Kevin Bacon stands in a circle of Payson High School cheerleaders during the filming of “Footloose” in 1983. Jill Hammond, three people to the left of Bacon, was a sophomore at the time. (Vicki Barnes ...

In 1983, in one of the biggest “What were they thinking?” moves of all time, Paramount Pictures signed Michael Cimino to direct “Footloose.” The reason the studio thought Cimino — who had won an Oscar ...

A cinematic obsessive with the filmic palate of a starving raccoon, Rob London will watch pretty much anything once. With a mind like a steel trap, he's an endless fount of movie and TV trivia, borne ...

Students from Payson High School, where much of the 1984 film was shot, have campaigned for Bacon to attend their spring prom Jill Hammond was a sophomore at Payson High School in Payson, Utah, in the ...