Timelines for year 1997
Alfre Woodard
As of September 13, 2003, she now holds the record of being the most honored African American actress in Primetime Emmy history. Until her win (as Outstanding Guest Actress in a Drama Series for "The Practice" ), she was tied with Cicely Tyson at three Primetime Emmys apiece. She won her first Primetime Emmy in 1984 as Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series for a three-episode guest stint on "Hill Street Blues" , as the mother of a young boy accidentally killed by a police officer. Her second Primetime Emmy came in 1986 as Outstanding Guest Performer in a Drama Series (a category which has since been split into male and female equivalents) for the "Pilot" episode of "L.A. Law" playing a woman dying of leukemia who claims to have been a victim of gang rape. In 1997, she won her third Primetime Emmy for Miss Evers' Boys (TV) against stiff competition from the likes of Meryl Streep, Glenn Close and Stockard Channing.
Helen Mirren
Before marrying director Taylor Hackford in 1997, she had lived with him in Los Angeles since 1986.
Macaulay Culkin
Father hands sole custody of Macaulay and his siblings over to their mother. Parents never married and mother filed for custody.
Reports claim the Culkin family could soon be homeless. Control of Macaulay's finances have been removed from the family and placed in the hands of his accountant.
Meg Ryan
Lost the lead role in Washington Square to Jennifer Jason Leigh
Ranked #94 in Empire (UK) magazine's "The Top 100 Movie Stars of All Time" list.
Sarah Buxton
She is American and Canadian (father from Canada and mother Noelle from USA). She got a Canadian citizenship in 1997 and now she has a dual citizenship (for both USA and Canada).
She is friends with Adrienne Frantz since many years back and she is also friends with Susan Ward, Krissy Carlson and Vanessa Dorman (before she left "Sunset Beach" ).
Tilda Swinton
Gave birth to twins, a daughter named Honor Byrne and a son named Xavier Byrne, in 1997.
Michael Jackson
In 1997, Jackson released an album of new material coupled with remixes of hit singles from the "HIStory" album titled "Blood on the Dance Floor: HIStory in the Mix". He dedicated the album to his friend Sir Elton John, who had helped him through his addiction to prescribed painkillers. It went on to sell 6 million copies worldwide, making it the biggest selling remix album of all time.
Inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1997 (as a member of the Jackson 5).
Wife, Debbie Rowe, gave birth to a son in Beverly Hills, named Michael Joseph Jackson Jr.
In 1997 a survey declared Jackson the most famous person in the world, ahead of Pope John Paul II and then US President Bill Clinton.
Jennifer Lopez
She was named one of People magazine's Fifty Most Beautiful People for 1997
Was the first Latina actress to be paid $1 million for a movie role (Selena ).
Chosen by "People" magazine as one of the 50 Most Beautiful People in the World.
At the movie wrap party for Selena , on October 28 1996 in San Antonio, the star played an unexpected love scene when her boyfriend Ojani Noa grabbed a microphone and proposed to her in the middle of the dance floor, presenting her with a large marquis-cut diamond ring. She said, "Yes."