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17 Jul, 2002

Thornton, Jolie divorce

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Jolie files for divorce, stating in her petition that the couple has been separated since June 3, and requesting full custody of the couple’s adopted son Maddox. Jolie says:

It was a real deep connection, a deep marriage, so it’s not that simple to say this or that one thing caused the problems. It’s clear to me that our priorities shifted overnight. We’re not divorced yet. We’re going through a difficult time. I’m not sure what will happen.

4 Jul, 2002

Roberts, Moder marry

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JR DMRoberts exchanges vows with her cameraman boyfriend Moder during a midnight ceremony at her ranch outside Taos.  The bride wears pale pink cotton halter dress embroidered with pearls, antique beads and hand painted with flowers.

I hope that there are people who agree that I have done some good, kind things in my life, but to really, ultimately, stand fully in a moment of realizing that I was born to love and to be the wife of this man.

24 Jun, 2002

Lopez, Judd divorce

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Lopez and Judd divorce after nine months of marriage. There were rumors that Lopez starting dating Ben Affleck during the course of her marriage to Judd. Source:

Their splitting up does not involve any other person, period. It’s never been an issue. Jennifer is very monogamous.

21 Jun, 2002

Minority Report

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Spielberg directs a science fiction film thriller starring Tom Cruise, Colin Farrell, and Samantha Morton. The film is set in a futuristic world were special psychics called “precogs” inform police about crimes before they are ever committed.

I went to Scott Frank for the screenplay. He wrote Get Shorty and Out of Sight. I gave him the original short story by Philip K. Dick and he said he didn’t know anything about science fiction. I said, ‘Let me worry about the sci fi element. Just write a terrific detective yarn’.

Minority Report Trailer

20 Jun, 2002

Sy’rai Iman Smith is born

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Brandy and Smith welcome their first child Sy’rai Iman Smith on Father’s Day. Brandy decided to air her pregnancy and birth on MTV’s Diary Presents: Brandy — Special Delivery. Publicist:

A daughter, named Sy’rai, was born to the former teen star and her producer-husband Robert Smith.

6 Mar, 2002

Mother dies

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oscar-pistorius-motherSheila Pistorius passes away. Pistorius says that sport is the only thing that helps him get through the experience. His aunt:

Sheila valued each of her children for their individual talents and was proud of them. Strict, loving, spontaneous and always game for fun, she was also a devout Christian who brought her children up to observe the Christian way of life, something she tried to demonstrate in her own relationships. She was open about Oscar’s disability and shared her experience in bringing Oscar up in order to encourage other parents of disabled children. Oscar has continued her legacy of helping others.

21 Feb, 2002

Prince Michael Jackson II born

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aPrince Michael Jackson II, whose nickname is Blanket, is born San Diego, CA.  He is the third child born to Jackson and he has two older half siblings, Prince and Paris. His mother’s identity is unknown and he is the result of artificial insemination.

12 Jan, 2002

O’Brien, Powel marry

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O’Brien weds advertising executive Liza Powel in her hometown of Seattle, Washington. The couple met in 2000 during a skit rehearsal for the TV talk show host’s Late Night program and dated for 18 months before deciding to tie the knot. The ceremony is held at St. James Cathedral and officiated by the TV host’s friend and Harvard roommate, Fr. Paul O’Brien. On meeting his bride:

I did know very quickly. Somewhere in the vaults at NBC, there’s footage of me literally falling for my wife on camera. She’s incredibly beautiful. She’s very intelligent, and funny, and a really good person and so the nice thing is that, that was the basis of the relationship. So, I just knew.

17 Dec, 2001

Brooks, Mahl divorce

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Brooks and Mahl’s divorce is final.

The main thing [is] you can stop being husband and wife, but you don’t stop being mom and dad. You can’t. Because these babies, they didn’t ask to be brought in the world. You brought them in here.

2001

Relationship with Woods

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rosamund-pike-relationship-woodsPike begins a relationship with Woods while studying at Oxford. She has not previously dated often:

I don’t sleep around … I’m not saying they’re the only people I’ve been out with. But I take love quite seriously. I’m talking about the life-changing ones, the ones who somehow get inside you, who actually alter your chemical make-up, where you get butterflies and feel like your stomach’s turning over – a whole physical world which you’re not in control of at all. And I think one is lucky when one gets to feel this. Some people I don’t think ever do.

29 Nov, 2001

George Harrison dies age 58

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Harrison dies age 58 from cancer, at a friend’s home in Los Angeles, with his wife, Olivia, and son, Dhani, by his side. were with him. Family statement:

He left this world as he lived in it, conscious of God, fearless of death, and at peace, surrounded by family and friends. He often said, `Everything else can wait but the search for God cannot wait,’ and `love one another.’

29 Sep, 2001

Lopez, Judd marry

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jloLopez and Judd marry in a private ceremony in Calabass, CA. Judd:

It was love at first sight. I told myself I was going to marry this woman.

31 Aug, 2001

Funeral

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Aaliyah’s white casket is transported by a horse drawn, white carriage from Campbell Funeral Home to St. Ignatius Church. Dash and other celebrities walk behind the carriage. Tons of fans crowded the streets to pay their respects. Jay-Z, P. Diddy, Busta Rhymes, and Timbaland are among the many mourners. Timbaland:

She was like blood, and I lost blood.

Aaliyah's Funeral (Aug. 31, 2001)

27 Aug, 2001

Autopsy

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An autopsy reveals that Aaliyah suffered serious trauma after the plane crash that left her and eight others dead. The singer was killed by severe burns and a blow to the head. Pathologist:

Aaliyah went into such a state of shock, even if she had survived the crash, recovery would have been near impossible.

25 Aug, 2001

Aaliyah Haughton dies in plane crash age 22

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Investigators find Aaliyah and eight others dead in a Bahamas plane crash. In route to Miami, the Cessna 402 crashes shortly after takeoff.  The Cessna’s pilot and video crew get into an argument before takeoff over the weight of the equipment and passengers. The pilot admits the plane is overloaded but takes off anyway. Aaliyah dies instantly in the crash while one victim dies later in a Miami hospital. Emil Wilbekin, editor-in-chief of Vibe magazine:

I think Aaliyah was the next Jennifer Lopez, the next Whitney Houston, the next Madonna, the next Janet Jackson.

29 Jun, 2001

A.I. Artificial Intelligence

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Spielberg directs this science fiction film based on a screenplay by Stanley Kubrick. A young boy who is actually a robot lives in a futuristic society where machines have become essentially sentient. Haley Joel Osment, Jude Law, and Frances O’Connor star.

I would speculate that Stanley [Kubrick] would have made and told much the same story I told because I based my screenplay on a 90-page treatment [concept] Stanley had prepared from all of his own ideas.

27 May, 2001

Cruz, Nelson marry

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Cruz marries Nelson. The Couple met while working for George W. Bush’s campaign in 2000. Nelson:

Ted is very much a visionary. He is very strategic, and he’s very practical, and he does what needs to be done, not what everybody wants him to do.