Who were you in high school? The Popular Girl? The Stud? The Rebel? The Jock? If you had a chance to spend two weeks reconnecting with your old classmates, and have the whole thing shot for a reality show, would you do it? Yeah, me neither. (Unless maybe it was on Maui.) The fact that I wouldn't…

Welcome to 1980 -- a year that started perhaps the tawdriest decade of the 20th Century. 10 years of synthesizers, spiked hair, and "gag me with a spoon."

Disco is hanging on with hits like "Funkytown," but Blondie is pioneering the new look and sound of the '80s with "Call Me." Richard Pryor…

I've been hoodwinked. Bamboozled. Cheated. When my editor Ted first asked me to cover a season of Dallas I thought it would be a fun, kitschy trip to the past, revisiting one of the biggest phenomena of my youth. Little did I know that after 30 episodes and almost 24 hours of my life (including two…

Last year word came down that ThunderCats was coming to the big screen. This, on the face of it, seemed like good news. But there was a catch (there's always a catch). The bad news was that they decided to go the TMNT route of CGI instead of the live action route (like the new G.I. Joe). I won't…

World War II ended in 1981. Hmm, I've just been told by my editor that this is factually incorrect. Time to do some research.

Okay, there, I'm back. Without further delay here are a few of the bigger news stories from 1981:

• Palau became self-governing.
• It snowed in Palermo!
• The Iranian hostages…