Moonwalk (dance) new wave band Talking Heads, authentic street dancers, picked by David Byrne, are featuring, including Stephen "Skeeter Rabbit" Nichols doing the moonwalk. It reached to 20 on the US dance charts. Another early moonwalker was popper and singer Jeffrey Daniel, who moonwalked in a performance of Shalamar's "A Night To Remember" on "Top of the Pops" in the UK in 1982 and was known to perform backslides in public performances (including weekly "Soul Train" episodes) as far back as 1974. Michael Jackson was a fan of Jeffrey Daniel's dancing and would eventually seek him out. Also in 1982, Debbie Allen
Entitled Opinions Entitled Opinions Entitled Opinions is a literary talk show hosted by Robert P. Harrison, a professor of French and Italian at Stanford University. The show is available as a podcast. Topics range broadly on issues related to literature, ideas, and lived experience. Shows are typically a one-on-one conversation with a special guest about select topics or authors about which he or she is especially entitled to an opinion. Guests have included Nobel laureate Orhan Pamuk, Paul R. Ehrlich, Richard Rorty, Vinton Cerf, Shirley Hazzard, Colm Toibin, Andrei Linde, Marjorie Perloff, René Girard, Michel Serres, Kathleen Sullivan, Gwyneth Lewis, Tobias Wolff