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...program's success is not surprising, especially considering the results of a new survey conducted for the Nickelodeon channel and TIME. What emerges from the poll of 991 kids, ages 9 to 14, plus 400 parents and 103 middle school teachers, is a noteworthy disconnect in many families over parental involvement in their children's education. While 92% of the parents said they are very interested in their kids' schoolwork, the number falls to 75% when kids were asked if this is true of their parents. Similarly, 77% of parents said they help the kids with homework to help them...
...story... Imagine 70 soldiers attacking a home to capture a little boy." Thus ran the probable Hollywood pitch by legendary schlock producer Menahem Golan for his Elian Gonzalez biopic, currently in production in Cuba and the odds-on favorite to beat rival projects from CBS and the Fox Family Channel onto screens...
...challenges of watching MTV is trying to tell the shows from the ads. The channel has always cleverly acknowledged the feedback loop between its content (music, style) and its commerce (gadgets, soft drinks, style again), and this animated spy-and-fashion spoof takes that interplay to a new level. Not only does the art look like a Bluefly.com ad, the show is also winkingly laced with faux-product plugs (like "limited-edition Stussy surveillance shades"). Alas, ironic-style porn turns out to be as tiresome as the real thing. And as a genre, spy parody is about as happenin...
What he's banking on is that the majority of music fans will be prepared to pay a minimal monthly fee--around the price of a single CD--to have online access to thousands of albums. This music channel--along with the CDs already in their collections--will be available anywhere there's an Internet connection. Robertson believes the mainstream will choose this limited-pay model over legally dubious networks like Napster and Freenet. Thus far the rise of MP3s "has been painted as a college-kids-gone-crazy phenomenon," he says. "In fact, it cuts across all walks...
That includes classical-music aficionados, currently the fourth largest group on MP3.com who made a willing audience for the site's first such monthly-fee channel. "They're the techno-elite," says Robertson. "Also, these people have disposable income." For $9.99 a month, there are thousands of fully downloadable tracks. It's all-you-can-eat Pavarotti, Itzhak Perlman and London Symphony. A second channel for children featuring fairy tales and nursery rhymes as well as songs is set for launch in July...