The song was originally written for movie and recording star Divine, who was unable to record the song before his death in 1988.

The 1988 British made-for-TV movie More Bad News was another mocumentary about a rock band, in this case an incompetent heavy metal band.

President Ronald Reagan, who played George Gipp in the movie " Knute Rockne, All American ", gave an address at the Athletic & Convocation Center at the University of Notre Dame on March 9, 1988, and officially unveiled the Rockne stamp.

" In 1988, Waits performed in Big Time, a surreal concert movie and soundtrack which he cowrote with his wife.

The events surrounding the Jamaica bobsled team in 1988 would lead to the creation of the Disney movie Cool Runnings five years later which was based on Jamaica's 1988 bobsled team.

The John Hancock Center was featured in the 1988 movie Poltergeist III.

In 1988, a made-for-television movie entitled Breaking all the Rules: The Creation of Trivial Pursuit aired.

Porky has a cameo at the end of the 1988 Disney / Amblin film Who Framed Roger Rabbit ( 1988 ), where, paired with Disney's Tinkerbell, has the duty of closing the movie with his famous line " Th-Th-Th-That's All Folks !".

The 1988 movie, Tucker: The Man and His Dream is based on Tucker's spirit and the saga surrounding the car's production.

The event occurred in 1979, and the movie was released in 1988.

Though the 1986 movie The Golden Child implemented very crude morphing effects from animal to human and back, the first movie to employ detailed morphing was Willow, in 1988.

However, it was his then-unexpected turn in the film Die Hard ( 1988 ) that catapulted him to movie star status.

Due to the general perception of the character by audiences, Scrappy-Doo has not appeared in any Scooby-related spinoffs since the made-for-television movie Scooby-Doo and the Reluctant Werewolf in 1988, with three exceptions:

Willie the Giant makes a brief cameo in the 1988 film Who Framed Roger Rabbit on a poster in a movie theater in Toontown.

TNT, as a cable service, was launched with a showing of the 1939 classic movie Gone with the Wind ( to which Ted Turner had acquired the rights ), on October 3, 1988.

Sykes produced one further silent movie for Thames in 1988, Mr. H. Is Late, set at a funeral.

A covered bridge is also prominently featured in the story Never Bet the Devil Your Head, by Edgar Allan Poe and a dilapidated covered bridge serves as a major plot point in the 1988 movie Funny Farm.

Piglet also made a brief cameo in the 1988 movie Who Framed Roger Rabbit.

* In the 1988 movie Scrooged had a cameo as himself, acting in a movie directed by Bill Murray's character.

The crime and decades-long legal aftermath inspired the 1988 movie Mississippi Burning.

File: Chambers County, AL Courthouse ( NRHP ). JPG | The Chambers County Courthouse in LaFayette is featured prominently in the 1988 movie, Mississippi Burning.

* Coming to America ( 1988 )

Coming to America is a 1988 comedy film directed by John Landis.

In 1988 it featured scenes in the comedy hit Coming to America.

From 1988 to 1989, Johns played Trudie Pepper, a senior citizen living in an Arizona retirement community, in the sitcom Coming Of Age, opposite Alan Young, Phyllis Newman, and Paul Dooley ; the show lasted one season on CBS.

* The Herald of Coming Good by G. I. Gurdjieff ( 1933, 1971, 1988 )

From 1988 to 1989 Sly Stone wrote and produced a collection of unreleased recordings in his home studio in New Jersey, " Coming Back for More " and " Just Like A Teeter-Totter " are a part of that collection of about 20 songs.

Coming close to the record for a West Indian bowler of 35 wickets in a Test series ( set by Malcolm Marshall in 1988 ).

# The Coming of Wisdom ( 1988 ), ISBN 0-345-35292-0

In 1988, he co-starred in the comedy film Coming to America with Eddie Murphy.

* 1988: Riley Martin ( book, The Coming of Tan )

Martinez played with them from 1988 to 1994, and on albums such as Second Coming, Locked N ' Loaded Live in London, and idjit Savant.

In 1988, Ladysmith Black Mambazo sang an arrangement of " Mbube " during the opening sequence of the movie Coming to America, but the song was not released on the soundtrack.

* Parpola, Asko: 1988, The Coming of the Aryans to Iran and India and the Cultural and Ethnic Identity of the Dasas ; The problem of the Aryans and the Soma.

* In the 1988 movie Coming To America, the king of Zamunda ( played by James Earl Jones ) and his family stayed at the Waldorf-Astoria in the final New York – based scene in the movie ; disgusted at the squalor in Queens in which his son and his servant Semi ( Arsenio Hall ) are living, the King " punishes " the latter by ordering him to confine himself to the hotel's royal suite, where he is to be " bathed thoroughly " by the King's young female attendants.

* Vers Libres & Jeux Innocents, Le Livre a Venir ( 1988 ) -- translated as About Free & Games Innocents, The Book is Coming

* The 1988 movie Coming to America was primarily filmed on South 5th St in Williamsburg despite being set in Queens.

* The Culling Is Coming LP & CD ( 1983 ) Operation Twilight, reissue ( 1988 ) L. A. Y. L. A. H., ( 2003 ) Boutique

Coming into the last match of the 1988 season, against the Irish, England had lost 15 of their previous 23 matches in the Five Nations Championship.

* The Coming of the Cosmic Christ ( 1988 ) Harper San Francisco, ISBN 0-06-062915-0 ( 1988 ) HarperOne, paperback, ISBN 978-0-06-062915-1

Buchwald was also known for the Buchwald v. Paramount lawsuit, which he and partner Alain Bernheim filed against Paramount Pictures in 1988 in a controversy over the Eddie Murphy film Coming to America ; Buchwald claimed Paramount had stolen his script treatment.

LEXIS 634, was a breach of contract lawsuit filed and decided in California in which humorist and writer Art Buchwald alleged that Paramount Pictures stole his script idea and turned it into the 1988 movie Coming to America.

When the movie Coming to America was released by Paramount in 1988, Eddie Murphy was given sole story credit.

Coming into the last match of the 1988 season, against Ireland at Twickenham, England had lost 15 of their previous 23 matches in the Five Nations Championship.