Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. While some may say the narrative of Flashdance is a bit silly, the power of its soundtrack, which topped the Billboard charts in ...

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 ...

She introduced two of the most popular and iconic movie theme songs of the 1980s. By The Associated Press Oscar, Golden Globe and two-time Grammy winning singer-actress Irene Cara, who starred in and ...

Drivers could cross the new Howard Frankland in six months. Here’s what’s left. • Transportation The words "Tampa Bay Times" written in a Gothic font The Tampa Bay Times e-Newspaper is a digital ...

Irene Cara, center, won the 1984 Academy Award for Best Original Song for "Flashdance...What a Feeling." She is flanked here by actress Jennifer Beals, songwriter Keith Forsey and actor Mathew ...

Cara was well-known by music and movie fans for her work on the Fame and Flashdance soundtracks. She also starred in the 1980 film about student life at New York’s High School of Performing Arts, ...

Beals is heading to one of the most popular franchises on TV.

In the 1983 movie Flashdance, Jennifer Beals played Alex Owens, the Pittsburgh steelworker by day/exotic dancer by night whose dream of attending an elite dance conservatory improbably comes true. In ...