Week of August 15, 1986

lose his job for poor performance, walked into his post

office in Edmond, Oklahoma and opened fire - killing

14 and wounding six others. Armed with two .45

caliber pistols, one in each hand, Sherrill walked into

the back of the building and without warning, shot

anyone within site. After the spree, Sherrill placed one

of the guns to his head and killed himself. He was

employed with the Post Office on a part-time basis for

18 months.

Chernobyl update - A Soviet government’s report on

the Chernobyl nuclear accident on April 26 says it was

caused by reactor operators who ignored both established rules of procedure

and clear signs of developing trouble as they rushed to complete a planned test

on one of the reactor’s turbines. Officials confirmed that the disaster caused the

deaths of 31 people and sent 203 others to the hospital with acute radiation

sickness. It also forced the evacuation of 135,000 people form the disaster zone.

Nearly four months later, the radiation level at the reactor site is still too high for

workers to go near it. At least 17 officials have been dismissed or reprimanded

as a result of the catastrophe.

Federal agents halt scores of vessels in New York Harbor in a drug crackdown. It

was the first blockade of New York Harbor since 1812. The search wasn’t a

success and mayor Ed Koch blamed publicity for the lack of results. Says Koch

“The search wasn’t a very well-kept secret on the part of the Coast Guard,

because everybody I met Thursday told me about it. That’s no way to run an

operation. That’s got to be done very quietly.”

and made them more beautiful - Elizabeth Taylor,

Cheryl Tiegs, Sigourney Weaver and many more.

Often told his ladies to concoct their own makeup

foundations, using distilled water, transparent

fluids, eggs and honey and to clean their faces

with avocado or olive oil.

Singer Michael McDonald performs on the serial “The Young and the Restless”

this week

Week of August 15, 1986

New York based “The Phil Donahue Show” is set to tape 5 shows in Burbank.

The Donahue show has a threat with the new Oprah Winfrey Show, which is set

to debut in Los Angeles and other major cities in September. In Los Angeles,

both shows will be broadcast at the same time (3-4pm). “Donahue” has been

seen in syndication since 1968.

General Hospital celebrates its 6000th

episode with some 40 cast members past

with the series since it began in 1963.

The serial was borne out of the doctor

craze of the early 60’s that included

popular prime time series Dr Kildaire and

Ben Casey.

Short stay - Sandy Hill - who use to serve

as co-host of ABC’s “Good Morning

America” will co-host the CBS Morning

News” around late October and will remain until the show goes off the air in

December. She’ll take over when Faith Daniels goes on maternity leave.

Zsa Zsa Gabor marries for the eighth time, but there are German newspaper

reports that the bridgegroom, Prince Frederick von Anhalt, is a convicted con

man, who bought his German title.

television station in the United States

- WXNE (channel

25) from TV evangelist Pat Robertson’s Christian

Broadcasting Network for $28 million. Murdoch already

purchased six Metromedia TV stations earlier this year.

By combining the stations with 20th-Century Fox Film

Corp which he acquired last year, Murdoch hopes to build

a fourth American television network

Saturday Night Television -

CBS - Melba, Movie

NBC - Movie, The Facts of Life, 227

ABC - Movie, The Love Boat

PBS - Pledge Break week with various programming

WTBS (all-night) - Night Tracks

Week of August 15, 1986

CBS Movie - “S.O.B.” with Julie Andrews, William Holden

Saturday Night Live - host Billy Crystal with Ed Koch, Don Nuvello, Edwon

Newman and Betty Thomas

Pop music this week in 1986 -

Papa Don’t Preach - Madonna

Venus - Bananarama

Mad About You - Belinda Carlisle

Higher Love - Steve Winwood

We Don’t Have To Take Our Clothes Off -

Jermaine Stewart

Dancing on the Ceiling - Lionel Richie

Take My Breath Away - Berlin

The Edge of Heaven - Wham

Friends And Lovers - Gloria Loring and

Carl Anderson

Baby Love - Regina

Stuck With You - Huey Lewis And The

News

Glory Of Love - Peter Cetera

Walk This Way - Run-D.M.C.

Don’t Forget Me - Glass Tiger

Love Touch - Rod Stewart

Sweet Freedom - Michael McDonald

Rumors - Timex Social Club

Opportunities (Let’s Make Lots Of Money) - Pet Shop Boys

You Should Be Mine (The Woo Woo Song) - Jeffrey Osbourne

Digging Your Scene - The Blow Monkees

Words Get In The Way - Miami Sound Machine

Yankee Rose - David Lee Roth

That Was Then, This Is Now - The Monkees

Top Albums -

Top Gun - soundtrack

True Blue - Madonna

So - Peter Gabriel

Eat ‘em and Smile - David Lee Roth

Invisible - Genesis

Control - Janet Jackson

Back to the Highlife - Steve Winwood

Love Zone - Billy Ocean

Week of August 15, 1986

Raising Hell - Run-D.M.C.

Control - Janet Jackson

The Bridge - Billy Joel

Other Albums -

True Confessions -

Bananarama

Then and Now - The

Monkees

Frantic Romantic -

Jermaine Stewart

Who Made This -

AC/DC

Primitive Love - Miami

Sound Machine

Music From The Edge

Of Heaven - Wham!

5150 - Van Halen

World Machine - Level

42

Soundtrack - Ruthless

People (featuring Billy

Joel, Bruce

Springsteen, Mick

Jagger, Dan Hartman

and Luther Vandross)

Raised On Radio -

Journey

Dirty Work - The Rolling Stones

Tuff Enuff - The Fabulous Thunderbirds

Another Place - Hiroshima

Measure for Measure - Icehouse

Knocked Out Loaded - Bob Dylan

QR III - Quiet Riot

The Sands of Time - The S.O.S. Band

Rapture - Anita Baker

The Works - Queen

Always In The Mood - Shirley Jones

Week of August 15, 1986

At the movies -

Skerritt

Geena Davis (Be Afraid

... Be Very Afraid)

Armed and Dangerous

- John Candy, Eugene

Levy, Robert Loggia,

Kenneth McMillan, Meg

Ryan

Friday The 13th Part VI

- Jason Lives

Danny DeVito, Better

Midler

Tom Hanks, Jackie

Gleason, Eva Marie

Saint, Hector Elizondo,

Barry Corbin

Back To School -

Petersen, Kim Greist,

Joan Allen, Brian Cox

Keaton, Maria Conchita Alonso