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- <title>
- Dec. 26, 1994: The Best & Worst People of 1994
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1994
- Dec. 26, 1994 Man of the Year:Pope John Paul II
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- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- THE BEST & WORST OF 1994, Page 157
- The Best and Worst People of 1994
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- <body>
- <p>1. Mr. and Mrs. Michael Jackson.
- </p>
- <p> Who could have predicted that the world-famous man-child would someday renounce his bachelorhood?
- While still under investigation for allegedly molesting a 13-year-old
- boy, the self-designated King of Pop married Lisa Marie Presley,
- daughter of the King, in what many perceived as an attempt to
- cleanse his tarnished image. However, only a few months after
- the newlyweds kissed steamily at the MTV Video Music Awards,
- gossip columnists buzzed that the marriage would soon be nullified,
- a rumor the Jacksons deny.
- </p>
- <p>2. Roseanne and Tom Arnold
- </p>
- <p> They perfected the Hollywood divorce as hideously indecorous
- spectacle. There were public shouting matches, nasty accusations
- leveled and retracted. Yet the couple apparently suffered few
- lasting emotional wounds: Tom is now engaged to a college student;
- Roseanne will soon marry her Tom-sized chauffeur-bodyguard.
- </p>
- <p>3. Prince Charles
- </p>
- <p> Having given up playing polo, he took up a more American pastime:
- public confession. On TV and later in a biography, the Prince
- admitted to infidelity and whined that his father had bullied
- him into marrying Princess Di. Innumerable articles asking,
- "Whither the British Monarchy?" followed.
- </p>
- <p>4. Paula Jones
- </p>
- <p> Not exactly Audrey Hepburn, but sort of attractive in her low-rent
- way, she was this year's bimbo-with-an-agenda. Claiming that
- President Clinton had made unwanted advances toward her years
- ago, Jones sued him for $700,000. In a classy move, a former
- boyfriend supplied nude photos of her to Penthouse.
- </p>
- <p>5. Hugh Grant
- </p>
- <p> He arrived as neither a leather-jacketed Johnny Depp knock-off
- nor a mall-stud Tom Cruise clone. Instead, the Londoner brought
- urbane sex appeal back to the screen. Womankind swooned at Grant's
- portrayal of a befuddled, beguiling wit in Four Weddings and
- a Funeral.
- </p>
- <p>6. Brian ("Kato") Kaelin
- </p>
- <p> A punch line to so many O.J. jokes, the overly moussed aspiring
- actor was the most memorable witness during Simpson's hearings.
- A caretaker at the football star's L.A. estate, Kaelin unintentionally
- lightened the grim proceedings by testifying with a surfer's
- vapidity. Throughout, one imagined his agent thinking, "If there's
- a God, Baywatch will call."
- </p>
- <p>7. Richard Gere and Cindy Crawford
- </p>
- <p> After months of aggressively denying that their relationship
- had foundered, celebritydom's most fetching couple admitted
- to a split. Last May they bugled their love for each other in
- a $30,000 newspaper ad and scoffed at separation rumors even
- as each of them was photographed with other stunning companions.
- </p>
- <p>8. David Caruso
- </p>
- <p> With his bartender good looks, the NYPD Blue star became TV's
- reigning Everyguy sex symbol. But his dreams were grander. Caruso
- shocked fans when he left the show after just one season to
- pursue movie stardom.
- </p>
- <p>9. Courtney Love
- </p>
- <p> Alternative rockers are notoriously mopey, but Love's husband
- Kurt Cobain took the attitude to a tragic extreme and killed
- himself with a shotgun. Months later, Love revealed the couple's
- horrifying original plan: to commit a double suicide following
- the birth of their daughter.
- </p>
- <p>10. Nadja Auermann
- </p>
- <p> A former Berlin waitress, the statuesque bottle-blond owes her
- success to the decision by the fashion industry that Valkyries
- sell clothes better than do waifs. In an impressive coup, she
- was on the September cover of both Vogue and Harper's Bazaar.
- </p>
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- </article>
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