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Breakin'
''Breakin''' (also known as ''Breakdance'' in the United Kingdom and ''Break Street '84'' in other regions) is a 1984 American breakdancing-themed musical film, musical film directed by Joel Silberg and written by Charles Parker and Allen DeBevoise based on a story by Parker, DeBevoise and Gerald Scaife about dancer Alysha Williams. The film's setting was inspired by a 1983 documentary titled ''Breakin' 'n' Enterin, set in the multi-racial hip hop club Radio-Tron, based out of MacArthur Park in Los Angeles. Many of the artists and dancers from said documentary, including Ice-T (who makes his film debut as a club MC), and Michael Chambers, Michael "Boogaloo Shrimp" Chambers, went straight from ''Breakin' 'n' Enterin''' to star in ''Breakin'''. The film's soundtrack featured the hits "Breakin'... There's No Stopping Us" by Ollie & Jerry, "Freakshow on the Dance Floor" by The Bar-Kays and the UK Top 20 hit "Body Work" by Hot Streak. ''Breakin''' was one of the final The Cannon Gr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Electric Boogaloo
''Breakin' 2: Electric Boogaloo'' is a 1984 American breakdancing musical film directed by Sam Firstenberg that is a sequel to ''Breakin','' released seven months earlier the same year by the same producers, Tri-Star Pictures. In markets where the earlier film was titled ''Breakdance'', the sequel was released as ''Breakdance 2: Electric Boogaloo''. Another sequel, ''Rappin''' (also known as ''Breakdance 3''), was produced but with an unconnected plot and different lead characters; only Ice-T appears in all three films. The subtitle "Electric Boogaloo" has entered the popular-culture lexicon as a snowclone nickname to denote an archetypal sequel. Plot The three main dancers from ''Breakin''', Kelly "Special K" Bennett, Orlando "Ozone" Barco and Tony "Turbo" Ainley, struggle to stop the demolition of a community recreation center by a developer who wants to build a shopping mall. Cast * Lucinda Dickey as Kelly "Special K" Bennett * Adolfo "Shabba Doo" Quiñones as Orlando "Oz ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shabba Doo
Adolfo Quiñones (May 11, 1955 – December 29, 2020), known professionally as Shabba Doo, was an American actor, break dancer, and choreographer. Of African American and Puerto Rican descent, Quiñones was born and raised in Chicago, Illinois.Herguth, Bob (1987) "Shabba Doo", ''Chicago Sun-Times'', July 31, 1987 In the 1970s his family moved to Los Angeles, where he became interested in dancing and began performing in nightclubs. He adopted the pseudonym Shabba Doo and joined the dance group The Lockers, who were responsible for popularizing the locking style of street dance. In 1984, Quiñones played one of the lead characters in the breakdancing-themed musical film ''Breakin',''. The film was successful at the box-office, grossing $38,682,707 domestically, and spawned a sequel '' Breakin' 2: Electric Boogaloo''. Quiñones continued acting in films and television. Throughout his career, Quiñones performed and choreographed dance for musical acts such as Lionel Richie, Madon ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ice-T
Tracy Lauren Marrow (born February 16, 1958), known professionally as Ice-T (or Ice T), is an American rapper and actor. He is active in both hip hop music, hip hop and heavy metal music, heavy metal. Ice-T began his career as an underground rapper in the 1980s and was signed to Sire Records in 1987, when he released his debut album ''Rhyme Pays''. The following year, he founded the record label Records (named after his collective of fellow hip-hop artists called the "") and released another album, ''Power (Ice-T album), Power'' (1988), which is Ice-T's only album to be certified Music recording certification, platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America, RIAA. His next three albums, ''The Iceberg/Freedom of Speech... Just Watch What You Say!'' (1989), ''O.G. Original Gangster'' (1991) and ''Home Invasion (album), Home Invasion'' (1993), were also critically acclaimed and commercially successful, and were all certified gold in the US. Ice-T co-founded the heavy me ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ollie & Jerry
Ollie & Jerry was an American dance-pop duo active in the 1980s, consisting of drummer Ollie E. Brown and R&B singer/bassist Jerry Knight. Despite releasing no studio albums under their own name, the duo is still widely known for its hit single " Breakin'... There's No Stopping Us", a dance-influenced track that became a top-10 hit in the United States and the United Kingdom, and it was featured as the theme song of the film ''Breakin''' and released on its accompanying soundtrack. However, the group disbanded in mid-1985 after the release of their second single " Electric Boogaloo". As a result, "Electric Boogaloo" failed to repeat the success of "Breakin'..." and the duo is widely considered a one-hit wonder. History Ollie Brown and Jerry Knight had previously worked together as session musicians, with Knight having also been a member of R&B group Raydio, to whose albums Brown had frequently contributed as a session drummer. The two formed Ollie & Jerry in Los Angeles in 198 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michael Chambers
Michael "Boogaloo Shrimp" Chambers (born November 13, 1967) is an Americans, American dancer and actor, known for his role as "Turbo" in the 1984 film ''Breakin''' and its sequel, ''Breakin' 2: Electric Boogaloo'', in which he is credited as "Boogaloo Shrimp". Chambers, along with his ''Breakin''' series co-star Shabba Doo, Adolfo "Shabba Doo" Quiñones and other dancers from the films, were prominently featured in the music videos for Lionel Richie's "All Night Long (All Night), All Night Long" (1983) and Chaka Khan's "I Feel for You" (1984). Early life Chambers, born in Wilmington, Los Angeles, Wilmington, California, is the youngest of four. In 1978, while at junior high, Chambers saw a member of the Samoan American dance group Blue City Strutters perform. The group would influence Chambers' style by performing King Tut and domino routines.Higa, B. & Wiggins, C. (1996) "Electric Kingdom" The history of popping and locking, from the people who made it happen. ''Rap Pages''. Se ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Breakdancing
Breakdancing or breaking, also called b-boying (when performed by men) or b-girling (women), is a style of street dance originated by African Americans and Nuyorican, Puerto Ricans in The Bronx borough of New York City. Breakdancing consists mainly of four kinds of movement—toprock, Floorwork#B-boying, footwork, power moves, and Freeze (b-boy move), freezes—and is typically set to songs containing drum Break (music), breaks, especially in funk, soul music, soul, and hip-hop. Its modern dance elements originated among the poor youth of New York during the early 1980s. It is tied to the birth of hip-hop, whose DJs developed rhythmic break for dancers. The dance form has expanded globally, with an array of organizations and independent competitions supporting its growth. Breaking became an Breaking at the Summer Olympics, Olympic sport at the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris, as per a December 7, 2020 decision by the International Olympic Committee, after a proposal by the Wo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joel Silberg
Joel Silberg (; 30 March 1927 – 18 February 2013) was a film, television and stage director and screenwriter in Israel and the United States. He made films in Israel including so-called Bourekas films. He then directed films in the U.S. during the 1980s, including ''Breakin' a''nd Lambada (1990 American film), ''Lambada''. Both have been described as exploitation films. In 2008 he received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Israel Film Academy. Biography Silberg was born in Palestine (region), Palestine in 1927. He was the son of actor Ben Zion Silberg. He began his career directing at London's Old Vic theater. He co-wrote the Israeli musical film ''Kazablan (film), Kazablan'' (1974). ''Breakin' '' was shot in Los Angeles and reflects a different style of break dancing and street dance culture than the Bronx, New York film ''Beat Street''. Roger Ebert gave ''Breakin 1 1/2 stars, stating that it was a rather predictable story. The sequel, ''Breakin' 2: Electric Boogaloo'', di ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lucinda Dickey
Lucinda Dickey (born Lucinda Marie Henninger; July 9th, 1960) is an American former dancer and actress. She is best known for her leading roles in the film ''Breakin''' (1984) and its sequel '' Breakin' 2: Electric Boogaloo'' (1984). Early life Dickey was born and raised in Hutchinson, Kansas, where at the age of four, she began dancing in her mother's studio. While attending Kansas State University, she majored in dance and competed as Miss Manhattan/Kansas-State in the Miss Kansas pageant, where she won the talent division and finished third runner-up. Career In 1980, Dickey moved to Los Angeles and won a dance scholarship with the Roland DuPree Dance Academy. After 10 months, she became one of the lead dancers for the movie ''Grease 2''. In fall 1982, she landed a stint as a dancer on '' Solid Gold''. Her first leading role was in '' Ninja III: The Domination'', which premiered in 1984. In 1984, Dickey appeared in the role of jazz dancer turned breakdancer Kelly in ''Break ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michel Qissi
Michel Qissi (; born Mohammed Qissi on 12 September 1962) is a Moroccan-Belgian actor, filmmaker, and martial artist best known for his action films. Born in Oujda but raised in Brussels, in 1982 Qissi emigrated to Hollywood together with childhood friend Jean-Claude Van Damme in search of becoming an action star. ''Bloodsport'' (1988) was their first major film. The two had previously collaborated on ''Breakin''' (1984), and went on to appear in ''Kickboxer'' (1989), in which Qissi portrayed the Thai villain Tong Po, '' Lionheart'' (1990), and '' Kickboxer: Vengeance'' (2016). Qissi also had the role of a fight trainer for Van Damme in the action cyberpunk film ''Cyborg'' (1989) and served as choreographer on ''Kickboxer''. In 1991, Qissi reprised his role as Tong Po in '' Kickboxer 2'' and starred in ''Bloodmatch''. In 1993, he starred in his directorial debut film ''Terminator Woman'', opposite Karen Sheperd and Jerry Trimble. In 2001, he directed, co-wrote, and starred in ''E ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jean-Claude Van Damme
Jean-Claude Camille François Van Varenberg (, ; born 18 October 1960), known professionally as Jean-Claude Van Damme (, ), is a Belgian martial artist and actor. Born and raised in Brussels, his father enrolled him in a Shotokan karate school at the age of ten, which led Van Damme to hold the rank of 2nd- dan black belt in karate, and compete in several karate and kickboxing competitions. As a teenager, he won the middleweight championship of the European Professional Karate Association in 1979 and the Mr. Belgium bodybuilding title in 1978. With the desire of becoming an actor in Hollywood, he moved to the United States in 1982, where he worked on several films, until he got his break as the lead in the martial arts film '' Bloodsport'' (1988). He became a popular action film star and followed up with commercially successful films such as ''Cyborg'', ''Kickboxer'' (both 1989), '' Lionheart'', '' Death Warrant'' (both 1990), '' Double Impact'' (1991), '' Universal Soldier' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Christopher McDonald
Christopher McDonald (born February 15, 1955) is an American actor. McDonald is best known for playing the villainous professional golfer Shooter McGavin in the 1996 comedy '' Happy Gilmore'', a role he’d later reprise in 2025’s sequel '' Happy Gilmore 2''. Other notable starring roles for McDonald in film include "T-Birds" member Goose McKenzie in ''Grease 2'' (1982), Darryl Dickinson opposite his former fiancée Geena Davis in '' Thelma & Louise'' (1991), Ward Cleaver in the film adaptation , and Tappy Tibbons in '' Requiem for a Dream'' (2000). Along with numerous independent and small-budget film roles, he played supporting characters in box-office hits , , , '' The House Bunny'' (2008) and . On television, McDonald was a series regular on network TV shows '' Walter & Emily'' (1991–1992, NBC), ''Good Advice'' (1993–1994, CBS), ''Family Law'' (1999–2002, CBS), '' Cracking Up'' (2004, FOX) and '' Harry's Law'', (2011–2012, NBC). McDonald has portrayed several no ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
