Sting

His album with The Police, "Synchronicity", was the album that finally knocked Michael Jackson's "Thriller", the best selling album of all time, out of the number one spot it held for most of 1983.

Sissy Spacek

Was the first choice to play the daughter in Terms of Endearment .

Released a country LP titled Hangin' Up My Heart on Atlantic Records in 1983.

Frank Oz

Has appeared in many of director John Landis' films as a good luck charm of sorts. He didn't appear in Twilight Zone: The Movie and Landis had plenty of bad luck during that film. In Trading Places he plays a cop taking an inventory of Dan Aykroyd's personal items, ironically reprising his role from The Blues Brothers , where he took an inventory of the other Blues Brother's personal items, John Belushi, as Belushi was being freed from jail.

James L. Brooks

He is among an elite group of 7 Directors who have won best Picture, Best Director and Best Screenplay (Original/Adapted) for the same film. In 1984 he won all three for Terms of Endearment . The other directors are Leo McCarey (for Going My Way ), Billy Wilder (for The Apartment ), Francis Ford Coppola (for The Godfather: Part II ), Peter Jackson (for The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King ) and Joel Coen and Ethan Coen (the brothers co-produced, co-directed and co-wrote No Country for Old Men with each other). Brooks is the only one to do so with his directorial debut and the only one to do so without collaborators in any of the three categories.

Rock Hudson

Hudson and his partner Marc Christian went out of their way while traveling near downtown Los Angeles, so that the couple could meet Michael Jackson during the filming of his award-winning music video, Thriller (TV).

Bill Murray

Captivated by the story of "Press Your Luck" contestant Michael Larson who memorized the sequence of the game show's big board and racked up over $110,000 in winnings, Murray commissioned a screenplay for a biopic about Larson. Several studios expressed an interest but didn't follow through. The Game Show Network's 2003 TV documentary Big Bucks: The Press Your Luck Scandal (TV) told the same story with interviews, dramatic recreations and archival video, and may have diminished interest in the film even more.

Betty White

Was portraying the conniving, gold-digging Ellen Harper, the niece of Rue McClanahan, who played the prudish Aunt Fran, On "Mama's Family" at the same time as they were working together on "The Golden Girls" in almost opposite roles.

Ewan McGregor

His Star Wars character, Obi-Wan Kenobi, goes by the call sign Red Leader in Revenge of the Sith. Wedge Antilles, who was played by his uncle, Denis Lawson, has the same call sign in Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi .

John Cusack

Sister Joan Cusack appeared in 10 of his movies:Class , Sixteen Candles , Grandview, U.S.A. , Broadcast News , Say Anything... , Grosse Pointe Blank , Cradle Will Rock , High Fidelity , Martian Child and War, Inc. .

Meryl Streep

Was nominated for Best Actress in 1987 along with Cher. When Cher was announced, just before the cameras cut away from the other four actresses, Streep could be seen springing to her feet in delight and applauding for Cher. During her acceptance speech, Cher thanked Streep personally, as they had worked together on Cher's first film, Silkwood . As the camera briefly cut away to Streep sitting in the audience, she blew Cher a kiss.

Her performance as "Karen Silkwood" in Silkwood is ranked #71 on Premiere Magazine's 100 Greatest Performances of All Time .

Her character Karen Silkwood from her 1983 film Silkwood was ranked #47 on the American Film Institute Heroes list of the 100 years of The Greatest Screen Heroes and Villians.

Ang Lee

While attending NYU, worked on Joe's Bed-Stuy Barbershop: We Cut Heads , Spike Lee's well-renowned student film.

Phil Collins

He never topped the UK singles chart with Genesis but had solo number ones with "You Can't Hurry Love" , "Easy Lover" (with Philip Bailey) and "A Groovy Kind of Love" .

Trustee, Prince's Trust, since 1983.

Rod Serling

Helen Foley, his schoolteacher, encouraged him in his writing and he always believed he owed his success to her. A teacher in Twilight Zone: The Movie was named Helen Foley in her honor.

Genie Francis

Met her husband during the filming of "Bare Essence" .

Elizabeth Taylor

Liz and Richard Burton appeared together on stage in a 1983 revival of "Private Lives."

Bette Davis

She suffered a stroke and had a mastectomy in 1983.