Chapter 22 - More Content To Follow & The Internet

I do want you to know there is so much more content to follow. I just wanted to get this out there to find the right team to make this happen. From an agent, to a producer, whomever might help see this project to fruition. I have so much dialogue and character development to go. I have multiple notebooks of information. I will add it as time allows, and as I can sort it out in a productive manner. Thank you for your interest and patience! E1. dk.

Round One of postcards go out tomorrow, the first day LEO!
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Round One of postcards - DONE!

Round Two - tomorrow!

So I bought my first personal computer in 1998. I will will always love Windows 98! And, I will always be fond of AOL - especially Love At Aol. The net being so new, it was so easy to talk to people live online, and to meet them in person. Trust me, 1998 was way different than it is today. Or, maybe I was just younger... I am not sure. Anyways, I met a lot of cool women online, and had some amazing times. These will be covered in the greatest love story ever, here on this blog! I purchased my computer from a Southerner named Jim. It was kind of generic I guess, and was one he rebuilt. it worked quite good for my purposes, 1 - email, and 2 - browsing the net, and of course... 3 - AOL. I believe I paid him $200.

I remember one time sitting at my computer with a friend of mine... and we were cursing the net... and all of a sudden we came to a website that was all in Chinese. I turned to Lindsay, and with a very serious face I asked her - how is your Chinese? It was a funny moment. One example here of the newness of the world wide web.

During this time period I spent a lot of time on the net. I read, and I studied, and I learned a lot. I built my first website with Front Page, and I started buying domain names. I think ExponentialOne.com, Exponential1.com, and TheManTheMythTheLegend.com were among the first. I remember walking into the office at Don's one day, and Frank M. says to me... Dave Koenig, the man, the myth, the legend... and I went home that night and bought it. Only one person can be themanthemythelegend.com, and that is me. Many say it is too long to worth anything, but I disagree. It is a brand name, that if marketed properly, could be worth something significant. Only time will tell. I would not mind selling it to fund my writing projects.

June of 1999 Napster was born. That was fun too! Building your own personal library of music for free. Not legal, but fun. People would build libraries with 1000's of songs. And it took awhile as well without the blazing high speeds we see today.

Chapter 21 - The Greatest Love Story Of All Time

I have written and re-written this a hundred times. At this point, I need someone like Brian Helgeland to come along and take down my thoughts, and then make it a masterpiece like 'A Knight's Tale'. I have admired his work for 17 years, and have owned his domain name for like 15. I have offered it to him for no charge, but have had no response up to this point. I have tried!

I have been married twice, almost a 3rd, and a few relationships beyond them. I will put my faith and history into another's hands in order to maximize the movie story line. It has in no way been boring, but only Hollywood can embellish a good love story!

OK. I think I am ready to begin the journey. God help me! I will not post every detail, every time. I also may embellish a time or two. It is not to feed my ego, but to appeal to Hollywood. I want this to be a good movie, ok? LOL.

This just in... 8-1-2018, wife number two just got married for the 7th time. I really do hope she finds happiness and more. She will be referred to as 'D'. First wife will be 'K' and shoulda been 3rd wife will be 'A'.

In high school I was a good looking young man. Very talented and active in golf, basketball, football, drama, chorus, trumpet trio, brass quartet, pep band, jazz band, concert band, marching band, National Honor Society, Annual Sports Editor, Sports Writer for the school paper, and more. I did have a tough time talking cool to the ladies. I found alcohol fixed that, so I started partying at 16. Later I think I was not really shy, there were just so many things going through my mind at one time ( I have an IQ over 140), I fumbled on what to say. I have gotten over it with practice. We won four state high school golf championships in a row. I could never get better than a five handicap. More golf stories can be found at thebestgolfstories.blogspot.com . On trumpet I could hit a double high C, which is very very impressive. I could scream on the horn for sure. Lead jazz trumpet for 8 years in h/s and college.

In college I continued to party even more. I hardly ever studied. I got my degree in four years with a B average. I took the LSAT and did pretty good, but did not go to law school. My friends had a 3.97 in college, and I beat him on the test. He got his education, but never practiced law - just golf. In college I met my first wife - K. We had a lot of fun together. Partied a lot. She had the most amazing family. My family was small, and not at all close. Her family was exactly the opposite, and I fell in love with them as much as K I think. I did try to break up with her a couple times, as I knew I was young, but she would just cry and get upset. For some reason, one day I asked her to marry me, and that was it, done. Fast forward, new house, 2 kids, new cars, and much more. I pretty much had the perfect life, but I lived with a woman that I no longer loved. There was no romance or passion of any kind. We worked opposite schedules, and that did not help. Bottom line, she became a mom, and I had no wife. And I wanted it, badly. I would pray to God to get me out of this relationship, and let me find true, hot love. Be careful what you wish for. Wow, be careful.

I was working at MCI in Denver. A few of us were at the bar after work. And the usual talk brought up the question, who would you like to sleep with the most in the office - there were about 200 employees I think. It was easy for me. I said D. The others understood. Then one day, they had a quarterly event for the top performers. No spouses. D made it too. After a fancy dinner at the Brown Palace downtown Denver, there was an open bar, and a band. I was walking around, and I saw D sitting all by herself at a table. Well, I was not going to let this pass. We danced the night away. Went around the 16th street mall for awhile on a shuttle. Made out. I got home around five in the morning. K was not happy. I had makeup on my shirt, but I said it was just dust from the floor in the basement where the washer and dryer were. She let it go. (We saw Cindy Crawford that night from three feet - gorgeous!).
D and I had lunch together most days after that, and planned our future together. We were both married, not happy, and committed to make the move together. She was on her 2nd husband. She promptly had her husband move out, and filed for divorce. I asked for a couple weeks. I was going to break it to K while my kids were on vacation in Arkansas. However, one night before that happened, she came to bed one night, and asked me if there was someone else. I hesitated, and she says - well that answers that. She was shattered. The next morning she promptly called all family and an attorney. She went to my daughters, who were 7 and 11, and told them daddy has been lying to you. He is seeing another woman. I will never forget, or forgive for that moment. K left the relationship many years earlier. She did not even try to be a wife to me. I did on more than once occasion. She was content with being a mom. I was praying to God near the end, and he answered. And you know what they say, be careful what you pray for - you might get it. I may have found love and romance,but there was a set of luggage there that was too big for me to handle. Our relationship was doomed from the beginning. D was loco, and I will not go into much detail. Her anger. Her lack of self esteem. She was very beautiful We built a beautiful home in Highlands Ranch. We ran into some financial pressures, as I had given K more money than I could afford. My attorney was mad at me. I felt guilty and gave in. I should have held my ground. I had no problem caring for my kids, but I forgot about taking care of myself, and I was crushed by a series of events, starting with what I gave her in the divorce. In the back of my mind I knew I could always make enough money to support everyone. I was wrong. So much for all this - let's get to something more fun.

I got my own place on Mill Ave, just south of the freeway. I also got a new job at New Strategies. The first entry in this blog says I moved here by myself. I will leave it up to my screenplay writer (hopefully Brian Helgeland) to make the final draft. Other entries in this blog talk about various friends and activities. I will let the SPW fit the pieces together at his/her will. Now I will take about maybe the number two character in this film project - TO (Dr. Tim). TO is a chiropractor. He had long hair, and reminded me of Nicolas Cage. TO was older than most of the rest. He was a very free spirit, and he helped me rebuild myself with more confidence and much more of every thing. I will give TO credit for getting me into the Tempe night life, especially the local bands. I had many bands I followed. They knew me, I knew them, I knew the servers, the bartenders, the customers. They became my family, and to their credit I would say they saved my spirit. The rekindled the fire that burned deep within me, and I became happy again. I did have a go with depression, and after consulting a psychiatrist, and trying a few drugs that made me worse, I found Ativan that wiped out the clouds in my brain, and I was reborn. Single for the first time since 18, making more money than most, and ready to live the life of a rock star. I was 39. The girls thought I was 29, and I only dated women from 20 to 29, by accident I guess. I had thought about plastic surgery to slim the waistline, but TO talked me into a personal trainer. I paid Sean $250 a week for four one hour session. He would work me until I would almost collapse. The results, after a couple months, he said I had the body of a professional athlete. Man did I feel good! Wow! I highly recommend this to anyone that can afford it!

I am going to write the timeline as close to reality as possible, and I will leave it up to the SPW to squeeze it into a 111 minute movie. In addition to the night scene I played a lot on love @ aol. Met some nice ladies. Slept with most of them. It was a moment in time. One of my first relationships was with Jamie. I wrote about her in a previous chapter. Then I tried Scottsdale with Shawn and Chris. I wrote about this in a previous chapter. Then I went Long Wongs on Mill Avenue, and The Yucca Tap Room, and more. I really got to know the local scene in Tempe. I wanted to go to ASU at 17, but my Dad did not let me. Well, at 39 it was still a whole lot of fun. I got to know all the servers, bartenders, musicians, patrons, and had a blast. I would stay home on Friday and Saturday, but the other five nights I always had a plan/place to go. Stephen Ashbrook and Satellite were my faves, and they all became pretty good friends.

Next up throw in some of the destinations that I described in one chapter. Lake Pleasant. Rocky Point. Local Resorts. Scottsdale. Etc. Then I met A. At one point she asked me to marry her. I said no. Later I asked her to marry me. She said know. We were on and off for several years. We just could not get on the same page. At first, I expected her to kick her husband to the curb, and we would live together right away. That is how it worked with D. Being Polish, and tightly involved in the Polish community, she said it would take time. There were things she had to do. She and her husband were living in a house owned by her husbands parents. So they needed to find an apartment and move out. Then she had to get her youngest into daycare. It took her a year to get him to move out. We broke up numerous times during this year, but we always came back to each other. What we had was very strong. We called it - That's FI! (fucking incredible).

Chapter 20 - Celebrity Sightings

During my tenure at Don's I saw Cincy Margolis, Louis Farrakhan and Mike Tyson. Pete M. brought in Louis and Mike.

Chapter 19 - Weekend Trips and Scene Venues

Rocky Point. Puerto Penasco

Bourbon Street Circus

San Antonio Riverwalk

Grand Canyon

San Diego

Cabo San Lucas

Flagstaff

Sedona

Colorado

Las Vegas

Desert Sky Pavillion

Casinos

Resorts

The Glamis Sand Dunes

Downtown Mill

ASU Stadium

AOL

Bank One Ballpark

Suns Game

Long Songs, Bash on Ash

Chapter 18 - Day Three - On My Way To Inbound

Sorry about getting side tracked there for a bit. Now, back to the story! Obviously this is literally not day three. But I will continue this format for continuity purposes. I am trying to get as much content here as possible, so that a major screenplay writer like Brian Helgeland can come along and help me finish this masterpiece.

It did not take long, and I started writing up multiple deals pretty much every day! I was excited! People were already paying attention to me. They knew that I would lead the pack one day, and I did. First, I had to get off the red pen. Every sale I wrote - I had to write on the cassette tape in red sharpie. That means the Service Quality Department would review every single sale. Also, it meant I could not sign up for weekend Inbound. I knew Inbound was where it was at, and I wanted it bad. It took me a few weeks. My mistakes were small, but they held me back for good reason - they wanted me to be the best of the best. Later on the Director of Service Quality would run into me, and Don W. would tell me how much he loved listening to my tapes. I was that good. Also, I had reloads tell me they loved my leads, to do their upsells on my sales, cuz they were that strong! Also, I had one of the lowest chargebacks on the floor - my clients loved me! And I loved them!

I finally got my black pen, and I signed up for as many weekend Inbound shifts that I could get. I was there on a making money mission. Week ending March 5th I wrote $12,500 - number one in Outbound (with the help of Inbound of course). Week ending March 12th I wrote about $8300, good enough for second I think among Outbound, and I had now qualified for FT Inbound - wow! I made it. I kept my Inbound chair for a year. Not too many people did that. Sometimes I would take the AM shift, but usually I stayed on the PM shift which was like noon to 8pm, or 11am to 7pm - depending upon DST. AZ does not change their clocks, but the rest of the states did, and we had to adjust to maximize our contact percentages.

Being new to Phoenix, I had no close friends. As I was 39, most of the staff were early 20's. One night after work, I asked one of my desk neighbors what he was doing after work. His name was Roy, and he was about my age. He was from St. Louis and used to own a car lot. He was the epitome of a used car sales man. We called him Redneck Roy, as his views were strong and somewhat warped. He reminded me a bit of Barney Rubble. He said a few of them were going to the Double Deuce nearby after work. I asked to tag along, and he said ok. It was a dive bar in an industrial area of University. We were joined by his current mistress Jamie, and a very dark black man name Kirk. The four of us enjoyed beverages and chatted. I was new. I have always been inquisitive. I guess I might have been a bit too straight for them, and when I asked a lot of questions (to get to know them right), they asked me if I was a narc. I said no and laughed. We later became fairly good friends, but not close. Cordial I guess you would say.

Eventually, Roy went back to his wife Carol. He told me one day, you know Dave, she is a very good woman, and I need to do right by her. I made a mistake. I understood, and left it at that. They got back together, and he died a few years later in his sleep of a heart attack. Kirk had heart problems. He later received a heart transplant I believe. He kept up his hard partying ways I understand, I died sometime later. Jamie was another story. She was a cute girl, but lacked self respect. She was also a repetitive drunk as I call them, and later I found out, a stalker. I became a regular at Old Chicago's on Broadway. She found this out, and would follow me there with Kirk. One night she gave her car keys to Kirk, and made up a story how he wanted to go cruising for a hooker or drugs, I don't remember. So, she needed a lift home. I made the mistake of getting too friendly with her that night, and she was hung up on me. I hung with her for a short time, and then dumped her. She was a drunk with no self esteem. After she dumped me, she then moved into the apartment right next to mine. OMFG! I remember seeing her in the pool one day with another guy. She swam over to me, put her arms around me, and said she was not sleeping with him, and that she wanted me. I said go away, and eventually moved. Crazy women! I can tell you some stories. And I will.

One last story about Roy. He was a red neck for sure, and his opinions were strong. Our neighbor was Dr. Tim O. Tim is a chiropractor, and we became very good friends. He will be referenced frequently in this movie project. Roy was saying negative things about chiropractors, like, you have to keep going back, over and over again. Tim's response was, yeah, just like you only have to brush your teeth once, right. Or, yeah, you only have to exercise once, right. One day when we were all on the Inbound phones, Tim went under Roy's desk while he was at break, and unplugged Roy's Inbound phone. As the day progressed, Roy caught on that everyone was getting Inbound calls, but him. He picked up the receiver, and the line was dead. WTF! He slammed down the phone and left for the day. A mean thing to do, but I think he deserved it. I don't think he ever learned who did it to him. The phone specialist fixed it for him, but no one but a few of us knew who the culprit was. Good times!

Tim became a very good friend of mine. A mentor in some ways. And not so much in other ways, lol. Much more will be written about him.

Chapter 17 - Hot Music of 1997/1998/1999 (per Billboard)

Looking back at the music 20 years ago, there are so many that have now become classic almost. So many we have forgotten about. That is partly why I want this movie to be a period piece. So many songs we never hear any more. And, I find it so hard to believe amongst the top 100 songs, songs that I really don't like. Of course that is normal. No one likes ALL music. Here is a look at the lists:

1997 № Title Artist(s) 1 "Something About the Way You Look Tonight" / "Candle in the Wind 1997" Elton John 2 "Foolish Games" / "You Were Meant for Me" Jewel 3 "I'll Be Missing You" Puff Daddy featuring Faith Evans and 112 4 "Un-Break My Heart" Toni Braxton 5 "Can't Nobody Hold Me Down" Puff Daddy featuring Mase 6 "I Believe I Can Fly" R. Kelly 7 "Don't Let Go (Love)" En Vogue 8 "Return of the Mack" Mark Morrison 9 "How Do I Live" LeAnn Rimes 10 "Wannabe" Spice Girls 11 "Quit Playing Games (With My Heart)" Backstreet Boys 12 "MMMBop" Hanson 13 "For You I Will" Monica 14 "You Make Me Wanna..." Usher 15 "Bitch" Meredith Brooks 16 "Nobody" Keith Sweat featuring Athena Cage 17 "Semi-Charmed Life" Third Eye Blind 18 "Barely Breathing" Duncan Sheik 19 "Hard to Say I'm Sorry" Az Yet featuring Peter Cetera 20 "Mo Money Mo Problems" The Notorious B.I.G. featuring Puff Daddy and Mase 21 "The Freshmen" The Verve Pipe 22 "I Want You" Savage Garden 23 "No Diggity" Blackstreet featuring Dr. Dre 24 "I Belong to You (Every Time I See Your Face)" Rome 25 "Hypnotize" The Notorious B.I.G. 26 "Every Time I Close My Eyes" Babyface 27 "In My Bed" Dru Hill 28 "Say You'll Be There" Spice Girls 29 "Do You Know (What It Takes)" Robyn 30 "4 Seasons of Loneliness" Boyz II Men 31 "G.H.E.T.T.O.U.T." Changing Faces 32 "Honey" Mariah Carey 33 "I Believe in You and Me" Whitney Houston 34 "Da' Dip" Freak Nasty 35 "2 Become 1" Spice Girls 36 "All for You" Sister Hazel 37 "Cupid" 112 38 "Where Have All the Cowboys Gone?" Paula Cole 39 "Sunny Came Home" Shawn Colvin 40 "It's Your Love" Tim McGraw and Faith Hill 41 "Ooh Aah... Just a Little Bit" Gina G 42 "Mouth" Merril Bainbridge 43 "All Cried Out" Allure featuring 112 44 "I'm Still in Love with You" New Edition 45 "Invisible Man" 98 Degrees 46 "Not Tonight" Lil' Kim featuring Da Brat, Left Eye, Missy Elliott and Angie Martinez 47 "Look into My Eyes" Bone Thugs-n-Harmony 48 "Get It Together" 702 49 "All by Myself" Celine Dion 50 "It's All Coming Back to Me Now" Celine Dion 51 "My Love Is the Shhh!" Somethin' for the People featuring Trina & Tamara 52 "Where Do You Go" No Mercy 53 "I Finally Found Someone" Barbra Streisand and Bryan Adams 54 "I'll Be" Foxy Brown featuring Jay-Z 55 "If It Makes You Happy" Sheryl Crow 56 "Never Make a Promise" Dru Hill 57 "When You Love a Woman" Journey 58 "Up Jumps da Boogie" Timbaland & Magoo featuring Missy Elliott and Aaliyah 59 "I Don't Want To" / "I Love Me Some Him" Toni Braxton 60 "Everyday Is a Winding Road" Sheryl Crow 61 "Cold Rock a Party" MC Lyte 62 "Pony" Ginuwine 63 "Building a Mystery" Sarah McLachlan 64 "I Love You Always Forever" Donna Lewis 65 "Your Woman" White Town 66 "C U When U Get There" Coolio featuring 40 Thevz 67 "Change the World" Eric Clapton 68 "My Baby Daddy" B-Rock and the Bizz 69 "Tubthumping" Chumbawamba 70 "Gotham City" R. Kelly 71 "Last Night" Az Yet 72 "The Jock Jam" Various Artists 73 "Big Daddy" Heavy D 74 "What About Us" Total 75 "Smile" Scarface featuring 2Pac and Johnny P. 76 "What's on Tonight" Montell Jordan 77 "Secret Garden" Bruce Springsteen 78 "The One I Gave My Heart To" Aaliyah 79 "Fly Like an Eagle" Seal 80 "No Time" Lil' Kim featuring Puff Daddy 81 "Naked Eye" Luscious Jackson 82 "Macarena (Bayside Boys Mix)" Los del Río 83 "On & On" Erykah Badu 84 "Don't Wanna Be a Player" Joe 85 "I Shot the Sheriff" Warren G 86 "You Should Be Mine (Don't Waste Your Time)" Brian McKnight featuring Mase 87 "Don't Cry for Me Argentina" Madonna 88 "Someone" SWV and Puff Daddy 89 "Go the Distance" Michael Bolton 90 "One More Time" Real McCoy 91 "Butta Love" Next 92 "Coco Jambo" Mr. President 93 "Twisted" Keith Sweat 94 "Barbie Girl" Aqua 95 "When You're Gone" / "Free to Decide" The Cranberries 96 "Let Me Clear My Throat" DJ Kool 97 "I Like It" The Blackout All-Stars 98 "You're Makin' Me High" / "Let It Flow" Toni Braxton 99 "You Must Love Me" Madonna 100 "Let It Go" Ray J. № Title Artist(s) 1 "Something About the Way You Look Tonight" / "Candle in the Wind 1997" Elton John 2 "Foolish Games" / "You Were Meant for Me" Jewel 3 "I'll Be Missing You" Puff Daddy featuring Faith Evans and 112 4 "Un-Break My Heart" Toni Braxton 5 "Can't Nobody Hold Me Down" Puff Daddy featuring Mase 6 "I Believe I Can Fly" R. Kelly 7 "Don't Let Go (Love)" En Vogue 8 "Return of the Mack" Mark Morrison 9 "How Do I Live" LeAnn Rimes 10 "Wannabe" Spice Girls 11 "Quit Playing Games (With My Heart)" Backstreet Boys 12 "MMMBop" Hanson 13 "For You I Will" Monica 14 "You Make Me Wanna..." Usher 15 "Bitch" Meredith Brooks 16 "Nobody" Keith Sweat featuring Athena Cage 17 "Semi-Charmed Life" Third Eye Blind 18 "Barely Breathing" Duncan Sheik 19 "Hard to Say I'm Sorry" Az Yet featuring Peter Cetera 20 "Mo Money Mo Problems" The Notorious B.I.G. featuring Puff Daddy and Mase 21 "The Freshmen" The Verve Pipe 22 "I Want You" Savage Garden 23 "No Diggity" Blackstreet featuring Dr. Dre 24 "I Belong to You (Every Time I See Your Face)" Rome 25 "Hypnotize" The Notorious B.I.G. 26 "Every Time I Close My Eyes" Babyface 27 "In My Bed" Dru Hill 28 "Say You'll Be There" Spice Girls 29 "Do You Know (What It Takes)" Robyn 30 "4 Seasons of Loneliness" Boyz II Men 31 "G.H.E.T.T.O.U.T." Changing Faces 32 "Honey" Mariah Carey 33 "I Believe in You and Me" Whitney Houston 34 "Da' Dip" Freak Nasty 35 "2 Become 1" Spice Girls 36 "All for You" Sister Hazel 37 "Cupid" 112 38 "Where Have All the Cowboys Gone?" Paula Cole 39 "Sunny Came Home" Shawn Colvin 40 "It's Your Love" Tim McGraw and Faith Hill 41 "Ooh Aah... Just a Little Bit" Gina G 42 "Mouth" Merril Bainbridge 43 "All Cried Out" Allure featuring 112 44 "I'm Still in Love with You" New Edition 45 "Invisible Man" 98 Degrees 46 "Not Tonight" Lil' Kim featuring Da Brat, Left Eye, Missy Elliott and Angie Martinez 47 "Look into My Eyes" Bone Thugs-n-Harmony 48 "Get It Together" 702 49 "All by Myself" Celine Dion 50 "It's All Coming Back to Me Now" Celine Dion 51 "My Love Is the Shhh!" Somethin' for the People featuring Trina & Tamara 52 "Where Do You Go" No Mercy 53 "I Finally Found Someone" Barbra Streisand and Bryan Adams 54 "I'll Be" Foxy Brown featuring Jay-Z 55 "If It Makes You Happy" Sheryl Crow 56 "Never Make a Promise" Dru Hill 57 "When You Love a Woman" Journey 58 "Up Jumps da Boogie" Timbaland & Magoo featuring Missy Elliott and Aaliyah 59 "I Don't Want To" / "I Love Me Some Him" Toni Braxton 60 "Everyday Is a Winding Road" Sheryl Crow 61 "Cold Rock a Party" MC Lyte 62 "Pony" Ginuwine 63 "Building a Mystery" Sarah McLachlan 64 "I Love You Always Forever" Donna Lewis 65 "Your Woman" White Town 66 "C U When U Get There" Coolio featuring 40 Thevz 67 "Change the World" Eric Clapton 68 "My Baby Daddy" B-Rock and the Bizz 69 "Tubthumping" Chumbawamba 70 "Gotham City" R. Kelly 71 "Last Night" Az Yet 72 "The Jock Jam" Various Artists 73 "Big Daddy" Heavy D 74 "What About Us" Total 75 "Smile" Scarface featuring 2Pac and Johnny P. 76 "What's on Tonight" Montell Jordan 77 "Secret Garden" Bruce Springsteen 78 "The One I Gave My Heart To" Aaliyah 79 "Fly Like an Eagle" Seal 80 "No Time" Lil' Kim featuring Puff Daddy 81 "Naked Eye" Luscious Jackson 82 "Macarena (Bayside Boys Mix)" Los del Río 83 "On & On" Erykah Badu 84 "Don't Wanna Be a Player" Joe 85 "I Shot the Sheriff" Warren G 86 "You Should Be Mine (Don't Waste Your Time)" Brian McKnight featuring Mase 87 "Don't Cry for Me Argentina" Madonna 88 "Someone" SWV and Puff Daddy 89 "Go the Distance" Michael Bolton 90 "One More Time" Real McCoy 91 "Butta Love" Next 92 "Coco Jambo" Mr. President 93 "Twisted" Keith Sweat 94 "Barbie Girl" Aqua 95 "When You're Gone" / "Free to Decide" The Cranberries 96 "Let Me Clear My Throat" DJ Kool 97 "I Like It" The Blackout All-Stars 98 "You're Makin' Me High" / "Let It Flow" Toni Braxton 99 "You Must Love Me" Madonna 100 "Let It Go" Ray J.

. 1998 № Title Artist(s) 1 "Too Close" Next 2 "The Boy Is Mine" Brandy and Monica 3 "You're Still the One" Shania Twain 4 "Truly Madly Deeply" Savage Garden 5 "How Do I Live" LeAnn Rimes 6 "Together Again" Janet 7 "All My Life" K-Ci & JoJo 8 "Candle in the Wind 1997" Elton John 9 "Nice & Slow" Usher 10 "I Don't Want to Wait" Paula Cole 11 "How's It Going to Be" Third Eye Blind 12 "No, No, No" Destiny's Child 13 "My Heart Will Go On" Celine Dion 14 "Gettin' Jiggy wit It" Will Smith 15 "You Make Me Wanna..." Usher 16 "My Way" Usher 17 "My All" Mariah Carey 18 "The First Night" Monica 19 "Been Around the World" Puff Daddy featuring The Notorious B.I.G. and Mase 20 "Adia" Sarah McLachlan 21 "Crush" Jennifer Paige 22 "Everybody (Backstreet's Back)" Backstreet Boys 23 "I Don't Want to Miss a Thing" Aerosmith 24 "Body Bumpin' (Yippie-Yi-Yo)" Public Announcement 25 "This Kiss" Faith Hill 26 "I Don't Ever Want to See You Again" Uncle Sam 27 "Let's Ride" Montell Jordan featuring Master P and Silkk the Shocker 28 "Sex and Candy" Marcy Playground 29 "Show Me Love" Robyn 30 "A Song for Mama" Boyz II Men 31 "What You Want" Mase featuring Total 32 "Frozen" Madonna 33 "Gone till November" Wyclef Jean 34 "My Body" LSG 35 "Tubthumping" Chumbawamba 36 "Deja Vu (Uptown Baby)" Lord Tariq and Peter Gunz 37 "I Want You Back" 'N Sync 38 "When the Lights Go Out" Five 39 "They Don't Know" Jon B. 40 "Make 'Em Say Uhh!" Master P featuring Fiend, Silkk the Shocker, Mia X and Mystikal 41 "Make It Hot" Nicole featuring Missy Elliott and Mocha 42 "Never Ever" All Saints 43 "I Get Lonely" Janet Jackson featuring Blackstreet 44 "Feel So Good" Mase featuring Kelly Price 45 "Say It" Voices of Theory 46 "Kiss the Rain" Billie Myers 47 "Come with Me" Puff Daddy featuring Jimmy Page 48 "Romeo and Juliet" Sylk-E. Fyne featuring Chill 49 "It's All About Me" Mýa and Sisqo 50 "I Will Come to You" Hanson 51 "One Week" Barenaked Ladies 52 "Swing My Way" K. P. & Envyi 53 "The Arms of the One Who Loves You" Xscape 54 "My Love Is the Shhh!" Somethin' for the People featuring Trina & Tamara 55 "Daydreamin'" Tatyana Ali 56 "We're Not Making Love No More" Dru Hill 57 "Semi-Charmed Life" Third Eye Blind 58 "I Do" Lisa Loeb 59 "Lookin' at Me" Mase featuring Puff Daddy 60 "Looking Through Your Eyes" LeAnn Rimes 61 "Lately" Divine 62 "Quit Playing Games (With My Heart)" Backstreet Boys 63 "I Still Love You" Next 64 "Time After Time" INOJ 65 "Are You Jimmy Ray?" Jimmy Ray 66 "Cruel Summer" Ace of Base 67 "I Got the Hook Up" Master P featuring Sons of Funk 68 "Victory" Puff Daddy featuring The Notorious B.I.G. and Busta Rhymes 69 "Too Much" Spice Girls 70 "Ghetto Supastar (That Is What You Are)" Pras Michel featuring Ol' Dirty Bastard and Mýa 71 "How Deep Is Your Love" Dru Hill featuring Redman 72 "Friend of Mine" Kelly Price featuring R. Kelly and Ron Isley 73 "Turn It Up (Remix)/Fire It Up" Busta Rhymes 74 "I'll Be" Edwin McCain 75 "Ray of Light" Madonna 76 "All for You" Sister Hazel 77 "Touch It" Monifah 78 "Money, Power & Respect" The LOX featuring DMX and Lil' Kim 79 "Bitter Sweet Symphony" The Verve 80 "Dangerous" Busta Rhymes 81 "Spice Up Your Life" Spice Girls 82 "Because of You" 98 Degrees 83 "The Mummers' Dance" Loreena McKennitt 84 "All Cried Out" Allure featuring 112 85 "Still Not a Player" Big Pun featuring Joe 86 "The One I Gave My Heart To" Aaliyah 87 "Foolish Games" / "You Were Meant for Me" Jewel 88 "Love You Down" INOJ 89 "Do for Love" 2Pac featuring Eric Williams 90 "Raise the Roof" Luke featuring No Good But So Good 91 "Heaven" Nu Flavor 92 "The Party Continues" Jermaine Dupri featuring Da Brat and Usher 93 "Sock It 2 Me" Missy Elliott featuring Da Brat 94 "Butta Love" Next 95 "A Rose Is Still a Rose" Aretha Franklin 96 "4 Seasons of Loneliness" Boyz II Men 97 "Father" LL Cool J 98 "Thinkin' Bout It" Gerald Levert 99 "Nobody's Supposed to Be Here" Deborah Cox 100 "Westside" TQ.

1999 № Title Artist(s) 1 "Believe" Cher 2 "No Scrubs" TLC 3 "Angel of Mine" Monica 4 "Heartbreak Hotel" Whitney Houston featuring Faith Evans and Kelly Price 5 "...Baby One More Time" Britney Spears 6 "Kiss Me" Sixpence None the Richer 7 "Genie in a Bottle" Christina Aguilera 8 "Every Morning" Sugar Ray 9 "Nobody's Supposed to Be Here" Deborah Cox 10 "Livin' la Vida Loca" Ricky Martin 11 "Where My Girls At?" 702 12 "If You Had My Love" Jennifer Lopez 13 "Slide" Goo Goo Dolls 14 "Have You Ever?" Brandy 15 "I Want It That Way" Backstreet Boys 16 "I'm Your Angel" R. Kelly and Celine Dion 17 "All Star" Smash Mouth 18 "Angel" Sarah McLachlan 19 "Smooth" Santana featuring Rob Thomas 20 "Unpretty" TLC 21 "Bills, Bills, Bills" Destiny's Child 22 "Save Tonight" Eagle-Eye Cherry 23 "Last Kiss" Pearl Jam 24 "Fortunate" Maxwell 25 "All I Have to Give" Backstreet Boys 26 "Bailamos" Enrique Iglesias 27 "What's It Gonna Be?!" Busta Rhymes featuring Janet 28 "What It's Like" Everlast 29 "Fly Away" Lenny Kravitz 30 "Someday" Sugar Ray 31 "Lately" Divine 32 "That Don't Impress Me Much" Shania Twain 33 "Wild Wild West" Will Smith featuring Dru Hill and Kool Moe Dee 34 "Scar Tissue" Red Hot Chili Peppers 35 "Heartbreaker" Mariah Carey featuring Jay-Z 36 "I Still Believe" Mariah Carey 37 "The Hardest Thing" 98 Degrees 38 "Summer Girls" LFO 39 "Can I Get A..." Jay-Z featuring Amil and Ja Rule 40 "Jumper" Third Eye Blind 41 "Doo Wop (That Thing)" Lauryn Hill 42 "Mambo No. 5" Lou Bega 43 "Sweet Lady" Tyrese 44 "It's Not Right but It's Okay" Whitney Houston 45 "(God Must Have Spent) A Little More Time on You" 'N Sync 46 "Lullaby" Shawn Mullins 47 "Anywhere" 112 featuring Lil Zane 48 "Tell Me It's Real" K-Ci & JoJo 49 "Back 2 Good" Matchbox 20 50 "808" Blaque 51 "She's So High" Tal Bachman 52 "She's All I Ever Had" Ricky Martin 53 "Miami" Will Smith 54 "Hands" Jewel 55 "Who Dat" JT Money featuring Solé 56 "Please Remember Me" Tim McGraw 57 "From This Moment On" Shania Twain 58 "Love Like This" Faith Evans 59 "You" Jesse Powell 60 "Trippin'" Total featuring Missy Elliott 61 "If You" Silk 62 "Ex-Factor" Lauryn Hill 63 "Give It to You" Jordan Knight 64 "Black Balloon" Goo Goo Dolls 65 "Spend My Life with You" Eric Benét featuring Tamia 66 "These Are the Times" Dru Hill 67 "I Don't Want to Miss a Thing" Mark Chesnutt 68 "I Do (Cherish You)" 98 Degrees 69 "Because of You" 98 Degrees 70 "I Will Remember You" Sarah McLachlan 71 "Chanté's Got a Man" Chanté Moore 72 "Happily Ever After" Case 73 "My Love Is Your Love" Whitney Houston 74 "All Night Long" Faith Evans featuring Puff Daddy 75 "Back That Azz Up" Juvenile featuring Mannie Fresh and Lil Wayne 76 "Almost Doesn't Count" Brandy 77 "Man! I Feel Like a Woman!" Shania Twain 78 "Steal My Sunshine" Len 79 "I Need to Know" Marc Anthony 80 "So Anxious" Ginuwine 81 "Faded Pictures" Case featuring Joe 82 "Back at One" Brian McKnight 83 "When a Woman's Fed Up" R. Kelly 84 "How Forever Feels" Kenny Chesney 85 "Amazed" Lonestar 86 "Sometimes" Britney Spears 87 "Ghetto Cowboy" Mo Thugs 88 "Out of My Head" Fastball 89 "Hard Knock Life (Ghetto Anthem)" Jay-Z 90 "Jamboree" Naughty by Nature featuring Zhané 91 "Take Me There" Blackstreet featuring Mýa, Mase and Blinky Blink 92 "Stay the Same" Joey McIntyre 93 "A Lesson in Leavin'" Jo Dee Messina 94 "Iris" Goo Goo Dolls 95 "Satisfy You" Puff Daddy featuring R. Kelly 96 "Better Days (And the Bottom Drops Out)" Citizen King 97 "Music of My Heart" 'N Sync and Gloria Estefan 98 "Write This Down" George Strait 99 "When You Believe" Whitney Houston and Mariah Carey 100 "(God Must Have Spent) A Little More Time on You" Alabama and 'N Sync.

Chapter 16 - 1998 Hot News Articles, TV, Movies and MORE!

World Events World Statistics Population: 4.378 billion population by decade Nobel Peace Prize: John Hume and David Trimble (Northern Ireland) More World Statistics... Serbs battle ethnic Albanians in Kosovo (March 5 et seq.). Serbs renew attack on Kosovo rebels (June 1). NATO, on verge of air strikes, reaches settlement with Milosevic on Kosovo (Oct. 12). Good Friday Accord is reached in Northern Ireland (April 10). Irish Parliament backs peace agreement (April 22). Background: N. Ireland Peace Negotiations Europeans agree on single currency, the euro (May 3). India conducts three atomic tests despite worldwide disapproval (May 11, 13). Pakistan stages five nuclear tests in response (May 29, 30). Indonesian dictator Suharto steps down after 32 years in power (May 21). US embassies in Kenya and Tanzania bombed (Aug. 7). US cruise missiles hit suspected terrorist bases in Sudan and Afghanistan (Aug. 20). Russia fights to avert financial collapse (Aug. 17). Former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet arrested in London (Oct. 16). Wye Mills Agreement between Netanyahu and Arafat moves Middle East peace talks forward (Oct. 23). Background: Middle East Peace Negotiations Iraq ends cooperation with UN arms inspectors (Aug. 5). Clinton orders air strikes (Dec. 16–19). U.S. Events U.S. Statistics President: William J. Clinton Vice President: Albert Gore, Jr. Population: 270,298,524 More U.S. Statistics... President accused in White House sex scandal; denies allegations of affair with White House intern, Monica Lewinsky (Jan. 21 et seq.). President outlines first balanced budget in 30 years (Feb. 3). US Supreme Court rules line-item veto unconstitutional (Feb. 12). Unabomber sentenced to four life terms (May 4). Life sentence meted out to Terry Nichols, convicted in Oklahoma City bombing fatal to 168 (June 4). Starr Report by independent counsel outlines case for impeachment proceedings against President (Sept. 11). Matthew Shepard, gay Wyoming student, fatally beaten in hate crime; two arrested (Oct. 6 et seq.). House impeaches President Clinton along party lines on two charges, perjury and obstruction of justice. (Dec. 19). Economics Federal spending: $1675.88 billion Federal debt $5750.4 billion Consumer Price Index: $163 Unemployment: 4.5% Cost of a first-class stamp: $0.32 More Economics... Sports Sports Links Pro Football Summary Pro Basketball Summary Pro Baseball Summary Super Bowl Denver d. Green Bay World Series New York Yankees d. San Diego NBA Championship Chicago d. Utah Stanley Cup Detroit d. Washington Wimbledon Women: Jana Novotna d. N. Tauziat (6-4 7-6) Men: Pete Sampras d. G. Ivanisevic (6-7 7-6 6-4 3-6 6-2) Kentucky Derby Champion Real Quiet NCAA Basketball Championship Kentucky d. Utah World Cup France d. Brazil Entertainment Entertainment Awards Pulitzer Prizes Fiction: American Pastoral, Philip Roth Music: String Quartet No. 2, Musica Instrumentalis, Aaron Jay Kernis Drama: How I Learned to Drive, Paula Vogel Academy Award, Best Picture: Titanic, James Cameron and Jon Landau, producers (Paramount and 20th Century Fox) Nobel Prize for Literature: José Saramago (Portugal) Album of the Year: Time Out of Mind, Bob Dylan (Columbia Records) Song of the Year: "Sunny Came Home," Shawn Colvin Song of the Year: "Sunny Came Home," Shawn Colvin and John Leventhal, songwriters Miss America: Katherine Shindle (IL) More Entertainment Awards... Events Titanic becomes the highest-grossing film of all time, raking in more than $580 million domestically. An estimated 76 million viewers watch the last episode of Seinfeld. Legendary crooner Frank Sinatra dies of a heart attack at age 82. NBC agrees to fork over $13 million an episode for the next three years for broadcast rights to the top-rated series ER. The total dollar figure, $850 million, eclipses any price ever paid for a television show. Titanic captures a record-tying 11 Academy Awards, including those for Best Picture and Best Director (James Cameron). The American Film Institute announces its list of the top 100 films of all time. Citizen Kane tops the list. Tina Brown, editor of The New Yorker sends shockwaves through the publishing world with her resignation from the venerable weekly. David Remnick is hired to replace her. Movies Affliction, American History X, Elizabeth, Shakespeare in Love, There's Something about Mary Books Edward Ball, Slaves in the Family Russell Banks, Cloudsplitter Michael Cunningham, The Hours Donald Hall, Without Alice McDermott, Charming Billy Gerald Stern, This Time: New and Selected Poems Science Nobel Prizes in Science Chemistry: Walter Kohn (US) and John A. Pople (UK), for their developments in the study of the properties of molecules and the chemical processes in which they are involved Physics: Robert B. Laughlin (US), Horst L. Störmer (Germany), and Daniel C. Tsui (US), for their discovery of a new form of quantum fluid with fractionally charged excitations Physiology or Medicine: Robert F. Furchgott, Louis J. Ignarro, and Ferid Murad (all US), for discovering that nitric oxide acts as a signal in the cardiovascular system More Nobel Prizes in 1998... The Athena probe finds frozen water on moon. Scientists say ice crystals mixed with soil could provide fuel for rockets exploring solar system (Mar. 5). Background: US Unstaffed Planetary and Lunar Programs The FDA approves the male impotence drug Viagra (Mar. 27). Background: New Medicines Astronomers detect giant explosion, second in force only to the "Big Bang," in deep space (May 6). Background: Astronomy Dow Corning Corporation agrees on $3.2 billion settlement for tens of thousands of women claiming injury from manufacturer's silicone breast implants (July 8). Background: Health & Nutrition 77-year-old Senator John Glenn, the first American to orbit the earth, returns to orbit in the space shuttle Discovery (Oct. 29). Background: US Staffed Space Flights The crew of the space shuttle Endeavour connects first two modules of the international space station (Dec. 6). Background: Space Exploration Death Gene Autry Sonny Bono Florence Griffith Joyner Akira Kurosawa Octavio Paz Frank Sinatra Junior Wells The Philosopher's Stone (1997) The Chamber of Secrets (1998) The Prisoner of Azkaban (1999) The Goblet of Fire (2000) The Order of the Phoenix (2003) The Half-Blood Prince (2005) The Deathly Hallows (2007) 3.1 Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (2001) 3.2 Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (2002) 3.3 Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (2004) 3.4 Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (2005) 3.5 Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (2007) 3.6 Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (2009) 3.7 Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 1 (2010) 3.8 Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 2 (2011 There were a total of 7 Horcruxes in the whole series, Tom Riddle's diary. Marvolo Gaunt's ring. Salazar Slytherin's locket. Helga Hufflepuff's cup. Rowena Ravenclaw's diadem. Nagini, the snake. Harry Potter himself.

Chapter 15 - The Death of a Salesman - Playboy Magazine - September 2012

114 DEATH OF A SALESMAN Don. Lapre was television's infomercial king, a self-made millionaire living and selling the American dream. His best qualities, however, would end up killing him. NEAL GABLER chronicles Lapre's meteoric rise and tragic fall.

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