Mazama High School - Valhalla Yearbook (Klamath Falls, OR)

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Movies Oscar Winners This year there was a wide variety of Academic Award winners. Out of Africa, starring Meryl Streep and Robert Rcdford won seven awards including the Oscar for Best Picture. Sydney Pollack, who directed Our of Africa, won the Oscar for Best Di- rector. The Best Actress award went to Geraldine Page for her perfor- mance in The Trip to Bountiful. Wil - Iiam Hurt won the Best Actor Oscar for his role in Kiss of the Spider Woman. Best Supporting Actress went to Anjelica Huston for her role as mafia princess in Prizzi's Honor. Don Amcche won the Best Support- ing Actor award for his performance in Cocoon. The controversial film. The Color Purple, had received 11 nominations, but won no awards. Director. Steven Spielberg, tailed to gain a nomination for Best Director. Some felt the movie was ignored because of the controversial issues while others felt it was due to the fact that the film's cast was made up mostly of black actors and actresses. K K S I) 0 N A TRUE STORY. ROBERT MERYL REDFORD STREEP Out Of Africa Rocky IV And Rambo 172-Movies Rocky IV was one of the year’s most popular movies. In the film Syl- vester Stallone returned as Rocky in the fourth installment of the Rocky films. In the movie Rocky must face his greatest challenge yet — the Rus- sian fighting machine Ivan Drago. Sylvester Stallone also starred in the equally popular Rambo: First Blood Part II. Stallone stars as Rambo who returns to Vietnam for revenge.

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New Groups There were several new groups in ‘85-'86. Two of the biggest were Mr. Mister with their second album Ready For The Real World, and Hooters with their album Nervous Night. Nervous Night featured sev- eral big hits such as Where Do The Children Go. Day By Day. And We Danced, and All You Zombies. The Bangles returned with their second album Different Light which fea- tured Manic Monday. Miami Sound Machine made a big hit with their song Bad Boy. Two groups who also made it big were 1NXS with their album Listen Like Thieves and Sly Fox with their LP Let's Go All The Way. Nu Shooz, a band from Port- land. Oregon had success with their hit single I Can't Wait. Janet Jackson Whitney Houston Van Halen Last year the fate of Van Halen was on the ropes after David Lee Roth, the lead singer, left the group. Sammy Hagar was chosen as Roth's replacement. Some felt Hagar was a desperate choice until the release of Why Can't This Be Love, the First single released from the first album of the newly reconstructed group. The album's name - 5150 (the Cali- fornia police code for the criminally insane.) Though the reformation of the band could have had a devastat- ing effect on its popularity, music critic. David Hiltbrand said it all when he said, Van Halen is still the most vital, intense rock band in the land. ' New Faces A few new individuals made names for themselves with smash hits in ‘85 -'86. Whitney Houston was one of the biggest new singers of the year. With her first album Whitney Houston she had several hits with You Give Good Love. Saving All My Love For You. Thinking About You. How Will I Know, and Hold Me. To top it off she won a Grammy for her performance. One of the big - gest songs of the year was Rock Me Amadeus by Falco. Falco 3 became one of the Top 5 albums in America. Another new face on the scene was Janet Jackson, Michael Jackson's lit- tle sister. Janet had a Top 10 album smash with What Have You Done For Me lately!. Falco Music-171

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’Africa’ Out of Africa was the winner of the Oscar for Best Picture. It starred Meryl Streep and Robert Redford and was directed by Sydney Pollack (director of Tootsie.) The film was the story of Karen Blixen Usak Din- eson, the name which she wrote un- der) a Danish aristocrat who ran a coffee plantation in Kenya from 1914 to 1931- The movie was taken from Dineson's txxjk. Out of Africa. The Color Purple Though it didn’t win any Oscars. The Color Purple was a big film of 1985-86. It is based on the Pulitzer Prize winning novel by Alice Walker. Both the book and the movie were equally controversial. It is the story of Cclie. a black girl in Georgia at the turn of the century. Celie has had two babies by the man she believes is her father, had the babies sold to African missionaries, and been traded in mar- riage to a widower with four kids as a punishment for cruelty. The movie starred Whoopi Goldberg as Celie. Whoopi was named 19«5's best ac- tress by the National Board of Re- view. Popular Films The most popular movie of the year was definitely Back to the Fu- ture. The movie, starring Michael J. Fox. was produced by Steven Spiel- berg. Michael J. Fox stars as Marty Me Fly who accidentally travels 30 years back in time. Among other popular movies of the year were Wit- ness, starring I larrison Ford as a New York city cop who must solve a murder concerning a young Amish boy; Prizzi's Honor, starring Jack Nicholson and Kathleen Turner, about two hit '‘men who fall in love; Cocoon, directed by Ron Howard; and Commando, starring Arnold Schwarzenegger. A STEVEN SPIELBERG FILM Ake WfelkeA Pulitzer Pnat Winning Story JANTZEN BEACH 748-6984 JANTZEN BEACH EASTGATE 248-6975 2025 SE 82nd THE FOX 248-6986 833 SW BOWY Movies -173