"Death of an Icon" ABC's take on Kurt Cobain's suicide

We recorded this on April 18, 1994. It's from an old ABC news show called "Day One" and it was reporting on Kurt Cobain's suicide which happened 10 days earlier. Cobain, of course, was the frontman of Nirvana who ended his life with a self-inflicted shotgun wound to the head. His body was found on April 8, 1994.

They named the segment "Death of an Icon" and they actually did a pretty decent job on covering Kurt Cobain's life, death, and the days that followed. They interviewed a bunch of fans, critics, writers, and musicians during those sad days. And they kind of summed up who that generation was and how they were coping. Damn, I miss those days....

Luckily, we recorded more videos during the hours and days of this tragic event which we'll be posting soon.......

RIP Kurt


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Video Title: (April 18, 1994) Kurt Cobain's suicide "Death of an Icon" (ABC news segment)
Event: Nirvana's singer Kurt Cobain's suicide
Original Air Date: April 18, 1994
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AZT and me

Since we're on the subject of drugs, here's a drug that was a "major breakthrough in AIDS therapy in the 1990s that significantly altered the course of the illness and helped destroy the notion that HIV/AIDS was a death sentence".

A few years before the release of this commercial, we have a memory as kids where we were in our local bowling alley and we were lobbing cheese puff balls up into the air and then catching them in our mouths. Most we caught but some landed on the floor, of course, but we would still pick them up and eat 'em.  One 80s bowler dude didn't like that and scolded us! He said "You know.... you can get AIDS from that!". Back then we believed him but when we grew up we realized how untrue that statement really was. Everyone knows that you can only get AIDS from having sex with cheese puff balls. DUH!

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Video Title: (1990) 1st HIV AIDS treatment (AZT) - "World News Tonight" 90's TV commercial 
Product: AZT AIDS treatment
Original Air Date: 1990
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Carlos the Jackal & Saddam Hussein on American TV

Interesting. All I know is that Saddam Hussein was captured on my birthday. Yeah and it was really snowy in Northeast America that day. Remember that?


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Video Title: (1990) Carlos the Jackal ABC News "Primetime Live" - 90's TV commercial
Product: Carlos the Jackal ABC News "Primetime Live"
Original Air Date: 1990
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If you can't stand the heat, get out of the courtroom

Wow. This promo is only 30 seconds long but it somehow fits the greatest one-liners into a nice package. Here they are:

1. Law this hot...should be criminal
2. We haven't even slept together yet
3. You've had 6 weeks to get a performance out of your client
3. Deciding who shall live and who shall die isn't easy
4. I never really appreciated pool as a spectator sport...Appreciate This!!...Objection!!!!
5. You are so gorgeous! It's probably one of the biggest mistakes in my life
6. If you can't stand the heat, get out of the courtroom

Wow. That's some radical shit. Period.


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Video Title: (1990) Equal Justice (Sarah Jessica Parker) - 90's TV commercial
Product: "Equal Justice" movie trailer
Original Air Date: 1990
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Remembering Marilyn Monroe

She was definitely hot. That's all I gotta say.


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Video Title: (1988) "Remembering Marilyn" - 80's TV commercial
Product: ABC special "Remembering Marilyn"
Original Air Date: 1988
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TERI HATCHER CLEAVAGE ALERT!

Anyone remember "The Brotherhood" tv series from 1990? This show was "an inside look at the day-to-day events of a contemporary crime family and the strike force that tries to bring it down."

A young Teri Hatcher starred in this TV show and she's showing some cleavage. Look quick or you'll miss Teri Hatcher's cleavage!!

"Under Cover" made-for-TV-movie Promo

"Under Cover" was a made-for-TV-movie that was based off of the short lived TV series "Under Cover". John Slattery who plays Roger Sterling from "Mad Men" is in this movie! We have a feeling that not too many people have seen this movie. Have you?

Mr. Shoop as John Dillinger

Here is a "Dillinger" TV promo that was recorded in 1990. Mark Harmon stars in this made-for-TV-movie which was broadcast in January of 1991. We know this actor as Mr. Shoop in "Summer School" but most people know him as Special Agent Jethro Gibbs in "NCIS". Patricia Arquette also stars in this. We never saw this movie. Have you?