People Magazine's "The 25 Most Intriguing People of 1983"

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Who was the most intriguing?

Poll Results

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Vanessa Williams (finds the hard part of being a black Miss America is adjusting to the crown) 2
[b]Alfred Hitchcock{/b] (dead since 1980, enjoys the biggest year of his career as a master of suspense) 2
Fidel Castro (undaunted by Grenada, is Latin America's grand master of Marxism) 2
Cabbage Patch Kids (are cute, commercial and creatures from an alien galaxy) 2
Barbara McClintock (single-minded and 81, wins the Nobel for trailblazing work in genetics) 1
Richard Chamberlain (his libidinous priest in The Thorn Birds makes him TV's king of the minis1
Michael Jackson (his 20-million selling Thriller has rock fans dancing and his accountants smi1
Joan Rivers (may tear celebrities apart, but she's been kind to the ratings on Tonight) 1
Ben Lexcen (invades the U.S. on a kooky keel and sails home to Australia with the America's Cup) 1
Mr. T (the black Superman of the A Team, loudly worships both God and gold) 1
Chung Byun In (his reputation as a meticulous pilot compounds the mystery of KAL's Flight 007) 1
William Gates (is the 28-year-old computer guru who's into bits, bytes-- and big bucks) 1
Jennifer Beals (her torn sweatshirt and slyly angelic face create -- rip! the Flashdance1
Rei Kawakubo (his Japanese styles are giving American women a ragtag look) 0
Konrad Kujau (nearly bamboozled the world with his bogus Hitler diaries; now he's behind bars) 0
Alice Walker (her novel The Color Purple earns her a place in American letters-- and a Pulitze0
Philip Johnson (is at once the grand old man of architecture and its joyful finder of new forms) 0
Harvey Fierstein (gives gays a compelling new theatrical voice-- and Broadway two hit plays) 0
Matthew Broderick (who spooked the Pentagon in WarGames, is the new teen dream) 0
Eddie Murphy (is not trading places with anybody; he's 22 and the hottest comedian around) 0
Robert Mastruzzi (high school principal, proves that secondary education needn't be second-rate) 0
Sam Shepard (as playwright and actor, proves that he has "the right stuff", not to mention Je0
Jesse Jackson (his Presidential bid adds charisma-- and controversy-- to the Democratic race) 0
Debra Winger (forgets she's a star and shows she's an actress in the stirring Terms of Endearment0
Ronald Reagan (talks about how he (and Nancy) cope with the Presidency and its crises) 0


dell, Thursday, 17 July 2008 02:32 (seventeen years ago)

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dell, Thursday, 17 July 2008 02:50 (seventeen years ago)

Lordy.

Bimble, Thursday, 17 July 2008 02:53 (seventeen years ago)

Why does Bill Gates look older there than he does NOW?

Bimble, Thursday, 17 July 2008 02:54 (seventeen years ago)

Were matthew broderick and HBC on a date? That's weird.

ENBB, Thursday, 17 July 2008 02:58 (seventeen years ago)

xpost No, they were just asked to present together at the Oscars in '87 or thereabouts. I just learned that. I was confused, as well.

dell, Thursday, 17 July 2008 02:59 (seventeen years ago)

i rode in an elevator with philip johnson in a building he designed
http://www.archpaper.com/images/feature_03_05/pjohnson10.jpg

velko, Thursday, 17 July 2008 03:04 (seventeen years ago)

http://p-userpic.livejournal.com/52063050/527432

dell, Thursday, 17 July 2008 03:11 (seventeen years ago)

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

ILX System, Monday, 21 July 2008 23:01 (seventeen years ago)

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

ILX System, Tuesday, 22 July 2008 23:01 (seventeen years ago)

Man, when Aus won the America's cup that year, I'd just started high school (year 7, I was 13) and my mum made us all go to school that day wearing green and gold tracksuits and carrying green and gold streamers made out of crepe paper, saying "be proud, everyone else will be celebrating!"

We were the only dorks who did it of course.

Trayce, Wednesday, 23 July 2008 03:49 (seventeen years ago)

haha, wow (at both your story and poll results)

dell, Wednesday, 23 July 2008 03:52 (seventeen years ago)

Eddie Murphy was 22 when he made Trading Places? I thought he was like, 35 or something. Man I've pissed my life away.

burt_stanton, Wednesday, 23 July 2008 06:37 (seventeen years ago)

two years pass...

^lol great burt stanton post

johnny crunch, Wednesday, 19 January 2011 00:19 (fifteen years ago)


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