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- <title>
- Jan. 03, 1994: The Best People Of 1993
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1993
- Jan. 03, 1994 Men of The Year:The Peacemakers
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- THE BEST OF 1993, Page 88
- The Best People Of 1993
- </hdr>
- <body>
- <p> 1
- </p>
- <p> Michael Jackson. His troubles have made l'affaire Woody a quaint
- and distant memory. The year began well for Jackson--a performance
- at Clinton's pre-Inaugural gala, a Super Bowl half-time spectacle,
- a TV chat with Oprah that conveyed to tens of millions the impression
- that he was just a regular guy who was dating Brooke Shields--but then came the summer of disaster. Charges of child molestation,
- criminal inquiries, an abandoned world tour, lawsuits, drug
- addiction, a bizarre disappearance and mysterious return have
- brought real-world, grownup horror to the owner of Neverland
- Ranch--horror he eventually had to confront. In a four-minute
- televised statement broadcast around the world from Neverland
- last week, Jackson, voice quivering, called the sexual-abuse
- allegations "disgusting," declared his innocence and said, "I
- do try to be Godlike in my heart."
- </p>
- <p> 2
- </p>
- <p> Julia Roberts
- </p>
- <p> Emerging unscathed from a rumor-filled pause in her career,
- Roberts, last seen in Hook in 1991, returned to the screen in
- The Pelican Brief, which opened huge in December. Earlier, in
- a spectacularly surprising and appealing move, she wed Lyle
- Lovett, music's quirkiest and most talented un-hunk.
- </p>
- <p> 3
- </p>
- <p> The Bobbitts
- </p>
- <p> Before their little spat made headlines, John and Lorena Bobbitt
- were just another unglamorous couple with a lot to work out.
- But on a June night--after, Lorena later claimed, John had
- raped her--she cut off his penis. The organ was surgically
- reattached, and all's well that ends in media bewitchment: John,
- acquitted of the rape, appears as a jovial guest on the Howard
- Stern Show, while Lorena, whose case is still pending, has become
- something of a feminist folk hero.
- </p>
- <p> 4
- </p>
- <p> Heidi Fleiss
- </p>
- <p> She was a new kind of madam, neither a rouged and overweight
- 60-year-old nor even a pedigreed East Coast socialite. Young,
- skinny and hip, Fleiss was charged with running a ring of high-priced
- L.A. prostitutes. She threatened to name names from her oversize
- appointment book and thereby threw Hollywood moguls (and presumably
- various Mrs. Moguls) into late-summer turmoil.
- </p>
- <p> 5
- </p>
- <p> Burt and Loni
- </p>
- <p> How did the magic unravel? After five years of marriage, Burt
- Reynolds sued Loni Anderson for divorce, and the subsequent
- conflict was extremely snarly. The high point--spectaclewise--came when Reynolds, on TV, challenged his ex to truth-serum
- and lie-detector tests to prove that she cheated on him before
- he cheated on her.
- </p>
- <p> 6
- </p>
- <p> Shannen Doherty
- </p>
- <p> If you were going to hate someone this year, fashion dictated
- that you hate Brenda Walsh, or more particularly the actress
- who plays her on TV's Beverly Hills 90210. That was easy. Old
- boyfriends called her rage prone, co-workers called her snotty,
- landlords called her a deadbeat. Unfortunately, marrying the
- 19-year-old son of George Hamilton--on a girlish whim--did
- nothing to help Shannen appear mature. Said to be generally
- just too much of a pain, she reportedly won't be asked back
- to 90210.
- </p>
- <p> 7
- </p>
- <p> Princess Di
- </p>
- <p> Indignity stalked her like a reporter from Hard Copy. First
- came Camillagate--the wide publication of transcripts of a
- racy phone call between Prince Charles and his mistress--then
- further revelations of steamy teletalk between Di and her own
- Squidgygate pal. As the year progressed, Di became more and
- more emotionally volatile, and soon after a tabloid ran secret
- photos of her working out on a weight machine, she announced
- her partial retirement from public life.
- </p>
- <p> 8
- </p>
- <p> John F. Kennedy Jr. and Daryl Hannah
- </p>
- <p> For months gossip columnists speculated about when and where
- America's prince would marry moviedom's most fetchingly bohemian
- blond. The choice the couple seems to have made was truly unexpected:
- a breakup.
- </p>
- <p> 9
- </p>
- <p> Kate Moss
- </p>
- <p> The breezy 98-pounder became the world's dominant beauty, reflecting
- the most dramatic change in tastes since the arrival of her
- waifish forebear Twiggy. But Moss was also vexed by controversy,
- being blamed for prompting anorexia among admiring girls.
- </p>
- <p> 10
- </p>
- <p> Barbra Streisand
- </p>
- <p> Earlier in the year she was the most visible partner in the
- love affair between Hollywood and Washington: she sang for Bill
- Clinton, she dined with Janet Reno, she buddied up to Colin
- Powell. Somewhere along the line, Streisand shifted gears from
- Political Animal to Very-Well-Paid Vegas Casino Act, making
- two multimillion-dollar New Year's appearances at MGM's Grand.
- </p>
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- </article>
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