Let's get this off to a rip-roaring start with a 4 seed/5 seed matchup. Even better, a matchup between two Jennifers. Click here to view the full bracket. Here are the resumes:
Jennifer Connelly
Breakdown: Kind of an odd (creepy) choice for this tournament as she was all of 16 in her breakout performance in Labyrinth, but then again, most readers of this blog weren't legal either in 1986. Also, despite the big name she has now, she really wasn't in much else in the 80s. Her much bigger breakout came in the early 90s with The Hot Spot and Career Opportunities (though they sure seem like 80s flicks, don't they?).
80s Highlights: Labyrinth, Phenomena
Jennifer Grey
Breakdown: It's funny, I always knew that Alan Ruck was practically a septugenarian when he played Cameron Frye and that Matthew Broderick wasn't far behind, but I never knew until just now that Grey was in the same ballpark as the guys, co-starring as Jeanie Bueller at age 26 in 1986 (which makes her portrayal as "Baby" in the following year's Dirty Dancing even weirder somehow). Famously got a nose job sometime in the 90s that completely destroyed her career, even though it's hard to argue that it didn't make her better looking.
80s Highlights: Ferris Bueller's Day Off, Dirty Dancing, Red Dawn
And then...
Jennifer Connelly
Breakdown: Kind of an odd (creepy) choice for this tournament as she was all of 16 in her breakout performance in Labyrinth, but then again, most readers of this blog weren't legal either in 1986. Also, despite the big name she has now, she really wasn't in much else in the 80s. Her much bigger breakout came in the early 90s with The Hot Spot and Career Opportunities (though they sure seem like 80s flicks, don't they?).
80s Highlights: Labyrinth, Phenomena
Jennifer Grey
Breakdown: It's funny, I always knew that Alan Ruck was practically a septugenarian when he played Cameron Frye and that Matthew Broderick wasn't far behind, but I never knew until just now that Grey was in the same ballpark as the guys, co-starring as Jeanie Bueller at age 26 in 1986 (which makes her portrayal as "Baby" in the following year's Dirty Dancing even weirder somehow). Famously got a nose job sometime in the 90s that completely destroyed her career, even though it's hard to argue that it didn't make her better looking.
80s Highlights: Ferris Bueller's Day Off, Dirty Dancing, Red Dawn
