It’s 1999, and the world is gripped by a story that could spell the end of the world as we know it.
Not Y2K.
Not the impeachment of then president Bill Clinton.
Not the rise of Napster.
Surely, then, it must be Prime Minister Vladimir Putin appointed as acting president of Russia following Boris Yeltsin’s resignation.
While that still may actually be the end of the world as we know it, it wasn’t in 1999.
No, friends, the people of 1999 had no interest in such trivial matters.
They were concentrated on things that were of real importance, like Felicity star Keri Russell’s haircut in Season 2 of the show.
Ridiculous? Well, you’d think, but the fallout from Russell’s short new do was nothing short of catastrophic.
It’s a tale of national outrage, fan revolts, plummeting ratings, and even death threats, and it is indicative of the hairy hypocrisy of Hollywood.
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