Timelines for year 1991
Janet Jackson
Janet and long time boyfriend Rene were secretly married for nine years. They were married in March of 1991 and Rene filed for divorce in May of 2000.
Helen Mirren
Measurements: 36C-25-36 (starlet days), 38C-26-37 (on Prime Suspect (TV) - 1996), (Source: Celebrity Sleuth magazine).
Dolly Parton
Purchased her hometown radio stations in Sevierville, Tennessee in 1991. She owned and operated WSEV 930 AM and WDLY 105.5 FM, the FM station billed as 'Dolly's Station', until 2000 when she sold both radio stations. Stating at that time that she and her business partners had built up the audiences for both stations and could not take the stations to "the next level". Dolly first appeared on WSEV-AM when she as 10 years old. While owning the radio stations, WDLY-FM was broadcast every operating day from Dolly's Dollywood theme park in Pigeon Forge, Tennessee. The small section of the park dedicated to the radio broadcast was known as 'Radio Square'.
Macaulay Culkin
Attended WWF's (now WWE) WrestleMania VII (V) on March 24, 1991.
Became the first child actor to ever receive a million dollars for one film - and in a supporting role too! The film was My Girl .
Meg Ryan
Was offered the role of Clarice Starling, in the movie The Silence of the Lambs , that eventually went to Jodie Foster.
Peter Weller
Due to his work schedule on Naked Lunch , he was unable to reprise the role of RoboCop in RoboCop 3 .
Cher
Wanted to play Morticia in the The Addams Family , but the part went to Anjelica Huston.
Offered the part of Thelma in Thelma & Louise .
Michael Jackson
Starting with Black or White (V), Jackson and his record company refer to his music videos, before or since, as "short films," never "videos".
His 1991 album "Dangerous" is second to "Thriller" as the biggest selling album of all time, with over 20 million copies sold worldwide.
Dan Aykroyd
He and M. Night Shyamalan, are the only two men to direct themselves in performances that "won" them a Razzie Award for Worst Supporting Actor. Aykroyd "won" the award for, and also directed, the film Nothing But Trouble .
Mark Mothersbaugh
Long after the break-up of his band Devo, Mothersbaugh has gone on to become one of Hollywood's most respect film composers, having done the musical scores to all of Wes Anderson's scored films and the theme from the TV show, "Rugrats" , among others. He employs most of his former Devo bandmates for these projects.
Rachel Weisz
Studying English at Cambridge University, Weisz formed the Talking Tongues theater company and at 1991's Edinburgh Festival won a student drama award for a play she wrote and acted in.
Samuel L. Jackson
Was an admitted drug user until he completed drug rehab two weeks before playing a drug addict in Jungle Fever .
Edward Furlong
During the shooting of Terminator 2: Judgment Day , his voice changed and he had to loop all of his lines in quite a few scenes. He also grew quite a bit. At the beginning of shooting, he was a few inches smaller than his double and, at the end, he was a little bit taller than him. He even had to stand in a hole during the shooting of some scenes.
He reprised his Terminator 2: Judgment Day character, "John Connor", for the theme park attraction T2-3D, a short film filmed in a new 3-D process that makes the film really appear to jump out at you.
He was discovered by casting director Mali Finn at the Boys Club of Pasadena, and won the part of "John Connor" in the 1991 film Terminator 2: Judgment Day .