Timeline Friday 31 December 1982

Events on Friday 31 December 1982 5

• 1981 – 1982 Arthur Won an Academy Award for Best That You Can Do, the theme from the film Arthur, co-written with then-wife Carole Bayer Sager.
• 1982 1982: Keke Rosberg Williams Finnish driver Rosberg won the title with just one race victory in a tragic season that saw the deaths of Gilles Villeneuve and Riccardo Paletti. He is the father of 2016 champion Nico Rosberg.
• 1982 A Wild Sheep Chase Published A Wild Sheep Chase, the third instalment of his Trilogy of the Rat and the novel that marked his breakthrough into a fully realised literary style — dream logic, detective tropes and lonely protagonists in an uncanny Japan.
• 1982 Annie Played the villainous Rooster Hannigan in John Huston's film adaptation of the musical Annie, scheming alongside Carol Burnett and Bernadette Peters in the memorable number Easy Street.
• 1982 The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas Starred opposite Burt Reynolds in The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas. Re-recorded I Will Always Love You for the film's soundtrack, which again reached number one on the country chart.