Week of May 15, 1981

Pope shooting - Pope John Paul II is reported

in satisfactory condition but not yet out of danger

as police broaden their investigation to determine

whether his assailant had ties with international

terrorist groups. Doctors say his intestinal injuries

are extensive.

The Gipper is back - President Regan delivers

the 136 th commencement address at the

University of Notre Dame - his first trip outside

Washington since he was shot in the chest by a

would-be assassin on March 30.

I n Belfast - Convicted Irish Republican Army guerrilla Raymond

McCreesh dies on the 61 st day of a hunger strike, following two

comrades to death in a so-far vain attempt to pressure Britain into

granting IRA prisoner’s political status.

The House Ways and Means Committee adopts legislation that

would cut health, welfare, unemployment and Social Security programs by $9.1

billion - nearly the entire sum ordered recently by Congress at the request of

President Reagan.

This week, Ronald Reagan becomes the oldest U.S. President - at 70 years and

99 days old - besting Dwight D. Eisenhower when John F. Kennedy took office.

Teachers Unions warn that 1 of 3 teachers in the U.S. will receive a notice that

he or she may not have a job in the fall. Most will lose their jobs because of

anticipated cutbacks in federal education spending.

Roy Williams, a top Teamsters Union official who is under investigation by the

Justice Department, is chosen by leaders of the 2.3-million-member union as

interim replacement for its late president Frank Fitzsimmons.

Passing - Writer William Saroyan (72). He won the 1940

Pulitzer Prize for his most famous play, “The Time of Your

Life” but rejected the

$1,500 award because he believed

that wealth of commerce should not patronize art.

Medial - Professor Guenther Doerner - an East German

scientist says that homosexuality results from hormone

Week of May 15, 1981

imbalances, challenging beliefs that homosexual inclinations are caused

predominantly by environmental and psychological factors. He says they are

often programmed into certain individuals from the start. “If the level (of

testosterone) is too low in male, he will develop a predominantly female brain,

reacting later to sexual stimuli in a similar way to a woman. If on the other hand,

the male hormone level in a female is too high, she will predisposed to lesbian

behavior later in life.”

Entertainment news - Brooke Shields non gratis - The

Department of Health of Human Services extinguishes an

anti-cigarette advertising campaign featuring Shields (who

is 15), calling it “not appropriate and ineffective in snuffing

out teenage smoking.” Shields is known these days for her

seductive Calvin Klein jeans ads and also appeared as a

prostitute in the film “Pretty Baby.” Says the young actress:

“They (cigarette manufacturers) might be afraid that the

commercials might do well. I think my audience is a big

audience and the commercials I’ve done in the past have

been very successful.”

In one of the ads, Brooke says, “people who smoke are

real losers.”

Richard Pryor dues the National Enquirer for $10 million, citing a September 9

article which inferred he “blew himself away while free-basing cocaine mix” at a

party.

Television ratings -

The Best Little Girl In The World -

35.5

Three’s Company 24.2

Movie-Meatballs - 23.6

Too Close For Comfort - 22.4

TV’s Censored Bloopers - 22.3

Hart to Hart - 21/6

Movie-Stand By Your man - 21.6

60 Minutes - 21.4

Laverne & Shirley - 21.3

Little House on the Prairie - 20.7

Love Boat - 20.4

ChiPs - 19.4

MASH - 19.4

Greatest American Hero - 19.1

Happy Days - 19.0

Week of May 15, 1981

Television news -

RCA Corp. and Rockefeller Center Inc confirm that they intend to enter into a join

venture to present BBC-TV programs to cable television homes in this country.

The companies are set to launch a new national pay-cable channel - “The

Entertainment Channel in 1982.

Nick Perry - an on-air personality at WTAE-TV in

Pittsburgh, PA since the station signed-on in 1958 - is

found guilty on all charges that he fixed Pennsylvania’s

daily number game on April 24 when “666” came up

and had a payoff near $3.5 million. The state charged

that Perry enlisted the aid of two station stagehands to

inject paint into all the ping pong balls being used in the

drawing except for the “4” and the “6.”

Sunday night television -

CBS - 60 Minutes, Movie, Trapper John, M.D.

NBC - Disney’s Wonderful World, ChiPs, Movie

ABC - Those Amazing Animals, Movie

PBS - The Cousteau Odyssey, Masterpiece Theater, Steve Allen’s Meeting of

the Minds

Those Amazing Animals - Cathy Lee Crosby

milks a deadly Cobra.

CBS Movie - “Escape From Iran: The

Canadian Caper” with Gordon Pinsent

ABC Movie - “Beyond the Poseidon Adventure

with Sally Field, Michael Caine, Karl Malden,

Jack Warden, Shirley Jones.

NBC Movie - “Meatballs” - Bill Murray, Harvey

Atkin, Kate Lynch

Trapper John, M.D. - A new intern has the rest of the staff in a rage because of

his insensitivity to co-workers’ patients.

Week of May 15, 1981

Radio news - Mike Carruthers, a DJ at KHTZ-FM (97.1) Los Angeles will be

hosting a new 90-second feature called “Something You Should Know.”

KLIV (1590) in San Jose - for 20 years a top-40 station and recently an album

rock station, is switching to Al Ham’s “Music of Your Life.” “Our experiment with

playing FM music on AM just didn’t work.”

Another hit countdown show - Dick Clark

is entering the foray with his new “Dick

Clark National Music Survey” which will

debut later this month. Clark has nothing

but good things to say about the godfather

of national countdown shows - Casey

Kasem: “Nothing is unique about the (my)

show. Casey Kasem is a great story teller

who has been imitated and this is an

imitation.”

New show heard on FM AOR stations -

Global Satellite Network’s “Rockline - a

90-minute live call-in talk show -

a rock radio first. Debut was

February 4. The debut show

featured Joe Walsh and Tom

Johnston . B. Mitchel Reed

hosts. So far, the show has 17

stations, but is bound to grow. KLOS-FM, Los Angles is the flagship -

the same place you can hear B. Mitchel Reed weekdays 9a-1p.

Pop music this week in 1981 -

Bette Davis Eyes - Kim Carnes

Being With You - Smokey Robinson

Just the Two of Us - Grover Washington Jr.

Morning Train - Sheena Easton

Angel of the Morning - Juice Newton

Sukiyaki - A Taste of Honey

Take It On The Run - REO Speedwagon

Kiss On My List - Daryl Hall and John Oates

Living Inside Myself - Gino Vannelli

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Too Much Time On My Hands - Styx

I Can’t Stand It - Eric Clapton and his band

Medley: Venus/Sugar Sugar/No Replay/I’ll Be Back/Drive My Car… Stars On 45

A Woman Needs Love - Ray Parker & Raydio

How ‘Bout Us - Champaign

Ain’t Even Done With The Night - John Cougar

Watching The Wheels - John Lennon

Sweetheart - Freddie and the Knockouts

You Better You Bet - The Who

I Love You - Climax Blues Band

Top albums this week in 1981

Hi Infidelity - REO

Speedwagon

Arc of a Diver - Steve Winwood

Paradise Theatre - Styx

Face Dances - The Who

Winelight - Grover Washington

Jr.

Another Ticket - Eric Clapton

Dad Loves His Work - James

Taylor

Moving Pictures - Rush

Face Value - Phil Collins

Double Fantasy - John/Yoko

Lennon

The Jazz Singer - Neil

Diamond

Being With You - Smokey

Robinson

Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap - AC/DC

Zebop - Santana

Greatest Hits - Kenny Rogers

Wild Eyed Southern Boys - .38 Special

Zenyatta Mondatta - The Police

Mistaken Identity - Kim Carnes

Top Country

I Loved ‘Em Every One - T.G. Shepard

Seven Year Ache - Roseanne Cash

What Are We Doin’ In Love - Dottie West

Elvira - Oak Ridge Boys

Week of May 15, 1981

Friends/Anywhere There’s A Jukebox - Razzy Bailey

Am I Losing You - Ronnie Milsap

But You Know I Love You - Dolly Parton

I’m Just An Old Chunk of Coal - John Anderson

Top hits in Britain -

Stand and Deliver - Adam & The

Ants

Stars on 45

Chi Mai - Ennie Morricone

Grey Days - Madness

You Drive Me Crazy - Shakin’

Stevens

Can You Feel It - Jacksons

Fade to Grey - Visage

Top movies this week in 1981

Friday the 13 th Part 2

Kill and Kill Again

Excalibur

Squeeze Play

Blazing Saddles

Nighthawks

Texas Chainsaw Massacre

Caveman

Atlantic City

La Cage Aux Foles II

Lion of the Desert

Graduation Day

Tess

Last House on the Left

House By The Lake

Scared to Death