Mila Kunis received the 2011 Fun, Fearless Female of the Year honor, a title that had been previously awarded to Anna Faris ( 2010 ), Ali Larter ( 2009 ), Katherine Heigl ( 2008 ), Eva Mendes ( 2007 ), Beyoncé ( 2006 ), Ashlee Simpson ( 2005 ), Alicia Silverstone ( 2004 ), Sandra Bullock ( 2003 ), Britney Spears ( 2002 ), Debra Messing ( 2001 ), Jennifer Love Hewitt ( 2000 ), Shania Twain ( 1999 ) and Ashley Judd ( 1998 )

In 1998, The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts created the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor, awarded annually.

* 1998: Revlon " Liquid Sexy " with Shania Twain

Her status as one of the music industry's biggest pop divas was further solidified when she was asked to perform on VH1's Divas Live special in 1998, with superstars Aretha Franklin, Gloria Estefan, Shania Twain and Mariah Carey.

The Mark Twain Prize for American Humor is America ’ s foremost award for humor, and has been awarded by the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts annually since 1998.

The first Kennedy Center Mark Twain Prize for American Humor was presented to comedian Richard Pryor on October 20, 1998.

Another country music superstar, Shania Twain, once performed her Come on Over Tour in the arena on September 12, 1998 and was filmed in her first DVD released Shania Twain Live.

* 1998: Shania Twain tapes her television special Shania Twain Live, on September 12, which is aired exclusively on DirecTV for free.

In 1998, Bellini made an autobiographical documentary, Bellini's Drive, which among other things explained his thoughts on being the second-most famous person from Timmins — the first being Shania Twain.

He also led bands for The Muddy Waters Tribute, and the 1998 and 1999 Mark Twain Awards honoring Richard Pryor and Jonathan Winters which aired on PBS, and Comedy Central.

In 1998, Richard Pryor won the first Mark Twain Prize for American Humor from the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts.

The administration then launched a four-day bombing campaign named Operation Desert Fox, lasting from December 16 to December 19, 1998.

A digital text service had been available since the launch of digital terrestrial television in November 1998, but the BBC Text service was not publicly launched until November 1999, due to a lack of availability of compatible set-top boxes.

There has been only one major installation of DECT for public access: in early 1998 Telecom Italia launched a DECT network known as " Fido " after much regulatory delay, covering major cities in Italy.

In April 1998, Egypt launched its own satellite known as NileSat 101.

RotoNews. com launched the Web's first free commissioner service in 1998, quickly becoming the largest league management service.

Takashi Miike launched a prolific career with titles such as Audition ( 1999 ), Dead or Alive ( 1999 ) and The Bird People in China ( 1998 ).

Pre-paid GSM SIM cards were launched in 1996 and worldwide GSM subscribers passed 100 million in 1998.

Orange Moldova launched its network in October 1998 under the brand of Voxtel and was the first and only carrier at the time.

The second generation MX-5 ( NB ) was launched in 1998 and the current ( NC ) model has been in production since 2006.

In 1998, North Korea tested a Taepondong-1 Space Launch Vehicle, which successfully launched but failed to reach orbit.

* 1998 – The first module of the International Space Station, Zarya, is launched.

Počasíčko ( diminutive of " weather ") was Czech TV Nova's past-10PM featurette launched in January 1998 where a nude woman ( or occasionally, a man ) got dressed in clothing appropriate for the next day's weather forecast.

As a campaign of sorts, " open source " was launched in 1998 by Jon " maddog " Hall, Larry Augustin, Eric S. Raymond, Bruce Perens, and others.

The Sega Dreamcast followed in 1998, and launched with the return of Sonic the Hedgehog in Sonic Adventure.

In a government-led initiative to connect the island in a high-speed broadband network using various mediums such as fibre, DSL and cable, the Singapore ONE project was formally announced in June 1996, and commercially launched in June 1998.

After the Serbian government launched a major offensive against the ethnic Albanian population in Kosovo in 1998, the UAE called for international intervention and commenced a major program of humanitarian relief through its Red Crescent Society.

In 1998, the Unification Movement launched its operations in North Korea with the approval of the Government of South Korea, which had prohibited business relationships between North and South before ; and built a church there.

* 13. 300 Mm — Length of roads being rehabilitated and widened under the National Highway Development Project ( launched in 1998 ) in India

In 1998, the Bank launched a fraud and corruption hotline for any individual to report an abuse of Bank funds by projects or individuals.

The first Hall thruster to fly on a western satellite was a Russian D-55 built by TsNIIMASH, on the NRO's STEX spacecraft, launched on October 3, 1998.

Foreign Secretary Robin Cook launched an official historical review of the Zinoviev letter in 1998

The new digital broadcaster was launched on 15 November 1998, with a lineup of 18 channels, including many channels developed in-house by Carlton and Granada.

After FNC launched in 1996, the network tried again in 1998 with Fox Files, hosted by Fox News anchors Catherine Crier and Jon Scott, as well as a team of correspondents.

The core module of the International Space Station was launched in 1998.

The contents of the Darnley urn are also problematic ; they were variously reported to be the remains of a stump, bail or the outer casing of a ball, but in 1998 Darnley's 82-year-old daughter-in-law said they were the remains of her mother-in-law's veil, casting a further layer of doubt on the matter.

She inherited it from her elder sister Patricia in 1998.

Grant during her Behind the Eyes tour in 1998.

In 1998, Kathleen Willey alleged Clinton groped her in a hallway in 1993.

Also in 1998, Juanita Broaddrick alleged Clinton had raped her though she did not remember the exact date, which may have been 1978.

Offered the song by Dylan, Sheryl Crow later recorded an up-tempo cover of " Mississippi " for her The Globe Sessions, released in 1998, before Dylan revisited it for Love and Theft.

Caitlin Clarke ( May 3, 1952 – September 9, 2004 ) was an American theater and film actress best known for her role as Valerian in the 1981 fantasy film Dragonslayer and for her role as Charlotte Cardoza in the 1998 – 1999 Broadway musical Titanic.

Flockhart also appeared on the June 29, 1998, cover of Time magazine, placed as the newest iteration in the evolution of feminism, relating to the ongoing debate about the role depicted by her character.

Barrymore's role in the costume drama Ever After ( 1998 ) offered a modern take on the classic fairy tale of Cinderella and served as a reminder, according to Roger Ebert, of how well Drew Barrymore " can hold the screen and involve us in her characters ".

She eventually left the bench in 1998 and devoted herself full-time to her website and books in September 1999.

Her 1998 country-rock album Hungry Again was made up entirely of her own compositions.

Following her appearance in the erotic film, Different Strokes: The Story of Jack and Jill ... and Jill, Plato appeared on the cover of the lesbian lifestyle magazine Girlfriends in 1998.

In Spring 1998 Gracen recanted her six-year-old denial and stated she had a one night stand with Clinton in 1982.

In England and Wales, under the Civil Procedure Rules 1998 ( CPR ), an expert witness is required to be independent and address his or her expert report to the court.

In her 1998 book of hypnotherapy case studies, she reviews the clinical research on hypnosis with dissociative disorders, smoking cessation, and insomnia and describes successful treatments of these complaints.

Janis Joplin was born in Port Arthur, Texas, on, to Dorothy ( née East ) Joplin ( 1913 – 1998 ), a registrar at a business college, and her husband, Seth Joplin ( 1910 – 1987 ), an engineer at Texaco.

In 1998 she appeared in her first film-a six part documentary called " The Legend of Atlantis " by Elia The Prophet and it wasn't until 2010 when she landed roles in the documentaries, 3 Magic Words ( 2010 ) and " In the Beginning There Was Light "( 2010 )

The following year she was the voice of the title character, Kiki, a 13-year-old apprentice witch who leaves her home village to spend a year on her own, in the anime movie Kiki's Delivery Service ( 1998 ).

In May 1998, the French Government named her an Officer of the Order of Arts and Letters.

" In 1998, while her husband was afflicted with Alzheimer's disease, Nancy told Vanity Fair, " Our relationship is very special.

A singer would interpret his or her part by figuring cadential formulas with other parts in mind, and when singing together musicians would avoid parallel octaves and fifths or alter their cadential parts in light of decisions by other musicians ( Bent, 1998 ).

In 1999, a lawsuit was filed on her behalf against Outkast and LaFace Records due to their unauthorized use of her name in their 1998 song, " Rosa Parks ".