April 22, 1988 — Sherilyn Fenn stars in ‘Two Moon Junction’
“Two Moon Junction” was a fairly forgettable erotic thriller from 1988. It actually had a fairly reasonable cast, featuring Louise...
September 24, 2014
Art & Culture
July 15, 1988 — “Die Hard” is released
Die Hard was the first film in what would become one of the most popular franchises of the last three...
September 19, 2014
August 31, 1988 — Albert Goldman’s “The Lives of John Lennon” is published
One of the most controversial celebrity biographies of its era, Albert Goldman’s “The Lives of John Lennon” was almost universally...
September 14, 2014
September 22, 1989 — Irving Berlin dies
Born Israel Isidore Baline, the composer better known as Irving Berlin was 101 years old when he died. His family...
September 4, 2014
January 15, 1990 — They Might Be Giants release “Flood”
They Might Be Giants’ third studio album, and probably their best known, “Flood” features their single best known song –...
August 14, 2014
April 5, 1990 — Kurt Cobain commits suicide
To his fans, and most other people for that matter, he must have seemed on top of the world. Why...
August 4, 2014
July 4, 1990 — “Die Hard 2: Die Harder” is released
The second film in the Die Hard series, this sequel went out of its way to draw attention to the...
July 29, 2014
June 19, 1991 — Bushwick Bill accidentally shoots himself in the eye
While under the influence of both PCP and Everclear (the drink, not the band), Bill accidentally shot himself in the...
July 4, 2014
September 17, 1991 — Use Your Illusion I and II are released
Simultaneously released, “Use Your Illusion” was a double album sold as two separate albums, and included some of Guns n...
June 24, 2014
February 27, 1992 — S.I. Hayakawa dies
A noted populariser of the ideas of Alfred Korzybski, especially general semantics, Samuel Ichiye Hayakawa was a Japanese-American academic. He...
June 14, 2014
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