Fire Walk With Me's Current Events - What was going on in 1992?

Episode 31B: Top 13 movies this weekend, #1 TV show on release date, in the news this day & TIME cover/articles this week

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0:00 INTRO clip from Frog trailer

1:40 PREMIERE AT CANNES FILM FESTIVAL on May 16, 1992

2:55 U.S. PREMIERE AT TWIN PEAKS FEST IN WASHINGTON on August 16, 1992

3:58 FILM CONTEXT: wide release on August 28, 2017; box office: $1.8 million weekend, $4.2 million North American total; debuts & box office: #13 Buffy the Vampire Slayer, #12 Howards End, #11 Freddie as F.R.O.7, #10 Sister Act, #9 3 Ninjas, #8 Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me, #7 A League of Their Own, #6 Rapid Fire, #5 Death Becomes Her, #4 Single White Female, #3 Pet Sematary II, #2 Unforgiven & #1 FILM Honeymoon in Vegas & #1 TV SHOW: 20/20 & ratings compared to Twin Peaks (10:55)

11:31 WORLD EVENTS: Hurricane Andrew & George Bush's re-election campaign

14:29 TIME COVER: Woody Allen

21:46 OTHER TIME ARTICLES: "family values"/culture war, Israeli sayeret forces, letters about the Olympics, Soviet privatization & more

34:07 OUTRO clip from Pat Buchanan's RNC speech

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EPISODE LINKS

Freddie the Frog (FRO7) Trailer (video) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q2Odfz8Nu40 (apparently the whole film is online too: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FaH1j_5Ke48)

Browse a visual copy of the entire May 21, 1990 TIME Magazine: https://time.com/vault/issue/1992-08-31/page/1/

My recent Olympic film round-ups https://www.lostinthemovies.com/2021/08/the-olympic-series-full-directory.html

Pat Buchanan "Cultural War" speech (video) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2olwuAy3_og

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