Archive for August, 2008

Top 16 80s Kids’ Cartoon Villains

 The folks over at HecklerSpray have put together another great 80s list… Did you know that the voice of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles baddie Shredder was actually voiced by Uncle Phil from The Fresh Prince Of Bel Air? No? Neither did we – and we’re still recovering! Unless someone is playing a joke on us. [...]

’80s band Poison keeps it together despite the thorns

  Drummer Rikki Rockett doesn’t even try to sugarcoat it. “We are one of the most hated bands … by other bands,” he says. And that’s not even getting into what the critics think of Poison, who came along in 1983 to further the cause of hair-metal with fluffy hits like “Talk Dirty to Me” [...]

Are ’80s Movies About to Replace ’70s TV As The Go-To Lazy Remake?

  After Charlie’s Angels, The Dukes of Hazzard, and The Brady Bunch (and Starsky & Hutch, and S.W.A.T., and Bewitched, and Mission Impossible), the tide pool of ’70s television shows to remake is finally drying up. There are still a few floating somewhere in development, but Hollywood is ready for the next fad, and it [...]

Rick Springfield: It’s good to be singing

  Rick Springfield has a new album coming out Tuesday, the same day he will perform his single “Victoria’s Secret” on an episode of “General Hospital.” No, it isn’t 1982, when he was playing Dr. Noah Drake on the ABC soap at the same time that he had a thriving career as a Grammy winning [...]