Week of December 25, 1990
Overcoming objections he is taking on too much power, Mikhail Gorbachev wins
broad new authority to help him halt the Soviet Union’s slide into chaos, including
direct presidential control over the government and a key new council of regional
leaders.
Soviet President Mikhail S. Gorbachev picks
Gennady I. Yanayev
as his Vice President. Said
the nominee, “I am a Communist to the depths of
my heart.”
President Bush, faced with a bipartisan opposition
to his plan for an early military strike against Iraq,
will meet with key members of Congress to
discuss the issue. It all hedges on Iraq’s January 15 U.N. deadline.
Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein knocks down speculation that he might pull his
troops out of Kuwait before a January 15 U.N. deadline for withdrawal.
Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev, imposes a 5% sales tax on all consumer
goods and services. Apparently the Soviet budget for 1991 is in trouble and is
struggling.
Russian President Boris Yelstin, cuts his republic’s contribution to the national
budget by 85%, threatening the whole country with imminent economic collapse,
according to Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev.
President Bush, after weighing the political and military consequences of further
delay, decides that the United States should move quickly to launch a massive
military attack on Iraqi forces if Iraq fails to withdraw from Kuwait by the U.N.
imposed deadline of January 15.
British author
Salman Rushdie
now says he
embraces Islam and disavows parts of his novel “The
Satanic Verses.” He says he feels safer now, after
hiding under police guard for 22 months since Iran’s
leader, the Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, angrily
accused him of blasphemy against Islam and offered
a $1 million to anyone who would kill him.
Vice President Dan Quayle cancels a second round
of golf at a Northern California course after being
Week of December 25, 1990
criticized for playing at a country club with an all-white membership. A release
says his office was unaware when he played the first round at the Cypress Point
Club.
Kimba Wood
- the judge who slammed Michael Milken
with a 10-year prison sentence is getting a ton of praising
fan mail. Milken’s sentence was the longest term given to
any of the defendants caught up in Wall Street’s long
running inside trading scandal.
Iranian leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei rules that the death
sentence issued last year against British author Salman
Rushdie remains in force. Khamenei issued a statement
several days after Rushdie renounced his novel “The
Satanic Verses.” The late Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini issued the death edict in
February 1989. Many Muslims believe the novel is blasphemous.
Marries - Tom Cruise to Nicole Kidman, his “Days of Thunder” co-star.
Top TV -
Cheers - 19.0
Monday Night Football - 18.9
60 Minutes - 18.3
Dolly Parton Christmas Special - 17.8
Roseanne - 17.6
A Different World - 17.5
Movie-A Mom For Christmas - 17.0
The Golden Girls - 16.3
Designing Women - 16.3
Unsolved Mysteries - 16.2
NFL Football (CBS) - 16.2
Empty Nest - 16.0
Coach - 16.0
The Cosby Show - 15.8
Murphy Brown - 15.4
Movie-Always Remember I Love You -
15.3
Family Matters - 14.9
Matlock - 14.7
In The Heat of the Night - 14.6
20/20 - 14.5
Rescue 911 - 14.4
Full House - 14.4
Week of December 25, 1990
Major dad - 14.1
Grand - 13.9
Murder, She Wrote - 13.9
Television news - Don’t miss the annual “Lou Rawls parade of Stars with Marilyn
McCoo, Ann Jillian, Ed McMahon and Nancy Wilson.
Buzz - Norville out? - There’s talk that the Today show’s
national correspondent, Katie Couric, will take over as co-
host when
Deborah Norville
goes on maternity leave in the
spring.
Music news - Paul McCartney will return to his hometown of
Liverpool in June for the debut of his first classical
composition “Liverpool Oratorio.”
With MTV’s banning of Madonna’s “Justify My Love” video, her “ The Immaculate
Collection” is soaring up the album charts.
Radio - What a year - two music stations really stood out:
Pirate Radio out of Los Angeles and the Power Pig (WFLZ) Tampa. Most famous
station liner - “A Better Mix of Favorites From the 60’s, 70’s 80’s and Today With
No Rap.”
It’s announced that CD Media, the firm created by Rick Dees and Wally Clark,
will sell and distribute “Rick Dees Weekly Top 40.”
Milli Vanilli fallout and radio - WYHY Nashville threatens a class-action fraud
lawsuit against Milli Vanilli … Z-100 had a weeklong “Million Dollar Milli Vanilli
Music Guarantee.” The station offered a million dollars to anyone who heard a
Milli Vanilli record. Nobody could win - there is no real Milli Vanilli record.
Billboard’s top pop artists for 1990:
New Kids On The Block
Janet Jackson
Phil Collins
Paul Abdul
Michael Bolton
M.C. Hammer
Aersomith
Bell Biv Devoe
Taylor Dayne
Wilson Phillips
Week of December 25, 1990
Mill Vanilli
Madonna
Motley Crue
B-52’s
Billy Joel
Roxette
Depeche Mode
Sinead O’Connor
Don Henley
Lisa Stansfield
Mariah Carey
Heart
Babyface
Technotronic
Johnny Gill
Soul II Soul
Luke Featuring 2 Live Crew
Gloria Estefan
Richard Marx
Tom Petty
New Pop Artists -
Bell Biv Devoe
Wilson Phillips
Lisa Stansfield
Mariah Carey
Technotronic
Alannah Myles
Seduction
Slaughter
Young M.C.
Bad English
Top albums this week in 1990
To The Extreme - Vanilla Ice
Mariah Carey - Mariah Carey
Please Hammer Don’t Hurt ‘EM -
M.C. hammer
Rhythm of the Saints - Paul Simon
The Immaculate Collection -
Madonna
The razors Edge - AC/DC
Wilson Phillips - Wilson Phillips
Week of December 25, 1990
Some People’s Lives - Bette Midler
Listen Without Prejudice Vol. 1 - George Michael
Recycler - ZZ Top
Vol. 3 - Traveling Wilburys
Flesh and Blood - Poison
Serious Hits… Live! - Phil
Collins
Poison - Bell Biv Devoe
No Fences - Garth Brooks
The Future - Guy
Cherry Pie - Warrant
Family style - Vaughan
Brothers
X - Inxs
Led Zepplin - Led Zepplin
Ralph Tresvant - Ralph
Tresvant
Heartbreak Station -
Cinderella
Shake You Money Maker -
Black Crowes
Hot Hits -
Because I Love You - Stevie
B
I’m Your Baby Tonight -
Whitney Houston
From A Distance - Bette Midler
The Way You Do The Things You Do
- UB40
Impulsive - Wilson Phillips
Justify My Love - Madonna
Something To Believe In - Poison
Freedom - George Michael
Tom’s Diner - DNA Featuring
Suzanne Vega
Groove is In The Heart - Deee-Lite
Miracle - Jon Bon Jovi
Love Takes Time - Mariah Carey
Sensitivity - Ralph Tresvant
Wiggle It - 2 In A Room
Feels Good - Tony! Toni Tone!
Week of December 25, 1990
Love Will Never Do (Without You) - Janet Jackson
Stranded - Heart
The First Time - Surface
Miles Away - Winger
Top hits in Britain -
Ice Ice Baby - Vanilla Ice
Unchained Melody - Righteous
Brothers
Don’t Worry - Kym Appleby
Unbelievable - E.M.F.
Kinky Boots - Patrick Macnee &
Honor Blackman
It Takes Two - Rod Stewart &
Tina Turner
Fantasy - Black Box
Falling - Julee Cruise
Saviour’s Day - Cliff Richard
Justify My Love - Madonna
Top Country -
I’ve Come To Expect It From You
- George Straight
Unanswered Prayers - Garth Brooks
Chasin’ that Neon Rainbow - Alan Jackson
Ghost In This House - Shenandoah
Never Knew Lonely - Vince Gill
Put Yourself In My Shoes - Clint Black
Come Next Monday -
K.T. Oslin
Forever’s As Far As I’ll Go - Alabama
Life’s Little Ups And Downs - Ricky Van Shelton
Crazy In Love - Conway Twitty
Top movies this week in 1990
Home Alone
Kindergarten Cop
The Godfather Part III
Edward Scissorhands
Dances With Wolves
Look Who’s Talking Too
The Russia House
Bonfire of the Vanities
Misery
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Three Men and a Little Lady
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