On 26 August 2000, President Halonen married her longtime partner, Dr. Pentti Arajärvi, in a civil ceremony at her official residence, Mäntyniemi, after a relationship of more than fifteen years.

Her performance as a lesbian mourning the loss of her longtime partner in the HBO series If These Walls Could Talk 2 earned her a Golden Globe for “ Best TV Series Supporting Actress ” in 2000, as well as earning an Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a TV Film or Miniseries.

* Bebe Goddard ( 1926 – 2000 ), longtime friend of Marilyn Monroe

Following COPE's 1996 defeat, the provincial Greens, reversed their policy of opposing coalitions with COPE and, over the strong objections of many longtime Vancouver Greens, pushed through a controversial plan to negotiate with COPE ( this plan was a key factor in the 2000 defeat of party leader Stuart Parker ).

In 2000, the Sun-Times new editors, Michael Cooke and John Cruickshank, tapped longtime staff reporter Mark Brown, who had considered himself an investigative reporter, to write a column that would anchor page two of the paper.

In 2000, longtime investigative reporter Charles Nicodemus retired from the paper at age 69.

In February, 2000, Bolocco became an established hostess for the Viña del Mar Song Festival, with partner and longtime host Antonio Vodanovic.

The Los Angeles group splintered in late 2000 when longtime leader Reverend Al declared a " bold new direction " for the branch and allegedly joined an Orthodox Christian community out of guilt over the deaths of two young Cacophonists who reportedly died in a drunken post-event car accident ( though one of the men eventually turned out to be completely fictitious, and the other, Peter " Mr. Outer Space " Geiberger, was discovered some months later, alive and well and quite amused at tumult resulting from his ' death '.

Jackman was a longtime fundraiser for the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada, and became a supporter of the Canadian Alliance when it was formed prior to the 2000 election.

Singer, author of Arthur Godfrey: The Adventures of an American Broadcaster ( 2000 ), rejects this accusation, citing Godfrey's good personal relations with a number of Jews in the entertainment industry, including his longtime announcer Tony Marvin.

In 2000, the Marcos racing business was sold to longtime GT sponsor Eurotech, a Dutch engineering firm.

The KNU was dominated for three decades by its longtime leader Bo Mya, who was president from 1976 – 2000.

Their longtime manager and producer Joe Rock, who also co-wrote " Since I Don't Have You ", died on April 4, 2000 after complications from quadruple bypass heart surgery at age 63.

The band played its last show on May 4, 2000, a benefit for their friend and longtime local supporter, Mikey D. They announced their disbandment in the Boston Globe the following month.

In 2000 was named along with longtime linemate Gretzky to the International Ice Hockey Federation Hall of Fame.

In rugby, ACJC has held the ' A ' Division title since 2000, but lost it to longtime rival Raffles Junior College in 2004 by a narrow margin.

Blackwell was national chairman of longtime friend Steve Forbes ' presidential campaign in 2000.

Ladd was a longtime friend of the Bush family and supported the 2000 campaign of George W. Bush.

* Chris Kennedy ( June 1989 – April 2001, longtime host of overnight music show Annihi-late Night 1991 – 2000, producer of Morning Guy Tai morning show as well as brief interim host of morning show 1998 – 99 ).

He calls his technique " Multivocalism ", a term coined by longtime artwork collaborator Mark Splinter in 2000.

* Elling also contributed vocals to his longtime collaborator Laurence Hobgood's three albums, Left to My Own Devices ( 2000 ), Crazy World ( 2005 ) and When the Heart Dances ( 2009 )

In 2000, the New York Daily News described Adams as " a longtime insider ... at the world headquarters in Brooklyn Heights ".

In 2000, the band would take on a new line-up, which saw the addition of former Movement vocalist / guitarist and longtime My Ruin guitarist / composer Mick Murphy.

" Then, KSD switched to a Country Music format in the fall of 2000, soon after 106. 5 WKKX " Kix 106 " dropped Country to become WSSM " Smooth Jazz 106. 5 " ( The station at 106. 5 became WARH in April 2005 ), as due to a big ownership shakeup in 2000, Bonneville Radio ended up owning both competing Country stations, thus opening up a spot for a competitor to longtime Country station WIL.

A friend in Saudi Arabia claimed he was last seen there in 2000, before leaving to study English in the United States.

In 2000 Enfield appeared in his first leading film role playing Kevin alongside Kathy Burke, who played the character's ( male ) friend Perry — roles originally created for Enfield's television series — in Kevin & Perry Go Large.

Alexander the Great is reputed to have crucified 2000 survivors from his siege of the Phoenician city of Tyre, as well as the doctor who unsuccessfully treated Alexander's friend Hephaestion.

Tiberi was finally expelled from the RPR, Chirac's party, on 12 October 2000, declaring to the Figaro magazine on 18 November 2000: " Jacques Chirac is not my friend anymore ".

Forman co-starred alongside actor Edward Norton in the actor's directorial debut, Keeping the Faith ( 2000 ), as the wise friend to Norton's conflicted priest.

The album was dedicated to close friend and roadie Barry Cawley, who was killed in a road accident on his bicycle in Betws-y-Coed, North Wales in July 2000.

The couple's four sons were Mickey Jr. ( 1953 – 2000 ), David ( born 1955 ), Billy ( 1957 – 94 ), whom Mickey named for Billy Martin, his best friend among his Yankee teammates, and Danny ( born 1960 ).

In Leo De Boer's documentary The Red Stuff ( 2000 ), Alexei Leonov noted the profound effect that Komarov's death had on the morale of the cosmonaut corps: " He was our friend.

It was commissioned in 2000, and Bailey took the part of the assistant Manny Bianco, with Moran playing the owner Bernard, and Tamsin Greig the friend, Fran.

The immense popularity of the series led Nixon to enjoy her first leading role in a feature, playing a video artist who falls in love, despite her best efforts to avoid commitment, with a bisexual actor who just happens to be dating a gay man ( her best friend ) in Advice From a Caterpillar ( 2000 ), as well as starring opposite Scott Bakula in the holiday telepic Papa's Angels ( 2000 ).

In 2000, the current owner Jerry Speyer ( a close friend of David Rockefeller ), of Tishman Speyer Properties, L. P., together with the Lester Crown family of Chicago, bought for $ 1. 85 billion the older 14 buildings and land from the previous syndicated owners: Goldman Sachs ( which had 50 percent ownership ), Gianni Agnelli, Stavros Niarchos, and David Rockefeller, who organized the syndicate in 1996 and is historically associated with the other partners.

On 5 September 2000, Def Leppard were inducted into the Rock Walk of Fame on Hollywood's Sunset Boulevard by their friend Brian May of Queen.

Other children were Sergey ( 1900 – 1945 ), Kirill ( 1911 – 1964 ), Elena ( 1906 – 2000 ) and Olga ( 1903 – 1978 ), who was a childhood friend of novelist Ayn Rand.

Since October 2000, Fravia got in touch with Richard Stallman at a LinuxDay event in Milan to which they were invited by a common friend.

* On October 25, 2000, Strawberry left a Tampa drug treatment center to use drugs with a female friend violating his house arrest and parole.

Childhood friend, and founding member of Social Distortion, guitarist Dennis Danell died on February 29, 2000 at 38 due to a brain aneurysm.

After the company went under during the dot-com bubble burst of 2000, her friend Catherine Schwartz got her hired at TechTV in 2001, and Webb became employed as the associate producer and web researcher for The Screen Savers.

In 2000, Mahathir was quoted as saying: " If Australia wants to be a friend to Asia, it should stop behaving as if it is there to teach us how to run our country.

His final performance was a voice over on Hey Arnold in 2000 as the voice of Jimmy Kafka, the long mentioned but never seen former friend of Arnold's Grandpa.

In April 2000, she and friend Jane Blight opened Knightsbridge fashion boutique Akademi.

Wilson has appeared in ten films with Stiller ( a long-time friend ) to date: The Cable Guy ( 1996 ), Permanent Midnight ( 1998 ), Meet the Parents ( 2000 ), Zoolander ( 2001 ), The Royal Tenenbaums ( 2001 ), Starsky & Hutch ( 2004 ), Meet the Fockers ( 2004 ), Night at the Museum ( 2006 ), and the sequels Night at the Museum 2: Battle of the Smithsonian ( 2009 ) and Little Fockers ( 2010 ).