Illinois College - Rig Yearbook (Jacksonville, IL)

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1 ,,..,,a'ff X yyp, , ,fl If George I 46 ...NAN- Julian Lennon, 21, had a de- but album Valotte, that earned raves in the US. lt was also a year when Mi- chael Jackson and his brothers made history with the success of the Victory tour that made millions Cone ticket cost S303 and hit approximately 15 U.S. cities. Boy George pushed andro- gyny to the point where record company executives were willing to give him the shirts off their backs to sign up his hot group, Culture Club. Onstage, in videos, and in his film, Purple Rain, Prince, 25, projects a dark, ambiguous vi- sion in heavy eyelines and Ed- qardianpunk. But Prince is a health-food-eating, Bible-read- ing homebody who shuns liquor and drugs. At 46, 60's soul queen Tina Turner is hot again. In 1981, five years after her breakup with husband Ike, Tina'ventured out as a solo performer. In '84 her first album, Private Dancer, hit big, and one cut What's Love Got To Do With It? topped the charts for three weeks in the fall. Frankie Goes to Hollywood is the hottest band to hit the U.S. since the Beatles 20 years ago. Their single and video Relax was banned by the BBC and it promptly became a hit. Their new album Welcome to the Plea- suredome, was at the top of the charts all winter.

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ENTERTAINMENT The Ghostbusters team of Er- nie Hudson, Harold Ramis. Dan Aykroyd. and Bill Murray whipped mermaids, gremlins, and lndiana Jones to become the biggest-grossing movie of 1984. Made for S38 million, it pulled in more than S200 million in its first five months. The movies invented PG-13, a new rating to steer parents with kids under 13 away from films deemed excessively violent. PG- 13 was praised by Spielberg, whose Gremlins and Indiana Jones inspired the rating. lt was a year when Terms of Endearment won the Academy Award for best picture, for which Shirley MacLaine won the Oscar for best actress. Robert Duvall was voted best actor for Tender Merciesf' For better or worse, Dyn- asty took over from Dallas as the no. 1 primetime TV show of 1984. Clara Peller's Where's the Beef? commercials for Wendy's made fast food a three- way contest and gave Walter Mondale, in another competi- tion, his best line. X ? 1984 also took a toll of famil- iar names and faces, including James Mason, Ethel Merman, Count Basie, Truman Capote, Andy Kaufman, and Marvin Gaye. The world mourned the loss of Richard Burton at age 58, the colorful Shakespearean who be- came more famed for his private life and his on-again-off-again marriages to Elizabeth Taylor. The year did not provide a bumper crop of celebrity babies, but Meredith Baxter Birney and Debbie Boone both welcomed twins to the world. Also, Farrah Fawcett and Ryan O'Neal pro- duced a child and so did Mick Jaggar and Jerry Hall. lt was also a year when the Betty Ford Center for drug and alcohol abuse graduated such celebrities as Liza Minnelli, Eliza- beth Taylor, Peter Lawford, and Mary Tyler Moore.

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WORLD EVENTS For 16 Olympic days and nights the world seemed warm- er. At the end of the ceremony was Hollywood at its corny best. Mary LOU RGUOH Vanessa Williams The LA. Memorial Coliseum be- came a Magic Kingdom as 93.000 spectators waved flash- lights and the fireworks bloomed. They ran, leaped, plunged, hurled as if their muscles would nevertire andtheir bodies would stay young forever. There were 7.060 of them - from Burma, whose lone competitor. one boxer. lost his only match, to the US which won an unpreci- dented 83 gold medals. There were other superlatives, too. De- spite the Soviet boycott, the 23rd. 0lympiad produced a re- cord profit of S150 million, was attended by 5.5 million specta- tors in Los Angeles and watched -- on TV by another 2. 5 billion - more than half the population of the world. i' As an American moment it was a perfect 10. lt was the first individual Olympic medal in gym- nastics ever won by an American woman. Mary Lou Retton wound up with one gold. two silvers, and two bronze medals. After 39 pennantless seasons the Cubs captured their division title and made it to the play-offs. Chicago went bananas. Then the new improved Cubs blew a two- game lead over the San Diego Padres. Trivial Pursuit was the number one game in the US this year. lt was enjoyed by everyone from college students to retired peo- ple. The Cubs