Vampire lovers rejoice, the 1987 hit comedy-horror film "The Lost Boys" will be adapted as a 7 part anthology series on the CW.  Director Rob Thomas says that since vampires stay young forever, each season explores the Lost Boys in a different decade. The beginning would be “1967 Summer of Love Haight-Ashbury to be specific.”

Thomas said that since the series will be going past the 1980's, in which the vampires died in the movie, he will invent a new group of Lost Boys. “They’re similar young vampires all sort of living this sort of Peter Pan–like existence of never having to grow up, getting turned into vampires when they’re in their early 20s,” Thomas said. “They can stay young and beautiful and cool forever.”

Season One: San Francisco 1960's
“Vampires stay the same age, so those vampires that we meet in the ’80s in the original Lost Boys movies could exist in the 1960s version,” Thomas said. “We could run into them there as well. We might not even have to wait until the ’80s to see that other Lost Boys crew.”

Season Two: New York City 1970's
“One of the things that I wanted to do was to center the show in places where youth culture was in flux,” Thomas said. “I would love to do 1978 New York, death of disco, birth of punk rock. Just places where it’s all happening would be great.”

Season Three: Austin 1980's (Not Santa Carla)
“One of the ideas would be to do the ’80s in Austin,” Thomas said. “It’s where I grew up in the ’80s. I would love to do the ’80s in Austin not because it’s the perfect location, but because I know the ’80s in Austin.” Thomas did mention that th eLost Boys might visit Santa Carla in this season.
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Season Four: Seattle 1990's
Thomas said that this season would revolve around the 1990's grunge movement.

Season Five: ?
Season Six: ?

Season Seven: Modern Day 2024
A seventh season would catch up to what will then be the new decade.
“In seven seasons we would catch up with present day,” Thomas said. “Technically we could be playing the 2024 election in seven years.”

"Mickey" is a 1981 song recorded by Toni Basil on her debut album Word of Mouth. Originally written by Mike Chapman and Nicky Chinn as "Kitty", it was first recorded by UK music group Racey during 1979 appearing on their debut album Smash and Grab. Toni Basil changed the name from Kitty to Mickey to make the song about a man.

For years, it had been rumored that the name was changed to Mickey because Basil was fond of The Monkees' drummer and lead vocalist Micky Dolenz after meeting him on the set of their movie Head for which she was the choreographer; however, this claim has been denied by Basil, who said she didn't know Dolenz that well. 

Two of the most oddly memorable things from the 80's are synonymous with the words "Oh Yeah!" Who could forget the scene in Ferris Bueller's Day Off when Cameron shows Ferris his dad's Ferrari. It was this iconic scene that helped make Yello's 1985 song "Oh Yeah" one of the most recognizable songs of all time. Ironically, Dieter Meier, the writer of the song has admittedly still never seen the movie. 

After it's use in the 1986 film the song became a 1980's Hollywood cliche.  It was used in several other movies and commercials for years to come. Film critic Jonathan Bernstein observed that despite never reaching hit status, the song "has become synonymous with lust. Every time a movie, TV show or commercial wants to underline the jaw-dropping impact of a hot babe or sleek auto, that synth-drum starts popping and that deep voice rumbles, 'Oh yeah…" Dieter himself made quite the fortune from the track, investing the proceeds he eventually earned a reported $175 million from the song.  I also must add that it has one of the weirdest music videos of all time...

Every 80's kid who had a wild sugar rush and that tell-tell "Kool-aid smile" will remember "Oh Yeah!" as the phrase one says after breaking through a wall. 

The Kool-Aid Man has been featured in video games, cartoons, comics and much more. He even appears in modern day television shows such as Family Guy and the Simpsons. He will never be as wacky and wild as he was in those 1980's commercials. Oh Yeah!

If the 80's make you say OH YEAH, don't forget to make plans to attend the 15th Annual 80's Prom at Cain's Ballroom! Tickets are on sale now! 

There is absolutely no debating that John Hughes films were the epitome of the 80's. The characters, the clothes, the story lines reminded us all of a swankier version of our day to day lives. Even to this day future generations can't help but identify with the characters of his many films. One of the most famous by far is Ferris Bueller's Day Off. 

The movie has so many iconic moments, but one of the most remembered is the scene where the economics teacher takes roll call. Ferris is playing hooky from school and the teacher played by Ben Stein repeatedly says "Bueller, Bueller..." to his empty chair.  That 150 seconds on screen changed Ben Stein's life forever.  “By total chance, without ever having seen the inside of an acting school, without ever having read scripts or gone on a cattle call, I was given a part in Ferris Bueller’s Day Off,” Stein once said.  He recalled, “They wanted me to just do one simple thing – call the roll, offstage. And the studio extras and all the crew laughed so hard that John Hughes called producer Michael Chinich aside and had a hurried conference, and they said, ‘We’re going to put you on camera. We’d like you to improvise a scene, a subject you really know well.’” “So I said, ‘Well, what do I know really well? Let’s see, I really know a lot about the Great Depression.’ So I just improvised that scene on camera. And we did it all in one take. I did it all out of my head.”

Stein later went on to have an entire career in comedy. Even earning an Emmy for his show on Comedy Central. He speculates though that on his gravestone it will still say "Bueller?...Bueller?...". 
 “Ferris didn’t do a single thing to hurt anybody else. He just freed the people he was around. When I walk down the street in Georgetown on a summer night, when there are all the college kids there to be summer interns, every few steps somebody says, ‘Bueller, Bueller – Anyone? Anyone?’ I love it. I love it, love it, love it, because see – Ferris Bueller liberated me, too. Ferris Bueller said, ‘You don’t have to be locked away at your typewriter. You can be yourself and let people see your personality.’”  Very well said Mr. Stein.