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.

Craig Biggio debuted in June 1988, joining new prospects Ken Caminiti and Gerald Young.

* John Darling Young ( 1910 – 1988 ), Lord Lieutenant of Buckinghamshire, 1969 – 1984

Mark Davis, the 1989 league leader in saves ( 44 ) and boasting a 1. 85 earned run average while earning the 1989 National League Cy Young winner and back-to-back All-Star selections ( 1988, 1989 ) with the San Diego Padres, became a free agent at the close of the 1989 season.

* Mountain Language ( Young Woman )-( Lyttelton ) National Theatre, West End ( 1988 )

The original series ran from 1971 until 1988 and was hosted by musician Johnny Young.

Over the original run of the show, from 1971 to 1988, there were a total of 40 Young Talent Team members.

But probably the biggest Young Talent Time concert took place in 1988.

The Final Concert Tour: Johnny Young, The Young Talent Team and The New Generation performed a series of concerts just before Christmas 1988.

Venues included the Perth Entertainment Centre, The Seagull Stadium on the Gold Coast, Memorial Drive in Adelaide, the Sydney Entertainment Centre and a final concert at the Melbourne Tennis Centre on 23 December 1988, the same night that the last episode of Young Talent Time went to air on Network Ten.

In 1988 Johnny Young finally realised his long-held dream of shooting an episode of the show in America.

A two-hour special " Young Talent Time at Universal Studios " aired on 13 August 1988.

In 1988 Johnny Young launched an American version of the show re-titled " The New Generation ".

* Dear Pup Letters To A Young Dog Diana Pullein Thompson ( Barrie & Jenkins, 1988 )

The duo would use characters similar to Richie and Eddie in The Young Ones ( Rick and Vyvyan, 1982 – 1984 ); The Dangerous Brothers ( Richard Dangerous and Sir Adrian Dangerous, 1985 ); Filthy, Rich and Catflap ( Richie Rich and Eddie Catflap, 1987 ); Mr. Jolly Lives Next Door ( names not mentioned, 1988 ); and finally in their adaptation of Waiting for Godot ( 1991 ).

On 13 March 1988, The 77s performed with The Alarm and House of Freaks at the Fillmore Auditorium in San Francisco, California, entertaining patrons such as Neil Young.

In 1988 legendary folk music guitarist Doc Watson and Bill Young started the MerleFest music festival in Wilkesboro, the county seat.

The tavern site of one of the reported gang members — Samuel Young of Marion County — was excavated by archaeologists working for the Illinois Department of Transportation in 1988 prior to its destruction by a highway project

* Used as Windsor Castle in the Doctor Who episode Silver Nemesis ( 1988 ), in The Madness of King George ( 1994 ), in Victoria & Albert ( 2001 TV serial ), and in The Young Victoria ( 2008 ).

In 1988, legendary, Grammy-winning guitar player Doc Watson joined with singer Bill Young to start the MerleFest music festival.

Editing Doug Moench's The Wanderers, Berger was joined on issue # 5 ( Oct 1988 ) by co-editor Art Young, who would also later be instrumental in the formation of Vertigo.

Art Young joined Karen Berger to edit pre-Vertigo issues of Animal Man ( from issue # 3 ), Hellblazer and Swamp Thing on issues cover-dated November 1988.

Gene Palmer, Randle Walker ; 1971, Mike Buchanan, Lindsey Roberts ; 1972, Rueben Bussey, Bobby Price, Avery Downing ; 1973, Maurice Jones ; 1974, Coach Ben Pannel, Roy Green, Bobby Hunt, Stanley Lawrence ; 1975, James Brack, Bobby Mowrey, Jerry Malone ; 1976, Pres Young, Rex Scroggins, Dick Ford ; 1977, Robert Knight ; 1979, Jackie Walker, Gregg McNeal ; 1980, Windy Haggard, Syd Keasler, Zell Roberts, Wilber Ingram ; 1981, Kenny Rowe, Martin Luther King Jr, Danny Malone ; 1982, Jimmy Killion, Gene Grammer ; 1983, David Powell, Jerry Bunt ; 1984, Doug Floyd, Ken Jones ; 1985, Mike Trice, Scooter Taylor ; 1986, Brian Koechel, Bryon Lawrence ; 1987, Donald Taylor ; 1988, Jimmie Tallant ; 1989, Tommy Roberts ; 1990, Chris Shafer, Larry Gideon ; 1991, Randy Clark, Clifford Shaw ; 1992, Jimmy Lynn Grimes, Ricky Lawrence ; 1993, Linty Ingram ; 1995, Jeff Brownlee, Ron Gideon ; 1996, John Martin ; 1997, Rob Floyd ; 1998, Steve Green, Patrick Gill ; 1999, J. B. Rodgers ; 2000, Les Langley ; 2001, Rodney Flake ; 2002, Donnie Muckleroy

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.

She was nominated for the Best Young Actress Guest Starring In A Television Series award at the eleventh annual Youth in Film Awards in 1988 and 1989.