1988
From The Art and Popular Culture Encyclopedia
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"The final scene in the film Cinema Paradiso[1] is a montage of deleted kissing scenes from the movies shown at the local movie theatre Cinema Paradiso, where the protagonist Salvatore used to hang out as a kid, keeping the old projectionist, Alfredo (Philippe Noiret), company. During Salvatore's childhood, the audience of Cinema Paradiso can frequently be heard booing whenever there are missing sections, causing the films to suddenly jump, bypassing a critical romantic kiss or embrace. These missing sections are "censored" for being 'pornographic' by the village priest. The deleted scenes are piled on the projection room floor. Most of them are kissing scenes. At the end of the film Salvatore takes home an unlabeled film reel and discovers that it is a very special montage. It contains all the deleted kissing scenes that the village priest ordered to be cut from movies. Alfredo spliced all the sequences together to form a single film sequence." --Sholem Stein |
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1988 (MCMLXXXVIII) was the 1988th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 988th year of the 2nd millennium, the 88th year of the 20th century, and the 9th year of the 1980s decade.
1988 was an important year in the early history of the Internet—it was the year of the first well-known computer virus, the 1988 Internet worm. The first officially sanctioned online commercial e-mail provider debuted as well.
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Art and culture
- Moviedrome premiered on BBC
- Deconstructivist Architecture exhibition at the MoMA
Literature
Fiction
- The Satanic Verses by Salman Rushdie
- Bad Behavior by Mary Gaitskill
- Foucault's Pendulum by Umberto Eco
Non fiction
- The Misfits: A Study of Sexual Outsiders by Colin Wilson
Film
- Drowning by Numbers by Peter Greenaway
- They Live by John Carpenter
- Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown by Pedro Almodovar
- Akira by Katsuhiro Otomo
- A Fish Called Wanda by Charles Crichton, John Cleese
- Dangerous Liaisons by Stephen Frears
- Dead Ringers by David Cronenberg
- The Milagro Beanfield War by Robert Redford
- The Vanishing [Spoorloos]by George Sluizer
- Story of Women by Claude Chabrol
- Miracle Mile by Steve De Jarnatt
Music
Todd Terry makes furore in New York, Detroit techno thrives and Balearic is being championed.
Singles
- Yeah Buddy by Todd Terry
- Samba De Flora by Airto Moreira
- Teardrops by Womack and Womack
- Different Trains by Steve Reich
- Calling You by Jevetta Steele
- Talkin' All That Jazz by Stetsasonic
- Good Life by Inner City
- Big Fun by Inner City
- It Takes Two by Rob Base & DJ E-Z Rock
- We Care a Lot by Faith No More
- Freak Scene by Dinosaur Jr.
- Big New Prinz by The Fall
- Rock to the Beat by Reese and Santonio
- In and Out of My Life by Adeva
Albums
- The Whitey Album by Ciccone Youth
- It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back by Public Enemy
- Straight Out the Jungle by Jungle Brothers
- Surfer Rosa by Pixies
- Songs About Fucking by Big Black
- Virgin Beauty by Ornette Coleman
Compilations
- Techno! The New Dance Sound Of Detroit by various
- This is Electronic Body Music by various
- James Brown Funky People vol 1 by various
Births
Deaths
- October 15 - Fornasetti (b. 1913)
- Raymond Williams (1921 - 1988)
- Sylvester (1947 - 1988)
- Jean Michel Basquiat (1960 - 1988)
- March 7 - Divine, American actor (b. 1945)
