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MY BEST FRIEND’S WEDDING
Julia Roberts and Cameron Diaz
played rivals in 1997’s top-grossing
rom-com. For more movies, see p. 16.
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1997: A CAPTIVATING YEAR
From Hollywood to the
palace to the Internet:
Nothing was the same again
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STAR TRACKS
Will and Jada stepped out.
Paul McCartney became a Sir.
And then there were Matt
and Ben, a bromance for the ages
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MOVIE MAGIC
In the shadow of the Titanic,
we learned what the kids did last
summer (it was scary)
and how to be shagadelic, baby!
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TOPS IN TV
The watercooler chat: Buffy,
for sure. And Ally. And ER. And the
rude, crude laugh riot South Park
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MAKING MUSIC
Spicemania. Spicemania.
Spicemania. But also 14-year old
LeAnn Rimes and a
newly single Mariah Carey
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FASHION
Gorgeous red carpet looks!
Trends you might want to forget! Plus:
A supermodel makes history!
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IN THE NEWS
A shocked world mourned the death
of Princess Diana
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HEART MONITOR
Stars who got hitched—or got close.
Plus: More milestones
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CAPED CRUSADER
Remember George Clooney as Batman?
He wishes he didn’t
CONTENTS
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FOREVER FRIENDS
To atone for kissing Joey’s girlfriend,
Chandler spent Thanksgiving 1997
in a crate, in the classic Friends
episode “The One With Chandler in
a Box.” By the show’s end Joey
forgave his pal.
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INTRODUCTION
1997
A CAPTIVATING
YEAR
here’s much to buoying the movie biz and
celebrate about throwing open the world of
the 1990s, but special effects. Another
in many ways defining moment of 1997 was
1997, whose the death of Diana, Princess of
25th birthday Wales, in August. A shocked
we toast in this world mourned her passing
issue, is the ninetiest moment but also watched as the loss
of all the 1990s. The year set in motion events that
not only embodies what we shaped Buckingham Palace
love most about this crazy today. Future monarch Prince
decade—boy bands! girl William and his wife, Kate
groups! Monica and Ross!—it Middleton, are closely carrying
laid the groundwork for trends on Diana’s legacy at home
that are still playing out today. while the princess’s younger
Consider the singing son Prince Harry and wife
confection called the Spice Meghan Markle have put an
Girls. At first glance Ginger, ocean between themselves
Posh, Scary, Baby and Sporty and the intense scrutiny of
were a fun, fizzy antidote full-time royal life. So many
to the early-’90s grunge more of the year’s changes
sound. But the Spices also touch our lives daily: Steve
represented a bigger picture: Jobs returned to Apple
They were intentionally launching a decade of
different in looks, dress and innovation that gave us the
LASTING IMPACT
archetypes long before diverse iPhone. In September two
Who knew that
became a buzzword, and they Stanford grad students
25 years on we’d still be
previewed the power tipping registered a domain name talking about many of
toward women in pop and for an algorithm that could the events and people
that shaped 1997?
mainstream culture. Then search the internet for Web
But the year was a big
there was the Hollywood tidal pages and rank them in
one, with stories that
wave Titanic. At a cost of $200 terms of traffic. (Can’t warmed our hearts
(the McCaughey
million, the disaster epic remember what it was called?
septuplets) and that
both busted budget norms Google it.) So, yes, 1997
broke them (JonBenét
and redefined box office deserves a special
Ramsey); that fasc inated
expectations—it was the first celebration. It both encap- (Brad and Gwyneth)
and inspired (21-year-
flick to break the billion-dollar sulated the decade and set
old Tiger Woods
mark in ticket sales—all while the tone for the one to come.
winning the Masters).
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1997 PEOPLE
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A H ,
WA R D S
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S E A S O N
THAT WAS THEN
With then-girlfriend Jada
Pinkett, Will Smith arrived at
the Oscars and later joined his
Men in Black costar Tommy
Lee Jones to present the Best
Documentary awards .
BRUCE WILLIS AND DEMI MOORE STEPPED OUT FOR A RED CARPET DATE NIGHT.
MADONNA BEAMED FOR ARGENTINA. AND PLENTY OF OTHER STARS
LENT THEIR SHINE TO PARTIES AND AWARDS CEREMONIES. SEVERAL COUPLES
ON THESE PAGES HAVE SINCE SPLIT, BUT BEN & MATT ARE STILL BFF
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TO ‘SIR,’
WITH
LOVE
GOOD KNIGHT
Beatle Paul
McCartney, 54,
showed off his medal
after being knighted
by Britain’s Queen
Elizabeth for his
“services to music.”
Said Sir Paul: “It’s a
long way from a little
terrace in Liverpool.”
THE CAT IN THE HAT
Flamboyant NBA
star Dennis Rodman—dressed
relatively conservatively
for him—made the Academy
Awards scene with
actress Vivica A. Fox.
THE ENGLISH ACTOR
Nominated as Best Leading Actor for
The English Patient, Ralph Fiennes arrived
at the Oscars with then-wife
Francesca Annis in high spirits.
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T H E
W I N N E R
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MAKE ROOM ON THE BOOKSHELF
1. Laurence Fishburne (left) helped comedian Chris Rock celebrate
Rock’s two Emmys for his HBO special Bring the Pain. 2. Best Actor
winner Geoffrey Rush and Best Actress winner Frances McDormand
posed with their Oscars—his for Shine, hers for Fargo. 3. Celine Dion with
one of the two Grammys she won (Album of the Year, Best Pop Album)
for Falling Into You.4. At the Golden Globes Madonna was named Best
Actress in a Musical or Comedy for Evita (which also won Best Musical).
GOLDEN GUYS
Back East in New York City, actress-model
Lauren Hutton cast an appreciative eye on the
living Oscar statues at Entertainment Weekly’s
annual Academy Awards party at Elaine’s.
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