Chuck Norris, martial-arts legend and action-movie star, projected a disciplined alpha masculinity unlike any star of the 1980s.
Early in his writing career, George R.R. Martin penned a script for an episode of an '80s sci-fi TV series that never made it to air.
The 1980s was a heyday for action movies, but one classic was so extreme that Steven Spielberg worried about its long term effects on society.