Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Jennifer Beals went from wide-eyed acting newcomer to movie star and 1980s fashion icon in "Flashdance" 40 years ago. Audiences ...

'Flashdance' fans love Jennifer Beals' dance under pouring water, but director Adrian Lyne explains why that scene almost couldn't be in the movie. On a new Paramount Presents Blu-ray of Flashdance, ...

On this day in 1983, one of the best movie soundtracks dropped, signaling the release of one of the best dance films of all time. Four days later, the world met Alex Owens, played by the magnificent ...

Somewhere, a halfway decent adaptation of the 1983 hit movie “Flashdance” is fighting to break away from the amiable, strongly performed mess of a show that has arrived at the Hippodrome. Instead, we ...

Imitation is the sincerest form of Hollywood, and the most enduring legacy of Flashdance may be the mini-genre of MTV-flavored dance movies that it inspired. First up was Footloose (1984), another set ...

Jennifer Beals went from wide-eyed acting newcomer to movie star and 1980s fashion icon in "Flashdance" 40 years ago. Audiences were swept up in Beals' performance as Pittsburgh steel mill welder Alex ...

“I didn’t even feel like I wanted control or impact,” she said, “I wanted joy, full stop. It was completely pleasure principle: ‘This is fun. I enjoy this. And I can feel myself expanding -- it’s ...