Glamorous Movie Stars of the Eighties Paper Dolls (Dover Celebrity Paper Dolls) Paperback – May 1, 2002

I think these are fun- I cut out the dolls and dresses, mounted them on sticke refrigerator magnet backing (from Hobby Lobby) and popped them on the fridge as oversized, exceedingly fun magnets.Everyone adores them and will play with them- it's hard to not to have favorites! What I want is some 'Charlies Angels' complete with Farrah (Bring on the Seventies Mr. Tierney!)Look, I don't take the illustrations too literally (i.e. freeze-framing the film for details and comparing with the booklet). Have fun! Play! Enjoy!

Have to agree with the previous poster's comments regarding the dullness of this edition's costumes. Jeans and T-shirts are not attractive selections. This is curious because there are better films and better actresses to choose to represent the '80s.Cher, Geena Davis, Glenn Close, Michelle Pfeiffer and Jessica Lange are all fine actresses and represent '80s movies very well. (I would have chosen another costume for Michelle rather than the Catwoman costume which hails from 1992; it's use on the cover is particularly puzzling, since the title itself tells us it's focusing on the '80s. The Cher doll doesn't quite look like the star herself. Admittedly, Cher's changed her look quite a few times over the years, but this doll doesn't bear a strong resemblance to the star during this period.)I'd remove Dolly Parton (true, she made movies in the '80s, but is less a movie star than a famous singer), Daryl Hannah (a costume from "The Clan Of The Cave Bear" is a low point) and Bette Midler (her costumes aren't particularly interesting).I'd replace them with Meryl Streep and Susan Sarandon, both of whom appear in the edition on '70s actresses and costumes, but are better suited to the '80s. Meryl has striking costumes from "The French Lieutenant's Woman", "Out Of Africa", "She Devil" and "Postcards From The Edge". Susan wore distinctive looks in "The Hunger", "A Dry White Season", "Bull Durham" and "White Palace", among others.Cases could be made to include Kathleen Turner ("Body Heat", "Romancing The Stone", "Crimes Of Passion", "Peggy Sue Got Married" and "The War Of The Roses" provide terrific costume choices), Melanie Griffith ("Body Heat", "Something Wild", "Working Girl") or Sigourney Weaver ("Ghost Busters", "Aliens", "Working Girl", "Half Moon Street") in place of any of the actresses, all of whom appeared glamorously in '80s films. I might even make a case for Whoopi Goldberg (though not herself glamorous, she wears distinctive costumes in "The Color Purple", "Clara's Heart" and "Ghost")!

For a collection of paper dolls titled "Glamorous Movies Stars of the Eighties", this book greatly disappoints. The big names of the decade are here, Geena Davis, Cher, Michelle Pfeiffer, Bette Midler, Glenn Close, Dolly Parton, etc, and all are well portrayed by Tom Tierney. However, the costumes he has illustrated are rarely glamorous. Sweatshirt and jeans, tee-shirt and jeans, a man's shirt on a woman, dowdy dresses, etc, are the opposite of glamorous.OK, so the artist chose the featured actresses's most famous roles, but who wants a paper doll dressed as if she's doing the spring cleaning?The other really disappointing feature of these illustrations is that many of the costumes are inaccurate. The colors and details are wrong (eg the two gowns from "Dangerous Liaisons" and the mermaid costume from "Splash", among others). It seems as if the artist worked from memory instead of having photos of the costumes before him while drawing them.If you want truly glamorous paper dolls, there are many others by Tom Tierney which actually fit the description. Just search by author.

A selective colorful dresses of the movie stars to be unique. To see which style it is from the fashion designers.