1978's top summer grosser is, Logan's Run 2. Michael York named People's Sexiest Man for the year.

1979 Tom Laughlin's Billy Jack on the Moon bombs--last outer space film for five years.

1982 John Williams dies in obscurity Ennio Morricone's score for the Superman movie the most popular soundtrack of all time.

1983 President Mondale decrees that there will be no sequels to Halloween. 1986 Phil KaufmannÕs GravityÕs Rainbow sweeps the Oscars.

1989 Stuck at a Red Light, a sensitive parable of a young girlÕs first menstruation, is subject of issue-long examination in MS magazine. Writer/director John Milius exhorts Hollywood chauvinists to embrace their caring, feminine side.

1993 During Senate subcommittee inquiry into monopolistic tendencies at Orion-Nabisco, plans for an abandoned project called Goonies are uncovered--Steven Spielberg exiled to island in the Hebrides.

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