Happy 110th birthday to Frank Zamboni, who left us in 1988 but still resurfaces periodically.
In the summer of 1988, I received an interesting call from Bill Gates at Microsoft. He asked whether I'd like to come over and talk about building a new operating system at Microsoft for personal computers. [. . . ] What Bill had to offer was the opportunity to build another operating system, one that was portable [. . . ].
I left school December of 1988. I was 21 at the time. And I hadn't quite finished my degree because I had done eight semesters, not understanding that I was going to have to finish the degree without the TAPP and Pell grant money that I had been using towards paying for much of my college tuition. And I didn't have any money. So I said, "Alright. " And circumstances there were such that I thought it was maybe time to move on anyway.
When I used to work for Reverend Jesse Jackson he would say, "You've got to know the rules in order to break the rules. " The 1988 campaign of Reverend Jesse Jackson made fundamental changes to the way Democrats do business.
I was very obsessed with Ruth Gordon. I really didn't foresee me having any type of career as a leading lady at all because it was just blonds. I just wasn't the type - I was told that by casting directors. I auditioned for Running on Empty [1988] and The Mosquito Coast [1986], and Martha Plimpton was just killing me.
That's why I made a comeback in 1988. I knew there were chances of not making it, but I didn't want to end up at sixty years old and say I should have tried when I was thirty-eight.
I had been writing professionally since 1988
I established my bank in 1988.
[I've worked as a guard at Rikers Island] from 1988 to 1990.
Michael Cera was born in Canada in 1988 at the tender age of zero.
I grew up in the suburbs of Cleveland in 1988 and there was just one year where suddenly all of the delivery kids that used to be boys were suddenly girls. It happened at our church too. Altar boys were suddenly altar girls. There was just this sense that all these young women knew there were openings here to be the first of their kind.
When I was in third grade I taught myself ventriloquism. . . What's hard is to learn to be an entertainer and make people laugh. I was a few years out of college before I felt I had enough material. Then in 1988 I moved to L. A. and started to do some shows at comedy clubs.
People do have viewing patterns, and you disrupt those at your own peril. That's something that everybody learned after 1988. The numbers have gone down every year since that strike. Big time.
1988 I also received from the city of Vienna the cross of honour for art and science. These titles and the various honors mean a great deal to me, most of all for the reason that they would mean a great deal to my parents too.
By 1988, I was living in New York myself.
I've actually been doing stand up for more than 20 years. I started in 1988. It's almost 30 years! Which is crazy.
Let me just tell you how thrilling it really is, and how, what a challenge it is, because in 1988 the question is whether we're going forward to tomorrow or whether we're going to go past to the - to the back!
I did a pilot for Anything But Love in 1988 that didn't sell.
This is old school Drive-By Media treatment: take my comments out of context; play 'em for people on the street; go interview the obligatory feminazi, roll video from 1988 of me, and the end of the story then pops up. This is how to media operated, folks, before their monopoly was broken.
When I started out I was definitely more traditional. It was 1988. Everyone was doing the Jerry Seinfeld.
