1994 MTV Video Music Awards 1994 MTV Video Music Awards The 1994 MTV Video Music Awards aired live on September 8, 1994, honoring the best music videos from June 16, 1993, to June 15, 1994. The show was hosted by Roseanne Barr at Radio City Music Hall in New York City, and this would be the last time there was a female host for the VMAs until Chelsea Handler hosted in 2010. Kurt Cobain, frontman of grunge band Nirvana, was honored this night after his death on April 5. Michael Jackson and Lisa Marie Presley opened the show by Michael giving a speech. They ended
Lisa Marie Abato in the lives of street youths), which sought to place an initiative on the 1994 California ballot that would ban pornographic film production & distribution in California. Lisa Marie Abato Holly Ryder (born December 23, 1966 under the name Lisa Marie Abato) was the stage name of an American pornographic film star until December 1992. Abato started in the porn business in 1990 after several lean years of waiting tables. By the end of 1991, though, the fear of AIDS and a growing desire to quit the adult film industry prompted her to appear in "specialty videos" (bondage films) where