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TIME CAPSULE
SEPT. 4, 1993
The Fugitive, starring Harrison Ford (right) and Tommy Lee Jones and based on the '60s TV series, outruns its competition. The $184 million-grossing film will spawn a sequel, scheduled for 1998: U.S. Marshals, in which Jones will return as lawman Sam Gerard. REGGAE OCTET UB40 hit No. 1 with their fifth Top 40 cover: Elvis' ''Can't Help Falling in Love,'' which itself had peaked at No. 2 in 1961. ARDENT READERS keep Robert James Waller's The Bridges of Madison County on the best-seller list for the 55th straight week (out of 161). In 1995's film, directed by Clint Eastwood, the ex-Dirty Harry would play Sensitive Guy photographer Robert Kincaid. ROSEANNE BEGINS ITS sixth season in TV's top 4. Four years later, as the sitcom ends, its eponymous star would land her own syndicated talk show, to debut in 1998. AND IN THE REAL WORLD, Polish Pope John Paul II pays his first visit to the former Soviet Union, landing in Lithuania 606 years after the region adopted Catholicism.
