#urban cowboy (1980)

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Andy Warhol with his boyfriend Jed Johnson, Jerry Hall, Oscar and Lynn Wyatt, Mickey Gilley, John Travolta, and Diane von Furstenberg at the "Urban Cowboy" premiere party at Gilley's Club in Pasadena, Texas on June 5, 1980.

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Cheetah Chrome & Joe Strummer, two urban cowboys captured by Roberta Bayley on East 14th Street, NYC, back in March 1980, when cigarettes were 65c and the Clash played their third and final gig at the Palladium in just over a year.

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Scott Glenn as Wes Hightower in Urban Cowboy (1980)

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Barry Corbin

Physique: Stocky Build Height: 5' 11" (1.80 m)

Leonard Barrie Corbin (born October 16, 1940-) is an American actor. He is best known for his starring role as Maurice Minnifield on the television series Northern Exposure, which earned him two consecutive Primetime Emmy Award nominations. His other notable credits include the films Urban Cowboy, Stir Crazy, WarGames and No Country for Old Men as well as the television series Dallas, Lonesome Dove, One Tree Hill, The Closer, The Ranch and Yellowstone.

With his beady-eyes, stocky build and big voice, the Texas native is noted for his portrayals of policemen, soldiers, and father figures, or some other authority figure, though on occasion, he has effectively portrayed murderous villains as well. One things count against this man though. He lost most of his hair in the 1990s due to a condition called alopecia areata; since then, he often appears on screen either with his head shaved or wearing a cowboy hat, or occasionally wearing a full toupee.

Married three times with one child with the first wife, two children with the second and a daughter that he didn't know he had, found him in 1991. Much of his spare time is spent riding horses and tending to cattle on his small ranch, volunteering his time to charity including rodeos and being spokesman for the National Alopecia Areata Foundation.

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Urban Cowboy (1980)

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John Travolta as Bud Davis and Debra Winger as Sissy in Urban Cowboy (1980)

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John Travolta with Kate Edwards and Diane von Furstenberg at the premiere party for "Urban Cowboy" at Gilley's Club in Pasadena, Texas on June 5, 1980.

Photos by Andy Warhol

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urban cowboy (james bridges, 1980)

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490. The 1980 Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade, November 27, 1980

(the whole parade is here, if you just want the commercials and highlights, it's here)

Randy Hamilton from the soap opera Texas sings "Deep in the Heart of Texas" with a small child? Who is this small child. I want it to be a random child that they chose three minutes before turning the cameras on. Randy doesn't have a Wikipedia page! Sadness.

Ahhh!! Is that a baby Mark Linn Baker in the GE commercial?!

I love the crowd whooping it up for the cast of One 'Mo Time. I was wondering what was behind them --- I think it was the broadcast booth for host Ed McMahon! Just ... there with the saddest looking Woolworth decorations ever.

What a weird closing card (what do you call that?) for this Child World / Children's Palace commercial that aired constantly. Ok, the bear didn't fall on his butt? That was the best shot we could get?

For some reason Marilyn Michaels takes off her gloves while singing "Watching the Parade go Byyy". That couldn't of waited, Marilyn?

Todd Bridges sang a song about the Summer. I felt bad for Todd, he had no back up dancers, just dancing in the street. Was this a time filler? Loved the song!

A baby Glenn Close was there with the cast of Barnum. I feel like Ed is auditioning for the Star Search hosting gig with this parade. I love his energy.

I love the juxtaposition of Bryant Gumbel thanking the Museum of Natural history for letting people warm up in their building with Doodlebug.

Ed sang a song! When was the last time a host SANG.

I thought Cootie ran over a clown, but the clown deliberately laid down in front of him??

Just for us Hampton Roads girlies, Busch Gardens of Williamsburg had a Loch Ness Monster float! It's still at Busch Gardens! The cast of Brigadoon was on the float.

Ed was trying to find a date for Happy Dragon. He said "I guess now that he's 21, he's free to go out in the evening and date whomever he chooses. So if you have an eligible dragon hanging around your house moping, we might be able to set them up and in the years to come, who knows how many dragons we might have in the parade!"

There was a float for everyone's favorite box office flop, Popeye! I think that's supposed to be Olive Oyl?!

1980 was electric football's year. It felt like it was the only toy advertised!

"Tonka's Bear in a Box! Everyone's favorite!"

Finally, a game that looks like one of my dad's vintage fire scanners.

Cowboys were HOT this year, due to the movie Urban Cowboy, and the TV show Dallas. Modern equivalent to this would be this past Summer's Western Barbie! We even had Dean Butler from Little House on the Prairie sing "Don't Fence Me In" while riding a tortoise. The Lone Ranger even showed up. Oh, and even the McDonalds commercial with Ronald was western themed.

While Snoopy couldn't fly this year due to a leg injury, we had Underdog.

Can we discuss how a station wagon is pulling a float. Later on, I saw an Oldsmobile sedan towing the float with the Spinners on it.

This beautiful phone store.

I feel like by the time we were growing up in the late 80s/early 90s, Kermit had more bad days at the parade than good, but 1980 was a good year for him. Just look at him.

Casper is over here looking like the baby from Ally McBeal.

Bob from Sesame Street sang a song while Bert & Ernie danced. Even Oscar liked the song.

Unfortunately, the entire parade isn't on YouTube. Looks like the recorder only set their VCR for two hours. One of the final things you see is Linda Ronstadt and the cast of The Pirates of Penzance. "I Am the Very Model of a Modern Major General" slaps.

Related: previous thanksgiving entries.

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Debra Winger in Urban Cowboy, James Bridges, 1980.