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1980
 
     
Martin Scorsese directs Robert de Niro in Raging Bull        
1980
 
   
US choreographer Mark Morris founds his own company, the Mark Morris Dance Group, based in New York      
1980
 
    
Beatle John Lennon is murdered by a psychopath on the steps of his and Yoko Ono's apartment block in New York       
1981
 
     
Henry and Jane Fonda, father and daughter, star with Katherine Hepburn in On Golden Pond        
1981
 
    
Karlheinz Stockhausen's Thursday from Light, the first of a seven-part opera cycle, is performed in Milan       
1981
 
     
Raiders of the Lost Ark launches an ongoing series for director Steven Spielberg and actor Harrison Ford        
1981
 
   
16-year-old ballerina Sylvie Guillem joins the Paris Opera Ballet      
1981
 
     
Andrew Lloyd Webber's musical Cats, based on the Old Possum poems by T.S. Eliot, opens in London        
1982
 
    
Steven Spielberg directs E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial, in which an alien is stranded on earth and is befriended by a young boy       
1982
 
    
Dustin Hoffman, in Tootsie, plays a man who becomes a star in the persona of an actress