How many movies can you think of where the supercool star has lowered his or her sunglasses just enough to peer down over the top of them? This brief, informative lecture takes a look at a strange trend in Hollywood movie marketing that began in the 1980s. Utilizing stills and images from countless posters, actor and filmmaker Pat Healy (Great World of Sound) will provide numerous examples and multiple variations in shade-tippin’. Followed immediately by the ultimate shade-tippin’ movie, THEY LIVE (John Carpenter, US 1988, 97 min.) A homeless drifter (mulletted wrestler “Rowdy” Roddy Piper) discovers a conspiracy by non-human aliens who have infiltrated American society in the guise of wealthy yuppies. With the help of special sunglasses that reveal the aliens’ true faces and their subliminal messages, our hero tries to stop the invasion. Carpenter’s deliriously imaginative satire of Reaganomics and the “greed is good” era also has one of the funniest (and longest) fight scenes in American cinema.