Monday, Aug. 25, 2003

People

By Lev Grossman

SPY WHO LOVED

Their cover is blown: JENNIFER GARNER is dating MICHAEL VARTAN, who plays her CIA handler on the TV show Alias. Garner was married to Scott Foley, who starred in Felicity, until the two split up in April. But don't even think it: Garner and Vartan have been dating only a few weeks. It's a case of life imitating prime-time drama, since Garner's character is in love with Vartan's. Unless it's all a ruse to cover up a secret romance with her Daredevil co-star Ben Affleck--well, probably not. But that would have been cool.

PRINCE ARMING

They don't have SATs in Britain; they have A-levels. PRINCE HARRY just got his scores: a B in art and a D in geography. Which isn't so good on either side of the Atlantic, so Harry will go to a military academy on his way to a career in the army. His brother William, by comparison, got an A in geography, a B in art history and a C in biology. He goes to St. Andrews, on his way to a career as ruler of England. See where a little studying will get you?

TIME MMMMARCHES ON

Like a comet in the night sky, they flared oh-so-brightly and disappeared--and then came back a few years later. In 1997 the pop group HANSON--brothers ZAC (the little one), TAYLOR (the cute one) and ISAAC (the other one)--sold more than 8 million copies of their debut album, Middle of Nowhere (maybe you remember their No. 1 single, MMMBop), but the band's second effort flopped, and Hanson went away for a long stay in pop purgatory. Now they're back playing club dates in support of a folksy new album called Underneath Acoustic. Little Zac is 17 and stubbly, and Taylor is (sigh) married with a child. Can you match names to faces, then and now? That's Taylor, Zac and Isaac in 1997, left to right, and again in 2003, top to bottom.