time capsule/nov. 7, 1991

AT THE MOVIES, Disney's big-budget gangster picture Billy Bathgate, with Dustin Hoffman and Nicole Kidman, opens to lukewarm reviews and a weekend box office take of only $4.1 million. The so-called movie event of the year, based on E.L. Doctorow's best-seller, finishes fourth, behind The People Under the Stairs, Curly Sue, and Highlander 2: The Quickening. IN BOOKSTORES, Stephen King's Needful Things follows Alexandra Ripley's Scarlett on the fiction best-seller list. King's latest book, Bag of Bones, debuted at No. 1. IN MUSIC, Prince's ''Cream'' is rising to the top of the Billboard singles chart. In 1993, he changes his name to [Artist Formerly Known As Prince]. AND IN THE NEWS, Paul Reubens -- a.k.a. Pee-wee Herman (left) -- pleads no contest to charges of indecent exposure, following his arrest in a Sarasota, Fla., adult-movie theater.