Week of November 9, 1991

After announcing he that he is infected with the AIDS

pleads to the audience to practice safe sex.

Following a 4 minute standing ovation, Johnson

spent about 15 minutes talking about safe sex and

AIDS. “You don’t have to feel sorry for me, because if

I die tomorrow, I’ve had the greatest life.”

After a three-year investigation, two Libyans are

indicted for the 1988 attack on Flight 103 that killed

270 persons. The indictments mark a major step to

bringing to justice the terrorists responsible for the

bombing of the plane over Lockerbie, Scotland.

European physicists produce large amounts of energy in a controlled fusion

reaction and sustain it far longer than had previously been possible. The

milestone is being haled as a major step toward an unlimited source of clean

energy, placing the physics community back on the fast track of making

commercial fusion possible in 10 to 20 years.

Scientists at JPL release the first-ever close-up photo of an asteroid - transmitted

from the Galileo spacecraft. The picture was taken as Galileo was about 1000

miles from the 12-mile-long asteroid Gaspra.

In Royal Oak, Michigan - 31 year-old fired mail carrier storms through the loading

dock of the post office and kills three of his former co-workers with a sawed-off

shotgun. The gunman, Thomas Mcllvane is in critical condition. An appeal of his

firing for time card fraud had been turned down last week. It’s the latest in a

series of revenge slayings by ex-postal employees. Last month, a fired

Ridgewood, NJ postal worker killed four people. So far, twenty-four postal

employees have died over the past five years in killing sprees.

regular contributors to save his ministry from “satanic conspiracy.”

The ministry has seen a drop in donations in the past month due to

an unrelated report in which televangelist Jimmy Swaggert was

seen with a prostitute in Indio, California.

Promoting his new book “Spirit of Shaolin,” David Carradine says, “he was only

acting” in his series “Kung Fu” and that he has no understanding of Shaolin and

that he was a fake.

Week of November 9, 1991

(62). Stevens was the long-time musical director for

Sammy Davis Jr. and is best known for scoring TV’s

“Hawaii Five-O,” “Police Woman” and “Gunsmoke.”

WUTR-TV (channel 20) in Utica, NY asks their affiliate

network, ABC, for a retransmission of a file video from

the gulf war for a retrospective. Trouble was, the old

bulletin the network sent down the closed-circuit was

picked up by several other ABC affiliates and

broadcast as current gulf-war bulletin.

singer of Queen, is gravely ill with AIDS.

Fox-TV says that it will become the first of the four

majors to air paid condom advertising. President Jamie

Kellner says the spots must exclusively talk about

disease control and not contraception.

Famed record producer Phil Specter releases a four CD

box set of his greatest hits and says he would like to get back in the studio to

make some new music.

TV ratings - 60 minutes - 21.8, Roseanne - 20.4, Empty Nest - 20.2, Cheers,

19.8, Murphy Brown - 19.0, Nurses - 18.1, Major Dad - 17.9, Designing Women -

17.8, Unsolved Mysteries - 17.4, Golden Girls - 17.2, Full House, 17.1, A

Different World, 17.0, Coach - 16.9 ... Murder She Wrote - 16.4 ... Adventures of

Mark & Brien - 5.3... Eerie, Indiana - 5.2 ... Unsolved Mysteries - 10.6 ... Live

Goes On - 10.2 ... America’s Funniest Home Videos - 14.7 ...

. America’s

Funniest People - 14.4

Sunday Night TV ... (CBS) 60 Minutes, Murder

She Wrote, Movie...(NBC) Mark & Brian, Eerie

Indiana, Unsolved Mysteries, Movie ... (ABC) Life

Goes On, America’s Funniest Home Videos,

America’s Funniest People, Movie.

(See national ratings)

Week of November 9, 1991

Pop music charts - “When A

Man Loves A Woman” -

Michael Bolton, “Cream” -

Prince & The N.P.G., “Set

Adrift On Memory Bliss” -

Pm Dawn, “Romantic” -

Karyn White, “Can’t Stop

This Thing We Started” -

Bryan Adams, “Real, Real

Real” - Jesus Jones, “Set

The Night To Music” -

Roberta Flack/Maxi Priest,

“O.P.P.” - Naughty By

Nature, “That’s What Love Is

For” - Amy Grant, “Don’t Cry”

- Guns N’ Roses, “I Wonder

Why” - Curtis Stigers, “Street

Of Dreams” - Nia Peeples,

“Lets Talk About Sex” - Salt-

N-Pepa.

Top Albums - Too Legit To Quit” - Hammer, “Ropin’ The Wind” - Garth Brooks,

“Nevermind” - Nirvana, “Use Your Illusion II” - Guns N’ Roses.

On a country road - “Shameless” Garth Brooks, “Someday” - Alan Jackson,

“Forever Together” - Randy Travis, “Like We Never Had A Broken Heart” -

Trisha Yearwood, “The Chill Of An Early Fall” - George Straight.

At the movies -

“Curly Sue” - James Belushi, Kelly Lynch, Alison

Porter

“Strictly Business” - Joseph C Phillips, Tommy

Davidson, Halls Berry

“Little Man Tate” - Jodie Foster, Dianne Wiest

“The Fisher King” - Robin Williams, Jeff Bridges

Walt Disney’s “Beauty And The Beast”

“Cape Fear” - Robert DiNiro, Nick Nolte, Jessica

Lange

Week of November 9, 1991