Week of June 17, 1996

ValuJet Airlines agrees to suspend all flights

immediately until it corrects “several serious

deficiencies” found during an intensive inspection

by the FAA.

After a two-week crackdown by Chinese officials

that resulted in the closing of 15 pirate compact

disc factories, the United States withdraws

threatened sanctions against $2 billion worth of

products made in china, averting a trade war.

In a sword affidavit requested by the Senate Whitewater Committee, First Lady

Hillary Rodham Clinton denies knowing how her missing law firm billing records

turned up in the White House living quarters. Her attorney, David Kendall,

accused the Republican-controlled panel of carrying out a “last-minute hit-and-

run smear.”

Eleven weeks after Unabomber suspect Theodore

John Kaczynski was arrested in his remote Montana

cabin, a federal grand jury in Sacramento indicts him in

four bombings including ones that killed a Capitol

lobbyist and a local merchant.

Nancy Gemmell, a former longtime White House

employee, tells a congressional committee that after

President Clinton was inaugurated, young students and

volunteers without full security clearances were allowed

to work in an office that handled hundreds of sensitive FBI background reports.

California - in a blow to the state’s tough “three strikes” law, the California

Supreme Court decides that judges have the power to spare defendants lengthy

sentences by overlooking prior convictions

In his weekly radio address, President Clinton

directs the Justice Department to devise a

nationwide plan to track child molesters and sex

offenders. He endorsed the idea of such a

nationwide registry as the logical “next step” to

laws that require states to track sex offenders

and to notify communities when a child molester

is released from prison.

Week of June 17, 1996

AIDS update - a record number of broadcast and cable programs take part in the

“Fourth Annual Day of Compassion” this week. The campaign features television

programming highlighting compassion and support for people affected by AIDS

and HIV. It is the largest media event ever for AIDS awareness.

After 10 years of research, scientists identify a key molecule that allows the AIDS

virus to infect human cells, a discovery that promises a new approach to treating

the disease and that yields insight into why some are more resistant to the virus.

Bestsellers -

The Tenth Insight: Holding The Vision - James Redfield

A Crown of Swords - Robert Jordan

The Runaway Jury - John Grisham

How Stella Got Her Groove Back - Terry McMilian

The Intruder - Peter Blauner

The Fourth Estate - Jeffrey Archer

Outrage: The Five Reasons Why O.J. Simpson Got Away

With Murder - Vincent Bugliosi

The Zone - Barry Sears with Bill Lawren

Bad Gold My Way - Leslie Nielsen and Henry Beard

Hit and Run: How Jon Peters and Peter Guber Took Sony

for a Ride in Hollywood - Nancy Griffin, Kim Masters

The Dilbert Principle - Scott Adams

Falling Up - Shel Silverstein

Computer news - Netscape

Communications Corp’s Internet

Browser is now used by 38 million

people, making it the most popular

software of its kind. Netscape’s

Navigator, released in December 1994,

is more popular than other well-known

software products including Microsoft

Corp’s Word, Excel and Office programs

and International Business Machines

Corp’s Lotus 1-2-3 says Netscape.

Microsoft’s Office is used by 22 million

people, Microsoft Excel by 30 million and

Microsoft Word by 21 million.

Week of June 17, 1996

In sports - 250,000 turn out at Grant Park to cheer for the

NBA champion Bulls. Michael Jordan graciously

acknowledged the adulation from a crowd in which barefoot

people in T-shirts mingled with businessmen in buttoned-down

shirts and suits. “When I leave this city and when I leave this

earth, there’s one thing that I will know. That I’ve been in a city

that truly loves me and I love them.”

Music - Jefferson Holt resigns as the manager of R.E.M.

Sources say that Holt was asked to leave after members of the group

investigated allegations that he sexually harassed a female employee at R.E.M’s

Athens, Ga office. Holt denies he had ever sexually harassed anyone and said

the decision to part with R.E.M. was mutual.

“KISS” gets together for a reunion concert at the

KROQ (Los Angeles) “Weenie Roast” - the station’s

fourth. Gene Simmons , Paul Stanley Ace Frehley

and Peter Criss returned for their first costumed

KISS show since 1983.

Hollywood news - here are the top Hollywood talent

agencies:

Creative Artists Agencys (CAA)

International Creative Management (ICM)

William Morris Agency

United Talent Agency

Top video rentals -

Casino

Get Shorty

GoldenEye

The American President

Seven

Jumanji

Leaving Las Vegas

The Money Train

Powder

Braveheart

Becky Lee Meza (10) is cast to play the young

Selena in an upcoming movie from Warner

Brothers. She’ll star alongside Jennifer Lopez

Week of June 17, 1996

(Money Train).

George Martin - the Beatles producer, is now known as “Sir George Martin” after

receiving knighthood from Queen Elizabeth II.

Radio news - Westinghouse says it plans to acquire Infinity Broadcasting Corp

for $4.5 billion. The deal would create an 83-station radio giant with an estimated

$1 billion in revenues. Infinity President Mel Karmazon is considered the best at

what he does in radio. He is credited with giving Howard Stern is break after he

was fired by WNBC in 1986, he put him on the air at Infinity’s WXRK (92.3) and

syndicated him to 13 markets. Other Infinity talent includes Don Imus. The deal

creates a radio network about three times the size of its nearest competitor. It

would also give Westinghouse a dominant position in the top 10 radio markets,

where it would hold 69 stations, including markets like Los Angeles, New York

and Chicago.

Television news - Barbara Walters will conduct

the first television interview with convicted

murderers Lyle and Erik Menendez , June 28

on ABC’s “20/20.”

Garry Shandling will resume productions next

month on the HBO series - “The Larry Sanders

Show.” The show has been on hiatus since last

year so Shandling could work on movie

projects.

TV ratings -

NBC Postgame NBC-Sunday - 18.9

NBA Finals (Sun) - 18.8

NBA Finals (Wed) - 18.1

NBA Finals - 17.2

Seinfeld - 14.1

NBC Tip-off (Wed) - 12.6

Caroline in the City - 12.4

ER - 12.3

Home Improvement - 12.2

Dateline NBC (Tue) - 11.6

Coach - 11.1

20/20 - 11.1

Grace Under Fire - 1.1

Friends - 10.9

PrimeTime Live - 10.9

Week of June 17, 1996

The Single Guy - 9.9

NBA Top-Off (Fri) - 9.8

Dateline NBC (Weds) - 9.7

NBA Tip-Off (Sun)

Walker, Texas Ranger - 9.6

Frasier - 9.5

The Nanny - 9.4

NYPD Blue - 9.4

Sings - 9.3

Cybill - 9.0

Movie - Robin Hood, Prince of Thieves - 8.8

Mad About You - 8.8

Tuesday Night television -

CBS - The Client, Movie

NBC - 3rd Rock From The Sun, NewsRadio, Frasier, Wings, Dateline NBC, The

Tonight Show With Jay Leno

ABC - Home Improvement, Disney’s Most Unlikely Heroes, Home Improvement,

Coach, NYPD Blue. Nightline

FOX - Movie “Son-in-Law”

UPN - Moseha, Minor Adjustments, The Paranormal Borderline

PBS - Frontline, Nature Perfected, Charlie Rose

BET - Caribbean Rhythms, Screen Scene, Rap City, South Bank Show, Movie

SCI-FI - Friday the13th, Twilight Zone, Monsters, Quantum Leap, Something is

Out There, Friday the 13th

MTV - Beach MTV- Daisy Fuentes , Beach House

Nights, Buzzkill, Rockumentary, Singled Out, Beavis

and Butthead, Alternative Nation.

Pop music this week in 1996:

Theme From Mission: Impossible - Larry Mullen

Jr./Adam Clayton

Crossroads - Bone Thungs-N-Harmony

You’re Making Me High - Toni Braxton

You’re the One - SWV

Fastlove - George Michael

All The Way Live - Coolio

Week of June 17, 1996

Touch Me, Tease Me - Case

How Do U Want It - 2Pac

Delinquent Habits - Tres Delinquent

Why I Love You So Much - Monica

Some top albums -

Jagged Little Pill - Alanis Morissette

Load - Metallica

The Score - Fugees

Gettin’ It (Album Number Ten) - Too

Short

Tragic Kingdom - No Doubt

Down On The Upside - Soundgarden

E. 1999 Eternal - Bone Thugs-N-

Harmony

Falling Into You - Celine Dion

New Beginning - Tracy Chapman

The Nutty Professor - soundtrack

Top Country albums -

Blue Clear Sky - George Straight

Woman in Me - Shania Twain

Borderline - Brooks and Dunn

Hits - Garth Brooks

Greatest Hits - Alan Jackson

Music for all Occasions - The

Mavericks

High Lonesome Sound - Vince gill

Fresh Horses - Garth Brooks

Hits - Garth Brooks

Spirit - Willie Nelson

At the movies -

The Cable Guy - Jim Carey,

Matthew Broderick, George Segal

The Rock- Sean Connery,

Nicolas Cage, Ed Harris, Michael

Biehn, William Forsythe

Mission: Impossible - Tom Cruise

Twister - Helen Hunt, Bill Paxton

Dragonheart - Dennis Quaid