Week of March 1, 1995
U.S. Marines land ashore in Somalia to
conclude an evacuation of U.N. forces.
President Clinton says that he wants to
base federal affirmative action programs
on economic need rather than race
“where we can” and hints that his
pending review of affirmative action
programs may lead away from current
programs that give preference to minority business people.
Senate Democrats kill a constitutional amendment, which would have mandated
a balanced budget in seven years. The “contract with America” was the heart of
the GOP’s campaign platform.
O.J. Trial update -
Rosa Lopez
concludes her testimony
after seven days. The Salvadoran housekeeper lived and
worked next door to Simpson. She testified without the jury
present, but was recorded on video. During the week, she
admitted under cross-examination that she gave
contradictory statements and that her recollections of some
times, dates, conversations and other events were cloudy
Computer news - the three largest Internet providers these
days are Prodigy, CompuServe and American Online ... Need to look-up
someone’s e-mail? A new service has just signed-on - the “Four11 Online User
Directory.” It’s sort of a white pages for e-mail. The service trolls newsgroup
posting for e-mail addresses and as of this month, contains a database of
500,000 entries. Send an e-mail to info@four11.com to get started. Searches
and listings are now free, but you can pay $20 to obtain more benefits.
Computer store - Apple Macintosh Performa 6112CD - 60 Mhz ... 601
microprocessor, 8MB RAM (upgradeable to 72MB) 250MB hard disc drive, Dual
speed CD-ROM, 16-bi stereo sound, 14.4bps fax/modem, 15” .28mm color
monitor - $2199.00 ... Hewlett-Packard DeskJet printer - $440.95
Passing -
Ed Flanders
(60) - Emmy-winning actor -best
known for his work on “St Elsewhere” from 1982 to 1987 ... of
an apparent suicide.
Week of March 1, 1995
37th Annual Grammy Awards
- some winners:
Record of the year - “All I Wanna Do” - Sheryl Crow
Album of the year - “MTV Unplugged” -
Tony Bennett
Song of the year - “Streets of
Philadelphia” - Bruce Springsteen
Rock -
Male vocal - “Streets of Philadelphia” -
Bruce Springsteen
Female vocal - “Come To My Window” -
Melissa Etheridge
Rock Duo or Group With Vocal - “Crazy”
- Aerosmith
Hard Rock Performance - “Black Hole
Sun” - Soundgarden
Metal performance - “Spoonman” -
Soundgarden
Rock Instrumental Performance - “Marooned” - Pink Floyd
Rock Song - “Streets of Philadelphia” - Bruce Springsteen
Rock Album - “Voodoo Lounge” - The Rolling Stones
Alternative -
Music Performance - “Dookie” - Green Day
Pop-
Male Vocal - “Can You Feel The Love Tonight” - Elton John
Female Vocal - “All I Wanna Do - Sheryl
Crow
Pop Duo or Group With Vocal - “I Swear”
- All-4-One
Pop Vocal Collaboration - “Funny How
Time Slips Away” - Al Green and Lyle
Lovett
Pop Instrumental Performance - “Cruisin”
- Booker T & The MG’s
Pop Album - “Longing in Their Hearts” -
Bonnie Raitt
Week of March 1, 1995
Country -
Male Vocal - “When Love Finds You” -
Vince Gill
Female Vocal - “Shut Up And Kiss Me” -
Mary Chapin Carpenter
Country Duo or Group With Vocal -
“Blues For Dixie” - Asleep at the Wheel
with Lyle Lovett
Country Vocal Collaboration - “I Fall To
Pieces” - Aaron Neville and Trisha
Yearwood
Country Instrumental Performance -
“Young Thing” - Chet Atkins
Country Song - “I Swear” - Gary Baker
and Frank J. Myers songwriters
Country Album - “Stones in the Road” -
Mary Chapin Carpenter
Bluegrass Album: “The Great Dobro Sessions” - Jerry Douglas and Tut Taylor
producers
R & B -
Male Vocal - “When I See You” - Babyface
Female Vocal - “Breathe Again” - Toni Braxton
R&B Duo or Group With Vocal - “I’ll Make Love to You” - Boyz II Men
R&B Song: “I’ll Make Love to You” - Babyface songwriter
R&B Album - “II” Boyz II Men
Rap -
Solo Performance - “U.N.I.T.Y” -
Queen Latifah
Rap Duo or Group - “None of Your Business” - Salt-
N-Pepa
New Age -
Album - “Prayer For the Wild Things” - Paul Winter
Bestsellers -
The Celestine Prophecy - James Redfield
Original Sin - P.D. James
Border Music - Robert James Waller
McNally’s Trial - Lawrence Sanders
Kiss the Girls - James Patterson
Week of March 1, 1995
The Cat Who Blew The Whistle - Lillian Jackson Braun
The Hot Zone - Richard Preston
I Want To Tell You - O.J. Simpson
Men Are From Mars: Women Are From Venus - John Gray, Ph.D
Couplehood - Paul Reiser
The Beardstown Ladies Investment Guide - Beardstown Ladies Investment Club
Raging Heart - The Intimate Story of the Tragic Marriage of O.J. Simpson and
Nicole Brown Simpson - Sheila Weller
Bill Berry - drummer for R.E.M. suffers a brain hemorrhage
and undergoes surgery. Doctors say he’ll be able to pick-up
his drum sticks in two or three weeks. ; He suffered no brain
impairment and is expected to recover fully
I t’s Sheryl Crow time - VH1 and
MTV, capitalizing on the singer’s
triple Grammy awards will
feature “VH1 Presents: Sheryl Crow in Concert,” “MTV
Unplugged With Sheryl Crow” and “MTV News Raw -
Sheryl Crow” over the next few days.
Tupac Talks - Rapper Tupac Shakur - in an interview
from a New York prison on a sex abuse conviction,
tells April Vibe magazine that he’s changed: “Thug
Life to me is dead. If it’s real, let somebody else
represent it, because I’m tired of it. I represented it too
much. I was ‘Thug Life.’” Shakur was sentenced last
month to 4 1/2 years in prison, but is eligible for parole
in 18 months.
Rocket - a weekly paper from Seattle - polls
its readers on the most important records to
come from the Northwest and here are
some:
Nevermind - Nirvana
Here Are The Sonics - The Sonics (an area
classic)
Bleach - Nirvana
Ten - Pearl Jam
Superunkown - Soundgarden
Live Through This - Hole
Rock from the Pacific Northwest is hot.
Week of March 1, 1995
A new cable channel? “The Children’s Cable Network” is set to launch May 1.
The channel works a little differently then a conventional cable channel. A new or
current cable content provider (channel) charges cable operators for the privilege
of carrying their programs, and the operators promote their lineup of stations to
attract subscribers. Cable operators also sell commercials in certain slots during
an hour. Children’s Cable Network works in reverse. Affiliates will instead lease
access time on local cable outlets, but the cable company will not have any
advertising inventory to sell - it all goes to the channel. The channel says it will
take advantage of a law that says cable operators are required to make up to
15% of their channel capacity available for lease to the public. Some of the
programming already line-up - “The New Zoo Revue” and “Dusty’s Treehouse.”
Children’s Cable Network says it has 18 affiliates ready to go, but its goal is
1000. (Note - this channel never made it).
ABC-TV’s “
Full House
” is coming to an
end after eight seasons. ABC says it has
become too costly to produce. The series
stars Bob Saget, John Stamos and Dave
Coulier and has made stars out of Mary-
Kate and Ashley Olsen.
Disney is still looking for the voice of
Pocahontas -
at least someone will sing
the song “Colors of the Wind” - it’s sure
to be a hit. So far Celine Dion has turned it down, so did Whitney
Houston. Says Whitney - “Once you have don a hit as big as ‘I Will
Always Love You’, there’s not much you can really do bigger. She
says she also has scheduling problems and is currently in Arizona.
Disney needs the singer now - the album is due out in three months.
Top Video Rentals -
True Lies
Clear and Present Danger
The Mask
Wolf
Color of Night
The Client
It Could Happen to You
Natural Born Killers
The Shadow
Blown Away
Week of March 1, 1995
TV Ratings
-
ER - 24.3
Seinfeld - 22.4
Friends - 20.0
60 Minutes - 18.9
Home Improvement - 18.9
Frasier - 18.8
NYPD Blue - 17.7
Murder, She Wrote - 17.6
Friends #2 - 17.5
Grace Under Fire - 17.0
20/20 - 17.0
Movie - A Woman of Independent Means
2 - 16.8
Movie - Children of the Dust - 16.6
Mad About You - 16.5
Frasier - 16.4
Tom Clancy’s O Center - 15.8
Roseanne - 15.5
A Women of Independent Means 3 - 15.3
Ellen - 14.8
Mad About You (Tues) - 14.6
Wings - 13.8
Dave’s World - 13.8
Murphy Brown - 13.6
Falling From Sky: Flight 174 - 13.2
Dateline NBC (Tues) - 13.0
Nanny - 12.7
PrimeTime Live - 12.7
Cybill - 12.1
America’s Favorite Home Videos - 12.1
Chicago Hope - 12.0
Full House - 12.0
Walker, Texas Ranger - 11.7
Me and the Boys - 11.7
Beverly Hills, 90210 - 11.3
All American Girl - 11.2
Hangin’ With Mr. Cooper - 11.2
Married ... With Children - 11.2
Fresh Prince of Be-Air - 11.1
Dr Quinn, Medicine Women - 11/1
The Simpsons - 11.1
Week of March 1, 1995
Sunday Night Television -
CBS - 60 Minutes, Murder, She Wrote, Movie
NBC - Figure Skating World Championships, Earth 2, Movie
ABC - America’s Funniest Home Videos, Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of
Superman, Movie
Fox - Great Defender, The Simpsons, The Critic, Married... With Children, Dream
On
UPN -
Star Trek Voyager
, University
Hospital
PBS - Wagner Gala, Stana: Sacred Fire
Live In Mexico
CNBC - Al Rokar, Rivera Live, Charles
Grodin, Straight Forward
Lois & Clark - Superman finds he is an
unwitting accomplice in a plan to hijack a
shipment of nuclear warheads.
Married ... With Children - Al is force to
participate in Kelly’s screen test after her acting instructor gets decked by Al’s
boss.
CBS Movie - “Young At Heart” (1995) - A Widow’s love fro Frank Sinatra gives
her strength. Olympia Dukakis stars.
Pop music this week in 1995 -
Take a Bow - Madonna
Candy Skin - Soul For Real
Creep - TLC
Baby -
Brandy
You’re Lonely Now - K-Cl Hailey
Tootsee Roll - 69 Boyz
Foe the Love of $ - Bone Thugs-N-Harmony
Big Poppa - Notorious B.I.G.
Funky Melody/Dream About You - Stevie B
Top Albums -
Dookie - Green Day
Safe and Sound - DJ Quik
Ii - Boyz II Men
Throwing Copper - Live
Crazysexycool - TLC
Balance - Van Halen
Week of March 1, 1995
No Need To Argue - Cranberries
Boys on the Side - soundtrack
Hell Freezes Over - The Eagles
Tuesday Night ... Sheryl Crow
At the movies -
The Brady Bunch Movie
- Shelley
Long, Gary Cole, Michael McKean
Just Cause
- Sean Connery,
Laurence Fishburne, Kate Capshaw,
Blair Underwood, Ruby Dee, Ed
Harris
Heavyweights
- Morgan Michael,
Fottrell, Charles J.D. Schlissel
Billy Madison
- Adam Sandler,
Bradley Whitford
The Hunted
- Christopher Lambert, John Lone
Legends of the Fall -
Pulp Fiction
- John Travolta, Samual L. Jackson
Forrest Gump
- Tom Hanks
Quick and the Dead
- Sharone Stone
Roomates
- Peter Falk, D.B. Sweeney, Ellen Burstyn
Walt Disney’s Man of the House
- Chevy Chase, Farrah Fawcett, Jonathan
Taylor Thomas, George Wendt
Hideaway
- Jeff Goldblum, Christine Lahti, Alfred Molina, Jeremy Sisto
The Walking Dead
- Allen Payne, Eddie Griffin, Joe Morton
Miami Rhapsody
- Sarah Jessica Parker, Mia Farrow
