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Dec 25, 2000 Vol. 54 No. 27

Talk of the Year

December 25, 2000

Cover Story

Talk of the Year

Prince William Turns 18, Drew Barrymore Conquers Hollywood and Michael J. Fox Fights Parkinson's Disease in Our 25 Most Intriguing People of 2000

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Table of Contents

Articles

Celeb Picks

No Need to Get Snippy About It. Every Vote Gets Counted as Stars and Our Critics Pick Their Favorite TV Shows, Books, CDs and Movies

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Best of Tube

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Worst of Tube

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Best of Screen

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Worst of Screen

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Best of Song

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Worst of Song

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Best of Pages

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Worst of Pages

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George W. Bush

Although It Took Him Time to Find Himself, He Now Finds Himself on the Brink of the Presidency

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Michael J. Fox

His Battle with Parkinson's Disease Leads to a Challenging New Role

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Sarah Jessica Parker

Her Naughty-but-Nice Routine Has Viewers All Worked Up Over Sex and the City

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Venus Williams

The Shining Star of Women's Tennis Plays with a New Passion

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Meg Ryan

A Romance with Russell Crowe Capsizes Her Good-Girl Image

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Prince William

Britain's Dashing Young Royal Enters Adulthood and Makes Himself Heard

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Eminem

Was the Defiant Rapper's Bestselling LP a Poetic Masterpiece or a Musical Hate Crime?

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Gloria Steinem

After Insisting She Wasn't the Marrying Kind, Feminism's Golden Girl Finally Took the Plunge

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Steve Case

The Pied Piper of the Internet Draws in the World's Largest Media and Entertainment Company

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James Gandolfini

Mixing Sangfroid with Gang Freud, He Gives Us a Don with Demons

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Alex Rodriguez

The Shortstop Who'll Never Be Caught Short Reigns as the Richest Ballplayer Ever

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Renee Fleming

Lots of Singers Have Been Called Divas—but She's the Real Thing

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Hillary Rodham Clinton

The Outgoing First Lady Lines Up Her Next Job: Senator from New York

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Florida

Sure, There Are 50 States. But in This Year's Presidential Race, One Mattered Most

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Shawn Fanning

The Napster Became the Recording Artist Music Execs Most Want to Nab

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Tiger Woods

The World's Best Golfer Is Rewriting the Record Books

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Ben Stiller

A Movie Hero Specializing in Humiliation Makes Off with the Year's Top Comedy

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Darva Conger

A Wrong Turn at the Altar Led to Wedding Bell Blues—and a Silver Lining

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Elian Gonzalez

Rescued from the Sea, He Became a Child Wanted by Two Families—and Two Nations

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Anna Werner

Never One to Tread Lightly, This TV News Sleuth Sparked the Bridgestone-Firestone Tire Recall

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Jennifer Aniston

The Friends Star Said 'I Do' to a Hefty New TV Paycheck—and the Sexiest Man Alive

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The Rock

Wrestling's Self-Proclaimed People's Champion Packs a Wallop Both in and Out of the Ring

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J. Craig Venter

Combining Science with Business, He Ran Ahead of the Pack in the Race to Decode the Human Genome

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Drew Barrymore

After a Lifetime of Pain, This Angel Karate-Chops Her Way into Calling the Shots on Cloud Nine

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Richard Hatch

The Man Who Proved the Victor on Survivor Gave New Meaning to 'Naked Ambition'

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Sequels 2000

Some of the Year's Best Stories Left Us in Suspense. Here's What Happened Next

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Breakthroughs 2000

Say Their Names! This Year, Pop Group Destiny's Child, Actress Kate Hudson, Tennis Player Marat Safin and Nine Other Rising Stars Took the Stairway to Success

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It Happened This Year!

True-Life Events Stranger Than Fiction!

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Tributes 2000

Entertainers, Statesmen, Writers, Athletes: Legends and Leaders of Every Stripe Are Remembered by Those Who Knew Them

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Dress of the Year

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Also In This Issue

Mailbag

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Inside People

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