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...composed minor hits for such acts as Aaliyah, Ginuwine and Jodeci--hardly anybody had ever heard of her. Also, Elliott isn't your typical Top 40 sex siren. She has a regular, stocky body, the kind most people have unless they're members of a professional sports team or Keenen Ivory Wayan's all-woman house band. So the record company turned to music-video director Hype Williams. Over the past year or so, Williams--his real first name is Harold--has become the most in-demand music-video director going; his clips boast a sensuous palette of colors...
...each other. The hyperkinetic mood is the same, the wildly panning camera is the same, and the guests are the same, literally. Rap singer "Puffy" Combs and Samuel L. Jackson each appeared on both shows. True, it's unlikely that Vibe's very first guest will be seen on Keenen--Jones persuaded President Clinton to appear pretaped from the White House...
...races: white hosts of late-night television talk shows sit behind a desk; black hosts of late-night television talk shows don't sit behind a desk. This truth was demonstrated last week by the debuts of two new syndicated entrants into the late-night wars, Vibe and The Keenen Ivory Wayans Show...
Vibe, named after the magazine founded by Quincy Jones, one of the show's producers, stars stand-up comedian Chris Spencer; Keenen is fronted by the creator of the sketch-comedy show In Living Color. Both hosts are black; both sit on an easy chair with a coffee table in front of them when they interview guests. Meanwhile, David Letterman has a desk. Jay Leno has a desk. Conan O'Brien has a desk. All three are white. With its monologue, its band, its celebrity entrances, the late-night show is highly ritualized, so this variation in iconography is surely...
...personality and mix of guests broke with tradition. Also, Hall didn't use a desk. Curled up in his easy chair, he was loose and open and schmoozerific. Since his show was canceled in 1994, though, no one has served his audience, and now the producers of Vibe and Keenen hope to re-create Hall's success by using the same formula. Says Spencer: "We can do a show that's hip and full of energy...