Stayin' Alive
In March, New York City mayor Rudy Giuliani epitomized the spoofing spirit of the media mafia's Inner Circle dinner. Things got heavier fast as the mayor learned he had prostate cancer, revealed he had a girlfriend, separated from his wife and nixed his prospective U.S. Senate campaign against Hillary Clinton.
The Big One-Eight
On June 21, while most of the royals attended a party thrown by Queen Elizabeth II for the Queen Mother, Princess Margaret, Princess Anne and Prince Andrew--who in the days and weeks ahead would turn 100, 70, 50 and 40, respectively--Prince William spent his 18th birthday studying for finals at Eton. With his passage into young manhood, Di's son is fair prey for paparazzi.
One Size Fits All
"I'm sure nobody is looking at me," said David Duchovny as he served as a Grammy presenter alongside Versace-draped Jennifer Lopez (seen at right after the show with always-in-trouble beau Puff Daddy). Matt Stone could sympathize with Duchovny after escorting his South Park co-creator Trey Parker to the Oscars, above.
Post the Post-Nuclear Family
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 the year, that their two kids had been sired with the donated sperm of David Crosby. Bi-sexual tri-partite custody?