Week of September 1, 1991
Vanishing Soviet Union - Azerbaijan is now the 8
th
Republic to declare
independence from Moscow.
President
Mikhail Gorbachev
says that it would be
“immoral” for him to quit his post and announces
that he and leaders of most of Soviet republics have
designed a new political structure and will introduce
it during a meeting of Parliament.
A new era - Moscow announces that if formally
recognizes Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia, ending a
half-century of control.
Technology - Sun Microsystems announces what it
will make the Sun software operating system
available for high-end personal computers. Most
PC’s use the DOS operation platform/system, but DOS cannot handle many
more complex tasks that are possible with newer PC’s. The SunSoft program,
dubbed Solaris, is a version of AT&T’s UNIX operating system.
Microsoft says it is setting up a basic research center to study what might be the
software of the future. Physicist Nathan Myhrvoid, the executive in charge of the
center says he wants a group of people who ‘are able to focus on those things
that your really don’t know how to solve today, but you know that you would like
to solve.”
Entertainment
- Miramax Pictures re-names the comedy movie “The Pope Must
Die” to “The Pope Must Diet.” The Big Three networks
and some major newspapers refused to sell ad time and
space due to the film’s controversial original name.
Passing - Famed film director
Frank Capra
, who retired from
movies in 1961. He was 94.
Passing - Actor-turned-author
Tom Tryon
. He was 65.
Woody Allen - who was
associated with troubled Orion,
Week of September 1, 1991
will make his next movie with TriStar Pictures.
Pee Wee returns -
Pee-wee Herman’s
appears on the
MTV Video Music Awards and it seems, everyone’s
talking about it. You gotta love the guy, who asked the
audience: “Heard any good jokes lately?” Most thought
Paul Reubens would never don his Pee-Wee persona
after his arrest last July of indecent exposure.
Top TV -
Roseanne - 15.3
Designing Women - 15.0
Murphy Brown - 14.8
Cheers - 14.5
Coach - 13.7
Who’s the Boss? - 13.7
Full House - 13.4
Northern exposure - 12.5
In The Heat of the Night - 12.2
60 Minutes - 12.2
A Different World - 12.1
Unsolved Mysteries - 12.1
The Cosby Show - 12.0
Major Dad - 12.9
Movie-Killing In A Small Town - 11.8
Empty Nest - 11.6
Davis Rules - 11.6
Wonder Years - 11.5
Matlock - 11.3
Wings - 11.3
Television news - Don’t miss Barbara
Walters’ interview with
Katharine
Hepburn
on 20/20 this week. She talks
about her relationship with Spencer
Tracy, saying he was the only man she
ever loved.
For the first time NBC announced that
Jay Leno would be succeeding Johnny
Carson on the tonight show, David
Letterman appears as a guest on the
Tonight show. Carson asked him, “Just how pissed off are you?” With that,
Week of September 1, 1991
Letterman answered: “Let me give you some advice. You keep using language
like that, you’ll find yourself out of a job.” He then thanked Carson and the
network for his break with “Late Night.”
Music news - On the “Today” show,
La Toya Jackson
says that her father physically abused many of her
siblings, including Michael. She’s got a new biography out
and appears in the November issue of Playboy where she
posed for the cover and a nude pictorial (under the cover).
Passing -
Dottie West
(58) - one
of the top ladies of country music.
She died of complications suffered
in an auto accident a few days ago.
She was the first woman to win a
country music Grammy for 1964’s “Here Comes My Baby.”
Her car had broken down and a retired businessman
named George Thackston (81) gave her a lift. He was
traveling 55mph when he pulled off an exit rated at 25mph
and veered off the road. She told him she was frantic to
get to work and had to get there by 8pm. He’s going to be
OK.
Ike Turner is released from prison in San Louis Obispo
(CA) after serving more than two years of a four-year
drunk driving and parole violation sentence.
