The 1998 A & E Entertainment Almanac

by Rowen, Beth; Moses, Robert

• ISBN13: 9780395882771
• ISBN10: 039588277X
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1997-11-01
• Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Summary

Packed with the latest trivia, reviews, background facts, Web sites, television shows, video games, performing arts, and more than six hundred photographs, a guide provides readers with a complete reference to what's hot in the entertainment world. Original.

Table of Contents

THE YEAR IN ENTERTAINMENT	2	(26)
Calendar	2	(24)
1996-1997 Prime-Time Emmy Awards	26	(2)
BIOGRAPHY	28	(40)
BIOGRAPHY	28	(27)
Gone but Not Forgotten	55	(13)
MOVIES 1996-1997	68	(106)
THE SEARCH FOR INTELLIGENT LIFE AT THE MOVIES	68	(2)
Peter Travers
1996 National Society of Film Critics Variety's Top 20 Domestic	70	(1)
Moneymakers of 1996	71	(1)
1996's Top 20 Moneymakers in Foreign Markets	71	(2)
The Movies of 1996-1997	73	(18)
1996 Broadcast Film Critics Association Awards	91	(1)
Broadcast Film Critics Association's Top 10 Films of 1996	91	(3)
1996 National Board of Review Awards	94	(7)
1996 Golden Globe Awards	101	(3)
1996 National Film Registry Selections	104	(3)
49th Annual Directors Guild of America Awards	107	(1)
Overlooked Movies	107	(5)
1996 Independent Spirit Awards	112	(8)
1996 New York Film Critics Circle Awards	120	(10)
1996 Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards	130	(1)
1996 Boston Society of Film Critics Awards	130	(20)
1996 Academy Awards	150	(2)
INDEPENDENTS' DAY	152	(2)
Peter Travers
Exhibitor Relations's Top 200 Movies of 1996	154	(4)
Movieline's 100 Best Foreign Films	158	(9)
1997 British Academy of Film and Television Awards	167	(1)
Major International Film Festivals	168	(4)
STARS SHINE BRIGHT AT CANNES FETE	172	(1)
Mary Corliss
1997 Cannes Film Festival Winners	173	(1)
MOVIE REFERENCE	174	(146)
The Academy Awards	174	(121)
Oscar Trivia	295	(2)
Multiple Oscar Winners and Nominees	297	(1)
Cannes Film Festival Winners	298	(14)
Exhibitor Relations's Top 100 All-Time Box-Office Hits	312	(1)
National Film Registry	313	(1)
Movie Timeline	313	(2)
U.S. Colleges and Universities Offering Graduate Degrees in Film	315	(2)
Film Museums and Archives	317	(1)
Motion Picture Producers and Distributors	317	(1)
Movie Magazines and Journals	318	(2)
MUSIC 1996-1997	320	(60)
Pop Tots	320	(4)
Melinda Newman
Major Music Festivals	324	(4)
1996 Billboard Chart Toppers	328	(3)
Top 10 Touring Acts of 1996	331	(3)
Overseas Hits	334	(7)
Top 20 Concert Grosses of 1996	341	(1)
Significant Recordings of 1996-1997	342	(5)
30th Annual Country Music Association Awards	347	(1)
1996 Inductees to the Country Music Hall of Fame	347	(7)
RETROMANIA	354	(1)
Tim Riley
1997 Inductees to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame	355	(1)
1996 Blues Foundation Hall of Fame Inductees	356	(1)
1996 Grammy Awards	357	(3)
Rolling Stone's 1997 Readers and Critics Polls	360	(1)
The RIAA's Top-Selling Albums of 1996	361	(1)
1996 Radio & Records Charts	362	(5)
1996 Down Beat Readers Poll	367	(1)
1996 Jazz Hall of Fame Inductee (Readers Poll)	367	(1)
1997 Down Beat Critics Poll	368	(1)
1997 Jazz Hall of Fame Inductee (Critics Poll)	368	(1)
1996 Gramophone Awards	369	(1)
1997 Pulitzer Prize in Music	369	(1)
500 Songs That Shaped Rock	370	(7)
Must-Have Recordings	377	(3)
MUSIC REFERENCE	380	(116)
The Grammy Awards	380	(5)
Music by Mail	385	(20)
Hard-to-Find Classical Recordings	405	(19)
Multiple Grammy Winners	424	(4)
Country Music Association Awards	428	(5)
Down Beat Critics Poll	433	(2)
Down Beat Jazz Hall of Fame (Critics Poll)	435	(21)
Pulitzer Prize in Music	456	(1)
Gramophone Awards	457	(9)
Radio & Records All-Time Charts	466	(14)
Music Timeline	480	(3)
RIAA's Top-Selling Certified Albums of All Time	483	(4)
Blues Foundation Hall of Fame	487	(3)
The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame	490	(2)
The Country Music Hall of Fame	492	(1)
Major Record Labels	493	(1)
Music Magazines and Journals	494	(2)
BROADCASTING 1996-1997	496	(32)
TABLOID TELEVISION	496	(2)
Lewis Grossberger
RATINGS RUT	498	(2)
Lewis Grossberger
1996 George Foster Peabody Awards	500	(1)
1996 Golden Globe Awards	501	(1)
Fall 1996 Television Schedule	502	(2)
1996-1997 Broadcast Premieres	504	(2)
1996 CableACE Awards	506	(4)
1996-1997 Daytime Emmy Awards	510
1996-1997 Prime-Time Emmy Awards	26	(487)
1996 Alfred I. duPont -- Columbia University Awards in Television and Radio Journalism	513	(3)
Fall 1997 Television Schedule	516	(2)
1997-1998 Broadcast Premieres	518	(3)
49th Annual Directors Guild of America Awards	521	(1)
1995 Inductees to the Television Hall of Fame	521	(2)
1996-1997 Prime-Time Nielsen Ratings	523	(2)
DAYTIME GETS DOWN AND DIRTY	525	(1)
Javier Mateu
Groundbreaking Storylines	526	(2)
BROADCASTING REFERENCE	528	(62)
The Emmy Awards	528	(35)
All-Time Top Emmy Winners and Nominees	563	(1)
Television Hall of Fame	564	(1)
What We Watched	565	(9)
Broadcasting Timeline	574	(1)
Broadcast and Cable Television Networks	575	(5)
National Public Radio U.S. Member Stations	580	(3)
National Public Radio Suppliers	583	(2)
National Radio Networks	585	(1)
What Do They Look Like?	586	(2)
Television and Radio Magazines and Journals	588	(2)
HOME ENTERTAINMENT 1996-1997	590	(44)
COMING OF AGE	590	(2)
Andrew Kantor
1996 Home Entertainment Profile	592	(1)
Major On-Line Services	592	(1)
PC Magazine's Top 100 Web Sites	593	(5)
1996 Cool Site of the Year Awards	598	(1)
Top World Wide Web Advertising Sites	599	(1)
Top World Wide Web Advertisers	599	(4)
Recommended Search Engines	603	(2)
Recommended Internet Sites	605	(4)
1996 Billboard Video and Laserdisc Charts	609	(3)
Significant Videos of 1996-1997	612	(4)
Home Video Library	616	(7)
Classic Movies on Video	623	(1)
Foreign Films on Video	624	(2)
Significant Laserdiscs of 1996-1997	626	(3)
MAY THE BEST GAME WIN	629	(2)
Chris Charla
Best Next-Generation Videogames	631	(1)
Best-Selling Videogame Software of 1996	632	(1)
Best-Selling Software of 1996	633	(1)
HOME ENTERTAINMENT REFERENCE	634	(10)
All-Time Video and Laserdisc Charts	634	(1)
All-Time Software and CD-ROM Bestsellers	635	(1)
On-Line News Resources	636	(2)
On-Line News Alternatives	638	(2)
Multimedia Timeline	640	(1)
Video, Games and New Media Magazines and Journals	641	(3)
PERFORMING ARTS 1996-1997	644	(50)
BACKSTAGE BALLYHOO	644	(3)
Ross Wetzsteon
1997 Tony Awards	647	(1)
1996-1997 Touring Productions	648	(1)
1996-1997 Broadway Season Statistics	648	(1)
1996-1997 Broadway Premieres	649	(3)
1997 Outer Critics Circle Awards	652	(1)
1996 New York Drama Critics' Awards	653	(1)
The 63rd Annual Drama League Awards	654	(2)
1997 Drama Desk Awards	656	(5)
1996-1997 Major Off-Broadway and Off-Off-Broadway Productions	661	(1)
1996-1997 Obie Awards	662	(3)
1997 Lucille Lortel Awards	665	(2)
1996-1997 Major Regional Theater Productions	667	(4)
EN POINTE BLANK	671	(1)
Susan Reiter
1997 Dance Magazine Awards	672	(1)
1997 Capezio Dance Awards	672	(1)
12th Bessie Awards	673	(2)
1996-1997 Major Dance Events	675	(3)
Summer Music and Dance Festivals	678	(9)
WAITING ON A TREND	687	(3)
David Patrick Stearns
1996-1997 Opera Premieres and New Productions	690	(4)
PERFORMING ARTS REFERENCE	694	(60)
Tony Awards	694	(24)
All-Time Top Tony Winners and Nominees	718	(2)
The Obie Awards	720	(12)
New York Drama Critics' Circle Awards	732	(3)
Broadway's Longest-Running Shows	735	(1)
Broadway Season Statistics	736	(1)
Broadway Theaters	737	(1)
Capezio Dance Awards	738	(1)
Performing Arts Timeline	738	(1)
Major U.S. Dance Companies	739	(2)
Favorite Opera Stories	741	(9)
Top 20 Most Frequently Performed Operas	750	(1)
Major U.S. Opera Companies	751	(1)
Performing Arts Magazines and Journals	752	(2)
BOOKS AND MAGAZINES 1996-1997	754	(34)
DEATH AND DISTINCTION	754	(3)
David Streitfeld
1996's Longest-Running Bestsellers	757	(3)
1996 National Book Awards	760	(1)
1996 National Book Critics Circle Awards	760	(4)
Publishers Weekly's Best Books of 1996	764	(7)
1997 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction	771	(1)
1997 PEN Literary Award Winners	771	(2)
1997 Caldecott Medal	773	(1)
1997 John Newbery Medal	773	(2)
Bestsellers of 1997	775	(2)
1996 Nobel Prize for Literature	777	(1)
1997 Pulitzer Prizes in Letters	777	(1)
1996 Booker Prize	777	(1)
The Oprah Factor	778	(3)
SO YOU WANNA BUILD A WEB SITE?	781	(1)
Lamar Graham
Recommended On-Line Magazines	782	(2)
1997 National Magazine Awards	784	(1)
1996's New and Dead Magazines	785	(1)
Top 100 Consumer Magazines by Paid Circulation for the Last Half of 1996	786	(1)
1996s Top 100 Magazines by Revenue	787	(1)
BOOKS AND MAGAZINES - REFERENCE	788
National Book Awards	788	(6)
Pulitzer Prizes in Letters	794	(6)
Publishing Timeline	800	(2)
Nobel Prize in Literature	802	(2)
Best-Selling Children's Hardcover Books of All Time	804	(3)
Major U. S. Trade Publishing Houses	807	(1)
Book and Magazine Publications	808