Timelines for year 1988
Sting
Sting and his wife, Trudie Styler, founded the Rainforest Foundation in 1988.
His album "Nothing Like The Sun" won the British Phonographic Industry Award for British Album in 1988.
Tiffani Thiessen
Tied with another girl, Tiffany Weber, for the crown of Teen Magazine's Great Model Search 1988.
Won Teen Magazine's Great Model Search
Frank Oz
Has directed two of his Star Wars cast mates in otherwise unrelated films: Ian McDiarmid (Palpatine/Darth Sidious) appeared in Dirty Rotten Scoundrels and Terence Stamp (Supreme Chancellor Valorum) appeared in Bowfinger .
Michael Jackson
He was the highest earning singer of 1988-1989, with $125 million from his worldwide "BAD" album tour.
Jackson was seen by a record 500,000 people during his seven day stand at Wembley Stadium in July 1988.
Moonwalker was certified as the all-time top selling music video in March 1989.
Winner of the British Phonographic Industry Award for International Solo Artist in 1988.
Despite a number of surgeons' claims that Jackson has undergone multiple nasal surgeries as well as a forehead lift, thinned lips and cheekbone surgery, Jackson wrote in his 1988 autobiography "Moon Walk" that he only had two rhinoplastic surgeries and the surgical creation of a cleft in his chin, while attributing puberty and diet to the noticeable change in the structure of his face.
Has his look-alike puppet in the French show "Les guignols de l'info" .
Frances McDormand
Was nominated for Broadway's 1988 Tony Award as Best Actress (Play) for a revival of Tennessee Williams' "A Streetcar Named Desire."
Bill Murray
Was considered for the role of Eddie Valiant in Who Framed Roger Rabbit . The part eventually went to Bob Hoskins.
His mother died in 1988.
Appeared in Scrooged with all three of his brothers.
Candice Bergen
In 1995, after receiving her 5th Emmy Award for her role as Murphy on "Murphy Brown" , she declined any future nominations for that role. She received a total of 7 consecutive nominations for the role.
She made instant headlines in 1992 when then Vice President Dan Quayle criticized "Murphy Brown" for creating the storyline of Murphy having a baby out of wedlock. Quayle suffered a fair amount of backlash and ridicule for his remarks and "Murphy Brown" continued to be a highly popular show, right up to its last season in 1998.
Measurements: 33-24-34 (as starlet), 34-25-35 (during "Murphy Brown" ) (Source: Celebrity Sleuth magazine)
Betty White
Received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 1988. The star is next to her late husband, Allen Ludden,'s star.