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Last year’s inescapable “Wicked” and its new follow-up finale, “Wicked: For Good,” present an entirely different, far more frustrating predicament than the one Warner Bros. faced in the late aughts.

From Salon

After breaking free from the glacier in the early aughts, B-22A floated freely just off the Antarctic coast until it got caught on a raised section of the seafloor in 2012.

From Scientific American

McAdams also said no to acting altogether when, in the early aughts at the height of her career, she took a two-year break to preserve her sanity.

From Los Angeles Times

If everyone who heard the Velvet Underground went on to form a band, a good portion of Goldfrapp’s audience in the aughts threw away their pants, donned leotards and made stompy electro-pop.

From New York Times

It was the early aughts, an era notorious for tabloid cruelty aimed at young female celebrities.

From Los Angeles Times