Suspended In Time was one of the songs Olivia Newton-John sung in Xanadu.
Xanadu was "a kind of disco-roller rink-amusement park". The picture was regarded a throwback to the golden oldies era.
"Everything was," co-star Gene Kelly sighed, "what can I say...more precise in the old days. Popular music has changed so much that it's hard to make comparisons."
Director Robert Greenwald remarked, "We feel that disco has been done and overdone. And we worry about the disco's future."
"We have a film that won't be released until August 1980," Robert revealed in December 1979, "and we don't want to take a chance that, by then, disco will be dead."
Olivia whose grandfather was a friend of Albert Einstein, also starred in the movie Grease. Its phenomenon was attributed to the music. "The music is very simple and easy to remember," Olivia pointed out.
However of Xanadu, Olivia made known, "I agreed to do that film when it was only an idea without a script."
Also in 1980, Evonne Goolagong Cawley won the Wimbledon championship. Of women’s tennis, she made the observation, "When I started out, really there was just Chris and I. It seemed we played each other in the finals of tournaments all the time. Now, there are so many more young players. They're starting earlier, and they can do just as well in these tournaments as the older players."
Chris Evert expressed, "Everyone has their own formula. I played at most 10 tournaments a year when I was 15 or 16 and Andrea (Jaeger) probably already played 10. I don't know if it's a good idea. At that point, you're still formulating your game and you work on that more than play tournaments."
On TV, the Barbara Walters Summer Special which consisted of celebrity interviews was the most popular program with viewers. At that time, all the networks were vying to show the political conventions. Network chief Roone Arledge believed, "Barbara's interviews will place the convention events and personalities in perspective and give additional depth of our coverage."
Of ambition, he observed, "There is nothing sadder in life than to fight for a goal, and then find it isn't what you expected."
Of TV roles, one anchorwoman acknowledged, "I'm paid to read what's put in front of me and to interpret what I read in the spirit in which it was written."
At the bookstores, Sidney Sheldon's Rage Of Angels was one of the most read novels. Initially titled The Rape Of Angels, Sidney changed to Rage Of Angels because publishers feared backlash from the feminist movement.
"I don't know why," Sidney openly related, "they want to change it because angels are not necessarily female, i.e, Angel Gabriel, Angel Michael and Angel Raphael."
Jaclyn Smith starred in the Rage Of Angels mini-series shown in 1983. "I had read the book and I loved the character," Jaclyn enthused. "When they sent me the script, it was a total surprise. She's a very strong character....There are so many colors, so many facets to her life."
In 1981, Jaclyn played Jacqueline Kennedy. "With Jacqueline," Jaclyn said, "there were narrow confines in doing her. I considered it a character role – with the wigs and the makeup and the dialect. I could not use my normal Texas accent....The Jacqueline Kennedy role was more a biographical sketch. It was not inside, inner thoughts. It really was just a nice picture of some special moments in her life."
Of Rage Of Angels, Jaclyn emphasized, "This one goes behind closed doors – you get inside this woman's head."
Xanadu was "a kind of disco-roller rink-amusement park". The picture was regarded a throwback to the golden oldies era.
"Everything was," co-star Gene Kelly sighed, "what can I say...more precise in the old days. Popular music has changed so much that it's hard to make comparisons."
Director Robert Greenwald remarked, "We feel that disco has been done and overdone. And we worry about the disco's future."
"We have a film that won't be released until August 1980," Robert revealed in December 1979, "and we don't want to take a chance that, by then, disco will be dead."
Olivia whose grandfather was a friend of Albert Einstein, also starred in the movie Grease. Its phenomenon was attributed to the music. "The music is very simple and easy to remember," Olivia pointed out.
However of Xanadu, Olivia made known, "I agreed to do that film when it was only an idea without a script."
Also in 1980, Evonne Goolagong Cawley won the Wimbledon championship. Of women’s tennis, she made the observation, "When I started out, really there was just Chris and I. It seemed we played each other in the finals of tournaments all the time. Now, there are so many more young players. They're starting earlier, and they can do just as well in these tournaments as the older players."
Chris Evert expressed, "Everyone has their own formula. I played at most 10 tournaments a year when I was 15 or 16 and Andrea (Jaeger) probably already played 10. I don't know if it's a good idea. At that point, you're still formulating your game and you work on that more than play tournaments."
On TV, the Barbara Walters Summer Special which consisted of celebrity interviews was the most popular program with viewers. At that time, all the networks were vying to show the political conventions. Network chief Roone Arledge believed, "Barbara's interviews will place the convention events and personalities in perspective and give additional depth of our coverage."
Of ambition, he observed, "There is nothing sadder in life than to fight for a goal, and then find it isn't what you expected."
Of TV roles, one anchorwoman acknowledged, "I'm paid to read what's put in front of me and to interpret what I read in the spirit in which it was written."
At the bookstores, Sidney Sheldon's Rage Of Angels was one of the most read novels. Initially titled The Rape Of Angels, Sidney changed to Rage Of Angels because publishers feared backlash from the feminist movement.
"I don't know why," Sidney openly related, "they want to change it because angels are not necessarily female, i.e, Angel Gabriel, Angel Michael and Angel Raphael."
Jaclyn Smith starred in the Rage Of Angels mini-series shown in 1983. "I had read the book and I loved the character," Jaclyn enthused. "When they sent me the script, it was a total surprise. She's a very strong character....There are so many colors, so many facets to her life."
In 1981, Jaclyn played Jacqueline Kennedy. "With Jacqueline," Jaclyn said, "there were narrow confines in doing her. I considered it a character role – with the wigs and the makeup and the dialect. I could not use my normal Texas accent....The Jacqueline Kennedy role was more a biographical sketch. It was not inside, inner thoughts. It really was just a nice picture of some special moments in her life."
Of Rage Of Angels, Jaclyn emphasized, "This one goes behind closed doors – you get inside this woman's head."
