Week of September 13, 1993

Under the sunlit South Lawn of the White House, PLO chairman Yasser Arafat

and Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin sign a framework agreement for peace.

Said Rabin - “We who have fought against you, the Palestinians, we say to you

today in a loud and a clear voice, enough of blood and tears. Enough.

Responded Arafat - “The battle for peace is the most difficult battle of our lives. It

deserves our utmost efforts because the land of peace, the land of peace yearns

for a just and comprehensive peace.” Witnessing the historic ceremony along

with President Clinton were former Presidents Jimmy Carter and George Bush,

former Secretaries of State James A. Baker III, Cyrus Vance, Henry Kissinger,

George Shultz and Edmund Muskie.

former student radical and long on the FBI’s most-wanted list, is

arraigned in federal and state courts for a fatal bank robbery. For all

this time, she was wanted from a September 23, 1970 robbery of a

branch of the State Street Bank & Trust Co in Boston where a police

officer was killed. Under terms of a surrender bargain more than a year in the

making, Miss Power pleaded guilty to two counts of armed robbery and one

count of manslaughter. She also will plead guilty to charges of stealing federal

property. Lately, she was living quietly in Oregon with her husband and children.

President Clinton inaugurates his health reform promotional campaign as he and

first lady Hillary listen to 15 Americans who have suffered from inequities in the

(present) health care system. From the Rose Garden gathering, the president

promised that only sweeping reform could remedy their problems and pointing

out that some of the young and healthy would pay “slightly more” for the standard

health care package the government would guarantee. - “I don’t want to pretend

this is all going to be easy. In the short run, we can’t make 100% of the people

winners.”

Viacom and Paramount agree to merge. The deal gives

Viacom Chairman Sumner M. Redstone an astounding

69% of the voting stock. The deal creates a company that

will be known as Paramount Viacom International with

assets that include Paramount Pictures, a publishing unit,

radio, TV and cable TV systems plus a string of theaters.

Paramount Chairman and Chief Executive Martin Davis

will become chief executive with Sumner Redstone serving

as chairman. Said Redstone - “We think we’ve created the

No 1 software company in the world. I thin Martin has seen

this for a long time, but I had to drag him to the altar.”

Week of September 13, 1993

chairman of the company he founded 54 years ago with

fellow Silicon Valley legend Bill Hewlett. Stepping into his

shoes will be Lew Platt.

At the 45th annual Emmy Awards - here are some of the

winners:

Best comedy - Seinfeld

Best drama - Picket Fences

Best Variety, music or comedy series - Saturday Night Live

Best actor - comedy -Ted Danson - Cheers

Best actress - comedy - Roseanne Arnold - Roseanne

Best actor - drama - Tom Skerritt - Picket Fences

Best actress - drama - Kathy Baker - Picket Fences

Best supporting actor - comedy - Michael Richards - Seinfeld

Best supporting actress - comedy - Laurie Metcalf - Roseanne

Best supporting actor - drama - Chad Lowe - Life Goes On

Best supporting actress - drama - Mary Alice - I’ll Fly Away

Voice-over performance - Dan Castellneta (Homer Simpson) - The Simpsons

Best writing - comedy - Larry David - Seinfeld

Best writing - drama - Tom Fontana - Homicide

Perry Mason, then Ironside on television. Burr completed

his last Perry Mason film in mid-August in Denver. After

the filming, he returned to his vineyards and farm in

Northern California where he died.

- the perennial world champion

billiards player who was

considered the best player ever

to pick up a cue. An inductee in

the Billiard Congress of America Hall of Fame, he won

the world title 15 times between 1940 and 1957.

Passing - Erich Leinsdorf (81) - leading conductor of

orchestras in the United States and abroad.

Passing - Charles Lamont - directed more than 100 movies including nearly all of

the Abbott and Costello films and many Ma and Pa Kettle features. He was 98.

Week of September 13, 1993

Passing - Lee Wagner (83) -

Founded TV guide magazine in

1948. It was originally called TV

Guide-New York He began adding

regional editions for New England

and Baltimore-Washington area. He

sold the editions to Walter

Annenberg’s Triangle Publications

in 1953, but remained a consultant

until 1963. An attorney, he was

circulation director of McFadden

Publications in New York in the

1930’s where he directed

subscriptions and street sales of

Liberty, Screenland, Silver Screen

and Movie Show magazines. He

later worked for Cowles Media Co,

publisher of Look and other

magazines.

Bestsellers -

Without Remorse - Tom Clancy

The Bridges of Madison County -

Robert James Waller

Vanished - Danielle Steel

Like Water For Chocolate - Laura

Esquivel

The Golden Mean - Nick Bantock

Seinlanguage - Jerry Seinfeld

Embraced By The Light - Betty J. Eadie

Maybe, Maybe Not - Robert Fulghum

Woman Who Run With The Wolves - Clarissa Pinkola Estes, Ph.D

Ageless Body, Timeless Mind: The Quantum Alternative To Growing Old -

Deepak Chopra, MD

Orleans Saints breaks the NFL record for

consecutive field goals after kicking his 25th

straight in a game against the Atlanta Falcons.

Week of September 13, 1993

becomes the 19th player to record 3000 hits, in a close game

with the Oakland A’s. Winfield grounded a hard single past

third basemen Craig Paquette the pumped his right hand in

the air and shook hands with first base coach Wayne

Terwilliger.

“All this time, I was thinking, when I get this hit I

will get my teammates out there with me, but the game was

so close nobody knew what to do. They didn’t want to disrupt

the game. It was unusual to be out there myself and to bask in it.”

The Red Hot Chilli Peppers hire guitarist Dave Navarro, formerly of Jane’s

Addiction. He replaces Jessie Tobias who was with the band only a month. The

band will begin to record a new Album in January.

O’Brien comes from writing side of the business, working

with Saturday Night Live for three years before signing

with “The Simpsons.” Producer Lorne Michaels says he

thinks O’Brien has what it takes - “It’s a gamble using an

unknown, but I think Conan will do fine. He’s funny,

intelligent and playful - he’s always been one of the

funniest people in the room among writers and performers. Conan is going to

make some mistakes but he gets better every night we do the show. Ultimately, I

think talk shows come down to whether or not you like the host, and I think

people will like Conan.”

“America Journal” which debuted last week, taps an

Dan and Cara Schmidt, the natural parents of Baby

Jessica, who was at the center of a much publicized

custody battle with her adoptive parents, Jan and

Roberta DeBoer. The Schmidts took custody of the

child August 2.

This Thursday Night - Frasier debuts on NBC, right

after Seinfeld. Also debuting this week - “NYPD Blue”

- Tuesday night on ABC

Kathie Lee Gifford returns from maternity leave to “Live With Regis & Kathie Lee”

where she will no doubt, talk about her new baby Cassidy.

Week of September 13, 1993

Saturday Night Television -

CBS - Dr Quinn, Medicine Woman, In The Heat of the Night (2 hours)

NBC - Miss America: Their Untold Stories, The Mommies, Cafe American, Miss

America Pageant

ABC - Movie, The Commish

Fox - Cops, Cops, Front Page

The Nashville Network - Opry Backstage, The Grand Ole’ Opry

The Mommies (Premiere) - Marilyn Kentz, Caryl

Kristensen

Cafe American (Premiere) - stars Valerie Bertinelli. A

resourceful American divorcee works in a Paris cafe.

Top Country -

Ain’t Going Down (Til The Sun Comes Up) - Garth

Brooks

Dream Lover - Mariah Carey

I Get Around - 2Pac

Whoomp! (There It is) - Tag Team

Check Yo Self - Ice Cube

Very Special - Big Daddy Kane

Insane in the Brain - Cypress Hill

Mega Medley - Zapp and Roger

I’m Gonna Be - The Proclaimers

What’s Up - 4 Non Blondes

If - Janet Jackson

Right Here/Human Nature - SWV-

Sisters With Voices

The River of Dreams - Billy Joel

Another Sad Love Song - Toni

Braxton

Cryin’ - Aerosmith

Will You Be There - Michael

Jackson

Baby I’m Yours - Shai

Boom! Shake The Room - Jazzy

Jeff & Fresh Prince

Reason to Believe - Rod Stewart

with Ronnie Wood

Week of September 13, 1993

When I Fall In Love - Celine Dion & Clive Griffin

One Last Cry - Brian McKnight

Break It Down Again - Tears for Fears

Rain - Madonna

Top Albums -

Music Box - Mariah Carey

In Pieces - Garth Brooks

Janet - Janet Jackson

River of Dreams - Billy Joel

Barney’s Favorites Vol. 1 - Barney

Human Wheels - John

Mellencamp

Core - Stone Temple Pilots

Sleepless in Seattle - soundtrack

Promises and Lies - UB40

Black Sunday - Cypress Hill

Chronic - Dr Dre

Da Bomb - Kris Kross

Strictly For My N.I.G.G.A.Z. - 2pac

21 and Over - The Alkaholiks

Other albums -

In Utero - Nirvana

Buhloone Mind State - De La Soul

Sons of Soul - Tony Toni Tone

Zooropa - U2

Too Long In Exile - Van Morrison

Temptation - Shelby Lynn

Perfectly Good Guitar - John Hiatt

At the movies

Stahl

Week of September 13, 1993

Manhattan Murder Mystery - Woody Allen, Alan Alda

Heart and Souls - Robert Downey Jr., Charles Grodin