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Show A Year of Change Entertainment .... "A ,1 The entertainment field basically television and movies kept us all entertained and busy this school year. The most watched television shows were comedies. "Kate and Allie" with Jane Curtin and Susan St. James and Bob Newhart's "Newhart" topped the list for Mondays. The best on Tuesday was "Moonlighting" with Bruce Willis and Cybill Shepherd, and Wednesdays spotlighted newcomers "Perfect Strangers," "Head of the Class," and the "Tortellis." The all-time favorites were all on Thursday night and were never-to-be-missed: "The Cosby Show" with Bill Cosby, "Family Ties" with Michael J. Fox, "Cheers"with Ted Danson and Shelley Long, and "Night Court." Neither Friday nor Sunday had any top-rated shows, but Saturdays belonged to "The Golden Girls" and the newest popular series "L.A. Law" with Harry Hamlin and Susan Dey which premiered in September. The mini-series for the season was "Amerika" with Kris Kristoffersen. It was a very controversial 14-and-12-hour drama about how life would be in America after 10 years of Soviet occupation. Ratings for this series was low. The most entertaining and certainly a favorite television commercial was "California Raisins." It highlighted raisin rockers dancing to the beat of a popular Californian song. The newest television stars were Vanna White of "Wheel of Fortune" fame, Bruce Willis of "Moonlighting," and Oprah Winfrey and her new "Oprah Winfrey Show." Joan Rivers ended her friendship with talk show host Johnny Carson when she accepted a rival network's offer to air her own show. It competed with Carson's long-running "Tonight Show with Jonny Carson." The entertainment event of the year was the knock'm-out, drag-out Sugar Ray Leonard vs. Marvelous Marvin Hagler fight of April 14 in Las Vegas. The fight wasn't broadcast until the next Saturday over HBO, so if you didn't have access to that channel, you were out of luck. Other "entertainment events" in another sense of the word were the AIDS-related deaths of movie star Rock Hudson and pianist-entertainer Liberace. The media really got a grip on these controversial situations and the tabloids had a heyday for weeks, using the information to fill its pages with numerous feature articles on the death-dealing virus. . -8. , , - ' .if'" "-si V J 4 5. I And now for the movie industry. Just in case it happened to pass you by, it was Hollywood's 100th birthdayanniversary on Feb 9. There was a Hollywood-style party with all of the big names and hoopla that goes with a celebration of this type. March 30 was Oscar night with the 59th Annual Academy Awards Presentations taking place. After seven previous nominations, Paul Newman won best actor for his role in The Color of Money and Marlee Matlin picked up the prize for Children of a Lesser God. Woody Allen's Hannah and Her Sisters won a screenplay award and supporting actoractress Oscars went to Michael Caine and Dianne Wiest. Oliver Stone directed best picture of 1986, Platoon, a movie based on the experiences of a group of American soldiers in the Vietnamese war and he collected the statue for best director. Best sound and best film editing gave the "true to life" movie two more awards. A Room With a View won three awards for costume design and art direction. Steven Spielberg won the Iving Thalberg Award for his contributions to the movie industry. Best foreign film was The Assault and the song from Top Gun, "You Take My Breath Away," took best song of the year. Aliens won awards for sound effects, editing and visual effects, and The Fly took the best make-up Oscar. Chris Menges of The Mission won an award for cinematography and jazz musician Herbie Hancock took home his Oscar for best original score for Round Midnight. There was a tie for best documentary Artie Shaw: Time Is All You've Got and Down and Out in America. Platoon's competition for best picture of 1986 - i ' s-'.':: -.;-vjA - I . -"- ' t't ,, 'v,- ----- 4 ; , - v . - V j , L S '.. 'fi i v. - .. . included Hannah una Her Sisters, Room H itn a View, The Mission, and Children of a Lesser God. Personally, I feel the Australian-made Crocodile Dundee should have won best picture. The croc was a killer and so was the male star, Paul Hogan. Oh well ... maybe next year, if a sequel is in the making. Karen Far lev Orion Pictures-1 986 Scene for the Academy Awards' Best Picture of 1986, Platoon. (L-R) Charlie Sheen, Corey Glover, Chris Pedersen, Willem Dafoe, Forrest Whittaker and Keith David. Paramount Pictures-I9H6 Jet fighter officer Iceman (Val Kilmer) accuses Maverick (Tom Cruise) of reckless flying while Goose (Anthony Edwards) listens to the confrontation in the summer smash Top Gun. 6 A SignOff Tuesday, June 2, 1987 |