Timelines for year 1993
Milla Jovovich
While filming the movie Dazed and Confused , she eloped with actor Shawn Andrews to Las Vegas. It was 1992 and a few months before she turned seventeen. Since she was only sixteen at the time, her mother had the marriage annulled.
Michael McKean
Along with Dean Cain, Patrick Cassidy, George Murdock and Richard Gant, he is one of only five actors to appear in both "Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman" and "Smallville" .
Has co-starred with wife Annette O'Toole as a married couple in at least two TV shows: "Boy Meets World" and "Law & Order" .
Janet Jackson
The film clip "Again" was originally supposed to have Janet wearing her PJ's when she was sitting near her bed because that's what she was wearing when she was writing the song for Poetic Justice .
The second member of the famous Jackson family to be nominated for an Academy Award - in 1994 as co-writer of the song "Again" from Poetic Justice . Michael was nominated in 1972 for the song "Ben" in the Best Original Song category.
Scarlett Johansson
First role (uncredited) was in a skit during the first year of "Late Night with Conan O'Brien" at age 8. She relived this moment during an interview with Conan on July 12, 2005, twelve years later.
Sting
Two of the songs he sang with The Police are also the titles of films starring Sandra Bullock: Demolition Man and Murder by Numbers .
Dolly Parton
In 1993 she was honored with the Country Music Association's very first "Country Music Honors" Award. As of 2009, she is still the sole recipient of this honor.
Bruce Lee
Is often honored in video games. In "Mortal Kombat" games, the character Liu Kang was an obvious tribute to Lee. Then, in Super Street Fighter II: The New Challengers (VG), a character named Fei Long was introduced, bearing an uncanny resemblance in both looks and fighting style to Lee. A lesser game, World Heroes (VG), also copied Lee as Kim Dragon. Lastly, the "Tekken" games did the tribute to him not once, but twice. First with Marshall Law, then with his son Forrest Law for the third installment of Tekken. Along with this, his fighting style was honored in Virtua Fighter Remix (VG) with Jacky Bryant, in Dead or Alive (VG) with Jann Lee and in the "Soul Calibur" series as Maxi.
Shannen Doherty
Appeared several times partially nude in Playboy magazine, one image is December 1993, others in safer sex spread in March 1994. Later posed once again on the cover of Playboy in December 2003.
Macaulay Culkin
His brother Rory Culkin, now an established actor in his own right, has played both Macaulay's little brother (in The Good Son and the younger version of Macaulay's character (in Ri¢hie Ri¢h ).
Meg Ryan
She and actor Tom Hanks have been co-stars in three movies as love interests: Sleepless in Seattle , Joe Versus the Volcano , and You've Got Mail
Peter Weller
Despite his vocal criticisms about the downhill direction the franchise was going in, as well as his physical discomfort wearing the suit, Weller admitted that he was willing to reprise the role of "RoboCop" in RoboCop 3 for the fans. However, he was already committed to doing Naked Lunch , so he had to pass.
Says that he has never seen RoboCop 3 .
Cher
She was the subject of an episode of "The X-Files" called "The Post-Modern Prometheus" (5X06; first aired November 3, 1997). This episode concerned a deformed man who adored Cher because of her role in Mask , in which her character cared for her deformed son. Several Cher songs appeared on the soundtrack of this episode, including "Gypsies, Tramps, and Thieves" and "The Sun Ain't Gonna Shine Anymore". At the end of the episode, Mulder and Scully take the Cher fan to a Cher concert, where they hear her sing her cover of "Walkin' in Memphis". Cher, an "X-Files" fan, was asked to play herself in this scene but declined the producers' offer. However, she revealed on The X-Files Movie Special (TV) that once the episode aired, she regretted not having appeared in it.
Michael Jackson
Performed at the ball for President Bill Clinton's first inauguration on 20 January 1993.
In January 1993 Jackson performed during the halftime show at Super Bowl XXVII. It drew the largest viewing audience in the history of American television.
Bill Murray
His performance as Phil Connors in Groundhog Day is ranked #48 on Premiere Magazine's 100 Greatest Performances of All Time .