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Linux Live

1980 | Academy Award | Bette Midler

Many people i know that want to have linux and learn about it, but they dont want to install on the same computer, dont want to partition the hard disk.

For those who dont know, they are LiveCd for linux or windows, u can download the image for free on http://sourceforge.net/ burn it on a cd, or copy all the files on a usb memory. U need change in Bios that boot first in CD or Flash memory, and thats it.

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Irene Cara "Fame"

1980 | Academy Award | actress | dance | Irene Cara | movie theme | pop | singer | Top Ten hit

In 1980, young actress Irene Cara, who had already accumulated a long list of credits since childhood, was cast in the film Fame. The film, which chronicled the lives of students at the New York School For Performing Arts, featured Cara as an aspiring singer and dancer. As such, she contributed several songs to the film's soundtrack.

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Irene Cara "Flashdance"

#1 song | '80s music | 1983 | Academy Award | Grammy | Irene Cara | movie soundtrack

Actress/singer Irene Cara was no stranger to successful movie soundtracks when her single from the movie "Flashdance" was released in 1983. Cara had first come to pop culture prominence singing the Oscar-winning theme to the movie "Fame" three years earlier. Not only did she star in the movie, the song took Cara into the Top Ten on the pop charts.

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Bette Midler "The Rose"

'80s music | 1980 | Academy Award | adult contemporary | Bette Midler | Grammy | pop | soundtrack | Top Ten

Few entertainers have exhibited not only the versatility but the long-running success as Bette Midler. Moving to New York in the late '60s from Hawaii (where she had been raised), Midler quickly found success on Broadway and parlayed that momentum into a nightclub act and a recording career that earned her Grammy awards and a Top Ten hit with her cover of the Andrews Sisters' "Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy."

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