1990 Faves & Raves

''Seeing the Janet Jackson concert. It was unbelievable: the staging, the music, the performance, everything. I'll remember it forever. And I guess the highlight of this year for me was meeting her in person.''
Tevin Campbell
Singer

''The most memorable event that happened this year is the phenomenal success of rap — M.C. Hammer, Fresh Prince's TV show, and House Party, out first movie.''
Kid 'N Play
Singers
Christopher Martin, Christopher Reid

''I think that there wasn't enough to remember. That's really the truth.''
Elizabeth Swados
Playwright

''Dances With Wolves is a great movie. And Goodfellas.I love Scorsese and Bob De Niro. The work of Bob De Niro is extraordinary.''
Gérard Depardieu
Actor, Cyrano de Bergerac

''Mike Ovitz's ascension to the top rung. Now he is dealing not just with performers but, being responsible for the Sony deal (buying Columbia) and the Matsushita deal (buying MCA/Universal), he is dealing with commercial giants internationally.''
Army Archerd
Columnist, Daily Variety

''The highlight in entertainment this year was reading the novel The Quincunx by Charles Palmer.''
Roger Ebert
Movie critic

'''I love Paris' (sung by Les Negresses Vertes). It's a song on the new Red Hot + Blue Cole Porter tribute album. And the Pogues' song ('Miss Otis Regrets/Just One of Those Things,' with Kristy MacColl). I heard it this week and it's great.''
Tim Robbins
Actor, Jacob's Ladder

''Seeing the guy from Guns N' Roses (Izzy Stradlin) pissing in the aisle of a commercial airline.''
Don Was
Producer and singer, Was (Not Was)

''The dramatic opening of Eastern Europe and the immediate demand by Eastern Europeans for all that we have come to take for granted in the free world. It is as if major population is playing an incredibly intense game of catch-up, simply soaking up as much Western culture as possible as quickly as possible.''
John C. Holt
Chairman and CEO, A.C. Nielsen Co.

''The good things that will stand out in my mind this year are my acting debut in Goodfellas and my Grammy. The bad thing is that I lost a good friend at CBS when they let (President/CEO) Walter Yetnikoff go.''
Frank Dileo
Former manager of Michael Jackson

''I was making At Play in the Fields of the Lord in the Amazon. They were turning the rain forest into cattle pastures during the burning season. What I'll remember most is travelling to and from the locations by riverboat and seeing the sun, blood red, and the skies filled with smoke from the fires.''
Kathy Bates
Actress, Misery

''My favorite thing is Bette Midler's song 'From a Distance' (with the lyric 'God is watching'). Just think of God watching people — He must laugh once in a while.''
Victoria Jackson
Actress, Saturday Night Live

''The first time I saw myself being played on screen by Ron Silver (in Reversal of Fortune). I'll probably remember that for a lifetime. He made me believe he was me.''
Alan Dershowitz
Defense attorney for Claus Von Büllow

''The most memorable event was when I was in London in November and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles opened on the same day that the prime minister, Margaret Thatcher, resigned.''
Kevin Eastman
Cocreator, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles

''The tremendous amount of attention that (ABC's) Twin Peaks received and the pleasure of doing something different and seeing it work.''
Robert A. Iger
President, ABC Entertainment

''I think what the camera did to Michelle Pfeiffer in The Fabulous Baker Boys wins the hot ticket for the year, and I'm not a straight guy.''
Craig Lucas
Writer, Longtime Companion

''What's entertainment. I don't have time for it. I'm too busy working.''
Bo Jackson
Athlete

''The homeless food and toy drive that we did. Where we live, you see a lot of underprivileged kids every day, and it's sort of sad when you see that and you're really successful. It makes you feel a lot better to be doing something about it.''
Rapahel Wiggins
Tony of R&B group Tony! Toni! Tone!