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Dates: during 2000-2000
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It is uncertain that any kid of reading age in the English-speaking world slept during the first week of July as the midnight Friday release of Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire drew near. At the Book People bookstore in Austin, Texas, three young Harry wannabes were mesmerized...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Year's Arts | 12/31/2000 | See Source »

The sultry Viennese actress was more than just a pretty face: in the U.S. in 1942, she co-patented technology inspired by the first of her six husbands, an arms dealer who sold to the Nazis, that prevented radio signals from being jammed. The patent's ideas foreshadowed secure cellular...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LIFE Remembers | 12/31/2000 | See Source »

More than merely "the man of a thousand faces," a designation first bestowed when he played eight characters, including a woman, in the 1949 comedy Kind Hearts and Coronets, Sir Alec was the living embodiment of his many roles. A literate memoirist and self-effacing gentleman, he represented the quintessence...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LIFE Remembers | 12/31/2000 | See Source »

Dame Barbara Cartland 98 Her 723 romance novels sold more than a billion copies.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LIFE Remembers | 12/31/2000 | See Source »

It was a strange, and ultimately sad, year for iconic lesbian couples. Actresses Ellen DeGeneres and Anne Heche, above, kept it simple: they laughed, they danced, they broke up. For director Julie Cypher and rocker Melissa Etheridge, things were more complex: they too split, but only after announcing, earlier in...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Year's People | 12/31/2000 | See Source »

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