Southern Illinois University - Obelisk Yearbook (Carbondale, IL)

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Wide World Photo H OLL YWOOD-Actress Drew Barrymore kisses her f riend and the star Of box office smash E. T. Anything but a normal year. . . At the movies. . . It was anything but a normal year for the movies. Men playing women, women playing men and a face that only a mother could love. But the gold of the year bypassed any of these abnormalities. The Os- cars for best movie and best actor Year in Review went to the Britisthdian film Ghandi. With actor Ben Kingsley in the lead role the movie portraying the life of Indian Mohandas Ghandi won nine Oscars. They included best art direction, set decoration, cinematog- raphy, costume design, film editing, screenplay and best direction by Rich- ard Attenborough. The box office block buster was a tale of two worlds and the perils of an Extra Terrestrial stranded in the wrong one after his ship had to abruptly depart for home. The movie centers around the tiny E.T.,s efforts to phone home. Although E.T.,s con- nection was not good enough to get the Oscar for best picture the movie under the direction of Steven Spiel- berg, collected four awards; including best visual and sound effects. In music, ttBeauty and the Beattt by the Go Gots spent seven weeks at the top of the charts and the WHO toured the US. for what could be the last' time. The Doobie Brothers went their separate ways while bands like the Rolling Stones pulled together for another successful world tour.. El 17

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The Year in Review Dustin Hoffman starred in the zany hit Tootsie? smuggling drugs but spent very little time in the Los Angeles lock up after he scrapped together the $10-million for bail. D Bombs over Bread When it came down to making a choice between social programs and arms, the Reagan Administration came across loud and clear, choosing bombs over bread. The Reagan camp cut hundreds of millions of dollars from social pro- grams for the second straight year while adding nearly $500-bi11ion to de- fense programs. The Administrations projected $1.6 trillion military build up would amount to about $20,000 for each US. 16 J, household over the next five years. When questioned about where money would go several analysts noted that men in the service would receive pay hikes, and said that much of the money would be invested in develop- ment of new technology. The Equal Rights Amendment met a prolonged end on June 30. Despite polls showing that two-thirds of all men and women supported ERA the effort for passage fell short of the 38 states necessary for ratihcation. In the end, the pro-ERA movement employed theatrics such as chaining themselves together and fasting in the Illinois state house, and shrewd poli- ticking. Many anti-ERAiers were exuberant as the Witching hour on J une 30 came and went. ERA is dead for now and forever in this century? cried Phyllis Schlafly, president of Eagle Forum, a right-wing pressure group. But it was not really dead. Two weeks later the constitutional amend- ment was reintroduced by a joint resolution of 157 congressmen and 46 senators and the ratification process begins again. Despite the imprisonment of Soli- darity Trade Union leaders the strug- gle for economic and political freedom continued in 1982. On August 31, the second anniversary of the independent trade unions birth, millions of P0- landts oppressed appeared to be on the verge of confrontation with the Soviet-installed J aruzelski regime. Authorities resorted to water can- nons and tear gas to maintain the members of the outlawed union. Mem- bers were unified in their attempts to shut down the government, who, in- turn attempted the same. The result of the protest in 54 Polish cities was the arrest of more than 4,000 rioters, the deaths of five and the injury of 148 policemen. After squelching strike attempts in late October and early November the government released Solidarity leader Lech Walesa on November 15. He promptly renewed the unions pledge to protest. El Year in Review

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Late Grace Kelly, 59, died September 14, 1983 due to injuries sustained during a car crash. She gave up her Holly- wood movie-queen throne to marry and spend the last 25 years of her life ruling the province of Monaco with Prince Rainer the III. Ingrid Bergman, 67, died August 29, 1982. In For Whom the Bell Tolls, Casablanca and Intermezzo Bergman was noted for her independence and will be long remembered for her acting. Paul Lynde, 55, died January 10, 1983, of a heart attack. He will be remembered for his endless one liners and moreover as one in the great ad libers of the day. He logged more than 200 hours annually on television shows. John Belushi, 33, died on March 5, 1982 of an apparent drug overdose. A native of Wheaton, Illinois, he launched a comedy career on the 2National Lampoon Hour7 and later as part of the celebrated Saturday Night Live troupe. Henry Fonda, 77, died August 12, 1982 of a heart attack. His final tri- umph came in his 80th film 0n Golden Pond, for which he won his only Oscar. Leroy Satchel Paige, 75, died June 8, 1982. After pitching 2,000 victories in the Old Negro League, tlSatchii signed on at age 42 as a rookie with the American League once the color line was broken. iiMaybe Iill pitch foreverf he once quipped. Dave Garroway, 69, died July 21, 1982. After a long stint with illness the broadcaster took his own life. He will be remembered for his causal manner which made early morning television a trend. In 1952 the Chicago native started NBC,s long running iiTodayli show. Bess Truman, 97, died October 18, 1982 after a bout with pneumonia. She married her childhood sweetheart and became the most influential ad- visor to the man who made her a two- term first lady. She was buried next to her husband Harry in their home- town of Independence, Missouri. Leonid I. Brezhnev Wide World Photos Greats Leonid Brezhnev, 75, died November 10, 1982 of undisclosed causes. Soviet president for 18 years, he rose up from the pits of Russian steel mines to win the respect and admiration of many world leaders. Marty Robbins, 57, died December 8, 1982, of a heart attack. The Arizona native was the first singer to win a Grammy for a country-and-western hit. He did so with the song uEl Pasd, in 1960. Murray Kaufman, 60, died February 21, 1983 of cancer. Referred to as the fifth Beatle, Murray ilthe K gained noteriety as a disc jockey in the early Sixties 0n WIN S in New York City. Arthur Godfrey, 79, died March 16, 1983 of cancer. He will be best re membered for his days of radio, his boyish features and his reputation as a crooner. Gloria Swanson, 84, died April 9, 1982 of heart disease in New York City. Best remembered as a quintes- sential symbol of movie glamour for seven decades she performed in such movies as Sadie Thompson t1928l and Sunset Boulevard 0950i. She got her start in Mack Sennett comedies, fol- lowed by a series of naughty sex farces. While Swansonls Hollywood career rollercoastered she ended her career in Airport t1975l, playing her- self: a role she never misplayed. J ack Webb, 62, in late December of 1982 of heart disease in West Holly- wood, California. As an actor he played the alter ego of steely, deadpan Sergeant Joe Friday CJust the facts maiam? on Dragnet. As a producer- director he worked on radio shows and films from 1949 until the mid- 1970s. Walter Reisch, 79, on April 3, 1982 of pancreatic cancer in Los Angeles. The academy award-winning screen author who wrote and occasionally directed some 25 films in Austria and Germany before fleeing to the US. in the 30s to script hit movies for Greta Garbo, Ingrid Bergman and Vivien Leigh and to win a lone academy award for his 1935 disaster film Titanic. 18 Year in Review