Event of Interest
Jan 1 Barbra Streisand & Jon Peters relationship breaks up
Barbra Streisand
- Jan 15 Living Seas opens (Disneyland)
Event of Interest
Jan 23 "Jerome Kern Goes to Hollywood" opens at Ritz Theater NYC for 13 performances
Jerome Kern
Golden Globes
Jan 24 43rd Golden Globes: "Out of Africa", Jon Voight, & Whoopi Goldberg win
Whoopi Goldberg
Jon Voight
- Feb 2 "Jerome Kern Goes to Hollywood" closes at Ritz NYC after 13 performances
Event of Interest
Feb 5 Corazon Aquino & Ferdinand Marcos appear on "Nightline"
Corazon Aquino
Ferdinand Marcos
Film Premier
Feb 8 The crime film "A Better Tomorrow", starring Yun Fat Chow, premieres in Hong Kong
Yun Fat Chow
- Feb 14 36th Berlin International Film Festival: "Stammheim" wins the Golden Bear
Event of Interest
Feb 18 Anti-smoking ad airs for 1st time on TV, featuring Yul Brynner: he died of smoking-induced lung cancer on 10th October 1985
Yul Brynner
- Feb 27 The United States Senate allows its debates to be televised on a trial basis
Film and TV Awards
Mar 13 12th People's Choice Awards: Sylvester Stallone & Meryl Streep win (Motion Picture) and Bill Cosby, Linda Evans win (TV)
Academy Awards
Mar 24 58th Academy Awards: "Out of Africa", William Hurt & Geraldine Page win
Geraldine Page
William Hurt
WrestleMania
Apr 7 WrestleMania II at 3 locations: Hulk Hogan beats King Kong Bundy; Mr. T beats Roddy Piper in a boxing match
Hulk Hogan
Mr. T
Election of Interest
Apr 8 Clint Eastwood elected mayor of Carmel, California. Makes his day.
Clint Eastwood
- Apr 9 TV show "Dallas" announces it will revive killed Bobby Ewing character
Event of Interest
Apr 21 Geraldo Rivera opens Al Capone's vault on live TV and finds nothing, except great ratings for his spectacle
Al Capone
Geraldo Rivera
- Apr 27 Captain Midnight (John R MacDougall) interrupts HBO
Pripyat: Nuclear Wasteland
Apr 28 Soviet TV news program Vremya announces a nuclear accident at Chernobyl nuclear power station, 2 days after the event
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Event of Interest
May 16 "Top Gun", directed by Tony Scott and starring Tom Cruise premieres
Tom Cruise
Event of Interest
May 22 Cher calls David Letterman an asshole on Late Night on NBC
Cher
David Letterman
- Jun 11 "Blacke's Magic" last airs on NBC-TV
Event of Interest
Jul 17 Emmy 13th Daytime Award presentation - Susan Lucci loses for 7th time
Susan Lucci
Film Release
Aug 22 "Stand By Me" film based on the novella by Stephen King, directed by Rob Reiner starring Wil Wheaton, River Phoenix, Corey Feldman, and Jerry O'Connell is released
River Phoenix
Stephen King
- Aug 28 Largest wrestling crowd in Canada (69,300) at Toronto Stadium
Event of Interest
Aug 28 American rock singer Tina Turner's star unveiled at Hollywood's Walk of Fame; Hollywood, California
Tina Turner
- Aug 30 43rd Venice Film Festival: "Le rayon vert" directed by Eric Rohmer wins Golden Lion
Event of Interest
Sep 1 Jerry Lewis' 21st Muscular Dystrophy telethon raises $34,096,733
Jerry Lewis
- Sep 6 300 invitees pay $5,000 to hear Barbra Streisand's benefit concert
- Sep 7 NBC premiere of "The French Connection" film based TV sequel "Popeye Doyle"
- Sep 12 Limited U.S. premiere of film adaptation of Marsha Norman's play "'Night, Mother"
Event of Interest
Sep 12 "Blue Velvet" directed by David Lynch, Starring Isabella Rossellini, Kyle MacLachlan and Dennis Hopper debuts in Toronto
Emmy Awards
Sep 21 38th Emmy Awards: "The Golden Girls", "Cagney & Lacey" and Michael J. Fox win
Michael J. Fox
Betty White
Television Premiere
Oct 9 "The Late Show with Joan Rivers" premieres on Fox, first woman to host a US late-night TV talk show
Joan Rivers
- Nov 13 Giselle Jeanne-Marie LaRonde of Trinidad, 23, crowned 36th Miss World
Event of Interest
Nov 15 2nd time "Saturday Night Live" uses a time delay (Sam Kinison hosts)
Film Release
Dec 19 "Platoon" directed by Oliver Stone and starring Charlie Sheen, Tom Berenger and Willem Dafoe is released (Academy Awards Best Picture 1987)
Charlie Sheen
- Dec 27 2nd Soap Opera Digest Awards - Days of Our Lives wins