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...were going to win the World Series, Marion Jones was going to win five gold medals and Tommy Lee was going to win Pamela Anderson's heart back. No, no, no and no. Even when it seemed like something happened this year, it didn't. Elian looked at Disney World and went back home. We kept our Miranda rights. Those missing top-secret computer hard drives at Los Alamos were behind the copy machine. Nobody, it turned out, married a multi-millionaire...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 2000 That Was The Year That Wasn't | 12/31/2000 | See Source »

Initially, the concern was that Time Warner would give AOL preferential or exclusive access to its cable network. That would disadvantage other Internet service providers, all of whom are looking to cable as the most versatile broadband delivery alternative. Companies like Disney complained that in addition to limiting open access, the new company might restrict interactive TV (ITV) services over TW cable. Then a roster of instant-messaging companies charged that AOL was preventing any competitor's messages from penetrating AOL's proprietary IM architecture. By the fall, when AOL Time Warner had initially estimated they would close the deal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Score One For AOLTW | 12/25/2000 | See Source »

...Elian (now 7) after the November 1999 Cuban-refugee-boat sinking that killed his mother, was as intractable as a religious schism. To his father Juan Miguel, in Cuba, the Miami relatives who took Elian in were kidnappers, buying the boy's love with chocolate milk and trips to Disney World. To the relatives and their vocal, anti-Castro, Cuban-American supporters, Juan Miguel was a dupe or worse who sought his son's return to hell. The father talked about strafing his adversaries with a rifle. The relatives dared the government to take Elian by force. Finally it came...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Class of 2000 | 12/25/2000 | See Source »

This feature-length cartoon writhed for four years in development hell (or as they say at Disney, Development Heck) before its title was changed from Kingdom of the Sun, its scope narrowed from spectacle to intimacy, its tone altered from the dramatic to the brashly comic and all but one of its songs scrapped. There were other ominous signs: Disney didn't blanket the TV air with commercials; and Spade, in a recent visit with Jay Leno, was loath to mention his new movie. All of which meant, in the end, nothing; the film is a funny, breezy romp...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Twelve Films Of Christmas | 12/25/2000 | See Source »

...bras that peek above her sweaters--they're more colorful than a Disney cartoon production number. They also provide the movie's only true uplift...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The 2000 TIME Current Events Quiz | 12/25/2000 | See Source »

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