis fans!)

Out director Roland Emmerich has revealed that there will...

Gareth Thomas at the Dancing On ice studio in London.

Birthday shoutouts go to Matt Ross, who is 43, and Victoria Principal is 63.Adam Levine will host Saturday Night Live on January 26th. In a gimmick reeking of desperation, viewers will be able to decide the outcome of the January 14th episode of Hawaii Five-0. Fans will be able to vote online or with twitter for one of three culprits. "'I’ve always felt the most fun aspect of watching a mystery is trying to figure out whodunit,” said Hawaii Five-0 executive producer Peter Lenkov. 'Now the Hawaii Five-0 viewers will actually get the chance to tell us who they think committed the crime and we will listen.'" I think he's a little confused how a "whodunit" works.Ryan Murphy teases a few American Horror Story Season Three tidbits.France: First Baby Born in 2013 Has Two Mommies. Chris Hemsworth may...

Birthday shoutouts go to Sean Hayes (above), who is 42, Chris Isaak is 56, and two of my favorite ladies of the 80's celebrate birthdays. Patty Smyth is 55. What are your fave Patty/Scandal songs? Here are mine: 5. "Love's Got A Line On You," 4. "Downtown Train," 3. "No Mistakes," 2. "Never Enough," 1. "The Warrior" (my anthem)

Happy Birthday to Terri Nunn, who turns 51? What are your fave Berlin songs? Here are mine: 5. "Now It's My Turn," 4. "Masquerade," 3. "Sex (I'm A ...)," 2. "No More Words," 1. "The Metro"

Kristin Chenoweth has landed a recurring role on the upcoming season of The Good Wife. I guess this means Gcb is officially dead.BBC America has picked up the new Canadian sci-fi drama series Orphan Black, about a "street-wise chameleon, who discovers that she is a clone." Theater star Andy Mientus has been cast in Season Two of Smash as "Kyle, a poor kid from Brooklyn with dreams of writing for Broadway.

Fans of Terri Nunn and her band Berlin can catch a special New Years Eve performance at South Coast Plaza on December 31.

AnQi by Crustacean at South Coast Plaza will “Take Your Breath Away” with celebrity Terri Nunn and Berlin live on stage at AnQi’s avant-garde food bazaar and Q du Soleil. AnQi’s countdown of pleasures starts at 9 p.m. with an assortment of artistic curiosities with the Forbidden Den which includes:

• Champagne rain by graceful aerialists

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Here's last week's caption pic winner. This week's caption pic is at the bottom of the page.

Thanks to everyone for participating! The winner is ...

"A freshly facelifted Martha demonstrates her magical nipple-tweak (naughty relation to Samantha's nose-twitch!), sending a double whammy at John, causing him to drop to his knees and make the jazz hands!"

Thanks to Samwitch for this week's winning caption.

Speaking of jazz hands, Happy Birthday to Sean Hayes, who turns 41 this weekend, and new Tony winner John Benjamin Hickey, who is 48.

Other Weekend Birthdays! (Note: Birthday shoutouts are for out entertainers, allies, or for any celeb that seems to have a following on Ae). It's a trio of musical ladies, with Patty Smyth (Scandal) turning 54, Terri Nunn (Berlin) turning 50 (hmm ... i'm not sure about that) and the fabulous Carly Simon is 66. Okay, time to name your top five Carly songs. Here are mine: 5. "Let The River Run,...

Durham, Nc - The hard truth of cinema takes place at the Full Frame Documentary Film Festival in Durham, Nc from April 14-17. That’s four solid days of movies that don’t feature Natalie Portman’s face being digitally inserted on other bodies. Four days of real people doing real stuff. And you can get some great BBQ.

This years line up has enough goodness to make me have to make painful choices as what to watch. There’s only one screening unless a movie wins a major prize. It’s be there or miss out. Choice wisely. Here’s a few of the films I’m looking to catch:

The Hangman (Thursday 10:20 a.m.) appears to be a creepy classic as it probes the man who executed Nazi Adolph Eichmann. What’s he do now? He ritually slaughters animals. Windfall (Thurs 4:20 p.m.) takes us to Meredith,...

Here is Sean Furfaro's recap of the Survivor Nicaragua Season Finale You know when you’re watching a really crappy movie, and you need closure? You need to see how it ends? Or maybe you’re reading an absolutely horrible book, but you still need to make it to that final page? Or maybe you’re a marathon runner who has no shot of winning, or even finishing in a decent time…but you tough it out anyways and make it to the end? That’s the way I feel about Survivor: Nicaragua (ok, maybe the marathon runner analogy was a stretch, but you get the point), it’s been a struggle, but after 4 months of snake footage and breaking tiles, at least it ends tonight.

I’m back in the Eastern Time Zone, not having to wait that extra 3 hours for my Survivor fix, so let’s get right...

Micky Dolenz — former Monkees member, Hollywood character actor, and the voice of Snuggle the Fabric Softener Bear — will co-star in Debbie Gibson and Tiffany’s original Syfy movie ‘Mega Python vs. Gatoroid’. I love how “Debbie Gibson and Tiffany’s original Syfy movie Mega Python vs. Gatoroid” is a legit informational entertainment news clause at this point. Oh, of course. That. Mega Python vs. Gatoroid is set for sometime in 2011 and will hopefully be viewed and cherished by more than just the EW staff and a few hundred other nerds.

According to THR, it’s not known what Dolenz’ role will be,...

You can always count on RuPaul to speak the truth. And, natch, for being funny as hell while doing it. It's one of the queen's best attributes. On last night’s episode of Drag Race, the host couldn’t have been more spot on with her searing bon mot to eternally funny queen Pandora Boxx, as she awaited her fate after the rocker chick-inspired challenge: “Pandora Box,” RuPaul said, in her hilarious, deeply dramatic fashion, “you are the Susan Lucci of this competition.” And RuPaul is right — the poor, poor Pandora Boxx, a favorite contestant of mine who pulled off...

George Lucas showed Carrie Fisher her Star Wars screen test for the first time - when he appeared as a guest on her new TV talk show. The creator of the massively succesful sci-fi film series shocked the actress with the never-before-seen footage - which helped Fisher land the lead female role of Princess Leia. But Lucas revealed Fisher only just got the part that turned her into a movie legend - Berlin singer Terri Nunn was a close second choice. Neal Kendall, the executive producer of Fisher's new show Conversations From The Edge, which airs Wednesday on the Oxygen cable channel, says, "George Lucas doesn't like doing interviews all that much, but he's extremely comfortable with Carrie. They have remained friends."...