That Was The Year That Was

January, 1983

The E. T. boom shocked film tycoons, Their chairs they almost fell off. The year's big heartthrob looked much like A turtle with its shell off.When fighting stopped, her troops became Miss Thatcher's little helpers. Three thousand stayed to baby-sit With eighteen hundred kelpers.When NBC picked Taxi up, Some network faces fell. Would such a castoff bomb again Or ring a Tinker bell?Fernando's holdout left him drained Of strength till nearly June. Or was he still exhausted from His winter honeymoo...