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Remember When... 'Crocodile Dundee' Made America Go Nuts for Australia?


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Along with fluorescent-colored clothes and inexpensive cocaine, something that had been around forever but suddenly became trendy in America in the second half of the 1980s was Australia. Yes, the country. Previous exports from Down Under like Olivia Newton-John and Men at Work had laid the groundwork in the early part of the decade, but in 1986, Americans went crazy for Australia as if we'd never heard of the place before. And whom do we have to thank for it? A fellow by the name of Crocodile Dundee, that's whom.  Released in the U.S. 30 years ago, on Sept. 26, 1986, Crocodile Dundee -- or as it was officially known here, "Crocodile" Dundee, with the quotation marks, so we'd understand that Mr. Dundee's parents had not actually named him...
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