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...years, the Video Music Awards were MTV's highest-rated programming event. Launched in 1984, with Dan Aykroyd and Bette Midler hosting, the ceremony was a remarkably fresh and satirical take on dull old awards shows. Because its premise was that the awards themselves were a joke - statuettes went to bands for videos in which they often didn't appear, let alone direct - celebrities were looser and more spontaneous, and so was the show...
...Seen today, 47 years later, L'Avventura seems easy to read, a treat to watch and a pretty profound parable on the limits of fidelity and friendship. The movie's title, which translates as The Adventure, was not a joke; it was an apt appraisal of the intellectual thrills the film would provide for its viewers. Adventure was also the word for the challenges in form and content that Antonioni and other '60s pioneers would bring to '60s cinema. And yet that first, boorish benighted Cannes audience did have a couple of very conventional reasons to be outraged...
...underlying competition between us over men, which is something that creeps up slowly but surely in my all-female living arrangements. Kam christens our apartment the first week we are in town; I don’t hook up with anyone for weeks. For that first month, I joke about him getting more action than I do without passive-aggressively harboring hidden resentment...
...Still, there were no signs of any rift as Bush and Brown held their first joint press conference, at Camp David on Monday. Quite the opposite; they were down-right chummy. Bush played the cut-up and Brown came out of his shell. The two chuckled over an inside joke about Brown's toothpaste. Bush said Brown wasn't the "dour Scotsman" he'd read about in the press. "He's a glass half full guy, not a glass half empty guy," said Bush...
...persuaded myself that pools weren't only for cartoon billionaires like Donald Trump or the Monopoly mascot. And then the contractor installing my pool introduced himself as--this is not a joke--Joe Rich...