The phenomenon of Hryshkovets people Shirley McMyrley Publication date: December 28, 1999 An sentimental, insecure, bespectacled young man from the provinces finally conquered Moscow. Actually, he began to win her over last year, showing his monologue “How I Ate the Dog.” But this year, good luck - both secular and creative - simply rained down on him.

This is not a movie Shirley McMyrley Publication date: December 28, 1999 The main events of the past year were the most expensive and cheapest American-made films. George Lucas spent 115 million greenbacks on the new Star Wars series. The authors of "The Blair Witch Project" got by with forty thousand bucks, earned through the labors of the righteous transporting furniture, posting advertisements and gluing together commercials.

The usual course of things Dmitry Stakhov Publication date: December 28, 1999 (an attempt at a Christmas story) This absolutely true story happened quite recently. A friend told it to me, a truthful person and not at all prone to fantasies. And it all happened to his close friend, an employee of a large construction company, a dedicated technician. If it weren't for the infernality and creepiness, it could be called "Yuletide".

Ideal portal: the user's sweet dream Irina Terentyeva Publication date: December 28, 1999 How to make the Internet convenient? How to turn it into a truly effective tool? What is the best way to structure network resources and services? The questions are far from idle.

Everything will be very good Olga Kabanova Publication date: December 28, 1999 The year is ending. No matter how we try to sum up the twentieth century, it is very important for the development of visual culture - one art was born and improved (cinema), another flourished and withered (photography, which has now completely exhausted itself artistically), screen images (television and the Internet) captured the eyes of the masses the whole world - nothing could be clarified.

How you celebrate the New Year is how you will spend it Alexandra Livergant Publication date: December 28, 1999 There is nothing left before the New Year, and the capital is already busy with the problem of celebrating this important date. The Moscow government works tirelessly: it even recently approved a “program of events dedicated to the meeting of the third millennium.” There's just so much there - Santa Claus's bag with gifts. The key point of this program is... magic.

Celebration plan for those who will be forgotten at home Nastica Gryzunova - with love and everything else They will leave me, they will leave me alone. For three days now they have been looking deceitfully and whispering in the corners. I planned to do a lot of things: put a time bomb behind the door of the apartment on the landing, where there are only neighbors and cats and no one is sorry.

Alexander Genis. Ivan Petrovich died. Article and investigation. Enter. Article M. Epstein. - M.: New literary review, 1999. - 336 p., ill.; circulation not specified; ISBN 5-86793-077-7. A woman’s leg in a stocking with an arrow, mysteriously disappearing behind the door, and someone in a man’s suit and distinctly masculine makeup (or mask?), but at the same time with suspiciously feminine fingers and a cigarette hinting at something bad.

Cultural Guide. Issue 61 Sergey Kuznetsov Publication date: December 28, 1999 Interactive Here it comes, the new year 2000. There have already been plenty of films about the last day of 1999... choose your favorite: "Strange Days" by Kathryn Bigelow "Trap" by John Amiel "Day One" by Walter Salers and Danielle Thomas "The End of the World" by Peter Hyams other I'm sure I forgot something...