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Angelina Jolie remains one of the biggest movie stars of her era, despite appearing less and less frequently on screen over the years, and it was in the '90s that she made it known not just how big of an icon she was, but how talented an actress as well. The daughter of Academy Award winner Jon Voight and the late actress, Marcheline Bertrand, Angelina Jolie was always destined for something big in Hollywood. After an early role in Lookin' to Get Out alongside her father, Jolie began her career in earnest in the early '90s.

Her first major role came in the 1993 low-budget sci-fi film Cyborg 2, but she continued gaining roles even after that flop. Every year, Jolie seemed to get a touch more skillful and competent until she was nominated at some of the biggest awards ceremonies toward the end of the decade. The '90s...

The Wanderers Image: Orion Pictures Nostalgia for the kinder, simpler, more innocent days of the ‘50s and ‘60s was rampant all through the bitter, cynical ‘70s. The decade was swarming with entertainment that doubled as fictionalized time capsules: American Graffiti, Happy Days, the music of Sha Na Na, Animal House,...

The WanderersImage: Orion Pictures

Nostalgia for the kinder, simpler, more innocent days of the ‘50s and ‘60s was rampant all through the bitter, cynical ‘70s. The decade was swarming with entertainment that doubled as fictionalized time capsules: American Graffiti, Happy Days, the music of Sha Na Na, Animal House, Grease.

Tony Ganios, the actor who made his film debut in Philip Kaufman’s 1979 coming-of-age comedy-drama The Wanderers and played audience favorite Anthony ‘Meat’ Tuperello in the 1980s Porky’s sex comedy franchise, died Sunday following surgery at a hospital in New York. He was 64.

His death was announced on social media by his fiancée, Amanda Serrano-Ganios, who said that the actor fell ill last week, was hospitalized Saturday with a spinal cord infection, and passed away Sunday of heart failure.

Cast as one of the Bronx Italian-American street toughs in the 1963-set The Wanderers, based on the novel by Richard Price, Ganios became, for much of the ’80s, a go-to actor for directors looking for a touch of East Coast flavor. Ganios re-teamed with his Wanderers co-star Ken Wahl for a recurring role as a mob lawyer on Wahl’s 1987-90 crime series Wiseguy.

John Friedrich, Ken Wahl, Tony Ganios,...

Kevin Bacon was not enthusiastic about the fame he gained from Footloose, wanting to be seen as a serious actor instead. Bacon initially didn't fully comprehend that Footloose was a dance movie and wasn't trained as a dancer. The Footloose cast included several notable actors, such as Lori Singer, Dianne Wiest, John Lithgow, and Sarah Jessica Parker.

Although for many Footloose is one of the most important films in Kevin Bacon's filmography, and has become a classic, the actor was not very sure about joining the cast. And, in fact, he was not very happy with the fame he achieved thanks to that film.

By 1984, when Footloose was released, Bacon had already made ten films and had participated in two television series. However, there is no doubt that it was the movie that gave him a strong foothold in the business Footloose turned him an icon for teen audiences, which...

Article by Dana Jung

Ah, the 1980s. Big hair, flashy clothes, and that new TV channel that only shows music videos. Exploitation films too were changing. Gone were the Excorsist- and Omen-inspired horror films of the 70s. Biker movies were passe. And socially relevant nurse and teacher dramas were being replaced by teen comedies and a new type of scary movie: the slasher film. In 1985, New World Pictures released Out Of Control, a somewhat strange combination of Lord Of The Flies and a John Hughes movie that is harder to classify. In some ways the perfect drive-in movie, Out Of Control contains violent action, teen romance, sex, nudity, and pop music. But there is an undercurrent of weirdness to the film that, intentional or not, implies some deeper meaning behind the exploitive aspects and makes it interesting to watch for its details. However, if you missed it at the drive-in...