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Though Wayfarers' cultural popularity was aided in 1980 by the film The Blues Brothers, only 18,000 pairs were sold in 1981, and Wayfarers were on the verge of discontinuation. In 1982 Ray-Ban signed a $50,000-a-year deal with Unique Product Placement of Burbank, California, to place Ray-Bans in movies and television shows.
The film was banned in Ohio as "a sordid, sadistic presentation of brutality and an extreme presentation of crime with explicit steps in commission." [29] Cease Fire. 1953. 1953. The Korean War film was banned all over the United States for a brief time due to the terms "hell" and "damn" being heard in the dialogue.
The Blues Brothers is a 1980 American musical action comedy film directed by John Landis. It stars John Belushi as "Joliet" Jake Blues and Dan Aykroyd as his brother Elwood, characters developed from the recurring musical sketch "The Blues Brothers" on NBC's variety series Saturday Night Live.
Robert Ellis Miller (director); John Brascia, Robert Vincent O'Neil (screenplay); James Coburn, Omar Sharif, Bruce Boxleitner, Ronee Blakley, Jack O'Halloran, Calvin Lockhart, Michael Lerner, Rockne Tarkington, Paul Barselou. 7. Health. 20th Century Fox / Lion's Gate Films.
Ray-Ban is a brand of luxury sunglasses and eyeglasses created in 1936 by Bausch & Lomb. The brand is best known for its Wayfarer and Aviator lines of sunglasses. In 1999, Bausch & Lomb sold the brand to Italian eyewear conglomerate Luxottica Group for a reported $640 million.
January. January 2 – The Dow Jones Industrial Average closes above 2,800 for the first time ever. January 3 – United States invasion of Panama: General Manuel Noriega, the deposed " strongman of Panama ", surrenders to American forces. January 5 – The National Gallery of Art purchases The Fall of Phaeton by Peter Paul Rubens.
Throughout the 1980s, Ray-Ban Wayfarers were extremely popular, as worn by Tom Cruise in the 1983 movie Risky Business. [ citation needed ] Miami Vice , in particular Sonny Crockett played by Don Johnson , boosted Ray-Ban 's popularity by wearing a pair of Ray-Ban Wayfarers (Model L2052, Mock Tortoise), [105] which increased sales of Ray Bans ...
Breakfast at Tiffany's is a 1961 American romantic comedy film directed by Blake Edwards, written by George Axelrod, adapted from Truman Capote's 1958 novella of the same name, and starring Audrey Hepburn as Holly Golightly, a naïve, eccentric café society girl who falls in love with a struggling writer while attempting to marry for money.
New World Pictures. Harley Cokeliss (director); John Carpenter, William Gray, Desmond Nakano (screenplay); Tommy Lee Jones, Linda Hamilton, Robert Vaughn, Richard Jaeckel, Bubba Smith, Dan Shor, Keenan Wynn, Lee Ving, William Sanderson, Nick Cassavetes, Don Keith Opper. 17. The Clan of the Cave Bear.
June 23–September 6 – The 1980 United States heat wave claims 1,700 lives. June 27 – U.S. President Jimmy Carter signs Proclamation 4771, requiring 19 and 20-year-old males to register for a peacetime military draft, in response to the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan.