The Outsiders: Directed by Francis Ford Coppola. With C. Thomas Howell, Matt Dillon, Ralph Macchio, Patrick Swayze. In a small Oklahoma town in 1964, the rivalry between two gangs, the poor Greasers and the rich Socs, heats up when one gang member accide
Both movies are about tough teenagers. The kids in “Bad Boys” are hardened 1980s street criminals, while the kids in “The Outsiders” are 1950s Nebraska greasers, living in a time when even their toughness belongs to a more romantic tradition. But even so, those are real kids in “B...
he said. “If I hadn’t been cast in ‘The Outsiders,’ I wouldn’t be an actor, ‘cause that was the last train leaving the station for me.”Lowe holds the film close to his heart …. and a big reason is Susan Eloise Hinton, the woman who came up with the story more than ha...
As a mid-season replacement, all 13 episodes ofThe Outsiderswere finished months before the series debuted. That forced the cast to wait and hope that FOX would renew the series for the 1990-1991 season. The solid ratings for the premiere episode were a positive sign. Ratings for the episod...
A fourth album, The Outsiders", was released in February 2014. It produced five new singles between 2013–15 with the title track, "Give Me Back My Hometown", "Cold One", "Talladega" and "Like a Wrecking Ball". "Talladega" and "Give Me Back My Hometown" each reached number one on ...
THE OUTSIDERS(1983) Similar toThe Magnificent Seventhis is a “before they were famous deal” with an incredible cast who would come to known in the 1980s asThe Brat Pack.C. Thomas Howell,Rob Lowe,Emilio Estevez,Matt Dillon,Tom Cruise,Patrick Swayze,Ralph Macchio, andDiane Laneall starred ...
Patrick Swayze was an American heartthrob who first hit the big screen as the overprotective older brother in "The Outsiders." True stardom came with his role as the love interest in the smash hit "Dirty Dancing." Major roles followed as Swayze captured the screen in the romantic drama "Ghos...
Patrick Swayze was an American heartthrob who first hit the big screen as the overprotective older brother in "The Outsiders." True stardom came with his role as the love interest in the smash hit "Dirty Dancing." Major roles followed as Swayze captured the screen in the romantic drama "Ghos...
back when his older brother, The Motorcycle Boy, was leader of the pack. (The book is set several years after the events of Hinton’s The Outsiders— in the early ’70s.) Motorcycle Boy, however, doesn’t feel the same way. A dreamy, slightly unhinged book that is less action-packed...
Instead, Marcuse put his faith in an alliance between “radical intellectuals, the socially marginalized, the substratum of the outcasts and outsiders, the exploited and persecuted of other ethnicities and other colors, the unemployed, and the unemployable.” Accordingly, these groups could be molded...