Week of October 20, 1985

At the United Nations, President Reagan, foreshadowed a touch approach to

next month’s summit meeting, declaring that a “central issue” in the talks will be a

U.S. initiative aimed at resolving regional conflicts involving the soviet Union I

Asia, Africa and Central America.

New York - Secretary of state George Shultz and soviet foreign Minister Eduard

Shevardnadze are drafting the script for the upcoming Geneva summit,

conferring for several hours. They agreed to meet in Moscow on Nov 4 and 5.

AIDS update - New York Gov. Mario Cuomo

proposes outlawing sexual activities that lead to the

spread of AIDS in homosexual bathhouses and other

such establishments. “We have to prohibit the activity.

Issuing condoms is not enough,” said Cuomo. If the

state’s Public Health Council agrees, the regulation

could take effect immediately.

The senate votes to more than double spending in the

fight against AIDS.

The House, over arguments that the safety of rural

schoolchildren was being sacrificed for the convenience of city-dwellers, votes to

extend daylight-saving time an extra month as early as 1986.

The founding chapter of a group of female officer workers whose campaign to

improve working conditions sparked a national movement and inspired the movie

“9 to 5” is $15,000 in debut and is closing its office. Boston’s 9 to 5 group began

in 1973 with 10 secretaries. The organization grew to a national movement of

women office workers who won improvements at big companies. Their efforts

inspired a song by Dolly Parton and a movie.

French marine commandos seize a Greenpeace protest yacht near a prohibited

zone around France’s nuclear test site in the south pacific Three hours later the

French conducted an underground nuclear test, believed to be France’s first

neutron bomb.

Former Supervisor Dan White , the assassin of San

Francisco Mayor George Moscone and Supervisor Harvey

Milk, commits suicide in the garage of his San Francisco

home.

Week of October 20, 1985

Princess Diana pays a surprise first visit to bomb-scarred

Belfast, hours after army bomb disposal experts defused a

massive land mine in a border province.

In London, Live Aid concert organizer Bob Geldof, back from

a 12-day tour of Africa’s famine-stricken nations, says he will

ask for financial help from the Vatican at an audience next

month with Pope John Paul II. Geldof says that the $70

million raised form the concert has helped thousands avoid

starvation in Africa.

“Lucky” - the presidential pooch, has gotten so big that she’s outgrown her

home. Soon, Lucky will be taken to President Reagan’s California ranch to join

four other dogs on the 688-acre spread.

New idea - Fighting “Compassion fatigue” - USA for Africa

organizers unveil “Hands Across America” - a human chain that

would stretch from New York to Los Angeles on May 25 and

would raise between $50 million and $100 million. It follows the

successful fundraising pattern set by the 1984 Olympic torch

relay. That plan had some 3,500 Olympic torch-bearers who paid $3,000 to run

one kilometer with an Olympic torch last year. Some 10 million Americans would

pay between $10 each $35 to participate in the handholding event. The

announcement was made by USA for Africa President Ken Kragen . He said he

is asking every radio station in the country to broadcast the event.

Test - A short film titled “Arrival” will be seen in some theaters via Sony’s High

Definition Video System (HDVS) high-resolution, wide-screen video format. The

five-minute film is about Haley’s Comet.

Sports - Incredible comeback - World Series tied at 3-3 as Dane Iorg’s two-run

single gives The Royals a 2-1 win over the Cardinals.

On David Letterman’s show - William (The Refrigerator) Perry. Perry is

Chicago’s rookie defensive tackle/running back. The crowd yelled “Fridge!

Fridge.”

Music - David Crosby is arrested for investigation of possession of a concealed

pistol and narcotics paraphernalia, as well as hit-and-run driving.

Farm Aid Concert raised some $10 million. 1-800-FarMaid phone lines will

remain operation for one year, for those who haven’t given yet.

Week of October 20, 1985

Prerecorded cassettes are currently outselling vinyl albums

by almost two-to-one.

Video TV station suing MTV - the owners of Houston Hit

Video/TV5 - a 24-hour low power TV station playing hit

videos like MTV. The suit charges that MTV Networks,

Warner Amex Cable Communications Inc and Warner Amex

Satellite Entertainment Co. are practicing unfair restraint of

trade by using the exclusivity deals to deny “competitors

access to vital, unique and otherwise unavailable materials,

namely the choicest music video clips of most major record

companies.

Radio news -

WRIF’s (Detroit) morning team of Jim Johnson and George Baier on now on rival

WLLZ.

More Apartheid - WBCN Boston - the city’s top album rock station airs

“Commercial Free… For a Free South Africa,” - a day’s worth of interviews and

feature reports on the apartheid situation. Wini Mandela, wife of the imprisoned

freedom fighter Nelson Mandela, will be among those interviewed.

WTIC-FM PD Garry Wall is ticked at A&M records, and will not report A&M

airplay to the trades. Why? Because A&M artists Supertramp recorded an “If

you’re looking for the most music in Hartford” spot for rival WKSS. Not long ago,

A&M artist Sting did the same.

Westwood One says it has set a new record with its HBO simulcast of the “Phil

Collins: No Jacket required - Sold Out Concert.” Carried by over 220 stations,

the Sept. 28 show was “the largest recorded

stereo simulcast in history.”

DJ Tom Joyner’s daily 1,800 commute

between the morning shift at KKDA Dallas and

the afternoon slot at WGCI Chicago is in full

swing. NBC Nightly News cameras

accompanied Joyner on his first jaunt. It all

started January 14.

Entertainment news -

Killed in a car accident - Screenwriter Diane

Week of October 20, 1985

Renee Thomas who gained fame for the screenplay for “Romancing The Stone.”

She was 39. Her 27-year-old boyfriend was driving the car.

About 100 or Rock Hudson’s close friends gather for a memorial service at this

home. Seen - Elizabeth Taylor, Robert Wagner, Stephanie Powers, Esther

Williams, Tab Hunter, Lee Remick, George Maharis, Jessica Walters, Angie

Dickinson and Roddy McDowall.

Television news - More Live Aid - World Vision is sponsoring a telethon to fight

hunger in Ethiopia. It will beamed to over 100 stations from Nairobi this weekend.

Fiery reporter Geraldo Rivera says he is resigning

from ABC in November. Some say he is quitting

because of a decision last week by ABC News

President Roone Arledge to cancel a story on ABC’s

“20/20.” The story probed purported affairs between

Marilyn Monroe and President Kennedy, and his

brother, Bobby.

Don Hewitt, executive producer of CBS “60 Minutes”

has proposed buying the network’s news division.

Variety, the industry trade paper, reported that

Hewitt’s proposal would make CBS News a private

organization run as a cooperative venture with not ties to the parent corporation.

Among the plan’s supporters, Variety said, were anchorman Dan Rather and

“CBS Reports” anchor and commentator Bill Moyers.

The new cast of NBC’s “ Saturday Night Live” is unveiled.

Lorne Michaels, who left the show in 1980 is back as

executive producer. He has brought with him the comedy

writing team of Al Franken and Tom Davis, who began in the

show in 1975 with Michaels and who are now producers.

The cast is - Randy Quaid, Anthony Michael Hall, Robert

Downy, Joan Cusack, Jon Lovitz, Terry Sweeny, Nora Dunn

and Danitra Vance.

Sunday night television -

CBS - 60 Minutes, Murder, She Wrote, Crazy Like a Fox, Trapper John, MD

NBC - Punky Brewster, Amazing Stories, Alfred Hitchcock Presents, Movie-I

Dream of Jeannie

ABC - World Series, MacGyver

PBS - Nature, Masterpiece Theater

Week of October 20, 1985

USA - Wanted Dead or Alive, Cover Story, Get Rich With Real Estate

MTV - Rock Influences, The Young Ones, Video Music

Punky Brewster - Tall stories told around a campfire

get out of hand.

Move - I Dream of Jeannie: 15 Years Later - Barbara

Eden, Wayne Rogers, Bill daily.

Hot Hits -

Saving All My Love For You - Whitney Houston

Part time Love - Stevie Wonder

Oh Sheila - Ready For the World

Take On Me - A-Ha

Head Over Heels - Tears For Fears

Lonely Ol’ Night - John Cougar Mellencamp

You Belong To The City - Glenn Frey

Fortress Around Your Heart - Sting

Miami Vice Theme - Jon Hammer

Money For Nothing - Dire Straits

Lovin’ Every Minute Of It - Loverboy

We Built This City - Starship

Be Near Me - ABC

Dancing In the Street - Jagger/Bowie

Lay Your Hands On Me - The Thompson

Twins

Separate Lives - Phil Collins/Marilyn Martin

And We Danced - The Hooters

At the movies -

Jagged Edge

Goonies

Day of the Dead

Back to the Future

Silver Bullet

Commando

Remo Williams: The Adventure Begins

Holcroft Covenant

Invasion USA

Better Off dead

Plenty