Week of March 15, 1990
Mikhail S. Gorbachev is elected as the Soviet Union’s first executive president.
The win gives him powers to pursue broader reforms.
In an NPR interview,
President Bush
says he did not
know whether the fire at a Libyan factory suspected of
producing chemical weapons was caused by sabotage or
accident, but that he is not sorry it happened. President
Kadafi and other Libyan officials have accused the United
States, Israel and West Germany of responsibility for the
fire.
Concerned about the area’s troop movements, the Bush
Administration warns Moscow against creating an “atmosphere of intimidation
and increasing tension” in Lithuania.
Newly elected political leaders in East Germany begin a search for a coalition
government and it’s said that one of its first acts will be the demolition of the
Berlin Wall.
Northwest Airlines fires three pilots accused of flying while legally intoxicated.
Each of the pilots on flight from Fargo, ND on March 8 had blood-alcohol levels
exceeding .04%, a violation of federal regulations.
Baseball - Players and owners end a 32-day spring lockout and agree to a four-
year contract. The baseball season will begin April 9.
Entertainment news - Lou Diamond Phillips suffers a broken arm in a riding
accident while filming “Young Guns 2.”
MCA Inc says it will buy Geffen Records for MCA stock valued at $545 million.
David Geffen (47) is the sole stockholder of the company. He’ll remain as head of
the label.
Suicide - Model-turned-actress
Capucine
(57) - jumped to
death from her eighth floor apartment in Lausanne,
Switzerland.
“A Chorus Line” extends its Broadway run another month,
after an extensive ticket run announcing its closing March
31. The show has been running almost 15 years at the
Shubert Theatre. Producer Joseph Papp, whose nonprofit
Week of March 15, 1990
New York Shakespeare Festival has earned more than $35 million in profits from
the play.
Passing -
Tom Harmon
(70) dies of a heart attack
after playing a round of golf. Harmon is best-known
for winning the 1940 Heisman Trophy while
attending the University of Michigan. He was also
known for his sports broadcasting work through the
1960’s. His oldest daughter, Kristen, was married to
Rick Nelson; daughter Kelly was a model and son
Mark, is an actor. Granddaughter Tracy stars in
ABC-TV’s “Father Dowling Mysteries.”
Television news - “Elvis” the series about the early
life of Elvis Presley, is put on hiatus by ABC. The
network says it will return later this season.
Al Michaels
, the best sports announcer at ABC, gets reprimanded by
his boss - Dennis Swanson. Seems that Michaels’ teen daughter,
Jennifer, worked as a messenger for the network at the U.S. Figure
Skating Championships in Salt Lake City, but ABC has a policy against
nepotism. She was getting paid $50 a week. Michaels is facing a few
weeks of suspension. He
reportedly makes $1.5
million a year at ABC.
Swanson replaced Roone
Arledge as head of ABC Sports in
January 1986.
Week of March 15, 1990
Thursday night television -
CBS - 48 Hours, Island Son, Knots
Landing
NBC - Cosby Show, A Different World,
Cheers, Grand, L.A. Law, Tonight Show
ABC -
Father Dowling Mysteries
, The
Young Riders, PrimeTime Live, Nightline
PBS - Pledge Week
Tonight Show - Johnny welcomes
Smokey Robinson and 88-year old twins
Lassie Disney and Hassie Seivers.
Radio news -
Top-40 ratings - Gary Bryan is leaving the morning show at WPLJ. Z-100 New
York gets a 4.7 - up .1. In Los Angeles - KIIS-FM moves from a 5.7-5.5. Chicago
- WBBM-FM - 4.3-4.5.
Check out the new morning show at WPHR (Power 108) Cleveland with John
Landecker and Maria Farina.
Scott Shannon who steers the ship at “Pirate Radio” Los Angeles says, “We’re
not as successful as I want to be. Be we are successful. The station celebrates
its first anniversary this week with a six-hour live morning show broadcast and
party featuring Warrant, L.A. Guns and Dangerous Toys. Shannon says main
competitor KIIS-FM “did a really good job after our initial blastoff of solidifying
what they had. There was a definite point then their philosophy changed and they
made a decision to quit defending against Pirate and worry about their own
product.’
Music news - (Miami) Janet Jackson kicks-off her “Rhythm Nation” tour - her
first ever concert tour.
Gloria Estefan
(32) suffers a broken vertebra when a
truck ran into her band’s bus on a snow-covered highway
in the Pocono Mountains. Ms. Estefan and five other
members of the Miami Sound Machine were taken to a
hospital in Scranton (PA). They had just met with President
Bush at the White House, and were en route to a concert
in Syracuse.
Week of March 15, 1990
Bicoastal “Rapmania, A Salute to the 15
th
Anniversary of Hip-Hop” is taped and
ready for pay-TV. Rappers include Ton Loc, Ice-T, Def Jef, Kurtis Blow, Melle
Mel, Africa Bambastas, Heavy D & The Boys, Three Times Dope, Kool Moe Dee,
Red Alert, Marley Marl and the Sugarhill Gang.
Red Hot Chilli Pepper members Michael Balcary “Flea” and drummer Chad
Smith are arrested in Florida after jumping from the stage during a spring-break
concert and assaulted a women in the audience.
Top country this week in 1990 -
Hard Rock Bottom Of Your Heart - Randy Travis
Seein’ My Father In Me - Paul Overstreet
Chains -
Patty Loveless
Five Minutes - Patty Loveless
Sooner or Later - Eddy Raven
Not Counting You - Garth Brooks
Quittin’ Time - Mary Chapin Carpenter
Stranger Things Have Happened - Ronnie
Milsap
Fast Movin’ Train - Restless Heart
Here In The Real World - Alan Jackson
On Second Thought - Eddie Rabbit
Little Girl - Reba McEntire
Hot Hits -
Escapade - Janet Jackson
Love Will Lead You Back - Taylor Dayne
Roam - B-52’s
Black Velvet - Alannah Myles
I Go To Extremes - Billy Joel
No More Lies - Michel’Le
Price of Love - Bad English
C’mon And Get My Love - D-Mob
introducing Cathy Denis
Just A Friend - Biz Markie
Dangerous - Roxette
Too Late To Say Goodbye - Richard
Marx
All Around The World - Lisa
Stansfield
No Myth - Michael Penn
Week of March 15, 1990
I’ll Be Your Everything - Tommy Page
Top Rap -
The Humpty Dance - Digital Underground
Welcome to the Terrordome - Public Enemy
Buddy - De La Soul
C’Mon Babe - 2 Live Crew
The Gas Face - 3
rd
Bass
Say It Loud - Rodney O - Joe Cooley
Ladies First - Queen Latifah featuring Monie Love
Ain’t Sayin’ Nothin’ - Divine Styler/Scheme Team
Poison Ivy - Young and the Restless
Rock cuts -
The Heart of the Matter - Don Henley
Blue Sky Mine - Midnight Oil
No Alibis - Eric Clapton
What It Takes - Aerosmith
The Hurting Kind - Robert Plant
Sometimes She Cries - Warrant
99 Worlds - Peter Wolf
The Road to Hell - Chris Rea
Blues Before and After - The Smitheens
The Deeper The Love - Whitesnake
Top albums this week in 1990
-
Forever Your Girl - Paul Abdul
Janet Jackson’s Rhythm Nation 1814
Cosmic Thing - B-52’s
Girl You Know It’s True - Milli Vanilli
… But Seriously - Phil Collins
Alannah Myles - Alannah Myles
Storm Front - Billy Joel
Cry Like A Rainstorm - Billy Joel
Full Moon Fever - Tom Petty
Pump - Aerosmith
Dance!… Ya Know It! - Bobby Brown
Back on the Block - Quincy Jones
Nick of Time - Bonnie Raitt
Dr. Feelgood - Motley Crue
Tender Lover - Babyface
Hangin’ Tough - New Kids On The Block
Stone Cold Rhymin’ - Young M.C.
Week of March 15, 1990
Pump Up The Jam: The Album - Technotronic
Cuts Both Ways - Gloria Estafan
Journeyman - Eric Clapton
Jazz -
Music From When Harry Met Sally - Harry
Connick Jr.
Waiting For Spring - David Benoit
Reunion - Gary Burton
Mood Indigo - Frank Morgan
Contemporary Jazz -
London Warsaw NewYork - Basia
Rich and Poor - Randy Crawford
Back on the Block - Quincy Jones
Never Too Far - Dianne Reeves
Uptownship - Hugh Masekela
Top movies this week in 1990
Driving Miss Daisy
Hunt for Red October
Madhouse
Born on the Fourth
Revenge
Men Don’t Leave
Glory
Stella
Steel Magnolias
Nightbreed
My Left Foot
War of the Roses
Little Mermaid
Look Who’s Talking
