What are you doing New Year's! Not this New Year's, next New Year's, the New Year's - the eve of the new millemmium?
It might seem too early to plan, yet cruise ships, banquet rooms in world-class hotels, nightclubs, Broadway shows such as "Chicago' and many exclusive resorts are already sold out for New Year's 1999.
Barbra Streisand and the Rolling Stones are expected to kick off tours that night. Celebrations are planned in places such as Mount Fuji in Japan and the Great Pyramid of Cheops in Egypt. Some 650 privileged guests will spend $1,300 each to party at a period ball at France's Palace of Versailles. And that's just the start of it.
Joan Plowright, for instance, tells us she wanted to rent a castle in the Highlands of Scotland for a party with family and friends, "but they're already gone -- others have rented them."
Rock superstar Sting says, "I keep being offered outrageous gigs in ludicrous places." He decllnes to get too specific, but allows that the locales are "even more outlandish" than the ancient holy site of Machu Pichu in Peru. However, he'd "like to be at home by the fire with my family" next New Year's Eve. Sting's English country estate rivals those castles Plowright was interested in.
Meanwhile, Gene Simmons of Kiss reveals that his band is already committed to a New Millemmium's Eve gig. "We're doing an event that's going to be called 'The Seven Wonders of the World,' but that's all I'll tell you about it -- otherwise everyone would do it," says the bloodspitting rocker.
Couutry king Garth Brooks says he, too, has been inundated with requests for his performance presence for the final night of the 1900s. If Garth does take a date, he'll bring his wife and their youngsters along. "I don't want to be away from my family that night."
Neil Diamond says, "I want be performing somewhere, anywhere. I don't care if it's a small club, a big club on the eve of the new millennium. It's my job to bring music and happiness to people by performing, and I can't think of any way I'd rather ring in the year 2000."
Even Jim Belushl who is known far better as an actor than as a music man, is getting heaps of offers for New Year's Eve '99 play dates -- with his Sacred Hearts band. He says, "My wife isn't happy about it, but I can't think of anything I'd like to do better." He adds pragmatically, "They're offering big money, unbelievable numbers."
Then, of course, there are those who have yet to make plans for that date a year away.
Burt Reynolds is among the celebrities who tell us they expect to be in a party mood on that big night. "On the eve of the year 2000, I would love to get as many old, dear friends as possible together to enjoy each other's company," says Burt. "Jon Voight, Ned Beatty, Charlie Burning, Robby Benson -- whom I feel like I raised -- so many people I love. That would be my favorite way to spend the evening."
Mike Wallace, who turned 80 in May says, "as I became older, I thought, 'If I can just last till the year 2000, it will be enough for me.' Now I'm sure I've got that made -- but I'm not making reservations anywhere."
"Sabrina the Teenage Witch" star Melissa Joan Hart says, "I don't know who's going to be in my life then, but I feel I should make plans. After all, this will be the most important night any of us have ever spent. Maybe I'll just have a party at home with all my friendS -- surrounding myself with the people who really matter to me."
And then there's John Lithgow, who says that he and his wife have gotten heavily enough into discussion of plans for the end of '99 that they know "we want to be someplace extraordinary and exotic -- like Brazil or Bali or Fiji. But we'll probably end up in our kitchen eating pizza."
Lynn Redgrave says she would love to get together with colleagues and friends, "particularly friends from childhood, have dinner at my home and retrace our lives and what our relationships meant to each other and the six degrees of separation that brought us back together."
And then there's Jack Lemmon. Asked how he'd like to celebrate the new millennium, he responds succinctly,"Be there."
You are visitor
since this page was designed on January 19, 1999.
Index 
The Web's Too Big Without You! Items For Sale Who
Am I? What's New?
Again, thanks for visiting my homepage. I hope you will come back and visit soon.
For questions, comments or information on this home page, please send e-mail to blueturtles01@hotmail.com.
This page hosted by 
. Get your own Free Home Page.
Copyright © 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000 , 2001 by blueturtles01@hotmail.com. All rights reserved.