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...everyone knows, the 21st century--and with it, the third millennium--will not really start until January 1, 2001. This past year, the Year 2000, was simply irrelevant. Yet few are celebrating this milestone; we've already had one millennium celebration in the last 12 months, and no amount of persuasion will convince the populace that the calendar started in the Year 1, not the Year 0. Besides, television executives have already filled their quota of network specials on the Vikings or King Ethelred the Unready...
...look back? Because it's time: this Dec. 31, the second millennium will really end. And because the past, as recalled and transformed in classical and pop art, is the wisest guide to what lies ahead. Thus we codify the year's pleasures in 10 Best lists, to determine which artifacts in the hall closet of recent memory are worth saving...
...Broadway theater, the new millennium has started on a note of musical diminuendo. With the demise of Cats, the soon-to-be-missing Miss Saigon and the lack of any new hits from Andrew Lloyd Webber or the Les Miz team in years, the era of the Brit-generated mega-musical seems all but over. Happily, straight plays seem to be filling the gap. Demanding dramas like Michael Frayn's Copenhagen have become unlikely Broadway hits, while the Manhattan Theatre Club, an off-Broadway stalwart, successfully transferred two strong works, Proof and The Tale of the Allergist's Wife...
...SIMS It's the Game of Life for the millennium. You control a family of suburbanites. You go to work, you cook dinner, you mow the lawn--no aliens, no spaceships, no rocket launchers. How do you win? You don't--you just try to stay happy. Kind of like real life...
...output of new fiction from big-name veteran authors, all producing energetic work at age 60 or older: Margaret Atwood, Saul Bellow, Doris Lessing, Joyce Carol Oates, Edna O'Brien, Philip Roth, Susan Sontag, John Updike. The year also brought posthumous books by Joseph Heller and Mario Puzo. The millennium has so far been generous to readers. In with the new! In with...