AFTER DARK: READY FOR THE '80s Party!

Opening Number Physical - Olivia Newton John, 1981

SO GLAD WE MADE IT! Ok LinkedIn now let's see those deep knee bends! Sweat, two, three four. Now hit the ground for some push-ups. Come on! Who's got 100 jumping jacks in them? CRUNCH THOSE STOMACHS! LET ME HEAR YOUR BODY TALK!!! I'm talking to YOU!!!!

Welcome to the After Dark Ready for the '80s party! Were you really crazy back then or were you just a part of the fitness craze that seemed to be assaulting us from practically every front? And I do mean... every front.

Of course all that exercising is bound to make one hungry!

Hungry Like The Wolf - Duran Duran

Now A Word From Our 80's Sponsors

Don't Forget That 80's Hair - Wasn't It Just a Bit Extreme Back Then? Mmmm?

And What About Those '80's Fashions?

Anyone Remember What Was On The Tube Back Then?

It's Time For Those '80's Shows! STARRING The Linkedin Players

I may have GONE DARK for awhile but my imagination's been working overtime as I've put on my casting director's hat in order to recast and reframe some of prime time's hottest '80's television shows with people that I've gotten to know on LinkedIn. Let's revisit those shows of yesteryear now with our Linkedin neighbors.

Introducing The Linkedin Players in... Those '80's Shows

Steve Blakeman is The Voice of Charlie

David B. Grinberg is Bosley

And.. in an explosive plot twist, Joseph David Thomas is Boswell!!! Bosley's lethal TWIN BROTHER with a back story you won't believe!

Was that the best casting for the male roles in... Charlie's Angels, or what?

Martin Wright is Mork

Lucy Lee is Mindy McConnell

In... Mork and Mindy

Thomas Parr is Thomas Magnum

In... Magnum P.I.

Heather Younger J.D. is Lydia Grant

In... Fame

Jeffrey Crangle is Jonathan Hart

Noemi Barrazueta is Jennifer Hart

In... Hart to Hart

Mareo McCracken is Tony Micelli

Amy Blaschka is Angela Bower

In... Who's The Boss?

Larry Boyer is J.R. Ewing

Megan (Lucas Miller) is Lucy Ewing Cooper

In... Dallas

Marcus Aurelius Anderson is... MacGyver

In... MacGyver

Now what would the '80's be without some music? Remember any of these?

Mickey - Toni Basil

Self Control - Laura Brannigan

Don't You Forget About Me - Simple Minds

Cars - Gary Numan

Whip It Devo

Heart of Glass - Blondie

What Bestseller Were You Reading Back Then?

The Bonfire of The Vanities - Tom Wolfe, October, 1987

"The novel relates the fall of Sherman McCoy, an investment banker making a million a year who seems blind to everything except appearances, sex and money. He lives in the middle of New York City without knowing New York City. He seems barely to know his decorative wife, his decorative daughter or his libidinous mistress, to say nothing of himself. He's all surface is Sherman, and when he blunders off the expressway into the welfare jungle of the South Bronx in his $48,000 Mercedes, into the biggest trouble of his heretofore charmed life, he is without reserves of experience, imagination or moral awareness with which to guide himself. All he's got is adrenalin and fear, fear and adrenalin. He's a sort of carefully bred white rat in Dr. Wolfe's urban laboratory of horrors, destined to run mazes and endure shocks for our edification and amusement." - The New York Times Book Review Desk

A Brief History of Time - Stephen Hawking, March, 1988

"A Brief History Of Time is Stephen Hawking’s way of explaining the most complex concepts and ideas of physics, such as space, time, black holes, planets, stars and gravity to the average Joe, so that even you and I can better understand how our planet was created, where it came from, and where it’s going." - Four Minute Books

Christine, Stephen King, April, 1983

"A love triangle involving 17-year-old misfit Arnie Cunningham, his new girlfriend and a haunted 1958 Plymouth Fury. Dubbed Christine by her previous owner, Arnie's first car is jealous, possessive and deadly." - StephenKing.com 

In Search of Excellence, Tom Peters and Robert Waterman, 1982

"A "New York Times" Bestseller for over three years To discover the secrets of the art of management, Peters and Waterman studied more than 43 successful American companies. The companies specialized in a number of areas: consumer goods, high technology, and services. What he discovered was that regardless of how different each company was, they shared eight basic principles of management that anyone can use on their way to success. Here they are, amply illustrated with anecdotes and examples from the experiences of the best-run companies in the world." - Goodreads

The Bourne Identity, Robert Ludlum, February, 1980

"The Bourne Identity is a 1980 spy fiction thriller by Robert Ludlum that tells the story of Jason Bourne, a man with remarkable survival abilities who has retrograde amnesia, and must seek to discover his true identity." - Wikipedia

Iacocca: An Autobiography, Lee Iacocca, 1984

Iacocca: An Autobiography is the fascinating story of Lee Iacocca, a business legend. He helped shape Ford into the number two US auto maker and then saved Chrysler from going out of business. In this book, Iacocca reveals the situations he faced and the management magic he performed to make both companies into good performers. - BookRags.com

Noble House, James Clavell, April, 1981

"The setting is Hong Kong, 1963. The action spans scarcely more than a week, but these are days of high adventure: from kidnapping and murder to financial double-dealing and natural catastrophes–fire, flood, landslide. Yet they are days filled as well with all the mystery and romance of Hong Kong–the heart of Asia–rich in every trade…money, flesh, opium, power." - From The Publisher

Jane Fonda's Workout Book, Jane Fonda, November, 1981

"Presents “more than the best exercise program for women. It offers a whole new approach to health and beauty. Jane Fonda’s philosophy of physical well-being, which she has incorporated into her own life, will change forever the way you think about and treat your body. This is a program that will not only make you look and feel terrific, it will also give you more energy and endurance and enable you to cope with the stresses and demands of the world around you” (Publisher’s blurb).

AND FINALLY, WHAT WOULD THE '80's BE WITHOUT THE BIG SCREEN?

Raiders Of The Lost Ark

Archaeologist and adventurer Indiana Jones is hired by the U.S. government to find the Ark of the Covenant before the Nazis.

Stand By Me

After the death of a friend, a writer recounts a boyhood journey to find the body of a missing boy.

Blade Runner

A blade runner must pursue and try to terminate four replicants who stole a ship in space and have returned to Earth to find their creator.

Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back

After the rebels are brutally overpowered by the Empire on the ice planet Hoth, Luke Skywalker begins Jedi training with Yoda, while his friends are pursued by Darth Vader.

Back To The Future

Marty McFly, a 17-year-old high school student, is accidentally sent thirty years into the past in a time-traveling DeLorean invented by his close friend, the maverick scientist Doc Brown.

The Breakfast Club

Five high school students meet in Saturday detention and discover how they have a lot more in common than they thought.

Did we get the '80's right for you? Then share this party and tell everyone that... WE GOT THE BEAT!!!

We Got The Beat - The Go-Go's - 1980