Week of October 23, 1991
Death toll in the Oakland (CA) fire hits 24 as the disaster destroyed 2700 homes.
Year-long impasse - Finally - President Bush agrees to accept a compromise
civil rights bill but some say the proposal eliminates the prospect of racial quotas.
Russian Federation president Boris N. Yelsin launches a last-ditch bid to force
through radical economic reforms that he says will save Russia.
In Madrid - President Bush and Soviet President Mikhail S. Gorbachev say the
sponsoring superpowers will not try to interfere in Arab-Israeli deliberations.
President Bush opens historic Middle East peace talks. He called on Arabs and
Israelis to put aside “a history that weights heavily against hope” to permit the
people to live normal lives for the first time in generations.
Former Washington D.C. Mayor Marion Barry arrives at the Federal Correctional
Institution in Petersburg Virginia - to begin serving a sixth-month sentence for
cocaine possession.
The parents of freed U.S. hostage Jesse Turner are back in the United States.
Apparently State Department officials made them persona non-gratis at their
son’s hospital room in Germany, saying they violated Turner’s privacy by giving a
videotape of their reunion to CBS-TV which broadcast it.
Sports - the Minnesota Twins best the Atlanta Braces 1-0 to win the World
Series.
Entertainment news -
Skater Dorothy Hamill is at odds with
her management - IMG. She says the
improperly took $75,000 and
negligently destroyed videotapes of
the “Nutcracker On Ice.” They say
she’s an ingrate who is trying to avoid
paying commissions that IMG earned
legitimately.
Finally - A Planet Hollywood - opens
in…Hollywood! On hand - part-owners
Bruce Willis, Arnold Schwarzenegger
and Sylvester Stallone.
Week of October 23, 1991
Paul Reubens is offered a plea bargain by prosecutors in Sarasota what would
leave him no record of guilt on indecent exposure charges.
Music news -
Rhino puts out “The Best of MTV’s 120
Minutes”
Top albums this week -
Ropin’ The Wind - Garth Brooks
Use Your Illusion II - Guns ‘N Roses
Diamonds & Pearls - Prince
Decade of Decadence Motley Crue
Metallica - Metallica
Concert promoter
Bill Graham
dies when a helicopter carrying him
and two associates crashed into an
electrical utility tower near Vallejo,
California. He was returning from
Huey Lewis and the News concert
he had organized in Concord. The
helicopter could still bee seen
tangled in the 115,000 volt wires.
In San Francisco - Concert
promoter Bill Graham is
remembered as “a very special
guy.” Attending the hourlong
service was many from the music
industry including the Grateful Dead
and Jefferson Airplane.
KIIS-FM Los Angeles lets go of afternoon DJ “Magic Matt” Alan.
Now at bookstores - “Madonna Unauthorized” - by Christopher Anderson. Also -
LaToya Jackson’s “LaToya: Growing Up in the Jackson Family.” And yet another
music book - “Brian Wilson: Wouldn’t It Be Nice My Own Story” with Todd Gold
Television news - Turner Broadcasting System signs an agreement to purchase
the library of cartoon maker Hanna Barbera. Price is $320 million.
Passing - Gene Roddenberry - Creator of “Star Trek.” He was 70.
Katey Sagal stars in her first TV movie - “She Says She’s Innocent.”
