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2000 January 10 America Online agrees

to buy Time Warner, the largest

traditional media company in the

United States. The $165-billion deal

makes this the biggest merger in the

nation’s history and proves that the

Internet as a media tool is here to

stay.

2000 February 29 After 11 years of co-

hosting with Regis Philbin, Kathie Lee

Gifford announces she is leaving the

popular morning talk show Live with

Regis and Kathie Lee.

2000 August 23 Richard Hatch wins $1

million on the first season of the

phenomenally successful television

reality show Survivor. An estimated 51

million viewers tune in to the season’s

final episode.

2000 September 21 Barbara Walters

extends her contract with ABC and

becomes the highest-paid broadcast

journalist in history. She receives

$12 million annually.

2001 November 2 Pixar’s movie Mon-

sters, Inc. opens and takes in a studio

record-breaking $63.5 million in its

first weekend.

2001 November 10 Apple debuts the

iPod, thus transforming the music

landscape. As with the vinyl album,

8-track tape, and compact cassette

tape, the compact disc, or CD, is

quickly out of fashion.

2001 November 29 Former Beatles

member George Harrison dies after a

long struggle with cancer.

2002 January Famed fashion designer

Yves Saint Laurent announces his

retirement. During his career of over

forty years, Saint Laurent made pop-

ular the beatnik style of the 1960s and

the tailored pant suits of the 1970s.

2002 February 27 New recording artist

Alicia Keys wins five Grammy awards.

2002 September 4 Kelly Clarkson wins

the first season of American Idol with

58 percent of the vote.

2003 February 23 Singer Norah Jones

wins five Grammy awards, taking

home an award in every category for

which she was nominated.

2003 August 28 Performers Britney

Spears and Madonna shock the nation

when they share a French kiss on the

MTV Video Music Awards.

2003 October 3 Roy Horn, one half of the

entertaining duo known as Siegfried &

Roy, is critically injured while per-

forming with a tiger at The Mirage in

Las Vegas. Bitten on the neck, Horn

sustains major blood loss and even-

tually suffers a stroke and partial

paralysis, thus ending his career and

that of his partner.

2004 Actor Mel Gibson produces The

Passion of the Christ, a movie

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controversial for its portrayal of the

life of Jesus. Gibson is accused of anti-

Semitism, an accusation that recurs

after his 2006 arrest for drunk driving

during which he makes anti-Semitic

statements.

2004 February 1 Janet Jackson and

Justin Timberlake provide halftime

entertainment at Super Bowl XXXVIII,

during which a “wardrobe malfunc-

tion” causes Jackson’s right breast to

be exposed on live television.

2004 May 6 The popular sitcom Friends

airs its final episode after enjoying a

10-season run.

2005 The sixth volume in the beloved

bestselling Harry Potter series sets a

new record for a first printing while

the fourth movie in the series be-

comes the second-highest-grossing

film of the year.

2005 February Three former PayPal

employees collaborate to create

YouTube, a video-sharing Web site.

2005 November 1 RedOctane and

Harmonix Music Systems release

Guitar Hero, a music video game that

simulates the playing of a real guitar.

A series of similar games follows,

breathing new life into classic rock

songs for a new generation.

2005 December 9 Ang Lee’s romantic

drama, Brokeback Mountain, is re-

leased to both praise and criticism, as

the romantic and sexual relationship

portrayed is between two cowboys in

the American West.

2006 September 4 Australian Steve

Irwin, well-known as the “Crocodile

Hunter,” is killed by a stingray barb on

the Great Barrier Reef.

2006 October After 35 years as host, Bob

Barker tapes his last episode of the

popular game show The Price Is Right.

2006 December 2 Nintendo’s video

game console, the Wii, debuts in the

United States at a retail price of

$249.99. It outsells both the Xbox 360

and the PlayStation 3 combined

during the first six months of 2007.

2007 April 10 Jon and Kate Plus 8 airs on

TLC. The popular reality television

show features the Gosselin family,

which includes parents Jon and Kate

plus their eight children. The Gosse-

lins separate in 2009, and the show is

revamped as Kate Plus 8.

2007 November The Writers Guild of

America goes on strike, leaving view-

ers with a winter television season of

repeats and reality shows.

2008 The four books of the Twilight

series—fantasy romance novels with

a vampire theme—are the bestselling

novels of the year. Collectively, the

novels are on the New York Times

bestseller list for over 235 weeks.

The first Twilight movie debuts in

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November and earns $175 million by

mid-December.

2008 September 13 Comedienne and

actress Tina Fey entertains many

Americans with her television imper-

sonation of vice-presidential hopeful

and then-governor of Alaska, Sarah

Palin.

2009 June 25 King of Pop Michael

Jackson dies at the age of 50. Actress

Farrah Fawcett, age 62, dies the same

day.

2009 December 18 The epic science

fiction film Avatar premiers in the

United States, 10 years after its

original release date. It becomes the

highest-grossing film in North

American cinematic history.

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