Week of October 8, 1992
Congress approves - what’s described as a far-reaching energy bill that
emphasizes nuclear power and alternative fuels.
Debate in St Louis - President
Bush goes after Clinton on his
anti-war activities. Both Bill
Clinton and Ross Perot go after
Bush’s economic record.
Campaign ’92 - A President
Bush commercial takes a pot
shot at Bill Clinton’s draft record
- that he offers differing
accounts of his experience with the draft in 1968 and 1969.
Debate in Atlanta - Day Quayle and Al Gore go at it. They clashed over the
economy and the character of the running mates.
A Russian coast guard ship fires warning shots across the bow of a Greenpeace
ship and it attempted to investigate the environmental threat posed by a nuclear
dumpsite in the Arctic Circle.
Scrambling - Aides to President Bush says if he is re-elected - he’ll dismiss his
economic policy team. Bush is behind in the polls.
Vice President Day Quayle questions Bill Clinton’s integrity over statements on
anti-war protests and the draft. “But he first says he didn’t take part in an anti-
Vietnam protest. Now we find that he organized one. He doesn’t tell the truth,
that’s the focus.”
Serbian aircraft reportedly bombed two northern Bosnian cities in defiance of a
U.N. ban on military flights over the former Yugoslav republic. Serbian leaders
denied the report.
The U.N. Security Council bars military flights over Bosnia-Herzegovina, where
Serbian forces have the only warplanes.
Kuwait agrees to purchase 236 advanced tanks from the U.S. in a deal lobbied
by President Bush.
A 5.9 magnitude earthquake rocks Cairo - killing 370 and injuring thousands.
Week of October 8, 1992
Russia has begun removing weapons and ammunition from Georgia, where the
government is trying to seize the material for its battle with Abkhazian
separatists.
Technology -
The FCC opens the door to satellite digital radio - in which radio would be
transmitted to a receiver from satellite.
Technology -
Nintendo and Sony have agreed to work together to develop common technology
that could dominate the next generation of video games.
New - Excel 4.0 - now for IBM and Apple machines.
Entertainment -
Don’t miss Frank Sinatra at Radio City Music Hall.
Music news -
Big Bob Dylan pay-per-view event this week from Madison Square Garden.
Those appearing - Johnny Cash, Eric Clapton, George Harrison, John
Mellencamp, Willie Nelson, Sinead O’Connor, Tom Petty, Neil Young O’Jays and
others.
Michael Jackson duets with
Eddie Murphy on Murphy’s new
album on a song.
The Supreme Court refuses to
reinstate lawsuits that accuse
rocker Ozzy Osbourne of
inciting the suicides of two
Georgia teens - through his
music.
The Ramones release their 16
th
album - “Mondo Bizarro.’
Ice-T says he’s pulling no
punches in his next rap album -
“Home Invasion.” His Cop Killer
controversy still lingers.
Week of October 8, 1992
The BBC says they’re editing Madonna’s latest video - “Erotica” down to about 3
minutes from its 7 minutes. \
On Saturday - HBO will broadcast a Michael Jackson concert taped Sept. 30 in
Bucharest, Romania. It was his first TV concert ever and lasted
2
hours and
20
minutes.
Hot hits -
Jump Around - House of Pain
End of the Road - Boyz II Men
Back to the Hotel - N2Deep
Rhythm is a Dancer - Snap
People Everyday - Arrested
Development
Please Don’t Go - K.W.S.
I ’d Die Without You - PM Dawn
Crossover - EPMD
What About Your Friends - TLC
Sometimes Love… Patty Smyth
Hard rock albums -
Singles - Soundtrack
Dirt - Alice in Chains
Ten - Pearl Jam
Temple of the Dog - Temple of
the Dog
Greatest Hits - Queen
Metallica - Metallica
Broken - Nine Inch Nails
What Hits? - Red Hot Chili
Peppers
Blood Sugar… Red Hot Chilli
Peppers
Use Your illusion I - Guns N’
Roses
Television news -
Passing - Hughes Rudd - Former CBS-TV newscaster. He was 71.
Week of October 8, 1992
Fox picks-up more episodes of “the Ben Stiller Show” - which satirizes pop
culture.
Charlie Rose begins a late-talk show over PBS on January 4. He’s been with the
Learning Channel. It’s been on only in NY for the past year - over WNET-TV.
Look for a celebrity Jeopardy this month when the likes of Beau Bridges, Carol
Bruentt, Robert Guilaume, Donna Mills, Rosie O’Donnell and others play for their
favorite charities.
On Saturday Night Live -
Joe Pesci
and the Spin
Doctors.
Top TV -
Roseanne - 23.1
Football - Dallas vs.
Philadelphia - 22.3
Murphy Brown - 19.9
Coach - 19.5
Home improvement -
18.4
Full House - 16.8
Hearts Afire - 16.6
Cheers - 16.5
Hangin’ With Mr. Cooper
-16.4
Evening Shade - 16.4
Northern exposure - 16.4
’92 Vote: debate Analysis
-15.9
20/20 - 15.9
Love & War - 15.7
Unsolved Mysteries -
15.1
Fresh Prince of Bel Air - 14.5
Overexposed - 14.4
Wings - 14.0
Blossom - 13.6
Step by Step - 13.1
Married… With Children - 12.9
At the movies -
Under Siege
Week of October 8, 1992
The Last of the Mohicans
The Mighty Ducks
Hero
Mr. Baseball
Sneakers
1492: Conquest of paradise
Mr. Saturday Night
Captain Iron
Glengarry Glen Ross