Angelo State University - Rambouillet Yearbook (San Angelo, TX)

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10 ET., Gandhi, Tootsie are tops A small creature from another world, a short man from lndia and a man dressed up like a woman were the critic's and the public's favorites during the most part of 1982 and the early part of 1983. Those creations and the movies they ap- peared in were E T. from ET, The Extra Terrestrial, Mahatma Gandhi of Gandhi, and Michael Dorsey,fDorthy Michaels from Tootsie, During the summer of 1982 ET, was as hot as the weather in West Texas as the story of an alien left behind on earth who was befriended by an 11-year-old boy cap- tured the hearts of the nation earning over 5300 million at the box office. Soon after ET,'s release and success everything from a little ET, doll to the ET. toothbrush filled the stores becoming the big- gest money maker during the Christmas season. ET was still running during the early part of 1983 season and during that time picked up 10 academy award nominations i movies and winning four of those for best score, best special effects, best visual effects and best sound, Dustin Hoffman's portrayal of an out-of work actor who turns into a big success play- ing a woman in a soap opera in Tootsie proved to be the top grossing film during the Christmas season filling the theatres from San Diego, to San Angelo to San Augustine, Florida. Tootsie continued through the early part of 1983 picking up 10 Oscar nomina- tions, including best movie, best actor, best director and best supporting actress. Of those 10 nominations, 'lTootsie picked up one for Jessica Lange's supporting role as l-loffman's lady. The story of one man's move to bring peace to an entire country and the world became the talk of the early part of 1983 as Ghandi proved to be the big winner of the year picking up eight Oscars including best movie, best actor and best director. Ben Kingsley's portrayal of Mahatma Gandhi brought to life the story of lndia's fight for independence and peace within Y - ' X in itself. Gandhi became the top grossing film for the first months of 1983 and picked up 11 academy award nominations, of which it won eight. Other top grossing films of 1982 included Porky's, 4-8 Hours, 'LPoltergeist, An Officer and a Gentleman and The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas. Also winning at the 1982 Academy Awards were Meryl Streep for her portrayal in L'Sophie's Choice and Louis Gossett Jr. for his supporting role in An Officer and a Gentleman. Both The Verdict and Missing pick- ed up several Oscar nominations including ones for best picture, but of the two, only t'Missing picked up one for best screenplay adaptation. Other films earning Oscars included UVic- torfVictoria for best adapted song, Quest for Fire for best makeup, Volver a Empezarf' a Spanish film for best foreign film and An Officer and a Gentleman Up Where We Belong for best song.-FLORES Dustin Hoffman stars as Michael DorseyfDorothy Michaels in the movie Tootsie, ln this scene he is left babysitting while the baby's mother lJessica Langel is out on a date. lColumbia Pictures Photol

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X OO O00 ooo GOO O Pac-Man gobbling up millions What was yellow, looked like a pie with a piece missing and went wacka-wacka-wacka when it gobbled up dots? Any student in 1982-83 could tell you-it was Pac-Man. Pac4Man was a video game critter who not only ate dots, but fruit and ghost monsters as it moved through a maze, Of course it was not as easy as it sounds, When Pac-Man did not eat a large dot to get energized-he was in danger of being eaten by one of the four ghost monsters named Blinky, Pinky, lnky and Clyde. The game was originally developed in Japan and was based on a folk character whose appetite could never be fulfilled. The name came from Paku the Japanese word to eat. ln 15 months Pac-Man swallowed up an estimated S1 billion in quarters and became the hottest item on the video-game market, Bally Manufacturing Corp's Midway sub- sidiary sold some 96,000 Pac-Man arcade machines in 18 months under a licensing ar- rangement with Namco Ltd. of Japan, and also held royalty rights to Pac-Man spin-offs, There were several hundred of these spin-offs. Ms. Pac-Man and Baby Pac-Man machines as well as Pac-Man dolls, blue jeans, non-electronic games, puzzles, toys, pajamas, lunch boxes, bumper stickers, Hallmark cards and gift wrapping, Dan River sheets and pillow cases and J.C. Pen- ney children's clothing were just a few. Jerry Buckner and Gary Garcia released Pac-Man Fever on Columbia Records which was number 9 on the Billboard Hot 100 in March of 1982, A Saturday morning Pac- Man cartoon show and several howfto books were also popular,-PENA O 0 I ,Ap s....,.-v---l- ' Q O PAC-MAN Pac-Man is a critter who runs through a maze gobbling up dots and running from space monsters. Every once in a while fruit appears on the screen and if he eats it-it could be worth mega points. The big dots on the screen are energy dots. After a few seconds of eating of those the table turns and Pac-Man can gobble up the ghost monsters. v-f'?' ' ,L 9,f'A 'N jvffl' wx I f ..,. vi' f 4 W by .55 . -. gameroom Photosl S Myer Nina trys his luck at Ms Pac-Man in the U C Ms Pac-Man was the most popular game at ASU Stephanie Long enjoys the luxury of staying home and playing Pac-Man with her Atari 400 llrlambright pac-man

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