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...don’t schlep over to Kendall to see it…Last week I talked about how much I hate MTV. Now you allll have a reason to hate MTV. While filming a sequence for a new Jackass-style special called “Dude, This Sucks,” the stars accidentally flung human feces at two girls. (How does one “accidentally” fling...
...because it's "irresponsible." The decision is befuddling for a number of reasons. First, MTV airs "irresponsible" shows all the time. "Undressed" makes me cringe with its inane, orgiastic storylines which are no better than something you would see on late-night Showtime. And even though I adore "Jackass," it certainly is not "responsible"-the opening disclaimer is written parodically and the stunts can easily be imitated (set yourself on fire, straddle a skunk, dive into a pile of elephant poop, chase naked midgets around South Central, etc.). Second, the Madonna video-directed by her husband Guy Ritchie...
...gifted colleague Poniewozik would no doubt have preferred Crowe to be pissedand logorrheic. But I'm grateful that Oscar Night 2001 was not a three-hour-27-minute edition of "Jackass." And though I'm not a Julia Roberts fan, I was beguiled by her acceptance speech. She put a lot of zest into thanking "everyone I've ever met in my life," and aspirating, "Ah ha ha, I love it up here!" By the end of her inevitable victory speech, she had achieved TV's first G-rated orgasm...
...trend is progressive or helpful to female viewers--let alone to unenlightened males, who have long appreciated the spectacle of women fighting (it used to be called mud wrestling). But the action woman is certainly a corrective to a zillion idiot action films and XFL games and episodes of Jackass. Women of any age hardly get a break in pop culture. So you go, girlie...
...cohort are the 21st century answer to '70s and '80s punks, who created a sort of poison-pill culture, adopting antisocial poses that couldn't be appropriated by the mainstream and practicing self-mutilating rites, like safety-pin piercing, too gross or painful for the masses. In Jackass's case, the connection is more than theoretical: Knoxville first made his Taser video for the skateboarding magazine Big Brother--the skate and punk communities have a long, symbiotic relationship--and many of his show's stunts are straight out of skate-punk culture. The big difference is that theirs...