Flashback 1987
Top 20 Songs
1."Faith".....George Michael
2. "Alone".....Heart
3. "I Wanna Dance With Somebody" .....Whitney Houston
4. "C'est la Vie".....Robbie Nevil
5. "Shake You Down".....Gregory Abbott
6. "La Bamba".....Los Lobos
7. "Livin' On A Prayer".....Bon Jovi
8. "Here I Go Again".....Whitesnake
9. "Heaven Is A Place On Earth".....Belinda Carlisle
10. "(I've Had) The Time Of My Life".....Bill Medley & Jennifer Warnes
11. "Nothing's Gonna Stop Us Now".....Starship
12. "I Think We're Alone Now".....Tiffany
13. "With Or Without You".....U2
14. "At This Moment".....Billy Vera and the Beaters
15. "Keep Your Hands To Yourself".....Georgia Satellites
16. "Heart And Soul".....T'Pau
17. "Open Your Heart".....Madonna
18. "Didn't We Almost Have It All".....Whitney Houston
19. "I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For".....U2
20. "Looking For A New Love".....Jody Watley
Top Albums
q Control – Janet Jackson
q Fore! – Huey Lewis and the News
Awards
q Album of the Year: Joshua Tree
q Best New Artist: Jody Watley
q Best Pop Duo or Group: “I’ve Had the Time of My Life”, Billy Medley & Jennifer Warnes
q Best Pop Female Vocal: “I Wanna Dance with Somebody”, Whitney Houston
q Best Pop Male Vocal: Bring on the Night, Sting
q Best Rock Duo or Group: Joshua Tree, U2
q Best Rock Solo: Tunnel of Love, Bruce Springsteen
q Record of the Year: “Graceland”, Paul Simon
q Song of the Year: “Somewhere out There”
q Invisible Touch – Genesis
q Licensed to Ill – Beastie Boys
q Slippery When Wet – Bon Jovi
q The Joshua Tree – U2
q The Way It Is – Bruce Hornsby and the Range
Top 20 Television Shows
1. The Cosby Show
2. A Different World
3. Cheers
4. Growing Pains
5. Night Court
6. The Golden Girls
7. Who's the Boss
8. 60 Minutes
9. Murder, She Wrote
10. Wonder Years
11. ALF
12. Moonlighting
13. L.A. Law
14. N.F.L. Monday Night Football
15. Matlock
16. Growing Pains
17. Amen
18. Family Ties
19. Hunter
20. The CBS Sunday Night Movie
Emmy Awards
Comedy
q Best Drama: Thirty Something
q Best Actor: Richard Kiley, A Year in the Live
q Best Actress: Tyne Daly, Cagney & Lacey
q Supporting Actor: Larry Drake, LA Law
q Supporting Actress: Patricia Wettig, Thirty Something
Drama
q Best Comedy: The Wonder Years
q Best Actor: Michael J. Fox, Family Ties
q Best Actress: Beatrice Arthur, The Golden Girls
q Supporting Actor: John Larroquette, Night Court
q Supporting Actress: Estelle Getty, The Golden Girls
Top 20 Movies
1. Three Men and a Baby
2. Fatal Attraction
3. Beverly Hills Cop II
4. Good Morning, Vietnam
5. Moonstruck
6. The Untouchables
7. The Secret of My Success
8. Stakeout
9. Lethal Weapon
10. The Witches of Eastwick
11. Dirty Dancing
12. Predator
13. Throw Momma From the Train
14. Dragnet
15. La Bamba
16. Robocop
17. Outrageous Fortune
18. Broadcast News
19. The Living Daylights
20. Eddie Murphy – Raw
Academy Awards
q Best Actor: Michael Douglas, Wall Street
q Best Actress: Cher, Moonstruck
q Best Director: Bernardo Bertolucci, The Last Emperor
q Best Picture: Jeremy Thomas, The Last Emperor
q Supporting Actor: Sean Connery, The Untouchables
q Supporting Actress: Olympia Dukakis, Moonstruck
Economy
q U.S. President: Ronald Reagan
q U.S. Vice President: George H.W. Bush
q Population: 242,288,918
q Life Expectancy: 74.9 Years
Dow-Jones
q High: 2722
q Low: 2722
q Federal Spending: $1003.91 billion
q Federal Debt: $2346.1 billion
q Inflation: 3.6%
q Consumer Price Index: 113.6
q Unemployment: 7%
Prices
q Cost of a new home: $127,200.00
q Median household income: $26,061.00
q Cost of a first-class stamp: $.22
q Cost of a gall of regular gas: $.95
q Cost of a dozen eggs: $.78
q Cost of a gallon of milk: $2.28
Fiction Best Sellers
q The Tommyknockers....Stephen King
q Patriot Games....Tom Clancy
q Kaleidoscope....Danielle Steele
q Misery....Stephen King
q Leaving Home....Garrison Keillor
q Windmills of the Gods....Sidney Sheldon
q Presumed Innocent....Scott Turow
q Fine Things....Danielle Steele
q Heaven and Hell....John Jakes
Nonfiction Best Sellers
q Time Flies....Bill Cosby
q Spycatcher....Peter Wright with Paul Greengrass
q Family: The Ties that Bind & Gag....Erma Bombeck
q Veil....Bob Woodward
q A Day in the Life of America....Rick Smolan, David Cohen
q The Great Depression of 1990....Ravi Batra
q It’s all in the Playing....Shirley MacLaine
q Man of the House....Thomas P. O’Neill, Jr., with William Novak
q The Closing of the American Mind....Allan Bloom
Pulitzer Fiction
q A Summons to Memphis....Peter Taylor
Pulitzer Nonfiction
q Arab & Jew Wounded Spirits In a Promised Land....David K. Shipler
Football
q Superbowl XXII: WASHINGTON 42 – Denver 10
q Pro MVP: Jerry Rice, San Francisco, WR & John Elway, QB
q College Football: Miami – FL
q Heisman Trophy: Tim Brown, Notre Dame, WR
Basketball
q NBA Championship Winner: LA Lakers
q Opposing Team: Boston
q NBA MVP: Magic Johnson, LA Lakers
q NCAA National Champs: Indiana
Baseball
q World Series Winner: Minnesota
q Opposing Team: St. Louis Cardinals
National League
q MVP: Andre Dawson
q Rookie of the Year: Benito Santiago
American League
q MVP: George Bell
q Rookie of the Year: Mark McGwire
q Dow one day drop of 508 points becomes known as “Black Monday”
q Terry Waite, the special envoy of the Archbishop of Cantebury in Lebanon is kidnapped in Beirut not to be released until 1991
q New York Mafiosi Anthony Salerno and Carmine Peruccia are sentenced to 100 years in prison for racketeering
q The last Ohrbach’s department store closes in NYC after 64 years in operation
q The new constitution of the Phillippines goes into effect
q U.S. Senator Gary Hart drops out of the running for the Democratic Party presidential nomination amid allegations of an extra-marital affair
q The first heart-lung transplant takes place in Baltimore, MD
q Prozac makes its debut in the US
q During a visit to Berlin, Germany, U.S. President Ronald Regan challenges Soviet Premier Mikhail Gorbachev to tear down the Berlin Wall
q The USS Stark, while patrolling the Persian Gulf, is struck by two Exocet missiles from and Iraqi F-1 Mirage Fighter, killing 37 sailors and injuring 21 other crew members
q Televangelist Jim Bakker, heat of PTL ministries, resigns after admitting an affair with the church secretary Jessica Hahn
q Iran-Contra Affair: The Tower Commission rebukes U.S. President Ronald Regan for not controlling his National Security staff
q Died: Fred Astaire, Jackie Gleason, Rita Hayworth
q Liberace dies of AIDS but refuses to admits he had it
q Baby Jessica Falls into a well October 14, 1987
q Michael Jackson attempts to buy the bones of the Elephant Man
q Bruce Willis weds Demi Moore
q Condom commercials can be seen on tv for the first time
q Hot Toys: Koosh balls, Jenga, Couch Potato Dolls and talking Pee Wee Herman Dolls
q Johnny Depp gets his start on a show called 21 Jump Street
q The Simpsons!
q Tiffany tours Americas’ shopping malls
q Shelley Long’s character Diane leaves Cheers
q The Battle of the “Corey’s” begins – Feldman and Haim
q Sonny and Cher reunite on David Letterman
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