For a moment, the Bubbleman, a female boxer, a recovering alcoholic and others shone in our pages. Here are updates on their remarkable lives.

Whether you thought of it as the first year of the third millennium or the last year of the second millennium, 2000 was a rich time for purveyors of feature stories. Today, Southern California Living publishes postscripts to the tales of some we’ve profiled in the previous 12 months. Together, the stories give a glimpse of the startling range of life that has been chronicled in these pages.

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Two weeks after an article described the adventures of celebrity journalist Fred Medill (“Our Night on the Town With Fred,” Dec. 13), the Beverly Hills 14-year-old is suddenly hot.

Fred, the star of FredTV, a Web site (https://www.fredtv.net) that features his interviews with movie and sports stars, says agents, producers, journalists from around the world and even journalism teachers have been calling to arrange meetings and offer work. “They called the school. They called my grandma. They were calling all over the place,” says Fred, who created the enterprise with his father to benefit a children’s foundation.

The movie people wanted him to start immediately. He has already finished filming bit parts in two movies: “The New Guy” and “Life as a House,” starring Kevin Kline.

“Two news crews came over on Tuesday,” he said late last week. “British television is doing something on me tomorrow. German television wanted to do something. Korean television wanted to do something.”

After the new year, he said he’ll be finalizing arrangements to appear on “The Tonight Show With Jay Leno,” and “20/20.” He hasn’t gotten back to the journalism professor from Cal State Long Beach, he says, because “there’s been so much going on.”

Even with two years’ experience, Fred is impressed with the power of the press. “It’s amazing what it does,” he says.

A stranger saw the FredTV license plate on his father’s car and approached him to say, “Great article about your son in the paper.” Fred’s high school principal asked to see him in his office. “Why don’t you share your personal life with the rest of the school?” he asked.

Now on winter break, Fred is taking it all in stride while his parents, both lawyers, do the hardball negotiating for his future appearances.

Fred realizes media attention can be fickle. “As soon as the press comes up, it can die down,” he says. Whatever the future holds, he says, “it’s been a lot of fun.”