Week of June 8, 1991

Victory parade - 200,000 cheer veterans of Operation Desert Storm in

Washington D.C.

Most military and civilian personnel are ordered evacuated from Clark Air Base in

the Philippines after a volcano dormant for six centuries began exploding.

President Bush has granted the Soviet Union $1.5 billion in agricultural credits to

help Mikhail S. Gorbachev and to further help political stability in the area.

The White House announces that President Bush will meet next week in

Washington with Boris N. Yeltsin. But it’s a fine line, as the Administration does

not want to undermine Mikhail Gorbachev. Yeltsin is the first elected leader to

poise a direct challenge to Gorbachev’s continued role at the helm of a troubled

Soviet political system.

Bulgaria - A speech by Vice President Dan Quayle turns into an anti-Communist

rally with more than 20,000 Bulgarians waving American flags, shouting “U.S.A!”

and chanting, “We don’t want communism.”

Another victory parade -

Tickertape parade in NY as

thousands cheer the return of

Gulf War veterans along

Broadway.

President Bush praises

Salvadoran President Alfredo

Cristiani’s efforts to end his

country’s long civil war and urged

leftist rebels to ‘return to the

negotiating table and stay there.’

Florida - The judge in the William

Kennedy Smith rape case

declares that “incessant” news

coverage is “polluting the

potential jury panel” and will issue

a gag order.

The nation’s unemployment rate

is up at 6.9% - the worst since

1986.

Week of June 8, 1991

big ratings - according to NBC.

National League owners approve two expansion cities - Denver and Miami for

1993 membership.

Technology -

Microsoft releases

MS-DOS 5.0 this

week - its newest

version of the 10-year-

old DOS operating

system. You need a

PC with Intel 286, 386

and 486

microprocessors to

take advantage of its

upgrades. A DOS-5.0

upgrade kit will cost

$99.95.

(57-SX) IBM

announces four new aggressively priced personal computers. The new models

are based on Intel’s 386 SX microprocessor. IBM also announces it will become

the first PC maker to use Intel’s 486 microprocessor that runs at 50mhz. It also

announces a new diskette drive designed for new diskettes that hold up to twice

as much date as existing floppy diskettes. The cartridges are only 3 ½ inches

wide!

Entertainment news -

Actor Arnold Schwarzenegger is getting a Humvee - the military vehicle. And, it’s

not available to the general public, so he’s the first civilian to get a custom-built

model. Humvee is short for High Mobility Multipurpose Wheeled Vehicle and

were a fixture in the Persian Gulf conflict.

The wedding of Julia Roberts and Kiefer Sutherland is put on hold.

ticked-off because a promotion rep from rival Mercury Records gave radio

stations an advanced copy of the Guns N’ Roses single “Bad Apple.” Why? The

rival record company rep did so, so stations could play another single Mercury

Week of June 8, 1991

was pushing. Oh Boy! Geffen wants to know how the promotional man got the

tape - which is a rougher mix than what is supposed to be released.

Top albums -

Niggaz4life - N.W.A.

Out of Time- R.E.M.

Gonna Make You Sweat - C+C Music Factory

Time, Love and Tenderness - Michael Bolton

Spellbound - Paula Abdoul

Debra Winger.

On Pay-Per-View this

week - (LIVE) James

Brown Living In America

with guest appearances

by M.C. Hammer, C+C

Music Factory, Bel Biv

Devoe, En Vogue, Ice T,

The Boys and more!

Milli Vanilli- They’re back

- Rob Pilatus and

Fabrice Morvan poke fun

at their lip-synching

scandal on a Care-Free

Sugarless gum TV

commercials.

Mick Jagger and Jerry

Hall are expecting their

third child in January.

Michael Jackson puts up

$7000 to help cover the costs for David Ruffin’s funeral.

Soundscan a bust? Billboard magazine has gone to the new automated system

to count record and CD sales, but so far CEMA, MCA and WEA are questioning

its accuracy. They say SoundScan’s sample of 2,300 record stores doesn’t

reflect - accurately - national retail sales. (this system will eventually take hold).

Bruce Springsteen marries singer Patti Scialfa at their Los Angeles home.

Week of June 8, 1991

A Philadelphia federal judge throws out two-class action suits that sought

accountability in the Milli Vanilli lip-synching debacle.

Television news -

ABC confirms that it would begin rotating

guest hosts on “Into the Night” - now with

Rick Dees. Dees will relinquish his hosting

duties sometime between July 15 and Aug.

1. Partly owned by Rick Dees - it has lost

money for ABC - about $10 million since

its July 16 debut last year. Only 44% of all

ABC stations even carry the show and

Dees did all he could to get more on

board. It’s reported that ABC has

approached David Letterman.

Smart move? -Jean Smart is leaving

“Designing Women.” She’s concentrating

on movies.

On Lifetime - “Retaining Laughter” - with

host Jane Curtain and Martin Mull and four

of today’s hottest comediennes for a

hilarious celebration of women’s wit and

wisdom.

a prime time special on ABC.

New job for Russert - Tim Russert, NBC

News bureau chief in Washington along

with Al Hunt of the Wall St. Journal - debut

as political analysts on the “Today” show.

“Saturday Night Live” producer Lorne

Michaels says he’s sorry to see Jan Hooks

leave the show and believes NBC could have done more to keep her. “I’m always

reluctant to see ‘Saturday Night’ be a training ground for the movie studios and

other networks,” said Michaels. Hooks is joining the cast of “Designing Women”

at CBS.

Week of June 8, 1991

Monday night television -

CBS - Major Dad, The Family Man, Murphy Brown, Designing Women, Northern

Exposure.

NBC - Fresh Prince of Bel Air, Blossom, Movie, Tonight Show

ABC - MacGyver, Twin Peaks, Nightline, Into the Night

MTV - MTV Prime, Top 10 at 10.

Fox - Movie

Tonight Show - Paula

Poundstone.

Into the Night - Paul Williams and

comedian Ralph Harris.

Here are the top-20 cable

channels. #1 is ESPN with 58.2

million subscribers.

At the movies -

City Slickers

Backdraft

Jungle Fever

What About Bob?

Soapdish

Hudson Hawk

Don’t Tell Mom the Babysitter’s dead

Only the Lonely

Truth or Dare

Drop Dead Fred

Week of June 8, 1991